skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so is this just for payments, or is there a way this could serve as a way to login to different websites like Persona, oauth, or similar systems?

Do different namespaces exist? DNS at least gives a ton of different options, so if a top-level domain you like is taken, you just use .net, .org, etc.

The global namespace seems like it might get crowded really fast. How to prevent that?
Competitive advantage isn't a real thing? You can hire anyone no matter what and be just as successful for sure?
There is another path, in the UK at least, which is to join the public sector, become employed by the state.
Fascinating game. Would love to see how an AI would tackle this.
I think it's probably a bad idea in general, and most large companies avoid doing it just because it could be used for this (age/gender/race discrimination).

Sure you're eventually going to interview, but this could open a company up to potential actions by a much larger pool than just people who made it to the in person interview.
Any chance this will be an ongoing program not limited just to summers?

I ask this because there are a growing number of schools (including mine) that have full time Intern/Co-op programs in during the Fall and Spring semesters that I know would have interested and talented students.
How many reached 2048?
Older developers get sent off to a farm in the country, where they will have the space to run around and play, in a way that they never could in the cubicle maze. You never see or hear from them again because they are just so happy there, and also because all the fiber (or copper, if they were naughty) to their premises goes straight to the HappyFunNet, which doesn't have a peering agreement with our boring old Internet yet.

But they're totally still working and not being replaced by dumber, cheaper kids fresh off the boat or fresh from the diploma mill. Totally.

If you aren't lucky enough to work for a company that values the aptitude of older workers, even without domain-specific experience, your options are to become a technically indispensable genius, capable of writing metacode that the younger chimps can turn into working applications without much hand-holding, or you can become a person that spends increasing amounts of time firewalling those experts and chimps from the people who understand money and people better than computers.

Architect or manager.
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Thanks for the response mate, I did try this but perhaps I made a mistake with spelling.

For everyones reference however, should we include the spaces when applying the sha256, or should it be one continuous string which we hash.

eg. sha256("police helicopter apple") or sha256("policehelicopterapple")
For many practical purposes, single identity is exactly what you need - i.e., as soon as you extend trust or credit to someone, you'd like it to be impossible for that person to ever be able to get another 'fresh' identity that's not clearly (and publicly) linked to the previous one; otherwise it would be trivial to violate that trust without the intended consequences.
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Welp, there goes the rest of my day
Since there isn't much detail on the site, what differentiates the content I'll see with this over my Google Alert for Bitcoin?
Look here: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/estimation_of_LEs.htm...

Lifetime of tapes may not be what you think it is.
Interesting (somewhat unrelated) question came up at work:

What's the theoretical max tile value you can get on Three.
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Non LTH BD-R has an estimated lifetime of 50 years if stored properly. 40 cents a disk. In a cd case, in your closet.

M-Disk 1000 years, same storage idea. $5 a disc.
Tens of billions in lost sales due to lack of trust in us telecom equipment and PRISM participant services is just a distraction here.
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Then a good start would probably be to not generalize "Bitcoin supporters" yourself :)

On a more serious note, there might be a group of 'supporters' who are 'libertarians', but the reality is that their existence or notoriety really don't matter all that much.

If somebody seeks to generalize to discredit Bitcoin, then they will do so anyway - whether it's one libertarian or a million, and whether they're 'hardcore' or hardly noticeable.

As long as these people do not try to take an "official spokesperson" type of position with their personal ideology, they can be safely ignored if you do not agree with their point of view.

That's the beautiful thing about Bitcoin: it exists, whether you want it or not... and what somebody elses political views are does not change whether it exists or how it works :)
you're cherry picking your sample set, here. of course it makes more sense that people who still buy movies will have a significant percentage who adopted blu-ray.

personally, i know not one single person who still buys physical video discs anymore. personally, i can say that demand for blu-ray is non-existant.

what would be useful, here, would be some sort of data that compares usage/adoption rates for units of time after a formats release. how many people are using blu-ray X years after it became available, compared to DVD, etc.

i would expect it to not be as popular as DVD or VHS before it, but expectations and anecdata aren't terribly useful.
video of the event?
Impatient much?
neat little game :)
Why not use and extend the id/ [0] namespace ?

[0] https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity
So addictive. You know since tiles slide to the edge it would be great if this took advantage of accelerometers to allow tile combining by tilting. I know this is a browser game but if you ever create an app using the tilt motion to combine tiles would be awesome. :)
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Include the spaces. Exactly as it appeared.
48, working at HP. I code every day and also get to tinker with embedded systems, optics, lasers, sensors, etc. Every day I can't believe I'm getting paid so well to have so much fun. I do keep up with the latest technology in my field.

