skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's a subconscious power test by members of a group. Once they decide that you are stronger than them then they will leave it alone - and respect you for sticking with your principles. If they don't then, yeah, the group is toxic.
They are probably worried about people physically damaging their hardware.
When I was young I told my friends that if they saw me in 20 years married and not playing music full time to go ahead and punch me in the face. I honestly thought that I would feel exactly the same at 40 that I did at 20.

At that age I probably would have looked at my older self and thought that I had lost my passion, had sold out, become uncool, etc. It didn't occur to me that I would still remember everything that I knew at 20, plus have another 20 years to figure out what actually is important to me and become twice as confident and comfortable with myself.

I felt way more "lost" when I was 20 than I did at 40. I don't think I've necessarily figured it all out. But, as much fun as I had when I was young, I like my life more now.
Each year: bigger fonts, more Advil. :)
I'm 35 and I'm not at all complaining. Career wise, I've not only learned more technically but it seems like I'm learning better/faster these days than 10+ years ago. On a personal note, it's nice to know I'm established with a decent amount in my savings and retirement.

With friends, most of my friends are younger but it's nice to be able to partner with them and go through life shoulder to shoulder. It's nice to know that I have the means to be able to help people too, that alone gives me much satisfaction and contentment.

The nice thing is, 35 seems to be a starting point for me. I've got a long way to go and I'm re-evaluating my options. I used to think that getting older meant that I would regret not having accomplished the goals I had in my youth but now, I see it as refining my goals and I'm walking into things with far more experience and knowledge which means more than just "getting it done" but "getting it done, well."
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The same way you deal with getting older in any other profession, you learn to accept that there will always be people better, faster, and younger than you, embrace the fact that you suck, but still persevere in pushing forward at your own best pace. You strip away the pride (i.e. the feeling that you somehow deserve / need to win, to be the next big thing, to change the world, to be loved / respected by everyone, to do better than your old high school classmates, and to do it all in your teens and twenties) that covers the youthfully inexperienced. And you accept that the most you can do is put yourself on the path that you can enjoy and that you hope is right and commit to walking down it clad in nothing more than simple stupid faith that eventually you can get it to work.

Non-purple TL;DR: I deal with it by abandoning any sense of pride / shame I might've had.
> instead relying on mercenary college grads who put up with the cost and the crazy for a few years before moving on to a more fulfilling job

Good mercenaries know a lot more than fresh grads.
This raises an interesting point I've thought a lot on which is "Developer Moral Responsibility" (Best way I can sum it it). I've started 2-3 blog posts on this subject only to shelve them indefinitely as the "gray" things I've been involved in were minor on the grand scale and the places I worked at when those things occurred were 99% "good" and I wouldn't want to smear their names over things that were minor at best (the "everyone else is doing it argument/excuse"). I would love it if a "Developer Morality Manifesto" or similar were created and accepted at both a developer and company level to cover some of these "dark" practices
It's not a Kickstarter, it's a parody. You're right about the sentiment, though.
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> that deplete what little faith I have remaining in "science."

I'm not keen on using the word science like it's some sort of faith that you choose to passively agree or passively disagree with. You shouldn't have faith in science or institutions based on science, because that is antithetical to the whole premise of science.

Science is a methodology and framework for investigating the world around you. There are broadly accepted scientific bodies of work, but they're supposed to be continually tested and verified and challenged. You're not supposed to accept studies or peer reviewed papers at face value. You're not even supposed to accept the current body of knowledge as fact. Even the most tested laws are just theories where the error bars are very small. Don't get me wrong, laws should be respected, but until the margin of error becomes 0, it can be challenged. We award the Nobel Prize to people who have convincingly challenged the current body of science. Einstein isn't revered because he sealed Newton's laws as immutable truths. We revere him because he added dimension and new ideas that we could test and explore.

Companies and institutions have been undermining science with self-serving research, press releases and books since the beginning. People will always execute scientific research poorly and others will always do despicable things to undermine it. Fortunately, scientific thinking comes with some error correction mechanisms. They're not perfect and sometimes it takes longer than we'd like, but typically our body of knowledge gets better over time. Nutrition in particular is a very difficult subject to study, so it's especially ripe for junk science. I suspect as our tools for research get better, our knowledge of nutrition will get better.

Science doesn't work when people accept a scientific body with faith. Faith has no place in science, because faith teaches people to accept ideas without challenging them. We want each generation of scientists to question every link in the chain of arguments, so they can add testable theories and new dimension to today's "infallible" theories.

