skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people need to start breaking out of their current modes of thinking, and this article represents that. SEOs and Developers have more goals in common than people realize, and the approach is very similar. As long as we're talking about real SEOs, not these "guaranteed spots on Google" jokers, but people like John.

SEOs are there to solve a problem. The problem of course is much deeper than getting your site noticed. It's a vision consisting of strategies with the following goals:

The Basics:

1. Get the most traffic from search engines you can (obviously)

2. Ensure the traffic you get is from the people you want to reach

3. Ensure that you are providing what searchers are looking for

4. Try to build a brand and a vision people can understand

5. Build an audience that will keep returning to your site

Now these things are solid online marketing, sure but there are other goals too, that are more "hacker" in nature.

6. Perform analytics to find out which methods are working

7. Finding the most optimum content to attract new traffic

8. Find what landing pages are creating customers

9. Finding the most optimum paths to lead to engagement

Now this is starting to sound like hacking. We're all problem solvers here. This is gathering information and using it to get the best results possible. Like optimizing routines to save cycles.

As a developer, what are you trying to do for a company?

1. Build software that solves problems for the most people possible (usually)

2. Ensure that your software is targeted towards the people who need it

3. Ensuring your software is solving their problems effectively

4. Making the user interface as effective as it can be (usually by some form of analytics)

5. Finding the best ways to save cycles and utilize hardware (again found with analytics)

Do you see the parallels? This is exactly why I keep one foot in SEO, and one foot in Web Development, because they seem like entirely separate disciplines, but they have more in common than not. The name of the game here is optimization, and both fields strive for optimizing an experience.

Calling someone a software "hacker" means they learn as much as they can about a process and refine it. Tweak, push, pull and stretch. They optimize software to better meet the needs of those who use it. A SEO is a "hacker" because they optimize the website to meet the needs of those who use it. It's not about writing code, it's about finding ways to do more with less.

This is what I gather he's trying to say.
Under U.S. federal law, age discrimination not only protects exclusively the old against the young, it also protects only those over 40.[1] Discrimination in the workplace and in public policy against the young is a big problem (in the moral sense, perhaps not an economic sense) that really has, as far as I can tell, political recognition among essentially no one.

1: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm
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I saw it available early last week, Sunday or Monday.
To be fair, the actual Maps application is a vast improvement over the previous revision. If Google would have been able to provide the data to fit into the new interface, I think we'd all be raving about it.
Actually we openly hated on social media "gurus", but we respect social media marketers who know what they are talking about.

I'm the only "SEO" I know talking about SEO and growth hacking. I wouldn't say we're latching onto it. Most SEOs seem to disagree with me anyways.
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I guess now you know for next time, since it doesn't look like Google is fixing the process.
I don't think enough people appreciate just how awesome of an OS Solaris was. I never had opportunity to deploy it full-scale for any projects, but I lamented the loss of great potential when it "died."
“Strong evidence” for a treatment evaporates with a closer look.
The flip side is that you can out-compete by hiring the underpriced developers with experience.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, hiring for experience doesn't make as much sense if your company is the next iteration on mobile/social with an uncertain business plan.

In the B2B/enterprise space this makes more sense, and anecdotally I've heard of great results from hiring people over 40 that can crank out tons of high-quality code while working sane hours.
Articles like this ignore the reductions in birth rates in recent years. This type of article makes me think less of businessinsider.
Maybe she created these some years ago to earn some money, before she landed a full-time job as Insight Patternist at the large ad agency TBWA Worldwide. -- [job source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/fashion/05Twitter.html?pag...]. Or her web-space got hacked and somebody placed these silently on her homepage to earn money...
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure how much better Apple could have made Maps before launching it.

I stopped trying to use Apple Maps here in Warsaw, Poland, simply because they get so many of the basics wrong.

Any official document lists my street name as Skorochód-Majewskiego. Even Nokia's new offering can find it. Apple though? Nope, not even anything in the autocomplete list. The only match occurs if you type in the full Walentego Skorochód-Majewskiego. This is true for many streets here. So on that level, their offering is useless.

There were loads of other bizarre issues at launch - loads of parks had their names written in what looked like Chinese characters. Out of sheer annoyance, I went through and marked them all, not expecting much, and sure enough, three weeks later, the names started to clear up.

And this is without going into how obscenely ridiculous it was to see Warsaw's main airport being marked with the German word "Flughafen" in its title.
I'm flabbergasted that that much traffic doesn't yield any returns. Do you think it's the same with most one man bands?

Do you think it's your user?
Snapchat: The Biggest No-Revenue App Since Instagram
Well, the title says it all: a prankster tries to extort $35 from a non-profit. Word of advice for others that might be thinking about doing the same: don't. Or prepare to be shamed publicly.

