skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just depends on what you'll use it for. My rpi has proven a more-than-capable mail server, and anything with more oomph would just cost more (and suck more power)
It depends on what you want. If you want linux μC programming then RPi has a bunch of GPIO pins which I'm sure will be easily addressable under Linux. I'm not able to see anything like that on this one. But holy mother of god, this has 6 USB ports...
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Rockstar is a relative, not absolute term. I'm not comparing myself to Google's senior architects, I'm comparing myself to every other college Junior.
Like crossing a road?

Or driving?

That argument is fairly weak.
If you trying to write FP in Python - you're in trouble.
(Python is my main language for several years)

It does not have "mandatory OOP" but it remains as mainly imperative OO-language with some FP-goodness. C# is the same, Java - not.
I would guess the pragmatic answer would be that you could discard good candidates because of such reasons. However it may well be that there are enough good programmers who do meet your criteria that it is a benefit (in terms of time) to just ignore those that don't.

There is a broader issue though. If certain trends in hiring (that may be partly perpetrated by HN and the blogosphere) are preventing good people from getting jobs (to what extent this is true is up for debate) then what can be done by either individuals or society at large to somewhat reverse that?

Tech has always been proud to call itself a relative meritocracy compared to other more mature industries. As it matures how would we prevent the industry falling down similar pitfalls?
I wasn't very good at making friends as a kid or a college student. I think some combination of my natural introversion and moving 50+ times before graduating high school combined such that I never really learned how to move a relationship from "acquaintance" to "real friend". Adding in "real life" (eg jobs, significant others, children, etc) makes it just that much worse.

Social networks have actually made things worse for me. It is a constant reminder that other people manage to have these close relationships and I'm on the outside looking in.

I'm still looking for the "make a friend" startup that actually works. :)
On a global scale, these "left" / "right" labels lose a lot of their meaning and are more a sign of a poorly framed discussion than a useful shorthand.

Reconcile to "right" and "left" say, at-will employment, or a right to bear arms, or mandatory health insurance, or laws prohibiting Nazi sympathism, or vigorous loser-pays libel laws, or tax-free churches, or the right to keep and bear arms... the list goes on and on. The US is statist is some ways that Europe isn't, and libertarian in others.

At the end of the day, these things all boil down to differing priorities and to different levels of policy sophistication.
Traveling is impractical for many people especially when they have wife and kids, and even if they did, it might be hard to have interactions with people like you mention when you're with family. A simpler step would be joining a gym, or a yoga class or any other physical activity in a group setting.
Awesome and easy. Nice design on the page! Easy to learn.
German has the separators switched around.
I'm part of a small cluster of people here who don't like big monitors, because it makes working on the laptop screen harder when I don't have it (I get acclimated). Mobility is much more valuable to me than screen real estate.
I think I knew that, but forgot. I have no real direct experience with this other than once signing up to be a merchant, but my girlfriend once worked for a processing company. Visa still has incentive to prevent fraud, though, right? Even if just for its own reputation? Banks probably won't issue Visa cards if they can't trust they won't be used fradulantly? If Visa has zero liability, then why would Visa corporate be investing in fraud protection at all?

Anyway, I didn't mean to speculate on motivations. I just wanted to explain that this is just some small Icelandic card processing company that got sued by a small data hosting company after they both conspired to funnel Wikileaks payments through as payments for data services and Visa and Mastercard objected.

It's far from the WIKILEAKS DEFATS VISA headline, especially since neither were party to the lawsuit.
This is a great post. I've had a lot of trouble coming up with good keywords without putting competitor's names in the keyword field. Thanks for the good data and the links.

BTW, did you use the paid service, or did you make what you could of the free info?
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Jesus Christ, it's spelled "Juilliard". Anyway, horrible analogy.
There's a clock in the bottom left of the video.
If this happened as reported, then it's a ridiculous story. As several have said one can easily walk outside and take a call if it's really that urgent. However I find that in these stories there tends to be another side to it that isn't being reported. Either way I'm not really sure why it's on Hacker News, not particularly insightful or interesting.
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It has GPIO pins in the big header. Please don't guess and then act like it is fact.
I definitely recommend watching this Railscasts for info on deploying: http://railscasts.com/episodes/335-deploying-to-a-vps
Yoga Teacher Fired for Telling Facebook Employee 'No Phones'
I wonder how much of the challenge of making friends as an adult varies by the city you live in...

I moved to NYC last year from Rochester, NY and have found that people in NYC are so "busy" all the time that it's much more difficult to make new friends (the recent NY Times article on HN called "The Busy Trap" summed that up perfectly). People in NYC also seem to treat new connections from the perspective of "what can you do to help me advance somehow."

