skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my high school, there were definite groups, like the athletes, and the top students, and skaters, stoners, band kids, choir kids, etc., but there was a huge amount of overlap between them. You could find someone with any combination. My AP government class was like a cross-section of the entire school, with someone from every group, except all of us were serious about education.

The varsity cross country team had an average GPA of 3.8. Some might think it would be grade-inflation, but several people went to private schools (they can participate in public school sports, because their school doesn't have a team), others took dual-credit classes at the community college. Running helped me focus, relieved stress, and gave me energy to do my homework. My grades always slipped in mid November, the only time I wasn't running.

ASB, our student government, was very diverse also. We rarely put on pep-rallies. Instead, each season we held an assembly that honored every team and club's accomplishments.

The point is, in my experience, the people that only participated in sports were likely to only see sports as valuable. The people that only participated in extra academics were likely to only see academics as valuable. Someone that just attended school, without doing anything else, probably wasn't doing well in school. But, someone that participated in sports and choir saw both of those as valuable, but saw academic achievement and the competitive welding team as valuable also, because they had a different perspective.

It might only be the way my high school worked, but the people that participated in several different things, no matter what they were, got along better and appreciated other people's achievements much more than those who didn't participate in extra-curricular activities.

I think that everyone should try a sport, try music, try drama, compete in poetry reading, or take an AP class, etc. I know my parents required us children to always do something extra. One sister is in choir, band, and drama. One is in cross country and reads a lot. Another sister plays volleyball. You won't be good at everything, but you will probably find something you are good at, and have a greater appreciation for what others do.

It's important that these all take place in schools, and are well-funded, because schools are a place where a whole community comes together, and everyone can participate, no matter their socio-economic background. Sports are valuable, but most people can't afford to do them outside of school.
I recently made this resource for a camp on learning Go with the end product being an http server. If it's helpful I can repurpose it for general use. It's a series of 2 quick tutorials currently, start here : https://github.com/rdallman/gofirst
Inside the iPhone 5S - Chipworks
Furthermore, how on earth am I supposed to gauge your communication skills!?
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Because even if "fizzles" and goes off at 1% yield, Goldsboro, NC (which is, incidentally, about 20 miles from where I live) is a crate. Even at 1% yield that is 3x the Hiroshima bomb.
Outside the Bay Area, few people know about YC. An article in 2006 by pg made me plan for 3 years to finally move to SF in 2009 (I had googled "how to start a company"). There are a lot of ambitious people out there that don't even realize people here compete for not having a job. Articles like this can change lives if they can raise that awareness through the right channels. Thanks for taking the time to publish it.
Thank you so very, very much! I fixed it (I believe).
Ok, then they truthfully claimed that the M7 is a separate chip; excellent. Hopefully now we can stop pretending that is not what they claimed.
How isn't Apple afraid that Samsung could steal their chip designs? Do they pick Samsung because they simply have no other option?
Play 2.0 comes with Netty[1] built into it for making asynchronous requests, websockets and REST easier to handle. Netty is what replaces Tomcat unless you choose to use a third party plugin that builds your Play 2.0 website as a WAR file. Also, with Netty, it builds the entire site into a self contained module that you can run with one click anywhere you have the JVM installed (and the dependencies such as the DB if not using the built in H2). I found it useful for quick presentations or portability.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netty_%28software%29
It's been my experience the jobs are there. They aren't necessarily falling out of the sky, but just two and a half years ago I worked on projects for a man who payed $10/hr and couldn't find enough (good) help. He told me workers were not hard to find (as he really only needed unskilled labor), but people with a good work ethic were.

He was a great guy.
this isn't doing anything like that!! It's just reporting progress, the content still loads just fine.

do you really need to use a list of adjectives like that, if you don't understand something at least try to be a little polite about it.
I've bookmarked all the references you kindly shared and will be doing further research on this. Thanks.
> I hear that visiting Israel with an Arabic last name, or, god forbid, trying to go visit Palestine from an Israeli airport will land you in all sorts of trouble.

I hear that visiting Arab countries with a Jewish last name, or, god forbid, trying to go visit Israel from an Arabian airport will land you in all sorts of trouble.

Any particular reason you're picking on one and not the other? A bit hypocritical, don't you think?

That was the point of my comment. Let's stop now, ok? We're all in the same boat.
I heard this quote earlier this week during a discussion about the failure to stop the Naval Base shooter. He should have been picked up or at least been on someone's radar well before killing 13 people.

