skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With general increases in the age to receive a pension (increasing six months every two years in Australia), but challenges in finding employment, what bridging options are there? What's the landscape going to look like for 50 year olds if re-skilling after a lay-off doesn't always help?
Off topic, but rover.com is awesome for their network of part time sitters.
Not every questionable, bad or even fraudulent financial construct is a Ponzi scheme. Unless a coin has a clear promise of payout that the people organizing it would have to satisfy, it can't be a Ponzi scheme.
No need to wonder or worry, when you get old enough people will help you decide.
Which part of this requires the blockchain? Vendors have been using 'store dollars' etc for decades.
Has someone created a wrapper or higher-level API that takes care of some of the details for common use-cases?

For example, say I don't need to optimize my command submittal, or I just want the main device. Or maybe my common use case is a compute shader just like the program submitted in this Hacker News post. I would want a class that just exposed a simple API like runComputeShader() or something.
imagemagick on the server with custom fonts
>The vast majority of the ether is controlled by a single company,

Are you sure you're talking about Ethereum, and not Ripple? The vast majority of ether is not controlled by one company.
I strongly prefer Patterson and Hennessy Computer Organization and Design to their Computer Architecture which I really don't like; if I do look something up in CA, it's in an old edition. The Dragon Book 2nd ed is awesome. We didn't have a book for 61B. I didn't like the OS book whatever it was. Norvig + Russell is pretty darned good. The notes for CS 70 are awesome as are the CS 161 notes.

If Kubi is teaching just take the course.
I will be 40 next year. Humans are expendable; we have to make our own worth. If we don't do that, we end up like I am right now: a year from 40, homeless, broke, in a lot of debt, out of work, failed startup, facing a felony on false accusation.

Life is challenging for me now, and this article directly applies to me. Oh, and there's that thing about being a white male and suicide. Now imagine being a kind of intimidating looking type in a very non white anti trump area.

Tribalism is real. Had I stuck with my tribe early on I'd be more secure. My demise is probable at this time.

I am solid in my desire to self terminate yet lack the ability to overcome fear of death. I stay alive but it's closer than ever. It's almost a humane thing to let me go. I wouldn't wish my brain on anyone.

Good luck all.
The end of this article is some sort of gold "In 2017, I find it incredible that someone could gain a professional advantage for their good looks."
I would not terribly surprised... I already have an Amazon Chase credit card that gives me significantly more cash back for Amazon purchases.

I don't think Amazon is planning on a standing army or navy yet, however
How did they actually test this? Without details, there is no new information. As well, do we know that there are no confounding variables in these findings?

As a hypothetical employer I might think these roles are lesser roles, so if you are older I would wonder why you had not been able to secure a greater economic situation.

Second, as consumer facing roles, attractiveness is a benefit, with those over 40 having less of it. It is not discrimination on the basis of age, but attractiveness that would be the cause.
CamelCamelCamel seems to have no problem providing historical price. I find that most people can't be bothered to check it, perhaps similarly to why they're skipping the search engine these days.
What makes you think that the majority of ETH is controlled by a single company? What company is this? Do you have a source for this?
SpaceX is using laser sintering (generally Inconel) for a wide range of components, including pieces of the engines that flew today.

They make extensive use of laser sintering in the SuperDraco engine (including the combustion chamber, which experiences tremendously high temperatures and pressures).

That being said, laser sintering is great for parts with weird geometries and structures that are hard to machine. A grid fin is really straightforward from a milling perspective, and would take advantage of the strengths of laser sintering.
As an open source programmer on projects with thousands of users and no income I find this hilarious. Just donate to people who are already making shit instead of inventing these bizarre schemes.
Mining is a waste of energy. An ICO makes sense if they 1) have a product that benefits from a blockchain, 2) have a great team and a demo of their product.
I am a few months past 40 and never felt busier. My first child was born when I was 35, FWIW. I don't know many people who had kids in their 20s.
In many cases crying "ponzi" is likely an exclamation of "something wrong here" which your comment gives several examples. But cash, check and other instruments all have something wrong.

I'll suggest that the difference isn't that people know the details of how for example checks clear, few non-experts learn all the details, BUT virtually everyone knows where to go if there is a problem (bank branch). Most non-experts at this point in crypto currency would have no idea where to even go to investigate a problem.
Tell that to Slack :)
Elias Burstein, Pioneer in Semiconductors, has died
Nah, it's late here, and I'm already saying stupid things. I was talking about the mechanism that gives parallelism to the CPU, while you are talking about intrinsic level of parallelism on the programs.

Just dismiss it. I was even going to delete it, but I took too long.
I suspect they're not using Ponzi scheme literally, more as a shorthand for the kind of scheme that promises plenty, but doesn't actually do anything.

