skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter-anecdote, my high school quiz bowl team participated in a local TV game show thing and ended up winning (in our first year!). We had to recruit a cheering section for all five rounds, and we all got excused absences. Toward the end when it looked like we had a chance of winning, we were sort of minor celebrities around school, and I got an inkling of what it might have felt like to be on a successful football team or similar. I even got compliments from people who would be grouped into the "dumb jock" social class, who I'd barely ever exchanged words with.

I also participated in a bunch of math and science competitions, and got basically no recognition for those (though I did get excused absences to attend).

I think the difference was the cheering section: We got to invite a bunch of friends and acquaintances to get an afternoon off from school and come make noise on a TV set. What high school student wouldn't want that? Then they went back and told their friends that it was pretty fun, and so each round we had a whole bunch more people who wanted to come. So there was a way for people who weren't on the four-person team to participate in some way and feel like they were connected to our success.

Was this a better use of school time and funds than athletics? That's unclear. I think glorifying an academic contest in the same way as an athletic one sends a better message to other students, that if you're looking for that kind of recognition, there are multiple paths that are possible.

[Edit: this was a public high school]
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Baltimore residents line up to get laptops in exchange for guns
Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I really appreciate it.
> Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon

That was a Friday!
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I might be completely wrong but I think you can make the argument that back then the challenge was in the implementation since there were so many technical difficulties and there was no need to patent an approach since it would be difficult to replicate. Now with modern tools it's pretty easy to replicate most software so getting a patent makes more sense.

I don't think software patents should be granted but clearly there's an incentive to patent as much as you can.
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for those who didn't spot it the parent commenter stated they had a short position in GLD before the edit
Completely anecdotal but I played two sports seasons out of three in high school and my grades were always better during those seasons. While I did see some students who weren't exactly killing it academically during those seasons, they probably wouldn't have done any better without.
this is a good start http://yehudakatz.com/2011/08/11/understanding-javascript-fu...
This already came up on their forum:
http://ghost.org/forum/installation/23-is-there-a-quick-star...
It highlighted Linux, too. It is auto-associating Thinkpad with Lenovo.
If I invented the spreadsheet today, of course I would file for a patent.

I can't help feeling bad for VisiCalc, getting killed by Lotus 123, and they in turn by Excel. Similar to Apple (almost) getting killed by the PC (they invented the Personal Computer - even the term was appropriated by their competitor).

When you invent something really useful that's never existed before... don't you deserve something awesome in return? But I guess they did make some serious money; and consumers benefited from the better implementations (which is why they switched). Ownership would have prevented this particular progress.

I still feel bad for them though.
Well, it's currently pretty easy to change. I use my fingerprint in exactly one place right now: as the unlock code for my new iPhone. (Yep, I stood in line and everything.) If somehow my fingerprint got stolen, I could trivially change the unlock code by switching back to a regular passcode and disabling the fingerprint unlock.

I don't understand the big concern over this fingerprint sensor. I get the idea of some concern on a theoretical level, but compared to the rest of any smartphone's ready-made spying functions, like the ability to see where you are at any point in the day, the ability to record or even transmit live every conversation you have, the ability to steal every password you enter into the device, etc. etc., fingerprint theft seems completely unimportant. So far, I've yet to get a satisfactory answer to just what bad things would happen if the NSA was, in fact stealing everyone's iPhone fingerprint data. I'd rather they not, but it's minor compared to everything else that's going on.
> Jones found that of the four safety mechanisms in the Faro bomb, designed to prevent unintended detonation, three failed to operate properly

3/4 of the safety mechanisms on a 4 megaton bomb failed over US soil.

I would hardly call this a breathless article.
You can use Function.prototype.bind instead of creating a closure. Check out the examples here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I don't know, working perhaps?

Or do you prefer that the little guys spend millions of dollars against the big guys in court?. Who of course have thousands of essential patents each that the little guys infringe.
I was hoping to see GO
Personal content isn't a sin.
I wonder how the YC guys feel about the abundance of "how to get accepted to YC" articles. Just as you can prepare for the SAT you can now prepare for the YC tests -- there are a lot of examples of accepted applications, videos, thoughts from founders, etc. just like this very submission. The point is, there is probably less differentiation in the new pool of applicants in terms of their submission applications which makes YC's job more difficult. My theory is that now they're going to place more importantance on filters like past work experience (I've noticed a considerable amount of acceptees having ex-Googlers in their teams) and academic pedigree (I've noticed a high amount of acceptees having big-name school people in their teams).
Also:
Wheels on luggage.
Cameras in phones.
This article says to buy T-Mobile. You don't have to. Just pay retail, use whatever you want.

