skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As some already mentioned, it's never too late.
I'll add a little bit from my experience, of having started a technology company in my 20s and then, later, starting two others after my 40s, all of them active until now.
The two most important things I felt different were: time and energy.
I explain.
The time I had to work for my startup when in my 20s was huge, almost any time I wanted, and everyday. And that's what I did. I worked everyday, all the time. When you love the company you founded, that's what you want to do.
But now, after my 40s, life changed. Married, children, and a lot of obligations and responsabilities. I definitely don't have the time I had in my 20s to dedicate to the startup. And yes, you need to dedicate time!
Regarding the energy, I mean the energy related to health, physical capacity, intellectual concentration and ability to handle stress. These are all different 20 years down the road. And I amazed now, to see and feel the amount of energy one needs to dedicate to the startup. I had forgotten this.
I'm not commenting all other aspects related to loving what you want to do, entrepreneurship capacity and persistence because I'm taking these as given.
So, in short, if you have the _time_ and the _energy_, go ahead do your startup. Otherwise, go do something else.
Before you write a comment about why women are or aren't enrolled in STEM fields, please read the Wikipedia article on it. Every time someone says a generalization like "they just choose safer employment" or "high status something, something" without first reviewing a summary of the body of research into the matter, it's kinda pointless. It's like someone saying "here's why I think computers crash" but they've never read a book on HTML.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_STEM_fields
Stand aside for the smartphone generation
But shitty policing does?
That's not how I read it and when a white 70 year old uses terms like "different breed" I would bet he doesn't "really" mean white males.

This is a "dog whistle" term
JavaScript is so yesterday, jquery is clearly the language of the future.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=JavaScript%2C%20jquer...
That's a great explanation. It's unfortunate that Peter Thiel chose to express his idea is such a confusing way, and also to imply that what he was saying somehow was counter to conventional economics.
> I really don't understand the whole cars are in league with big oil.

I'd guess car manufacturers have two economic interests: 1) The less energy for automobiles costs, the more people will use them, and 2) the less economic harm there is from climate change, the more people will use cars.

I could see #1 motivating auto manufacturers to support the oil industry, and #2 motivating them to support clean energy.
The Bitcoin Jet, Or, How Does Cryptocurrency Go Mainstream?
Happy to see someone is working on improving js error messages. This is a good example of why people hate Javascript.
You might want to look at coffeescript. If you like Ruby, you'd probably like the coffeescript syntax for writing javascript, which should be helpful in web app development. Rails has out-of-the-box support for .coffee files.
That cuts both ways: Your personal experiences do not dismiss the widespread experiences of a great many women.

If it isn't an issue for you, then you may be a statistical outlier. It seems to be a pretty typical experience for most women -- not all, of course, but it appears to be quite common. Even female founders* sometimes talk about the degree to which they have been treated like nothing but a piece of ass by men they were trying to make deals with, an issue men do not typically have to face when they are trying to launch a business.

* http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/84530650750/its-different...
The conspiracy hypothesis is that the oil people have long ago acquired controlling interest in the auto corporations. Via foundations, funds, banks, etc.
OneNote is free, cross platform, syncs pretty well and keeps a local cache of all your notes in any of the desktop versions, which means you can independently back them up. And because of its history as a desktop app first, a backed up notebook can be opened in the app without caring about cloud state at all.

(disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but not on OneNote.)
RO-BOW – A Kinetic Sculpture That Plays a Violin by Seth Goldstein
Smartphone Remote Control with Node.js and Socket.io
> someone might give for hating Blacks, Jews or Mexicans?

Because: 1) The groups you mentioned above are too heterogeneous to pass any blanket judgment. 2) The conversation is not about techies in general (say a system admin in Shaker Heights, OH, a programmer in Tacoma, WA etc.) but narrow subset of IT people who is well aware of social tensions in city, caused by rapid influx of money, too busy/lazy to participate in improving social ills of the place _insist_ in moving in here, for variety of reasons, although they work in Mountain View.

Keep in mind I do not hate them; I myself despise hatred.
I am more interested in the adjustment of historical temperatures by NOAA. The whole debate hinges on accurate temperature reporting. Of course we could also have an article about the politics of climate grant chasing as well. This whole issue has become less about science and almost entirely about politics.
Overseas investors, especially Chinese, have targeted specific housing markets around the world and have pushed up prices in those areas. I'm in SF and we've seen basically the same thing...1 BRs are creeping toward $1m at the moment. Anyone who's tried to buy in any of these markets is well aware of having to compete with these all-cash offers for well over asking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/realestate/wealthy-chinese...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/25/us-realestate-chin...

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-all-cash-buyers-in-us...
I think that with current technology it's more efficient to store that energy in a battery than in the form of hydrogen (hydrogen is just a storage mechanism).

