skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being anonymous in real life is very hard to do.
Not sure why people downvoted this. It's depressing, but it's reality.

I A/B tested applications a few years back, when I was doing the whole interviewing circus, and the ones that were just a list of tools and adjectives were by far the most successful.

Recruiters don't do nuance.
In my limited experience, you don't need to have an "aptitude" for programming to get good at it. It just requires a lot of time and patience.
This overlooks the fact that policies and attitudes can greatly effect how large the difficulties are that poor people must overcome. Which is why it's really important to discuss the matter.
> What if you have person like Tesla with both qualities?

Like Elon Musk for example (who Torvalds seems to be making a gentle dig at, in the quote above).
1) you get an error, and since it's a small change I'd assume you could guess where you caused it.
2) they get errors but they may have more difficulty finding them. (or they use a vim plugin for that, or pylint, etc. on save)

I'd guess your ability to suss out an error's cause without an IDE is a matter of comfort with a language, and your lack of ability isn't an IDE's fault.
> Those areas cover probably max 0.1% of total land area in the USA.

Much less than that. I did a quick calculation and Manhattan + SF is 0.0018% of total US land area. Might be 0.1% if it's only developed land.

> Since these are some of the most sought after real estate areas, it seems these areas would be the preserve of the top 0.1%, or 1%. Back of the napkin maths here I'll admit.

1.6M live in Manhattan, 800k in SF. That's 0.8% of the population.
Sure.

What my former company called 'End User Computing'. This meant developing small or not-so-small programs in the only tool capable in a corporate environment: Excel (often linked to SharePoint as a data store). Otherwise lots of forms and procedures would have to be gone through making it a tech project.

Background: Operations (not tech) mega-corporate bureaucracy where these apps were helpers.

Solution: Open up Excel, and start to code and design GUIs on the worksheet via VBA built in to Excel (and all of Office). It was a stunningly similar experience to hazy memories of Delphi in terms of GUI and code, but ultimately was using a spanner to do a screwdriver's job. Memories of Delphi were certainly hazy at this point, but it was more similar than any other tools I'd used the the decade+ since that point.
A huge number certainly haven't succeeded massively. A few have. Also a lot of legal migrants already come from (relatively) rich families since US migration can be expensive and favours the educated.
Slightly irrelevant: Raleway's legibility on the site is pretty poor (at least, for me).
Depends on where you come from. I come from India, here we have 0 social security.

Any upgrade from 0 is good.
Sigh, it's the PCR patent story all over again [1].
As always, government and charity funded researchers are spending government and charity funds on fighting each other for the right to make a fortune from the fruits of government and charity funded research. 20 years later the patents expire, and all that's happened is you've slowed down medical progress. What a great legacy for Eric Lander and the Broad. Punks.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/3839765
Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: Stop Misusing P-Values (2016)
> I wonder if people familiar with the tech scene in Canada can talk about how it compares to say, Europe, or if it really is a big compromise working in Canada instead of the US for a tech job(because of the lower wages and higher taxes).

I can't give you much direct experience, but I will say every "rockstar" level talent I know from Canada either immigrated to the US or is working remotely for a US company. Based on those conversation the top level talent seems to be making 2-3x more in the US on average than in Canada.
Contribution agreements without assigning copyright seem to be a missing part of FOSS legal infrastructure. Everyone knows the standard open-source licenses, but there's no standard text you can have contributors sign to say that they understand that they're irrevocably licensing their contributions to you under that license. I ended up adapting the text from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_conse... for my own project, but it would be good to have a well-known standardised statement along these lines.
I would urge you to consider that you are not the only one looking for a fit, and it sounds like your frustration comes from the lack of such a fit (i.e. a role that you feel plays to your qualities, and where the employer feels the same way).

Technical knowledge is great (essential, even) - IT is a meritocracy and all that - but don't forget that people need to work with you, and you with them.

It may be people have an issue mentally fitting you in the 'right' box (as others have suggested), and possibly, the same is true for you (you don't like the sound of their box).

So as has been suggested, don't only look for a role/job that motivates you, try and look for something that speaks to you personally, and where you feel there is a good chance of cultural fit.

And don't take the rejections personally - ultimately, the outcome will always be binary, and I doubt it is the experience of most people here to systematically get offers _when they are the ones looking_.

Opinions are good, and if you value your own opinions, stick to them, and look for somewhere that agrees with you on their value.
If you don't find that, do question yourself.

No matter how frustrating this all is, it will lead to something, be it your dream gig, your foot on the right career ladder, or a complete change of direction.

Again, do not take this personally - from your side, you are (of course, and to your credit) doing your best - but you have no way of knowing that anyone else is, and hence, of knowing you are being assessed on your merits.

