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If true, seems like a pretty big oversight by the author and editor. They claim 0.0004 BTC per view, when in reality it's 0.00004? Your math checks out, but I'm not familiar with what the site actually pays.

While it was a good read about the other merits of bitcoin, there's a pretty huge difference between earning 60 cents a day vs 6 cents a day...
I highly second this. To offer my own recent experience, I just had an interview yesterday of this format. It was around 4 hours (5 including lunch with the team).

1. I was repeatedly made to feel welcome, comfortable and calm as I possibly could be by everyone I met.

2. I was given technical questions that were appropriate and highly correlated with what I would be doing on a daily basis.

3. I spoke directly with two founders who, despite having my resume, opted for talking to me about my background, my goals, and offered answers to any questions I could possibly think of.

4. I was interviewed by four people total, and only one at a time.

It was honestly the most enjoyable interview I've ever had, despite the fact that I was initially nervous and didn't know what to expect, and it took the better part of a day. It was literally fun - if nothing else, this experience has given me a model for how I would interview candidates in the future if I am ever a hiring manager.

I wish every company operated this way - on some level, I think a lot of people who interview candidates don't know what they should look for, so they fall back on the "legendary battery" style of asking a suite of questions that only a recent 4.0 MIT CS graduate could answer confidently (and who could totally fizz out when asked to do something that isn't in Intro to Algorithms).
Rust consciously avoids having C++-style templates, so I think stelonix is referring to plain old generics.
After going through a bunch of their other articles, seems like its a bad idea of sequoia to do something like this.

Most of their entrepreneurs will suffer from a selection bias for obvious reasons. Almost every article does a shoddy job decoupling correlation from causation like this one.
The answer to this problem is to create a technology which allows for easy replication of fingerprints once you have a digital copy. Once that technology exists it will completely remove the use and value of fingerprints since the existence of a finger print won't prove anything.

3D printers could provide that system as long as they are precise enough to print fingerprints at scale.
I don't really see how Jini was trying to solve the same problems. iBeacons are really just a simple way to discover devices nearby broadcasting a UUID. Jini was a super complicated attempt to create a distributed device fabric, which included interface negotiation and driver distribution and all kinds of other complex infrastructure, most of which is redundant now.
I think you should be given a choice whether to use GC. Now that's a killer feature.
No idea if anyone else did too, but I immediately thought this was about https://grove.io/ , run by the fine folks at Revolution Systems. Thought they were doing something crazy with their chat service.
> Give the candidate a realistic technical challenge to complete in a realistic timeframe

The problem is that a realistic challenge involves figuring out a realistic system. Realistic systems tend to be large, complicated, hairy. They tend to involve a lot of domain knowledge. They tend to have subtle considerations.

Working with a realistic system does not generally take a realistic amount of time. Not for an interview, at least.
It's not like a scanner that's taking a picture of a finger and storing the image on a chip. From what I can tell, the biometric markers of individual fingerprints are used as a hash to generate a strong password -- much stronger than a user generated password. The fact is, the standard 4 digit pins that most users use are not very secure. (From what I can recall of a recent security seminar I attended.)

Given the privacy concerns that have been news lately, it's understandable that this would raise some eyebrows, but when combined with something like the iCloud keychain for generating strong online passwords, this could actually be a great benefit to individual privacy.
I'm currently attempting to write a roguelike using nothing other than Excel formulae (no macros etc.). It's going surprisingly well so far, although the limitations are obviously frustrating - not least the inability to correctly lock-in random numbers, although I think that can be worked around by linking the data from another workbook.

Obviously this is not a serious project, but it's kind of fun. I think this is where Excel gets dangerous. To a certain type of mind (perhaps like mine), the enjoyment from forcing a non-compliant system to do your bidding is greater than the enjoyment of using the proper tool to do the job quickly and effectively.

I still don't use pivot tables. Those are too practical.
See http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/Bluetooth-Smart-Devices.aspx

The Galaxy S3 and S4 have home grown BLE stacks and Android 4.3 has finally announced BLE support in the stack so it should show up on Android phones that get the update (the hardware has been there for ages.) Blackberry 10 announced support this summer.
Those pie charts are basically useless.

