skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really strange. When I was just out of college no one took my work experience during college seriously, they all treated me like I was a clean slate even though I had about three years of part-time experience with two full-time summers. I was constantly told, when I actually got feedback, that I was too inexperienced. I was applying for entry-level positions, which these days means you need 1-2 years experience. If I didn't have any work experience at all I don't think I'd ever be able to get a job except perhaps as helpdesk or PC tech.

Somehow I doubt everyone else was treated like a prodigal son when they were younger and my experience was just bad luck or poor preparation. When this was happening in 2007, I was able to get about 20 interviews that only ever amounted to 2 job offers.
Quite predictable. What should've one expected from them, support for Google's move and criticism of Chinese government? These people have their lives, families and business there, on the mercy of officials.

The last section on opinions from Chinese entrepreneurs who moved out to the States is also telling..
I've seen houses covered in locks, and all the locks do is make me think that the owner must have lots of valuables inside if they have locks like that. I guess thieves must think the same thing.
Bloody hilarious. I was almost in stitches when I did my first rotation.
My dad is the only one in his block who does not have a security system and is also the only one whose house has not been broken into.

Edit: Ooops, forgot to add that I think it's simply because he doesn't call attention to his house. If he doesn't need protection, then maybe he doesn't have anything of value, right?
"I also talked to a few Chinese expatriates who had left the country for the U.S. and met with the delegation. They only wanted to publish their first names because they were worried about making critical comments of the government publicly."

This cuts to the heart of the problem right here. We often take it for granted in the US (and in other similarly structured socieities as well) that we can be critical of the government and not face retribution. Heck, there are people who make entire careers out of it. In open societies we have vigorous debates about how to structure rules and regulations (i.e. "net neutrality"). Markets require that sort of public debate so investors and companies can make informed decisions.
I love the "Especially when other companies like Microsoft are perfectly happy to censor search results in China" part.

Google took a lot of criticism when they initially complied with the Chinese government orders to censor search. I am glad to see they are now doing the right thing. But China is only one of the countries that are under such regimes and many of them disguise their political censorship under religious tones. If this initiative is to go anywhere, there is a lot of work to do.
Inside I think of myself as young.

If you really did, then you wouldn't have even written this post.

Like Dave Winer, I am also 54 and absolutely do not care what anyone else thinks about it.

When I first started out I quickly rose through the enterprise ranks and was never taken seriously because of my age. As a wimpy looking nerd, I had always been underestimated by others and I found a way to use that to my advantage. When the time was right, I would just shoot them between the eyes with the right solution. My young age didn't matter.

Fast forward 30 years. I never notice age discrimination. It may be there, but I simply don't notice it. I think being in IT and in my 50's is a tremendous advantage.

For every issue I have to address, I have that many more instances of experience dealing with something like that. Many more iterations of similar patterns to draw from.

IT is one field where you can actually get better with age. You don't have to run fast or carry heavy loads, but you do have to think nimbly and get things done, both of which get better with lots of practice.

IT is also one field where "what you get done" is more important than "who you are". This is always good news for us hackers and makers, regardless of age, sex, background, or anything else.

I am currently writing the best software of my life, by far. Not just how I'm writing it, but what I'm writing. I have seen so much that I have a natural instinct for what is needed, what works, and how to best go about it. New technologies keep me fresh and engaged. I feel perfectly at home here at hn even though I'm older than most of you. I can't imagine a better place to be, with 21st century technology and 30 years experience!

To me it's odd that someone as accomplished as Dave Winer doesn't feel the same way. Then again, maybe it's just state of mind.

My grandmother taught me one of the most important lessons of my life, "If you look hard enough for trouble, you'll probably find it."

There is negativity everywhere, about ageism and a million other things. The secret is that it's only data to process as you choose. I have decided to ignore it and continue to do what I love and love what I do. I suspect that Dave should as well.
Private Company Valuations: Square, Inc.
Well, I purchased an Android phone late last year. Most everyone else I know who wants a smartphone already has one. Bad timing, maybe?
I also like date_sunset and date_sunrise.
I'm somewhat in the middle.

We always lock the doors at night, not because I think it will stop someone who really wants to get in the house, but because it will act as enough of a delay and noisemaker for me to grab a weapon and stash the wife and dogs in the closet. Actually, probably just the dogs, the wife is pretty handy with a gun.
Beards are cool anyway. What else could you twirl while thinking about a problem?
My friend's first Android app: 10K Hours
Abbott and Costello?
Adele Goldberg, who held the meeting with Jobs is still around and would tend to disagree.