Walk into a USA Apple store, ask for a "device only" phone. They'll give you one of the AT&T stock, but when you get back to the office or home and connect to iTunes, you'll get the message:

“Congratulations, your iPhone has been unlocked.”

Tada, use any plan you like, anywhere you like. This worked on the iPhone 4S before Apple even announced no-contract phones.
Not sure I'd necessarily say racist...

They should simply require all religious jewellery to be hidden/covered up for employees, and not allow covered faces. The ban on turbans and head-scarves is too much though.

It's not as though working FOR the government is some sort of human right...
Not the "starting at 8, up till midnight" bit. That's just what she did instead of homework until 8 on Friday.
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn flow control
I am beyond the online tutorials and the how to guides, but I am having a hard time finding good resources to learn that next step. What resource would HN recommend for flow control beyond the basics.

Secondly, is there a good place to find specific best practices for specific languages. Besides stackoverflow which tends to have a high noise ratio.
While there was a sharp drop in early 2010, there is a second drop the day Elop publishes the "burning platform" memo.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
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Nice incisive article. You recognize a really good point. While T-Mobile is at the pit of the phone carriers, they seem to listen (and react) to what their costumers want. I just wish that maybe one day one of the hot-shot carriers will come to their senses and follow in T-Mobile's footsteps.
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Upshot of the objection is: boys are busy, rough, and loud.

The objection then practically concludes that letting them play hard as they desire is the only option, and the acceptable alternative thereto is At least in public school, boys get diagnosed with ADHD and plied with Adderal to enable adjustment to [learning while sitting still for very long periods]. I reject any conclusion that reduces to either letting kids run wild or drugging them into submission.

Montessori finds a happier medium: the child is permitted to move and change focus as desired, while gently encouraging them to learn focus and self-control. Maybe it's not optimal for some kids, but it's sure better than the alternatives the link prefers.
the github guide is a good one. that should definitely be added to the list.
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"So far, the only way that Apple’s devices appear to be using this protocol is to communicate with Siri"

So for now it's yet another private, do-not-use-or-get-rejected, useless API?
I have to imagine iBeacons could be more about the iwatch than the iPhone. I don't want to take my phone out of my pocket all the time to check for new notifications. I would glance at my watch.
I can see it now: "I enjoyed reading this Neal Stephenson Kickstarter, but it didn't have a conventional denouement, and had lots of loose ends."
Uh, heh, development length is probably a better thing to measure. They are somewhat correlated, and you can measure them both at the same time.
Let's try your lawnmower experiment in freefall at 10,000 feet and see if we can reach the same confidence level.
That's very true. IMO Apple has already thought of this and I think they're not storing the fingerprint or even a direct hash or other signature of it on the device. They may be using some sort of unique key (a salt perhaps?) that is used in conjunction with the fingerprint to generate the final password.

It's also possible that it may not be a "password" in the conventional sense. Maybe the fingerprint only serves as part of the private key of a public/private key pair where only the public key is stored on the device itself and the private key must be generated each time with a scan of the finger.

This is all speculation, of course.
I can tell you are new here. My reputation in this community as involved DAD who homeschools[1] his four children (my wife and I have adjusted our careers to trade off time for our children's education) is well established here. But I empathize with your point that families even poorer than mine (my family was quite poor when my dad was slowly dying after a catastrophic injury that left him a quadriplegic for the last six years of his life) should have opportunity to learn everything that is useful for good development. One of my children received a "scholarship" (fee waiver) based on financial need from our local travel soccer program. I return the favor by being an active volunteer (team manager) in the program.

But I'm going to put it to you that you are criticizing the wrong person if you think I don't care about good education for poor people. The FINE SUBMITTED ARTICLE talks about a poor neighborhood in Texas where academic achievement rose, and thus future opportunity for the students rose, after the high school recalibrated from an emphasis on sports to an emphasize on care school academic subjects. My big-time pet issue on HN, as is easily verifiable by looking at my user profile and my submission history and comment history, is better quality K-12 education for all learners all around the world. Children in poor neighborhoods in the United States ought to enjoy better instruction in reading, in mathematics, in writing, in history, in science, and in all academic subjects in school. I've posted numerous links to authoritative publications about that crucial issue. Along the way, if all young people can also learn a competitive team sport if they like, I will be glad about that. But I will be especially glad if all high school students in the United States grow up to be numerate, literate, and able to support themselves in the changing economy of the twenty-first century.

