skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just try to win a project on any modern "freelancing" website and you will understand... personally i used to make solid money on Rent-A-Coder even before getting my CS degree and when they sell us to Freelancer, i started losing bids and the great bids were "closed" to only accept bid "first world developers" (ie US Developers) or limited to people that already paid for the website membership to get in so pretty much any bid today had like 20 indian developers working for 5c/hour.
> Check out https://oldgeekjobs.com/ because there may just be a job for you, a place where you won’t be discriminated against just because you’re getting older and wiser.

All I see is a form to post job-ads, and nowhere to look at them.
With the exception of shell scripting which I'm writing every day, I remove "code" more than I write it. C is the language I deal with.

The easier it is to remove code from someone else's program, the "cleaner" the code.

That's my definition of "clean code".

For example, I just had to edit the code for a text-only browser to remove a few "features". For example, the author recently decided it would be a good idea to non-interactively access no-content refs in a page such as "prefetch" and other garbage.
What exactly does it do?

In Chrome I use "google dictionary" and just double click any word in any language and it gives me translations, define and wikipedia stuff.
I thought both your "arguments" were petty and slightly offensive. To say basically: 'Just Google my rebuttal' is not worthy of a reply. You could have just skipped my sincere request for reasoning opposite to my own.

Without volunteering too much entropy: I myself have a high-school diploma and my sister is gay.

You are perfectly fine to read "partner" there, though that may not convey the fact that they were not married (which would arguably have made it slightly better).
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Thank you Microsoft!

That is what I wanted: Mandated Telemetry in everything I do so the mothership knows everything I do everytime from a product I supposedly bought.

It is so great to know that today Microsoft and the US gobertment could use all this information to improve their products or directly control the people that use their computers.
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As an engineer who also grew up in San Diego and now works here full-time, I totally agree. I think there is tremendous potential for innovation in San Diego, the hardest part is finding investors. As you said, there are many great universities nearby, with plenty of young talent who might be disenfranchised with the high cost of living/lifestyle of SV(or maybe that's just me,the disenfranchised part, not the talent).

As a robotics/mechanical guy, it can be a little overwhelming to consider a startup, because prototyping hardware gadgets is pricey! But I have been looking at something like SBIR/STTR funding, because most of my widgets are navy/defense focused.

I would say some potential founders could use the same funding to build software, especially considering you don't have to give up any commercialization rights or ownership stake to get the funding.
> It’s not like anything seen alive on Earth today: it’s the size of large turkey, but with a face like a Jim Henson puppet.

Boy howdy... Just looking at this thing makes me think "Not the mama!"
> There seem to be more articles about age popping up on HN lately. I find this both weird and disconcerting.

Not so weird.

We're now 30+ years from the dawn of the desktop PC marketplace. 20+ years from the dawn of the web and associated original internet startup mania. 10+ years from the post-collapse web 2.0 resurgence with Ajax and frameworks. Pushing a decade since the introduction of the smartphone.

Every bright-eyed twentysomething that could bask in the glory of their wunderkind youth at the start of each of those eras -- everybody who knew PG was talking to/about them in his essays -- has now wound the course that time dictates everybody's gotta take: they arrived at being older.

So of course there's a lot of interest in what that means in the software industry. And maybe some rueful reflection from some participants on what they thought that meant when they were younger.
In north county, places like Rancho Penasquitos (92129) have great schools and you can find decent single-family homes in the low $600's these days. It's about 15 minutes from the coast without traffic -- 25 mins from downtown. Nearby areas like Mira Mesa and Clairemont are cheaper but the public schools aren't as good.
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By stressing lack of downtown locations, this seems be a fluff piece ala "Millenials don't want to drive!".

While there's a lot of competition for talent to leave to Bay Area, lots of folks I know moved here to SD to actually have a life outside of work, since its housing prices are much lower, access to beaches, food, etc. The commuting is better than SF imho, unless you simply cannot or refuse to drive.
I think he means it auto minimizes to the tray
Mine doesn't. They're part of an update that won't reach everyone until November.
So, open/close is a bit of a weird distinction here? The program doesn't close in the way a Win32 program does, if I open Edge back up everything is as I left it -- all the tabs are still there, everything is where I left it, if I'm halfway through filling out a form everything I've filled out is still there. But yeah, at least when I first started using it, Edge would just vanish sometimes. I should note that I don't know if this is still an issue, I've basically given up on sustained Edge usage for now.
A vehicle without driver aids and with sudden loss of driver inputs would tend to idle down the road until it hit an object sufficient to stop movement, or ran out of fuel, or the engine stalled for some reason.