> Do you have to go into management to continue progressing upwards in pay and influence?

No, like many corporations we have a dual path system although one level up from my senior engineering position I would have to do some visionary stuff, which I'm not good at so I'll probably stay at this level. Pay is not directly linked to position here.

> Is there a plateau in pay? Is there a drop in pay switching jobs after a certain number of years experience because places are looking for 5+ instead of 20+?

Doesn't seem to be the case here. I could imagine switching jobs gets trickier in your 50s because hiring someone new at high pay appears riskier.

> Are older devs not looking for new jobs because they have families and want more stability/are focussed elsewhere?

Yes, major issue with two kids in middle school and good benefits at current job. Planning on being more flexible in a few years...

> Is becoming a specialist rather than a generalist the answer?

I don't think so. As an engineer I think it's always good to have a balance between a specialty and a broad base. I've benefitted more from learning new skills but having a specialty is often good to get a start somewhere.

> And lastly: if you're in your late 30s, 40s, 50s, what are you doing at your job? What are the older people in your workplace doing?

Fun stuff: writing code, building SW/FW/EE test systems, building production lines, running product tests, doing failure analysis.

Boring stuff: working with outsource vendors and CMs, working through regulatory issues.

Surprisingly, there's almost no corporate training and bureaucracy left. I think first all that stuff was outsourced and then we decided that our vendors were too expensive and just got rid of everything. Win!
I would also be curious on the failed kickstarters as well. Perhaps show the success as green, in progress as yellow, and failed as red.

We all can learn how the failures fail. It is HN.
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It's a fine line that's hard to walk. In stark contrast to my asian parents, my wife had hippie Oregonian parents who said "do whatever makes you happy!" She regrets a little that they never gave her the information and support she needed to pursue Ivy-league colleges.

It's not your job as a parent to prioritize happiness over prestige and money, just as its not your job to prioritize the other way. What you bring to the table as a parent is experience and knowledge of the world, and you need to make sure your kids have the information they need to make the decisions they need to make. Maybe your kid grows up and wants to be an investment banker making a few million a year. You don't have to push them in that direction, but it's valuable to them if you tell them what they need to do to prepare for that if they ultimately want to pursue that.

And keep in mind: nearly everyone will value money more at 35 than at 15, but the decisions we make that lead to that are often made long before we can appreciate what the impact will be.
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Perhaps alternatively, this is a test by some hot new, stealth-mode YC startup to test the viability of video interview screening? And simply using interns as a small test subject pool.

Furthermore, because interns are the testing pool. The turnover of selecting quality interns and seeing how they turn out over a summer internship would provide good data for whoever the startup is doing this.
Late 30s. Recently took the plunge into management. I suppose I can manage. I don't love it. Can't say I recommend it.

At least when I was a developer, I could focus on the technical parts. If things went south, I could hone my skills for the next gig on someone else's dime.

I should probably be honest with myself and move into consulting and contracting before my skills degrade too much and I'm less relevant for it. I honestly don't care much for the politics of management, I'm not terribly charismatic, the company's processes are tiring and frustrating, and my team would probably be better served by someone who handles all that well. I'm scraping away time to hack when I should be taking care of the team.
"we looked into "id/", but for various reasons decided to go with an entirely new namespace. "id/" has been subject to a lot of name squatting, and we believe that by starting anew, we can provide a better experience for users."

Source : http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/201g66/onename_the_...
>And in other news, global debt now exceeds $100 Trillion dollars

So, what are global assets worth, then? Why only talk about one side of the ledger? Debt doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Well, except for that whole thing about there being no secure place to store bitcoins as they come in. You can store them with a third party, but that often ends badly (Flexcoin, Mt Gox, Poloniex, etc). You can store them yourself, but having your money be stolen by a simple server breach is not an attractive prospect for a company, whether startup or established. It wouldn't be quite so bad if there were any regulation or legal structure or any way to get your bitcoins back when they are stolen, but there isn't.
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" are not chosen optimally at all"

Optimally is kind of a non-sensical term for this.
There is no optimality to be found here in any mathematical sense. Even COLE does not generate optimal, it finds something mildly reasonable.

However, the main problem with things like COLE, is that they mostly discover phase ordering issues or latent optimization bugs. Those are bugs and problems that should be fixed.

Most of phase ordering is decided by design and architecture, ie "we want it to work a certain way for certain reasons". To the degree it doesn't work best that way, it's usually a problem to be fixed, not a fundamental issue that COLE has discovered.
It is basically the innovators dilemma on a personal level.
I have to imagine that it was tongue-in-cheek. And if it wasn't, then I don't understand, either.
aside: I was secretly hoping it only supported python2.

