skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that raw population grow is not a sustainable solution, but at least you need to grow at the replace rate or you're in trouble.

Care for the elderly is still an intensive task. Maybe yes, in 30 years it will be done by (Japanese) robots but we're not close yet.

You have the economic burden too: how much more productive each working individual has to be if it has to offset an increased ration of non working individuals?

Lastly, I don't think a country is sustainable with a dwindling population unless it can be physically and culturally isolated and has an important deterrent against military action
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You debase a medium of exchange upon which our society is built.
I always kind of wished that MooTools had won out in their battle to overtake Prototype's crown. It had a much more sensible namespace, and focused much more on solidly structured code over "how short can I make this".
1. They are probably extremely selfish.
2. If they think they need an NDA in a conversation, then they probably don't know how to think well enough to have an idea worth hearing.
This isn't a U.S. only issue, the maximum penalty for making a false stamp in Denmark is twice that of rape.
You're kidding, right? Health care and defense industry in the US are incredibly economically unprodictive (in the technical economic sense). Finance has similar work ethic/hours as tech.
Ask HN: Where to find weekend work?
I have quite a bit of free time over nights and weekends that I usually end up socializing or wasting time on internets. Currently I am in need of some extra cash and hence wondering what are the avenues for a full stack (+iOS) developer to find paid work off hours (20+hours a week)? Craigslist, Guru, etc. sound awful to work with. Any ideas?
> 1) Most likely result: I never hear back at all, because I didn't attend Stanford/MIT. (Never mind that I got accepted but didn't attend due to better financial aid elsewhere.)

> 2) If they do decide to interview me, I won't hear about it for months.

My gut feeling is that with the rise of Facebook, Google has really changed its hiring practices. Now they don't want to lose out a good talent to FB; and dicking around for months is a sure-fire way to lose that talent, because FB sure doesn't.
You're the last one I've got but I don't know how to get in touch. I checked your domain's whois but I don't know if dns@bb is valid.
Because if they are not tied to risk, they will be flooded by candidates, who will drive returns down to the same risk-adjusted levels again.
I'm out, sorry!
If they pulled it off maybe you knew that. If they didn't -- is it because they suck? Or because they're incredibly nervous and just got put in an environment which which they were not acclimated, and told to do work?

I may not be a scientician, but I'm pretty sure there's something in the Big Book of Science about controlling for variables...
Pretty much sums up the software/IT problems of enterprise.
It's a win for those who wouldn't negotiate because Reddit will have to estimate fair market value if they want to hire someone.

Instead of talking the first low ball offer, they'll get what reddit thinks they are really worth. Which is still probably lower than what they could have negotiated.
The kind of discrimination alluded to upthread? No, I do not think it's common. That's my point.
Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
I'm a 26 y.o. software dev working on going indie. All my life, I've struggled with procrastination. I find it very hard to sit down and work on a project without an external motivator, and on many nights I end up vegging out in front of the TV or aimlessly clicking around on the internet. As a result, even though I am successful on an absolute scale — CS degree from a top-10, worked at a startup and a large company, enough savings to last a few years of solo development — by my own metric of success, I am crippled by the feeling that it's "too late". Every day, I read an article by some hot-shot young dev who has a handful of fancy projects behind his belt (not to mention a great website and design sensibility) while I have exactly zero — and he's half a decade younger than me! How will I ever be able to catch up? Experience-wise, I'm still a junior dev.

It's a constant, irrepressible gnawing in my chest. Every morning, I take tally of my age. Whenever I encounter a technical article, I immediately and compulsively investigate the author's age. If I'm behind — which I always am — I will lock myself in my room and force myself to work, even though I still end up on HN half the time. It's exhausting and terrifying, but I also don't want to loosen up. At my core, I am intensely ambitious. I have so many great ideas, and knowing that the main obstacle between them and me is only myself keeps me in an endless state of panic.

It's been getting better. For the first time in my life, my procrastination is starting to get tamed. I've been working hard on my first big project, and I expect it's going to be a great one. But I can't help but feel that if I had started in earnest at 25, at 21, at 19 — then maybe the list of accomplishments at the end of my life will be longer. Mentally, I've resigned to the fact that I've procrastinated away a decade of valuable time, and it just endlessly haunts me.

Does anybody else have this problem? How do you deal with it?
Zookeeper definitely has some advantages both in terms of maturity and features.

I'm not sure though that Zookeeper is universally faster than etcd (certainly as you add nodes it slows down... though most people don't need more than 3 or 5 nodes).

