skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this is true. I hear the "middle-aged programmers aren't employable" story a lot on the internet, but in the large organization where I work I, in my mid-20s, am conspicuously very junior. Most of my coworkers are middle-aged, most of the program management are getting into their '50s, as you might expect of someone in a role seen as senior.
You mean, enjoy sitting in never-ending traffic jam while people in a crowded train pass you by?
This is just an insane level of censorship, I don't care if they are literally for-real Nazis. It's not the place of corporations to pick and choose who should have Freedom of Speech.
For now, yes. But what people are saying is that if large numbers of YouTube content creators turn off ads and switch to getting their monetary support through Brave, Patreon, or some other income stream that YouTube doesn't profit from, there's nothing stopping YouTube from changing their policy in the future to make video ads mandatory.
Because with kids it's much more obviously evil thing to do. For adults one can perhaps argue that they (being adults) can choose for themselves whether to give or not to give the permissions - just like with everything else in their life, it's their responsibility to know better. Kids can't really be expected to make informed decisions on actions that are potentially dangerous, they need to be protected by adults.
I've watched more than a dozen talks from him and the education topic was one of the most interesting points. Care to elaborate what you mean by hostile?
You can easily learn to solve a rubiks cube on the order of twenty seconds. It takes about a month of practice.

I have no clue why the pull ups are mentioned at all.
I sometimes wonder if it isn't almost literal bike shedding: I have nothing to contribute on the topic it hand, but I'm compelled to contribute, so I'll go on about the title. Obviously there are some egregious examples that are correctly called out, in this case, yeah, I saw "the title is terrible" and quit reading.
HN is just as bad on language/technology wars though, and that doesn't get censored. Rampant vote manipulation on comments and story visibility in general leads to very pigeonholed ways of viewing things and leads to echo chambers that effectively shut down any conversation on topics which are viewed competitive to those that happen to be popular (or intentionally manipulated to be made popular) at the moment.

Some examples of over the past decade: MongoDB, NodeJS, Docker, React, Tensorflow, Blockchain

Regardless of the quality of the technologies listed above, anything negative about those topics (during their prime anyway -- it's acceptable to shit on MongoDB once again) would get downvoted/flagged to the point of not existing.

My issue isn't particularly on removal of off-topic threads (e.g. no politics in HN), that's totally acceptable. What I don't agree with is removal (either by mods or by massive swarms of downvoting "users") of unpopular thoughts/ideas.
can you quantify how you just had your best year? Did consulting bring your more free time, money, satisfaction ? and by how much?
Ladies and gentlemen, the typical reaction you can expect when saying 'hi' to someone. Thanks for the succinct example.

I won't bother saying I'm not who you think I am; it never helps.
Do you think the US is not being "paid" by its position as the dominant world power?

US military is not particularly known for its altruism. You may want to rethink the internal logic of your argument here.
> the Gimp ... [has] not yet been ported to GTK3.

Which is ironic, considering GTK is the GIMP ToolKit.
because you could spend a tiny amount of effort/time to search for a newly available treatment to prevent the worst case scenario
Sorry. The criminals can already communicate to each other openly on the dark web. There’s no reason for them to exchange coded messages on a YouTube channel. The most probable answer is certainly the simplest: these are garbage comments on garbage videos.
This is fake, right?
I mean I hate him because I read Zero to One and noticed his thoughts on monopoly are insane, but sure, you can assume people aren't doing independent thinking and research while in turn not doing independent thinking and research.
I have a suspicion that all non-trivial C++ programs contain undefined behaviour (e.g. not checking for or preventing overflow at every arithmetic operation involving signed integers), so trying to understand the semantics of these programs is kind of a moot point.

On the other hand, if anyone tried to formalise the semantics of C++ and prove some kind of soundness theorem they would probably find that the language definition is technically inconsistent.

Paraphrasing Feynman, if you think you understand C++ then you don't understand C++.
I also spoke as a parent of a child (6yo).
In our family, the child does not have access to TV, computers and smartphones.
I can now see the difference between children of his age who have endless access to telephones, gaming consoles, TV,
and with whom "old" ways of knowing the world are practiced: games, drawing, music, reading books with parents, crafts, etc.

This is very hard to do, as the parent. We live in a society in which a lot of parents
not even though to reflect on this topic and to think what will happen next with their child.
So often you can see how parents use the phone as a means of appeasing a child in any situation.

These children are no longer ways to come up with something. Their head is already full of forms, images from computer games, TV shows.
Many of them are physically weak for their age. This is scary.
Management is always the safest path.
Bottom - arms straight. Top - chin above the bar.