In Rochester, people seem to live more balanced lives (for example, they generally leave work right at 5) and therefore have time to make new connections. They're also less on guard about people, which could have a lot to do with the size of city compared to NYC.

Granted, this is just my observation of the differences between one small/mid size city and a very large one, but anyone else notice this as well?
Don’t have a cellphone or just accept that you’re living in the Panopticon.
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A few things to add to this discussion about typed arrays:

1. The list of support statuses does not seem to reflect that Float64Array was missing from Safari until recently, and I think might still be missing from mobile Safari.

2. Typed array performance of Uint32Arrays can differ from the other integer array types: unsigned int values do not fit in 31-bit signed integers, which is what most JS engines optimize ints for. This is most significant in V8 which does not use NaNboxing, so when it sees a big integer it makes it a boxed double, leading to bad performance, see for example http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2097 Looks like the benchmarks done here did not check those values, but they happen a lot in practice with things like compiled C code.

3. Aside from points 1 and 2 overall typed array support and performance are predictable and good across browsers (sans IE, but hopefully with IE10). Aside from random access there is also the .set() method which lets you copy large amounts of typed data efficiently as well (which was not benchmarked here, but should basically be a memcpy so likely consistent across browsers).
I suspect the fact my degree was almost as long ago, and I certainly _can_ remember the real analysis topics that were non-obvious, means there were fewer of them for you than for me :-)
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One of the unwritten rules of tech blogging is that you don't write about VCs. Or if you absolutely must, if it's unavoidable, it's always in glowing terms.

Do I live in some weird insulated pocket of the Internet, or is this a narrative Winer has just invented for himself to occupy? Or does "Tech blogger" have a different meaning to him?
I agree with your description with how a lot of people feel, myself included, especially the part about meetups. However, 'you' don't have put up with grownupness and dinners and clean houses and fancy meals if you don't want to. If you like the grownupness then by all means get into it, but you make it sound like it is a required pain ... If you don't like it find friends that also don't like it.
And just leaving it as a number 7207 would make much more sense to everyone. Instead, 'prettiness' like commas or periods just confuse readers.

Or at least on HN, you could use 7.207*10^3 and be done with scientific notation.
You look pretty good in your Wikipedia/Quora user pages :)

(also, thanks for the great post)
Won't this kill off services such as TinEye? From what I gather, this feature pretty much is exactly the service they provide; it's not unreasonable to think Google can pull it off better with their resources.
He didn't realize it would be a problem in the beginning. After that I think he was just afraid to move away from the people he knew.

I've thought a lot about what I would do in that position, and came to the same conclusion you did. The right thing to do probably would have been to move far away, live simply, and take up a hobby so he could meet people on an equal footing.

Of course, it's easy to decide how other people can fix their lives :)
As the article says, it is not hard to MEET people - I meet plenty of people mostly through work and a few through book clubs, running clubs, bike clubs or just at the coffee shop. And a lot of them are actually legitimately cool people that I would have become friends with if I met in college or grad school.

The challenge is converting those people into FRIENDS. Basically you have to hang out together a ton in order to build that comfort level and familiarity. And modern adult western life simply doesn't facilitate this very much.

The one exception I can think of is a small town or village where people bump into each other all the time without having to consciously plan to do so.

So it is a bit paradoxical: Living in a city there are a ton of interesting people to meet, but precisely because of the density it is unlikely for you to randomly end up spending enough time with someone for you to become good friends.
I haven't shipped my first product (SaaS) yet, but this article has helped convince me to ship it ASAP, and build on top of that. The other articles linked in the main article are also very insightful and delve deeper into the author's reasoning.
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I'm curious if these people maintain their posture all day, or start to slouch (and the slouching causes the back problems).
not even close to a new feature. Google has had reverse image search for probably about a year now.
"Trying to do that without object-oriented features would be like trying to write a letter by holding the pen with my teeth"

I think what you're imagining here is Java without the OO bits. And that would be horrible!

What you should imagine is Haskell. That's more like typing a letter instead of hand-writing it, to overstretch your metaphor.

I've found that it's much easier to write much more elegant code in Haskell than it is in any OO language. Instead of writing a program without OO features, you're writing a program with advanced functional features. Rather than just being removed, the OO features are replaced.
Use your faculty and alumni network. In particular, scan the alumni network for people who work at a company where you want to work and contact them --- even if they're not in your role. Take advantage of the fact that most people are quite nostalgic for their college days. Almost all of them will be delighted to help you get your resume into a hiring manager's hands.