"When we're watching EVERYBODY, you'll never catch ANYBODY." which made a lot of sense to me. It seems like these agencies are trying to watch everybody in an effort to catch one lone person without considering any supporting data. Thus, you end up with scenario's like this where innocent people are being caught up in this wide net their casting.
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Also using Play at a start-up, but as a customer-facing web app. It's great for productivity - getting both compile- and runtime errors in the browser kind of means that you have the advantages of Scala/statically-typed languages combined with those of dynamically typed languages. If you're ready to go fully stateless and (mostly) asynchronous/non-blocking, this is the framework for you.

I agree that documentation is still lackluster. I would add that although I love the Scala templates, the support for html forms in Scala is a bit clunky. Also there are still a few too many changes requiring code refactoring on minor releases, but I accept those as a byproduct of quick iterations/improvements.
Because there are IP laws that companies won't blatantly violate. External appearance notwithstanding.
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No problem hbbio - I appreciate :)
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All advice should be taken with a bucketload of salt (Limited life experiences + Over-generalization = Advice -- Paul Buchheit).

That doesn't mean advice is pointless though.
I've probably done this ten times in ten different ways over the years. Most recently with ~150 lines of Go via nginx proxy_pass (or fastcgi_pass). I needed to be able to control how to resize images while maintaining aspect ratio on a fixed size canvas. The first request for an image is disappointingly slow for larger images, but it's not terrible. Writing out the generated images to a cache directory and using try_files, so subsequent requests are static, is definitely key.
Today's most trendy baristas have nothing but negative things to say about PHP.

Programmers that use PHP would rebut, but they are too busy paying for their drinks using money they make from actually shipping code.
The rift is a fabrication.
This doesn't lessen the severity of the issue.

And we can only avoid the ones we know about, so until further evidence appears the USA gets the spotlight.
I think the threat of Apple taking their business elsewhere is larger then any gain from "stealing" the chip design.
> Patents grant a government protected monopoly in order to encourage people to invent.

No they don't. The patent system was developed to encourage inventors to make their inventions public knowledge for the public good. It was never about encouraging invention, the limited monopoly was the means to and end, unlocking trade secrets for the public good. You've confused the means for the motive.
So that implies that the app locating these fixed beacons needs some kind of data backchannel to understand what it's seeing? Unless you have a cached map of that particular store and it's beacons already in your device, right?
Go where the puck is going, not where it was, AMD!
I wouldn't differentiate them.

In fact, that's kinda the point. Each candidate should be evaluated on the unique experience they bring to the table. Trying to create the illusion of a level playing field by standardizing on generic code challenges in interview exercises is just that, an illusion.
"Half his questions are about domestic spying..."

Only 3 of the 12 questions mention domestic spying laws. 1 question refers to "any government". Every single question seems legitimate to me. I can't understand why anyone concerned with privacy would be against asking Apple to answer these questions.

Your concern appears to be fixated on the "far left" and government spying. I can understand that concern, but I think the role of private corporations handling personal data should not be ignored.

Lastly, I'd like to point out that the far left and Al Franken likely did not author the laws referenced. Neither do the far left and Al Franken have the power to change these laws without support of moderates, Republicans, and the American public. Franken is pointing out, in a very open and public way, how these laws could be used to abuse TouchId. If nothing else it shines a much needed light on the relationship of spying laws to private corporations.
GTA V breaks entertainment industry record
Congratulations, your blog site somehow manages to freeze and crash Firefox 24 Android each and every time I open it.
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Like I said please tell us what we can do better - We're going to be releasing something really cool very soon but it hinges on this.
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This seems extreme but the reality is that foreigners and homosexuals are sketchy. This sort of policing is important.
I'm the editor of Grove. First, thanks for checking it out and for talking about it here. Our initial goal was to create some compelling pieces that the entrepreneur community would find helpful. To that end, we took the advice we got from the founders we worked with to build the site, which is launch and improve over time. The ability to comment is certainly one of the things we'd like to add going forward, but we feel we have to earn the right to be a community site first. We're hosting a drinkup next month, which hopefully will be a start. In the meantime, forums like HN where there is already a big community are a great place to discuss the site.

FYI here's a link to the drinkup: https://sequoia.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dpzD7CVJ0DtTwgd
Look at Nokia's share price over the last 10 years. It went from $40 down to $10 even before Elop was hired. During his reign it bottomed out at a couple of bucks before going back up to about $4 until the acquisition announcement. But by the time he started the price had already fallen 75%, and there was no sign of that decline abetting. The iceberg had already hit, and its name was Apple.

