skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It could even be argued that the reason there are less older developers is because the better ones went into management and are no longer active developers."

On the contrary in my experience, engineers who are fed up with coding or find maintaining their skillset too tedious or time consuming to fit in with other responsibilities generally move into management (have kids? : move to an exec role). I've been offered several CTO positions, but still building systems while many collegues have chosen the ladder (33 yrs old here) - if anything a subset of older programmers is healthy for the ecosystem.
Yes, I did mean the white flour pasta.
This is the full-text of the speech given by David Einhorn (of Greenlight Capital) at the recent Ira Sohn conference. Einhorn discusses his Microsoft holdings and talks about the company's performance in some depth. I'm a big fan of Einhorn - he wrote the book "Fooling some of the people all of the time."
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Wow, thanks, that's actually pretty inspiring. Can you elaborate on how you approaced the web-dev company, and how many you approached? That was one of my first strategies, thinking that a college degree and my... unconventional background would be worth something, but I got absolutely no traction whatsoever. It was pretty discouraging. I'm a hard worker and I learn quickly, but I apparently haven't been able to convince anyone of that.
Thanks for the advice. I'll look at sending PNGs next time.
What I wanted to put in the final license was something along the lines of "an implementation of the specification is only granted the permission to use the technology if at the time of being released (out of beta) it is absolutely compliant with the specification, obtaining a 100% score on all the tests released by the official AXR community", to be able to ensure that we don't end up in the same situation as now, in case other implementations appear.

This obviously needs to be studied and discussed to great extent, but I put the warning in the current licensing text to not have anyone think that it will be the final license...

What do you think, would you agree with that idea? If not, why not?
That's good news on all fronts, except I'd like to point out that anonymous users will not always be less likely to pay for things.

The economic catastrophe hit disproportionately hard the age demographics of 4chan, and this in turn has manifested an entire generation of people unwilling (unable) to spend money on anything but necessities.

As the economy recovers, these people will eventually get decent jobs (I am an example of this) and will have money to spend. In the last month, (now that I have blow money) I've bought multiple items from J-List mainly due to their continued support of 4chan over the years. Thanks for supporting one of the last truly great communities on the internet, J-List.
Can we pay these guys to go after China's hackers?

The fireworks would be epic :)
The wine is ridiculously overpriced here and not that great. Stick to local beers.

On the other hand, weed in the US is much better than what you're used to in Argentina. Take it easy with it, though. It's also much more potent.

The social scene in SF, while not NY or LA, is pretty good, and huge compared to what's happening on the peninsula. If I were single I wouldn't want to live on the peninsula. Once you have a gf, it might be cool. It's a bit suburban for me. By the way, making out in public and other public displays of affection are mostly taboo. Californians are laid back and not much bothers them, but people are still a bit uptight in that regard. Go figure.

Good luck finding yerba. Some of the latino supermarkets must carry it.

The steak will be a major disappointment. Just forget about it. Otherwise the food's fantastic. You have a lot more options than you do in, say, BsAs, even on the peninsula. People eat dinner super early. 8 o'clock is normal. You're pretty much expected to tip at least 15%, unless the waiter really screws something up. There are tip jars everywhere. Ignore them if you're not a regular. Otherwise, you're kind of obligated. You will not believe the tipping.

If you live in SF you don't need a car. If you live in Mt. View it's going to be harder to get by without one, but keep in mind that, in California, bicycling is socially acceptable, and a cheap and effective means of transportation. The climate permits cycling year-round. I did it for a year in Palo Alto. Don't take cabs in SF unless you can share one or it's some kind of emergency. They're ridiculously expensive, and mostly serve rich people and tourists. If you do take a cab, you're expected to tip 15% on top of the already-ridiculous fare. Caltrain is a fine way to get up and down the peninsula, though here in yanquilandia you're not allowed to hang off the side. Dumb rule.

Suerte.
It amazes me that the guy who created the PC games of my childhood is only 10 years older than me.
Game-changer for message-boards? In what way, exactly?
I'm currently not really worried about the volatility, as Bitcoin turned out to be more stable than I expected for an essentially unregulated P2P currency.