Dynamic ensemble configuration is definitely a place where Zookeeper was lacking before, but it isn't the only difference that matters. The big difference I remember with etcd was partition tolerance. Last I checked Zookeeper was all on the consistency side and it's partition tolerance basically just wrote off the smaller partition. Either choice can be a good thing or a bad thing for a directory/orchestration store, but particularly as you scale up to large numbers, partition tolerance semantics seem to better match the use cases.

So I don't think etcd is all inferior to Zookeeper, and I understand the desire to build a system where all components are fundamentally AP, but sometimes having a bit of impurity and some duct tape hackery in your model can help you get out the door faster and focus on more significant technical challenges that will help you build your community. Once you have a community, you have more resources to address that duct tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTOuGZvR9dQ
I think this is sharply correlated with what Tom Nichols' termed ['The death of expertise'](http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/) and how we tend to assign equal weight to all opinions, irrespective of the voice attached to them. Hence, we end up measuring volume/loudness rather than quality.
PS: I know the 30-year-olds in the audience will laugh at me for feeling "old", but I imagine that applies to every stage in life. When I was 21, I certainly didn't expect I'd suddenly encounter this overwhelming fear of getting older around my mid-twenties.
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Unique, glad this is being shared. I've always looked towards the Wealthfront Equity Plan of Early Evergreen Grants [1] as a good example. It is arguably more performance-oriented than this Progressive Equity. I really like the concept of giving everyone financial independence, but it must take the right combination of culture, investors, and valuation to make it more motivating than it is inhibiting.

Also, could the redistribution of equity at the time of sale have more cost in tax obligations than earlier redistribution?

While I really appreciate the legal docs, the truth is in a longer description that remains easily comprehensible. I think the main barrier to most of these alternative equity structures is a lack of understanding from all parties.

[1] https://blog.wealthfront.com/the-right-way-to-grant-equity-t...
tnx anyway :-)
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And how much would that be? $100M? Which would generate a few M USD per year of disposable income?
I agree, Docco-style docs are really easy to read.

I built srcco, a Docco-style doc generator that links every variable, function, etc. within your project to its definition (similar to sourcegraph.com -- full disclosure: I work at Sourcegraph), to demonstrate how to build things on top of our free/open source language analysis framework, srclib[0].

You might find it interesting (the links in the code have white backgrounds): http://sourcegraph.github.io/srcco/srcco.go.html

It only works for Go because the only Go toolchain keeps track of comment ranges (because srcco removes the comments from the source code), but it wouldn't be too hard to add comment ranges to the other toolchains. If you are interested in language analysis for languages like Java, Python, Haskell, or Javascript, I would be happy to help you make your first contribution. Ping me: samer@sourcegraph.com.

[0] - https://srclib.org/
I can't believe that article was five years ago already! >.>
If I were going to craft such an amendment, I'd probably make a distinction between active monitoring and passive monitoring and require reasonable suspicion to switch to active.

If I go shoot up a theatre, the police would allowed to put an active trace on me and query their database.

They wouldn't be allowed to just search for drug users by investigating who goes near drug corners.
> I don't think I should pay into a system that I will never receive benefit from.

What do you propose the elderly living off of social security should do instead?
i know - i was hoping someone else did it already! thanks
Backbone, Marionette and Underscore all have annotated source like this linked on their project websites.
a world where women are hired but not promoted? Or where the discrimination falls under the heading of "culture fit" instead of explicit policy? Or even where women are hired and promoted equally, but otherwise treated like shit in the office?
> there is upper limit on how much you could punish a person

I would not be so sure about that. We, humans, are extremely creative when it comes to hurt each other.
Anyone knows if there are outdated sites that still using early versions of jQuery? =))
Whenever I get asked to deploy ‟minor changes”  on a Friday afternoon
He has also written liner notes for albums by obscure bands.
> Yes, but who's leading the world in technological growth?

Actually, China, Mongolia and India are leading the world in GDP per capita growth. If by "technological growth" you mean labor productivity growth, other countries with parental benefits, such as Denmark and Sweden, are doing fine.
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDYGTH

It's not impossible to grow while supporting enjoyable lives for your citizens. In fact, as median wealth and median income increases, automation and broader technological advancement become more worthwhile.
I gave a Yi demo at the Haskell Symposium, and the video (recorded "guerrilla style") is available! (It should also appear on the ACM Digital Library too, hopefully in better quality, but don't hold your breath.)"

...and the video <--- "video" hyperlinked w/ URL I gave...
> I'm not sure what problem you suppose this is going to "make worse".

Discrimination.
How Google actually hires:

Lean heavily on brand name and the preconceived prestige of a google position, give the same stock interviews that most companies give that are heavily tilted towards false-negatives rather than false-positives, and then pay well.

