skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and that experience is "really overrated". That's not the same thing as saying that he won't hire "old" people, or that given an "old" person whom he thinks will perform better than a young person at the same salary, he'd prefer the young person

Why would any sane CEO prefer young, or old at the same salary?

I can understand reluctance with someone a year or two off retirement - extra recruiting costs on the horizon, but...

If it were me employing say 10 people on identical salary I'd want as diverse a mix of age, gender, race, background and interests as I could manage.

The young un will perhaps have fresh new ideas; some stupid, some naive, some hopefully genuinely fresh and exciting.

The old git will have seen it all before and perhaps can warn why doing it that way is a silly idea, maybe you should try this first. Maybe they have a bit of business or other non-tech in their history so can bring other relevant knowledge to bear.

Of course some older folks can be set in their ways. So can freshly minted degree holders. Some 23 year olds think they know everything. It's later you realise you don't. It is the tendency of youth after all. I may have experienced this too. ;)

Of course both age groups can repeatedly tell you how great they are at something. So can CEOs. They can all be lying/deluding themselves about this.

OK, sweeping generalisations time.

The CEO perhaps prefers young people because they're still wet behind the ears and believe "Just another push this weekend" (the 10th this year) "and we'll see you right come end of year/IPO/share options".

Or he just wants folks that do what he says, however stupid. With the terrifying ex-designer produced PHP codebase with copy/pasta where functions should live. Old fart might point out how shite/insecure/slow/whatever the code is.
I like SourceTree.
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Yeah, no kidding about the enlightening response. This guy has the worst username ever ("throwaway5752"); he's one of the best and most informative posters I've ever seen here.
For these kind of executive positions, I don't see how it could not be the case. For example, Nixon. There is no one who could have told Nixon "You will resign today". On the other hand, I imagine he did have advisers telling him, "It's time." I figure it's the same for the Icelandic Prime Minister.
So, now we have a billion people who think they're communications are secure, as opposed to just encrypted.
The problem with running Tor nodes in a datacenter is that mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and the people using your node. It's impossible for an advisory to know which traffic is yours and which isn't. Dedicated Tor nodes are suspicious (and often get blacklisted) because they aren't a source of "legitimate" traffic, but Tor nodes run in people's homes don't.
tl;dr; Hiring young people increase headcount faster because they are cheaper and less productive, and headcount is an important metric in SV that correlates strongly with the ability to raise funding, and the ability to have a successful exit later on.

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One unmentioned thing, which is weird until you've seen it first hand, is that it's easier to sell and finance a bigger startup, and by "bigger", I mean: higher headcount.

Obviously, in general, older people are more experienced and cost more, and also do more. However, this is a net-negative because you have a (potentially much) lower headcount. Another poster commented on how he'd take proverbial three LISPers over 20 NOOBS. (I have no doubt he's telling the truth.)

Quick test: If I tell you startup A has 8 developers, and start up B has 80 developers, which startup seems "more successful" to you? Which seems likely to have had more funding? More market share? Is more stable? Better managed? Which seems likely to have an exit (esp. acquisition) in the future?

It's little comfort knowing that startup A has 8 LISPers coding circles around the 80 devs at startup B struggling to make Grunt work and keep MongoDB from crashing. Politically, startup B is a much bigger success—at least in SV today.

Startup B is what SV optimizes for and funds, and that leads very naturally to hiring young people—all else being equal.
This can easily be avoided by provisioning your own runner. In that case, it'll be isolated for the projects of your choosing.

It's important that we note this, as we do provide free runners for anyone to use on GitLab.com.
How have you managed to escape it for this long? Seriously, what's your secret please for the love of God let me know
I don't understand this. If the police see the law being broken, they have an obligation to investigate, even if it's probably just the tor exit node.

Allowing any random person to forward mail through your address may not end up well for you either, but I think people are more willing to accept that they've opened themselves up to the liability in that case.
The coolest technique I know of for checking primes is a variant of the Lucas sequence method (which is what GIMPS uses to find Mersenne primes)[1]. Essentially, you generate terms in a sequence in a constant-memory fashion that doesn't require you to know the factors, using just a modulo in a generating function.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvXcTYqtKU
Most Model S's sell for waaaaay more than the list price, because they're bought by wealthy people that pile on the options. It's a safe bet that most $35k Model 3's will sell for $45k+ for the same reason.
Search for "entry level" rather than "graduate."
That table of "U.S. Sales of Large Luxury Vehicles" is pretty uhh selective. When I search for "Large Luxury Vehicles" on Google it lists other four door models and even manufacturers that don't appear in this table.