Thanks for that though. It will be much more useful with requirements files.
I got the hang of it during my first play, and ended up with 512 with a 256. I suspect there may be a system that lets you clean up the mess without creating too much new mess.
A login system is definitely on the roadmap! We just decided to focus on the initial usecase of bitcoin payments.

You're right, the global namespace very well might get crowded, but we'll see how it plays out.
I'm in my late 40s, and have been working as a developer since I was a teenager. Here's a simplified account of the last 20 years or so:

I spend 10+ years working for a mid-size company, progressing from developer to a sort of combination senior developer / IT manager. My salary grew at a reasonable pace. I was wearing a lot of different hats, and gained experience in a lot of different areas. That company went out of business a few years ago.

I then spent a couple of years at a small (12 person) web dev company. We had one in-house product and worked on various sites for various clients. Mostly ASP.NET, some Drupal. I took a bit of a salary hit there, making maybe 85% of my previous salary.

I left that company about a year ago, and am now at a fairly large company, primarily working on Dynamics AX custom programming, with some random ASP.NET/C# stuff in there too. I'm still not back at my old salary, from the company that went under, but I'm closer.

With a little more Dynamics AX work under my belt, I could probably jump ship for an AX consulting job that would get me back to that old salary. Or I could stay here and make a pretty reasonable salary, with modest gains, over the next several years. (There doesn't seem to be much room to move into management here, though if I stay long enough, that may change.)

Or I could try to go back to another web dev position, ASP.NET and/or Drupal, maybe. (That probably wouldn't get me much of a salary bump though.)

I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing ten years from now. The company I'm at now is stable enough that I might be able to stay here until retirement, but I wouldn't count on it. I'll probably need to change jobs 2 or 3 more times before retirement. I try to keep my skills up to date, so I can stay employable, and, at some point, I'll probably start using the standard 50+ tricks on my resume: dropping my college graduation date, dropping the oldest jobs from the resume entirely, etc. And dyeing my hair maybe, if I get too grey.

This being HN, other people have of course talked about starting their own company. I'm not sure I want to do that, but it may become an attractive option at some point, especially if the health care situation in the US gets straightened out enough that I can afford to pay for my own health insurance.
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I'm incredibly excited about this. Vagrant just keeps getting better and better. Thank you to Mitchell and team!
Without spending a minute examining the facts at ground level: i.e. checking how the company, and its distributors, actually work, not merely reading the fucking financials.
As others have pointed out here, diversification of skills is the closest you can get to a guaranteed job as a programmer.

Back in the day, when Flash was the cool thing and you would get an AS3 library for every .js library that you see today, Many AS3 developers looked invincible. Me being one of them. Until Flash died. It just died in a month.

Two things happened. A group that didn't diversify and didn't want to move out of their comfort zone, lost jobs, some became pizza delivery guys. I know a few. They had time, but they didn't leave things behind.

Another group of developers, moved on. Not only away from Flash, but away from anything that seemed slightly in trouble. And you know what? All of these guys are doing brilliantly.
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We're just suffering from 'just world' syndrome.
>Wouldn't that just cause lenders to increase their interest rates?

Yes it would. Only unexpected inflation will affect debt repayment rates (in theory).
You do not have to become an "X who programs" when you hit 40. I've worked with plenty of talented developers over 40, all whom see themselves as developers, not as "VPs who happen to develop".

I think you're getting confused by the other phenomenon involving roles, which is that once you accept the management track, you start losing dev mojo; cf. the CTO who loses their commit bit.
Whenever I see comments like yours, I remember the story about the Microsoft execs that thought that "They can't make money with Internet search. Once people find they want on the directories like Yahoo, they will just bookmark the pages they are interested."

For fuck's sake: yes, the United States has a stable government and can guarantee the relative stability of the USD. But the world is not just the US.

We keep talking about how technology makes us more mobile, or digital nomads. I lived in 3 different continents in the past 5 years. My assets are not tied to Bitcoin, but the best way I found to transfer money between countries was by using BTC as an intermediary.

What do you think it's likely to happen faster: to have a monetary/transaction system that is more efficient than governments, or to have governments globally becoming stable? The Euro has been stable in terms of prices, but it has not shown yet that it is resilient enough. Who can be sure that Greece will still be using the euro 3 years from now? 5 years from now? What happens when Germany gets tired of bailing the fat cats on PIIGS?
This is Kat, YC's Director of Outreach. We're beta testing this program on a small scale for Summer 2014. It may evolve based on how things go this summer, but I can see it becoming an ongoing program.
>having the experience to know which technologies to even bother messing with.