FWIW, I have had to move countries twice to find my first job, and am currently having difficulty finding the next one, with 10+ years of experience behind me.
IT hiring has its own weird hiring patterns and peculiarities, and most likely, your break will be down to luck - and like much luck, you may need to create the conditions for it to happen...
I'd love to be able to see the deets, but I guess I'm "not authorized to view these tweets"? Pretty sure I'm not banned or blocked, since I've never had an account. Do you have to log in now just to see anything on Twitter, or is that a user setting now?

ETA: Yup, they broke something. I can see it from desktop too, but on this iOS 9.3.5 device, every tweet from any user shows that message, and any other Twitter URI bounces me to mobile and then gives "Sorry, Twitter is taking too long to load" with a "try again" button that doesn't work.

Web 2.0 at its best. Thanks for all the helpful responses!
As a university student in London, I noticed Chinese students (the main foreign contingent of the student body) overwhelmingly tended to socialise with one another, and groups of Chinese students speaking Mandarin to each other was a common sight on campus. If you weren't a Chinese speaker, it was hard to penetrate these groups (I tried and failed). Is this also the case in American colleges?
I'd like to see more about how they used Flink, and less about their system architecture (which give great details, up until the data is processed with Flink).
You might not like this, but here are my honest thoughts:
You seem to be selling yourself as a web designer, but your website is terrible, and so are it's contents.

I realise this is subjective, so I won't try and justify my thoughts. Frankly I don't care enough to debate them anyway, so you can take it or leave it, as you please.

Your designs aren't minimalist, they're just minimal; empty, underdone.
And even then your colour palettes are grating.
Not to mention that o23.io, days and skyler look pretty identical.

Maybe the reality is that no-one wants to hire you, because you, or the works you use to advertise yourself, aren't quite as good as you might think.
There was a recent "The Sky at Night" episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088d1pv which shows, to the casual observer, how far we've come in cataloguing stars, with a particular focus on the Milky Way.
Programmatic Direct: Drivers and Challenges
Any good Ansible (or other) recipes for this? One I found is [0] but can you point to any others?

[0] https://github.com/ftao/vpn-deploy-playbook/tree/master/role...
I've been binging on the show as well, and much as I enjoyed Adam Curtis', I found especially the beginning of the interview extremely frustrating because he seemed to be repeating the same thing over and over again.

Other than that the episode about Dinesh D'Souza is one of the funniest things I've listened to in a while!
You're just too young and lack experience. Just keep shipping cool stuff and keep growing your skillset/expertise. You'll get there.
Realistically though, nobody over 40 will be offered a six-digit junior role. Those salaries are on the table on the expectation of gruesome job devotion, something most people with families cannot guarantee.

Ageism in this field is massive, which is why at 38 I'd rather start (yet) another company than get a junior dev role.
I haven't read the Wiki, however Wikipedia includes a balance of all opinion and thought on any given topic - whether they are using science to back it up - or not. AIT lists 28+ clinical trails on their website - http://www.aitinstitute.org/ait_clinical_studies.htm

Did you read my comment with my experience? What were your thoughts on my experience and explanation?

Just took a quick look at on Wikipedia link you made to the section "Insufficient efficacy and evidence basis" - they likely should update that with links to the other clinical trials.

The other part to AIT is that in order for it to have a greater impact you have to also remove/fix other factors that could be overwhelming the body - food sensitivities, unknown allergies, digestive problems, etc - which people then of course can not then 100% claim that the sound therapy aspect had an impact. For me, I know it did because the result was dramatic - it wasn't placebo. That's my qualitative data to add to the mix. I'm not sure what process or protocol that research reference in the Wiki page on AIT used, don't have time to thoroughly review it and I'm not an audiologist or trained in all aspects of AIT either; my audiologist is also a naturopathic and homeopathic doctor - so his breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of health systems of the body would give him better insight into what's important and what isn't. I welcome the skepticism though.
Would my daily tasks written down count as a work journal ?
Involve Me and I Learn: 3 Areas That Are Serious About VR
I agree -- you need a little bit of both qualities. The vision of what to create and the execution to carry it out. The two go hand in hand. I think Linus is putting the emphasis on hard work because we mere mortals aren't endowed with the same genius that Tesla had and for us, the best way to achieve something great is through hard work instead of "divine" inspiration.
We hired a mid-40s dev recently and he's great, I think a lot of it is contingent on where the person lives and what the demand is. I'm not in my 40s yet but I've found the older the developer, as long as they have a passion for it, the more measured they are and more willing to put their ego to the side and adapt.

Maybe they won't keep up to the clip a 20s-30s year old will be with learning new tech, but I think there are both pros and cons between a young person and an older person.
Confide: The app for paranoid Republicans
Tensorflow 1.0 Release
Confirming this, it's just so difficult. It's not even snapping to areas I would expect, either.
A short summary of ES6 features and their ES5 equivalents
> but DC/OS has yet to demonstrate that it can do any of that [...] its the other 29 things that's going to fail at scale.