Sure - it might be a somewhat bumpy ride at the beginning and some people might be too afraid to buy any substantial amount of Bitcoins. But for the future I hope that Bitcoin will be a viable alternative to today's payment systems used on the Internet.
Yes, or PLC (ladder logic) programs. That will put hair on your chest and give you a real appreciation for the luxuries of high-level programming languages running on top of a traditional processor.
CSS3 regions: Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3
I think the FAQ (and all the other "Bitcoin is a better Paypal" stuff) was written before the bubble started. At this point speculation has pretty much destroyed most of the interest in using Bitcoin as a payment system.
I know of at least 5 people that have done this. Stupid thing is, if they had got together they could have done it for a 5th of the price and all got the same benefit!
This is their model now, yes. But what I'm suggesting is that the economics of the business 10-20 years out might not even support Searchlight-level movies. They might not support any studio economics. We may well see a world, at the low end, where individuals or small production houses sell their wares directly to the Netflixes and iTuneses of the world and have no need of theatrical distribution or DVD distribution. We're not living in that world yet, but there is no reason why we can't or won't.
justin, couldn't agree more; you guys prove how strong the YC family is.
My dead trees do not demand Net access and electricity. And they boot really fast.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, my plan is to try to release a working app as soon as possible, but starting from scratch, it's taking a while.

Enrolling in a class or workshop sounds like a great idea, I'll do some research on that and see what I can find. I think having an external enforcement mechanism/progress framework would help me a lot.

I usually spend a lot of time rock-climbing, but I've been on an injury-related break, and diverting that time into programming. Other than that, just wife and 100+ year old house projects, which are not insignificant. I might have to talk to my wife about taking a few months to focus my free time completely on programming.
I am a technical guy who worked mostly on the remote side. From my experience the best combination is: local manager + remote manager + remote team. In this scheme the main responsibility of local manager is to keep communications with remote manager (but not remote team), and to transfer and control all the business requirements of the project. The problem is to find a suitable person for the remote manager role.
How will Canvas generate revenue? Is the investment purely about unique views/traction?
Not that I've experienced. Good content, good incoming links, etc., seem to be far, far more important than whether you only use one h1 per page...and rightly so.
I hope all of these attacks are the push that people need to finally start taking public-key cryptography seriously.
MIT: Wireless jamming system secures electronic medical implants
I am also interested in knowing how it is a game changer (honest curiosity).
Thats what I'm doing. Refactoring and redesigning to be safer, more modular, and more optimized. Its one part engineering and one part CSI sometimes. It makes things like code contracts really exciting.
Is it even established that companies lose money on Groupon customers? I usually spend over the face value on a Groupon, so the restaurant gets (bill - (value of groupon/2)). If the profit on a dinner for two is more than half the value of the groupon, which seems plausible, they're not losing money.

Then there are the people who never redeem their groupons. I'm about to move to another and leave two groupons that I never got around to using unredeemed.
That sounds nice. When I was training, it was: senior students teach you the basic moves, and then the teacher chases you around with a big stick telling you to move faster.
A mark's gullibility does not absolve the scammer.
Ask HN: Is pay for ad-block a feasible model?
Do you think people would be willing to pay for ad-block? Most every one of my non-technical friends and family hasn't the slightest idea it exists.

I set up a splash page and ran some google ads. It had a pretty low CTR but a few hundred cliks and a handful of email signups.

What do you think? Worth pursuing?

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What you're forgetting is at that age one simple thing can create a spark in a kid.

My uncle gave me a crystal radio at 10 (in the shape of Alan Shephard's space capsule) and that led me to becoming an amateur radio operator. Later a science teacher further stoked my interest in tech.

Sometimes it really is the simple things in life that set a kid on a journey.
That was my assumption as well. Surely if it were rooted there would be more interesting files included?

Though if I were the admin of senate.gov, I would treat it is a full compromise.
Would you please message me too? I've been struggling with this for a while, and can't seem to get any traction.
In C it is possible to use functions to represent state. To cause a state change, you return a pointer to the function representing the next state. Each state function manages transitions away from that state. The main event loop repeatedly calls the current state function with any external input relevant to the system. There is also the giant switch block option, with the current state stored as an enum.