But it's a storage mechanism with the huge downside of being available from natural gas, so with widespread use of hydrogen we be equivalent to widespread continuous pumping of huge amounts of CO2 into oceans and the atmosphere. Something which most people consider foolish[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
Look up energy efficiency per person in cities like NYC versus Los Angeles. Subways , rail based transportation, and public transportation significantly reduce energy usage per person. The problem is that it's impossible to build these systems in the huge suburban sprawls that make up most of the United states.
Toyota, which is the largest car manufacturer by volume, have stated repeatedly that they are betting on hydrogen fuel cells rather than batteries.

Given their track record with hybrids, one would think that they know their battery technology.

None of the anti-hydrogen fuel cell articles that have popped up here lately have mentioned this. It would be interesting to see an analysis of the Toyota strategy from this point of view.
I couldn't disagree with this characterization more. They will need human intelligence overseeing the majority of the cases, and those that they try to automate will be fraught with difficulty and take a long time to iron out. Even the examples I've seen posted of people using it so far would not have been able to be automated and required extended conversations.

(And just in general stuff that is actually easy to automate will mean a ton of middle men already exist to make it easy, or more likely, the person could just do it themselves quickly)

The founders can either outsource to someone for as cheap as they can manage and target clients who don't care about likely significant middleman fees (and who are most likely on the lazy side), or they can spend all of their attention each day doing these little tasks for people.

Since it was a whimsical side project, as they described it, I imagine this will go on for a little while longer, but then they will wind it down and/or maybe try to sell it like the glitter envelope guy who didn't want to do all the work, and then have something quite nice for their resumes, plus some PR to go towards their next project.
Wow you sound like a real hacker lol
Use thermolysis instead. You can power it with waste heat from a nuclear plant.
Slenke: Collaboration and Workplace Management Software
or ssh config?
C is not a great language for the sort of stuff in this course. Apart from good documentation. Mostly it is not performance critical, and often deals with strings. The C interfaces are very verbose and easy to make mistakes in. Hence the popularity of Go etc. IPC,sockets and so on is a core framework of programming so wide language support is good.
US is no longer the center of the world. EU and China have comparable industrial capability. Maybe OP's idea will work for them.
Hydrogen is a complete dead end. It's too hard to make, ship, store, or use.

But methane is not. Can fuel cells work with methane? I think so, and if they don't work well, then that's where the research should be directed.
Made this account just to respond to this, because it hit very close to home.

My partner and I also moved to Chicago after living in SF for a decade. In short: it was no longer the city that we loved when we moved there.

Now I've lived in cities all my life, so I've no illusions: cities change, neighborhoods evolve, and that's okay. You just find a corner of the city that fits your style, because there always is one.

But this time it's the mood of the entire area that has changed. There's an obsession with money and wealth, and an influx of wealthy individuals that's changing local businesses, prices, and focus. Its becoming like Manhattan of the west - only without the culture or institutions.

Chicago is a much more cultural and cosmopolitan city. But more importantly, also more livable.
Minor correction. It wasn't nothing but open source software. A few non-open things were in there too.
I also want to mention that in NYC and many major metropolitan cities in the world, your proposal has already been implemented. It's called a subway.
well, there's nothing stopping you from writing a streaming json parser. that can read <x> fields at a time. you can format your input json to have whatever whitespace you need, including line breaks. the assumption is that the json will be encoded and not hand-written anyways, so the validity of the entire file isnt important since it will barf at record-level if malformed, similar to csv.

so rather than:

[2,"col_1","col_2","a","b","c","d"]

you can write:

[2,"col_1","col_2",
"a","b",
"c","d"
]

and it will still be valid JSON/H and line-by-line parsed. or as 'burntsushi suggested, you can wrap each record in an array to pass through a normal json parser, though this wouldn't be JSONH any longer:

[
["col_1","col_2"],
["a","b"],
["c","d"]
]
It's about Scheme and functional programming in general
I'll stipulate that I might have phrased things in a somewhat aggressive way, but if you exclude the rest of the conversation all I pointed out was that in 2015 having your customers download code from your website and not offering tools to work with is terrible. I do stand behind that statement and as proof of that ALL the other providers had a solution for this as people do expect this kind of feature in 2015.

But yes, reading it now I could have beaten around the bush around more and I could have been more reasonable.

Things went south when the condescension started.
Ends justify the means? What will you do when the same means are used on you?
That certain provides the mental health benefit of having someone to blame for all your problems, yeah?
"I really don't understand the whole cars are in league with big oil."

