skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these companies are under pressure to grow their revenue. Guess what- they won't be able to do this without hiring.

While some companies are reducing their workforce others are growing, some of this is because market share is switching. Traditional business losing to the cloud for example.

There is more software work today than at any point in history. This is only going one way. Until AI will be able to develop software at least.

With respect to age while there are pockets of ageism I think most of the big players and some of the smaller don't have a problem with anyone's age. There are still a lot of companies who can't find enough people regardless of age and I don't think there's a huge salary differential between someone really good in their late 20's to 30's and someone really good who is older. So there's really no economic incentive for ageism. Yes, you can hire someone out of school for cheaper but you need to invest a lot more in them and then they disappear for a more lucrative job...
Not sure what you mean is false.
How is replacing buggy shell scripts that all duplicate the same functionnality by a simple ini file per service "a great increase in configuration complexity" ?
While I agree with (and just stopped writing a long response about) the unreliable and complex feature argument - consider adding the necessary components to a semiautomatic handgun - I wouldn't call the article ignorant. There are many reasons the NRA and gun owners in general dislike "smart" guns, some of which include the soft, social reasoning the article outlines.

Hard technical arguments of feasibility and reliability tend to have little effect on those that espouse this form of gun control. They'd typically prefer the guns not be there in the first place, and don't particularly care how feasible or reliable the result is. Social arguments, however, tend to affect them more, or at least can put the argument in a place they find harder to dismiss. We need both parts to make the strongest argument.
SlitherPlus+Slithere.com+v3.1
US spy court didn't reject a single government surveillance request in 2015
>>All of my developer friends that told me I was stupid

Did they really? That's very surprising. In my experience, developers tend to be very understanding and supportive of other developers who leave stable jobs to start their own company.

>>While I've had continued stability.

I'd say you're in the minority. Startups are much riskier, and "stability" would be one of the last words people would use to define them. Everyone knows that.
but Mars has something else: It's a different planet. It is unsettled. It has vast, empty spaces.

For some that desolation is part of the appeal. For others the challenges. For others the opportunity to be pioneers.

Finding volunteers for colonisation won't be a problem.
The article is great. It's a long tradition for systemd developers:

- They say "We are creating X!"

- People say "Hey, X would be great!"

- They deliver Y, that technically is X, but only technically.

- People say "WTF! Y is very bad."

- They argue "That's why we did X, not Y."

I'm sure systemd developers believe it is the best way to do what is described on the article. But nobody asked for a completely tangled Linux startup.
i agree, but if you highlight it, it is much easier on the eyes.
It's probably not worth pointing out because its so obvious but even in the event of an individual right to carry guns you still don't actually have a second amendment right to use guns in defense of person or property: that comes from non-constitutional laws.
new series from 'O RLY':

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/vqUQ5
Microsoft Releases Open-Source Azure IoT Gateway SDK in Beta
Thank you, that's a helpful tip! I used to use many modifiers for my Google queries, but Google dropped support for many of them, and doesn't seem to document comprehensively what they actually support from day to day.

I wish excluded keywords were the only frustration. Their index seems to have gotten considerably worse at dealing with any somewhat "long-tail" query. I'm not sure why.

I suspect they've won the spam battle by aggressively purging from their index, but in doing so they've lost the spam war because the false positive rate on their approach is way too high. Or maybe I'm completely off base.
Analytica 2016
It doesn't cost them anything to not tell you that you were rejected so they don't. I think we need some kind of name-and-shaming system so that the cost for companies to not be nice to applicants is non-zero.
f.lux: iOS 9.3's Night Shift mode for your Mac
Step one: stop calling yourself a dummy. Step two: learn them.
This is the most meta post I've ever seen in a while. Basically this guy is writing about why "this is the best time to become a writer" and uses an example of another guy who became successful because he wrote about "how writing everyday changed his life". Dude, you are doing it wrong if you are writing for the sake of writing. There are too many of these people nowadays, especially with the rise of Medium. There used to be a time when people used to write because they had something to express to the world, not because "it's the best time to become a writer". These new "writers" lack genuine quality because the motivation is wrong from the beginning. Nowadays these people write for the sake of writing, because "writers are in high demand". Don't dishonor people who actually write things to make a difference.
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...

See table 3. 60% of poor adults (age 18-64) did not work even a single week during the year. 12% worked full time year round.
Bill Simmons Interviews Chris Sacca
> You don’t buy your jeans and jackets by looking for their letters on that pull.

I actually do check for a YKK zipper, though I tend to mostly buy second hand clothing and focus more on the quality rather than style.
Washington regulates a million things over which is has no particular expertise. Including, but not limited, to medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, food production, law, agriculture, investment banks, the oil and gas industry, and on and on.