See e.g: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/25/books/nothing-but-zzzz-bes...
Ad for Raytheon sniper detection.
Ask HN: Which AR SDK to use?
If I want to build a crossplatform AR app (iOS and Android) which AR SDK should I use? I know Apple just demo-ed ARKit at WWDC and it's very impressive but it's not cross-platform, though I might eventually develop two apps (iOS on top of ARKit and Android on top of something else. I've cursorily examined Vuforia and EasyAR but I'm not really sure.

Edit: Unity support would be nice :)
What would be the advantage? "3D printing" is great for geometries and structures that don't lend themselves well to traditional CNC milling, but a grid fin is a really straightforward part.
I think Boost was very successful in encouraging development of high-quality libraries that seamlessly work together (most of the time) and have consistent build infrastructure. It is not that important nowadays because the most important parts have already been integrated into the standard library and we have a de facto standard build system (CMake) that makes it easy working with small libraries that do one job well.

Where Boost is a bit lacking is modularity and somewhat varying library quality but this is kind of expected considering the number of subprojects.
They have always done that. Up until this launch the grid fins were coated with an ablative material that was designed to burn off.
Mods, can we get a title change? As I write this every comment is taking issue with the "underrated", which isn't claimed in the article.
Price history and price alerts make CCC a necessary step when buying from Amazon :)
With Torus, you can use our fine grained access controls to model exactly how your organization divvies up access and responsibilities. You can give a team (users or machines) access to everything, a specific environment, or even a specific service instance within an environment.

Only users or machines with explicit access can retrieve the encrypted secrets from our servers and they are never written to disk in plain-text.

With our worklog(1) feature, we make it really easy to rotate secrets when a team member leaves, commits them to git by accident, or a machine is compromised by listing out every secret they could access cryptographically.

For small teams and deployments, we want to make it easy for them to keep their secrets out of git without having to securely manage and deploy heavier tooling such as Vault or Keywhiz.

1) https://www.torus.sh/docs/latest/commands/organizations#work...
Sets are just like hashes where the value is always "true" for each key.
Where does San Diego fall in that list? Just curious.
The NSA might have more credibility if there were some basic policy discussions about its purpose after the Cold War ended and indefinite wars on terror/drugs began.
On the flip side, your piles of cash are only valuable at the moment. Print enough new money, and your cash is worthless, at which point its value has been taken from you without any interaction with you.
I drop pretty heavy clues in my resume to indicate that I'm old. I don't want to waste time on the email or the phone screen, just to walk in and get rejected because I have grey hair (and have to sit through awkward meetings for half a day). If you're going to reject me because of age, I'd rather you do it on your own time.
I'm reading his autobiography right now. Fascinating life of both the man and his companies if you are interested: https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/...
I hope that instead of slinging mud at ICOs, the YC community reaches out to firms like yours.

Calling them all scams will not stop the next ICO from getting bigger. Note to blockchain-denialists: there are 10s of billions of capital, a deep enough pool for thousands of ICOs.

Slinging mud will also not help make ICOs any safer, nor protect financial systems outside of blockchains from collateral damage should firms fail.
"They didn't teach me about these in my coding bootcamp"
While cryptocurrencies have been great (so far) for speculation, give how quickly their worth changes they make a pretty poor store of wealth. I'd prefer my cash to be worth in 1 year roughly the same as it's worth today.
31 here. Couldn't find work for 6 mo despite being well qualified for positions I applied for. My guess: too many applicants for the same position. Ended up going the freelancer route, couldn't be happier now. Sorry, I know this doesn't relate to age (I don't think) but just wanted to say that.
What do you expect to happen? What advantage could a different coin give them over the one they already have? (Or Amazon gift cards, for that matter.)
Well, Falcon is intended to be a controller, not a (relatively) high performance core, so that's not an apples to apples comparison. If it's not VLIW, then what is it? In-order superscalar? You mean superpipelined or scoreboarded (like an ancient Cray?)?

Bad bloated code is 90%+ of the code in the world ;)

Also, shoot me an email at sixsamuraisoldier@gmail.com you seem to have some inside info on Denver, I'd love to chat (don't worry, I won't steal any secrets ;) )
Creating Chatbots for Free
Why did AirAsia fly a crippled jet away from a nearby airport yesterday?
lol, I did learn that song on guitar when it came out! But the majority of the songs I listen to now no longer feature a guitar part to learn.
Privacy of W3C Vibration API (2016)
It gets rehashed on the mailing lists all the time but the biggest issue with boost now is backwards compatibility. While it is great to have libraries working on older platforms, it's a pain to use modern cpp features.

