skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short: absolutely!

One of the many things I love about programming is the lack of an age/experience barrier. No degree is required and anyone can get started at any age. If you shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com, I might be able to work out someone for you to put your name on, depending where you're at with web development.
Ask HN: When should you expect that a candidate tries the product?
If you are hiring the second/third employee for a Web based SaaS company, at which point of interview process do you expect that candidate tries the product? Immediately? Before phone interview?
Siri, an app, a customized search box, etc. Apple changes the UI, Google's fucked. What is it you don't understand?
and the lack of identity
Social Media Images Form a New Language Online
Who? Let me know so I can fix it!
I think it can be easily inferred from my comment that I'm not talking about frictional unemployment.
Of course, you can both master a niche _and_ build awesome products and have a good time -- the two are not mutually exclusive as your comment implies.
I'm sorry but locking two people in a room really has nothing to do with the way the vast majority of people live their lives. You are again assuming the initial point and working backwards from that belief. It seems pretty clear this is a matter of faith for you, so not much point in continuing to debate it.
I remember a user flat out lying about what an error box said over the phone. I asked her to read it out, she gave be what was in her head, not on the screen. I asked her to read it word-by-word, she did the same. I asked her to read it out letter-by-letter ("I've never seen that error there before, I want to get it exactly right so I can ask the programmers...") and then she actually looked at what it said.
True. The subway is actually very nice, and in Beijing, very cheap (just 2 RMB a trip, no distance limit!). Those who can afford cars aren't using transit, and many of us in the middle are using taxis anyways because they are still not that bad (50 RMB = ~$8 taxi vs. 2 RMB subway...).

I would prefer nice public transit though, or better yet, the ability to bike without getting killed by a car.
Facebook Messages: Backup & Replication Systems on HBase
As the top commenter notes, it is probably impossible to actually buy enough BTC inside Argentina to support the transactions those bankers are looking to make. There is almost always plenty of gold for sale everywhere, and plenty of buyers at your destination.
Mark Cerny "The Road to PS4"  gamelabs 2013
What makes it "official"?
you can't find it on the market ANYWHERE.

certain vehicles no longer offer a manual transmission

Are you trying to tell me these two statements are equivalent?
Show HN: hubot-control - webapp for managing hubots
A rails app for managing self-hosted hubot installations.
The Democrats that controlled both houses of Congress made Obamacare happen.
"Android Home to 92% of Mobile Market's Malware"

http://hothardware.com/News/Android-Home-to-92-of-Mobile-Mar...

http://android-jellybean.com/2013/06/android-home-to-92-of-m...
I'm 36 and more or less in the same boat. In a few years' time I've managed to start making money fixing up javascript, making custom themes and plugins for wordpress, and I set up a github account. It's definitely doable. Just get something out, get some projects, network with people. I have yet to actually meet anyone who cares about age... they're probably not going to unless they're like 20, or you're 80. Don't let your age stop you.
Some mainstream sites will load js from 20 (or more) sources, just to show you an article. Crazy.

Every mainstream browser supports Flash, too - does that mean Flash is the way of the future?

I run with NoScript, and it makes the web a quieter, more peaceful place.
Gitian, a secure source-control oriented software distribution method
I have to admit I was never a fan of Obama and didn't understand those who trusted his promises as a candidate. Every candidate makes promises they rarely keep, but Obama was well known for the level of change he claimed he would bring. None of this administration's scandals have surprised me.
That depends entirely on your site and audience.

Although some counter by saying that you shouldn't need to provide wheelchair ramps for the < 1% of people who are unable to use stairs.

Sometimes it's not just about ROI.
No, most claims to power were correlated with the divine decree. You have yet to prove that there was any causation.
I think for senior people the notion of "you are not your code" tends to sink in after a few rewrites/refactorings or total technology replacements.
I will note that the concern is not that your bus will crash- it is that you will be mugged and/or shot.
Or you could just take a nap...
I get the feeling that a lot of people on this site dislike Medium, either consciously or unconsciously. I think part of it is the fact that it separates content from its creators; I think part of it is that it sprung up the same time as Svbtle, and grew conspicuously ubiquitous whereas Svbtle has remained pretty confined to the tech sphere.

The underlying value proposition by any sort of blogging engine (Posthaven, Medium, Svbtle, et al) is limited to a network, ease of use, and a good design. For most tech people, ease of use is a non-factor (you can extol 'distractions-free design', but you can put vim or Byword in full-screen mode) -- and I think the way people are reading is shifting away from individual sites and towards external services to the extent that design isn't a huge factor (everything looks the same in NewsBlur or Instapaper.)

This leaves the network/audience, which is a much more interesting concept: Svbtle is clearly going for a more curated approach (though the value of that curation is arguable), whereas Medium's trying a bunch of stuff at once (collections, editor's feed, etc.)

