skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheers for referencing a common Milton Friedman idea!

For reference, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RDMdc5r5z8
Sorry what! 'Then I pulled out my phone to take his picture' I can't be the only one who thinks this guy is in the wrong.

You propose that people log there every day lives? Why don't we just increase the CCTV cameras on every street, so some one can watch our every moves 24/7.
Could it be that young founders feel more comfortable with employees their age or younger, and that older developers give young founders a sense of impostor syndrome? That seems as likely a reason for this phenomenon in new, small startups as anything.
Intuitionism
"Our dev team is no longer producing quality work at a pace fast enough for the business. They're complacent."

B does not follow from A. Just because your team is not producing "fast enough for the business" does not mean they are complacent. It may simply mean the business has unreasonable expectations. Outsiders (especially non-developer outsiders) cannot really give you any insight on this, as all codebases are different, and the time it takes to fix a bug or add a feature will vary depending on the amount of technical debt and complexity that have accumulated.

Your team however, is in tune with your codebase, and appear to be able to tell how long things will take (you don't mention that their estimates are inaccurate, just that you dislike the estimates). If you would like the amount of time it takes to be different, perhaps instead of assuming they are complacent, it would help to ask what needs to be done to make changes to the codebase faster. The answers you get (such as a higher level of test coverage to increase change confidence) might surprise you.
This would just be a recipe for increasing inequality among college goers. The families who can pay for the more expensive colleges will continue to do so, while you'd be taking away the opportunities for less privileged kids to go.

I believe the question, "Why college is so expensive" is the right one, but I don't think this is the right solution.
The article focuses on an example of a guy who had totally proved himself with past success, and yet still encountered ageism.

Here's how he's introduced:

> The most impressive entrepreneur in Scheinman’s portfolio who hadn’t caught on was a fortysomething Boston-based engineer named Nick Stamos. In the early 2000s, Stamos had been the chief technology officer at one start-up that eventually hit a market value of $1 billion. He later co-founded another that earned tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Everyone Stamos had ever worked with raved about his technical chops, his relentless salesmanship, his flare for innovation. “The picture was remarkable,” Scheinman says.
You need to have the money upfront to pay for the first two years of college, though. You can't use money you won't earn for another two years to pay a tuition bill that's due now.

At the amount I was getting paid in 2007, it would have taken me 33.3 years to save up for the first two years of in state public college.
No that's just an 'example'. Many startups fit this model. I'm in one that's in the 5th year, still growing, still with financial backing. Many are in this mode until bought out (or of course until they fail).
Not working with two factor authentication.
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>so..redistribution of income? This isn't anything new. I find it interesting that so many people on a forum about technology and business would suggest punishing businesses for using technology to make their business so efficient.

You may find that this is because not all of us value technology solely for what increased productivity it can provide over our current, but that we create and use technology to work /for/ us so that we can spend more time doing what we would rather.
The same loan/tuition dynamics don't apply in the UK, because:

- The government controls undergraduate tuition fees for UK/EU students (currently capped at 9k per year).

- Until about 25 years ago, undergraduates' tuition fees and living expenses were paid by the state. These two direct subsidies have gradually been replaced by student loans. It will take some time for people's tolerance for larger and larger student loans to match that in the US.
There are some subtleties that seem to make this situation different than Comcast's strictly prioritizing some internet traffic over others. Apple seems to want to use the part of the pipe usually reserved for cable VOD. Though perhaps you could argue that separating VOD from the internet portion of the pipe (which has been the case ever since VOD existed) is itself a violation of net neutrality principles.
How do you DRM a thing like a coffee pod?
From the python man page: "Documentation for installed Python modules and packages can be viewed by running the pydoc program." pydoc is part of the standard Python installation (though it might be broken out into a separate package on some Linux distros) and equivalent to the man pages for Perl and Tcl.

Java, on the other hand, typically only has the HTML javadocs. And once you get outside libc, documentation for C/C++ libraries is all over the place in formatting and accessibility with standard tools.
one of the best quotes from the series

what's more astounding is that eric deliberately says in an email to send the message orally so they don't get sued
It's a problem if you want to be on a team, especially one that does rapid development-- which is most/increasingly more of them from what I can tell.

Freelancing might suite someone like you very well though. The best freelancers write solid software at the pace that works for them.
It's similar, if it's domestic SMS. (In fact, a lot of plans no longer offer "flat rate SMS" rather they are built into now ubiquitous "unlimited" plans.

Other than some carriers offering extra international SMS options, it's certainly not is a standard.

I am not very sure about how it really works in Europe, but I have feeling that EU countries have more comprehensive arrangements for calling/texting/roaming across their borders, or at least I wouldn't be too surprising even if so.
1.) No.