Adele is right that the Star pioneered graphical computing. I a somewhat amazed at how little credit people today give to Xerox PARC team. But to say that it was stolen is misleading. The Mac was not a clone of the Star but a derivative system with usability improvements and resource compromises to allow it to run on consumer hardware. (Compare this to Windows, which was a half-hearted implementation of the Mac, compromised to run on common consumer hardware.)

If Xerox had actually productized the Star, it would have sat on the desks of publishers and C-level executives, and probably have been mostly forgotten. Jobs certainly stole Adele's thunder, but I think that he did the right thing.

You might want to read "Dealers of Lightning" which details a lot of this. It's a great read.

I'll check it out. Much of this was also covered in Triumph of the Nerds.
I have multiple monitors, one dedicated to music/video so I never really "leave" the page. My biggest complaint is the lack of variety.
Does this actually implement the equivalent of Adobe's Flash runtime in Javascript? Does it work for all SWFs? If so, is there some sort of magic involved? If this works, how come things like Gnash and swfdec have never been able to achieve full compatability with Flash, yet this has seemingly come out of nowhere and done just that?
Training beforehand would be preferable, but I would expect a lot of improvisation going on in case of a disaster. So I see at least a chance that something useful could be improvised in terms of software.

Facial recognitions sounds like a good idea, very eerie, though. I have no experience with that kind of software unfortunately.
What would it take to write a Windows driver that pretended to be a monitor but actually multiplexed to an actual monitor and a x264 stream? What kind of bounty would be required to get such a thing written?
For normal usage like regular reading, I would agree with you, and also, it was not me who downmoded this comment. But this is a special occasion - someone brought the link to this article to our community here to discuss, so naturally I want to read the article. But that does not mean, that I want to became a paying customer of WSJ...as an European, I even do not know that much about it.

Then, if it is not possible to legally read the text without paying, then I would suggest to not submit such content here to HN. Let the paying customers to discuss that stuff between themselves, then.
Why, are starter pistols illegal there? Are there no provisions for people carrying weapons through those cities?

Even in the case of checked luggage with a firearm, it is usually required (and a good idea in any case) that the weapon be unloaded and disabled (gun lock, etc.). My personal opinion is that the airline is not going to call the local authorities and tell them they just turned over a bag with a weapon to you. So, as long as you don't call attention to yourself, the likelihood of getting arrested is too small to worry about.
Should have probably left the original title alone since the article has just about nothing to do with 'Security through obscurity'. The whole thing is a bit over the place to begin with as it throws some very different kinds people - people who are well-off enough to have security staff instead of locks, people who just don't believe they're in significant danger of being burglarized, etc - under one facile heading.
I was writing code not long ago to determine if a given day is a holiday. I didn't want to use a database of dates that would have to be updated in the future.
I was breezing along with the variable-date holidays like Thanksgiving, and then I came to Easter.

Turns out, it's slightly complex. It has to do with moon cycles.

After wigging out a little about this task, an afterthought that should've been easy, I googled for the specific formula so I could begin to express it in code.
(I had already done a 20, 30 minute search for an existing PHP Class to handle all dates and was unsuccessful.)

What I found next nearly blew my mind. http://php.net/manual/en/function.easter-date.php

This at once delighted and disgusted me. A perfect example of the utility AND horror of PHP's large standard library.
Knowing and not Knowing - When is it okay to say "I don't know"?
But the OP didn't suggest breaking the encryption, but to run a traffic analysis, which includes things such as identifying the realworld identities of people sending encrypted email, determing who those people are communicating with (both for their encrypted and unencrypted emails), and other ways of extracting information from messages without needing to actually break the encryption.

Once you've carried out this analysis, you know on who you can apply the more realworld techniques that you suggest.
The Founder Factor
Another intersting "it doesn't work that way" thing I have noticed: when the drug dealers moved in about a block away, shady activities and late night noise decreased. Seems that they don't want attention drawn to themselves, so they are good neighbors. Their clients all seem to know better than to linger in the area too.

This of course goes against conventional wisdom of "there goes the neighborhood".

Edit: That should be: "other shady actvities..."
Learning To Learn: Pencil, Then Ink
This is a good question and it's obviously good to be dubious with crises like these.

I followed the link from this reddit post http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/apf4l/hey_reddit... which also points to http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/.
Ask HN: how to develop mobile apps in the near future?
If not the iPhone, then what? Is it already safe to assume that Android will be the winner in the long run?

I suppose as a "big" company you will just do the work and create native apps for all possible platforms (including Web OS and Maemo??).

I wonder, though, if for a lot of apps it could be feasible to create a development environment that allows for the creation of apps with HTML+Javascript, that would then run on most platforms. Perhaps a "base app" for each platform could provide a JavaScript API for commonly needed things (like HTTP requests).

Another problem with mobile web apps seems to be the monetization.