With increased modularity, I'm sure this situation will be improved.
So damn true haha! Have you tried Tunisian cuisine? The food we are mostly known for is couscous. It's actually popular among North African countries, but I prefer the southern Tunisian variant to the rest.

Spoiler: I'm a Tunisian.
Agreed; I'm yet to see any serious discussion of how fragmentation to various coins isn't going to cause headaches.

It's like if we were to print different banknotes for different services; suddenly we have blue Advertising Dollars, red Server Time dollars, yellow Financial Transaction dollars, and none can be used for anything else.

To me this looks like an arbitrary level of complication, the only true winner from which is whoever runs the exchanges.
I don't speak the language, so I'm unable to read the underlying report, but I hope this quote is out of context in the article: "There should be no doubt that the employers discriminate on the basis of age," when the study itself shows discrimination for very specific roles: administrators, chefs, cleaners, restaurant assistants, retail sales assistants, business sales agents and truck drivers.
I admit I've only skimmed the article, but does it say anything about those specific foods being healthy (with science to back that up), or is it just a single person's recommendation on how to choose low-calorie foods?

I'm currently on a calorie-counting streak coming up on a year, and I have managed to do it without switching to foods I don't enjoy. The guiding principle is to look at nutrition labels for calorie information, then choose foods that are low-calorie, enjoyable, and that make me feel full. (That means, generally, more high-protein items like meat and more high-fiber items like vegetables.)

I've made some effort to switch to healthier foods, but mostly I just started with the foods I like and filtered that set down to eliminate the worst ones. I still eat frozen pizzas and ice cream, but I do carefully measure the portions on those.

Anyway, if calorie restriction is the thing that actually gives you health benefits, then I feel like I'm doing that without dooming myself to a life of foods that I don't enjoy.
I think that you can download the 10s of terabytes using the torrent files found here: http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
Hash Table has basically been elevated to a general idea lately. Pretty much anyone that is looking for an association between keys and values is using what they will call a hash table. To that end, few people actually know anything about how they are implemented. (And apologies if this comes across as negative, I do not mean it as a value judgement.)

This was different back when you would pick something like an alist to store associations. There the implementation stared you in the face. Same for the times you had to implement your own hash table. I don't exactly yearn for those days. Though, I am curious if alists actually win in speed for a large number of smaller hash tables.
Correlation usually insists on an existing lead as well.
Yes, known in the good ol' days as http://froogle.com which I still use :)
Apple takes about ~90% of the profits in mobile despite it having a market share that's quite low compared to various Android flavors.
Have you tried freelancing? Not sure what it is you did before but could be worth a shot? I'm making now more than I ever had being employed and don't have to answer to anyone but myself.
Thank for the discovery of Covet And Rob Scallon
Though, in this case, changing it from the original does seem warranted. (This was just another bad choice...)
While that's true you could implement one that way, it's very nice to have the set operations implemented. Intersection, union, subtraction, etc. And having a uniform set type makes API signatures more consistent.

Plus you may be able to optimize Set<T> to use less space than Map<T, bool>.
wtf i love hash tables now! ;)
I don't understand why everyone bought the idea that we don't need unions anymore.

This is exactly the sort of thing they make better.
Despite it being so obvious, I really like their analogy,

pharma::drug
studio::movie
vc::startup

"Just" need one to work out!
Parenting: Who is it really for?
elbakyan surely belongs to the category of contemporary outlaw-/folk-heroes. at least she is in my personal pantheon.
But CR doesn't work because our diets cause inflammation. The CR was discovered in worms, and they're eating the same diet they always did.

That is, is CR simple a proxy / correlation for putting less (modern) shit in your body?
No, you can take a drug rapamycin that has the exact same effects as CR, even if you are putting the exact same amount of food in your body. The benefits of CR are not caused because food is damaging, and less food is less damaging. CR is your body noticing it's running low on food and telling your body to do some maintenance. Rapamycin does the exact same thing, causes your body to enter maintenance mode.
Though once you have hash/maps/dicts set are with reach by making sets from hashes were keys are the element and values are just true or 1 or something like that.

But I think you probably meant having and using set operations effectively in day to day tasks, as in "make 2 sets and do a set different operation" instead of "do a for loop on first hash check if it is in the second, then put results in an accumulator.

Another thing is to think about set of sets. Can that be useful sometimes? Implementing that is slightly trickier. You'd need to be able to get a hash of a set. Python has frozenset https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#frozenset. I've used those on occasion.

Then of course there is Erlang sofs (sets of sets) module. Stumbled on it by accident. Oh my, it comes complete with an introduction to set theory and relational algebra:

http://erlang.org/doc/man/sofs.html

It just struck me as so out of place with the rest of the standard library modules. Would like to know its history
Well, if a court makes you liable for some payment and you have eth assets, they will force you to liquidate and pay. They can't confiscate it but if you refuse you go to jail.
You can also convert to Bitcoin, then sell via localbitcoins.com.