Speaking as somebody whose SO works at Google, I think it's fair to say that Google does not hire the best people, but hires a lot of people that think they are. CL's being delayed by a week or longer because of nitpicks regarding comment capitalization/grammar/wording, why didn't you follow the exact idiom of this totally non-related library/code component that I wrote, or just pure spite is common place.

Also, memes have almost completely subverted the english language at Google. Really, the window into Google that I have is hardly showing me "Best of The Best" material.
To be fair, becoming a radiologist is so much harder than becoming a software developer that I'd sure hope it would come with some perks. Your cousin might be working half time now, but she almost surely worked quadruple time for a long time before that just to get to where she is.

Dermatology and radiology are some of the most competitive medical specialties in the world. Most doctors are neither dermatologists nor radiologists, and frankly if you did a truly detailed cost benefit analysis I'm not so sure the numbers would be so clear cut for the average doctor. As a very hard-working programmer, at age 25 I was making $120k base salary far away from Silicon Valley -- my friends in medicine were neck deep in coursework still with an income of approximately -$50k/year and another ~4 years on average before they'd match what I was making already.

And I assure you that not every physician is able to just "scale back". Yes, some can, but that's not the norm. Plenty of ER doctors work nights for decades. My best friend growing up is a resident physician right now and works 80 hour weeks. I haven't even talked to him for a year because he's so busy.
I don't have any links off-hand but I know that there was a Nintendo.com sub-site that was using a pre-1.0 version of jQuery. Even though the overall code quality is rather low it did have decent browser support - unless browsers actively begin breaking their APIs (unlikely) those old versions of jQuery will probably keep working forever!
The children who are going to grow up without a father, yea, I'm thinking about them.

Who's going to raise them? A single mother, if they're lucky. Think she's going to have an easy time re-marrying with an ex-con husband? How about getting a good job in the era of background checks? Think she was highly educated to begin with?

Taxpayers at large are going to foot most of bill for this domestic disaster. Further, these children are now more likely to end up in jail themselves. Now society gets to pay another $30,000 a year per child to house, feed and care for another inmate.

This isn't strictly touchy-feely stuff here, there's a hard cost to society when you jail people without any thoughts towards true justice. It's stupid, ineffective and perverse.
I didn't like much about Elysium but found the parole "officer" depicted to be both eerie and prescient.
Was the Morris Worm, which brought down a huge percentage of Unix Servers in 1988, the result of C?

In any case, there was definitely a network that was being used by a lot of people by 1988.
The sad thing is that MPI-3 doesn't have wide acceptance yet. A lot of organizations mainly use MPI-1/2. While using RHEL 6.x. Shoutout to red hat for maintaining ancient software
Did you not say that a substantial number of employers owe their existence to creations of government and for this reason are bound by government obligations?

For that to be a principled argument, would it not follow that if one does not owe their existence to the government, they aren't bound by those same obligations, since the reason as present above is now missing?

If not, then you're really just saying "we're all bound by government business obligations whether you choose to benefit from government created "funnels" or not". Yes, but don't make my case for me.
I completely agree. I tried to make a bunch of notes on the (poor) code quality, inline. This is mostly an attempt at archaeology, if you will. Naturally the current release (or even 1.0 release) of jQuery is substantially better code in every respect.
These days Crays run intel Xeons.
> It’s tied to an individual homeowner, and an invisible watermark on every movie identifies which box is in use. That way, if a recording does show up online, an owner can be identified and put in the hot seat very, very quickly.

How long before someone breaks the DRM, gets their hands on two watermarked copies of the same film, isolates and obscures the watermark, and posts the film online? A zero-day pirated release of a major blockbuster in (presumably) gorgeous Blu-ray quality would be a big deal.
I can't tell if you're trolling or naive. No serious SDK, Framework or API is built without deep know-how of the domain. You atleast need to be great at data structures (or OOP), design patterns, language design.

Unless you're doing the literal bottom-barrel of engineering work where you don't involve algorithmic know-how, there's no escaping having deep engineering.

Perhaps what offends me most is the notion that "you can just google/stackoverflow it". No you can't. If you don't know your tools, every problem will be a nail and your only tool a hammer. You're not being fast, you're being hasty and creating a lot of waste by moving very slow on the aggregate. It's this attitude that introduces massive bugs in the system because an engineer copy/pasted code without knowing it's implications.

Development is knowledge working; you need to invest in your knowledge tools else you're just moving really slow and you don't even know it.
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Fix your SSL cert
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I think it's a trend in that today we have a lot more programmers than we did 30 years ago, and much of today's programming languages and tools are highly abstracted. Most programmers don't have to know much about how their computer or OS works to get something up and running. It's good for productivity, and I'm not recommending that we go backward, but there is a consequence to making things (seem) easier.
20 Years in Prison for Having a Miscarriage – Is Our Country Going Nuts?
> but as someone in their late 20s, I do not believe I will every get a social security payout.