They might be better represented as a tag cloud[1], with the most popular keywords given the most prominence.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
lol "Passwords are secret and dynamic"

Passwords are often static, shared, and relatively easy to crack.
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Backed. I've used a few different high speed video cameras for walking robot research, and this seems like exactly what I want.
I really want to like Go, but I'm having a hard time believing that they don't have a plan for generics. I've read the FAQs about go+generics, but do we have any better idea of when generics might make an appearance? Not being able to write a generic "map" function in a modern language seems very strange to me.

edit: there's something "map"-ish here: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/exp/itera...
Yeah there's been a ton of suggestions for what the colors should mean but I'm leaning towards something like what you're suggesting!
You can look backwards at the "burning platform" thread and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195520

His memo was hailed as a good move, but even then, many (including myself) were arguing for Nokia moving to Android:

SandB0x 954 days ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195699

"Please, please, Nokia, adopt Android and put your efforts into making great hardware to go with it, without ruining the interface like so many other manufacturers do."

Interestingly, the "trojan horse" hypothesis has been around for at least 2 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928410

with some skeptics unable to believe it (it still sounds farfetched, I believe that the cause was incompetence myself).

nl 504 days ago

"Now, of course, he grasps at a broad conspiracy theory involving Nokia CEO Elop being somehow motivated to deliberately destroy Nokia for Microsoft."
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So true. The patriot act is the real issue here, not Apple and it's tech.
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The Clang kickstarter announcement underscores the importance of good public-facing communications, which is sorely lacking here. I'm not too astonished that the devs feel the way the announcement reads, but this shows how there's value in having "inside words", and a different public-facing voice. Their public-facing communications should be intended to improve the company's prospects, not hurt them.
This is only semi-on-topic, but it's really cool how Ghost is a non-profit organization:

http://ghost.onolan.org/what-it-means-to-be-non-profit

and the post does a good job explaining what that means and why it was chosen. I definitely want to see more mini-Mozillas :)
Oh right, I was reading an article on "Education in the United States" which started its story post-revolution.
> For what it's worth, people say the same thing about PHP; how do you feel about that language?

I actually love how relaxed and non-pointy-headed PHP feels. They seem to have backed off and tried to remake the language as OOP now, which is sad.
I think your point is well made that what you can sample in a work-sample test is not the full set of long-term skills that benefit a for-profit company. That's why the predictive validity of work-sample tests is only about .50 across a wide range of industries. But the key point is that EVERY other hiring procedure, except for general cognitive ability tests, has lower validity, so a company is throwing away a lot of opportunity to hire good workers if it doesn't use a combination of work-sample testing and cognitive ability testing for all of its hiring. Your sound analysis can be turned around to using interviews as a hiring procedure--which is much more commonplace than using work-sample testing as a hiring procedure--to make the correct point that an applicant who looks good in an interview may not be a "team player" once hired. Any hiring procedure is a sample of applicant behavior, not fully representative of how the worker will behave on the job after being hired. But work-sample tests get much closer to what the worker will do on the job long-term than any other procedure besides general cognitive ability tests. Because work-sample tests and cognitive ability tests each have incremental validity when added to the other, it's best to use both in combination to get a hiring procedure with somewhat more than .50 validity in finding good workers.
This is why every time someone here says "hey, move to Texas, it's better!" I just have to shake my head. Sure, nowhere is perfect, but between the school boards in Texas and the medical board, plus the unconstitutional laws still on the books against electing atheists, I just can't see myself living there. Yes, I know Austin is a tech mecca of the midwest, but there's a cultural problem in the whole state that stories like these point to.
The tone of article implied that it is somehow expected that C++/Java developers would come to Go. Well, no - there are choices.
Yeah I have this for ruby I think. Will add it in - or you can make the pull request and put it in there!

https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages
Yessir! Please contribute! https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages
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> Why is that better than making it in the US?

Different political climate. Things that may be politically impossible in the US may not be in France, and vice versa.
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Haha oh man, that's just asking for trouble isn't it?
Surely people love the C3PO character from Star Wars, and want the same color on their iPhone.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUA7NhCIcAEHxWO.jpg:large
before it was tryghost.com, so i'd say this is a certain improvement!

i would be surprised if they didn't try to build a hosted version, wordpress style.
You mention collecting data, which has been a big issue in this market. The local dentists (this is an offline startup) use a closed sourced program that does not export data. The only way to retrieve any data is to use automation scripts that "read" from the screen and dump it into CSV files (they use excel a lot). Once that is done, the script calls another one that sanitizes the data and inserts it into the database (PostgreSQL, in this case).