If you want to reinvigorate your "faith in science", start by changing your expectations about science. The scientific method is a great tool, but it doesn't solve the problems of corruption and incompetence. Practicing science is messy and error fraught, propagating accurate scientific knowledge can be incredibly slow. It's always been this way, but if we persist, sometimes we get really lucky and we're inundated with new knowledge and insights, better tools, and lots of testable ideas.
I couldn't disagree more. When Mark Zuckerberg turned down $1 billion from Yahoo[1] when he was 22, and FB was two years old at the time, because they were "stupid and didn't get it, so they obviously were't valuing the company" properly he was right.

The direct quote is:

>Thiel described the argument Zuckerberg finally came down on like this: "[Yahoo] had no definitive idea about the future. They did not properly value things that did not yet exist so they were therefore undervaluing the business."

Yahoo's market capitalization in July 2006 was $42.51 billion. A 22 year-old presumed they were stupid, and he was right. [2]

Today FB has a market cap of $264.91B and Yahoo? Down to $35 billion after 9 years of growth.

--

[1] http://www.inc.com/allison-fass/peter-thiel-mark-zuckerberg-...

[2] by the way to get the market valuation at the time, I did this search: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+was+yahoo%27s+mark... I can't believe it worked! I used wolframalpha because this is the kind of search they promise they can answer - and they were right, they actually delivered. Nobody else on the face of the planet does this, and it shouldn't even be possible. But it is. If you think something is possible, JUST DO IT. If you think your competitors are stupid (compared to what you think you can do), you're probably right. (or you wouldn't have that thought.)
Coincidentally, Google just announced a Hangouts update that fixes my MMS issue.

So I can't see any reason GV is inadequate, and it's also created/maintained by a large company that I know won't be dead in 6 months.
I don't think of getting older as something to "deal with". Maybe if you were a pro athlete, that would be an OK way to look at it. But as a programmer/thinker/business person, I get better everyday. And so do my peers based on my observations.

Granted, I don't recognize pop culture references much but, aside from that, and needing to sit for a minute before getting out of bed in the morning, not much has changed.
Chesterton's Fence:

> In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.
Wow. That sucks for the 400 or so people that depended for their day-to-day living on this. Nice to have a bit of a warning too.

Let's hope that at least they'll pay out what is due and refund un-used funds to users so they may continue to use the VA even if they're no longer using Zirtual. After all, the credibility hit should be limited to Zirtual, not to the people that worked hard as VAs.
> Well fructose was a rarely part of the human diet

What is your definition of "rarely"?
Fun fact: "tar xf FILENAME" will auto-detect the compression when extracting FILENAME. You don't actually need to specify "z" for gzip, "j" for bzip, etc.
ESR's "How to be a Hacker" essay explicitly lists anti-authoritarianism as part of the hacker ethic/attitude, however: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#attitude

Not that I have much of an affinity for ESR, but he is a spokesman.
You don't. Many successful startups are started by people over 30 (http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235357).
When I read the essay, I thought of P Thiel's question of self-reflection that analyzes in the reverse direction:

"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"[1]

I interpret "truth" to really be a highly-opinionated belief rather than something like "2+2=4". In other words, what factors do you believe in that would make the business model successful that outsiders would dismiss as insane or stupid?

(On trivia related note: I notice the blog as the title of "stupitidy" instead of "stupidity" so I'm not sure if there's an inside joke I missed.)

[1]http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-the-challenge-of-...
good answer, thanks.
So... How did they digitise it if they couldn't open it? X-rays? Article completely fails to answer its own title's mystique.

Edit: From the original article at Cambridge (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/news/oracle-bones-and-unseen-beauty...):

"Charles Aylmer, Head of the Chinese Department at Cambridge University Library, said: “This is the earliest and finest example of multi-colour printing anywhere in the world, comprising 138 paintings and sketches with associated texts by fifty different artists and calligraphers. Although reprinted many times, complete sets of early editions in the original binding are extremely rare.

“The binding is so fragile, and the manual so delicate, that until it was digitized, we have never been able to let anyone look through it or study it – despite its undoubted importance to scholars.”

"

So not too fragile to open, just too fragile to allow everybody who would like to to open it.
What else could solve it other than a change of the regulations that led to the current situation? The only non government drivers of reduction of income I can see are war and financial crashes where the rich loose all of their money
I'm surprised nobody mentioned "life engineering".