With a little discipline, I think it should be possible to represent state machines in a readable fashion in most popular programming languages.
After working in the Banking world and talking with IT from a lot of other institutions, hell, I'd even take people making the decisions actually being semi-competent in security as a major win.
Be careful with rebasing when working with other people. Rewriting branch history is frowned upon.
Mike, I never refuse such a generous impulse, so thank you!
One of my sites, vidinotes.com is a pay per use app. What is your first impression(s) and should I target the app to niche groups vs. a general purpose video tool?

Best, Chris
Since I'm not from the US I figured it'd be pretty safe to pull it down no matter what it was.

Turns out it's a bunch of mysql-dumps in txt format, some admin passwords and server logs. I am guessing there's a lot of pain in there, but I only had a quick glance.

The packed file was ~15MiB. No code or art in there as far as I could see.
Physics of Snowboarding (G-forces during jumps)
What has this got to do with public-key cryptography?
Sorry if I'm not being clear ... SmugMug uses S3 for its storage [1]. DropBox also uses S3 for its storage [2]. They are, in essence, both layers/services built on top of S3 (albeit different types of services). So why support one but not the other?

[1] http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2006/08/12/amazon-s3-the-holy-g...

[2] http://www.dropbox.com/help/7
I hate to say it, but is this the only lasting contribution IA64 will have on the computing industry? (I did work on IA64 system software pre-silicon once upon a time)
How is any of that dangerous?

I think you have the wrong adjective.
It is certainly true that the First Amendment is not as broad as popularly conceived. Be that as it may, I don't think it would take a great stretch to characterize high resolution images of Israel as political speech.

I'm not a First Amendment lawyer, but this strikes me as unconstitutional. I'm sure there are other lawyers on here with a better recollection of Con Law I. Thoughts?

I suspect the reason it hasn't been challenged is that Google doesn't want the fight and others would have standing issues.

Just for the record, the First Amendment covers more than simply political speech. See long line of cases distinguishing pornography from obscenity.
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0xyMcR_...
It's listed on TPB as being 15MB in size so it couldn't possibly be the source code itself. Maybe there's a separate unlisted torrent for this?
Google building Java build system?
The author of this article doesn't seem to realize that Bitcoin has dropped 30% in one day many times before.
What about the usage of tags such as <header> being nested inside <section>s? This is what I've taken to lately in my limited web dev, because it feels like the correct way forward.

Though I'm guessing those new HTML tags probably also don't have widespread adoption among accessibility tools.
I hope it doesn't mean that older developers are more likely to be unemployed and therefore have more time to waste on SO.
>> All sites where you upload your photos have a TOS that gives them rights to use and keep your photos, even if you leave the service.

Can you provide a source or specific TOS clause that shows this?
32 Anons arrested in Turkey after government website attacks
I'm clueless about the OS, but what I wonder is:

Is this LAST thing part of the /etc/issue variant? And - do you really think these guys (seems to be mostly two persons) logged in as coldfusion user?

I'd be very sceptical and - as someone else said it much earlier than me - treat this as a complete disaster.
Looks like the torrent size is only 15MB, so I'm guessing that it just contains internal financial documents and the like.

EDIT: Here's a mirror of the files, I'll be taking these down soon for obvious reasons: (removed)

Looks like they're just internal mappings, some sql dumps of users, and a few other things. Nothing fun unless you wanna mass spam some people.
Location! Clone Gigwalk for Android - launch GLOBALLY so anyone can use it.
Gotcha. In theory SmugMug could be supported as a "storage service" if they have the appropriate APIs.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to do that because SmugMug doesn't offer any compelling storage services on top of S3. Their APIs are (from a file system perspective) a subset of S3.

Dropbox on the other hand provides sync on top of S3 which could be a big benefit for some users.

Personally, I think S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles make the most sense. They are as close to a raw file system API which exists "in the cloud". I mention Dropbox to showcase the flexibility of the idea and more people are probably familiar with what Dropbox is than S3.

Thanks for clarifying.
Interestingly the books are listed as downloads rather than sales. I wonder how may of those were free? Does it include winnie the pooh?
I don't think state machines are anti-modular, but I've seen situations where a cartesian product of several state machines was modeled as one big state machine, rather than as several largely independent state machines running in parallel. The one big state machine ends up as an anti-modular un-abstracted hard to read mess.

