skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the other thing is, a 65 year old developer would have started developing around 1970. While there were certainly people developing software back then, it was nowhere near as many as there are today, so the pool of people 65 and up is obviously going to be quite small.

I'm quite hopeful as the people who started during the boom of the 90's age that the pool of older developers will increase and we'll discover that people aren't really 'aged' out of jobs. I love what I do and have zero interest in management or starting my own company, so I hope to stay gainfully employed as a developer at least until 60 (at which point I may decide to work part time or pick up consulting gigs as I tide myself over to my peak social security withdrawls at age 70).
Quoting from the post I replied to

> women want to be equal, but they want to keep certain privileges. They want to be accepted by men in tech as equals, but be spared sex jokes

So, according to that, being spared sex jokes is a privilege that women enjoy. It also happens to fall under professional courtesy. Hence my comment.

None of that is directly related to the people involved.
Except this one isn't well written, and smacks of postmodern impossibility instead of structuralist awe.
I'm surprised by the "eeew" attached to being a woman in tech. Is there really that much stigma with saying "I am a woman"? I get that we all just want to be technologists and not "female technologists" but it's a red flag that people use this kind of mitigating speech when sharing their views.

It's unfair to assume Adria is "sheltered". In fact she has dealt with a great deal more than most of us, from domestic abuse to foster care. She has overcome immense barriers.

Please don't be quick to judge people as sheltered or oversensitive. Many people, or their loved ones, have experienced violence, abuse, sexism, racism, and other hardships that most of us couldn't imagine. What is offensive to one of us may not be obvious to the rest.

Adria is being physically threatened and having racial and misogynistic slurs thrown at her over this incident.

It breaks my heart to see so many rallying against her at a time when she really needs our support. Some truly horrific things are happening to her as a result of this tweet, whose consequences she could have never intended or imagined.

You don't have to agree with her views and her actions to agree that no one in our community deserves this.
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Agreed. What she did was sub-optimal.
What you did was pretty fucking retarded. You took a joke way out of proportion; then instead of telling the guy off- you took a picture of the guy and post it on twitter for the whole planet to see. Firing the guy and having his three kids go fucking hungry. Forget the guy here for a moment. YOU'VE JUST FUCKED OVER THREE KIDS OVER A DAMN JOKE. For "feminism"? What the fucking hell is wrong with you!? You're the reason why it's considered a joke in the western world. You have power, so do many other women. Hell, if you want to see female oppression, look at the middle east. Look in a number of third world countries. In the states a single accusation, not convicted or charged- ACCUSATION of rape will land a guy in prison. You have power, and I've seen others abuse that to their own ends to the point to where it became an issue that's stands here today. Of real rapists getting away and the innocent behind bars with their lives ruined.

You're almost as bad as them... as you reinforce stereotypes and set bad examples for the rest of us that are fighting for real equality. My only advice to you is to grow thicker skin, you're not a delicate flower- you're a fucking human being that should be able to handle a seemingly 'uncomfortable' situation without generating drama like a fucking 14 year old in high school.
Great job Adria, now men really won't want women at their tech conventions.
ssh -D8080 -L3389:southkoreanupdatedistributionserver.kr:3389 -lfakeuser suspiciouschineseserver.cn

Hey, instant proxy and remote desktop tunnel. I wonder what movies they have on Netflix China? I wonder what the weather's like in south korea?

(ahem Obviously I'm simplifying and failing badly at being funny ... although if you don't recognize those SSH flags, you should look them up. VERY useful.)
Decade-old espionage malware found targeting government computers
What point am I proving?
As an occasional carpenter, Robertson or Philips are far superior and I can't see any carpenter choosing a slot (flathead) over them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Robertson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Phillips
Agree; customization and extenisibility of emacs is something unmatched (not a vim user, can't comment on that), I have been using emacs for just an year now; and still I feel I am more productive in emacs than anywhere else, keyboard macros and elisp extensibility can almost bring any feature customized to your fingers.
I always wonder why people don't have the courage to mention the elephant in the room - that a very significant part of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google's ability to track Firefox browser users. That, at least, deserves a mention.
I don't know which article you read, but the one I'm referring to had a person in a professional capacity, as representative of their company, at a conference.

If you are a spokesperson for a company - and that's what Evangelists are - then, while you're at a professional event, your words should reflect the stance of your company, not your own. That's what you get paid for.

I wouldn't consider this a firing offense (unless it's not the first time), but I wouldn't consider it a career enhancing move either.
Yeah, but I can, and I found him in 30 seconds. And that's the guy who was not fired, and who may not have anything to apologize for. As best I can tell it was the person sitting to his left that lost his job.

