skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's more likely older people expect to get paid more for their experience,

Myth : The highest paid are in the 30-40 age bracket. See http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_241497.pdf (UK-focussed, but the US is probably similar)

> are less likely to learn new things on their own like younger people are,

...but they already know so much more that learning is less important. They know it already!

> are less likely to start up their own companies like younger people are because doing so is risky.

Myth : http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2009/04/educatio...
A dramatic bug report: "mp3gain ruined my life"
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I was struck by the same impression: why label or restrict yourself to a single language? And why label all other languages as short-lived, low quality fads? Because that's what reading the two "tl;dr" sections at the top indicate. He's not doing himself any favours with that kind of statement.

When people (recruiters or otherwise) ask me what I do, I'm a developer. Not a C programmer, not a Rubyist, or any subset of software development. I know how to program, I know how to solve problems, and I know how to learn new languages, libraries or frameworks. Sticking to your guns in an industry as ever-changing, for better or worse, as ours, is a bad idea.

When I was a student, I was interested in trying out tons of new languages. I eventually ended up sticking to Ruby for most of my own projects. At university, we used Java almost exclusively. My two last jobs however, have been C and C++. I'm fond of C, but not a big fan of C++. If I had stuck to Ruby or Java, I doubt I'd have a job as interesting as the one I have now, as those to languages seem to be restricted to web development and things like low quality internal applications used by banks in my area.

(Unrelated: odd, I'd never hear of this guy chromatic before today. I was listening to music by Chromatics, and five minutes before this thing hit front page, I decided to Google the bands name, and I ended up on his Wikipedia page.)
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Importance of css files
You're not going to know that until you've been working with the person for a while. You cannot possibly tell that from "culture". If you think you can, it means you're being prejudiced in some way.
Works pretty well with on-plane WiFi...
> people are more computer literate than they were 20 years ago

Less afraid of the keyboard, almost certainly. More computer literate, I'm not as convinced. I know plenty of people that can tell me about their Android smartphone yet not anything about the underlying OS.
"The data set I scraped shows $957,512,698 total pledged (I am missing a few campaigns that threw errors when scraping) across 131,348 total campaigns."

Thats an impressive amount of scraping. I wonder if kickstarter noticed. Probably not given their volume of traffic must be quite large.
Is there an overview of how to use ia32rtools any place?
> Why should it be any less wrong to discriminate based on college attendance than on race

This question can be asked of anything. Why should it be any less wrong to discriminate based on intelligence? Why should it be any less wrong to discriminate on skill set?

It isn't so much "wrong" to discriminate on race as it is stupid, because race has nothing to do with most jobs (unless you're interviewing to be the grand knight of the klu klux klan or something).

The same cannot be said of which college you attended. Going to Stanford or MIT may not be the best indicator of your potential, it may not even be particularly good, but it requires a certain amount of hard work, determination and intelligence to get into and graduate from good schools like these.
Consumer web is 20 years old. Those engineers in their late 40s / early 50s invented the thing.
I mentioned this in another post, but you explain it better. Yes, there's not enough history around the profession to let people know that a 45 year old developer can deliver value - probably far more than a 25 year old developer - simply because the role hasn't been around for very long.
> I'm at an inflection point these days on whether I want to push forward on the management path or go for the third path, as you mentioned above.

FWIW, the few folks I know who tried to stay on purely technical paths ended up regretting it many years later. While the ones who went into management merely lamented the loss of their hard earned technical skills.

Anecdotal, and I know there are lots of people on HN with counter anecdotes, but think forward 10 or 20 years and see if the things you don't like about your role are things you can continue to tolerate or not. The grass isn't greener on the other side, but sometimes new problems are easier to handle than the same old problems over and over again.

Also, don't make the mistake of thinking going into management will give you more agency as an employee. From a non-management position it feels like those "higher" than you get to call the shots, but quite often a good manager is creating space for you to get to run your day-to-day and is boxed around almost daily by those higher than they are.
It can and most likely will (the AF447 black box was retrieved after almost 2 years at ~12500ft). That's just the speccing, the warranty if you will.
Lots of planes these days getting power sockets back in steerage class.
Why does the UK have so much more than the rest of Europe? Is this becuase they speak english or do they have more of an entrepreneurial attitude than everyone else?
What about direct media buying? With a product as niche as yours, it may be worthwhile to identify specific sites (ie candy enthusiast forums/blogs) and work out a deal for a monthly banner ad. Start negotiating with an estimated price based on their traffic numbers and your LTV, and if after a month you're not profitable, go back and negotiate a more favorable price.

