skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I'll ever get tired of posting the chart ZeroHedge put together with BLS statistics showing that the 55+ cohort has, in practical terms, monopolized the 'economic recovery' since 2008.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...

Anecdotally I've seen more and more 60+ workers doing line-level gigs like cashier or low-skill retail than ever. I think there's an undercurrent of discrimination against youth, actually, in that the 55+ group will be dependable and complacent because they need to work and therefore will show up to work.

In the modern US economy, longevity in one firm or role is actually bad for a young person's career! There are no pensions to earn. There are limited annual raises that are lower than inflation. On and on and on.

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the plight of the elderly in such a position if they weren't, you know, basically kicking away the ladder they used to climb to the top, spend the country broke, and then continue to vote entitlements while passing a faux-future of success demanding everybody get a Bachelor's to even be a Secretary answering phones. This whole system is so broken pointing it out sounds extreme or mean, but it's just obvious to me over these past 15+ years of working.

I just got my SS statement the other day, and was extremely proud to see that every year I was eligible to work, even if I was going to school / college / etc, I did work. Not a single year without an above the board job. I don't think a lot of Millenials will be able to come anywhere near it, and I don't think it's entirely their fault. End of my $0.02 that is really worth about 1/8 of that...
YC reject Kentik closes $23M Series B
I can get upset about executives being paid many times more than regular employees, but I don't care of they trade some of that enormous pay for special perks.
When I was doing recruiting I absolutely read the cover letters. If you can't describe why I should consider your background, why should I consider hiring you? I think it is an important indicator on how a developer communicates.
I sort of get why they have to do that

I don't. Can you explain?
But most startups have hard working early employees - not just the successful ones. Focusing on hard work seems close to a just world fallacy. Ask a billionaire if they got there via hard work. Ask a hard worker if they've got a billion dollars.
under normal conditions, self-driving car systems are tracking white\yellow lines on the road. I am not sure what they are going to do when it is all white during snow. I know GPS is also used but it might not have latest info about road directions.
Are you in the oil&gas business?
Shameless self-plug: There’s also https://github.com/GoogleChrome/simplehttp2server to play with HTTP/2 and push locally
Exactly! I guess people used to the Ruby syntax are just desensitized or don't know how much of a joy programming can be without having to type 'end' everywhere.
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Damn it, they gave it a name. Now we can expect a lot of pop-psychology/business media bullshit about this concept for the coming decade.

But yeah, this article generally captures my thoughts about the "T-shaped employee" thing, except that I personally want to be "bicycle-wheel shaped" human. First, a human, because my employment does not define me, and by "bicycle-wheel", for lack of better term, I mean many specializations in different areas that end up connecting with each other.

As for the feasability of the "T-shaped" vs "paint drip", I think the latter is better - sure, ceteris paribus, you won't be able to put as much energy into many things as you can put in one, but I believe there are diminishing returns in specializations - and since the job market, like most markets, is terribly inefficient, you can probably get away with multiple specializations up until robots replace us all.
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I understand your apprehension open sourcing the source code, but 90%~ of your userbase will be people who don't trust closed source code (some even would want to verify the app integrity somehow). So I really suggest you guys seriously consider open sourcing. I don't really see any of the free browsers using VPNs catch up because they are closed source, and although it might open up possibilities of IP theft, the chance of this being a successful product will be much greater.

And those great OSS contributors will help out too!
What about disabling those APIs?
I wonder, if she had a different name and appearance, if she wouldn't have been suspected.
This goes along with the notion that the typical STEM person is interested in music/art/etc. about as much as the average person, but the typical Nobel Prize winner has a vastly higher interest in these alternative activities than the average person:

http://priceonomics.com/the-correlation-between-arts-and-cra...

I think the idea of being an "expert in a field" is becoming less valuable today than it used to be. Because there are so many experts in so many fields, they all share the same knowledge, ideas, and preconceptions, and thus the only way to make further progress is to incorporate original ideas from other fields. It goes along with the study that showed that interdisciplinary research has lower citations in the short-term, but many more citations in the long-term.
It's far more lopsided than it appears in those numbers.

In Missouri, most prosecutions are handled by a county's Prosecuting Attorney's office, which are funded by each county's budget (largely property taxes).

There are 115 counties, including St. Louis. In larger counties, those offices will have 150 employees and $10 million budgets. The counties sometimes pay for office space for the Public Defender, but they're not paying salaries. The $35 million for Prosecution Services in the state budget is to fund a small office that helps coordinate the county efforts statewide, and helps prosecutors in small counties who are overwhelmed by unexpectedly complex cases.

