skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's complicated. Older people are likely to be in a higher position, and I think are less likely to look for a job through the company's careers page, because they're likely to have a more extensive network of contacts and possible employers. As such, older people tend to join startups later than its first non-founding employees, because they're likelier to be distinguished experts in their field, who need to be sought out and need more pay.

On the other hand, I've known plenty of startups who're happy to hire older people for junior roles. They just get fewer old applicants.

I don't know if there's also a significant bias against older employees. I can believe there is. Either way, I'm certain that it's not the biggest reason startups tend to hire young people.
At least in California, they cannot ask you your age during interviews.
friendliest.

sorry ..
Yeah that is about it. My private repos are replicated to bitbucket, with a couple of public ones. Most of my public projects are all on Github.

Github is as you say popular, and has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it is risky to not have an active account on GH. Also project discovery and sharing on the one popular site is much more likely to happen.

No-one finds my bitbucket projects unless I tell them about it. Perhaps if github extended the fork link for a project to upstream/downstream links to external sites it would get more traffic. But that would probably not be in Github's economic interest.

This is as a person, for a company there might be different scenarios of what is important. If costs are important then bitbucket is probably a better start. However after a while Stash, Github Enterprise, Gitorious, Gitlab etc will be more suitable for day-to-day hosting.
Also, "grammar".
That is the paradox of authoritarianism. No matter how comprehensive, it is always possible for an aggressor to fly under the radar and work the system against you. Hell, you don't even have to strike back, you can be singled out for punishment by the authorities simply for being attacked, which marks you out as 'being involved in trouble making'. The actual aggressor will have melted from the scene at this stage, leaving you in the spotlight.
Maybe I am a crank but I distrust TPM.
Surely they'll want iOS games and compatibility at launch right? They could take the whole market of iOS/VR from launch day if they plan it right. Am I taking crazy pills, or does that not seem like a HUGE opportunity?
Maybe this is a silly comment, given that this is just an alpha. I would be happy about better keyboard shortcuts.

* Select next/previous message/thread

* Reply, reply all, forward, delete, archive

* Scroll message (most systems have space to scroll a page down and shift+space to scroll up, but scrolling by line would be awesome)
Well, where I currently work (Silent Circle), we have many people over 35, with many being in their 50s. I find that the older coworkers tend to really know what they're talking about, so I always consult them when designing something.

I guess it depends on the person, but, in my limited experience, hackers get better with age.
When it does we will know the lizard people got to pg.
I think another thing is that calling it an "API key" gives a slightly different impression from "password" - the latter almost certainly implies something that should be kept secret, while it's not so clear with the former - for example, ReCAPTCHA API keys are very much publicly available in the source of whatever pages use them.
Groundhog day and the Super Bowl
Meet NEIL, the computer that thinks like you do
[Partially] rem0te possible from Europe? (for SE)
The big problem was that you could forget to specify a "change" output, and then any unspend bitcoins would become the transaction fee. For large inputs this could be a disaster.

The 0.9 release candidate of bitcoin-qt now does sanity checks on the transaction fee, so this shouldn't be such a big problem anymore.
Of course I wouldn't say it upfront without being asked - Caveat emptor. If I wanted to be upfront I would have just quoted $1100 to begin with!
In general, I don't think it's the startups that discriminate against older people, as much as it's the other way around.

Most older people would tend to have a better skill set and the startups would love to get that, but they wouldn't want to pay for it. Furthermore, older people might be more risk averse (Will this company stick around for more than 3 months?).

All very broad generalisations, understood.
Ask HN: What kind of information about Bitcoin would be most helpful to you?
Hello, my name's Will - I'm building a platform that provides information about Bitcoin whether it be via reports, forecasting, modeling, news, etc. - but need feedback from you all on what you all would want most. What kind of reporting info would be most helpful to you all?
"Worth noting that the UK's nuclear deterrent is based in Scotland, not England."

As a "Yes" voter I'm hoping we'll be able to send them back to England, preferably somewhere on the south coast.
A blackout ordered by the government, huh. Quite an allegation.

But don't forget to consider that rather than the American media, not a small bunch to corral easily, conspiring at the government's request not to report on something "juicy," that the media may have simply had things to cover that they felt were juicier or were perhaps spooked by the incendiary nature of the interview and engaged in self-censorship. And that it's possible American media has a different take on what's juicy and what's become old news versus foreign media.

Also consider that with the Internet it's not easy anymore to effectively create a media blackout over something not much worse than what's already been revealed by the media without repercussions. Plenty of hungry journalists looking to make a heroic name for themselves by defying such an order in the name of freedom.