2.) False. There are waaaaaaay too many professors, to the point where most aren't tenured and make barely livable wages. There is a limited supply of universities, but it seems like most collude on prices, or at least refuse to compete on price. At any rate, universities seem to scale pretty well to handle extremely large population bodies, aside from a few statistical outliers that don't matter for this conversation.

3.) Demand has been constant for a while, along with supply. Easy credit is the driver of price change here, not a radical shift in supply or demand.

4.) "We are trying to increase supply". Education isn't what's lacking. You can learn a lot from independent study and books. What's lacking is degree factories. MOOCs aren't degree farms, so they are not an equivalent good.
Nice to get an update and I'm sure many will be watching this as thinking along the same lines.

Still early days, but does appear to be somewhat lacklustre in donations.

May be a case of offering banner ad's and the option to not have them if you donate and thus get the best of both worlds with the incentive to donate giving a clear result/return over the warm fuzzy feeling.

I will be interested in how it goes after 40 days and with that catch the monethly pay-day cycle of the audience as like many, it is a factor.

Personaly I do not have any bitcoins nor ever had a paypal account, and with that I've always mindful of banner ads and do make the effort to click and explore the adverts on sites. Well elast the non introsive ones that do not splurge you with video's and audio, but thats just my personal taste on a low bandwith network connection.

I do hope that the site gets that balance right without jepodising revenue/running costs. Brave move and have to respect that.
I often find that Disconnect can be overly aggressive in the parts of a page that it blocks. When something is amiss when using a webpage whitelisting the site in Disconnect usually fixes the problem.
Well, the most you can take out is $5,500 as an 18 year old. They're more than happy to legally deny you any other loans if you don't have the support of a rich family to cosign some private ones for you.
I enjoyed reading to the bitter end.

Have you seen the movie Dot-Con by Frontline?
GNU Guile-OpenGL 0.1.0
Rosalind adds exercises to go with the DPV "Algorithms" textbook
Shutting down Google Voice for Outlook
Very cool! In case anyone else wants to poke around the source, here it is: https://github.com/mapmeld/Crayon-Canvas
IIRC, it had become the standard for high-end, engineering, server, unix software by around 2002, but App Store really did do a pretty good job of replacing boxed software in the $20-300 range outside gaming (which Steam probably did first).
From their main problems page (http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/): Algorithmic Heights -- A collection of exercises in introductory algorithms to accompany "Algorithms", the popular textbook by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani.
I read that and it read like a troll, or that the 'auditor' was socially engineering the firm (also possible). It is useful to have passwords explicitly unknown by anyone except their owners and run password cracking software on the password database continuously to weed out 'weak' passwords.
I wouldn't describe JavaScript's OOP as bolted on. It's just a different kind of OOP - prototype based rather than class based. You could argue that Lua is more "bolted on OOP" since there are quite a few different libraries that build OOP for it.
Firstly, thanks for doing what you're doing. Even if it is a hassle to get it all together, I hope that the more people engaging in this type of effort can only be a good thing.

I agree that the coherency of the text book would be poor if everything was written by different authors. In fact, it is often so jarring when I read a journal article with different writing styles, that it is one of the easiest ways for me to identify plagiarism in student work or when reviewing for journals.

I guess the answer would be to have particularly committed and experienced editors like you mentioned in your attempt.

Perhaps if the book started of as quite a basic book, with key concepts, written by one person. Then, over time, that person (or small group of people) could accept pull requests from the community, and modify them to fit the style of the original book.

This could work quite similarly to most open source software projects:

1) Start of with one or a few people

2) Build only enough functionality for a working/useful piece of software

3) Over time, build up functionality via community contributions (and further contributions from the original contributors)

4) The direction of the project is steered by a group of people with its best interest in heart

Note how in the example of software, there is a fully working thing (even if it doesn't have all the bells and whistles attached) quite early in the process. Also, the overall vision for the project is kept in line by the original maintainer, who runs an eye over each pull requests and is free to make suggestions for changes. If there is any major disagreements, people from the community are free to fork the software and make it suit their needs.

I don't know how practical this is, in that a text book without huge amounts of detail may have less usefullness than a piece of software without huge amounts of functionality. Perhaps there are some fields which would benefit from such an approach, while others really do need to have a comprehensive, "finished" book to be of any use to anyone.
I donated $500 (and convinced my company to match $500) for FAMM, Families Against Mandatory Minimums last year. Its not perfect, but at least they are trying to make a dent in the number of people in prison, especially those with long sentences which may not make logical sense due to strict mandatory minimum laws.