Their claim that the reason for the selection is "comparably priced four-door sedans" is also inaccurate. They've skipped similarly priced "large luxury vehicles" while including some on the list which are much more expensive (almost $100K).

Obviously this was created to wow Tesla's investors. But I think you'll find it was designed to create a picture that Tesla owns 50% of the "large luxury vehicle" market with the highest growth and to accomplish that they had to selectively include and exclude vehicles that didn't fit that narrative.
Grew up there. Still seems like it's struggling to put together much of a tech industry. More seems to be happening here in Bend in some ways, despite being a significantly smaller town. And the weather is way better over here too!
I wouldn't say they're risking nothing. Sure, they're not shutting down existing offices and removing themselves from markets, but they probably walked away from money they wont get back. I'm sure there were legal fees, plus people they might have already begun to recruit. So yes, its not a large risk, but its not like it didn't come at a loss for them.
> What is your point? That being awful is ok?

No, that being awful (by some folks' lights) should be legal — i.e., that violent force (which is the ultimate backstop of any law) should not be employed to force people to be nice to one another.

> This is a religious thing in this case so a government should not be in the business of protecting one religion or any religious belief

Government shouldn't be involved, period. If someone wishes to do business with someone else, good (or bad) for him; if not, good (or bad) for him all the same. No-one should be forced to do business with someone he dislikes: not PayPal, and no-one else either.
I get a 404 error.
I don't know why, but Asian drivers have always dominated private taxi drivers in London, so it makes sense that most Uber drivers are as well. Its also not clear why so many black cab drivers are white; I wonder why that is?
We hope people will use it to host their websites.

You can host almost anything there, excluding illegal content.

Commercial content is fine.
It's not worrying at all.

Running a Tor exit node in itself isn't a problem. The problem arises when the exit node operator knowingly is giving up control over the traffic going through his connection.

If you run a tor exit node you need to accept the fact there is a chance something illegal is passing through and that when it happens (as it did here) you are going to get investigated.

It would be irresponsible and neglectful for law enforcement not to raid this man's home.
I would like to see that comparison as well!

I'm not sure how to determine the practicality of well excavation, but my intuition tells me it largely depends on geographically influenced factors. I'll look into that.
That's £21K, over twice the price of my car. I said cheap.
Can you please explain how this differs from a dehumidifier?
No no no no.

You never corporate with the police. It doesn't matter if you're innocent. It doesn't matter if you're guilty. The police are not your friends. They are not there to help you. They don't give a shit about you. Never comply with police. Never consent to a search. They had a warrant in this case so it wouldn't have mattered, but he still shouldn't have consented. He should have never given them his passwords. He should have waited for a lawyer. He made so many mistakes that I'm surprised he isn't in jail for incompetence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Great to hear! What else would you like to use it for that GitLab can't do now?
I think both statements are true, the cars are more difficult to work on for the garage mechanic, and the additional computerized systems make the cars more hackable as well.

I'm appalled at the lack of security in modern cars. Cars have a single CANbus and abuse it to intermingle important control protocols with silly things like trip odometers you can see on your stereo. The internet connected systems aren't in the least bit secure - look at what happened with the Nissan LEAF, which had an API without any sort of authentication where the VIN number was sufficient to access private data - jeez, nobody could ever guess the VIN for a car could they, it's not like it's printed on the windshield...oh wait. I hope that companies like Automatic have taken precautions against people using their dongles as an attack vector for cars.

Anyhow, I'm one of the people who does hack into my cars, mostly to learn how the systems work, but I don't represent the average case, since 20 years of building hardware and software gives me a background that most mechanics don't have. This stuff takes a lot of time to do, both to research then to make sure you've not screwed something up. It's not hard to brick an ECU, I've done it once, and replacing it is annoying too, due to regulations, the embedded VIN in the ECU and such, especially in CA where I live.

On the upside, there are passionate hobbyists who do reverse engineer these cars, and there is a treasure trove of information on the web on how to hack your cars if you have the knowhow.
Capital is fully mobile because people are fully mobile.
But, would those plenty of works of art were created before copying such things became incredibly easy? It seems to me that the concept of copyright became stronger over time as the ability to make money off the work of someone else became easier over time.
Actually it is teaching the opposite. Engage your teammates and ask first before thinking you know it all and start doing someone else's job.
I keep wondering if package managers (be it Google Play, apt or dnf) are in need of a solution like Certificate Transparency. Like Certificate Transparency, it would not necessarily prevent a backdoor(/certificate) from being pushed to selected users, but it would guarantee detectability, at least after the fact. If the package as a whole is included in the log, it would also allow BinDiff-style reverse engineering of any backdoor. Application developers could scan the log for unauthorized builds of their software (i.e. key compromises), and I imagine there are some things you can do with gossip protocols for end-users as well (i.e.: how popular is this build? Am I the only one running it?).