But aside from that, I don't think you should necessarily give up on advertising on the larger platforms you've been working with. As someone with extensive experience in online advertising, I will tell you that campaigns that are break even from the start or even lose a little money often have huge potential for becoming profitable. Just getting conversions is a positive sign. Consider the full path from advertisement to checkout. There's almost infinite room for improvement from the copy on your advertisements, to the images, to layout of your landing page, placement of buttons, size of form fields, background colors, etc etc. Then there's all the backend changes such as lifetime value and product costs that you can create additional margin. Combine all these things and you can swing a losing campaign to a hugely profitable one. Then with additional margin you create, you have the potential to focus on scaling. G'luck to you.
It also unfortunately breaks a lot of things and exposes more gcc bugs than the commonly used options. I wish "make the output code as small as possible" was the usual thing compilers tried to do.
Care coming up with a few examples? On the east coast? I've unfortunately never been graced to encounter them.
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The problem is that for many areas of software it is not possible to be effective without at least a couple years of fairly deep experience.

This point is key given that industry turnover is such that the first company to hire you has to expect that they are simply training you for the next.
Simple Node.js authentication

https://github.com/nickalto/starterpack.js
If I search for JSP hosting, I see ads for it all over after. Not surprising if his searches and browsing triggered some marketing system that managed to email him.
Just bought your book, looks awesome and I'm sure it'll come in handy! =)
This is a great post. Another path is into sales. If you have a deep understanding of technology, are able to help people use it to solve their problems, and you can communicate the value to buyers, then you can do quite well in sales. (It's also helpful if you know a thing or two about how to dress and you like to drink.)

Another friend started out in programming and IT, but he migrated to a sales engineer job where he works for [big infrastructure vendor] to design solutions for their clients.
So a Chapter 15 is an ancillary proceeding to facilitate the bankruptcy of a foreign corporation that is happening in another jurisdiction (in this case, Japan). Venue in a Chapter 15 is appropriate either where the company its principal U.S. assets, or where it is getting sued in the U.S. See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1410. I believe the only lawsuit right now is in Chicago (NDIL), so presumably they filed in Dallas because they had some assets there (servers, etc)?
Angular.js-like data binding with 100 lines of JavaScript (ES7 Object.observe)
Ask HN: Got let go from firm whose idea can be made better
A friend was hired by this firm and was let go after a month. From what he explained to me, the company is doing it wrong; they have an idea but their idea can be made better, would it be bad to improve their idea?
Interesting visualization. I'm wondering where this data is coming from. You could probably construct a similar network out of all of the character pages on http://harrypotter.wikia.com.
Maybe I missed it, but I don't see the actual guide. And I doubt makingchangeatwalmart.org is an objective source on what it contains. I'd like to see the actual guide, or at least direct quotations from it, so I can make my own judgements.
You can list "Project Location" as anywhere.

The funding target (individual or entity) has to be in US/UK/Canada/Australia/NZ. Basically your bank account has to have a US billing address, you as project creator can live anywhere. You can do this by having an account in the US, or commonly having a "middle-man" who is (usually) part of your project team who is receiving the funds.

The reason for this is that these are the only countries where Kickstarter is authorized to legally disburse funds to individuals or companies. They send out possibly large amounts of money, so they need to make sure they close all the legal ends. You can get a clue of how complicated it is for them looking at their Payments FAQ, where they have a separate one for each country they're allowing creators to operate from:

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creator+questions?ref=f...

They need to jump a bunch of legal hurdles anywhere or risk getting in trouble, being prevented from holding up their end of the deal, pay a large fine, get bad press/rep, etc. It's more complicated than just being authorized to do business in the country.
As a person formally trained in Nuclear Engineering, I am curious as to what relevant truths you are seeking to know that the "standard operating procedure" tells me we should be hiding.

I'm all for constructive debates on nuclear power generation, but I do want to point out that the snark is making it difficult for me to want to even try to engage you in a dialogue.
I have interviewed people with 10+ years of experience who failed fizzbuzz (in their language of choice, unlimited time, googling encouraged). There really are people out there who do not meet even the lowest of bars, despite having years of experience on paper.
Yes man the irony. Georgia Tech tells you that you've graduated in the top 10% of your class, institutional highest honors and all that.

And then your parents call you and tell you that they spent six figures on your education and you are essentially worth nothing. Here are some quotes from my parents:

"If you really wanted to work as a shitty programmer for a small pay we could have saved all that money instead of sending you to this school."