So the $40 million for defense state wide, which will be dwarfed by the combined budgets of the Attorney General and county prosecutors.
> Then you're selecting for people that care more about a paycheck than the work they're doing

You can only go through so many companies before you need to acknowledge: "maybe it's me, not them".
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It could be training practice for the protection of their own young.
Big time.
This is insanely cool. No matter how useful/easy your web GUI is, if you have the skill set it's always easier to just do it by hand. Huge congrats to Squarespace, I've already linked this to friends I know that use them and have had customization issues in the past.

This is a great opportunity for those who have tried to teach themselves web basics before to actually add stuff to their own sites and really expand their skillset.

I've been working on my own thing similar to this for HubSpot, having to edit using a clunky CMS live in production is super scary. I really would like to live in a world where most "we make X easier to do" companies release things like this to let people who know how to do it by hand do it faster.
Have you tried contacting them about such domains?
I'm not saying there aren't others; I'm just giving perspective into why one instance I know about.
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See it this way: Numbers are distinct from their representations. 0x10, 0o20, 16 and 0b10000 are four different representations of the same number. The & operator doesn't operate on _numbers_, it operates on their binary representation — in many ways, it's almost like string manipulation.

What I suggested was that that way of operating on the representation of the number would work on any base in a way that is consistent (but, importantly, doesn't yield the same numerical result!) with the binary version.
Maybe the cloud computer guys will go there, but the high performance computing people are already well settled. Anton [1], a machine running custom ASICs for molecular dynamics, has already produced some very interesting biomolecular simulations. MDGRAPE3 was even earlier (completed in 2006).

There was also a (sadly failed) initiative about ten years back in Germany to build a custom ASIC for multigrid Poisson equation solvers. I'm sure there are more examples outside of my interests.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)
> What do you think about my bloom filter idea?

It sounds interesting, but I suspect that you're right that caching leaks no matter what — I wonder if it's almost like compression in that sense (and we remember how compression impacts HTTPS!).
I regularly have 200~300 tabs open in a single session in chrome. Yes, it gets a little hard to find what I want, but it still runs excellent.
Kind of interesting that sort of conclusion / assertion gets mentioned without inferring that moentary policy is so out of whack that "Saving" the old fashioned way is not a good course of action. Those pension plans were based on about a 7% return, which ain't crazy, but now seems nearly out of reach without significant risk (re: equitites afloat on easy money). Staggering the factors at play here...Fed Policy, Healthcare Inflation, Stagnant Worker Wages...ugh
Many mammals are supposed to be able to recognize the your in other mammal species based on some fairly universal markers (large head to body ratio, larger facial features), and respond differently to younger and older members of a species. Many Dogs are known to have exhibited this behavior, and treat human babies distinctly different (more gently). I think you are correct and it's entirely possible is child-rearing instincts firing in response to other species that resemble their own young closely (other young whales) or superficially (other, smaller marine mammals).
It's not for anonymity, it's for privacy. And the VPN extensions are actually nice... You can do something similar now with a bunch of extra tools, but building them all into one seamless interface enables regular people to get the benefits without needing to spend time learning new technology. If there is a market for this, this would be the first tool to address that market need.
That's not true: http://i.imgur.com/mdVdq47.png

Edit: And it seems you can't remove the phone number: http://i.imgur.com/p6myEqx.png
If one had, say, 1-2PB in unused mag tape but no longer has the hardware to actually write to them -- is there some way to get them put to use?
This reminds me a lot of the people questioned after the Boston bombing for "suspicious" Google searches. [0]

One person was questioned after searching for pressure cooker bombs at work, and the other was questioned because she was searching for pressure cookers, and her partner was searching for backpacks.

[0]: http://nypost.com/2013/08/02/li-man-questioned-for-computer-...
I wrote about using a bloom filter and HTTP2 push for loading modules (instead of bundling them), and implemented a PoC using service workers: https://mariusgundersen.net/module-pusher/
Oh, so the secret to success is hard work?! Damn it! I've been such an imbecile over the past 6 years - If I had worked 8 days per week (instead of my usual 7 days), I would have succeeded for sure by now! I guess I'm too lazy.

I really need to get myself a mentor like Marissa Mayer so I can learn about work ethics.
I'm currently watching a Stanford class online called blitz scaling and recently saw the class in which they brought in Marissa Mayer. I enjoyed it but it bothers me that a lot of what she says in this interview is word for word the same things she said in the video. Must have a memorized speech for this type of thing.
"but I want to see reasonably complicated benchmarks"

I very much doubt that a fib code-snippet is what he was asking about.
* support for .bit domains out of the box is very very cool

* is it based on Firefox? Chromium?