I don't know if car manufacturers are in league with big oil per se, but I have heard it argued convincingly that the repair and maintenance costs that are implied by the IC engine and its infrastructure in the car are a huge source of revenue for the entire auto ecosystem, and they just cannot give that up.
> Functional programming languages shine when they deal with complex, recursive data structures, not for simple tasks which are primarily IO and need to handle many cases.

I think most of the advantages of FP languages (as they exist today) become disadvantages as your data structures get more and more complex. Efficient mutability becomes necessary. Pattern matching breaks down as (G)ADTs can no longer encode useful invariants. Referential transparency becomes useless once you realize you want explicit sharing. Laziness and space leaks become a huge PITA. The RTS and the mandatory GC start getting in your way as it gets harder and harder to eek out performance from your code. etc etc..
Vote with my vallet indeed, I was planning to buy a few more things with the most expensive licence that would have allowed unlimited usage and all, but I switched provider.
And that's not even half of the process. Electrolysis produces gaseous hydrogen, it needs to be cooled down to store as a liquid, which requires a LOT of energy as well.
ssh config support is the first thing on the roadmap. I'd be happy to take a pull request for it.
Most people you know maybe. Most people I know are quite foolish themselves and repeat whatever their favorite TV station has brainwashed them to believe about the global warming.
SF has also been normal. Normal/weird is not mutually exclusive. SF has also been and is still is quite gentrified. For every Emperor Norton or Little Dick you have the Pacific Union club, industrialists and bankers. Those who had/have chic apartments and townhouses then head off to their mansions in Hillsborough. Hippies and beats did not build all those tall buildings around market street. If you watch all those Noir films, just like walking around the city today, look beyond the main characters and see all the normal people going about their business.

As Manhattan is still the center of fine art, theater, opera and classical music in this country, I don't know that I mind the comparison...
You're not achieving the ends with your means, though.
That's a useful condition, but it ought to be completely unrelated to law enforcement. You shouldn't be required to live around people who look and think and act the same as you do to receive equal treatment by the law.
> #1 motivating auto manufacturers to support the oil industry

Are the energy costs for electric cars higher than those for traditional cars? I thought they were significantly lower.
What's the current state of parallel execution with OCaml? Historically, I've been attracted to the type system and I think it's generally one of the most beautiful languages out there, but I build things that need to take advantage of many cores at once. Are there now at least nice wrappers around going multi-process like python's multiprocessing library?
Very true, I do want to be able to fetch the most up to date version of these plugins though, and doing this manually is very annoying. And having to maintain a private version that I have to constantly update is almost as annoying.

I just wish WordPress companies would join 2015 already. So many of them are stuck in the late early 00s.

And to think that WP powers more than a fifth of the web.
Auto companies and oil do have some common enemies.
For example, mass transit is a threat to both.
The OP is talking about building a third rail for cars. And not just on major transit routes, on every transport route.
It's alright. I don't mean to come across as ungrateful for the advice, I have just never posted here before. I slapped that in there just because I had to put something in. I didn't give it any thought.

Not because I am careless or think that I am somehow the "smartest man in the room". I was really intimidated when writing the OP. I have a lot of respect for this site and the people who are regular contributors.

That being said, I think that those of you who have been critical without being constructive have done so, albeit unintentionally, due to your own preconceived ideas and assumptions. Perhaps due to your own negative experiences in the past with people you didn't like in your own careers.

All I can really say when responding to negative comments: "first time caller, long time listener. Sorry about the sloppy OP. I had no idea that it would get noticed, much less be this active."

My description on the profile doesn't look good because I didn't know what to put in it as I have been lurking here for a long time but never posted.

I appreciate you all taking time from your lives to try to contribute. Had I known this OP was going to generate this kind of activity, I would have actually put some thought in to this stuff. Please, don't take that the wrong way. I mean all of this with respect.
ASCII art animations in the URL bar
That view counter is too distracting.
Your body deteriorates. I still stay fit, which I thought would be enough. I mountain bike and kayak. These days every time I fall, it hurts. And it takes a longer time to recover (as do the hangovers). Enjoy the physical advantage that you have now while you are young as it won't last forever. I say that as someone in reasonably good shape, just turned 40.
>Additionally, if there was capacity why not use it to charge lithium batteries?

Cost, weight, and refueling/recharge. Lithium batteries are expensive, heavy, and have a limited lifespan.

I think batteries will win out, but it is not a certainty. Toyota seems to think Fuel cells will win.
While it's great that Murray Cox has made the data 'Public Domain' I'm sure AirBnB would probably have a different view as to whether he is in a position to decide such a license upon scraped data from the AirBnB site.

http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html

Including property reviews (written by 3rd parties) as a Public Domain data-set seems pretty clear-cut inappropriate - in the same way that it's no ok or legal to crawl Yelp.com, compile a data set of reviews and deem them 'Public Domain' for anyone to use a they see fit.