[1] Oddly, even though I am a dyed-in-the-wool, take-no-prisoners advocate of homeschooling, my three children who are still at home (my oldest son has grown up and is supporting himself) are this week all in their third week of full-time enrollment in public schools--the first time in twenty-one years of parenting that I've ever had all my children at home in public school. My second son plays JV soccer and runs track on the teams of our friendly local high school.
Right, but with the disadvantage of not having a free version, and they still have the same downside as Google Docs, which is that your cloud-hosted data is accessible by the NSA, who may then share it with other government agencies. Or it could simply be compromised if there were a security breach in the application.

On the other hand, as soon as you e-mail an Excel spreadsheet outside to anyone outside your corporate intranet, the NSA can see that data too, if they want.
The weird thing about the cannabis mention in this article is how irrelevant it was to his story. He mentions smoking up so he can explain how hard it is to do algebra while high. Uh, and? Is your daughter doing her algebra homework stoned?

I got the impression that he mentioned it to signal that he's a "cool parent". But that hurts his point; it makes the rest of the argument seem like it might be the product of aloofness rather than productive, tactical concern.
Awesome! I would love if you added it :)

https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/blob/gh-pages/content.js
I agree. I am a vim fanboy, but I don't see myself using this. Presentation is about how best you can convey an idea, and I don't see this being flexible enough to help me do that.
Oh man, I totally missed this. Will add!
An arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a physical process. I don't see the contradiction.
At my high school, just about every AP student participated in sports.

School sports are good because their cost is only around $100 for a season, with generous financial aid for those who cannot pay, vs. local teams which can be thousands. Only upper middle class families can really afford to put their kids into those programs. School sports allow people of all socio-economic status to participate, which brings students on the team together more than it brings them apart.
I think that => is going to be used far more than you think. The original scoping rules for javascript have caused all sorts of confusion. The important piece isn't removing function, it's removing .bind(this).

The changes in ES6 go a long way in making modern javascript more intuitive to write.
The location I was at (a Verizon store) didn't even have any in gold available.

I just picked up my 5s (silver/white) and it's incredible. My wife has the 5, and the 5s is surprisingly better. I stopped by about 30min before the store opened and there were only about 20 people in line, so figured why not and just caught up on email while I waited, it went pretty fast. The Apple stores are all slammed, but the other retailers aren't too bad.
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All this is very true. I used to play some other RTS games competitively (albeit for no tangible rewards) - Age of Empires II, C&C Generals - and matches can be very stressful. RTS games have so much going on at any given time.

I definitely can see how they would improve intelligence, strategic thinking skills, multi-tasking ability, etc...

But nowadays I like to relax as well, so I mostly just play turn-based strategy (on a FreeCiv kick right now), the odd RTS round in 0 A.D. (against the computer), and I hate to admit it, but I'm having alot of fun with Fez (just bought it for Linux with the latest Humble Bundle).
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Seriously? I was in line this morning and was told they were out of unlocked phones. They gave me a card for an AT&T phone, but when I looked up AT&T's unlock policy it said that I needed to be a current or former customer to get a phone unlocked. Damn.
Indeed. David Miranda was detained by British agents in London.
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The answer is that they had both aircraft-tracking radar and "early warning" radar designed to pick up incoming ICBM re-entry vehicles by that time, so it would have been fairly easy to verify that a single nuclear detonation around a militarily and strategically innocouous site was an accident.

But don't let that stop you from panicing.
You don't have to be "a terrible businessman" if you're, say, some guy in a basement and the "thief" is a large company with the ability to copy quickly (even if badly) and deep marketing and production pockets. By the time you're able to broadcast your innovation beyond your neighborhood, you're already competing against the proverbial "major national brand" of the product you invented, as seen on TV and available in a store near you.
Perhaps because tort cases can wind up looking remarkably similar a lynch mob?
I share your concerns -- I don't want YC to get inundated with masquerading applications.

However, while you can prepare for the SAT, those scores alone are insufficient to guarantee you admission into top universities. You need something unique. In the case of YC, this will be either team, traction, or idea. It's pretty hard to fake a history of making (or pedigree), numbers, and wild ideas.
Does a website have to summarize the purpose of the website in every article it contains? Could you have just looks at the address bar, typed in ghost.org and found out easily?
The problem with RSS these days is that many, many websites use RSS as a way to get people clicking on their site and don't provide full-text feeds.