* emphasizing the number of bits in your encryption can be the opposite of reassuring. is this encryption on the wire or of data at rest? what algorithm(s) do you use? do you use a standard implementation or your own?
"What we wanted was a platform that would work on everything from a single laptop up to a large cluster"

Minikube does this so well: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube

You can really learn alot rolling your own solutions, but k8s has already solved most of the pain points including service discovery. The great thing about minikube is you can easily apply the same concepts to a thousand node cluster or just your laptop.
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-mob-technology-consul...

It's not as long-form as I remember but still a fun read.
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Apparently Apple changed the make-up of the rubbery/plastic insulation of their cables to cut some toxins from the manufacturing process:

> Both are still used by other companies in power cords and headphone cables. We have replaced PVC and phthalates with thermoplastic elastomers.

http://www.apple.com/ca/environment/safer-materials/

Right at the bottom in small print it says:

> * Every Apple product is free of PVC and phthalates with the exception of power cords in India and South Korea, where we continue to seek government approval for our PVC and phthalates replacement.

Anyone from India or South Korea care to comment on whether there's a noticeable difference between the quality of the cables on the power cords vs an Apple headphone lead or something?
My bank asks a security question if logging in from an unknown computer before offering the image or allowing entry of the password.
How is this not known already by so many?

Every. Single. Time. People keep saying this...

Just click the WEB link at the top!!!

Or Google the articles title, free from there.

Sometimes you need to be in cognito.
I've read (in Hacker News comments from developers in China) that international corporations get specially-licensed dedicated connections in China that don't go through the Great Firewall at all. So any VPN use on a connection like that would be for security, not to defeat the censors.
Chutzpah! I love it just for that if nothing else.
And so the circle of metaphors continues.
And that the brains that support our minds are part of said bodies. Eg corvids with their tiny little bird brains are apparently capable of feats of intellect that are very human-like in various ways.
Agreed. A good indicator of that is when you start micromanaging your bathroom breaks, i.e. when not only your mental life but also your bodily functions get subordinated to corporate success.
I've never worked in an early stage startup, but what is it exactly that those working more than 100 hours per week do?
Is that the only real reason? blockchain.info immediately pops up a 2FA input bar depending on the previous inputs, not a second page.
Man, do I hate that crap. Oracle is another ugly example. After buying Sun, some genius there apparently thought that it's OK to break tons of links all over the web (and in Usenet archives, etc.), redirecting them to the fucking generic Oracle front page.

Nothing spells out "fuck you" quite as clearly as breaking thousands of hyperlinks overnight.
Off topic ish, am I supposed to be able to read this without a subscription?
> * Founder's parents' income

I find this to be one of the biggest indicators. I have friends whose parents are extremely wealthy and they tried all sorts of random careers before finally settling on something. For them there was zero real risk since they always had their parents to fall back on. One's dad even told him to come up with a business idea and he would fund it and help him make it happen. Instead he goofed around for awhile, before simply going back to school.

Personally, I'm more irked at potential wasted than jealous. I have no one to fall back on, and that has made me fiercely independent, but also very risk conscious. The good thing is that it is easier than every to bootstrap ideas with minimal time.
Over the years of occasionally reading LWN articles I've never noticed, or at least internalized, that LWN is subscription supported.

Not saying they should introduce annoying "subscribe now!" modals, but they definitely could sell it a little harder.
I guess she'll be switching to ebooks now...
Tens of millions versus a hundred million, what a fucking victory for humanity...
I think Niklaus Wirth would disagree.
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/761105563807731712

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Schedule (find "Servo Project")
Is there no way to disable sensitive requests from the lock screen? My Android phone has an option under voice settings to disable "Personal results" when the phone is locked.
I'm amazed that this is the first halfway-reasonable post to come out of this discussion. The real story here is the demographic breakdown the western world is experiencing, and that Japan has been knee-deep in since the 90s. This has tons of implications, from expected 401k returns that are expected to fund our retirements, to the evidenced fact that older people are working longer, retiring later, and hence eating up a lot of the income and job gains made in the last decade.
> on her return from her honeymoon in Turkey

Many people left UK to join ISIS or to be kidnapped... Syria is a warzone, and if you are travelling in/from that direction it will raise a questions.

> Police officers questioned Shaheen for 15 minutes

This article is a joke.
By default, the browser will always be free. You should be able to browse anonymously and control your data without paying. Currently the VPN is applied to the browser only, so we're thinking of charging to switch the VPN on for device-wide protection. Without getting ahead of myself too much, but we can also consider offering other security and privacy extensions and customization, such as custom dns or your own server location.
> by "bicycle-wheel", for lack of better term, I mean many specializations in different areas that end up connecting with each other.