It's disingenuous to dismiss photos as anonymous when it's so easy to either crowdsource or reverse-engineer someone's identity. If you weren't aware of how easy it is, then I politely suggest you're a little naive.
Likewise the new iTunes. But at least that's not a key component of my daily wage-earning. I feel your pain.
Other commenters here noted this before you did, without the false courtesy.
Indeed! I disagree with people who think vim and emacs are ugly: they have their own nice 8bit-esque aesthetic which I'd expect hackers to like, given that they've chosen to stare at terminals all day (I've rolled my own colorscheme for both vim and emacs). And they make good use of screen real-estate, very important when coding on a laptop.

I haven't tried Evil, in my last emacs phase it wasn't mature yet IIRC - maybe I should give that a go and see if it tips the balance yet again.
You could be correct that this will just blow over. We shall find out.

The problem is that journalists tend to follow their leader, and this was written by Om himself. If I were a gambling man, I'd bet you will be proven wrong.
Yup, California treats capital gains as regular income, so he gets hit with an additional 13.3%.
I like the idea and there is a real need for this kind of app, but I think that restricting to multiple choice and text input questions is a very bad choice. These types of questions are the legacy of computer-fill-in-the-circle-with-a-pencil technology from the old days.

The khan academy exercises framework[1] is doing some very interesting things on the "rich question" front. They have questions which can be answered by moving lines, matching expressions as well as entering rich math expressions sqrt(2).

There is also ka-lite[2] which is building a "hosted khan-exercises" application, which includes a basic "teacher admin" view. It would be worth taking a look at it -- it is a very well done django app.

More feedback when the demo starts working again :)

_________

[1] https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises
[2] https://github.com/jamalex/ka-lite/
Worked for this total noob.
You have a good point. I suspect, as sources of profiling data, Reader, Alerts, Wave, Buzz, etc. were not producing at the level of search and mail. Plus is to be seen, but it's already descending below the level of discourse on Facebook. (https://plus.google.com/+AstronomyPictureOfTheDay/posts – I guess that's the problem with integrating it with a bunch of cheap smartphones)
Yeah, I thought about it a bit more and was going to edit to say (textually) crucify, but it was past the edit window.

I really don't understand WTF is with people. Some guys were mildly to moderately objectionable, to the point where I would have glared or asked them to grow up, and "counseled" them if they worked for or with me. Hypersensitive person goes nuclear in parallel with using appropriate channels (for whatever reasons one may wish to ascribe). Conference responds entirely appropriately. (shitty) employer overreacts. None of this warrants threats of physical violence or anything. And the way to address someone who you may feel is hypersensitive and overreacts to alleged sexism is NOT to actually be sexist and harassing toward her.
Right side - notice hard furniture, glare, total colour-insensitivity. Designers: no. Hackers: no. Business people talking loudly: yes. Lame!
You're polluting the discussion with all these hypotheticals. Stick to what actually happened.
Direct link to YC spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdE9...

(terribly hard to view in the blog post IFRAME)
Interesting! Danielle, would be interested in figuring out how I could help you automate this through Seed-DB (http://www.seed-db.com)
You don't even need to read :help right away. All you need to do is:

1. Start the graphical version, i.e. gvim, MacVim, or any version with drop-down menus.

2. Press 'i' to enter "Insert mode". Now just use it like any other text editor.

3. Use the menus. Note the equivalent commands (which are listed in the menus). When you want to use those commands, press ESC to switch to command mode, then enter the commands, then press 'i' again to go back to insert mode.

That's it. Modern vim has one of the smoothest learning curves of all software.
>I have been meaning to take her to Apple but honestly… dragging an iMac through South Coast Plaza to the Apple store is a fucking miserable proposition, so I’ve been putting it off.

There's your problem.
Justin.tv also does Twitch.tv which is ranked 573 on Alexa, not sure about the other stats for them.
iTunes has always been a dog.
We won’t turn on Do Not Track by default because then it would be Mozilla making the choice, not the individual.

That's just as true of leaving it turned off by default. What sort of idiots do you take us for?
The Coca-Cola Company is based in Atlanta, in the South. It's where the drink has existed the longest. Still crazy, but maybe that gives some perspective.
Or the risk of offending the biggest source of funding? Why does being tracked be the norm and you have to explicitly say don't track me? In real life you don't have to go to a government agency and register "I wish to not be stalked". What is wrong with saying it is the user's choice that they be tracked. Default is don't because that's how real life is.

(If you really really really care about a user's choice like you say you do then make the user make a choice. On first launch get the user's choice and refuse to work without being told what they'd prefer.)

Edit 1: I read the W3 draft on Do Not Track and seems like there is a section for "Explicit Consent Requirement".[0] Although whether the committee is influenced by corporation in way that the industry is tasked with policing itself is a different topic altogether.

Edit 2: Brain Smith from Mozilla responded with websites ignoring the flag if set by default. That's what Yahoo! did.[1] But that's the problem with any honor-based system.