Anything less than that is not a pull-up.
My monitor, for example. Or do you only design for phones? I'm afraid I'll close your sites sight unseen if you do them that way.
OK. When did you move to Seattle? Where did you move from?
That's not a great summary of libertarian beliefs, and the exact opposite of Thiel's stated beliefs.
Maybe because CyberDildonics asked a couple of questions, and you're asking him/her for facts and sources. People don't need facts to ask questions. That's kind of why you ask - to get facts.

You read CyberDildonics' questions as being an attempt to push an opinion (which seems unjustified to me). You might try not assuming the worst about people in the absence of better evidence...
Advertisers can pretty accurately track and price campaigns; if clicks are inflated 50% by fraud, it comes out in what they pay. Even if not in this round, then in the next. Adwords advertisers can modify their campaigns extremely frequently, but even display ads are generally sold at most on 3 month contracts. If, as DSP buying ads for a campaign, you don't hit your CPA target, then you don't get new campaigns. Now legit publishers definitely get screwed, but that's kind of ironic since the entire idea of adsense is to screw good publishers by allowing advertisers to target customers wherever it's cheapest.

tl;dr It doesn't matter that much to advertisers because fraud washes out in the pricing.
I started at 21 and somehow just kept getting older.

More seriously, having had a look around my cohort, there aren't that many people who've left programming altogether, and those that have have done so for personal reasons. Generally people have moved "upwards" and acquired management track positions. Small companies are good for this - because it's so flat you can easily get a high-ranking job title which you can then leverage into the next job.

Look "up". Look at the older and more senior people in your organisation. Maybe even directly ask them about careers. Recognise that if nobody around you is over 30, you're either in a very unusual place like an SV startup or you've wandered into Logan's Run.
> And the strategy to have plain Ubuntu installed makes them very vulnarable to competitors.

How so?

They are selling hardware, not software.

Ubuntu is very well-supported.
You don't believe that an affiliation counts as a tie? Or you think YC is lying that Thiel is no longer affiliated?
I once challenged Magnus and, while I lost, did much much better than Max. Where's my WSJ puff piece?

https://youtu.be/sZFZBf6aTF4
Neither option works on SI.com, one of the worst/typical autoplay offenders. Hopefully, the Google 2018 fix will really take care of this.
You let the comments themselves have upvotes.

Look at any of the technical subreddits - typically domain experts end up being near the top comments naturally, because they lay out substantive comments.

Reddit "flair" is a solution as well. Ideally a platform like this would be able to connect to a LinkedIn profile, and display some relevant info from said profile.
> I didn't interpret anything in the article as saying that GitHub develops Git

"Microsoft [...] wanted to get these modifications accepted upstream and integrated into the standard Git client.

That plan appears to be going well. Yesterday, the company announced that GitHub was adopting its modifications and that the two would be working together to bring suitable clients to macOS and Linux."

This hints that Git upstream = GitHub. I mean, why mention GitHub at all if they aren't upstream? The rest of the article doesn't explain GitHub's role in this story either.
In practice, what you end up doing is adding the `errcheck` linter to your build process and it finds all instances of you not dealing with an error return and it's "just-as-good" as a compile time check.
From this blog post: MIT alumni in their 50s (http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/30/mit-alumni-in-thei...)

"Lesson: Unless you are confident that your skills are very far above average, don’t take a career path that subjects you to the employment market once you’re over 50 (and/or make sure that by age 50 you’ve saved enough for a retirement that begins at age 50 or 55 and during which you won’t have employer-provided health insurance for up to a 15-year gap between age 50 and Medicare age)."
The copyright for "Emacs vs vi" is held by... James Taylor?? Did he write it?
25 years old and I got it to compile and run when I re-found it last year!

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
>>Nobody will talk with me.

Strongly consider that this is not a problem in tech, but an individual one. I put in years at Microsoft, Amazon, and the dreaded startup row in Pioneer Square. I have a diverse group of friends from tech to retail, I watch football weekly with random people, have no problems striking up conversations at bars, etc.

Most of the complaints I hear like yours are eminently traceable to individual personalities that are overrepresented in tech, not people in general.
I wholeheartedly ageee with this. I really dislike videos for content that used to be shared in articles. I can’t always play sound, it’s hard to skim, impossible to search and more difficult to jump to specific content. I really hope that this kind of content never shifts to 3D.
> the mempool is back to a reasonable size

This mempool? https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=1year&d...

Looking at this (7-day average over the last year), it is currently at 100 MB. It was higher than this for about two weeks in late May/early June this year and has never since reached 100 MB. The last maximum was a brief peak at 80 MB in late August. For much of the year it was below 20 MB.