While I also felt strange to see such a Michael Arrington-move on the homepage, it was impossible to not laugh about the idiotic effort of this guy trying to convince them to get a freebie. And what a persistent prankster he was. Towards the end it became more obvious that probably he was just a kid, having fun and practicing his social engineering skills.

Anyway, shame on him, for wasting people's time. Try picking one of the big guys next time, that have deep pockets and vast call centers (and lawyers) to deal with idiots. And btw, TI, Microchip, Renesas, all have trial programs for hobbyists, no social engineering required.

Again, I don't want to speak on behalf of R-Pi or Liz, but I don't think she's doing this just for lulz, at all. It's really a pain to manage social communities, especially tech ones. 1% of the users cause 90% of your nightmares, so you need to have a bit of humor (even if it's dark humor; it's a British foundation after all).
"Bash uses the readline library for input editing. The readline library supports emacs style key bindings[...]"

Been using Emacs for a year and I didn't know this. O_o
Same here. I can get it in my cart, but can't checkout. It gives me an error, then it empties my cart. Apple must be having a good laugh at this
Most things that you can buy used are already so much better than the worst product you can buy new, but at a similar price. If you make the effort to bring something to the thrift store, donate it or put it on ebay, it shows that you believe it to be too good to throw away. This is usually stuff that has already seen some use (e.g. clothing that has been washed a few times) and is still OK, as opposed to shitty stuff you buy that breaks soon.
Did you keep clicking the "Proceed" button when you're in the cart page?
Yeah, but it keeps rates up on the native side. I kinda like them being scared; when they get too close I can wave pointers around like a wand and they scurry away.

For my part, I'm a bit scared of web development: without a compiler, I'd have to keep working all the time. I'd miss fencing on chairs.
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I disagree with basically everything he said about Lisp: first of all, Common Lisp was the frontrunner for several decades, and can hardly be described as having the "smallest, cleanest core". Furthermore, Clojure has been reasonably successful in the past few years, and continues to increase in popularity. It doesn't have the commercial backing of C# or Java, nor does it have the head start of Python or Ruby, but it's getting there.
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Real hackers are on both sides of the spam game. There is too much money for smart people to not do it.

For a short time I worked for a company who was very spammy and outright sketchy. They had a team of dev and ops people who cranked out hundreds of millions of emails and "free ipod ads" per day.

There were heavy API integrations with Commission Junction and the porn affiliate networks, redundant systems, and all that. I leaned a lot in the 45 days I worked there.

All of them "hackers" in this sense. They got the job done, and it worked. But I hated every minute of it.
Thats the tricky part. On the twitter photosharing site (separate project) that I built and maintain, its a constant battle to flag content so that it stays family friendly for advertisers. For flagged media, I show house ads.
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Came here to post something similar.

Not only do I have to disable no-script to see any content, but then the page usurps my back button taking me somewhere I don't want to go.

For a company that makes neato flip-book-web3.0-page-turny stuff so well, they sure do fall flat on the blog thing.
You can add a few layers here and there, like a build process, and continuous integration or static analysis or release engineering.

It doesn't come near compiler times, but it's close enough.
>Tim Cook is the CEO. It's ultimately his responsibility--and his apology shows him taking that responsibility

My understanding is that Scott Forstall was forced to resign because he wouldn't put his name on the bottom of that letter.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57542297-37/apples-scott-f...
I'm looking to upgrade from my Galaxy Nexus (the USB port is broken and it's annoying to charge the battery by pulling it out).

How big of a concern for people that its only HSPA+?
I've only ever used HSPA+ so I'm not sure how much faster really is LTE. I know you can get 20mbs download speeds but realistically for page loads and browsing is it that much smoother of an experience?
WikiMedia (which oversees WikiPedia) has 143 employees, according to CrunchBase.
Nah, the case was just about the copyright ownership. The company that bought the copyright (Raben) was an Australian footwear company that sold Doc Martens. Griggs weren't trying to stop them using the logo and there was no passing off, so there was no suggestion of a registered trademark or passing off action. They just wanted a declaration that they own the copyright, for obvious reasons. (It's not clear why Raben bought the copyright off the designer and what they were planning on doing with it. Apparently they just didn't like Griggs and wanted to piss them off... see first instance para 12).

Here's the first instance decision, which explains the background: http://www.5rb.com/docs/Griggs%20Group%20Ltd-v-Evans%20ChD%2...

And the CA decision: http://judgmental.org.uk/judgments/EWCA-Civ/2005/[2005]_EWCA... (currently down, but google has it cached if you don't have westlaw access)
Yeah but there are different types of dropouts. Which kind they are could make a slight difference.