I can't help thinking that the winner of this nouveau publishing spectrum isn't going to be a hosting service, but a linking service. You might never get Patrick McKenzie to blog on your platform (because why would he?) but you can always link to his material.
I've had two Medium articles get over 1.1k views and a 90%+ readership. I have about 6 subscribers on my WordPress blog that gets ~100 views a day.

Just putting that out there. Make of it what you will.

By the way, I once had an article get 10k views after a share on HN, then had that same article get ~120,000 after a republish on Lifehacker. The morale of all this? I don't know. Sure, it feels kind of good knowing that many people are reading your content, but the bigger picture is what are you doing with the viewership. I'm not so gung-ho on views anymore because views don't pay my rent, money does. Money is the ultimate metric.

Sure, viewership is nice, but only because of what it leads to: money and conversations. Medium is an okay place for conversations, and definitely is not a place to make money. I've yet to see an affiliate link or someone telling me to buy their book on the site. If anything, it's a place used to build your reputation -- it's like a nice outfit that makes you temporarily look good. I saw temporarily because it's a new site and has somewhat of a gated community feel to it.

I like reading. I like writing. But in the end, it comes down to making money.

yeah, I'm all over the place with this comment. It's Sunday night and I am a single guy that lives alone -- I got a lot on my mind!
but the CDN provider might 'fingerprint' the script based on IP/frequency/headers etc and always return one version, whilst returning a different version to others... ? ;-)
Have fun:

E.g., there is

Enders A. Robinson,
'Multichannel Time Series Analysis with Digital
Computer Programs',
Holden-Day,
San Francisco.

So, the main application here is finding
oil! So, go "boom" and send a sound
wave into the earth. At each different
layer, get back a reflection of part of
the energy. So, to get back just the layers,
just use the FFT.

Also have fun with X-ray diffraction,
holography, etc.

For signal processing, the core foundational
point is that a 'time-invariant linear
system' can be fully described by
Fourier theory. Basically the output
is a convolution of the input, and
the fast way to do a convolution is
with the FFT.

The impact of the FFT on signal
processing was enormous.

Have fun!
I don't look at advertising - certainly not advertising that pops up if I mouse over a word. (Are website a game now, where you have to carefully move your mouse to avoid the underlined words?)

I allow analytics.

And I am not interested in social interaction, because the comments are so intensely stupid you become dumber just by your computer loading them.
We've just opened up the sign-up and we're now processing your feeds. Please bare with us.
After the redistribution is all finalized and completed, who controls the prices of goods that one can finally buy with this newfound wealth?
Stop asking questions and just read the studies. If you have evidence just state it.

Argument by aggressive questioning is not an effective convincer.
I think it says a lot that the defense of these programs relies on what amounts to the redefinition of words, sometimes redefinitions with practically the opposite meaning - like how "collect" has been changed to mean access already collected data.

If they can't defend the programs with straightforward language it means they simply aren't being straightforward with us.
The interview I cited didn't say where, explicitly; what he said was that arrangements had been made by the State Department and it was the White House holding things back.

I'd like to know the answer to your question too, but I'm hesitant to accept the "there's nowhere to send them" meme, which one hears often, without something to distinguish it as fact rather than propaganda. For example, another often-repeated meme, "these are the worst of the worst", is apparently entirely untrue in these 86 cases. (Even the half dozen prisoners who have actually been tried were apparently mostly just cooks and drivers and such.)
I think it's a shame that private automobiles were introduced in China. There are too many people in large Chinese cities for them to all want to ride in a car. Imagine how much more livable these cities would be if everyone was either riding a bike or the subway.
So why you don't simply enjoy your life as it is ? If you will push hard towards your financial plans and dreams maybe you will find in 20 years you are just old man with a lot of money or you will be broken (e.g. next financial crisis, war, deadly illness etc...).
"As for non-technical users -- they're probably not going to be opening Firefox's Preferences dialog in the first place. And if they do, they probably aren't going to start randomly checking and unchecking stuff to see what it does."

You would be surprised what non-geeks tend to do when they have no clue what to do.
"because of the behavior of U.S. government, E.U. government(s) will make it hard for E.U. citizens to trade with U.S. citizens."
Yes, thats correct - you should not trade with enemies, with somebody who is in war with you. US citizens have elected their government who had declared EU to be US enemy.
Australia leads the world in online start-ups?
For learning programming, you might want to join and contribute to an open source project. They usually keep aside some menial work for enthusiastic beginners who want to work their way up.
if the make and model of the car of your interest is not available at all in manual transmission, then yes, absolutely yes, it's simply not available anywhere.

Henry Ford famously said "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" and that's the problem today. An entire market of buyers is being ignored.

If you accept that only grey color cars are being made and wonder why people aren't buying grey cars, nothing can help you.
Used Hondas and Toyotas did not depreciate 2010-2013 because the Cash-for-Clunkers débâcle reduced the supply of used cars, keeping up their price.