In our echo chamber, engineering is the mother of all disciplines; the other day I noticed someone using "interaction engineer" referring to a supposed UX position. :)
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There's nothing wrong with profit. What's wrong is monopoly and oligopoly. Defining an activity as only being up to your ideological standards if it is done for free means that your ideology will never make a dent in a power structure that pays people for their labor. Free as in freedom, not free as in beer.
As an aside, you can hardly be blamed for this attitude: It's likely the result of decades of anti-union propaganda. You think most people in your company's salaries are simply proportional to their mad skillz?

The author lists several current problems directly in the article: Stack ranking, binding mandatory arbitration clauses, non-competes, inclusion of performance reviews in a candidate’s transfer packet for internal mobility, mandatory IP assignment, severance, overtime pay.

Basically anything where the information gap and power disparity between the employee and the employer leads to employees having no option besides "accept it or quit".
Building a desktop application with Electron
Zweihanders/montantes/whatever you wish to call them were extremely effective and not nearly as heavy as you might think. In general, even the largest swords didn't weigh much more than about three kilograms (and thus were lighter than rifles and some polearms), and the hands were far enough apart that you had enough leverage to move quickly. If you poke around on youtube for people sparring with such weapons you'll see that they're as quick as most other swords (and have an advantage in reach).

On the article itself, while it's a nice list, it perpetuates some myths about the weapons in question (e.g. that katana was in someway superior to western swords -- high quality specimens on either side would probably be pretty closely matched), and has some fairly glaring admissions (e.g. the yari (Japanese spear) which was one of the most common weapons among footsoldiers for a good deal of Japan's history).
> I don't understand what you mean by 10% difference.

He's saying that there are union dues that union members pay, and NON-union employees still pay union dues, but 10% less.
The only thing I took away from this is that more hackers who are hacking on hackathon projects and for-profit code bases should be hacking on free/open source to maintain the spirit of the hacker ethos.
Hold yourself accountable and become the master of your fate
The really disappointing thing is that if you root Android you can use "App Opps" to selectively disable permissions, per app. It works great. But Google won't enable it by default.
That's GNU tar specific, though.
Another spot where the analogy breaks down is that I don't think of a non-ecommerce website as a kind of store. I think of it as being more equivalent to a magazine or newspaper. And in those cases advertising is certainly present, but the overall experience is much less overtly invasive to me, the consumer.

I also suspect that non-ecommerce website publishers really would rather think about their websites as being akin to magazines. They aren't really in control of what gets put on their page through the ad networks in the same way that print publishers are, and I can't imagine many editors are terribly thrilled about the things that ad networks place alongside the content they produce. I really kind off feel bad for them; they're caught up in a pretty terrible Faustian bargain.
Exactly. There seems to be a huge disconnect between what ad executives assume people will engage with and what people will actually tolerate. I think people will tolerate small banners and images and interstitial video ads that are 3-4 seconds at the very most (on video sites). If you can't get your message across in that time then prepare to have your ads blocked by a generation that expects the internet to be instant.
Yes binging and eating too fast is a real issue. You should never eat watching tv or browsing the internet. Always eat mindfully, chewing properly and thoroughly, and you can lose that habit.
Love the (deliberate? ironic?) mis-spelling of stupidity in the title/url.
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Might be something to integrate into Libcloud [1] instead of rolling your own.

[1] https://libcloud.apache.org/
"The nice thing is, 35 seems to be a starting point for me."

Nice. I'm 34, almost 35, and I feel the same way. I'm actually seriously thinking about starting a business now whereas in my twenties, I was more interested in leisure activities. Definitely seems like a much better time to start something than when I was younger.
Not been in an accelerator either. Although I did spend some time in Pittsburgh. If i were to start something they would not be on top of my list(the weather is palatable for a few)and most of the imp people there are very old for me to relate to , Or even to start a meaningful conversation with. I feel obligated to be respectful over honest because of my culture bias. I met this individual who taught an innovation in practice course and didn't know what " acqui-hiring" was. As someone who visited the country to study and learn how to innovate it was a slight shock
Sorry didn't realise this didn't translate well. I was saying that unions are an important element in worker safety. Miners unions largely have to protect the miners themselves, but software is a discipline where we are much more likely to inflict problems on the general public rather than ourselves.