Just wondering what HN people think...
You're right, seeing global warming in the past doesn't disprove man-made global warming. However, it does disprove the claim that the temperature changes we're seeing now are unprecedented.

But that's exactly what makes me skeptical about man-made global warming. This persistent attempt to make it appear more dramatic and less uncertain than it really is. It's exactly what we saw with weapons of mass destruction not long ago.

I'm not saying man-made global warming isn't real, it may well be, but even if it were real there's still the question of costs and benefits. I don't buy the economics as laid out in the Stern review (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review). We just don't have the scientific methods to make long term predictions for complex systems.
You can use the Proxy object to do similar things to __resolve(), but it's slightly less flexible as you have to extend the class.
Healthy Aging
There's a reason people are more comfortable about insulting people based on age: everyone either has been or will be a member of the class they're criticizing. People who want to complain about a group without getting in trouble seem to often try to position themselves as part of or close to the group before complaining about the group.

"My girlfriend or wife is [group], and I can tell you..."

"I was in a gang when I was a young man, and let me tell you..."

"My brother is an IT guy, and so I can say that..."

With age-related remarks, no one needs to even posture. There's an implicit "...and I can say this because I'm one of them, or will be".
The image referred to is not the pie chart, but the entire cartoon.
I think that there is an intersting divide here, that meshes nicely to "lock/no-lock", which is mostly attitude/fear based. The no-lock is: "meh, its not worth worrying that much about" and the lock is: "i must lock my doors, im afraid of being robbed".

Personally I feel locking is partly a totemic ritual, involving more magical thinking than people are willing to admit about it. Seriously ask people why they lock the doors when they have a giant window right next to it, and they say "its safer" and "it keeps out the burglars". Point out the window, and they say "it just works ok".
Help Kill Internet Explorer 6
Random-walk Auto-generated Poetry
They are things that apache sets up for mod_php, php the language is a standalone thing that you can bind in to apache like that.

I know that PHP was pretty much born for the one purpose of making webpages but you have to try to see the one separate from the other.

php-cli works fine.
Linux how to: Accessing documentation
I was looking the other day for the webcam in the nearby village of, er, Flash. It took me a few seconds to realise why my searches for "Flash webcam" weren't finding it.
This reminds me of Tuper Tario Tros, in which you play a version of the NES Mario but have to switch to playing Tetris so you can have blocks to jump on when there are walls/gaps that are too large.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276
I'm posting this cause it is worth discussion. Do you think this is harmful or helpful?

Myself, I am kind of against anything that tricks our users. Something like this can also be manipulated to trick users to install malicious software which also makes me wary.
I'm embarrassed to admit I thought _() was specific to Wordpress. Great to know its not.

metaphone() is a great tip too. I've only used soundex() in MySQL, will be interesting to see how they compare.
It may be an example from the stock market but it's not an example for what the author of the article did. He did not select an arbitrary period.

I don't know anything about the relevance of the dataset, so maybe you're right, but I suspect that the dataset is important because no other country I know of has reliable records going back that far.
I would't take it that hard, it is impossible to name two languages in one sentence without getting a pile of dirt thrown at you (from both sides, and possibly an unexpected third).

Nothing wrong with your writing, but it's nice to see you striving to do better.
Billions Served: Interview with Norman Borlaug(father of the green revolution)
Logarithmic ? Why that ?
I love that they modeled the walls of the room with giant spheres... a wonderful hack to avoid having to support plane primitives while still producing something that looks like a Cornell box.
Agreed. Of course, the ageism's definitely out there; if you're able to ignore it, good on you. What I can say, though, is that I've learned a hell of a lot more from older programmers than I ever have from younger ones.
It's Jacques, not James :)

Thanks, that's nice of you!
Google says that they will do the right thing (in their opinion) and stop collaborating with the Chinese regime, and your first comment to that is about the lost opportunity for profit. I'm shocked.

Now, I agree that Google probably does this for rather selfish reasons, abandoning a market that's not profitable to them anyway in a PR effective way. However, I wonder: Is there no room in American capitalism for consideration of the morality of helping evil governments oppress their people? Is this not a discussion we should have had years ago?
Google is going to have zero impact on China — zero — by abandoning that market

What influence over China do they have now?
Thanks for the info. Never heard of you guys before. Done.
He included that plot in the article (albeit with a different y-range). It's the red and purple line in "Central England Temperatures & Global CO2 Emissions" at the very top of the article.

(At least, it looks like the same plot. The shape/yrange is the same, but your pic on imgur has no axis labels so I can't be sure.)
Why do you think that is?
The fourth installment will deal with that, the next one will be about the effects of the increase in size over time.
Django + twitter.com: automatic new statuses
Strive for Balance
I thought typefaces were generally not subject to copyright.
The text is meant to illustrate what the graphs are all about, how much clearer than that sentence could it be ?
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This would probably be the last thing on my mind if I actually had to go to an ER.