For example, Jobs does not belong in the group of dropouts that Gates and Zuckerberg do. In the latter case, both were great students enrolled in one of the best schools in the country and dropped out once they had a reason to drop out (potentially huge idea.)
I have heard of this but I had assumed that this had to do with younger people being willing to put into incredibily long hacking sessions; as people get older they would not have to time or energy to do that.
Even Nokia's new offering can find it. Apple though? Nope.

Nokia owns Navteq, which is one of the premier providers of GIS data. They're actually better positioned then Apple in this space.
if you're truly equating SEO with "spewing spam" then you're admitting you're completely ignorant to what SEO truly is.
is it? the actual candidates already get preselected.

even if youre right, which is likely, it doesn't matter, because any majority was previously generated by pluarility.
Eh...excuse me?
I got a 8gb. Must have lucked out. Im guessing they won't go back to 'sold out' for a while based on the shipping times.

I'm trying to get a 16gb one though so I can cancel my 8gb...and no luck. this is really awful.
What is the argument for searches when you decide to leave after entering the pat down area? It doesn't seem to be an administrative search if you decide to leave after entering the security area, because you are no longer going to board an aircraft.
oh my God! i am sure I can make a better cart! :S 41 minutes, one second i get go to cart, other i get "please try again" i think i should give up! i have better things to do than buy the stupid phone!
Tough topic. Experience vs. Youth.

Does bias exist? Absolutely.

I often tell people that being an engineer in certain fields (like software) can be very much like being a supermodel. Not one of them will reach fifty and stay in the Victoria's Secret catalog. In fact, when it comes to VS, 30-something and you are pushing it.

Is this wise? (back to CS now, not VS). Nope. People should be hired based on what they are able to do. What they can contribute to the company's mission. Often-times a more experienced developer just knows the path to a solution, if I may say, instinctively. And, yes, it is about making a bunch of mistakes and learning from them.

This, in my eyes at least, is no different than gender discrimination which also exists in CS.
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
I'm pretty sure even the YC application asks you to a describe a time you hacked a non-computer system. Seems reasonable to extrapolate that not all hacking involves "coding", but bending/manipulating/breaking(?) systems to accomplish your goal (in this case, growth) and maximize your return. No reason to disqualify SEO.
So my question is: why is this industry so prone to chips on shoulders? Might there not be a better way?
Amazon web services makes more than $1.5 billions per year
Older people are perhaps more likely to be successful. But there is less variance in their outcomes.

We learn how to control our variance as we get older. (I'm 29, so I have no idea if I'm "young" or "old" by SV standards.) High-variance life isn't fun unless you hit an early home run. Otherwise, it's stressful and shitty. Experiences like getting fired because you were better than your CTO's-friend manager and made him insecure are pretty damaging, and they lead to self-filtering and variance-reduction as a survival strategy.

Give us an R&D environment that doesn't beat the shit out of high-variance people for 20 years, and you'll see a world where experience doesn't reduce variance so sharply, but delivers increases on the whole distribution.
Qt? wxWidgets? Gtk? XUL?
There is also a story that goes the other way... that as you grow older you realize its not worth working with those types of people. The last place I want to work personally is at a place stacked with narcissists all trying to figure out how they can prop up their own egos (while this does not define many startups it also unfortunately from my experience does define quite a few).

Life is too short to not be working with decent people.

That being said if you have the opportunity to work with some people who have been in tech for 20 or 30 years - become their buddy - you're more than likely to find out they are some of the smartest out there. When I was first out of college I worked at a place where the 2 guys I sat next to were 40 and 50 years old - they still are the best mentors/collaborators Ive ever had.
MongoDB writes to be safe/verified by default
See: the Last Bookstore in downtown LA.

It opened in 2009 and has expanded several times. It now sells 100,000 used books at $1 each in 16,000 square feet. It is already the largest independent bookseller in southern california.

There are so many books that they are organized by color in some sections. The variety within a shelf is just bizarre. Like the opposite of Google search results.

It feels like a tourist destination or an art installation. It's a remarkable experience.
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I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by "code sample from these languages", but Ruby's source has plenty of code contributed from all over the world https://github.com/ruby/ruby

If you're talking about code written in non-English languages, Peter Cooper has a fun article about writing Ruby code in UTF-8: http://www.rubyinside.com/the-split-is-not-enough-whitespace...
This worked for me after about 5 minutes of clicking.
In fairness I think he'd also say he's excited to find exceptions to the rule and would encourage any older entrepreneurs to prove him wrong. You can acknowledge certain market realities and still support and maintain a strong meritocracy that doesn't discriminate against outliers.
See jfb's quote.