I currently have a flexible API that allows me to make complicated queries by sending commands through an HTTP call. Say "GET /clients/where/__last-visit/20132009" and so on.

On the front end, I have a fairly custom dashboard for each dentist (they all have specific needs due to different business sub-specialties). The dashboard calls the API and creates the reports automatically. They are update n amount of times a day, depending on the metric being observed.

Given this information, and the one you provided me, can you give me your insight into how different your offering would be?

My aim is to reduce complexity, and reduce business costs. Without eroding the service or client experience. I'm interested how my "small data system" would compare to yours in those terms. It may sound like I'm being pedantic, but I am genuinely interested in learning more. You could be the solution that saves me hundreds of hours of development time.
Real market data uses PTP driven by GPS calibrated clocks.
Really?? Where?
Or, you know, you could do both. If it's politically achievable to safeguard people's private data from private companies, then why not do that? This is the old "why bother with solving x when people are starving in y?" argument, which has never been too convincing.

And, for the record, I'm very interested to know what Apple's interpretation of the law is, because that could be what informs the design of their products.
I'm sure they taught this in the music theory class that I didn't take in high school. I learned it later. It does open up the world of music, in that it's one of the things that allows one to go from rote memorization to actually playing music. Ever wonder how how musicians play with others without having ever played the song? Now you know.
That's not my experience at all - cars stop a lot faster than both motorcyclists and certainly than plain cyclists (I cycle almost every day multiple times).

The thing is, in a car you can basically be unprepared, then mash the brakes when somethings wrong. It's possible that'll cause you to lose control, but in general an emergencey stop whether controlled or not will stop the vehicle very quickly without causing any direct injury.

By contrast, on a (motor)bike if you mash the brakes you'll slip or even tumble head over heels. You're not wearing a seatbelt; and furthermore your vehicle loses control a lot less gracefully.

If you're prepared, it's a different story since you can rearrange your center of mass, and get a good grip beforehand, but in an accident situation... a car stops much more quickly.
What a zinger. Unfortunately a basic understanding of PHP is still required for enough tasks that I would recommend learning it early on. It is also a very forgiving beginner language that naturally segways nicely from html/javascript.
I don't personally have a problem with software patents in principle. You've come up with a brilliant idea, you spent time and money to implement it, and you want to make sure you receive the credit for it. I get that.

I was born well after VisiCalc was released. I look back on those years, and wish I could have experienced how "open" things were. It seems like the culture was completely different when it came to new ideas for the most part. Also when it came to sharing ideas. Things were different.

In recent years I've become less and less of a fan of software patents. Only because they are being used to hinder development of new services because they may somehow relate to a very generic idea that someone had. If you're going to get a patent, and will not abuse it...go for it!

Stupid, no. Just happened in a completely different universe...
I'm so glad this is out of NDA. My coworker and I rushed through our lunches at WWDC to play with this. The API is so easy, and possibilities of what it can be used with are so broad. The immediate massive downside is that it's iOS only. But, it's a relatively open spec, so porting some logic in a non-copied way should be possible.
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No jQuery == color me impressed

If I have the time, I may fork and add the ability to show which styles are applied to the selected text when the editor is brought up

Nice work
They probably work in start-ups or are free-lancers on small projects. Or they work at Google.
Back in 2008, the CCC even stole and published a fingerprint of Wolfgang Schäuble, who was the Minister of the Interior in Germany at that time.

http://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/CCC-publishes-f...
And then how my players (I make games) use more cores?

They hire Amazon before playing my physics game?

Oh, I know, just put the game in the cloud...

Then players will become angry because the game only works when internet works and they cannot play at the underground train while commuting.

Sorry, but sometimes I have impression that web developers forget there is other sort of development that exists.
I was going to say PHP but then I saw it at the bottom. I am guessing they mean ASP/.net? I am not sure though, the list looks pretty complete to me.
I too wondered why he would ask Apple rather than the DOJ. If he did the latter, the answer would be that they don't know the details of the implementation, and can't say. Apple is the party which knows right now.