Of course you are right that in DC/OS there is a lot more besides Mesos that could fail at scale. That is why we are carefully scale-testing DC/OS in its entirety -- under lab conditions (internally) as well as under real-world conditions (large production environments). We will be more transparent about this in the future, but one example I can give is that we regularly run DC/OS on 10^3 nodes for testing purposes.

> if you are going to be running DC/OS at that scale, then you are going to be running the enterprise version

I am not convinced by that argument. Still, just to clarify, Mesosphere Enterprise DC/OS does not have better scaling characteristics than (open) DC/OS. We are trying to land all corresponding goodness in DC/OS.

> killing non-DC/OS mesos/marathon

I understand that brutal decisions have been made. But if you look at Mesos and Marathon as of today (btw., there is no such thing as "non-DC/OS mesos/marathon"), progress is being made at an impressive rate. I observe more "animating" than "killing".

> while crippling non-enterprise DC/OS

I only see additions, no removals. Also, if you were looking at the core technology stack, the delta between Enterprise DC/OS and DC/OS will probably appear to be surprisingly small to you.

> The "K8s doesn't scale" argument is losing ground with every new release btw.

I agree.

The "scale argument" is insignificant compared to other aspects in most of the cases anyway. As we all know :-).
I started later in life, after being a stay at home mom for 10 plus years. I went back to regular school and now I'm working as a Software Engineer. I need to look up more concepts and ask more questions but I'm getting there. It's a long road but one worth walking.
Beware the “Keeping Up with the Joneses” Trap of a Minimalist Lifestyle
How to Hold an Argument
Agreed 100%. Is there any browser extension to help with that? I can imagine it might be hard to do because `onscroll` may have legitimate uses. Maybe at least something that would disable known "smooth scrolling" JS libs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU
also "close friends". not everyone has close friends at all
Invention and innovation are two different things that get conflated together frequently, but innovation doesn't necessarily mean you have to come up with something from scratch, but it does mean that you'll have to improve something. Maybe it's more like all (successful) inventors are innovators and some innovators are successful inventors. Sometimes it is the execution of the invention that was done wrong rather than the concept itself - there's absolutely value to society there. People get PhDs for finding commonalities across different disciplines and uniting them under common terms. Hence, because of the massive surface area of what constitutes innovation compared to invention, business people and others with more visibility are typically "innovators."
I think Twitter shows that when a tweet has been deleted.

There's no login required for viewing anything that is otherwise accessible on Twitter.
Or people to be skeptical because science has yet to give us a good answer, although a lot of the time the leading edge of medicine and science and skepticism is more about education and knowledge permeating society. Stem cells have been in use since 1991 on race horses to heal them - big money in race horses which is why it was tried there - however it's only just starting to become mainstream for people. That's 26 years for the science and knowledge base to develop and reach people - doctors and otherwise.
The problem is both parties can do that, company can simply find another engineer or can threaten with that too.

It's that people have been conditioned to see the first option when they learn about free markets and not the second option.
Thanks! :-) We're also based in Edinburgh, great place.
Microsoft slates end to security bulletins
Many are too easy to give up on things on the excuse that they're not talented or have "aptitude", be it programming or playing an instrument etc. Most complicated skills require a lot to develop, and the ones with patience and persistence often do better than those with just more talent.
> Have you looked in the options?

I have, but it's been about 6 months since I played. Maybe they've updated it to add additional options.

I also haven't installed any mods, so perhaps this could be enabled via additional mods.
>>>I am incredibly puzzled by the need to live in the most expensive places on earth; how does that benefit your quality of life?

You have the causality in the wrong order. They are the most expensive places on earth because they improve your quality of life, not the other way around. The price is derived from demand which is derived from a desire to have access to many goods, services, and experiences not available in many other places.

I can speak personally to two other cities I've lived in where housing costs are quite high (though lower than SF and Manhattan): DC and Santa Monica / West LA.

My fiancée and I lived in DC for 5 years in a wonderful expat bubble. While I'm am American, the vast majority of our friends were from all around the world and worked at international development organizations. The extra money we paid for housing was worth all the interesting experiences.

