skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one thing we have proven is that while people do trust their own network, they have been open to hearing from us. Off the top of my head, we convert maybe 40% of the time. By convert I mean getting someone to click on a link to our site from twitter.
Diigo.com is down
Howard Rheingold has been tweeting about cloud bookmarking site, Diigo.com, being offline as of about 7 hours ago: "Not only does Diigo go down the very day I start teaching it, @diigo hasn't tweeted in months and the whole site seems to be gone."
https://twitter.com/hrheingold

Diigo is tweeting that "We're working on restoring access. Pls stay tuned for our tweets for latest update. Sorry for the inconvenience & thanks for your support!"
https://twitter.com/diigo

This sucks because many thousands of users (including me) migrated their bookmarks to Diigo after Yahoo abandoned delicious.com.
I read the article per physcab’s suggestion (and because I was curious why a story about Greek centenarians could generate so much lively discussion on HN). Good read indeed, thanks!

I think it's easy to be dismissive when the topic of discussion has little to do with our own lifestyles, at least not on the surface. Old people on Greek isles and fountains of youth are light-years away from stuff that concerns your typically young and techie HN reader. (I'm generalizing, you guys can attack me if you must.) So it would seem that the only intelligent commentary one can make on such a subject is to question the author's scientific approach and to take apart his analysis -- how else could a 20-something programmer/entrepreneur partake in this discussion, right?

But dig a little deeper and you'll find some interesting parallels that maybe most HN readers can relate to and think about. A couple of things that the author and his interviewees said jumped out at me: (1) developing an ecosystem that fosters healthful and satisfactory lifestyles, and (2) adapting work schedules so you can work into the night even when you don’t feel productive during the day.

Doesn’t that sound familiar? A bit like startup culture? Ok, nobody wants their employees hanging out and milking goats all day (unless that’s your industry) and Silicon Valley will never be as stress-free and laidback as Ikaria (I doubt we would want it to be) but the article does inspire some ideas about what makes people tick and what makes people happy -- and those people could be your employees and your users.
I'm referring to the system call. Sorry, I can see how that would cause lots of confusion.
The iPad Mini is different than anything Apple has done before. For the first time Apple is not building a product to enchant brand new customers and further grow their brand. Instead they are filling a hole that they feel was threatening to pull their customers into other ecosystems. "Don't mind those other, more affordable playgrounds. Pay attention to how we mill the shit out of this block of aluminum just for you."
While you're attacking curl you (intentionally?) forget to mention that the default value is 2 that is perfectly safe. I don't think it's "reasonable to assume" that the parameter is a boolean value while it's well documented. If programmers are lazy, they make many kind of mistakes.
Haha, yeah that would be fun. Though it might get a bit out of control!
We only get smarter and more nimble.

Sadly, this appears to not be the case. All the research I'm aware of indicates that fluid intelligence peaks in your 20s and then inexorably falls. To some extent this can be offset by experience and staying mentally active, but there's no way you'll have the same memory recall at 70 that you did at 30.

Yet another reason aging is awful and we should be spending a lot more effort trying to prevent or repair its damage (e.g. http://sens.org), rather than expensively treating and ultimately succumbing to individual diseases of old age.
Agreed. Most apps in app stores are garbage. The Windows Phone 7 marketplace is getting more great apps by the day so i don't expect any less from Windows 8.
Sure, I'm using the Go http server.

Take the example of a simple proxy to see where I'm coming from. Sure, I'm happy to have Go manage all the connections and sockets and I'm happy to spawn new goroutines for each connection and all that. But a proxy accepts an inbound connection, makes an outbound connection, and then monitors the outbound and inbound sides for data. The loop to do this with sockets could be a simple two-descriptor read select(2) call. But instead, I have to spawn two more goroutines, one to "monitor" (really, read) from inbound, and one for outbound.
I really want to thank you Manglav. You have helped me immensely. Your last reply is spot on. It is like LawPivot and most importantly I think I am failing because I am trying to build a MARKET. This really brings things into perspective for me. Building a MARKET is just not something I can do. Do you think there is way to find a specific niche in the market that I could start with? Also, I am curious as to your thoughts on Pinterest. It has no natural pre-existing market or at least I dont see how one reaches girls who like to create scrapbooks. Yet it succeeded. I am not saying I could do what they did. I am just curious as to how you would define their market.
Young physicians are likely to know more than older physicians, but experienced surgeons are likely to know more than young surgeons.
>Yet, it doesn't have to be that way in your forties.