The "use your location" button doesn't do anything when I click it (other than generate a Firefox message that you want to use my location, which I allow).

Seems like if there is a real app/use for this it should try to auto-locate based on IP, and maybe offer something for more granular location.

Have some ability to rate ER's by trauma type (broken bone, concussion, whatever).

When a user hits the page, show top 5 or 6 trauma types and closest ER with best rating for that type.

User can click a trauma type to pull up (pre-cached?) more local ER's ranked by wait-time and rating for that type. One more click gives map and macro driving directions to ER with click-to-print button.

Also has common patient handling instructions for various things (keep patient upright, sedated, whatever) based on trauma type.

Sidebar has, based on location, local ambulance companies, ER #'s, Police/Fire deparment phone numbers.

... quick top-of-my-head thoughts...
Ageism is a fact of life and, if you are too young to have felt it yet, wait until you turn 50 (as I did a few years back) - no matter what you do, people type you, they just don't see you in quite the same light as before.

I think this is in part because, as people, we are associational. We inherently relate to what we know. Similis simili gaudet ("like in like rejoices") is the Latin maxim that captures this. And younger people tend to relate to that which is new and exciting to them (this site, of all places, certainly typifies this, as one sees discussions all the time on issues that appeal specifically to the young). The counterpart to this, however, is that those who are younger also tend to be dismissive of the things to which older people relate, things which the older people themselves found new and exciting some years back - these are not just select things, they are the day-to-day things of life: social trends, the heroes we identify with, the people we go out with, the movies we watch, the cultural events that grab us, even the ideas we believe in and the values that we share. In time, for those who are young, such things have "had their day," become faded, and become foreign and distant.

That part is natural and perhaps even unobjectionable. We all become invested in our own generation to some degree and it is natural to relate to the things we grow up with and to believe in them, even if this means "moving on" from older things and from those associated with them.

But youth is also highly prone to lose perspective because, as Aristotle put in many centuries ago in his Rhetoric, the thing that most tends to characterize youth is a (false) sense of invincibility, what he termed in Greek the word we know today as hubris. When one is young, one tends to strut about and there is no room, when one is strutting, for those who are perhaps slower, less aggressive, possibly infirm. Yes, a young person can be kind and gracious and have all the good qualities too. But, at that age, arrogance can all too often be at the forefront. This propensity leads to the negative part of ageism because it types those who are older in ways that are unfair, prejudicial, and, indeed, foolish - when perspective is lost, youth fails to see the self-evident strengths in those who are older (the wisdom, the years of accumulated intelligence, the leadership strength, the wealth of experience, etc.), and this results in a net loss to all.

The reality, then, is that such prejudices tend to be inherent in how we function as human beings. They can be overcome but only by a conscious effort that will not likely affect the mass of people no matter how much the issue is raised in people's consciousness. Of course, that doesn't mean that each of us can't attempt to overcome it in our own lives, and that is the commendable goal we should strive for.
I got one right as my third piece.
Doing things with Django forms
Language wars are the biggest waste of time in the software development community/industry.

It's temporary insanity, I think.
so because PHP, a language designed to make building web applications easier, disgusts you because it has a built-in function that facilitates a task which is often needed in web applications?

And you think this is inferior to other languages where you would have to write that yourself or pick one of dozens of unofficial implementations with bugs unknown to you?

One could blame PHP for not having namespaces, but certainly not for providing official implementations for often-used pieces of functionality (though in case of easter_date? How many functions with different functionality do you come up with that you would like to give the same name?)

(edit: I'm not trying to troll here. OP has said he was "disgusted" by the presence of easter_date and from that I was inferring that he would prefer PHP not to have easter_date, thus my assertion of PHP being "inferior" to other languages that lack easter_date. By no means did I want to sound rude just a bit cynical maybe. I apologize for that.)
don't use the built-in _(). See my comment below.
For every issue I have to address, I have that many more instances of experience dealing with something like that. Many more iterations of similar patterns to draw from.

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm 43, and have worked in IT for about 20 years. Even in that span of time I've seen the same ideas gain popularity, fade, then return again (under another name, or in newer packaging, but fundamentally the same old concepts). Gives you a lot of perspective to be able to avoid getting caught up in the breathless enthusiasm of younger people returning from the latest conference or trade show.
I did the same thing once to figure out if there really are "plenty of fish in the sea." I calculated that there are around 300 women in the world that I might be compatible with. Luckily I don't play by those rules and I already won the lottery.