And some of your faculty should have contacts. If you ask early enough (e.g. at the start of the school year instead of middle/end), particularly from a faculty member that you've done some work for, they may be able to help you get in touch with someone. But the alumni are usually a better bet unless you have faculty who came from industry originally.

Both career services and blind job submission will have much lower acceptance rates. At least where I was, all resumes submitted through those mechanisms went into a sort of recruiting purgatory where they had to make it through non-technical screeners before I could even get a look at them.
I think his definition of "tech blogger" includes "...who wants VC investment in the future."
What if you employ the teacher and tell them to allow cellphones, then they decide to run things differently?
Going to Ivy League schools is a proxy for having good parents/values?

I went to Amherst (not an Ivy, but a top liberal arts college). I wouldn't use it as a proxy for good parents or values at all. Hell, one of my classmates stole an ambulance, drove it around the freshman quad, and crashed it into a tree. Another embezzled $13,000 from the school newspaper. The latter had a parent who was on the board of trustees. A third was the author of this infamous breakup letter:

http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/email/tripplehorn.asp

In my experience, the people who really had good parents & values were the ones who came from lower-class or working-class backgrounds and managed to make it into Amherst despite them. Succeeding despite adversity says a lot about your character. Succeeding because daddy's a legacy and donated a few million dollars to the school doesn't say anything other than that your parents have money.
A detail you would want to have before you came to a conclusion about this:

"At Facebook and a number of other institutions we work with, instructors cannot preclude fitness center users from answering their phones," David Milani, a spokesman for Plus One Health Management, which runs Facebook's gym, told me. He didn't want to tell me a lot more, other than that "there is no doubt that this instructor knew that."

I don't see the issue here. This person's job was not to teach yoga. It was to make employees happier, and to increase Facebook's attractiveness in the job market. Facebook came to believe that the way she conducted her class, while perhaps effective at conveying yoga, made her less effective as an employee perk. End of story. Facebook's role here, to the extent that it invests in yoga classes, is to ensure that whoever is teaching yoga is doing so in the way that maximizes the happiness of its employees.

If you want to command the respect of serious yoga students, don't teach yoga as an employee perk for hire.

Think of it in these terms: people call tech support lines all the time and unleash torrents of the worst rudeness you can imagine. How long do you think a well-run call center would retain a phone support person who chided callers for impoliteness?
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very neat, haven't seen it done this way before.
Completely agree, there is definitely a place for a lower-cost headless device with lower specs. Although no linux, the stm32f4discovery ($10, yes, ten) which is based on the cortex-m4 is also very interesting to an embedded hacker.

Another area overlooked is the chinese tablets. There are many from $60 up (eg stuff based on the arm9 via8650) and a little over $100 based on the allwinner A10, which will both run linux happily.
Against The Minimum Viable Product
Didn't the Court say that Visa stopped like $20 million worth of donations to Wikileaks? What would be the reason for not giving them any compensation?
do you think he had aspergers?
I think the GP was referring to weeping with joy.
The cheap way to solve this is to prop the monitors up on something. At my old office we used sturdy paper cups flipped upside-down under the monitor stand (3 per monitor).
Something similar is bar trivia leagues. I see people weekly that I wouldn't necessarily without our team.
Can you load your own OS on the Nexus 7? This thing can run Linux as well as Ubuntu.

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.ph...
This is a fantastic feature, especially to discover in what place a photo has been taken etc.

Now you can get funny results when putting face pictures.
I think minimise vs minimize is just British vs American spelling respectively. So neither is strictly wrong.
How many people have ever not gotten a VC investment because of the way they wrote about VCs? If the numbers make sense to them, VCs will invest. If anything, from how I understand it, VCs use social signals in exactly the opposite direction: people who are overly nice to them are not alphas.
I don't have any reason to like or dislike VCs on personal experience. The ones I've met randomly (e.g. running in Central Park) seem to be nice enough, and I'm sure that a lot of them are good. But VC-istan is full of deeply unethical people (those I have met, unfortunately) who don't deserve to be funded and I can't believe that the VCs aren't aware of what these people are doing. VCs need to stop funding unethical people, who get money just because they're well-connected, outright. Plus there are horrors like multiple liquidation preferences, which exist to reassert the social superiority of the VCs and leave me feeling it wouldn't be so bad if VC-Istan disappeared. Technology doesn't need it.
I don't have any reason to like or dislike VCs on personal experience. The ones I've met randomly (e.g. running in Central Park) seem to be nice enough, and I'm sure that a lot of them are good. But VC-istan is full of deeply unethical people (those I have met, unfortunately) who don't deserve to be funded and I can't believe that the VCs aren't aware of what these people are doing. VCs need to stop funding unethical people, just because they're well-connected, outright. Plus there are horrors like multiple liquidation preferences, which exist to reassert the social superiority of the VCs and leave me feeling it wouldn't be so bad if VC-Istan disappeared. Technology doesn't need it.
Right, but s/16GB/8GB/g and the point still stands. People often prefer Boot Camp for reasons other than available RAM, however.