[My dad to relatives in front of me] "Sending not_pg to Georgia Tech was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. It was just a drain of my hard earned money."

The reason for shame was my culture and I'm still grappling with it a bit because it is so ingrained in my psyche from all the years of growing up with it. It seems like everyone in my family is constantly judging me for being such a failure. In the grand scheme of things I've stopped caring lest I let this get to my head. But I do realize that I essentially screwed up my time by not being more diligent, not managing it better.

Anyway I'm out of the US so Atlanta to DC isn't in the picture atleast in the short term. The only good thing to come out of this is that if I do apply for a PhD in the coming few years I'll have some professors that'll write some good recommendations for me and a decent GPA.
I can't speak for the community at large but I can tell you my path, my plan and my worries about that plan.

I just turned 36. I had been a manager for seven years across a few companies, managing teams ranging in size from 4 engineers to 35 (five teams underneath me). I reached a point in my last job where I was spending 80% of my week in meetings and the other 20% trying to stay on top of what my team was doing technically. I found myself becoming less and less useful in the technical discussions as the team was building up skills in new technologies that I didn't have time to learn.

I felt like I was losing my ability to be an engineer and therefore my ability to be a good engineering manager. I was not enjoying any part of my job at all. The rare opportunities to write code and learn new things were my only time where I felt good about the work I was doing.

So, I quit and got a different position as a senior developer. I told my new employer up front that I had been a manager for a long time and I wanted to be more technical again and focus my career on technical expertise. I my new position I am able to lead and set technical direction without being a "manager" in the traditional sense, people don't report to me but I help define what we're building and how we're building it. I am able to write code, learn, teach and explore ideas without feeling bogged down by management. My goal is to grow technically as much as I can and avoid becoming a manager that spends all my time in meetings again.

However, I am not sure how long this can last. At some point career growth seems to always steer towards doing less hands on and more managing of others, so perhaps i'll just need to find a way to enjoy that.
Edward Snowden Live Stream at SXSW
That doesn't make it acceptable for you to completely ignore their copyright on that material.
Always lost in these conversations are the hundreds of thousands of people who shop at Walmart because it stretches the meager family budget far enough to allow those low income people a reasonable existence. All else being equal, Walmart would have better work environments and more protections for its workers. But all else isn't equal and higher wages and more protections for the workers will likely result in higher prices which has an immediate effect on the poor and lower class. It's not a vacuum. Walmart is the logical conclusion of the uniquely American desire to pay the lowest price for everything.

Ironically, those who argue that Walmart is terrible to their workers almost never shop there because they have nice jobs and the ability to choose where to buy their staples.
At least while we're waiting for bigger SSDs. Not sure what the expected lifetime of a (theoretical) 4TB SSD that's used mostly in append-only manner is. Will the drive outlast the USB3/SATA interface it comes with? It should at least be pretty resistant against physical wear-and-tear.
Can you tell us a bit about the tools that were used to create this?
Hey, I get what you are saying. It's up to the developers to move to Python 3. I am just trying to say that there's a difference between a "make sure every bit of library code you write works in Python 3 first, then backport to Python 2 if necessary" and "every project must convert to Python 3 now". I am all for the former. If you write a library, write it in 3, then see if the unit tests pass in 2.
I've not heard of Sony doing this in the "professional" market, e.g. while AIT/SAIT has been abandoned, Amazon indicates you can still buy tape cartridges. But, yeah, if you went with them right now you're wishing you went with LTO, or have already switched or started.

On the other hand, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372595 indicates Panasonic is not trustworthy in this area.

Maybe give this 5-10 years and see if has staying power, adoption by others, etc. The LTO ecosystem shows this sort of thing can be done.
Its not always the developer.

For instance, I do some utility class software that needs to just work on RedHat/CentOS 6. Having to build Python 3 from source, or use SCL and mess with paths, and virtualenvs is simply not an option for my target user.
Because a microwave does not produce heat from a heating element. It uses microwaves.
Sales tips for startup entrepreneurs
Do we know what role Acton applied for? I saw the twitter posts about the rejection but never saw what job he was applying for. It's hard for me to generalize about the industry from this one specific case, without even knowing what job he was allegedly rejected from (his experience may have been undesirable for an entry level position where the hiring manager felt he was overqualified, or conversely he probably lacked the experience at the time to get the role of CTO).
Edward Snowden Interview at SXSW (live)
Why refuse any specialization? Some things take years of experience in a language to get right.