The fact that the government is bad at regulating these things doesn't mean that any step they take will be bad. The details matter, and it doesn't mean you should terminate any regulatory effort before it is defined.

In many (maybe all) of these areas, some regulation is needed.
Because I have no interest in RSS Ticker or any of Chris Finke's add-ons. I don't use them and it doesn't matter to me if they're maintained or not. If it matters to you, then the clear way forward is to get involved.
The drama started very early. I've been seeing the same arguments over and over again since ArchLinux and Fedora adopted it, and the adoption by Debian just got people to repeat them.
Why? Kids
Curlicue Fractal Generator
Reading this comment under every article that is about a company gets real old real quick.
any book list that starts with "first you should read TAPL and PFPL, then move on to SF and CPDT and read HOTT and of course these three category theory textbooks" is really out of touch IMO. mostly because i don't think there's anyone alive that has simultaneously read all of those works, not even the authors of each individual work!
Science needn't mean experiments. Just ask astronomers.
I wonder: with capital still highly available for the right opportunity, Deep learning technologies have become highly effective across varied domains and can be a relatively simple way to do many complex things, and 260K engineers are being laid of and VC's talk abut an AI boom - how all this will affect the economy ?
It's nice that they actually went through the effort to show that it works well on GNU/Windows!
I met him once back then I didn't know who he was. Weirdly I was reading the book: http://www.codersatwork.com/ at the time - ofcourse I got a shock when I realised he was the next chapter!

Anyway he was a nice guy.
That seems like a pretty safe idea.
Emacs beta is now available on chromebooks (and in chrome)
I stopped having to carry daily around the time that serpa holsters got popular. All the combat vets accurately predicted that the release mechanism would lead to a lot of negligent discharges - many training courses wouldn't let you on the range with one. I'm surprised to see that they are still being sold, I'd have thought they went the way of the lawn dart.
I would not consult an external library in Go to implement this simple function: https://github.com/Mic92/whois42d/blob/master/server.go#L93
Listen to the police in your neighborhood
Learn about Deep Learning and Neural Networks
Sorry, but that's crazy. I was previously involved in this mission. The whole community was really excited to see the first results from the soft X-ray calorimeter. Furthermore, there was going to be an open call for proposals for observations, for any groups to apply to.
At the very least it means the company isn't able to grow. It also means it's a poorly managed business.

A lot of the businesses laying people off aren't even in financial trouble. Some of them have piles of cash in the bank and are profitable. They just lost what it takes to enter new markets and grow their business.

The sad thing is that the stock market will often reward this strategy because in the short term the cost goes down and the revenue decline lags. The good thing is that it's a healthy process that leads to new businesses being created that are better than the old ones.
>>He does very well now

Does he really? That's very surprising. In a previous life, coffee shops used to be a big part of my client-base[1]. Out of all the coffee shop owners I knew, I didn't know a single one who wasn't worried about putting food on the table. It's a very cut-throat business with lots of competition, and even if you're located in an expensive area, the margins tend to be razor-thin.

[1]I learned an important lesson from the experience: it is a horrible idea to have clients with little or no disposable income.
>Why isn't there just a plain `brew install task warrior`?

That would be `brew install task`. I'm guessing their thinking is that brew isn't part of OS X, though this is silly IMO. Homebrew is basically a requirement if you own a Mac and want to use the command line at all.
Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound (Cruz, Rubio, Trump)
Not really podcast, but similiar enough:

RollPlay shows by twitch streamer JP McDaniels. I really like PnP, but sheduling my own games is tricky and this gives me the weekly fix. It can be kind of slow-paced, but some of the character arcs rival the best I have seen on any media.
wages, interview process, financial structure, link to SEC report or anything relevant according to national law, legal structure, owners, involvement in legal action either as a defender or as an offender ...

It could be nice to have the information that are hard to gather otherwhise.

It is as true for workers as for companies that a new position is a risk, but, while companies can ask for references, workers have no ways to ask for "references" themselves. This asymmetry benefits companies much more than workers, it would make workers more "trustful" if companies were showing good will in evening the gap.
If someone has what they think is a super-awesome interview process that might attract more candidates, by all means they should mention it.

But there's not much point in getting the rest of us to add nearly-meaningless handwaving because our employers don't have a standard interview process!
"developers tend to be very understanding and supportive of other developers who leave stable jobs to start their own company."

Have you ever started a business? Most people are not supportive, including developers. You might even lose friends over it. You are going against the norm and most people can't relate and find it strange. The only people that are supportive are those that have a business mindset.