This would solve part of the trust issue both for proprietary and open source software (I mean, who's actually using or verifying reproducible builds?). It would also be a huge problem for intelligence agencies or other adversaries who want to do this undetected.
I tried that once but ended up with a merge-commit with my name on it in the history of my "fork". Is it possible to not end up with such merge-commits?
I think you're misinterpreting that idea, it's about not granting the police privilege they did not already possess. In this case the police are offering to trade the privilege of airtight, forensically sound evidence collection in for the chance to grab secrets hiding in RAM. If the machine had no such secrets, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain
Does it have to be electric? A vespa would get the job done with a pretty small carbon footprint.
We actually started with a web app, and it's mobile-optimized enough that it should work without problem on an Android phone.

Storytellers can also use it entirely over email, and even over a landline!
Perhaps what's significant about the age bias in the tech industry is that its the first time the age bias has worked in favour of younger employee's. I suspect age bias' exists in many industries that prefer more 'mature' employees.

>> these executives tried to hack into computers to steal the manuscript, and also tried to prevent publication of the book by engaging in extortion.

The problems of this company, if the allegations are true, stem more from a lack of character, which can be found across the entire age spectrum.

I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here. In general, I think that age brings experience and wisdom.
Yes, things change. But I contest the notion that adding more housing to a neighborhood is a magic bullet that will make everyone happy.

Among many issues, the fundamental attractiveness of a particular neighborhood may be tied to low population density.

In which case ripping down the neighborhood and rebuilding makes neither resident Person A nor prospective buyer Person B happy.
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Yes, I have (an) e-bike. Lots of fun in summer, not so much in winter.
We have currently no plans, but happy to discuss it [0].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14932
It's for drag latency: https://github.com/google/walt/blob/master/docs/DragLatency....

It may be counter intuitive, but touch-down latency and drag latency can be very different: on some hardware one may be faster or slower than the other. That's why both are measured.

Note: I worked with Mark to review most of his work on this project.
As long as we're talking about the GNU AGPL then absolutely! I would say that the original AGPL is sufficiently FOSS but it's GNU GPL incompatible which might be annoying. It's not necessarily a deal breaker though if it's handled well.
Is it open source? I can't find the source code anywhere.
Your comment here is incoherent. I agree: source can easily lie. How does that make it the gold standard for verification? The reverse-engineering of the actual shipped binary (for instance, the ARM code lifted to LLVM) seems like a safer analysis target. But, what do I know.
As far as I know: no. Whatsapp just implemented the (open source) signal protocol formerly known as Axolotl with the help of Open Whisper Systems. The rest of the IM "ecosystem" (like push notifications, contact recognition, server infrastructure etc.) is left untouched.
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The irony is that the machine I need it on is only a couple of years old and has a pitcairn chipset, but something about the way it's set up just does not play nice with the radeon driver and it crashes constantly. fglrx works fine, though.

Do you have a link regarding this other new driver from AMD, btw?
I'm guessing this has been asked before, but why not just use a credit card processor that handles all of that stuff for you. Seems like they are in the business of selling Japanese candy, not preventing CC fraud.

Am I being naive here?
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That was true in the case of Skype (which was eventually reversed), but it is not true here.
Ask HN: Experience with job hunting on starfighters.io?
I am curious to hear your experience hiring or getting hired using https://www.starfighters.io.
"Why do some animals have venoms that are more lethal than they apparently need"

The original title is really quite bunk "can not use them?" What? That's just wrong.

The whole article is kinda stupid anyway, the answer to the question is: So they can use them on animals that are resistant to the venom.

There isn't much else in the article, you may want to just kill the story as a waste of readers time.
Still not seeing it myself. I wonder if this is being rolled out in chunks.
There are rotary desiccant dehumidifiers that do not cool the air, but heat it.

They operate by sucking air through a part of a rotating desiccant drum then exhausting it. At another spot, they heat and blow air through the desiccant, recharging it. The heavily moisture laden air is ran through a radiator where the moisture condenses out. If you have a source of low/medium grade heat, these can operate for the cost of running a few fans.

This type works actually can operate in colder climates as they can work down to near the freezing point of water, where the cooling type cannot operate when the dew point is below the freezing point of water.
They also supposedly know what Tor is, which would mean that they should also know they would need more than just 'it came from this IP endpoint' to have evidence of his wrongdoing.

Would they raid a Starbucks if someone used Starbucks wifi to distribute CP? No, they would need more evidence that someone at that Starbucks was doing it and not just someone who bought a cup of coffee there that day.

