skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I feel like ageism as an industry social thing doesn't properly reveal the details behind why businesses make the decision to get rid of or stay away from the greybeards.

In reality, greybeards are harder to manage, command higher salaries, and don't put up will bullshit. Basically, managers want a young pliant fool willing to spend three years putting in 60-70 hours a week before he realize he is fucking himself over.

So in this case, I would argue ageism in the industry is mostly about money and business-culture, not techno or geek-culture.

One lesson I learned early in life was to listen to the old timers, It applies here as well, we spurn the oldies at our peril, for they learned lessons we have forgotten and are trying to resolve.
>leave the context of a research lab and into commercialization. We've got some notable disasters with Theranos

Did that spring from a research lab or from a happyhour with mba types wanting to jump on "start-up" fortunes
It is not being put on the sex offenders registry that will ruin their chances at having a decent life, it's that they raped - their action, their consequences.
Exactly. He sucks up airtime for quieter, likely superior approaches in other or the same areas. It's anger not envy. What's the point of Wired interviewing Elon Musk for the 10,000th time? There are so many people doing so much good stuff out there. Finding them isn't hard. They are on the internet too.
Social Security was invented in 1935, and the first Social Security cards were passed out in 1937. The SSN system has been virtually unchanged since then.

There's absolutely no disgrace about the SSN system: it did the job quite well decades before the invention of the computer. The disgrace is that no system has come to replace it in the last 80 years.

The US Post Office sent out a RFC suggesting that they're contemplating a national-identity system btw, complete with PKI infrastructure and cryptographic proofs. They're probably the best agency to verify the identities of millions of Americans (any American with a home / post office address can be verified by a Post Office employee).

But that's all speculation. I don't recall any news suggesting that the US Post Office has actually been approved to roll out this hypothetical identification system. (But honestly, I do think its a good idea and would support such an initiative)

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In any case: Social Security Numbers aren't a problem. We all need to be tracked by the social security system so that we get benefits.

The problem is that every government agency is using SSNs as if they were good identifiers. I mean, yeah, its good for the government to "save money" here and recycle the Social Security Administration's hard work in listing all American Citizens. But this is definitely an area of the Government where I'd prefer more money were spent on a "proper solution", as opposed to the minor cost savings of centralizing it all on the shoulders of the Social Security Administration.

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Repurposing the US Post Office would serve multiple purposes:

* The US Post Office has been downsizing recently. IE: Lost jobs, fewer benefits, losing money. Etc. etc. If the US Post Office took on more work and did something essential in today's computer-based society (aka: if they were the gatekeepers of a National-identity PKI certificate), it'd give all those Post Office workers a job in an age of declining snail-mail.

* Very large agency with a staff who specializes in physical contact with a huge number of Americans. There are very few agencies that have the size, scale, and connectivity of the US Post Office.

* A PKI-based national identity certificate would replace SSNs as the national identifier of choice. With proper security / proper certificate handling, it would be significantly safer than SSNs. Proof through physical access + identifiers (ie: Government-issued ids, like Passports + Drivers Licenses) is a solved problem with the Post Office. Post Office employees are regularly trained to verify Birth Certificates, Drivers Licenses, Passports and so forth. They know how to verify identities physically.
like all things, one size doesn't fit all. not everything is a nail regardless of how shiny the hammer is. Having said that when the situation is right, microservices are great.

some of us have been through this all before with soa or in my case with com.
Each individual component is simpler but the documentation between the components becomes absolutely vital.

we ended up keeping a copies of the interfaces in a central location (with documentation of all changes per version) so that everyone would know how to talk to all the other systems.

and don't think that the interfaces won't change. they will. and often across many systems/components. like a ripple.
Data on the outside versus data on the inside (2016)
It seemed to me the question was asked in the context of some closing small talk, and got a very Musk answer :) as far as I know, the Tesla assembly lines have nowhere near the amount of robotics of the much larger volume lines of for instance Honda, so very slow by those standards.
> There was a time that I thought that if someone as powerful and "rich" as Musk ran for president for some big and important country (like the US) they could fix everything.

> But for some reason that is unknown to me this will never happen. And when something close to it (in the power and money sense), like Trump running for president, does happen we know that we are not going to get this "magic fix".

I don't understand why do people still care about presidents? They can't do crap. Even the decisions they sign off are not really made by them. You don't even get to be a candidate if you aren't already up to ears in the usual political mud of deals and backstabbing. Democracies we know, as they mature, become very efficient at filtering out people who are too dangerous to status quo as they go up.

That's why if Elon even run for the office, I'd know it's the end of the good he can do for anyone.
NGINX Plus, the newest R10 release just integrated their own WAF using ModSecurity (https://www.nginx.com/products/web-application-firewall/).