I'm not saying once you hit your 40s you're useless, just that you're a bit slower than you were. From a company's perspective it makes a lot more sense to hire people who are younger - that's just playing the odds.

>Both candidates running for the Presidency, and both Vice President candidates are older than 40 (Paul Ryan barely so) and have tonnes of energy.

How would you know? Those guys have staffs to handle every conceivable need so they can use all the energy they have in public.
Oh man, I'm not an Apple fan but dude, think of where Apple would be without the better Steve? Seriously? Low impact? Wow. Seriously? Really? If all programmers left all countries and started our own rockin place all you "programmers are low impact" types would freakin starve.
I don't know what studies you've been looking at, but that doesn't jibe with what I've read at all.
Or they are lying.
Yes, yes, I know, stupid Paypal, stupid Amazon, we get it. VERIFYHOST=1 doing nothing makes perfect sense, you just have to read the documentation. Of course.
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Being rejected from YC is not necessarily the end of the world. I speak from experience, when my company first started out, we tried to get into YC S11, got the interview, but did not make it. We continued along bootstrapped for a while, and ended up raising a couple millions in Series A. We haven't had to touch the money, we're profitable and have ~30 people now.

Point is, PG is one of the smartest guys around; but don't be discouraged if he thinks your idea is terrible, he's not always right.
> I'm not sure what that has to do with my point.

The point of yours that I addressed was: "that VERIFYHOST=1 exists primarily to give people the feeling of having configured SSL/TLS well without making them actually do that."

Put simply: It does not exist primarily for that purpose.

I can't make it any clearer than that.
You are being down voted for a reason. You are pointing examples of professions, where people take risky decisions but do not do heavy lifting themselves. In such professions experience counts.

If you have to hire an army of java programmers to finish a MegaCorp project in an year. Are you going to hire 25 year old or 50 year olds? Considering the bulk of the work hardly involves any risky decision making and most of it is actually working 16 hours a day?
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This is definitely NOT a vulnerability in curl. I hate it when security people treat everything black and white. There ARE other things to consider.
Yes, yes, stupid Dan Boneh, extracts SSL keys from servers over the Internet using timing measurements, but can't properly write an HTML page, we get it. Credibility -> toilet.
but I didn't say anything about programming. Just that being in your forties (vs say your sixties) you don't have to be dumb and slow.

But whatever. I was just puzzled as to why someone would want to downvote the idea that you can be alert and sharp in your forties.
Yes! Yes! Stupid researchers! Who has time for security? We've got mobile banking transactions to process!
> value of taxi medallions will return to its true value of zero dollars, making a lot of people very poor very quickly.

Including the City of New York, who plan on selling over a thousand new medallions over the next few years and raising over $3B from the proceeds.

Taxi medallions have been a way for New York City to print money and to patch the budget with their own form of quantitative easing.
I'd been thinking about this. It's true that sometimes an article is so obviously mistaken that the most valuable comment would be one that pointed out how. But such articles are fairly rare here. Ideally comment threads in which the top comment was a dismissive one would be proportionately rare. Whereas now they're almost like background radiation.
Firefighting has never ended, continues to happen then why do you consider 30 years down the lane situation is going to be any different.

Besides you don't want to fire fighting with software, But you are OK with firefighting with life? Especially when you are 50?
You might be surprised. For one, the law shares a very important characteristic to software, people are paid to make more of it, and they do, every year. And like programmers few law makers want to be known for 'removing' law so the law is ever changing. This is very similar to programming, and people who are passionate about programming are reading, and experimenting, and coding. So they are just as 'current' on Ruby, or Haskel, or Go, or any number of things (bad news Rob Pike is over 50 :-) as new programmers are but they also know FORTRAN and sometimes knowing other programming cultures can inform the current problem. So in some ways they have an advantage over their junior counterparts. But as I said, only if their experience is a guide and not dictatorial on their opinions.
> I am not discriminating anyone by their nationality

You say that, yet you go on to generalize over an entire race.
>Every time you said you you meant you not us.

No, I mean us. You may still be pretty sharp, but you're not as sharp as you were in your 20s. That's just a fact of life. Even your life.

>I can't give up, I'm driven, I drive. I code and I'm good.

If I had a nickel for every lousy programmer who thought he was good I could retire. But even if it's true... so what? When a company passes over you in favor of a younger guy it's a rational decision on their part - they're just playing the odds.

I'm not saying you can't can't get a job once you reach a certain age, just that there are valid reasons companies would rather not hire older programmers.
I like libevent and all, but I don't think Twisted's use of libevent is a particularly big win for Twisted.