"I'd say you're in the minority. Startups are much riskier, and "stability" would be one of the last words people would use to define them. Everyone knows that."

All businesses have some risk. It took a year or two to get to the point where it was stable. But I was profitable from day one.

I'm not sure what you define as a 'startup', but if you mean create an app and hope that people come to it with no real business plan, I didn't create a startup. I formed a company around a business model and slowly built it up.

Too many people in IT think they aren't replaceable or that the good times will last forever.
UPDATE: building on OS X:

I installed gcc-5 using brew, set "alias gcc=gcc-5", and then ./configure ; sudo make install worked fine.
The tunnel burglary in LA must have been the inspiration for the book The Black Echo. In it an LA detective is hunting down a murderer who happens to have pawned some valuables from a bank heist involving a tunnel that was dug from the storm drains.
MIT Media Lab Spring 2016 Projects Master List [pdf]
Does this site break scrolling for artistic irony?
We have other articles about some engineer with not much experience getting 250k. These stories seem contradictory.
Consider substantiating your down-votes friends?

I have nothing to be ashamed about regarding my above represented personal opinion.

Can anyone liberally inclined explain why a BLM activist can assualt a Trunmp supporter but the opposite would be met with derision?

If someone attacks you(illegally) can you defend yourself or not?

Does the race change the answer?

We're all human.
In the motorcycle apparel world, "YKK Zippers" is frequently on the bullet list of features that the jacket has. Though they will also advertise the cloth the jacket is made from as well such as "500 wt Cordura with 2000 wt Cordura at impact points". So motorcyclists can be a bit anal.
A certain firm got rid of all their expensive staff, who must just sit there all day, being expensive, probably not doing much, except for you know - having about 200 years worth of experience on the core clearing system that was a critical part of the system. A small part was offshored, but most roles cut. Sure enough, soon enough, said important system fails, offshore reduced size team without the benefit of experience on this 40year mainframe app, could not solve it. I know one of devs there who made a phenomenal day rate there fixing that mess.

Big firms are greedy and dumb. IT is a cost centre too them, every tech employee is a moocher sucking cash that could be used in yet another stock buy back to try and keep the stock price high a bit longer so the board can cash out and run.
There is no "spin". You're seeing grand conspiracies where there simply aren't any. If you're not going to contribute to add-on or API development then relax and don't worry about it. The prophecies of doom will go unfulfilled and the world will keep on turning (or spinning if you like).
Politics is something that effects you even if you don't it to, it takes only one side to make a war.
Just now discovered "Night Shift" mode on iPad, which lead to looking for something similar for my MacBook and the discovery of f.lux. So much more comfortable to look at the screen at night!
> To be fair, you're no longer "programmer"

Yes, that's my point. To travel your "software engineer track," you need to stop being a software engineer and climb the management ladder or become an entrepreneur to get the big salary bump.

> but "attorney" can mean so many things at this point

I don't know what you mean by this. I referred to attorneys at law firms, who can make $250k+/year for life as attorneys. Or doctors in well-paid specialties, who can typically and reliably make $350k+/year for life as doctors.

What's more, in these fields a person's perceived value actually increases with time and experience, whereas a software engineer's perceived value more resembles that of a linebacker.
The article is written by an accelerator that is seeking the laid off to do business with them: http://1m1m.sramanamitra.com

It is a PR piece not journalism.
In London, the coffee scene in shoreditch/the city does very very well.
Just do what most BigCo employees do. Half ass it and work on something interesting on the side while collecting a nice paycheck. (And in this case enjoying the delicious Google food.) It seems foolish to not stay at least through the end of year 2. 500k after tax is 2x 250k after tax. After year 2 you can leave in peace.
Wonderful! Unsubstantiated down-votes and not a single substantive response! Couldn't have hoped for better! Keep it up HN!
Dat debugger doe.
Seeing how the cube is mostly plastic and SD cards have metal contacts, it should be very visible.
"I didn't know a single one who wasn't worried about putting food on the table"

You can put pretty much everyone that owns a business or works into this category. Unless you are the top 1% or have a VC subsidized lifestyle, you are always worried about putting food on the table.

Most businesses in that industry have thin margins. But it doesn't stop people from being successful. In my hometown there are at least 5 competing independent coffee shops that are all doing pretty well.
I actually used to respect you.

You disgust me by what your profile quotes.

Enjoy your existence at the expense of others.
The advantage a fighter is going to have is it's higher and faster. An F-35 can fly outside Pantsir's envelop and still carry out a CAS mission using a targeting pod.

This is why I don't like the A-10. The environment in which the aircraft is expected to fly is much more dangerous than it used to be. Against a competent opponent we'd see A-10s getting shot down one after another.
I've also heard the argument that having a national registry makes the possibility of future mass confiscation much more palatable.