Seems like an obvious choice to stay within the native NGINX community and just use NGINX Plus. What would be some advantages to using NAXSI?

NGINX Plus is actually not that expensive, especially since you can purchase an AMI and pay per month using AWS.
How much investment is actually done based on such fundamental analysis?
Purple Services (Launching Next)
Yes, the people behind this site are also responsible for this interview so it's bad PR if the comments are critical.

Check an archive of this thread, a lot of negative comments got removed.
I read something a couple of decades ago that's helped me avoid, occasionally, the mindset that causes me to be a curmudgeon: someone else's success is not my problem.

Thats not to say that any particular criticism is unjustified. Just that tearing down someone for its own sake is not good for anyone - rock throwers included.
utility delta X users who hate PDFs/Scribd = a large integral .
Notaries public?
Deep down the certificate pinning rabbit hole of “Tor	Browser Exposed”
I'm rereading the Malazan Book Of The Fallen series. Finished Gardens of the Moon last night. It only gets better.
Thanks for the TL;DR the topic was interesting but I was tired for read more after all day.

My grandma used to say "brain is a muscle".

And I used to see it as an over-simplification, because I was studying, etc...

With the time, I've come to a similar conclusion, a different muscle, and with a micro-services architecture, but at the end of the day, it inherits the attributes, methods and behavior, of the "muscle" class.
They have - Retroarch has CRT shaders that emulate many of these effects (and I believe other emulators can also load the same shaders).
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman
There is an example of an ng2 app using ngrx platform that is reasonably large -- ngrx is a redux using rxjs (more-or-less).

https://github.com/ngrx/example-app
The lack of usage in static blocks isn't entirely surprising. A lot of universities got their IP space early and utilize it poorly. I know this because it is in part my fault.

When we were assigning IP addresses for the dorms at Berkeley, we gave every dorm a /24, and then reserved the first 50 IPs for "future use" and "internal use". Most of those were never used. And unless 200 people signed up per building, some of the top end was missed too.

My understanding is that they have since fixed this on the wifi since many people bring three or four devices now, but the hard wired connections are still poorly utilized.
Well it must not be a very good 3 yr old laptop then? And firefox isn't exactly the slimmest or lightest web browser. Sucks ram just as bad as chrome used to. My 3 year old laptop can handle all of the google services just fine.
From the buzz, I thought VC's were funding every 18 year old with a wild idea. Is it really hard to get serious work funded due to a lack of available capital?
Use tmux on your remote sessions. Game changer.

Edit: just read parent's reply talking about RDP
I like, "Mind if I read your text messages? Hand me your phone"
Julian Assange Offers to Surrender to U.S. If Chelsea Manning Is Released
The author attended DLI[0]?

Sounds like the way to learn math late in life is to be really smart. Nobody that attends DLI isn't.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
Leto: Realtime Application Stack [Angualr2, Rethinkdb/Horizon, ExpressJS]
However, if you have a 1000+ line function that you split into small functions you can pretty easily write a few unit tests per function to see which, if any, of those chunks have problems and then need to be fixed. It's pretty much impossible to write unit tests that can sensibly test a non-trivial 1000+ line function. You might get away with it if it's doing something very straightforward but I wouldn't be very confident in it.
Yes that's absolutely true. Everyone should not use micro services. In fact most people should not. I should have made that more clear.
Agree completely.

Interestingly the author actually ends up supporting that point too. All the examples they use of Pixel art are in support of an aesthetic that, while it was forced upon them at the time, is of a certain forced low-resolution style.

Their game however is pixel art for... well no obvious reason other than they like pixel art. There is no reason in the aesthetic of the game to be pixel art. It doesn't look like it's supposed to be pixel art.

So generally I'm not surprised they're moving away from pixel art - they had no reason to use it in the first place!

If you're not going for a low resolution aesthetic then why on earth would you use pixel art which is exactly for that style?
This.

Many SF tech startups overtly believe that actually planning your code before you write it is just, well, not very "agile" -- that's old school, that's waterfall, proven to be deficient, that's not how we do things in the new world. Planning an architecture before coding it?? Why, you may as well be wearing a pocket protector and hating on women and minorities from some massive IBM cubicle farm in the suburbs while chainsmoking and punching your code into paper cards.

In the new world, you break things and move fast -- when you're assigned a massive new project, you just sit down and start typing. When your unplanned, non-architected code turns out to have serious structural issues that make it unextensible and unmaintainable, why, you just layer another level of crap code on top of that to plaster over the cracks, and another on top of that, and so on.

I wonder how much of this has to do with the churn-and-burn VC culture, where they fund hundreds of startups with just enough money to build an MVP so they can "test for market fit," then burn 99 of them and move on to the next batch.
I was just looking for something like this. Kudos.