First, nobody should care that you can "hello world" in more languages.

Second, you don't have any preferences about what tools you use?
in 30, i do code and make a generator code to reduce my code time.Do you expertise in php and java or other language.. feel free to have fun..
I think still lot people doing same job writing customize application.
The link in the first sentence of the article to Occupy Wall Street is to a page with the alleged guide documents embedded. Why you should believe that these are real, however, I have no idea.
without further info I would guess this is remarketing in effect......if this person visited that competitor previously and they have remarketing system in place with google adwords or whatever...and have it set to track you to stripe then they know you're actively in the market and send a cold email..... this kind of adwords remarketing has only started to get mainstream more recently I'd say...
I've gone the 'third' path as described here over a year ago, and in my late 30s. I can't recommend it enough to you since you said "but getting into the politics of management is unappealing".

You're contradicting yourself when you say on one hand you're used to having jobs thrown at you and then saying it's clearly a lot riskier. From my point of view there's way too many management/analyst types trying to get those management positions. The politics is no joke. You have to be really good at it and in some ways you have to have no soul.. just kidding! ok maybe a little ;-)

anyway, going solo and starting your own thing, if done right, is more rewarding on all levels. less politics, more tech stuff you love, better pay (that totally outweighs the cost of having to pay for your own insurance), better hours (however you define better hours for yourself), not having to do any "company contribution" for someone else's company, the clients treat you better because they know you're the expert, etc etc.

Granted, it took me almost 15 years working at bigger consulting firms before I wised up and went independent. And maybe I could have done it sooner, who knows. But I highly recommend it since you don't like "the politics of management". The trick is to find one good solid gig. Just one. And there are enough of those going around.
I was talking about outsiders.
That's really not true; there has been scare-mongering about radiation in Tokyo since the accident happened.
An important thing to realize is that no matter how much they try, a company the size and profile of Google has at best only a loose control over their hiring process.

There are too many internal recruiters of varying ability and agendas, and too many interviewers of varying ability and agendas.

A company like Google can have stated hiring principles and techniques, but in practice it's going to be nearly random.
> Why do we continue to let the tech industry endorse childish behavior in the work environment?

Sometimes assholes are super-productive geniuses (note that there are more assholes who think they're a genius) so even if they don't get along with the rest of your team (or any humans, really) it's a tough tradeoff whether it's worth having them around.

You have to balance whether they're doing more harm than good to the overall endeavor. In our case, we have one very senior guy who's highly antisocial but absolutely a crack dev. We've given him an extremely flexible work-from-home arrangement. It works out well because we hardly see him, and he's happy communicating over email and just churning out code in his batcave or whatever.
UK is the only European country currently where "you can create a kickstarter project", ie, where you can have a local bank account and receive Kickstarter funds. Any other European country needs a US/UK (or other valid country) bank account (themselves or a "middle man") to receive their funding.

Which creators have this option is obviously the main factor influencing where creators are from in Europe.
Livestream: Edward Snowden at SXSW
Of course it's not. Why is it reasonable to pay lawyers $600/hr but to pay a skilled computer engineer the same is interpreted as a joke? That's not a rhetorical question -- I'd really like to know the answer.

Actually, I suspect I know the answer in many cases, but I'm curious what other people think.
Why are you mentioning Amazon?
The storage cells are essentially capacitors, they store a bit of electrical charge. Eventually that'll leak away, unless the controller is sophisticated enough to do DRAM style refreshing every N years. Or you do it.

SSDs are way too young to depend upon, as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, if you really screw up and have to recover data from a drive, they're much more opaque than hard disks.
Agree with you entirely (especially after recently writing an SSDP and UPnP stack) but unfortunately the academics with all the supposed solutions have managed to deliver nothing with any momentum, so we're stuck with a 40 year old programming system and 30 year old abstractions.

Then again, you know what? It works pretty well so perhaps we're not doing it wrong
> salary, responsibility and respect

Well 2 out of 3. I know plenty of small companies that respect you for your responsibility but are deathly afraid you'll leave because of salary. My company loses good people to our, much larger, clients who can pay top dollar. We've, humorously, set up a job board on our website to cut out the middle man, us.
I downvoted because the GP doesn't even bother to make a coherent point, let alone back it up. This isn't Facebook.
I would love to play with this data set. Is it available?
It's not my site.

But it's very useful.

And we use Streak, so when we get such an email it is automatically assigned to the bug and the CRM for that user... for free... using Streak filters.