Maybe it's true, but it's also pretty far-fetched, don't immediately presume it's true.
In practice, though, since hiring decisions are so subjective, couldn't one justify it with "we felt that they wouldn't be a good fit" and be off the hook?
In my experience, as some of the others have said, yes, they do. The developer at my last company was in his 40s and still had that mentality. What you will find, though, is that there's a tradeoff there, because not everyone does; as you get older, you're less inclined to work 80 hours a week for a project (unless it's your own.)

At the new company, we hire for cultural fit, and this means we tend towards (but aren't exclusive) people around our own age (27, on average). But we have a fairly wide distribution around that.
Upvote for calling rugby a silly game. I went to a rugby playing school and it drove me nuts to be interrupted every three seconds by the whistle. It was psychological torture. I wandered off the pitch one day and joined the losers, punks and scrawny deadbeats playing soccer on a rough sloping field with the goalposts marked out by jumpers. Bugger rugby.
Follow any HN twitter handle and use http://ctrltwit.com to save to pocket via twitter replies.
> It was also the friendly "grammer-nazi" post I think I've ever seen.

I think you meant,

It was also the friendliest "grammer-nazi" post I think I've ever seen.
Does a(ny) startup hire employees above 35 years old?

A little shuffling around but..
It's great that you can run Ubuntu VM's running Python/Django apps on Azure, as the author has done.

However, I think you can get more out of Azure by using its PaaS services. It is also possible to run a Python/django app in an Azure Website Service. The cost is the same, but management and security if the OS is taken care of for you. Upgrades and patches happen automatically. You can setup automated build, test and deployment from Git. You can setup background and maintenance jobs without having to manage cron. You can setup auto scaling of VM's. It saves a lot of work.

Of course, this risk of this is lock-in. But the technologies underlying Azure are almost all open. If you're carefull what you use, you can always take your code and run it on a VM in AWS if you want. Of course, you would have to setup/build your own scaling and maintenance processes, using (also proprietary) AWS services.

Like Microsoft, Amazon is likewise trying to get you to use proprietary cloud services. If you use S3, Beanstalk, Redshift, Search, you get locked in to AWS the same way Microsoft will lock you when you use SQL Azure, Azure Table Storage or Service Bus. You just need to be be very careful with any dependencies you take on into your startup.

That said, I have also had a very good experience with BizSpark. Not only do they give you lot of free stuff, but I they can also connect you with interesting partners internationally, and help your business in unexpected ways.
Making your own php captcha generator script
I read it as "people in unrelated professions can have good attitudes too", i.e. "skill matters".
9 Basic Pitfalls of the Internet (Shortcomings of Protocols)
Landlords don't care but the neighbors and the city might
Yes, it is often easy to circumvent the law.
[FOSDEM 2014] So what's the DragonBox Pyra like?
They do, I was 35 when I got hired by my current startup.

But they are less likely to hire 35+ for many good reasons.

A 35+ is more likely to be have a higher salary demand due to more expertise and experience. An early bootstrapping Startup usually offer low salaries (although sugared with share options) and can only hire people very early on their salary ladder, or the ones who are not so good...

A more successful Startup often able to offer better salaries and do hire 35+, however only few startups are successful.

That is a good filtering.

A not good filtering is that a 35+ due to experience will probably know that 80 hour weeks, crunch modes etc are counter effective and are less afraid of saying no. And therefore 35+ are less attractive to entrepreneurs who are looking for people to put in their entire life into the company as they do even though they only own a tiny part of it, if that.

On top of this a 35+ often have families, hobbies, a life etc and rarely can/will do more than 40 hours per week and will not apply to startups job ads that quickly smells of continuous crunch mode.
Hackers steal Western Michigan University professor's paycheck
Results of a month on Android
> Well, if you see what happened with UDID and how much kerfuffle there was to get from there to IDFA it's pretty obvious Apple wants to protect the user.

From my perspective it seems that Apple wants to have access to this data for iAds, but doesn't want any competition. It's been their normal behaviour recently, trying to eliminate any possibility of anyone competing with them in their markets. From wide device bans to price fixing conspiracies.
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The frustrating thing is that there are some really good apps amongst all the clutter. Thankfully you can download a free trial of almost all paid apps so you can figure out which one is for you, but it still takes a bit of work. But I was very pleasantly surprised that I could find high quality apps to cover just about everything I did on my phone, when I had a Windows phone for a month.

Another problem I noticed at the time (I don't know if it is still the case) was that the store was flooded with fake reviews. Painfully obviously fake. So you have to try before you buy - which fortunately they do make very easy.
no, thats not possible; no speech or document can make that easier (well if you exclude brain damage)
It's true that the basic concept of appear.in is pretty similar to a lot of other WebRTC prototypes made (like the ones you mention). However we are trying to turn appear.in into a commercial product that will be continually improved and adapted to users' needs (that will likely change over time). It is very easy to get a working prototype up and running (appear.in started as a summer project, and three interns made the first working prototype in two weeks: http://comoyo.github.io/blog/2013/08/05/video-meetings-in-th...), but getting it to work smoothly in all kinds of situations, on all kinds of networks and handling bugs (which occur frequently) is another story. Not to mention keeping the product up to date and making use of all the improvements that are made in the different browsers.