A better response to lack of driver input would be to come to a controlled stop, preferably out of the traffic lanes (since other Tesla vehicles have driver assistance technology which may not respond to a stationary vehicle in the lanes)
Working on that right now!
Do they eliminate based on degree? I had this experience recently when applying to space and defense work.
Taxes are the much bigger factor, but Seattle is certainly significantly cheaper. Of course, other areas are much cheaper than Seattle as well.
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

--Orson Welles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505723
I'm pleased to read all the replies to my post - of course there are no universal truths!

From my side I love programming per se (logical/creative thinking, etc), but programming as a profession is stressful: deadlines, unsatisfied clients, changing technologies...

At age 50 I'd rather give my body and mind a rest, and focus in my family or whatnot.

One thing is sure for me: I didn't come to this universe to spend it in front of a screen.
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I've not seen that but I thought UWP apps don't really close either. They sort of hibernate because they should restore in whatever state you left them.
I moved to San Diego to start a tech company with a partner about 18 months ago. SD was chosen because partner lived there and was established. We found it very difficult to get the attention of any VC's or potential customers. We did manage to get an interview with YC, but were declined.

Was this due to the location? Perhaps. I do know that the events we went to were lackluster, and the ecosystem was weak. You've got Evonexus (which wouldn't even talk to us), and Connect Springboard, who wanted less complex ideas. Meetups were ok but the ones we went to ended up with more hangers on ("hey I brought my class of 20 HS students to learn about startups at this meetup with 8 people!") than actual people doing stuff.

Also, to be honest I just really didn't like San Diego. My wife got hit by a car while riding to work on a scooter and was in a cast for a few months; the weather was too damn hot (and I lived only two miles from the beach); public transport is dreadful; the culture, while better than LA, is still very socal; drivers tried to kill me as I cycled everywhere; and the city is a model of horrific urban design. Even in places that COULD be great you've got organizations like the Hillcrest Business Association trying to kill a single. damn. bike lane on one of the most heavily-ridden (and dangeous) streets in San Diego - University Ave. The city spends years claiming it's doing something just to have SANDAG kill it. This is particularly egregious when you consider that Todd Gloria supports cycling - until it matters. A bike lane in the middle of nowhere doesn't take any political courage.

SD is vastly overrated. I will admit, though, that the beer and Mexican food are good. Within SD I _did_ quite like South Park. It was when I needed to leave South Park that things were bad.
you can refactor those nested observables using mergeMap:

this._settingsService.settings$.mergeMap(settings => {

this.settings = settings;
return this._weatherService.getLatestWeather(this._location, settings);
})
.subscribe(
weather => this.weather = weather,
error => this.errorMessage = <any>error
);
Yes, that was an odd DARPA RFP though, since amoung other paradoxical that RFP wanted to be able to delete parts of the blockchain after the fact.

NATO is also looking into blockchain uses:
https://www.ncia.nato.int/NewsRoom/Pages/160425_Innovation.a...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12497926
But I wouldn't even say that. Look at the C/C++ situation. Microsoft as a platform doesn't support a ton of C, every compiler has it's own ways of using undefined behavior, there are tons of extensions and "only works on compiler X". Look at python where even if you ignore the 2/3 split, you have ironpython, cpython, pypy, and more that all have their own quirks, differences, and incompatibilities. It's pretty often you see a python library that only works on cpython.

For all it's issues, JS has mostly moved past that. It's pretty rare to see a javascript program or library (that's not just a tech demo) that only works on one implementation. Hell Microsoft released a node.js fork that runs on chakra, and to my surprise every single one of our node applications runs on it without a single change or hitch. (i haven't looked up if this is "normal" or if i got lucky though, so take it with a grain of salt).

Now obviously it's not perfect, and we should strive to be better, to fix these issues, but it's not like javascript is in some unprecedented scenario here. I actually think that the IE6 days have pushed JS to fix a lot of the problems that are plaguing other languages in this area.
This is basically what Portland, Oregon did, as I understand.
Labels release cut-rate music streaming service amid shift to flexible pricing
> The GPL increases the user's freedom by forcing developers to contribute back, ie limiting the developer's freedom (to close code down).

That begs the question of whether or not one has the right to limit one's users' freedom to use, modify & share code. I don't think that one does.

> Likewise, BSD and MIT type licences increase developer freedom at the cost of end users.

They certainly increase developer power, but power is not freedom; might does not make right.
I'm pretty sure the older Firefox debugger had both of your easier tools, and the new one probably does too. "Stack and step collapser" was called "blackboxing". "Stack of stacks", also known as long stacks or async stacks, is definitely implemented at the lower levels (at least for non-primitive exceptions); I'm not sure whether or how they were surfaced in the UI.
Ask HN: How can I get Google to reinstate my adsense account?
My adsense account was disabled in 2014, and I honestly don't know why. If there was any wrongdoing, it wasn't intentional, and I would have fixed it immediately. It was disabled out of the blue. I really don't like being banned of anything, and although there's not an immediate need for me, and the $70 that was in the account is not a biggie, I just would like this to be sorted, or at least know why.