Then came the the leaked memo. That was a very costly management mistake, but you don't need a MBA case study to see that, especially after Elop himself admitted it [1]. That's like a storm hitting after the iceberg, and that's the one Elop steered into while the ship was damaged and taking on water. But scrapping Symbian was a necessity, so the storm was inevitable.

However, it's folly to think there was only one reason Nokia chose Windows Phone. Things are never that simple. It's known, for example, that they were also actively in talks with Google but could not reach an agreement, leaving Google quite disappointed, as can be surmised from the snarky tweet from Gundotra. I can think of multiple reasons why they went with Microsoft:

1. Google's "Android compatibility test" meant they would be forced to use Google Maps, making their own competing investment in maps useless and a complete write-off. Seeing how they are holding on to their mapping division, it's clear they value it greatly. Worse, we see from the SkyHook lawsuit that Google captures all location data that Android phones collect to improve their maps data. So by making Android phones, Nokia would literally be helping a competitor improve their maps data. I'm guessing this was the real deal-killer.

2. MSFT was willing to provide the billions in cash infusion to keep Nokia on life support.

3. Being the flagship Windows Phone maker, they could get more leverage over Microsoft than they could get over Google.

4. They feared (some would say rightfully) Samsung's dominance in Android, especially since Samsung has vertical integration that can compete with Apple, plus a humongous marketing budget.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#.22Burning_Platfor...
It wasn't just the product vendors. The people on the two specs were also the same. WS-* was literally the ex-CORBA contributors reimplementing all the same stuff.
Hey Alejo!

You'd know more about Java's strengths than I would. I haven't really touched it since we parted teams. I just remember production pain...

I'm sure the Go library situation will improve, and we can nudge that along as we write internal tools. I'll definitely start my next one in Go. I might even translate my last one to Go sometime.
The biggest problem that company had was fetching the image for each product (it fed from one API). They had to manually insert the image for each one. Imagine a pallet with 200 different products in it! All I did was create a web GUI where they would upload their orders, then the program would fetch all the data, insert the images in the correct row, and generate the file for them. But the file would be sent off to a workstation that was operated as a printer server/queue station. After that, the spreadsheet was automatically printed and the shipping department would get the document in a nicely formatted manner. It weird, but I get excited talking about it. Its the little wins that really count.
http://golang.org/doc/faq : "Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it. Meanwhile, Go's built-in maps and slices, plus the ability to use the empty interface to construct containers (with explicit unboxing) mean in many cases it is possible to write code that does what generics would enable, if less smoothly."

One of Go's goals is a certain level of simplicity. The above point seems to state that generics don't fit that goal, but they are not precluded from a future version.

I take this to mean that since no language has every feature that anyone could possibly want, if generics are a requirement for your work, then Go does not fit the requirements.

Some potentially relevant material here - http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponential... :

"Early in the rollout of Go I was told by someone that he could not imagine working in a language without generic types. As I have reported elsewhere, I found that an odd remark."
Chips are just rectangles, and they're not even rounded. Therefore Apple has no valid claim on any chip design. /s
since it says visual ping, perhaps render html => image and take diffs periodically , setting threshold to size of difference?
Or you could just speed your site up so you don't need to show someone a progress bar.

Or use Angular or Backbone and then you really don't need a progress bar.
Thanks for posting this. Do those Lua scripts run concurrently in any way?
RSSI imprecision inherent in BTLE is exactly the point I wanted to make. The marketing around BTLE focuses on "micro locations" but I feel that that's misleading given that in the real world, you cannot reliably get even approximate precision (let's say 5 feet) let alone micro precision. Human walking speed alone is enough to blow the whole "micro" concept out of the water.

Another sticking point for me is the battery life. The transmitters are touted as low energy, which they are, being able to transmit for 2 years on a watch coin battery is amazing. However, a transmitter is useless without a receiver (did the tree really fall...) and the receiver is going to be anything but low energy if has to continually scan and compare surrounding signals. Granted, my demo receiver app was as unoptimized as you can get (one day of coding plus I am not even an iOS developer) but at the same time, it didn't do much but look for signal, and it was chomping through battery at an alarming rate. It was ok for a 5 minute demo but I can't imagine real users would put up with this for long.