Curious, what is the future monetization plans?
+1 for Exco!

Wife and I bought a fixer-upper in old Escondido for a bit under 300. There's several tech companies in North County, and you can take Del Dios to the coast pretty easily (which is where I work).
People from the Marshall islands can move to the US.
Honestly, that's somewhat understandable. Otherwise, there would be plenty of advice that you should rotate your SSN every year, just in case... While that would be an ideal final state, in our current state that's probably not a great idea.

I suppose ideal final state would be some combination of a cryptographic certificate and a rotating security token ala RSA SecurID. The token is enough to verify that you possess the certificate, but has no unique value in-and-of itself.
Yea sounds like the definition homoiconicity or lisp a bit:
"In a homoiconic language the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
Obviously we all know the paperclip example, you can't just quote it and call that good. Countless people have made objections to this..
React, Angular 2, Vue 2 and some other SPA frameworks or view systems all support server-side rendering with very little coercion nowadays. That combined with google executing javascript during indexing means that SEO isn't nearly the issue it used to be.
Work on wireless power transfer has been going on over 100-years, even Tesla worked on it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer

Hard to imagine this being mainstream anytime soon. Is there any reason to believe this will become mainstream in the near future?
> What's the point of Wired interviewing Elon Musk for the 10,000th time?

Ad money, like with all publishing. If they actually cared about providing useful content to people, they'd seek out those quieter ones and interview them too. Don't blame Elon for the market actors that want to earn money off his fanbase. Blame those market actors instead.
"almost every corner of life now has regulations and regulators that have to be obeyed and asked for permission"

If you honestly believe that about the US, you should visit Germany.
A friend gifted me this book on my birthday "On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy"
Wait what?! I've heard literally the opposite advice - the idea being people don't like to be made a liar of, so publicly promising you will do something makes you more inclined to do it
Totally an irrational personal bias that I need to drop...

When you think of Google and deploying to the cloud, Borg and K8s come to mind. That's their expertise. Windows Server doesn't fit into that picture.

I guess it is the same with Azure and running Linux VMs there. Although a third of Azure VMs run Linux, the marketing and public awareness hasn't caught up with that reality.
How did you know that I needed this? Thanks for the post.
Teen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have to Eat Alone
Because scaling a monolith is not a realistic approach. Every single monolith I have worked on has been refactored as domain specific microservices, and in every case it was a resounding success.
I would have liked to know more about those "certain genetic vulnerabilities". Detailing THOSE would have made this article much more interesting. I'm disinclined to read the writer's book because
of how rehashed her theory is.
Reminds me of how recent scholarship shows that Greek statues weren't the blank-eyed white marble figures that influenced Western Art but were often brightly painted with additional features added.
Ugh, this is a cardinal sin. Gross.
I assume so, but very general/handwavy with his wording, rather than on potential specific applications (of potential future mainstream use), which would help.

I think most people on this forum would be interested in how such can be related to gaming, but I know researchers that who be interested in cheaper/as or more accurate mapping (think "realtime" volumetric [mni-brain like] relative powermaps calc'd from beamforming/dsp on n-electrode arrays along the scalp at x sampling rates, and canceling out influences in the impedances due to rotational moments in the head [prob using gyros/3-axis accelerometers] and potential moisture build up along the scalp) for as much a 2-3 hours of scan time on a fmri/meg now, as well as being able to collect more data outside of the "lab" (and other brain states as well).
I would suspect it's because there's a certain political segment that stands in the way of improving programs for which they would prefer would just be ended.
You see, you've already lost me because nearly everything worthwhile has been funded by public sector money, notably space and the Internet. To my mind, claiming to be 'fiscally conservative' may be a good tactical claim as a CEO of rapidly expanding publically held companies, but in practical terms it's a terrible idea. If Elon is turning public money into technology, I'm enthusiastic about that. I'm sure there are ways to nationalize his industry if it proves necessary.

Better that, than privatizing things: that's a recipe for bad answers and a untimely demise due to market forces. Maybe I don't want AI, electric cars, and space travel to die because some hedge fund needed immediate profits the very next quarter.
Haha, I always fed the local squirrels as a kid. I tried petting one once. The little bastard went into a chattering rage and chased me down the street. To the amusement of several neighbors.
Ask HN: Best approach to getting first job in Bay Area?
I've recently just moved to San Francisco from Ireland on a 12 month working visa. I've a CS degree and have 1 years professional experience as a full stack engineer.