[0] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tracking/2012Jun/...
[1] http://allthingsd.com/20121026/yahoo-dings-do-not-track-defa...
I can't remember the last time that my Xubuntu install broke.

Though somehow it makes perfect sense for one of the people who helped build Gentoo to be disgusted with Linux.
> What no one, the bitcoin community included, anticipates is hundreds and thousands of competing cryptocurrencies around the world.

No one anticipates it because it makes no sense. Nobody _wants_ hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrencies: Metcalfe's law and the inherent costs of currency fluctuation risk tell us that the number of cryptocurrencies will remain small.

I can't make sense of the rest of what you wrote.
You're right, if only if it was just pissy temper tantrums. But a person, with a wife and kids, lost their job and quite possibly their livelihood. You could say that it was ultimately his fault for making such jokes but as many have already pointed out this incident does a disservice to women in tech by alienating male developers.

Don't know what else to say. This entire incident seems surreal to me.
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We still have a strong artist/guru/crusader mythology within hacker/programmer culture. From the inside, we like to think of ourselves as ninjas (XKCD has a comic about Lisp paren being like ancient swords), artists (EA), and at times, knights (white hat, black hat, ...), and even information crusaders. From the outside, however, we are pretty much universally viewed as antisocial janitors (at least in business relationships), and no one wants a janitor who thinks he/she's an "artist."
As someone who uses a keyboard 98% of the time, but who uses a GUI editor and the mouse when it makes sense, I'd say the mouse is useful for several things, and what it IS useful for WILL be faster than what someone can do with a keyboard.

The clear win is using a powerful GUI-based editor that has tons of keyboard commands. Bonus points for being on Windows or Linux (i.e., not Mac OS) so you can navigate/BROWSE the menus from the keyboard.

I don't know Sublime myself; I'll have to check it out. For some reason I thought it was Mac-only, but I see that it's cross-platform. My editor-of-choice for years has been Visual Slickedit, but I'm not married to it. I just haven't found anything half as good in years of searching. And I keep trying other editors, too, since there are things I find imperfect about it (the scripting language is usable, for instance, but has it's own syntax and quirks).
Personally I think the biggest value these days with para-virtualization like this is in development. I can be running twenty or so different applications on the same physical machine, and for the most part (as long as they're idle since I'm only working with one) I don't even notice that they're running.
> We won’t turn on Do Not Track by default because then it would be Mozilla making the choice, not the individual.

I don't buy that. They are making a choice either way, whether they enable or disable it by default. Just like they are making a choice about the hundreds of other options Firefox has. A few examples of how Mozilla thinks:

> JavaScript enabled by default. Why? Developers and designers can do some really awesome websites with it and we want users to have that experience.

> SSL enabled by default. Why? It improves your security.

> Do Not Track disabled by default. Why? Because we don't want to fuck with the people who are paying us (i.e. Google).
TL:DR: "My mac broke. I didn't actually bring it in to get it fixed, but fuck Apple for not fixing it anyway."
Hey Danielle, your list is missing Rap Genius. Its Alexa scores (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rapgenius.com) should rank it number 8 on the list behind AirBnb.
When talking about his unreliable iMac:

> When a tool has served me well and needs to be taken care of, I feel I owe it that kindness for all its done for me.

and then, when he wants to bash Linux:

> A computer is a tool, that’s all. When it ceases to work reliably we have to move on.

Why the double standard?
The simplest way I can explain this to you is that for various reasons some people enjoy conforming, others don't. And, this case highlights different things about the "real world" to different people.
These articles are just idiotic. Mouse as fast as the keyboard except a 'few edge cases'? Get out of here.

Vim destroys using a mouse every day of the week, and unless the highest skillset you've learned is fingerpainting, it's not that hard. Sit down for 2 days, stop being a bitch, learn the keybindings, and you're good.
This is what happens when someone from the Java over-engineering crowd uses vim.

(45 plugins) Where you trying to convert vim to a eclipse IDE clone?
Thanks for the info! But you are missing the point entirely (or rather proving it).
"and Linux… Well, as someone who helped found Gentoo Linux, fuck Linux. It’s the absolute best thing for servers, AND NOTHING ELSE. If you’re running Linux on the desktop, you’re a person who would rather fix his computer than use it."

Yeah, right. Say that to my many linux-using friends who can't write a simple "hello world" program to save their lives. Despite "[helping] found Gentoo Linux", the author comes off as a moron when he makes such comments about "Linux", whatever the heck it means here.
I suspect "open" and "strategic reduction of a competitors advantage" are more strongly linked
I hate to break it to you, but Apple is very focused on increasing product turnover. Every other PC and laptop vendor is going through rough times because the obsolescence curve on Windows PC's has gotten so slow to fall off. A five year old PC can run Win8 (or Linux) pretty fine actually, so sales are in the scuppers.

Would you want to install Mountain Lion on a five-year old Mac? Hell no!