Given these two limitations, I have a hard time imagining wide adoption.
Because what matters is not effectiveness, what matters is "being educated". I.e. passing through the process of education and having a paper to prove it. That's what HR depts are checking.
Has anybody done something like this with support for uploading and resizing images via a REST API with OpenResty. Do you know of any good examples or tutorials for that or upload support in general?
Why some cryptographic keys are much smaller than others
Somehow, companies like Apple (and nVidia) get to call themselves "completely vertically integrated" even though they don't own any fabs. I've never understood this.
Turns out (see
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/jp-morgan-has-zero-... above) that it is not that much lower than 0.1.

IIRC, obviously.
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i think you are switching the cards here..
the elitist license is GPL, not BSD..
theres no license more free than BSD (except MIT maybe?)
and the reason they cant use GPL, its because GPL dont allow no GPL licenses with it... so what they should do? change all their more liberal license for GPL?

One of the good reasons to like BSD´s is because of its licence, not the opposite
Can you guys tell us more hardware specs like the processor/fpga (I would assume fpga?), sensor (pixel count, pixel pitch), ram size and speed, etc?

Wondering if it would be possible to cool the sensor to lower the noise floor and thus require less light. Will you guys also allow programming of the fpga for image processing and other uses?

Appreciate it!

Edit: Also, why 100Mbps Ethernet?? Almost all networks are GigE and with the frame rate you guys are talking about it could use the faster speed!
When considering the verbosity, are you comparing to the modern frameworks such as Jersey?
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I think your twisting his words about C-level executives. The point of that section was the value of time, and was using his experience with executives to illustrate that point, not to insinuate that he deserves to bypass lower-level employees.
This is not the first time I've noticed this omittance on HN posts.

Even though ASP.NET is one of the biggest web development frameworks on the planet, used by many, many companies, a lot of these so called web developers pretend like it doesn't even exist. Have they even used C# I wonder?

The Microsoft grudge runs deep in Silicon Valley.
I believe he was just giving an example. It didn't seem like he wanted to offend anyone.
Doesn't everyone just use Yelp? Gives me review highlights, hours, and often the menu too not to mention undoctored photos from other customers.
Yes, but we are speaking of real-life traders in banks, so their aim should not be "zero days of trading losses" but something different. So, as can be seen in http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/jp-morgan-has-zero-... quoted above by parent, the usual frequency is around .8-.9...

I guess.
The founders wrote the frontend in Rails before I came on board but it does very little work. Really it just handles authentication and captures OAuth tokens.

I imagine we'll move it to Play eventually but right now we're focused on the backend (Play/Akka) because that's where everything really happens.
At a guess, I imagine it's really difficult to rip off a chip design just by looking at raw circuit designs (unless you're copying the entire chip). Wouldn't it take a great amount of expertise to look at some plans for a chip and say "oh, that's why it works so well!"?
If your only, or even main criteria was performance you would write in assembly language. The fact that you don't, means that Rob probably nails it with this comment:

"C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn't just about getting the job done, it's about doing it a certain way."
> It's hard to function in the world without some rudimentary knowledge of it.

True.

> As for practical scenario, imagine your boss wants to send you to a conference in Paris, and you answer back with "Where?".

That's actually what I would ask if my boss wanted to send me to a conference in "Paris" without any further information (presuming that there wasn't additional context to disambiguate the reference), since there's like a dozen cities with that name in the US, some in Canada, one in Kirabati, and, oh, yeah, a big one in France.
I can't imagine having Android friends hassling me over my decision to have an iPhone. This reads as though it takes place in a parallel world.
Looks great. I am building an image intensive app currently and will definitely be putting this to use. Thanks for sharing!
Better search for Node.js modules
We dropped bombs all over the place during the Cold War, until about '70 when we stopped carrying them in the bomb bay. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, California, Greenland, Spain (4), In the Atlantic, Pacific, etc. Broken Arrows, Bent Spears, Dull Swords. As they say in the movie, scary it happens so often we have a name for it.

Personally, I was only involved in one Bent Spear, and two Dull Swords.
I used mine to make an ambient backlight for my TV. The rPi drives individual LEDs in a strip by processing the video signal directly from my cable box.
Israel, and the USA, make a big deal about being representative democracies and champions of human rights. Anytime their deeds don't match their words, criticism is warranted. The Saudis and other monarchy/dictatorships in the middle east don't make any such pretense.
Let me figure this out: Samsung manufactures Touchscreen, CPUs and perhaps other chips for Apple, yet Apple sue them from time to time over software patents and design ideas.

Can someone help me understand this?