I've applied to roughly 20 companies and have gotten just one interview. I've mostly just been looking for companies on CrunchBase but the majority want devs with at least 2+ years experience. I'm wondering whats the best approach to looking for junior developer roles in the bay area?
Hah, that's cheating! I'm not trying to defend an 'N-lines' rule which seems too obviously silly to even argue about but people do often break out chunks of code into procedures to give them logical, navigable names. You have names inside your big procedure.
> "The whole point of the federal privacy law is to prevent states from making the Social Security number into a nationally mandated identification number of the kind that’s common in Europe. The practice goes back to the immediate post-World War II era, when Sweden became the first country to assign every citizen a personal identity number that follows you throughout your life and must be used in essentially every interaction with state. Every Swede memorizes the number in childhood. And notably, the tax authority makes everyone’s number publicly available to anyone who asks for it."

This wouldn't be a bad thing if we didn't also use the SSN as proof of identity. Numbers as "usernames" for individuals are fine. But they should not also serve as "passwords." That particular cat is already out of the bag. The list of people who know or have access to your social security number includes dozens of bank personnel, medical professionals, standardized testing agencies, previous employers, and government employees. It is entirely possible for malicious actors, given any other personal identifier (a unique full name, or any full name plus address), to find the associated social security number.

We simply cannot expect any SSN - let alone its last 4 digits - to be known only by the person to which it was issued.
Works nice on a touch-screen hi-dpi ASUS Zenbook as well, yes. Can scroll with the right thumb and so on -- feels more natural than using mouse, interestingly.
I thought Apple already did wireless charging with the Apple Watch. Why is this news?
You are talking from ignorance. She doesn't have an "idea of the Ubermensch" - she esteems honest ordinary men highly, and condemns modern elites.

What is Nietzsche's solution to the problem of universals? What does he say about the is-ought problem? What does he say about capitalism and individual rights? All of these things are discussed in Rand, none are discussed in Nietzsche, who rejects reason, logic and universal truths.

Sure, read other philosophy, but to really really understand where she's coming from, you have to read her, and not confidently spout second-hand misinformation.
> By non-obvious path I mean things (requirement, underlining systems, user base size) changing in a way that was not unquestionably and blatantly obvious.

I can't agree with you more. Thank you for the follow-up.
Show HN: Coderoulette, a pair programming game for developers
Hello everyone,

We just launched a side-project we have been building over the last couple of months -- Coderoulette is a pair programming game for developers, like a Chatroulette for hackers.

We match developers in real time and give them coding challenges they have to solve doing pair programming using a collaborative IDE and video conference.

You can check it out here:
https://www.coderoulette.com/

We also published an article explaining how we built it. I'd love to hear your feedback.

https://medium.com/@miriammuros/how-we-built-coderoulette-a-collaborative-learning-experiment-cc023bbff88f
Mine's not listed on my DL but I did have to give it to DOT when I received my license.

Well, I didn't _have_ to; the gentleman asked me for a single proof of residence and my SSN. When I said "I don't want to give out my SSN, you can't ask for that as ID" he replied, "yes, you're correct. In that case I'll need three proof of residence documents from this list and two identification documents from this other list".

I had a passport, a mortgage and a phone bill so I just caved and gave him my SSN.
I wouldn't mind it. For a lot of my devices if you put on the wireless charger the wrong way you come up to a dead device. This would theoretically allow you to be fully charged if there were enough beacons in a building.
What's the equivalent pure caffeine dosage per 2 minutes of brushing?
New grads only get more than 100k at a tiny group of elite companies. Almost all new grads lack the credentials to get into those places.
my first semester of college back in 2010 I, for reasons I cannot explained, decided that I would keep my windows and linux installs on totally separate hard drives. With a laptop. With one drive bay. You never appreciate how quick rebooting into linux is until you spend 4 months physically swapping a hard drive every time you want to switch which OS you're using.

I was not a smart freshman
Part of the problem is that a CEO plays a very different role in a three person company, a 300 person company, a 3000 person company, and a 30k person company. I have a very difficult time imagining swapping out the CEO of an early round startup without having a major existential crisis.
The initial population seemed to have plenty of space though. Eventually any growing population will run into a space limitation. It just happens sooner the smaller the space is.
Coderoulette:
https://www.coderoulette.com/

How we built it:
https://medium.com/@miriammuros/how-we-built-coderoulette-a-...
Grunt by Mary Roach. About the science, R&D behind "mundane" war things—chafing, noise, etc. so far, so good …

I have a fascination with military tactics, specifically when it comes to morale & psyche, so curious to see where this book touches on those.
That's not really exclusive though, that's just a beta program.

Facebook's exclusivity initially showed no plans for letting everyone else in. It was basically, if you do not have this type of email account, you can NEVER join.
In general, a more specific law trumps a more general law, and a later law trumps an earlier enacted law.

So the more specific rule of "States may ask for SSN's for tax purposes" would override the general rule of "States may not ask for SSN's". And the exception was presumably enacted after the general rule, since otherwise there would have been no need to make an exception.