I'm going to donate some more this year, and hopefully get my company to increase their donation level but I'm always interested in finding the group that will have the maximum positive impact to donate to. If anyone has any other ideas for higher impact groups, I'm interested in knowing about them.

I've ruled out all the legalize drugs groups because I won't be able to get a major corporation to donate to them even though I think they are worthwhile causes.
Yeah, it's sad. Only athletes should be old at 40.
you are being downvoted by corporate shills, most likely. That's what this site is made for.
>I have worked with a few hundred programmers and I can only name 3 that where competent before 30.

Are you sure you are not committing the same ageist judgement here?
> such as the ability for userspace programs to downgrade/upgrade the BIOS at will?

I assume some amount of privileges would be required to reflash. By "at will", do you mean that once those privileges are acquired, there is no notification or confirmation to the user? (Or perhaps it is easier than I think to reflash.)

Apparently they've added some downgrade protection[1]:

> The recent patch mentioned above solves this problem by displaying a prompt during reflash boot, if reflashing to an older version of BIOS. So now it requires user intervention (a physical presence). This "downgrade protection" works, however, only if we have administrator password enabled in BIOS.

[1]: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/08/vegas-toys-pa...
So it seems that the business model being evaluated here is to replace ads by bitcoin donation buttons, and then promote the fact that you've done that to pro-bitcoin audiences in the hopes that they donate.

That's fine, but the conclusions won't generalize to blogs in general.
Steven Skiena's book is a must-have as well. Nice fellow; great book.
Did Hyman Minsky find the secret behind financial crashes?
This is just going to be another arms race.
Python developers are the most giving
About ten years ago I went to an IT job fair while I was in first year CS I had gone late in life so at 32 I felt I was finally doing the right thing. I thought maybe I could get some tips maybe even get a job even just apprentice/intern, anything.

Well I could have run around the job fair naked and on fire and I bet I still couldn't get anyone look at me.

One local CS professor not mine he was the other one at the Uni didn't even look up or acknowledge me. What's a hoot is he was older than me smoked weed and partied with his students, talk about having a mid-life crisis.
Maybe I'm an outlier; I'm a 55+ engineer working at a mobile startup. Maybe not; 20% of Google's employees are >55, according to a Kissmetrics chart. But, who knows maybe the 55+ crowd at Google consist of only geniuses and janitors.

I see an old/young tradeoff between pattern recognition and fluid intelligence.

Maybe why some older developers show less enthusiasm for the next really "awesome" idea is that is really isn't that new. Maybe the older developer has already learned the hard way the downside of the Dunning-Kruger affect, where: the more you know, the more you know what you don't know.

On the other side of the coin, maybe older developers have a blind spot towards opportunities that have failed in the past. Because the timing wasn't right. Because the audience wasn't ready or the infrastructure was premature. The secret of a good joke (and startups) is timing.

Perhaps some startups are best structured like a team sport; with both younger players at the peak of their brilliance and with older players that can both play and coach.
It matters entirely for the psychology of the industry's culture.

However, increased liquidity is of no direct value. It only matters if people get better prices, or get deals closed significantly sooner. For a trader's participation to be positive sum, the benefit of their capital has to be larger than the costs they impose. Given that every trader is working to make the opposite true, surely many of them are negative sum. Especially given that capital can be deployed to reduce liquidity just as well as increase it.
I once spoke with a student from China who told me bypassing the Great Firewall with a VPN is quite common. Not practiced by anything close to a majority of the population, but common enough that it would probably be used by e.g., that guy you know who couldn't tell Ruby from Python, and has never touched Linux, but is quite capable of figuring out how to fix his Windows box when it breaks.
How is this different from Ghostery? (https://www.ghostery.com/)
My CS degree cost me about an hour a day in homework on bad days. I skipped many classes, only took relevant coursework, and graduated in 3 years.
A 61-day processing period is not cheap for the person waiting for money.

You want to digitize old forms for retired people? This is entirely the wrong approach.

New data should be in digital form. Not even all new data, just one vertical at a time - new payroll data, new business expense data, new insurance claims data, etc. This shards the work into tractable, testable, measurable units. There will be a (long) period when processing retirement forms will need to pull data from both analog and digital sources. That time will eventually pass, and the analog gradually phased out.
Nothing Compares To You Momma
Rapper Lucci, did a rap song that he dedicated to his mother. He also made this song relevant to ALL mothers. So he thought it would be a great mothers day present for mothers. Its a slide show of him and his mother and mothers he love and mothers he got off the internet. AWESOME SONG!
Why would universities need to compete on price if there are surplus qualified professors? It sounds like the low wages are a function of excess supply.
Disable JavaScript if you want to read it for free.
When im running OSX in a VM I can actually hear the sound of the typing cursor flashing...I still have yet to figure ot what it is. It is super faint, can only be heard in complete silence.Sort of a ticking noise.
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. And yes, I know the audience is very small right now but I believe in time that will change. I'm not sure if I've "jumped the gun" and acted too quickly, but this experiment is worth the effort and time to see if it will actually work.