I mention all of this because this kind of abuse of the concept of Public Domain harms its reputation and also puts fellow community members in difficulty if they go to incorporate this "Public Domain" dataset and later run into legal issues with the original rights holder.

I assume most HN users are firm supporters in the true concept of "Public Domain" and thus I hope the community will call out improper and harmful miss-interpretation of the concept.
Carol Dweck has shown us that it is the belief that intelligence is fixed is a major problem.

If children are told that failure is just part of learning and not indicative of potential, they keep trying until they master the material.

Of course, if someone is uninterested in acquiring a particular skill, that's irrelevant. They may have exactly the same potential for learning, but just don't care.

We should not be trying to make people pursue careers because we don't like the statistics. People should be free to follow their own desires. They know better than "society", whatever that is.
The code may need to be adapted to evolving environments. Security bugs might be discovered. In this case I guess "being maintained" just means that someone will react to such events if they happen.
1) The groups you mentioned above are too heterogeneous to pass any blanket judgment.

But statements against these groups could also be made in a specific context. And I'm sure the people making strong claims against these groups, as you are about tech, would view them as homogeneous.

2) The conversation is not about techies in general (say a system admin in Shaker Heights, OH, a programmer in Tacoma, WA etc.) but narrow subset of IT people who is well aware of social tensions in city, caused by rapid influx of money, too busy/lazy to participate in improving social ills of the place

This is an example of an unsubstantiated claim. Again, how to do determine what level of evidence is needed to make such a claim? If a similar claim was made against any other group, evidence would be demanded.

insist_ in moving in here, for variety of reasons, although they work in Mountain View.

This only makes sense if you assume everything else bad about Tech workers you've claimed is true. If they've done nothing wrong, and prejudice against them is not justified, why shouldn't they move to SF for any reason they like?

Keep in mind I do not hate them; I myself despise hatred.

I understand, but it's irrelevant. You are listing grievances that people use to justify their hatred of techies, and presumably you agree these grievances are well founded, even if you don't think they justify hatred. I'm arguing against these grievances being justified.
Right. Precisely. Gender polarization isn't a strong enough effect to pull significantly on an economy; sputr is trying to use a spurious correlation with little value in actually predicting whether a country will have a high or low standard of living as evidence that we've all had the wool pulled over our eyes.

Assuming you mean the authors of the documentary, I'll give you a new synopsis highlighting what it's really about:
Strawman arguments abound as our intrepid documentarians drag us from interview to interview to assert that it seems people conform very closely to what our stereotypes tell us to expect of them. Obviously this must be the inevitable result of our biology! Our strawman assertion of what "equality" means is defeated! There's no way our stereotypes could be self-perpetuating! People definitely don't continue to believe in the same religions or speak the same languages or eat the same food or celebrate the same holidays just because their ancestors did! Propensity to speak English and believe in the Judeo-Christian God must also be biological destiny!

Per your last question, I have no meaningful suggestion for the authors of the video; they're going to have a miserable confirming or disproving anything as long as they insist on using logical fallacies to do so.
Yet marginal availability is driven by total unit stock.
I have no problem with people writing cool little tools like this in whatever language, but there seems to be a chronic lack of understanding of what existing tools can do.
As a customer, you have a right to complain and point out your disappointment in the service you're offered.

As previously said in another comment I'll stipulate that I could have phrased things better, much better - but I stand by what I said. Any code vendor should provide automated ways to retrieve your goods. It's code after all.

What bothered me by far the most is that this condescending support person hinted that there MAY be ways for me to do that, but because I didn't phrase things well enough he didn't tell me.

And even when he proceeded with such condescending comments, he refrained from even trying to offer possible solutions to what I might be actually asking.

That is being condescending on steroids and it's the furthest thing from customer support.

I don't know about you, but I'm not into receiving veiled insults from people I give money to.
Evolving a bigger brain with human DNA
SSL-busting code that threatened Lenovo users found in a dozen more apps
> - the memory representation of values is uniform and native code debugging with gdb/lldb works great, thanks to the DWARF symbols emitted.

Besides being able to get a simple backtrace, I've always had nothing but headaches trying to print out variables. It's not tightly integrated with gdb, so the default "p my_ocaml_var" of course doesn't work and info locals rarely if ever works. Only time the debugging is good is when you get to the C code underlying the system calls.

I would love for this not to be the case, but I'm not sure if anyone is working on making OCaml better to debug in gdb.
"Personally, I've been using ASCII text files as "notebooks" for 20 years and have never lost a thing. Understandably, that workflow is not usable for mobile devices and cloud sync."

vi todo.txt

rsync -av todo.txt user@rsync.net:notes

That's what I do. Seems to work.

(blah blah email us about HN-readers discount blah blah)