There are probably a good deal of people who wouldn't mind amending the Constitution to rid it of the Second Amendment but who still view the 4th Amendment favorably. It would be very difficult to enforce a policy of mass confiscation without the aid of a national registry that wouldn't be a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Licensing, I'd guess. Also, Apple has no philosophical opposition to integrating things; UNIX people do.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602954 (261 points, 340 days ago, 157 comments)

This is an article that I don't like because it has too many wrong details.

> Actually, Anne is being perfectly reasonable. From her point of view, you really have been burned to a crisp at the horizon. It's not an illusion. She could even collect your ashes and send them back to your loved ones.

No, Anne can't collect the ashes. The "ashes" fall inside the black hole and she can't even see them, and much less collect them.

> So Anne takes her bit, A, and puts it through her handy entanglement-decoding machine, which spits out an answer: either B or C.

There is no "entanglement-decoding" machine. You can transmit information using entanglement, Anne can only get a random value from her bit, no an answer about B or C. Also, there are some cases where three particles are entangled ...
Why is this being down-voted? There's some interesting information in the older post about YKK's manufacturing process and counterfeit zippers.
Thus the end of humanity.
"Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism"

There is just as much bullshit on the liberal side. All I need to do is take a look at Twitter and Youtube.
Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning
Can anyone shed some light as to why (apparently) still no one can compete with YKK in terms of scale and value for money?
So true but I'd extend it to good thinkers.
Uhh, have you?

Cause man, I'll tell you straight up, I despise Eclipse. To the marrow of my bones. But if you wanna do native debugging, they're it. Native debugging is very important when you're getting nasty (and if you're not getting nasty, for the love of god why would you use the NDK?!).
Yet we force people in interviews to remember things standing in front of a whiteboard.
The military doesn't get to decide when to go to war or against whom.
> How is replacing buggy shell scripts...

Barrels of ink have been spilled on this point. You need to read the discussion surrounding this topic to understand that only the most ancient or poorly maintained RC systems were piles of redundant, buggy shell scripts. :)
Scripts are just a simple abstraction that allows to manage all kinds of daemons, which allows SysV to happily work with anything it finds in the init directories.

We give you this thing that replaces half the system with utilities (re)written by us, but hey don't complain you're free use something else!
Video tutorials how to make your own diy laser engraving / cutting machine
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Sophons?
Do it in a VM, and it is.
Lavabit code open sourced
Why is this here, it's not free and is a nontechnical book review anyway?
Rubber Stamp Court Gave NSA, FBI Permission for all Electronic Surveillance
Going Serverless with OpenWhisk
I've been using the Babel transpiler to get async/await, and the code is so nice. Showed it to a JavaScript-hater and he gushed over it for 10 minutes -- then repeated the same comments to his boss (my client), which was awesome. :)

But I'm hearing that both the Babel and TypeScript implementations leave a lot to be desired with performance. Not so bad that it gave my use case a problem, but I use NodeJS, in part, for performance.

I'm also targeting browsers (and hybrid apps) with some code, and I've recently jumped from Babel/ES6 to TypeScript, so I can get the support via generators, but again I'm hearing of performance issues.

Getting first class optimized browser support is where I'll feel it's truly awesome.
> With that in mind, what would a better init system look like for you?

I'm not the OP, but OpenRC is nice. I'm currently suffering from a round tuit shortage, so I haven't waded through the Debian Jessie discussion to find out why it wasn't a contender for their default init/rc system.
I don't "begrudge" anyone, I'm just pointing out where the price lies in the market.
Show HN: Use tools you already know to research 5000 destinations
Not anymore, at all.

For 2 years now it’s been on polymer: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.e...
Show HN: Task-Based Electron Web Browser
Why People Cancel Subscriptions
Same thing with Lennart's previous project PulseAudio which also has no real stable releases and basically relies on distros to try and take the beta-quality upstream releases and turn them into something that actually works reliably. (My favorite was the PulseAudio release that shipped with a change that was literally incomplete, changing the interal resampling API without changing all the resamplers affected. Crashing ensued. Was rolled back in the next release, but that came with a whole new set of feature patches with the same level of QA applied.)

It probably doesn't help that they're both heavily developed by Red Hat, who see taking open source software and turning it into something stable and end-user viable as their secret sauce that justifies paying them lots of money.
On the side, you might see a slightly brighter line. Here's an xray of a uSD card:

http://rusolut.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/msd1xray.jpg

And an xray of a rubiks cube:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4138/4859926370_10d2a0d071.jpg

Overall, doubt you could see it without looking very carefully.