Apple saw that hardware was starting to last longer and took steps. Part of their solution was to try to innovate. Retina screens, multi-touch trackpads and an increased focus on gestures to justify their use over mice, etc.. Another part was to drive costs, and prices, down. Besides placing price pressure on the competition, occupying a lower price-bracket means people are more likely to upgrade more often rather than trying to nurse their old hardware along for as long as possible. This is the good. The other parts of their attack on long obsolescence cycles are not so good.

All traces of easy upgradeability have left Apple's product line. You now need special tools to get into pretty much any Apple laptop, and they use propriety connectors for everything. Want to pop an off-the-shelf SSD into your Air? Not gonna happen. Yes, you can order Apple compatible parts and tools online, but this is not by Apple's design. They'd probably sue those guys into oblivion if they were really doing a lot of business.

Apple laptops feel great in the hand, as if they're built to last generations, but they're actually horribly delicate in some respects. The Air can be bricked by a mere drop of liquid in the wrong spot (this actually happened to me. One drop. I'm not kidding.). The proprietary screws and integrated battery mean you can't remove the potential to stop the damage before it happens and then clean things up yourself. It's a horrible feeling watching your laptop fry itself knowing it could have been saved if it had been designed with a removeable battery. You'll get no sympathy from Apple either. Their warranty does not cover spill-damage. When this happened to me, the repair bill was literally larger than what I paid for my air in the first place! Subtle hint?

Software glitches and poor support for older hardware are only the latest in a long sequence of Apple's moves to keep you buying new hardware. Have the geeks looked at your obsolete macbook, tsk'd, and subtly hinted that while you could continue suffering with that old beast, a new laptop would be very cheap and work much better!

Apple is not stupid. They're actually really freakin' smart. I'd be willing to bet OSX users replace their laptops, on average, more than twice as often as Linux or Windows users.
As a lady I can clearly say this isn't how that situation makes me feel.

Your post makes me feel ashamed though, it assumes a lot about women, that it is probably pretty offensive to homosexuals, and that it is written in an absurd and illegible color which makes me wish you more completely were unaware of how to use a computer.
I can't agree. Ihad the same reaction, but as I read through the story it became clear that this was a simple driver/software problem that could (and should) have been patched with a nightly update. You shouldn't need to go carting a large and expensive piece of hardware into the store in these days of high-speed internet service.

On an unrelated note, tiny gray text on black makes it really hard to switch back to HN, so I can't blame you for not making it to the end. Ow.
the problem is that Mozilla introduced do not track.

if they had both introduced the feature AND made it default, since following the hint is voluntary from the advertisement providers (ie server side decides to honor it or not), well, NONE would have followed it.

The situation with 3rd party cookies is different, because it's up to the client, not to the server side.

So, this has little to do with the Google search engine deal, in fact.
Thank you, I will update it with all the feedback on this thread so keep it coming. Check back shortly and you'll see Rap Genius on there
Dumb question...

How is Voyager able to transmit such a great distance, even after all these years? Hasn't its battery died yet? Also how does it power its sensors (to measure radiation and such)?
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First, I wasn't making an analogy.

Second, there was no harassment in my story. The person at the bar interpreted the comments as about him. But as I was writing the story, I imagine they were talking about something else entirely, and didn't notice him.

Third, I was not attempting to appeal to homophobic tendencies. I was attempting to create a legitimate scenario where an average guy might feel afraid of sexual assault. I couldn't tell the story with straight women; men rarely see women as physically threatening. And I obviously couldn't tell the story with straight men, because a straight man wouldn't feel a risk of sexual assault.

If you've got a better story to help give a guy a visceral fear of sexual assault, I'd like to read it.
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might be only $150 now but in 10-15 years when rates double then it turns into a lot more money. Most solar companies are pitching the protection of the power companies rate increases.
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> But I think it's fair to consider google's track record with similar products over the last decade when debating whether or not to use keep.

How is a standalone, non-monetized product like Reader similar to a feature of Google Drive (one of the core elements of the paid Google Apps.)
In my experience (11 years with Emacs, then 8 years with Wily/Acme-SAC/Acme) using the mouse is much more efficient than typing to move the cursor and select text. Acme takes it a step further by binding cut and paste to mouse chords. Guide files are the big win, though, since I edit and reissue commands (highlight and middle-click) instead of retyping them.
Can we start a gay bar where people make github repo forking jokes or all the drinks are named in such a scheme? I'd love to go to this bar.
There's a fair bit of research suggesting that we unconsciously value things in proportion to what we pay for them. Since Linux is free, it's a lot easier to be unsentimental about your Linux installation, even if that's not wholly rational (eg it represents a larger investment of time or expertise).
"700 hand written lines in my .vimrc, and 45 plugins"
I may have found the problem. Learn to use the editor.

This ^^, say no more.