Again, this is apocryphal, but I remember someone trying to wrap Ruby around libevent and failing; I remember there being a reason this had to be done bespoke. And having fallen into this particular NIH trap many times before: there's just not a whole lot to a simple socket I/O loop.

What's been your experience with JRuby/EventMachine?
>You're advocating revenge.

Wait, what? Where? I saw nothing in that entire diatribe that sounded like a call to arms.
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Yes, Amazon et.al. made some mistakes due being lazy and PHP being the nice language that it is. They have fixed it. Let's go ahead and find another non-default, documented parameter value in a library and call it a vulnerability.
Python programmers have been doing evented code for almost a decade using Twisted. EventMachine happened later, but then, so did the mainstreaming of Ruby. You realize, don't you, that Tcl has all three of Javascript, Ruby, and Python beat when it comes to evented I/O?

Node does not own evented I/O.
Please stop this. It doesn't belong on HN.
Windows Store for Windows Phone 7 was largely a flop since it was impossible to do native code with it (games had to be in C# with XNA, or in other words a new title entirely and harder to port).

Android grew faster in games with 2.3 introduced the best NDK support (C/C++ rather than Java) (NDK initially was limited in 2.2).

Windows Phone 8 allows native support, this will be a land rush soon if there are decent phone sales. The only pain point of going to Windows then will be the DirectX portion compared to OpenGL (they really should have gone OpenGL ES on mobile for port reasons, it won on embedded already).

Platforms like Unity and others will be setup for it so it opens it up for many more devs = more games.
>> but there's no way you'll have the same memory recall at 70 that you did at 30.

My Dad, a WWII veteran taught himself microprocessor assembly programming in the 80's for fun. When I found out he was doing what I was doing as young man and was thinking I was all hot; oops reality bytes.

You have a lot to learn dude, try not to attempt to profess too much.
Wow I was wondering why Chase randomly sent me a warning and a new debit card a few weeks ago. I had made no unique purchases aside from coffee and books from Barnes and Noble and initially thought the new card from Chase was a fake.
At stores like the one at NY's Union Square, the cashiers never leave their stations from 10am to 10pm. I wonder how this could have been done so quickly as to not cause suspicion. Perhaps there might have been some internal cooperation?
Put simply, to win in the long run, Microsoft must be willing to risk losing it all.

The one thing I wouldn't accuse MS of right now is playing a conservative game. If anything I think shoving the "Metro" UI on desktop users is a step too soon, too far.
Look like they intentionally made opt out a pain:

Procedure:
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The Opt-Out Notice must state that you do not agree to this Agreement to Arbitrate and must include your name, address, phone number, and the email address(es) used to log in to the PayPal account(s) to which the opt-out applies. You must sign the Opt-Out Notice for it to be effective. This procedure is the only way you can opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, all other parts of the User Agreement, including all other provisions of Section 14 (Disputes with PayPal), will continue to apply. Opting out of this Agreement to Arbitrate has no effect on any previous, other, or future arbitration agreements that you may have with us.
Better looking but the waits/review times are still long. You have a longer initial review just to get in their Android store, then an additional review/wait delay for Kindle Fire. I was sure Amazon would be the fastest but they are new still really and should improve.

Play! is actually great to launch on and test initial builds, then when solid update for the others. Being able to update right now is so useful in promotion and software, but it does lead to more versions and less quality control I bet in the end. But it is more responsive to issues.
It's "jive" dude, as in jive turkey. I've watched and read a number of articles on how using your brain keeps it working well. Wow. Thanks modern medical science, duh.
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The characters aren't really meant to be believable. http://books.google.com/books?id=TYZaNwrIM8YC&pg=PT664&#...
If you didn't save those nickels then I guess you ain't too smart, at least I can still program.
I think it's fair that they can refer to the helpdesk discussions obliquely; I already have in my post.
Oh yeah? Interesting. Tell me, what is the point of checking to see if a certificate has a common name field in it but then not checking to see if that common name is related to the connection bearing the certificate? Make it clear for me, will you?
Such as what? When VERIFYHOST=1, curl has basically turned the security part of SSL/TLS off. That seems like kind of a big deal for an HTTPS/SSL API.
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"... and not to my grandchildren!"
Absolutely not, if you are worth your salt you can work hard at any age. But the word isn't can, its will. The question you have to ask is will I work hard instead of can I work hard. The answer to the can question is yes. Unless you are disabled or have other serious problems you can work hard, but will you?