The suggestion that destroying operational vehicles would be a net gain for the economy is an excellent illustration of the broken window fallacy.

Cash-for-clunkers helped middle and upper-middle class people, including some friends of mine, who wanted to buy new cars. The cost of the program was born mostly by poor people, as is often the case.
SLS usually does. But to me it always seems like she is rather alone in her party. And even she had some slip ups. If the FDP were a liberal party they'd never ally with the CDU as they are probably the most anti-liberal party we have.
This is what will be the major issue for me. I toggle the right click override option on and off on a very regular basis.
I like your comment, and your last name. I have an Uncle named Jim. This isn't him, is it?

That would be quite the coincidence.

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I think the next best blogging platform will be one that does what WordPress used to do. I have my eyes on Ghost, which claims to be a minimalistic blogging system that you have full control over.

It's interesting you mention a linking service. I am actually working somewhat of a linking/sharing/status service that will put salience on the conversation instead of the publishing.
Uhh, there are still plenty of cars last time I checked. Help your dad adapt to modern age and he'll do just fine.
Sure it's possible but like learning any skill it will take time. You're obviously enjoying it, otherwise you wouldn't have put in the learning you've done so far.

One of the interesting things about software development compared to many other professions is that the field is still so new that people can have very successful careers without having done a degree.

Another interesting aspect is that software affects virtually every other field so there's opportunities for people coming from all kinds of backgrounds.

Given your current situation, I'd approach it as a hobby for now. Try to come up with little projects that are related to other things that interest you, or that would make your current job easier.

As you learn more and gain experience, try to apply your new knowledge to slightly more complicated projects, or to improve or redo past projects. You'll find the whole thing more rewarding if you do it in a way that you can get some direct benefit out of your work. The trick here is picking the right problem to solve. People often pick something that seems simple on the surface only to get discouraged and give up when it turns out to be more complicated than they first thought. Just try not to bite off more at once than you can chew.

Keep your eye out for opportunities to help solve other people's problems but again remember to keep it simple. Also keep in mind that their view of the problem and how it should be solved will be very different to your's. Learning how to manage this is a very valuable skill in itself.

Eventually you'll get to the point where your knowledge of development is that you can charge other people to apply your expertise to solve their problems for them. That's all a professional developer is.

At some point consider doing some more academic or abstract study. You don't have to do this right away, or formally at a college or school. The courses on sites like Udacity, Coursera and MIT Open Courseware cover a lot of the same stuff. While these courses will dive into areas that you won't use every day, they do give you a good overview of how everything fits together so you know the right questions to ask and the right places to look when you hit unfamiliar problems. You can get a long, long way without doing this at all depending on the type of development you want to do though.

Software development is a huge field so just keep learning whatever interests you and keep applying it to solve problems in other areas of your life. You'll get to enjoy the benefits of what you make and with persistence might one day be able to sell what you've learned to other people.
Not if you disabled it while fiddling with a bunch of firefox options late at night, and then didn't notice anything broken until the next morning.

Not if someone borrowing your computer for 5 minutes disables it.
I don't know, man.

I live in Colorado, in a super bike-friendly city, and I'm buying a car. Can't take public transportation to a campground. Can't take public transportation to a mountain bike trail. Public transportation for skiing is a huge pain in the ass.
Right now I'm stuck in the suburbs and the city I live in just doesn't have good public transportation and probably won't ever. There is one scenario that I'm looking forward to that could make my life easier.

What if Google or another company perfects self-driving cars? You could have "cars" that are basically motorized shopping carts. You go online and register your car with a particular store. Your car could drive from store to store having the workers load everything for you. If a lot of people use this it could be efficient since these self-driving vehicles drive optimally and won't get into accidents and will cooperate with each other to get to where they're going.

This way I can spend more time doing what I want and less time stuck in traffic and more time doing what I want. Basically it's automating a set of tasks you used to do with a car. I hope that day comes very soon.
I would say the same:

Paul isn't going to be doing this idea. But he does sound pretty positive about it.

Maybe there aren't that many VC-class high net worth individuals reading here, but it only takes one.

Who's going to be the first? (Apologies for the obvious slant...)
As long as you can still disable JS via about:config or NoScript, this is hardly worrisome.
I think they meant to say "Omni: a 3D Treadmill for Oculus Rift"
> As for non-technical users -- they're probably not going to be opening Firefox's Preferences dialog in the first place. And if they do, they probably aren't going to start randomly checking and unchecking stuff...

You clearly haven't worked with the same non-technical users I have. It took ages to figure out that "use TLS" getting unchecked was the reason our site wouldn't load for one particular visitor.