Also, I went to Rutgers as well.
They have 29 days _left_
If you actually looked, you'd see that there's 29 days to go, and it started today.
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Why do I get the feeling that dcurtis' friends are going to endlessly chide him whenever they go out for dinner?

I wish one of my friends would write an anecdotal story like that.
If it's a Microsoft app, I will rate it based on its performance at the time of the latest release. They should know better, and have more resources to catch these things before release. In the example I cited, I was willing to bet the author didn't have a WP8 device to test on, and I was using the app problem free on WP7. Microsoft or other giant publishers should have these resources, you are correct.
Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.
>If Big Pharma wanted to push dangerous or ineffective drugs on the public, there are far easier and cheaper ways to go about it than coming up with elaborate double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled testing protocols. See: Vioxx.

??? Vioxx was not at all cheap or easy to bring to market, nor was it ineffective. Rather, it was a case where a drug was tremendously beneficial to most users but deadly for a small subset. Even after its withdrawal from the market, US and Canadian government panels have voted in favor of bringing it back based on cost-benefit analysis!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vioxx#Withdrawal

I don't think it's possible to have a worse example of the drug company behavior you mentioned. Why not point to the days of phony, deadly cures being pushed on a naive population? Vioxx had actual research and efficacy behind it, and may actually merit coming back on the market.
Those two statements might be completely valid but don't necessarily disprove my point. :-)

I am sure there are old people who suck at this stuff, as are there young people who are great at this. The point here is that you can't sweep people with a broad brush using one parameter. You get to know the people and figure out whether they would be the right people to build your team without going by silly filters like age or sex or whatever.
There are two countervailing trends here: one is the increasing level of experience and the other is the decreasing level of hipness (hear me out, please). As an older engineer (early 40's), I speak from experience.

When I was young, I thought my designs were excellent, because they were the best things I had done so far. I was able to look around at amazing code (NT kernel, for example; open source was much less prevalent back then) so I realized there was a continuum of excellence. After five years, I looked back as some of my earlier code and it looked bad. I did the same five years later and had a similar experience. After that, improvement came by degrees and was more related to breadth of experience in different domains. So it's clear to me that "older" people, in my profession, at least, are usually more capable than a younger person at this particular skill.

That said, there is the "hipness" factor, for lack of a better word, and it's very real. Older people tend to get set in their ways and do what they do. If they like watching TV, they'll keep up with their favorite shows. If they like sports, they'll keep up with their teams. They are unlikely to know the hottest bands or Internet memes. They just don't keep up with current culture, which happens to be largely youth culture. They might like their iPhone or Android and know how to use it. But the fact is, that most older people merely use technology. They don't bury themselves in it every day. So when they talk to someone younger about culture or technology, they seem out of touch.

As someone who follows technology, it's pretty lonely in my cohort. There's literally nothing to talk about in the area that holds a large part of my interest.

I think the people under consideration here are biasing against the experience factor in favor of the hipness factor because it's just so apparent. It literally takes a couple of minutes of conversation before determining that the older person is "clueless".

If a person want's to work in technology (e.g., in a Bay Area startup) and they don't keep up with technology and/or culture, they are going to have a hard time.
...and the purpose of that young guy's site has turned into showing pictures of grandchildren to grandparents.

I thought the hivemind determined pint' was one of those middle age middle america housewife demos?
That's like saying you consent by leaving your house. I guess you also think the airlines consent to having the TSA search their customers? I'd love it if airlines could opt-out. Let the market decide who thinks it is a risk. They could charge more money for the privilege of flying unmolested.
These are the ways you guys choose to buy your stuff. Cool. Still, I dislike ideas that you should 'always' do something, always buy best, always buy worst.

I'll take time, care (and my limited funds ;) ) to research and buy what's best if I think research will be fun. Or interesting. Or useful in the future. Or the item is somehow important to me (and the spoon sure as hell is not). Otherwise - first thing that seems to be good enough should do just fine.
Nokia owns Navteq, which is one of the premier providers of GIS data. They're actually better positioned then Apple in this space.

I'm not sure that the data's to blame. For comparison, I've just given CoPilot Live a try with a couple of other streets (Korotyńskiego and Dickensa to be precise), and the UI presented them to without any difficulties.

These aren't new streets, they're on every map out there, and I'm convinced that this is a programming issue of not handling the data correctly. It's not even a case of doing cleverness with letters such as ń or ó - it's a complete failure altogether.
Apple fires manager of Maps team
Yes, File->Create a copy.
I've been telling people this for years. It needs to be cut out of the SV culture because if not most of us young guys (27 here) will be suffering from it on the backend of our careers.
If your product brings in $50+ billion in revenue, I'm sure you'll think of some new feature for the next iPhone.
THIS.

SO MUCH THIS. fuck yes.
What a joke Google!