skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A low average age isn't an indicator of ageism by default. It would make sense that people of different ages would be interested in different types of employers. Consider the following job characteristics:

1. Business travel is a plus to the young crowd and a minus to the older.

2. Legacy technology is a plus to the older crowd and a minus to the younger.

3. Large vs small teams. A younger group will have more generalists, and older group more specialists. A younger team will be small with minimal layers in the way. An older team will need a larger group to support the specialization gained over the years of experience.

Picture a large company that designs motherboards. No travel, established technology, large teams of specialists. Now envision a distributed team of <10 working on some new document classification web app on AWS. I'd wager that a completely different age group would be found in each circumstance. Not necessarily due to ageism.
You have any stats on that? Would be interesting to see som numbers.

My guess is that it wont be that obvious.
I'd personally be a lot more tolerant of trolls if I got a token amount of cash every time I was trolled.
Oh, did you buy a ticket to go see the Nobel awards? No?
You are totally correct, but it's only as unpleasant as my experience was.

My teachers were absolutely terrible. If it weren't for my mom teaching me math at a much accelerated pace (high school algebra by 3rd grade) and the fact that I practically lived in libraries until I was 14 or so, I wouldn't have done as well as I did.

A common problem I had in school with math was that the teachers were bad at solving the problems themselves and relied on the answer books which had wrong answers/misprints. I would get in arguments with teachers on occasion about the right answer and would often go up to the board with the work or a proof and the teacher would go "well, my book says it's this, so that's what it is."

I guess I was a stubborn kid and maybe a bit of an a-hole then too. :)

Edit: I'm not saying everyone who wants to teach children is an idiot. I know some amazing people who specialized in child education, like the cousin I mentioned. However, all of the really dull people I know that went into teaching all wanted to teach 1st-3rd graders...folks who could barely operate a cash register.
Definitely a step in the right direction, but I wish the degree didn't have the word "online" in it. I'd like to see them advertise the same integrity of their "offline" masters program.

I imagine the work is equal, and the word "online" shouldn't carry a negative connotation, but it sort of does.

Best of luck to anyone taking this on - again, I'm sure the program is great.
The "bad Indian programmer" meme seems to have less to do with India itself than with India as a place where lots of people go for cheap outsourcing. It's the cheap outsourcing part that's the problem. I've been fortunate to work with some very good Indian programmers, most of whom were first part of an independent company with their own products and then were colleagues within my own company when we bought them out. I've also worked with some really crappy Indian programmers, and some really crappy Russian ones, and even some really crappy American ones, who all worked at "body shops" offering the lowest bids for the kinds of programming everybody wants to outsource. There's a pattern, and it's loosely related to nationality, but it's not as simple as programmers from one country being better than programmers from another.

Who remembers when "made in Japan" meant "cheap plastic crap"? As their manufacturing industry matured, they went from that to leading the world in quality and precision. Similarly, India might once have been the place one went for cheap programmers. As their IT industry matures, it will become more and more a place where one can go for good programmers. Some of this is already happening, as outsourcing to India becomes more expensive and people turn to cheaper alternatives. Welcome to the global economy.
Did anybody take notes from the Mike Pall's LuaJIT talk? I've been asking around on Twitter, but no luck so far. (My contact info is in my profile.)
>"Firstly, right now in India, programming(Computer engineering) is one of the most widely adopted courses. This obviously means a lot of programmers and a lot of web shops, IT services and whatever. More the companies, more chances of you ending up finding a mediocre one."

I am agreed with this. I have seen a similar pattern in Venezuela where the IT/Programming area is perceived as a high remunerated job (Not always true actually) hence a lot of young student take that path without actually being their passion. In the end, there are more people in the area that not necessarily fit in the career and that is reflected in the quality of their work.
Read this earlier HN post, it will help with how to find clients. Some good advice in there.
Refactor to remote: Leave tasks unassigned
Here's the Milner paper which describes ML's type system. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.67....

Wikipedia also helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_rules
I don't believe you need to source the rvmrc. The line I pasted above does all the necessary things that "rvm use $BUILD" would do for a shell, without all the things that require an interactive shell.
Is One Of These Five Issues Holding Back Your Business? - Content Strategy Hub
Yup, it's on the roadmap but I'd like to figure out something more elegant than just importing everything you do on other networks. Other sites have done that and it turns into a "set it and forget it" experience, I want to build something where people actually come to, share gaming experiences and get value out of the discussion.
Allow me to explain the Physics/Chem part of his comment.