So what I would like, is that after Apple comes out with the details, the question gets asked to the government. That would ensure that the government does behave according to the intent of Congress.
I dont think theyre a solved problem yet. Strangely enough the ports system appears to be too flexible. Which one should I be using in 2013 to install packages - pkg_add, pkgng, portmaster, portupgrade, running make install from within the ports source tree? Could someone who knows more about FreeBSD than I do comment on whats state of the art in terms of installing / upgrading packages?
Rent for how long though? One month? With no security deposit and no documented income? If you wanted to rent an apartment for one year it would cost $500/month x 12 months + security deposit == $6500. This does not include food, utilities or heat.

So no a $400 laptop does not approach the cost of rent.
It's possible the device is storing a second key of some sort as well as regenerate each time a fingerprint is set. It may even regenerate it each time a scan is done and reset the password.

I.E. hash( hash(fingerprint) + stored key ) = actual password.
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I think he's responding more to what was implied in the article, which seem a bit in contradiction to what was explicitly stated.

No offense intended to you. I doubt you meant it like this, but I got the same impression.
> My point is that translating an error from one call to the previous is neither generic nor pointless.

The first pattern does not do that. The second one is still mostly pointless generic boilerplate:

blah, err :=
if err != nil {
return nil, errors.New()
}

is all boilerplate, only two parts are not: the call itself and the error message.

> An exception and line-number (and a call-stack dump) is great for a developer, but a good textual error message is needed for a real user.

1. having exceptions doesn't preclude handling them and writing user-readable error messages

2. exceptions are not the only alternative to C-style error handling
We are working on something close to that. A small, (hopefully) well-chosen subset of typical spreadsheet functionality and combining a few ideas from dimensional data modeling. Trying to make it fun to work and play with your data.
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The colors are off. Particularly the yellow. It is hard to read. The blue is nice, could be a shade darker. The last square position is empty. Why not put one there with links to your blog or whatever? Its prime real estate, because the reader will flow into it. Having a blank space there takes away from the design.
>> How do they start with your hard-earned 30k and end up with just enough to give this guy food stamps? Totally inefficient if you ask me.

They started it with the welfare system, good idea but then let the majority of its users abuse it rather than finding work. They started it, they keep it going because their users vote for them which keeps them in power.
You've contradicted the statement that you made elsewhere - that it's the arrangement of atoms that matters. There's nothing magical about the processes, but the specific state matters.
They already announced there were plans to build a hosted version back when this was on Kickstarter.

So, domain aside, that is supposed to eventually happen.
"Their hardware designs and cameras alone would have made them a top tier Android vendor"

I believe this to be true: my niece is looking into buying a smartphone with a good camera. The "obvious" choice would be the Nokia 1020... but it's off the table because it runs Windows (she's considering the Xperia Z or the LG Optimus G)
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There wasn't any way to navigate around it; the best you could do is soften the blow and manage the salvage operation.

They could have swallowed their pride and used android. I never understood the reasoning behind taking such a huge risk going with MS.
"The counter example is that sports are linked (hitstorically) with (very) successful Academic Institutions."

Some of them. Others, less so.[1]

* Princeton University

* Harvard University

* Yale University

* Columbia University

* Stanford University

* University of Chicago

* Duke University

* Massachusetts Institute of Technology

* University of Pennsylvania

* California Institute of Technology

"And rightly or wrongly 'character' and 'teamwork' are subjects not developed/selected for in the classroom [but are on the sports field?]."

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[2] http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/off-field-arrests-for-viol...
> I really want to like Go

Why? 4 years on seems a long enough time to come to term with what Go is.
Not at all. Go gives (a lot of) the advantages of python and not many of the costs. I would say that Go dominates python, giving the advantages of that language with few of the costs. Anything you can do in python can relatively easily be done in Go. Replacing dynamic typing with reflection seems to work pretty well.

It does not similarly dominate C++. C/C++ cannot be replaced by something like go for the very simple reason that it wouldn't work. Go itself depends on a C runtime and a C compiler written in C, even ignoring the operating system it has to run on (which also cannot run without a C/C++/assembly core). The same goes for languages like Java, Erlang, Haskell, ... (Java is particularly bad, since it has a huge complicated runtime which is almost completely C++)

After all, who will garbage-collect the garbage collectors ? (this is a simplification, the garbage collector is a major problem, but not the only one. There's dozens)