We think that widespread adoption of a service like this will only be achieved if the service "just works" and is adapted to users' needs through constant development, and also through building a living brand that people love. We are currently a team of 8 working full-time on this, not only programming, but also with marketing, design & user testing.
For full time day care? That's awesome. I (we) pay that for 2 days/week here.
Bitcoin is a cryptographic botnet
API key of any downloadable application should be considered as “public”. Removing it from public source code just makes harvesting a bit harder, but it's still possible. So if API key of such applications is so important — it's just a bad service design.
There is a known bug with Firefox 26 on Ubuntu 13.10 (and apparently other, similar Linux setups). Track progress here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011
Just throw that piece of shit out of the window and get a decent router!
I never did that, but I have known people who have had their children in day care centers close by, and were happy to have them there, may have looked in at lunch, etc.

On the other hand, I knew a woman with an office right upstairs from the rooms where our children were; she got fed up with the management and moved her daughter to another facility--not very far, but not lunchtime walking distance.
The difference is that this time you hear Doug Lea and Brian Goetz talking about this as if it's definitely going into Java 9. This time it's not coming from users but form Oracle. Also theres a JEP and a prototype by John Rose. In fact, it is mention by Oracle as one of the first features of the core platforms planned for 9. This has never been the case before.
If the person isn't "a good fit" then yes, as long as the record (your emails) supports that decision. Email saying things like "he's so much older than the other applicants" or "he's got school-aged kids, so his head won't be in the game" will be found in discovery and will lose your case.

Another thing to consider: people who file discrimination lawsuits usually do not prevail on the discrimination claim, they prevail on the retaliation claim. It is often quite easy to show retaliation, especially if it is an employee and not an applicant.
I am loving Firebase's serverless model of application development, so that server solution is not ideal.

But I don't think its possible to solve a different way. That said, there are smart people who have thought of ways of reducing server burden in ways I never thought possible (like encrypted sessions), so it might be possible ???

How does google analytics stop rogue clients registering hits on the wrong domain? It checks the domain the incoming data is on, right? (cookies?)
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/faqs.aspx has a lot of information about it
My theory is that a lot of it is back-rationalization. People just have a gut reaction against it and search for any reason they can find to argue that it's bad.

The main reason it's different for game developers is that in most instances, in-app purchases will undermine the integrity of the game more significantly than for other kinds of apps. Indeed that is the main point of the OP ("There is no game here.")

If you add a rule to chess where you can pay cash to put a taken piece back on the board, you don't have chess anymore. Additionally, consider that videogames are often escapist entertainment that people play specifically to get away from real-life financial pressures or wealth-based status sorting.
Why not? It's just a simple clip on transformer, similar in design to a clamp on AC ammeter. It is designed for it and legally sold in UK and Norway at least. The current transformer is encased in insulating plastic, it does not make an electrical connection to any wiring only an electromagnetic one.
This is what I have http://efergy.com/eu/products/electricity-monitors/elitev1-m... bought from http://www.clasohlson.com/no although Clas Ohlson no longer sell exactly this model.
It's not just a problem for "open source" applications, it's a problem for "closed source" applications too. In a large team you don't want to give every developer the keeps to the jeep.
Should be said. Older people often don't have as much experience with some of the newer technologies. For example I am 36 and even though I feel that I am up on Node.js and CoffeeScript and ToffeeScript and some NoSQL and Three.is and some other stuff that I think is still relatively new, I have little to no mobile dev experience. Part of that might be related to the fact that mobile dev was sort of niche for a significant part of my programming career. I have a lot of experience with many different technologies but not the same ones as younger developers so I don't quite share their programming worldview.

I have also spoken to a number of developers older than me who are far behind. Like they didn't understand the point of Ruby or Node and thought Php was just fine. Or they thought that all of the organizations code should go in two giant repos like the old svn way.

So the reality is that sometimes older people aren't up to date or don't share your culture.

Having said all of that I personally believe that in most respects younger developers are just as far behind as the older developers and often lacking quite a bit if perspective. Whereas older developers need to update their perspective.

Obviously it depends on the person so generalizations like those are usually going to be counterproductive because the best developers are in their own category
There's an advantage for the end user if the layout of the sites is similar - Intuitive browsing.