This is the part that really resonates with me.

I'm one of those people that naturally has way too many interests and hobbies than there are hours in the day. What I find time and again is that as I go far enough into some new interest, it starts to converge and connect to my other ones. I see similarities, or ideas where I can combine multiple interests to produce something that I couldn't make with just one of them.

These days, I don't even really see separation between them. I'm just a big amorphous blob of all of this stuff, jumbled together. The jumbling together is way more important than any constituent part.
Do you want moral homilies or financial advice?

Sure, living below your means is generally good advice; but my point was that as interest rates go down that affects the discount rate, and the amount of income required to achieve a particular nominal income in retirement increases dramatically.

(Also, there's quite a lot of people who are barely able to get over the first financial hurdle of paying rent, let alone buying a house, both of which are more important than pension saving. Being a renter even with a big pension is much worse than being a homeowner with a small pension.)
I fondly remember playing 'Midi Maze' on the ST back in the 80's. LAN gaming has moved on a little, but I remember the joy and amazement of playing it :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSoy1S43dw
I wonder how much time such a proposal would take to implement in postgres.
Similar incident - a man doing math: https://stactivist.com/2016/05/12/equations-on-an-airplane/
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> I have a small test program I port to different languages

Please show one or more of those programs.
Also there are the people whose proficiencies follow a Gaussian distribution, otherwise known as "Normal people".
Interesting analogy. I think this captures the paths of creatives more than large company people. The T-model is great for consulting firms (like McKinsey who uses it) as well as conglomerates like P&G. Catching the interest of someone who can move from Operating Systems to compilers to website design is very different.

The one thing I'd add to this is Paint Drip people tend to bring what they learned from one area to others. It's not so just disjointed and random "let's see what drips."
The "paint drip" approach is great for people who can pull it off, and the opening account of Keith Adams is inspiring. But that same approach to life also is a pretty apt description of low-focus, easily distracted people.

I interviewed a job candidate once who had five masters degrees in unrelated fields. In the first five minutes, he sounded amazing. By about minute 15, I realized that his completion rate was very close to zero. And that made it hard for me to think of any job where he'd be effective.

Diverse interests can be great. A commitment to life-long learning is inherently a huge plus. But cohesion (even if it's slow and accidental) feels like it needs to be the third part of the formula.
Perhaps it's time to pick a new language to drop in every thread. Something hip and cool, like HyperTalk!
Very interesting metaphor. I would say that skilled peoe don't always plan their next project, but I do on occasion.

I can strongly relate to having a lot of little side projects however. That seems to be where I learn the most stuff. I've even turned a lot of programming class projects into more ambitious side projects at times.

I've also found that I often have to attempt a technology or system more than once before I get properly comfortable with it. It seems to have worked that way with Go, Phoenix/Elixir, Postgres, Love2d, and so on. My ability to do well in programming has more to do with many side hours spent researching and playing. New stuff takes a bit to settle in.
Nice job of focusing on the important stuff
No, I still disagree with you. Carmack is the outlier of the outlier and not a useful example. To be able to get and keep a team of those people would be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Keep in mind that I'm the sort of person you are indicating already. I sleep little and don't care much about work/life balance. When I've worked on teams that are burning the candle at both ends, I am able to hold out longer than others and usually end up carrying things over the finish line.

That's the point of my comment: Even for those who ought to thrive, things start to break down, and no amount of energy or toughness changes that. We are human. I want to warn/remind other engineers that these practices are unsustainable. Hell, I want to remind myself of that after repeating this work to the bone/burnout cycle so many times.
Crystal isn't fit to carry Nim's jockstrap as far as I'm concerned. Ruby's syntax is verbose and illogical compared to Python's. Plus Crystal has a much more restrictive license.
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I've seen trucks (tractor-trailers) with flames coming from the brakes on 6% grades downhill... and the uphill sides of those the trucks are in low gear at high RPM doing 15-20mph MAX, running at 3-4x the rpm they'd run doing 75 on the highway... people underestimate grade and the effect it has on heavy vehicles

The maximum commercially viable (due to weight restriction) grade for freight railroads is 2.2% ...
Assuming you actually care about the answer, this just help me drew the exploratory graph, and this property was useful to fill in cells for which operands were equal. Finding obvious properties is a great way to learn a pattern without even computing things. Unlike what you may think, I had no idea what I was about to find - I had never seen this chart drawn before, and so this post is structured around how I thought about the exploration, not around how it may be presented to an audience who already knows way more than I do on bitwise operations. Sounds fair?