Hell, you can put in ads as well as metrics code into RSS feeds, that's just not a valid excuse to not provide full-text feeds.
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I'm not sure they "lied."

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/20/a7-processor-manufacture...
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For those that have some experience using Play with both Java and Scala, which Play variant do you enjoy working with the most? It sounds like there are some API difference between the Java and Scala versions and I'm curious whether those differences are a factor in deciding whether to go Java or Scala with Play. I'm a long time Java developer, envious of Ruby, interested in Scala for its potential in being a hybrid of the two.
Microsoft does not condone tampering with Kinect (2010)
I think not every article. Probably a good idea around release though...
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you're profitsharing, right? so if you go around the company's self limiting policies, and make more profit by using your salary... then it's a net win to you.
Can you elaborate more on why hour round trip times wouldn't be acceptable? That isn't self-evident to me.
Did not read paywall story, but my thoughts on why Tesla might have done this is that they are perhaps working toward a different goal of 90% autopilot in 3 years, as opposed to 100% in X years. Also, maybe has different ideas when it comes to licsenseing the tech and all.
The edgertronic camera was designed to fill a huge hole in the high speed video camera market.

Currently, at one end of the market are consumer cameras where high speed is basically an afterthought (there's only so much you can do with a rolling shutter). At the other end are the ultra high end cameras used for big buck productions that cost $250K and up.

The edgertronic has a global shutter and all the other specialized design features that make it a straight up high speed video camera.

We could have come out with a camera that's faster/higher resolution but it would cost more. Just like with cars: "Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?" This camera strikes a nice balance between price and performance.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1521768569/edgertronict...

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Oh they'd know. The real question is would they have told the public it was an internal accident? Or do some wonderful media-spin and blame whatever country they feel like going to war with...
Having no qualifications whatsoever about such things, I'd fund them. To me, this application (including video) make Lollipuff's success seem inevitable. Everything is stated just so matter-of-factly, but without bravado. They've found a market with customers, and have a product that appears to serve their needs, and to an outsider, it appears that the business will happen whether or not YC (or Silicon Valley at large) gets on board.

I don't know if the YC reviewer(s) for Lollipuff's application is hanging around, but it'd be interesting to hear if their reaction matches mine.
(Just to be clear, I wasn't knocking on you guys for writing this article -- I enjoyed reading/watching your writing and submission video, thanks!)
> Once I started to apply this simple filter to the incoming opportunities, things got much easier

What filter? I didn't see him mention the filter he's using. Maybe he means he rejects a company unless it has an adaptive interview. But, how can you do that unless you take the interview?
poudriere isn't a ports upgrade tool (afaik), it's a tool to roll your own binary package repository. It's mostly useful for building a pkgng repository, since there wasn't any official one out.
Exactly! It's a simple concept for a programmer to think about. (A 2d array? How hard could this be?) but really it's crazy how annoying it is to do certain things. Excel has math down pretty well, but encoding other kinds of data or even compiling the data to a spreadsheet is a significant problem for most people.
“Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.”
- Thomas Edison, king of patents

Implementation, partnerships, marketing (visibility), and growth are all just as important as being first. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings in academia, where the ultimate goal is simply to be published first and recognized most.
You should never cross any border, US or otherwise, with a mobile phone, laptop, or any sensitive documents. Neither should your employees, if their device are user for work.

This is not a new revelation. Industrial espionage by spy services has been ongoing for a very long time.
I don't mean to undermine the effort of put into the lawsuit and this careful analysis. But... Shocking. Government has access to passenger's itinerary. I mean, with all the recent revelations, we might have just assumed that.
This looks interesting! I would like to see an example of the notifications, and what Tiny/Medium/Major change levels mean, though.
This. The boxes are bright, so you would want black text. In general, white text goes with muted backgrounds, black text on bright backgrounds. This hurt my eyes =\.

Also, the page starts with black text on white background and transitions to white on colored. I'd stick with one for consistency, in this case, black.

Here is what I mean, I just changed the box text color to black: http://i.imgur.com/ENnoGnv.png
> This is all speculation, of course.

I suppose that is why we have people asking the questions.
The headline is kinda accurate but definitely misleading. 'Accidentally' should have been added to it, the way it is now it seems like they planned on doing it and then changed their mind last minute or something like that.

Accidents do happen.
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