I have tried all of the documented ways of appealing.

I actually tried it very recently one more and I get the following reply:

"Thanks for the additional information provided in your appeal, we
appreciate your continued interest in the AdSense program. After thoroughly
reviewing your account data and taking your feedback into consideration,
our specialists have confirmed that we're unable to reinstate your AdSense
account."

I doubt that what I entered on the appeal form was actually read by a human being.

Maybe HN readers can offer some help.
I used the 5 but I suppose it also depends on when you have to show up at work. I had some flexibility and could usually avoid the worst traffic.
Re-read my statements above.

I'm telling you not to use those websites.

Move to the city, make contacts, do good work.
The most frustrating part about saving money, is that you need spare money before you can save it. It's a catch-22 situation. People who struggle to have to spare cash tend to spend it immediately, thus preventing them from saving it.

There have been many studies on this, but basically humans are addicted to their instant gratification monkey. It's FAR more satisfying to spend that bill in your pocket on something nice and shiny, than it is to store it out of sight for a rainy day.

Ok here we go, the URL to which I refer:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...

It's not about 'money' per se, but does explain the gratification issue which is why we're all mostly useless at doing things that don't instantly pay off.
Similar studies and experience, I also think that Objectivism is one of the strongest philosophies. It's kind of ironic that we have to talk about Objectivism without naming the main author for politic reasons.
This is all great, until we get a navigation system that constantly suggests we go bowling.
FFS read the code before spouting random stuff.

(!isNaN('100') && isFinite('100'))

Negation (!) before isNaN()
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Maybe, with relation to entrepeneurs, but I think there are fundamental differences between business (and sports betting or poker) compared to casino games like slots and roulette.

Regarding the former, hard work and study can affect the outcome. The latter are machine programmed and can't be beaten.

I don't know, but wouldn't be surprised if these two types of gambling attracted different types of people.
IMO, this is another step towards the end of "all the music you want" on a single streaming service (eg, Spotify). Tidal was the first step, this will be the next. We'll end up with music fractured across a whole bunch of different platforms (like TV / Movies), and then people will just go back to pirating.
Well, a funny thing, I'm not old, I'm just 37. In my country I need to work for the next 30 years to retire.

However companies don't want to talk with me about getting a job regardless my 14 year of commercial experience. Sometimes I hear during an interview "oh, you did so many things, I wish I could have the same experience". And then I don't get this job.

And no, I'm not expensive. I usually don't get to the point where they ask me for the money.

I'm thinking about starting my own company with my own products. This will be much harder, but it's better to have this kind of job than none.

And I just stopped replying to the job adverts with "young team".
How many drivers on the road today are still learning after a billion miles of driving? The ones I meet feel like about 100 miles when they are 16 is "good enough" experience and stop learning.
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What did your firm do?
Too bad you still need a Microsoft account to use the store, besides sideloading. That's a deal breaker for me, at least on the desktop (I know you can login separately on each app).

1) How good is the sandbox? I followed the links but how battle-tested is it? What if you put an already sandboxed Chrome inside UWP, does it basically use almost the same calls or there are some extra benefits? Besides FS isolation.

2) Can I browse the "sandboxed disk" (including registry files) and export everything? So I can make backups or restore it later.

3) Does it stop apps from installing intrusive things? Some bank plugins use like 30% of my CPU on idle, run a lot of services on startup, so I have no option but to use a VM.

I'm really curious about all of this and there's almost no hype around it. All I see is people talking about walled gardens, privacy concerns (that I have too), how they screwed in the past with GFWL, Windows 8. But downloading software from 3rd party sources in 2016 is just awful. I want the Linux package manager experience. I don't trust any 3rd party like Ninite, Chocolatey, and they have like 10% of all the software I need anyways.

Let's see if the third time I make this comment gets a reply
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You're getting downvoted but this is a practical concern. The large military presence also skews things.
It's cool that Edge may be power-efficient but not cool that the underlying OS is a resource hog.
Don't lose heart. It takes time. In my 30s, I used to barely do 400m of relatively brisk running. And I'd mentally resigned to looking at running as a thing for the young. Until a wise friend told me about the book 'Born to run'. It was in 2009 Nov/Dec. The book is a fantastic & entertaining read, despite based on Scientific facts. So I recommend it to every body, whenever this topic comes up. Keep on gifting it to friends. Thought of giving it to random strangers in park, who I saw struggle with running, but restrained myself. But whenever any stranger in the park asks me about running, I always recommend the book. Okay, I digressed a lot, so let me get back to the point.