I wholeheartedly support removing all of these check boxes.
>there just aren't any cars on the market that match what consumers want

I don't know about that. The Tesla Model S seems to be just that, according to every reviewer and customer I've heard. What other mainstream car has a waiting list?
Twitter now offers free account analytics. How does it benefit users
Since we don't know all the details this is merely speculative, but I wonder if leaving Hong Kong was Assange's idea. In which case it seems he might just have royally screwed Snowden (albeit unintentionally).
You think the German intelligence bugs embassies of other countries (and the UNO ??) and has secret deals wiht Google, Apple etc.?? I highly doubt it, the ramifications would be too high in case it became public.
Anyhow, we are discussing US right now ... not Germany. (Check what ad hominem means :)
I really think you should re-read that paragraph - using "drugs" to include caffeine, nicotine and alcohol is exactly the point. I'll cite it.

The first sentences: I have a daughter who will one day take drugs. Of course, I will do everything in my power to see that she chooses her drugs wisely, but a life without drugs is neither foreseeable, nor, I think, desirable.

The first example of how taking drugs might be desirable, in the very next sentence: "Someday, I hope she enjoys a morning cup of tea or coffee as much as I do."

He continues with other example of his position on various drugs she might take: alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, psychedelics, narcotics. In the paragraph, "drugs" encompasses all of them.

The point is that the only line between what people call "drugs" and other mind-altering substances that people don't call "drugs" is a largely arbitrary legal one.

So I'm curious about your stance - being "simply apathetic about the whole experience". What experience exactly are you apathetic about? You said you know people who "don't even drink", so I assume you aren't one of them and do drink. You like Monster. So what's the distinguishing factor that only "drugs" offer that you are apathetic towards?
Directly from the links you posted:

- Halfaya: CNPC, Total SA, Petronas

- West Qurna: ExxonMobil, Shell, Lukoil, Statoil, Eni SpA, CNPC, Petronas

- Rumalia: BP, CNPC

- Majnoon: Shell, Petronas

Of all these, only ExxonMobil is an American company. Shell and BP are not American, regardless of the presence, unless you want to call Exxon a British or a Dutch company as well.

But more importantly, all these contracts were awarded on a competitive basis, with a bidding process. Especially telling is an entry for Rumalia field: "ExxonMobil which also bid on servicing this field at a price $4.80 walked away due to price cutting terms by the Iraqi Government leaving BP and CNPC as winners of the contract.".
But will you ride it daily to work? I think an argument isn't that nobody needs cars but more people will be relying on them less and the total # of hours spent driving them will be reduced.
As far as I know, SSH v2 offers perfect forward secrecy, so the attacker would have to read the session key from ram, not the private key (the private key would allow the attacker to do MITM, though).
Well, 40 minutes not counting getting to the train, waiting for the train, exiting the station, getting to your car & driving from the station home.
I think I would need to see a psychologist in order for that to happen. I'm very angry and sad at myself, I feel like I have contributed nothing to the world, and I never will.
JS doesn't make the web less accessible. You can choose to make your web apps using JS just as accessible as plain-old HTML, sometimes more so.
My point is that overreliance on monetary inflation as the single systemic driver is simplistic. Is it a cause? I think so. Is it the only cause? Not even close. There are so many other confounding factors at work that it is insensible to sheet it home purely to monetary factors.

Stuff like "large capital institutions in the USA are comfortable with venture investing", "shares have underperformed for most of the past 6 years", "it has never been cheaper or easier to launch a web startup" and "there are now billions of people connected to the internet" deserve billing alongside "the money supply is expanding", especially since monetary expansion has such lumpy and unpredictable effects on different asset classes at different times.
Yea that title is pretty bad. "Move naturally in your favorite game" could mean any one of millions of things, when the most important aspect of it is that it goes naturally with an Oculus Rift.
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How often do Firefox retire settings in about:config? There are still a bunch of old old settings in there, that you can still change.

Want your Firefox to behave like a 1990s browser with one window per website? You can configure that.
Unplug Your Weekend Or Ruin Your Life
Hmm, gotcha. I like elinks for it's pretty solid mouse/256color support in in terminal emulators but I haven't used it "from" other programs like emacs (just tmux). In that capacity, elinks is my primary browser for reading documentation (since I usually associate documentation with particular tmux sessions and leave it open for weeks or months on end).

w3m has image support in some terminals though, which fascinates me. I feel like I should probably investigate that some more.
Britain 'under attack' in cyberspace
The last time I checked, that wasn't an option. And now that you mentioned it, I might start to do it, too (sorry).

I'm not sure how you can track links via javascript, but I do know how to make a bit.ly link.
Exercises are OK, but eventually you're going to need social proof that you can code.

Pick a side project that sounds interesting (sounds like you're into games), figure out how to code it, and then put the source up on Github.

These side projects are going to be your portfolio of work, proof that you're not an idiot and worth their weight in gold when you go to apply somewhere.

Good luck.