As an aside, one point often overlooked when comparing the perceived performance of the new Air to older models is that all the 2012 MacBooks use noticeably faster SSDs than older Apple-installed options — for this reason, my "stock" Ivy Bridge Air (11-inch Mid 2012, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 1.7GHz dual-core i5, integrated graphics) seems faster for many tasks than my "loaded" Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 2.2GHz quad-core i7, discrete GPU).
I'm somewhat partial to the FitPC line: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/purchase/order-direct-fit-pc3/

Dittos CappuccinoPC: http://www.cappuccinopc.com/default.asp

They're small form-factor but fully-capable systems. With a keyboard, monitor, and mouse, they're desktop replacements (you can take it with you), or can be used for small special-purpose tools.
Two things I find wrong with this article:

1. The headline says "silence". That conjures up imagery of the loud cell phone talker, but from the context of the article it's more likely that the yoga student was texting or emailing.

2. The article also states that "Plus One Health Management told the San Jose Mercury News that Van Ness had been told that she could not prohibit cell phone use in class." I assume that Van Ness had been advised on this before she started teaching the class not after being fired, but the article isn't explicit. It might be that if these yoga classes are offered in the middle of the day, that Facebook employees might be expected to answer important emails during class.

This article is short on the facts needed to properly judge the situation.
It's been around for a while.

If you click the camera icon in the search bar, you can enter an image URL instead of uploading one.
With Debian Squeeze, 'startx' brings up the GUI without issues on mine.

Still, I do not plan on running a GUI on my RPi. It's got too little memory for that (imho). I plan to use it for home automation projects.
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How do I get unstuck as a developer
I've been developing for iOS for 2 years now. I have a varied background, and I started late, so I'm an older dev than most. I'm working at awell funded startup, and I work with some really good people. However, it's an API company, and not an iOS company, so there is not a lot of iOS work that pushes my skills. The iOS library is widely distributed and used, and has a lot of legacy requirements. It was written by an offshore firm, and there is a lot of fear about making any changes. We can't make drastic changes, can't take risks, and can't really rapidly develop, which is probably for the best, but it's just boring. But, also very time consuming. I've been trying to drive my skills forward on my own, but all of the work is starting to take a toll on my personal life, (my wife especially). How do you do it, experienced coders of HN? Do I walk away from a decent job at a startup that is pretty much going to go big? Look, I'm not a rockstar developer, some of my ideas are terrible, but not all, and being the newest dev, the most common word I hear is no. But I test, I learn, I iterate, and get code out the door. How do I move forward? Am I just going through a normal part of my growth as a developer? Are there opportunities that I just don't see because of my inexperience? I apologize for the post being a bit unfocused, but I'm tired.
Brendan Eich's been considering this. Mozilla would buy it. He told the crowd at JSConf in Berlin last year.
Or that your course was harder than mine, or that I was struggling with more advanced courses at the same time, and therefore had a different perspective on it all.
Yup.

Search by text, voice, or image - Google Inside Search Blog - July 14th, 2011
http://insidesearch.blogspot.ca/2011/06/search-by-text-voice...
Oh, in that case, carry on!
I figure it'd be easier just to hire everyone at my startup with the same salary. Standard package, same as everyone else: $X/yr, Y options. Need a raise? Whole company gets a raise. Of course, the primary differences between earlier hires and later hires are 1) current company valuation affects the amount you pay for options and 2) vesting dates.

I am not an expert in theses things, but from my perspective this looks fair.
Okay, but CS is not programming.
After all, programming is not CS.

And by the way, I don't think anybody should first know anything before learning how to program. Programming is like breathing. Do you need to study anything before you breathe? No you don't!

So anybody who argues that you should learn all sorts of not useful things before having the privilege of trying useful things, is a strange person indeed to me.
Thanks! For App Annie and AppCod.es, I used the free services, which cover the basics. AppCod.es search is very, very helpful for determining good keywords to use (be sure to look at their slideshow first).

The AppCod.es competitor tracking service (paid) looks very interesting as well ... but it's not something we're ready to sign up for.
Will fix this tomorrow. Thanks for reporting!
Previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2653870
what's the setup btw.? Ruby on rails, php?
The video stops before the lightning disappears.