Los Angeles is no different. It's easy to find interesting experiences and food through its diverse populations. There is a fundamental aspect to the nature of cities, viz. that there is a good to density itself. It enables humans to get value out of the shear existence of interacting with other humans in interesting ways. You need enough demand for an experience to support the existence of many experiences (e.g. You can't have a live punk music scene in a town of 100 people. Or even if somehow you do bc the entire town loves punk, it will be at the expense of those people being into other interests. Having enough people with enough wealth and distributed across enough interests/cultures/foods/music tastes, etc facilitates access to way more possible experiences. That, at least, I why I love large American cities.
it's true, I saw a ton of folks in college who just weren't cut out for programming when trying to get into it. I'd almost venture to say personality and intellectual inclination play a larger role (within reason) versus age.
Can't seem to find details of the license this is distributed under. Anyone know/ see something I'm missing?
Is+it Even Possible to Calculate When the Universe Began?
Any organization with a per-unit revenue stream can easily just pay the MPEG-LA etc. "reasonable and non-discriminatory" fees - they're pretty low. It's only a problem for people who want to distribute linux (or anything that plays music/videos, unless it's just a wrapper that reuses the OS's built-in decoders) completely for free.
I can see it even in an anon browser session:

.@USPS @USPSHelp Thanks, I found my missing package ... label. Your employees ripped it off the box and stole a $10,000 package from me. pic.twitter.com/LfuPZ9vZ8U

here are the two pics posted:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wfEKCVcAATKva.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wfEssVcAANYlw.jpg
I appreciate this is a big ask but I find this incredibly interesting and would love to know how it works, would someone mind walking me through some of the main functions please? Which files on GitHub are actually doing the work to keep the truck within the correct lines? Does this learn as it goes or have they somehow trained it before hand?
Your last sentence isn't necessary.
I should add that this is not meant to discourage you.
As always in life, you have three options:
1. Be good.
2. Get good.
3. Get out.

I'm not saying you need to take option 3, I'm just saying maye option 1. is out of the question.
Aren't there a decent number of companies out there that take 1-5 million in funding and then 'bootstrap it' from there? This seems like a fairly reasonable middleground where you get some cash to help you get over the initial hump and form a team but still have to focus on building a sustainable business asap.

Or are companies who seem to be on that trajectory avoided by seed investors even when the fundamentals look good?
If for some reason you can't see the tweet, it's archived here: http://archive.is/nQNlE

That being said, I could see the tweet just fine.
> This archive may be redistributed without modifications and used for non-commercial purposes.

> Distributing modified versions and commercial usage needs my written consent.

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/release/vasm.html#Legal-7
I can see it from an anonymous browser window, from my work connection and also from my cellphone connection.
_Entrepreneur_ funny.

How about a little work experience in your field?

You basicly now a little bit Javascript, html/css, did some mobile apps and now a little bit of database stuff?

That's just not impressive at all.

You should start getting real. You are not special, you haven't done anything special for your age. Start somewhere, get job experience.
> I really feel like I can be incredibly useful to whoever hires me

Are you showing that? In your cover letters, are you driving home how hiring you will make the company achieve its goals, with specific, measurable facts to back that up?

> I truly can't fit in such a narrow box

Your blurb here reads like you won't be happy working on one thing in a collaborative environment. Most companies want you to execute _their_ vision, so you'll have to show flexibility of thought and willingness to work on someone else's idea.
nope, works without login.
try a proxy?
3 Rapid Ways to Improve Business Relationships
Probably not, but I did think a conclusion was necessary.
One thing often omitted, or taken for granted, in the "rich parents" discussion is the curious question of "How did the parents get rich?" Did they have rich parents too? Or did they actually started from very low and got clever/lucky/hardworking. If you think of it this way, having rich parents may not be a magic privilege, a "silver spoon", but a consequence of their effort and sacrifice. Their children do not have to bear the same sacrifice. But you, whose parents weren't that clever/lucky/hardworking, you need to bear the sacrifice - maybe even not to get rich, but give enough of a good start for your children to get rich, and you grandchildren to be called privileged.
Having lived in a few countries, I wouldn't be surprised if an extended research showed that in country X, a significant percentage of foreigners have no close friend from X.

In fact it is much easier to make friends with other foreigners, even when not fluent in country X's language.
> I need to look up more concepts and ask more questions....

More compared to who else? And who is keeping count? I have found that the most important questions you can ever ask are "why/why not?". You can never go wrong with that pair.

Keep doing your thing.

The only truth is your code. :)
I think it's great this article is getting so much attention, considering the huge amount of bias and "ageism" that exists in the field.

Just because you can be an entrepreneur before 30 doesn't mean you'll have the life experience to be good at it, and many junior-level software development jobs expect a level of commitment that's unfeasible for people who "have gotten a life".
Exactly. If you've found some success and a knack for it, that's really what matters especially if you can find job opportunities. Code speaks for itself, regardless of age and other factors. I've seen a lot of unexpected people demographic-wise succeed. It's totally possible.
Your link to rennder.com doesn't work :)
I changed it to something slightly less inflammatory.
Unfortunately, companies like to put people in specific boxes.

They are not looking for people who can span the entire process, and change things globally.

Partly because that is threatening to high up's, and makes you harder to manage.
Oh ffs. I can't tell you how much I hate these self professed 'thought leaders'. s/thought leader/unoriginal wanker/g is what goes through my mind and I just stop listening. Stop talking like you are on a god damn yoga retreat.