The education system in India offers a fork-in-the-road twice:

1. Grade 10 - at which point you get to choose the general direction you want to head in (primarily Arts, Science, or Commerce streams)

2. Grade 12 - at which point you get to choose a slightly more specific stream, pursuant to the stream you chose in grade 10.

Science students continue to study Physics, Chemistry and Maths until the end of grade 12 at which point they are presented with the above fork-in-the-road. To get into a college that offers an engineering degree (or any applied-sciences degree, for that matter,) you need to have a good score in PCM, i.e. Physics, Chemistry & Maths. It is in this context that your Physics & Chemistry scores are relevant.

Also, one of the basic requirements for getting into a engineering course is that you should have graduated from a Science stream. Someone who has completed grades 11 and 12 in the commerce stream can't get an applied sciences course.
I think it may be more appropriately called the mid-tier. You have your back-end handling storage, low level validations, complex business logic, service integration and coordination, background jobs, etc. You have your mid-tier with the implementation-specific validations / logic, template rendering, etc. And then you have your front-end with (as appropriate) all the client-side stuff (validations, logic, and rendering).

It's worth considering the source, in this case. Nicholas has spent a lot of time both employed full-time and as a contractor at organizations that operate at a massive scale. This solution works if your application, architecture, or even engineers would benefit from additional abstraction.

I do take issue with one point he brings up, however. He mentions the mid-tier communicating with the back-end over HTTP(S). Unless you have some need to serve your API exclusively over HTTP(S), why not use something with a little less overhead (like a message queue)?
Now we just need an online BSCS from a real college.
The problem about being a programmer :-)
According to the features page:

"You can host it on your laptop, or you can host it on a public server. The code is open, and so is the MIT license."

It's currently not public, so I would imagine at the moment it's all hosted on their servers, but according to their blog[0], they're going public on the 14th of October, meaning it should be self-hostable from then, one would assume.

[0] http://blog.ghost.org/ghost-0-3-1-maintenance-release/
> the cultural design-pattern mess.

While it may have become cultural, the design-pattern mess is directly related to the limitations of Java the language when applied in its typical domains of application. The reason many languages whose features evolved in light of the Java design pattern mess don't share that mess isn't purely cultural, it is because the features of those languages were designed specifically (often drawing from older languages that didn't have the same problems as Java but which weren't popular in Java's role for other reasons) to overcome the limitations that require those patterns in Java; this is perhaps nowhere as obviously the case as it is with Scala.
With crouton, there are very few Linux apps that you can't run on a Chromebook. While I haven't tried it with SublimeText, I have run Eclipse on my Chromebook. It's not the smoothest experience, but it can get the job done.

So far, Arduino and IntelliJ are the only apps that I haven't gotten working on my Chromebook. The former relies on some x86 libraries that obviously won't work on an ARM processor, and the latter prefers the Oracle JVM which is just too much of a pain for me to set up when OpenJDK and Eclipse work well enough. I've also had some issues with my VPN (IPSec Xauth PSK).

I probably wouldn't recommend a Chromebook as a full time development machine, but it can certainly be done better than just a fancy SSH terminal. It's served me well enough when I've needed to work on the road. It's the best traveling laptop I've ever owned.
50 mummies per month for the highest plan is way way way too low. It should 10,000 or even 50,000. Think about it this way: the people who are willing to pay you for this type of service are probably huge publishers who would use this service to share their URLs to their followers in Twitter, Facebook, etc.
The Saudi wells are so high volume they spend almost nothing to get the oil out. Also the Saudis generally control the output to keep the price high. If they wanted to they could flood the world with oil.

This has long been the comforting conventional wisdom, but there have been contrarians. One wrote a book-length argument:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/047173876X

The argument is more-or-less that the Saudis have in fact been struggling just to keep output more-or-less flat. Their ability to open the taps to control prices is a thing of the past. They've made massive capital investments in the field operations, yet despite very high prices and an opportunity to make staggering profits, their output has only changed modestly and has never hit the peaks they've promised in the past (12 million bbl/day, I believe was what they claimed they could do; 7-8 million bbl/day is about all they've ever done lately).
How would "egalitarism" be relevant? Does that imply that every profession should have 50:50 men and women?