Or will everybody else?
That's exactly why the grand parent post is sad. It's sad that so many in the US believe that. Obviously, the US is far far removed from the much more socialist states like Germany, but yet it doesn't keep the cries of imminent welfare state away.

You'd think that this would be a particular pain point on NH: innovative startups are especially hurt by the lack of universal healthcare coverage. Many seasoned software veterans will not consider quitting a large corporation job to do a startup because they need good health coverage for themselves or their family. This applies to more than just software industries, of course.
I think this would work well for a lot of things, but I forgot to mention one strange caveat - there were a lot of bracelet/necklace type items, where the important colors might actually be at the corners and not in the center.
I think the UI is the less radical part of their current gambit. Risking their OEM channel by selling their own hardware and risking their VAR channel by encouraging people to do their Windows 8 purchases directly are both major cards that MS has thrown down.

What I'm not clear on is whether this is an intentional effort to circumvent the Innovator's Dilema or just chasing Apple. If it's the former, there should come other, interesting steps. If it's the latter, it will just be sad to watch.
Compete with your competitors and compete with yourself. RIM slacked off, I would argue Microsoft slacked off.
As a side note, some of these features (multi-node synchronization, distributed configuration management, HA) are made possible because of Erlang, which RabbitMQ is written in. It is a classic case of 'the right tool for the right job' example in my book.
I would suggest a look at production numbers for the Surface and projected sales of OEM Windows 8 licenses. I think "risk" is a bit of a dramatic interpretation, but that's just my opinion.
>>If I had a nickel for every lousy programmer who thought he was good I could retire.

Welcome to the new world, you don't have to be good to be rich.

You might as well be somebody who does a lot of things. The important thing is in doing, you have to do something. Even if badly, just do it.
I know some seriously shady white Americans... If you have evidence of some cultural phenomenon that validates your claims then that would be interesting to read about, but generalisations of an entire race based on your personal experiences with a few people is... not really appropriate for this website.
A common question for anarchists (people who argue that government is unnecessary) is "Who will pay for the roads?" Here we have an entrepreneur who has paid for a bridge, and the government is trying to compete with him. Government should not be in competition with business because it's based on coercion and it's inefficient. Coercion should be used only as a last resort.
The Airbnb point this article tries to make is incoherent. Airbnb operates in defiance of hotel regulations, it says. You can see how this harms society: someone's house got trashed! Except that's not what hotel regulations address. People trash hotel rooms all the time. That's a cost of being in the hotel business. For this article to make sense, at least w.r.t. Airbnb, it'd have to be arguing for people to need licenses to stay in hotel rooms.

There are regulatory issues Airbnb does face, but you'd like to think an article taking startups like Airbnb to task would actually know what they are. This one doesn't.
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Since my other comment got downvoted, people forgot the point. Read how strong this man defended and pretended to be so innocent when he was first accused:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9lN3hH-...

Kissmetrics is a very shady company, just stay away from them!
>It's "jive" dude, as in jive turkey.

Oh, what a surprise! You're sure and yet... you're wrong. "Jibe" is the correct word.

>I've watched and read a number of articles on how using your brain keeps it working well. Wow. Thanks modern medical science, duh.

Yeah, duh. Using your brain does keep it in better shape than if you don't use it, so you got that part right. But you should have read the rest of the article, the part where it says you can't stop the decline - you can just slow it down.
Well, in that case I should probably ask you for a nickel.
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I find PayPal incredibly convenient to use and prefer it when I see a PayPal button than giving my credit card info yet to another vendor. I trust PayPal more than I trust some random site that just happened to have a belt I wanted to buy.

I don't move a lot of money through PayPal so to be honest, I don't much care. :/
I find PayPal incredibly convenient to use and prefer it when I see a PayPal button than giving my credit card info yet to another vendor. I trust PayPal more than I trust some random site that just happened to have a belt I wanted to buy.
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I live in NYC and don't see the use for Uber unless you live in an area that isn't serviced by yellow cabs especially given the premium that they seem to charge. The vast majority of NYC residents don't use taxies frequently (roughly 241M passengers per year, on par with a single subway line) and a very small subset of those use livery cabs.
No shader compiler => lame.
One thing I've learned from doing small game dev: We are responsible for our own marketing. I think it is healthy to expect and plan for app stores to give us exactly zero exposure; it leaves much less to chance.
What's with the shitty video player? Can't even go full-screen? Why not just post the videos on YouTube?

And the quality of the actual video isn't even HD?
Forever cookies are pretty bad. I know someone made a library as a proof of concept, but yeah, don't actually use this.