When toyota released the Camry they probably thought that the software was good enough and the risk was "low". Typically people that put their children and loved ones in these kinds of situations though want the risk to be "as absolutely close to zero as possible". The market alone cannot enforce that kind of behaviour is all I was trying to say - that and unions may play a role in promoting this kind of best practice.
But there's a physiological "high" of getting the sugar fix in soda, which makes the brain desire it. It's nowhere near the strength of addiction produced by hard drugs. But it is still significant and I would guess it does impact sales.

Just like apps are designed to be "engaging", ie. trigger the brain patterns where it will desire to return to the app, sodas are very much the same.
It really depends how south you go :-D
You got downvoted for some reason, but you still have a point.

If one doesn't fancy drinking and if situation allows for this (i.e. they have a voice while discussing where to gather, not just invited to pre-agreed place) - at least they should suggest their friends to gather somewhere else. Some place that's not about drinking.

That is, if the place is still a subject of discussion, "Aw, guys, you know I'm not fond of drinking - how about some other place? I know a good cafe nearby..." is certainly not awkward.

And, well, sometimes it's not a bad option to decline sometimes, too. Depends on a particular company.
This suggests that our primary focus should be on portion size, right?
I can't write code nearly as fast as I used to. I am much better at writing less code, though. And though it took a while (too long), I've figured out that it's the code you don't write that makes you great. So I'm much more skilled and competent as a 40 yo than I was as a precocious 20 year old.

The biggest change has been values though. My values and my criteria for success are different now than they were when I founded my first business at 22. Now with a family, assets, residual income and a home, I'm far far more interested in being interested than I am in numerical 'success', and much more motivated by social justice. So I definitely don't have the hunger for startup life. I don't feel lost in that culture. I just feel that I've been there, got the t-shirt, and moved beyond, so I don't feel the need to go back for more than the odd visit.

So yeah, maybe I'm getting over the hill in some ways. But that's not a bad thing. I don't feel out-competed, I just feel like experience and perspective have made me change what I value, both in code and in business (and other bits of life: in relationships, in vacations, in hobbies, etc).
There's also the fact that decisions can be very hard to un-make (even in something as malleable as code). This can lead to a bunch of slightly bad/messy decisions all coming together into something that is unimaginably messy/obtuse.
Honestly, I feel like I've outgrown the whole "dreaming up the next big thing." I know my dreams. I am already following them.

I feel like the younger folk tend to re-invent ideas that have come and gone, and don't do enough research to see what has come before. They spin their wheels figuring out things that us older folk already know. Sure, they do it with newer toolkits than I know, and that is why I keep up on HN - because the newer technologies are where the younger crowd can teach me something.

But I don't feel lost in the culture... I feel disinterested in it.

I also think that being older, with a family, and a full life outside of work, I'm not interested in pursuing wealth the same way that young people are. I have a nest egg, I have a good salary, I also have a wife, children, a small farm that we run, mountains, deserts and oceans to explore, stars to look at, etc.

I am no longer 23 and trying to establish my life. I am 43, have built a life that works for me, and am far more concerned with raising my children than with raising my wealth. To me wealth is binary - you have enough to live your life, or you do not. At the moment, I do.

So can I hack life to get more out of it? I think I already have.
Vulkan is still in development. I don't believe anything about the api is published yet.
> SF has changed. It's becoming Manhattan West.

Just in time for Manhattan to try to become Brooklyn West.
True. But AFAIK GV is limited to US numbers. Roamad allows you to provision numbers globally.
As someone who travels a lot that's important to me.
Gmail like filtering is something I care about for my phone calls.
> There's a larger consumer pie, but a ridiculously larger producer pie

No it's just that people don't want to pay for stuff on the internet, period. This is valid for all digital goods, music,books,movies,news and co. Whether there is competition or not it doesn't matter.

> it's (a) ridiculously easy to publish now (text or music),

producing =/= publishing

A published crap will still be crap. Producing something good takes effort and it's valid for all digital goods including the press. And since nobody's willing to pay for that work, more and more crap get published,which makes people want to buy less and less.
This is an incredibly arrogant argument for a union to be making. If a union gains membership by forcing employees to be union members, its claim to be legitimately representing employees becomes very weak, IMO.

Closed shop tactics are ways for unions to gain power, often at the expense of labour. Also, once its place a union doesn't need to do much to win members. The incentives are all wrong. These things collapsed all over the world for a reason.

The cheek of believing they "own" these benefits and should be payed by anyone who wants this job.
Good to see them trying to gain some technical literacy.
Sparkling water?
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