LocalEthereum.com is being developed too.
Short answer, no decimal in binary and math is hard. :) Here's a couple handy videos explaining it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRI1IfStY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzx7HN4wo3A&t=59s
part of the problem is VC has developed a doctrine that is designed for investors, not companies. VCs should be focused on serving their companies, not their benefactors. But in todays world its just not the case. You hear founders talk about burning money and rocket ships and high-risk and danger because of this perverse set of incentives.
A revolutionary change is needed to put power back in the hands of companies where it belongs. Companies that are changing the world need to be run by patient careful men, not unstable kids with a dangerous appetite for risk.
How do you put your freelance work on your resume?

Do you list projects, companies, time spans?

If you apply to a "regular" job, how are those references checked?
Sorry to hear freelancing is not working well for you. What's your line of work?
I would argue that Hashtables are a specific implementation of the abstract datatype "map" or "set".
I assume you read the recent slatestarcodex on this:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

"So Definition By Consequences implies that racism can never be pointed to as a cause of anything, that racist policies can often be good, that nobody “is a racist” or “isn’t a racist”, and that sometimes the KKK trying to terrorize black people is less racist than them not trying to do this."
TLDR; Gitlab are using internally/community developed, better integrated tools vs. creating a marketplace for integrating external tools. Nothing really about the Unix philosophy other than the title.
If I buy a house or a car with cryptocurrency that can be confiscated. If I live a lavish lifestyle while under a judgement I'm not paying, then the court can imprison me indefinitely under contempt of court.

Courts have centuries of case law for how to deal with people that hide assets from judgements. They're not going to care whether your assets are in a shell company or a cryptocurrency.
Because people have claimed for decades that breakfast is the most important meal and that you have to eat breakfast and made all sorts of unfounded claims with no evidence.

I have no trouble believing that breakfast is relevant to circadian rhythms. This is far different from saying that skipping breakfast inevitably results in "sleeping later and waking up later as the rhythm shifts towards your first meal of the day." This is a very strong claim that demands strong evidence. Some studies linking circadian rhythm to meals is not sufficient.
>The best packager in any tech wave wins though, and wins big.

Since this feels the like main point of the article: what makes the "best packager"? The only complete stacks I've ever enjoyed using broke their own philosophy and let you integrate external tools, because that's what you're already using. Does the "best packager" somehow produce a package which is the best in all aspects, or do they make the most widely-used package - in which case, they'll shatter the monolith more often than not.

The example that comes to mind is Microsoft's VCS built into their TFS stack. It is a pain to use from personal experience, but the most grating thing was the centralisation - if you need a decentralised solution, you'll probably end up using Git, and MS support it for that reason. Does this make TFS good for being useful, or bad for failing to meet needs?
> Additionally, someone over 40 is supposed to be in or near their peak earning years, which lasts ten to twenty more years (or did historically anyway) so their expenditure is going to be significantly more than someone with a few years of experience.

We pay 25-30 year olds $100-140+k and call then "senior" in this industry. Unless 40 year olds are asking for $200k+ in non-specialised roles, I doubt companies can't afford them.

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My hunch as to why they are getting filtered out is that people think 40+ year olds are out of touch with whatever the 20-30 year old programmers are doing and thus less skilled/able to contribute ASAP. Also there's a weird stigma for people in their 40s+ still programming (as opposed to managing/some high level position) unless they're in some world expert role at Google/Facebook/etc.

BTW, in many other upper middle class jobs, you speak in your early 50s or late 40s. Very different from tech indeed!
Does it really matter what the 'value' is? A set is surely implementable as a supertype of a hash, where the value is totally arbitrary; it only matters that the entry exists.

With:

{'A': true, 'B': false}

you seem to be suggesting `B` is 'not in the set'. What's `C`?
Say the government decided to let Wal-Mart park delivery trucks on your property for free (i.e. decline to enforce your property right in favor of a business). Economically, it'd be indistinguishable from a subsidy. Shareholders don't care whether the government policy increases Wal-Mart's revenue or decreases its expenses. The same is true for power generation.
Oh, those poor bitcoin/ethereum holders, they only gained a few hundred/thousand percent in the last couple of years.
I assume the average age-at-first-child of tech workers in urban areas is 30-35. That makes the early 40s still fairly busy. Still no excuse not to hire anyone.
Do you have any specific tips on how to get started getting work?

Also, are you over 40?
Yes it's a retainer but still a cost and hopefully ending shortly.
I will pay well for this provided you do not harvest call activity and your TOS has teeth against that.

All others I’ve found so far harvest and resell your call network.