Amen. This is, perhaps, the best productivity enhancement experience gives you.
I prefer to follow design principals and product's phylosophy that laid down to the product by it's developers. If I find the principles inappropriate for me I prefer to find something different, than modding the product using any sort of plugins. Including keyboard's extension keys that I would call "plugin" too in this context.
Cool. I have a question in my mind that you might answer or comment on. As the social networks and internet usage grow steadily, should we expect a decrease in average path length of a social network? Will "six degrees of seperation" be updated to "X degrees of seperation" in the future where X<6?
Yes, we want to support Dogecoin soon. One simple thing we need, though, is an icon similar to the fontawesome bitcoin icon.
Stockholm syndrome isn't the same as being in a stable, mutually beneficial marriage to someone who's not completely compatible with you.
I find your points unconvincing. If a VC is uncomfortable with betting on a startup, maybe he should find another line of work. About your second point: I'm not sure what argument you are making. Yes, of course the VC would like a guarantee. Maybe he would find it easier to sleep at night if he were a loan officer at a bank instead.

VCs are betting money. The founders and early employees are betting their time and foregoing other opportunities. If the thing blows up, the VC gets his investment back. The founders/employees can't recover any part of their investment. I still don't get why a liquidation preference is fair. The VCs are imposing it because they can. Any justification based on fairness is laughable to me.
I think the future of this hardware revolution will be python on a microcontroller.It could solve the complexity this article describes while keeping prices realistic for a product:

Micropython[1] is being in development right now,Currently working on a $6 mcu, with a potential for running on a $3/84mhz/3mm*3mm/49-pin mcu with varied peripherals (or maybe even something cheaper).

And as or complexity, this video shows an easy wifi interface[2].

And since it has a C-FFI, developing a first generation of a product in python and optimizing to c in next generations according to market and technical need is a good possibility.

[1]https://github.com/micropython/micropython

[2]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-...
I seem to pretty much always get a higher score by button mashing, or going up down left right in rotation than by trying to figure it out. :(
Hmmm, to be honest I wish I had the time, and more than that, the courage, to cleanup the code (and this would include major refactoring and redesign). The project is now 15 years old (D'oh!), and was not aimed to live more than six months at that time, leading to an awfully bad overall coding style.
Is it possible to create a private Vagrant Share "proxy" ?
Many exchange directly to local currency. Not all do.
I should have mentioned that there is an alternative to "X Who Programs," which is an elevated title at a known company, e.g. Distinguished or Principal Engineer at Google or Amazon. People know that Google Fellows are rare and that it's hard to get there. There the X is "really good engineer". It's harder to get that, for most people, than to get another X.
I'll keep an eye on this one, thanks!
then they cast to void()
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With PHP, unlike other languages, you have not two but three options - you can either run it as a web server module (That's your "templating" opinion and the most common use of PHP), you can run it trough the Common Gateway Interface (where even in Python or Ruby print DOES outputs to the HTTP) and in the end you can roll out your own HTTP server. In the last option, just like the common use of Python and Ruby, you have full control of what's going on with your code and you decide what to send over the socket and what (if anything) to print on the console.
Any prospect of accepting high schoolers who have the necessary skills? Would it help if I am concurrently enrolled in college as well?
I guess the problem is I seem to be seriously outnumbered by the libertarian contingent, who seem to be the most vocal, outspoken about it. If I knew of more "liberal-tarian" supporters of BitCoin I would be more hesitant to generalize.

It is true that BitCoin can survive on its technological underpinnings alone. But I think we should change the way we are conversing about it so that we don't immediately make enemies of a large group that has an ideological stake in the govt being the only authority for any and all currency.

I think this becomes a real danger when we begin to legislate on something. The nature of politics is that it frequently conceals the truth. Otherwise intelligent people are completely unable to see the best qualities of something if they feel it goes against their political ideology.
The visuals are generated primarily using D3.js (great data visualization tool).

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Sorry that Macro 101 is "fancy pants". You do realize that something failing the "smell test" is just a reason to investigate further, not a reason to go with one's gut feelings over rational reasoning, right?
It's debatable how much improvement theses language are providing. You see people reinventing the wheel over and over, "discovering" "new" things all the time, thinking of new ways of doing things that will make a 0.0001% difference.. all attached to a "revolution" tag.

Lately I've decided to consider IT as a fashion world. My major anxiety is how to clearly see what's "core" and what "fad" and focus properly (and hope I'll be employable by my 50's).