I would not attempt a transaction before it's back down below 40 MB or so.
"Just delete it if you don't want to read it", said every contributor and defender of low-quality content ever. I've been hearing this since Usenet was popular, and yet the pattern doesn't change. Can you picture Donald Knuth typing, "just delete it if you don't want to read what I write"? No, because he doesn't have to.
Maybe add a (2013)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059342
there is no drug or lifestyle strategy that is absolutely guaranteed to protect the brain
That, and the quality is low enough that you can sort of accidentally the differences between 'generic white woman' and 'actual white woman'
Microsoft Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server 4.0
How bout landing a standing backflip. Isn't that impressive? I know robots can do it, but Max is just meat.
> The rules help protect the privacy and security of end users

The rules are for one thing and one thing only: To maximize the price per share of the company. This correlates with privacy and security, but only because the market has eliminated the players that do not provide security and privacy for users. But even then, there is plenty of evidence that your data is not secure or private, in the hands of tech giants. The definition of security is itself subjective and contextual.

What the market does not eliminate (yet), are companies that abuse their power once they have it. Google dropped "Don't Be Evil" and backed it up with actions that aren't quite so benevolent. Although other services such as DuckDuckGo have launched, to try to compete, the market ultimately did not change. If this were to happen in a decentralized blockchain service, the back-end would be fully transparent. Therefore, the end users could have easily chosen another engine which is built upon that same back-end, rather than a fully watered down version that tries to reinvent the billion-dollar wheel on a sub-million-dollar budget.
That works for the main firehose feed and https://news.ycombinator.com/showrss, but there isn't a feed for the ask posts as of yet that I've seen anyway.
You did not explicitly say in your comment that you blindly what google says and you did not explicitly say that google is responsible for your dog.

What you did explicitly say is:

- You often ask "Can my dog eat X".

- It would be horrible if google gave the wrong answer.

- You hope google would take extra precautions with answers to medicine/safety.

The second point implies that you act with this information alone and the third one implies that you would at least partially blame google in that instance.

I am actually terrified that you think there are millions of people blindly trusting google with medical questions. That is a very stupid thing to do. They should go to a doctor or at least read a bit further then that.

I do maybe see the danger of providing a single answer response to medical questions, but I don't jump to assume that they should take extra precautions. Rather I would think that they should stop providing answers to these questions. Or maybe they should do the idiotic american thing of providing disclaimers for common sense things. Like this: Don't blindly trust google. Talk to your doctor/vet/lawyer/expert.

Why should they take extra precautions? Why would they be responsible?
You think this is what qualifies for being treated like subhuman dirt?

Buddy...
>it's crazy how enormous the pro-Trump population on HN actually is and how blissfully Silicon Valley pretends they don't exist)

>Yeah it's really fucked up. We need a new discussion forum format, that isn't so easily manipulated like HN and Reddit due to vote manipulation.

Are you sure you aren't just whining because you think more people agree with you than actually do? It's awfully convenient that since people online don't like it that you are dredging up comments from years ago stalking people's accounts and attacking them in support of a horribly unpopular position that is actively destroying things important to tech people, that it's the fault of the format and vote manipulation, and censorship, and mods, and it's all someone else's fault, I'm actually right and everyone is on my side. You conclude it's hard to have a conversation because people don't agree with you, because the conversation isn't going exactly how you want.

It's shocking how people who support him even pick up on his conversational tics; blame anything that you don't like on external enemies, the powers that be, claim everyone actually likes you despite all evidence to the contrary, that your crowd was huge, that it's just the lying liberal elites that control everything out to get you.
No, and that analogy doesn't make sense. Presumably if you bought a gift card for someone you would... give it to them directly. This is someone who says "You need presents for your friends. I will sell you gift cards to their favorite stores! But you can't take the cards and give them to the friends. Instead, I'll hold onto them until your friends come and establish a business relationship with me."
> How can you say "can we save ourselves a really long, pointless political argument" and end your post with a divisive political opinion

Probably because the “divisive” opinion is on a different question than the on tptacek sees as pointless, which he was pretty express about: the pointless argument is about the political meaning of Thiel not being a partner. And he's right, that's not going to get an answer and any argument about it is pointless.

The “divisive” opinion about whether or not it's a good thing that that relationship ended is, at a minimum, not pointless in the same way (it's likely to be fruitless in the way that arguments that rest in clashes of fundamental values are, but that's a different concern.)

> It's really not our place as the internet lynch-mob to interfere with Peter's role in the startup community because of his political views.

You are free to choose to restrain the means in which you apply your free speech and association rights based on this narrow, misguided, elitist view of the role of the hoi polloi, of course.

> Note, @sama said as much when the whole thing went down.