Imagine writing a state machine to handle TCP/IP connection establishment, and a state machine to handle parsing HTTP headers, and a state machine for the different things your web app can be doing. If you combine them all into one big state machine, you're going to have a huge mess. If you can write separate state-driven modules for each, interacting with each other at well-defined interfaces, you'll be much better off.

In other words, state machines, like most tools, can be abused. Don't do that!
Have you considered taking on far more teams?

You're growing from batch to batch, but if you could reach 200 startups by your estimates, why not grow even faster? Is it just a matter of "slow and steady"?
There’s no problem with doing this, but a header tag in and of itself doesn’t signify a heading within the document outline. You need to use an h1-6 for that (as far as I understand it, I’m still getting my head around the outlining algorithm).
Really wish I could help you with this, but most pay good money for a (qualified) UI/UX designer to understand the psychology behind a question like that. While I have ideas on how to approach something like that, it's more ad hoc and random. I know there are processes and techniques that designers rely on to help answer this (theme/mood boards, color charts, studies/research, etc) better than anythings I could suggest.

That said, here's where I'd start:

1. Find sites/examples which convey the same qualities as you're interested in expressing yourself. Be specific! (Colors, accents, imagery, text/passages/copy, etc) It helps to include a few keywords next to each example. Sometimes, I print out a bunch of examples and make notes on these (full-color) sheets.

2. Talk to as many designers as you can with these notes in hand. Get their opinion and take notes! (LOTS OF NOTES!!!)

3. Throw up these notes, examples, thoughts, links, resources onto a freelancer site and see if anyone will do some mockups/spec work for you. This will give you more ideas (which you'll pay for) and help you iterate your thoughts toward a decent solution until you can hire someone properly.

4. (Bonus step!) Grok as much info from these sites as you can: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-influential-design-bl...
10% has not been standard in the US for quite some time. You need to update your info.
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Thank you!

By "stop at steel", I meant to ask how far their bootstrapping went — did they bootstrap from stone-age materials to just, say, pre-medieval steel metallurgy? Or did they go on ahead to technologies like organic polymers, machine tools, bicycles, internal-combustion engines, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, digital computers, and heavier-than-air flying machines?

I wonder if Ariel Salaverria sells his work at handicrafts markets here locally. Maybe I could go apprentice with him :)

In your second link, I think the fragment ID is broken; did you mean the whole thread at http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/40386 ? Or a particular post in it?
I apologize for this "+1" comment, but this scott-and-scurvy story is really awesome, on all sorts of levels. Science is hard to do correctly!
Could you do that with a spoon in a large bowl? Or does the unmixing need to be extremely precise?
This isn't true of all things, for example you have to make an appointment to get a haircut most places, and for things like rafting trips or overnight stays you always do.
Did they leak any private end-user information? As much as I can tolerate mischievous crackers violating corporate security and releasing intellectual property, I am loathe to give any praise to groups that victimize consumers/users by violating their right to privacy. It seems thoughtless and uncaring.
From last time around? In the 90s? I don't. Then, it was all about subscribers/visitors, with the murky promise to monetize somehow.

And many of the startups then that DID post revenue were involved in quasi-illegal quid pro quo scams where Startup A invests in Startup B with the understanding that B will use that newfound capital to purchase from A.
Student Suffers Brain Damage In Bitcoin Mining Accident
Good points. I assume Apple is paying very low transaction fees, but they would have to be very low to make $1.29 transactions profitable.
Come on - an EBook like Kindle doesn't require net access - you can have thousands of books in your hand. And the current model runs for a week or two between recharges. Those are hardly issues now, and will become non-issues in the next year or two.

Lets admit it - books have no advantage whatsoever beyond our lifetime familiarity and affection for them. They will go away as surely as victrolas, snuff boxes, spats and buggy whips.
So, the article argues that since Flash now runs mildly acceptably, we need it to watch video again? I've been watching video on my phone for almost 4 years without Flash; why do I need it now?
There were people talking about the housing bubble in 2005. Hell, there were people calling it out in 2003. I remember people calling it a bubble in front of congress in 2006, and being rebutted by the president of some association of Realtors a few minutes later, also in testimony to congress.

The facts of the housing bubble were widely argued during the bubble itself, and yet after the crash, somehow, 'no one saw it coming'.