I'm excited to see what happens in the next 10 days, let alone 40 days.

The reason why I've opted for showing no banner ads is because I don't think that the sharing of information should be diluted with outside influences. I have made plenty of money with banner ads in the past and I know with the right audience and the right amount of traffic you can make a killing. But, that's why I'm doing this site. I'm doing it for my love of science and the cosmos.

Thanks again.
I'd love to see an Android version of this.
Perhaps the question we should be asking is why talent doesn't seem to increase with age as much as we'd like. Let's assume for a minute that the age bias is important and useful. Why is that?

More importantly, what could we do to facilitate an increase in creativity or productivity or 'talent' over time? The fact that we don't has a huge impact on the kinds of things society achieve.

I don't think it's correct to just say "brains get less flexible" and give up. Most Nobel Prize winners (even in theoretical physics) tend to do their prize-winning work after this cutoff (I believe average is 40+). I suspect it has to do with the fact that scientists frequently have to shift the problems they're looking at as they go from grad student to postdoc, and grant to grant.

If I had to guess, I would say that it's not biological age, but time spent in a particular field that suggests how big a breakthrough you can make, because you get stuck thinking in a particular way. If young people have an audacity that lets them tackle new problems, we might focus on how to preserve that audacity as we get older by making it easier to switch fields.
Even if you'd drop completely selfless motives out of the picture (rich and eccentric folks sometimes fancy these and in particular this hackernews site seems to be pg's pet project), as far as I understand it, the long term success of YC as a business depends upon the long term success of Bay Area / Silicon Valley. If this is indeed the case (and if they don't need to squeeze every cent out of ppl right now), they may as well be in the 'community building' mode.

The original post had said "how critical public messaging and perception is to that business". Hmm. In my opinion, what is somewhat critical to them (business-wise) is this upcoming 10B DropBox IPO. Everything else doesn't look that critical to me. I doubt that a change to a comment system here can have any observable interaction with the IPO process. So I doubt that 'enforcing groupthink on a news company outlet' is critical to them and that it was it. Just pg working on his pet project seems more like it.
You can make one time use keys at Google if you have TFA turned on.
I agree with almost everything you said, but:

> Nothing motivates better than fear

Seriously?
I dunno. I can think of three ways in which an older developer might have a hard time finding a job:

(1) If someone doesn't keep up with currently relevant technology, they will find themselves without the job skills that employers are looking for, regardless of whatever other qualities they may have. This isn't ageism.

(2) If someone works at the same place for 10+ years, getting raises every year and becoming more and more valuable because of their knowledge of the innards of one or more huge codebases that are specific to that company, they're likely to have a hard time finding another job doing something different that pays as much or more. It's very easy for people to settle into a routine for many years that doesn't necessarily carry over to another job. Someone in this situation might have to take a pay cut (maybe a big one) to start from square one doing something else at another company. This is an unfortunate reality of being a software developer, but it also isn't ageism.

(3) If a really young entrepreneur is hiring for their startup, and they haven't had the life experience to develop the maturity and insight to avoid being biased towards hiring people who are just like them, it is possible that they will favor a younger developer over an older developer based on age alone. They may not even be aware that they're doing it, they might just feel like all other things being equal, the younger developer is a better fit for the company. This could be ageism sometimes, and it's very unfortunate when it is.

(1) and (2) are the perils of having a long career as a developer. Employers who don't hire someone because of these reasons are making rational hiring decisions; they're not making decisions based on being biased against someone because of their age.

I don't know how often (3) happens though. I could see it being a problem in SF, where I've heard the job market is disproportionately composed of startups. I don't think it's like that in the South Bay (at least not to the same degree), where there are tons of large and established companies that are less likely to do this.
One of the issues that is unpopular to discuss in inertia in constraints. Experienced people have learned a set of platonic causations that they apply to pattern matched situations. When they come into a new situation, if they match patterns that don't quite fit, they'll apply old solutions to situations that are not appropriate.

Enders Game is a good allegory for this.

It's good to have diversity and meritocratic process for decision making. It's good to have different perspectives, but recognize that sometimes bad experience is worse than little experience.
I agree with you. Blogs and news sites have to find the right revenue stream for their audience. Mine might be donations. It might also be banner ads. I'm not exactly sure yet, so that's why I'm doing this experiment.
...was their catchy phrase on their earlier video commercial on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZLCahai4Q

I'm sure this contributed in a way to their current success