Tor is open wifi, the IP of the exit node doesn't provide evidence that the person running the exit node has anything to do with the traffic.
um, no?

they raided his house because of child pornography.

that he had a Tor node and that fact got him off the hook is the part that needs more analysis. How do we know he doesn't operate the node for the very purpose of watching kiddy porn go by? Shouldn't everybody interested in child pornography operate their own exit node just for this purpose? Keep the kiddy porn collection in RAM for viewing whenever, then give the police the in-RAM-kiddy-porn-deleter password...

I understand that ghkbrew (and MANY other people here, not picking on you) subscribe to the idea that there should be untraceable currency, perfect privacy delivery mechanisms, etc.

But there are other people who live in the same democratic country that like the idea that somebody who bombthreats can be found.

I understand the issues on both sides, and I don't mind there is a spectrum of beliefs and a discussion. But it's so annoying when people write posts slanted like yours that they don't acknowledge the obvious "other side".

I read/heard something that David Mamet said, that he learned from the study of Jewish law (but it would apply everywhere) that in order for you to have the basis to discuss an argument with the other side, you need to be able to state the other side's argument in a way that the other side would not disagree with, then you get to make your point.

I thought that was a nice idea.
> I own the finest luxury automobile GM makes, the Cadillac Escalade. It is a chrome lined bucket of bolts.

I feel the same way. Thought briefly about getting a new Corvette. Have had several 911's and other Porsches. Just can't wrap my head around buying a Chevy. When I was a kid it was all the rage (long long time ago). So was Porsche for that matter and Mercedes had just broken into the luxury market here (mid 70's).
That first headline should really read "What ARE gitlab pages", rather than "What is gitlab pages". Surely?
I think what they want is culture, which is produced by people who love their communities and who don't work 90 hours a week so they have time to actually do it.
Based on the reliability statistics that organizations like Consumer Reports have collected, the Model S isn't that reliable - lots of drivetrain issues, mechanical issues with stuff like door handles, etc. Its owners just don't mind them because they're really enthusiastic about Tesla.
I wonder if parallel construction could be used then to "reverse engineer" and share the information. Works for LEOs...
It's in the averted eyes of trusted political advisors.
Can you elaborate and / or create an issue here [0]?

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/new
Yeah, that's not the place we are in.

If you take anything but a ridiculously short term view, the expectations of how police will treat people today are far higher than they have been in the history of the US.

We still have to recognize and confront the remaining problems, but national media attention and prosecution of police who commit murders is a step up from police committing murders with no consequences.
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I think the big injustice is that people don't have a right to a jury in tax court.

Therefore judgments are enforced without the consent of the people.

Therefore taxation in the USA today is extortion.

All the quibbling about the ridiculous bureaucratic rules and forms just makes it even more clear just what a leviathan our tax system has become.
Dutch bike company Vanmoof just launched a new invisibly electric bike that can be pre-ordered at

https://preorder.vanmoof.com/?ct-referral-code=nw5wFevx

(shameless referral link they provided when I ordered mine)
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That's the one :-) In the UK the up front cost is £8K for a reasonable spec'd one, then there's a £50/month cost for the battery. I currently spend less than £50/month on petrol (about half of that in fact), and my brand new car cost £9K. The economics of the Twizy just don't work out at all.
I love this idea. I actually had an idea in a somewhat similar space. I'm pretty sure I'll never actually do it so I'll share.

I thought it would be cool to offer a service to store family history in some super long-lasting acrylic. Maybe laser etch binary into the block or something like that?
Guessing they will have a little more trouble pushing this npm publisher around:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/botbuilder
> Perhaps what's significant about the age bias in the tech industry is that its the first time the age bias has worked in favour of younger employee's.

Maybe you don't consider the military "industry", but they tend to recruit primarily from the young (and AFAICT, always have).
I know your account is over two years old, but:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, it won't, but it'll lead to the population as a whole being better off because it will allow more people to live in a very productive area, as well as leaving an out (sell and move) for those who can't stomach the thought of denser housing.

Sooner or later, the US must confront the fact that not everyone can live in a single story ranch house with a big yard in an extremely desirable part of the country, without causing massive sprawl (LA).
What's interesting about Noise?
>Dear lord these guys are putting in work.

man I wish they would bring something new, cool and innovative to the space, instead being bent on doing feature-by-feature copy of github.

They have an amazing opportunity now to take advantage of github fatigue. But they are throwing it all away by trying to become an inferior clone of github.
The Polaris GEM might meet your needs:
http://www.polaris.com/en-us/gem-electric-car
This was the police, not a private agency.