This belief does not seem to be well justified.

> either the age requirements will keep getting pushed back as people live longer

"Keep"? They've been pushed back once in the history of the program.
How, exactly, is what has gone on in this thread supposed to do that?
> The quote begins, "They originally charged me," so I'm guessing some of the charges were dropped? Even then, it comes down to a jury to decide guilt.

This is another deplorable aspect of the US justice system. The vast majority (something like 95%) of convictions are not from jury trials, but from plea bargains. Piling on charges is one way prosecutors force plea bargains on suspects.

It's likely that the prosecutor charged this guy with everything he could find in order to induce him to plea to a lesser charge to avoid the hassle and uncertainty of a trial.
I had a similar experience. Google's interviews were generally great (and the interviewers were kind -- it might have helped that I generally did well in them), but the overall process was far slower than some startups and I eventually had to shut down the process at Google to take another offer that was too good to turn down.

The bottom line is that, unless you request everything to be expedited from the beginning, it can take a few months to finish the entire process with Google. Even requesting a schedule change to be made would take about half a week for me. At least that was my experience -- I can't speak for others.
What kind of discrimination (if any) do you believe can be common without triggering the negative consequences you describe?

I ask because you seem to be describing a world in which discrimination basically can't exist due to market self-regulation - i.e., all our industries problems are basically solved, which seems to differ from your usual position.
I'm not sure what to chastise you for more: troll-feeding, or misattributing George Box.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box

(I'm joking.)
There's a reason we don't let crime victims decide the punishment for the criminal. This stuff is supposed to be objective. (How well that's achieved is debatable, but that's the goal.) Bringing up the emotions of the victims is not a good argument.
Is it really the best way to incentivize people to do a good job, the future possibility of a large exit, and that they'd get an additional share?

I like the idea of something being pre-determined, set from the get-go, however as you mentioned different individuals have and bring different value and have different impact in the company. Does it make sense for high impact people to get a 1 megadonk increase, along with a low impact employee?

There's another model I was hoping to be able to explore, though I don't have a lawyer nor could afford putting the resources towards writing any draft for it - which takes more of a convertible notes with a cap -- you give employees higher equity initially, so if the company doesn't do as well then those employees gain more, and that equity comes with a cap - so say it's 2.5% of the company with a $5 million cap and that employee has agreed they'd be happy with that outcome. The company exits for $1 billion which would require a lot more effort from a lot of people - save if it's some automatic viral scaling company with only a small team, e.g. WhatsApp with ~35 employees before selling to Facebook ... under this model then employees 30-35 in WhatsApp scenario could gain $100s of millions of dollars for very little time and energy invested?
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So if everyone were clones that would not be enough equality for you?

How would you go about your further goals in this clone society? Constant monitoring of citizens, tracking their lives, measuring disparities in the short and long term and either awarding or punishing certain activities at certain times by certain people to make sure everything is equal to everyone?

Seriously, what do you mean by equality that the ability to choose one's genes wouldn't fix?
Ah, great minds think alike. We were doing the same thing at the same time. I backtested the process against Facebook's IPO so it could feel a bit more real

http://kapuno.com/conversation/bblc6nqbe6qte
You're welcome. Any time. You'll more reliably get a response if you send your questions to hn@ycombinator.com, though. We don't always see these.
I've found that I've often wanted to learn something new, but after the "honeymoon" phase, the novelty wears off and I don't sustain the discipline required. So now I tend to treat any casual interest in something new as just that. Things that I've learnt as new have often been driven by a real need, driven by some other burning desire. For example I learnt about CSS because I needed to make changes to my website, and I was deeply driven about making my product successful. Or I learned SQL because I was interested in getting a better job as a data analyst (and was frustrated by what I was doing day-to-day).

There are some people who learn for the sake of pushing themselves outside of their comfort zone, but they are committed to improving themselves in that way. If you've become lazy then it's a combination of no push away from the status quo and no pull towards something you yearn for.
Learning Haskell isn't beyond any programmers though, and is likely to pay off long-term. I agree that other fringe languages might have less payoff though - Erlang/elixir, Clojure, F#/OCaml, Idris/Coq/Agda (although who would write production code in these?) are all more likely to impart fundamental understandings than e.g. Coffeescript, Wisp, etc.
Backtesting Detour's “Progressive Equity” Against the Facebook IPO
I'd love to give it a go if you have invites left.

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