If egalitarism were a significant motivator, then there would have to be the same push for garbage women as for IT women. Since there is no push for garbage women, egalitarism disqualifies as a reason.
Maybe also offer a callback with the contents of the cached site, so developers can handle 404 redirects themselves.
What if the server was not in the US? A DMCA takedown notice would not apply.
Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about world history?
I've recently discovered some interest in knowing more about world history. Didn't pay attention to this subject when I was in school.

What blogs, videos, sites, etc. you'd recommend I read/watch? I can spare 30 minutes everyday.

Thanks in advance.
How many organizations that outsource

a) Send senior management to personally oversee the outsourced work in india ( at least initially )?

b) Send detailed SRS (Software Requirement Specification) to the outsourced team?

c) Personally interview and hire the programmers who will be working on their projects?

d) Personally perform a skills audit and then try to correct any deficiencies noticed through training for the programmers?

e) perform a thorough software estimation exercise based on the previous work history of the group they plan to work with?

The reason i raise the following questions is that i notice a tendency among many to stereotype the indian programmer for various reasons, but the reason for most software failures is probably a combination of bad management, poor tracking, bad estimation practises, lack of domain expertise among programmers, and the need to save a quick buck by the folks at cxo levels.

Just my two cents
Totally, it's on the road map. Also, I may very quite interested in your tech :) I'll be in touch.
Start working on your dreams early on
So you can write a really efficient program in Python if you change the definition of what Python does (that's what you're doing by rewriting the interpreter)? I think you're moving the goalposts here.
The tech industry is driven by 20-year-olds who have zero education or practical experience to understand why a lot of things are the way they are.

It turns out there are real reasons why hotels are regulated, why banking is regulated, why cabs are regulated, why meat-packing is regulated (still waiting for a internet-based meat-packing startup - Mechanical Turk meets Tyson Foods! Just slice the side of beef we send you, in your kitchen, then pack it back into the cooler with the pre-addressed label...), and so on.

The reason always is: because the business has been PROVEN TO FUCK PEOPLE OVER WHEN UNREGULATED.

(Longer answer: there's a systemic power problem between the provider and user of these businesses. Tourists have no power to avoid being fucked over, for example. Meat with E. Coli looks the same as meat without.)

But the 20-year-olds have grown up in a world where the business does not fuck people over (because it is regulated) and so they do not see any reason why it might require regulation.

And the VCs, the only adults in the equation, don't act the part of grownups because they're hoping the regulators are slow enough for a lot of profits to be extracted before shutdown occurs.
>Saying that men cannot be oppressed because they are the oppressors

There is a very vocal group of feminists who claim this very thing
So weird. I really don't get why any human would disagree with what Gates is doing.
I'm not sure why this isn't the top comment on any of these threads. The only place that I know of that gives tenants an absolute right to sublet is Chicago (https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/dcd/gen... see:SUBLEASES) Where this right doesn't exist, the standard tenant agreement will come to always contain a no AirBnB clause.

AirBnB will be a thing that landlords do. Property management companies are against it because it automates them out of existence. For landlords, it will be an unprecedented boon. Eventually people will be bragging about buying a 1 year lease on property like they once bragged about buying property.

This terrifies me, because I think that it will be a fairly irreversible phase change that solves the massive vacancy rate problem that we've had since the property bubble inflated. It's like German work sharing applied to housing (the vacancy rate will be spread more evenly across rental properties over time.)
In the UK National Health System, a Band 5 nurse ( i.e. no longer an assistant but not yet a specialist ) earns between £21k and just under £28k, which is on par with what my IT career was after a similar period in work.

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/working-in-the-nhs/pay-and-bene...

Band definitions here:

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/nursing/pay-f...

One might say that's not a lot of money for the stress and responsibility, but it's still starting at the UK average salary.
The plural of anecdote is not data
Haha your reply made me smile :) That would be a really interesting thing to do. It would be cool to have an optimum cooking range for different nutritional benefits. I wonder what nutritional values, outside of fat of course, our tastes are most calibrated for.
Core samples into specific bits that interest you.

http://paulgraham.com/raq.html
Oops, here is the post. http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made
The multi-dimensional scoring is probably the best part of this tool, as it forces you to think about the context in which you are naming your company -- vs. just disliking something because it has an emotional trigger in one of the founders / advisors.
How about doing something with the weekly email that I noticed in my profile settings, giving a list of games played over the last week, and the option to set as your current game or review them?