Imagine if each email service provider re-invented the layout of mailbox !
Why does Google Analytics use __utm.gif?
Ah, interesting, thanks. So these laws aren't as unenforceable as I thought, that's good.
Gmail auto-expands messages in a thread that haven't been read yet. Read ones are collapsed.
The whole discussion (incl. drama) seems fairly interesting. I wonder if anyone would be up to editing it into some sort of coherent article, as of now following all the links and deleted/edited content makes bit difficult reading experience.
Nakamichi
I like BitBucket because I like & use Hg. After playing around with both Git & Hg & comparing their merits, I decided, it was Hg for me. What's with all the hate on the author's part?
Sure because you don't have any lock-in by using Amazon RBS, SQS, SBF, SNS and 90% of the remaining Amazon Web Services Products
And you don't have to pay for them at the end of the free tier period, sure not.
That's not what the OP is really talking about though, as what you've described is fair and constructive :)

People gossip. I'm not in the Valley myself, but friends are, and from what I've been told the OPs description of behind-the-back unconstructive negativity... Well, I think that's a bad way of helping each other.

To put it simply: I think we need to be a little more sensitive. That doesn't mean we can't be critical, but if you temper that with some empathy, you'll often get better results, in my experience.
MSNBC has had some good Snowden coverage over the longer weekend shows which are higher quality.

Their hourly shows each day are getting to be more and more garbage.

Chris Hayes had a fantastic long-form weekend show on MSNBC. Then they moved him to the hour format on a daily basis and his show went to garbage too as they have him pushing whatever the hype of the day is. And Rachel Maddow now has maybe one good show a month and the rest are just petty garbage ("oh look someone said a word wrong or misspelled something - let's talk about that for ten minutes")

What's crazy is most of their anchors are really smart and knowledgeable when you see them work freeform like in an interview. But start scripting them and giving them "must reads" and they all turn into blathering corporate idiots.
Before you go witch hunting go read this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1wddfp/us_media_bl...
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE | TAIPEI

Hi, iOS developer for 3+ years here, before that I was writing satellite software and firmware in C/C++ for Taiwan's space agency.

I have a couple of personal apps in the app store; the most recent one scratches a personal itch: it uses facial recognition to help you tie a tie in the easiest way possible. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/face-tie/id570542131

I was iOS team lead for one of the major navigation apps in Taiwan, and have since created medium sized apps (over two dozen viewcontrollers) for multiple clients. I also have experience with Python, HTML/CSS, javascript, git/svn. I love working with people who are dedicated to designing the best user experience possible.

You can find me at ray.tsaihong at gmail if interested in discussing work opportunities. Thanks!
Azure is completely price-competitive with AWS. In fact, AWS and Azure seem to be in a pricing war, lowering their prices anytime the other one does. They're both far cheaper than Rackspace.

...and seriously - you're worried about pricing three years from now with a startup?
Bueller? Bueller? :)
But the content is freely viewable in Germany, isn't it? Imho that would easily cover their mandate to the people (who are financing them)
URLs in self-posts are not turned into links. URLs in comments are. There's no domain filtering in this code AFAIK.

Your URL in the earlier comment wasn't turned into a link because it wasn't a link, you just typed a bare domain without the protocol --

http://www.somewebaddress.io not www.somewebaddress.io
The US media simply could have bought the rights.

They usually pay millions for some pictures with an ape and some prominent person, or for photos of an enhanced ass married to some other guy.
>Not sure why you feel so compelled to talk about OSs I didn't mention.

Because you said:"Linux, unlike a modern OS, lacks any kind of sane dependency management", which is of course non-sensical, as it is the only OS with dependency management. Also in the case of RPM the dependencies are listed inside the package, the YUM then just does the dependency resolution and fetches the required packages. I really don't understand what point you're trying reach, since automatic dependency management/resolving is one of the most important reasons Linux is chosen for server environments and deployments.

Since I've been doing this for a living for more than 10 years, I really don't know how you have found so many problems and issues with it. Maybe you're using some kind of rolling-release distro?

And of course nope; you can't do that on any OS, because.... we would have done it! That's why homebrew for Mac feels like a poor man's apt/yum system.
In the last year, I've interviewed 7 different people in my company (4 engineers, two ISDs, and 2 SMEs). I've been wanting to improve my interview skills for quite some time, so I've been trying to add an open-ended question of this nature to my interviews. Each and every single person that I've interviewed, even when told in advance "This is a critical thinking question, there is no wrong answer" have failed to even speculate at an answer.

:(
Wait what? Secure Boot can be turned off by anyway can it not? It's just it's on by default...

> Ubuntu’s response, from Ubuntu 12.10 onwards is to adopt Grub2 as the default bootloader, with support for Secure Boot, but with anability to turn off secure boot to modify the OS, if required. This is explained in John Melamut’s blog post here [13]. We believe thisgives users and enterprises the best compromise between security and ability to customise after sale.