I'm entirely unsurprised that Altman would say no external party of should question YC decisions on political (or, heck, any other) grounds, but I'm not sure why you think noting that he did so adds any weight to your argument.
Calculus!
In the bad news section, there is gentrification in many neighborhood where lower class and middle class single-family houses are being destroyed to build larger single-family upper-class... Because, you know, a family of 4 needs 5000 sqft of housing, 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms...
The sad take-away from Hogan v Gawker isn't that a millionaire can spend money on a whim to exert justice where he so desires, it's that you need that level of money to seek justice in the first place.
How old are you?

Would you have wanted to find out if you were in your 20's?
Spacecraft generate tons of telemetry that needs to be ingested, normalized, and visualized -- there's room for web dev in this space (no pun intended).

I spent some time working for a company that builds imaging satellites. My role was working on the UI team, building real-time telemetry monitoring and alerting software using web technologies for ground control. It was definitely one of the more interesting places I've worked at.
That as been the opposite of my experience for the last 5+ years.

In my experience, Windows has been the worst at font rendering, and Linux (freetype) the best, with OS X somewhere in the middle (closer to Linux).

Of course, there are edge cases, especially if you are trying to use Windows' fonts, but I very rarely run into them.
Here is an article [1] about someone who confessed of murder after his DNA sketch was released. It looks fairly close, but far from a match.

[1] https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/man-confesses-to-murder-after-...
Funtainers: The Beauty of Running Containers as Functions
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725119
He funded someone else's lawsuit, yes. But it's not as if Thiel bribed the judge and jury. The lawsuit won on its own legal merits. Gawker did something they had no right to do, which the law recognized.
IMHO it is a major failure that git doesn’t scale for org-wide mono repos. Software development process should not be dictated by limitations in the VCS. It surprises me that others are so willing to settle.
In a month? Not particularly. There are plenty of youtube videos of people learning in hours/days.
These things take time. What do you think this place is, China?
The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke and Dust
One of the things the better fiat currencies have is stability of value. Bitcoin (at least so far) has failed rather dramatically at that. It's been mostly up so far, which makes many people willing (even eager) to accept the lack of stability, but it definitely hasn't been stable.
The "FOMO" bit is the same kind of thing these finance articles always use: "market moves, and here's why."
For the most part, nobody truly knows exactly why the market moves the way it does from day to day, but these journalists always try to provide a narrative- even if it's not true it's usually not provable.
Hi! I see you're using compile_commands.json. How are you handling header files? I've found that header files present problems for compile_commands since a number of tools using compiler_commands (like bear) only look at the compiler commands for .c files, and don't notice that the header files should be added as well.

I know that some tools, like YCM, attempt to intelligently map a header file to it's associated .cpp/.cc/.c file to guess what the compiler commands are, but this doesn't always work.

What is the state of generating compiler_commands.json for Chromium? I remember running into this issue a few years back.
If you have an Apple device, you're more likely to buy a HomePod than an Alexa or Google Home. The Home Pod is not dependent on an ecosystem the same way that a smart phone or computer is.
Yea but did you write a Magnus-crushing ML algorithm then simulate it IN YOUR MIND?
I get the sense from his speeches during the campaign that Thiel believed Trump would act more relaxed and calm down after he won and that it was at the time a lot theatrics of campaigning. If it’s true Thiel’s cooled on him privately that would make sense because his bet didn’t worked out, it’s probably worse for him than losing hundreds of millions on a startup investment because of the social capital lost since people hold their political views so dear.
I think knowing a lot about a particular vertical is hugely distinctive and valuable, often more so than technical specialties.
Given tptacek's history of belligerent comments on threads regarding the NSA, TSA and most especially Aaron Swartz shortly before his death, he is not in a position to pontificate on saving us from "long, pointless political arguments." His contribution is the very epitome of a flamewar-inducing comment.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming and has already been identified by another commenter in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725589
> Priority will be granted to encrypted reports – please include your PGP public key with such reports.

Is this a common thing? Why should they give priority to encrypted reports?
I think reddit is going to be the new model of digital media. They launched recently profiles, which means users who have been fairly anon will have the opportunity to start branding themselves as thought leaders in each respective subreddit. It's already happened with breaking news. Twitter might be faster, but there is less moderation and filter for fake news vs. crowd moderation (not perfect). I wouldn't be surprised if they start their own editorial team for news or a publishing platform and let the crowd moderate what's fake/real. The only thing stopping them is trolls/shills, but that might be solved with the profiles. They just need to convince users to come out of the shadows.
Haha, good to know we think alike
Wave 3 requires lighter, denser, cheaper batteries that we haven't achieved yet.
Do you take vacations? It's a wonder what it does for your state of mind.
How large do you think that population of people in finance making 6 figures is in raw numbers? When you compare that to the tech industry, there are certainly high level engineers and managers that make 7 figure salaries all things included (especially given the growth in stock price at certain companies).