I'm with you that you probably don't just want another thing that says "Jon played 120 hours of Civilization V", but given you have the information available it would probably increase engagement hugely if you could nudge people to come back now and again. My problem with Goodreads is that I start using it, and then completely forget it exists again!
"Old people by their nature cling to institutions of loyalty"

You're a little out of date. That applies to the gold watch retirement crowd from WWII and "Mad Men" era and all that. None of those guys are under 80. The kind of people who think "talking pictures" on celluloid is high tech.

We are talking about (former) kids who listened to Nirvana on CDs while Kurt Cobain was still alive, not listened to Gunsmoke on the vacuum tube radio during the great depression LOL.
I have little social skills, anxiety etc. I can't afford to be an asshole, in fact, it's quite risky for me to take a stand even when I think I should. Someone who is consistently a jerk to others and yet has a good job is unlikely to have low social skills.
Doesn't help them much if a huge publisher is paying them $15 a month. That type of sale would require a SLA too, they really just need a contact email address.
You left out elitist. I have heard that one a lot.
Cave Story on Raspberry Pi
Liberal comment trolling polarizes conservatives (but not vice versa)
Canada does also. They made a tax treaty with hong-kong in 2012. I've had to file a statement with Canadian authorities to avoid double taxation in on my British income.
Third-wave feminists' deliberate use of the word "patriarchy" to describe modern western culture is itself a class-conflict power grab.

But to directly address your point, the OP's argument isn't a strawman. I could compile a list of fifty feminist articles, blog posts, and comics espousing minor variations of:

- "Men can be oppressed, but not for their maleness"

- "Misandry isn't real"

- "Anything that systemically hurts men is simply their privilege backfiring"

But someone will still say that those examples don't represent true feminism.
20+ years here.

While I'm sure there are some 40-something's that are like the above, I don't know of many - most people I work with are 35-45, are very hard working, innovative, highly motivated, always learning new things, and work a lot.

Lots of younger people I work with party a lot (and are hung over lots), distracted constantly, aren't at all loyal, are constantly distracted by the shiny new toys, and super arrogant

(and YES, I am purposely using a bad stereotype, just like a lot of the posts here are in the other direction. One thing experience has taught me is to NOT stereotype based on meaningless things like sex, race, or age - look at what someone can do - passion, drive creativity, intelligence, etc. If you base your decisions on foolish stereotypes, in either direction, you are just limiting yourself and your company)
Why I don’t like the LTV metric
Point is not that you have an altruistic reason for wanting privacy for certain parts of your life (which I'm sure you do).
The point is that once the very act of wanting privacy starts becoming suspicious, we've moved away from a free society towards the totalitarian end of the spectrum.
5 years C-pound experience (2004)
I looked into this for an audio app, and it looked really cool. Then I contacted him to find out what contingencies were in place because of the truck number of 1 (!!). I asked him if he had any business partner, or perhaps a dead man's agreement in place in the license by which if the company folded or he left it would revert to open source. Not only does he not, but he was a jerk about it, completely dismissive of it as a valid concern. No way would I put years of work into a project on a platform that might become stagnant because of his lack of foresight or understanding there. So I just used QT and other audio only toolkits. Pity, it's really neat looking.
From Peeep FAQ:

How long will Peeep keep my data?

Virtually forever. Nevertheless, we retain a right to remove content which has not been accessed for a month.
HTML is what makes the majority of the web work, with additional functionality (optionally) provided by scripts. When I see a blank page I wouldn't call that 'not working correctly' I would call it 'not working at all'.

Maybe we agree to disagree now, and you go on blindly trusting all websites to execute random code on your machine. I am perfectly content to have new websites look a little funny the first time I visit.
Ask HN: Anyone tried running two start ups at a time?
I know its a lot of work, I know its a crazy question, But what I mean is did anyone try running two small startup/sideprojects at a time. Doesn't matter alone or with a team

Did you make money? was it the right thing or would you have been better off focusing on one thing at a time
What Developers Should Know About the Apps Act of 2013