I try to remember the following from the book:

1) Easy then speed - A mistake all rookies make is they go for speed. A thumb rule for easy is, you should be able to breathe easily i.e. easy enough to have a conversation with a co-runner. Not easy, I keep lapsing into running fast, but time and again remind myself of this.

2) Be upright: In your comment you mention you lean forward. Thats a wrong posture. The weight should pass vertically through your body, right uptill the foot. As somebody above said, even the strikes should be below your body. Not too much forward. Head should be straight.

3) Barefoot: I am not fanatic about this. My wife runs with shoes and she does 30km every week, and she is fine with it. But before starting (in 2009) I did use to get some knee pain, perhaps because of trying to run fast. Perhaps it was longer stride (like teenagers run for short distances). Or perhaps it was just lack of belief & practice. Or perhaps it was the heel-strike. Once an old gentleman in the park, I'd developed friendship with, commented that I was heel striking. And I thought, what the heck, just some random old school & out-dated thought. My bad.

But anyway long story short, the book convinced me to run barefoot. And so I started, first with shoes itself, but very consciously toe striking, and it was quite difficult. I could definitely go upto 2-3 km, but my calf muscles used to pain like hell. But knees were perfectly fine. So it happened what the book predicted, and I was encouraged.

And I have been persistent with it. Fast forward to today. I do 41km per week (13, 13 & 15-17 on alternate days). Use a vibram for muddy trails. On concrete do bare foot.

Also I encouraged my wife to start running and after initial resistance, she started in 2013. Then she could barely do 200meters. But now as I said above, she is also a serious (albeit in amateur/recreational category) runner. Her pulse rate dropped from being 80/90 to now in the 60s.

So if you want to, keep at it, and it will happen.

edit: some typos
I don't use edge until now the only reason being no support for extensions. Since they are arriving soon it's very exciting. Finally to save some more hours on the battery!
As far as I could observe, on myself and others alike, it's about wether the transition happens under the radar or not. Being warned at the right time, forced to look at one's own condition and admit the degree of danger it carries if left as is, is usually enough to save the victim. There is more than that, of course. It all boils down to the amount of available willpower, which can be affected by a lot of factors. That willpower is also what prevents one's relapse, which an obvious fact for everyone, I suppose. What I'm not sure everyone is aware of is that willpower can be trained, the best starting from an early age. (Also, the willpower is not the same as discipline. Discipline is taken care of in schools, willpower training not so much.)
> Full-on GPL taints your software, such that you have to be extremely careful not to use any libraries that are GPL'd if you want to release it under any other sort of license.

Why would you want to release under any other sort of license? Why do you wish to restrict your users' right to use, modify & share code?

> can you imagine the clusterfuck if, say, the NPM community defaulted to using GPL

That sounds wonderful: an entire ecosystem of free software.
Yes, but....

There's a difference between "I can turn this off as long as the driver is properly installed and has not been hacked" and "I can't turn this off." While the second statement is abstractly true for both, the bar for some software silently and invisibly turning on the microphone is quite a bit higher if it also requires replacing or hacking the audio hardware drivers.
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Most of the listings which I've seen have “or equivalent experience”, which should be taken seriously like the other anti-discrimination rules.
Iceland maybe?

Hard to move to as a non-native speaker though.
But the microphone is always on if you enable voice activation, e.g., "Okay Google", "Hey Siri", "Hey Cortana". That recognition is handled in software, so no "hacker proof" hardware indicator can distinguish between the use cases.

"Hey Siri" works on desktop devices: https://9to5mac.com/2016/07/15/how-to-enable-hands-free-hey-...

"Okay Google" was removed from desktop: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/16/9553051/ok-google-removed...
he's right...

(!isNaN('100') && isFinite('100')) === true

My check would treat '100' as a number, so if i did something like this it would break unexpectedly:

var num = '100'
if ((!isNaN(num) && isFinite(num)) === true) {
console.log(num + 10)
}

You'll get "10010" printed to the console.
That could work for situations where the pilots are unconscious (like Helios Flight 522), but wouldn't work for the malicious pilot cases you cited, since a malicious pilot could simply disable the remote control system by turning off the corresponding circuit breakers.
Indeed. There's nothing wrong with good pixel art, but literally no artist knows how to do it, even when they claim they're pixel artists.

The Diablo vs. FFTA example in the article demonstrates it well: Despite Diablo coming out earlier, while 2D art was very much a well-cultivated thing, the artists just didn't know how to get it right (too low contrasts, too much dithering, …). FFTA, meanwhile, just looks beautiful.
I just turned 50, I still code, and I still love it. In fact, I can't think of I job I'd rather do. So, no, it doesn't have to end.
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Plus, I'd bet a million dollars that the GCAS kick-in threshold is parameterized, and the test pilots had it set to kick in at a much higher altitude than the final product.