skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any support for those assertions? In particular, the backup claim is rather dubious unless you're redefining “backup” to be a much higher bar than most common answers meet.
I'm in my early 40's, but I've recruited software engineers for almost 20 years and I until recently I ran a large Java Users Group over 15 years, which gave me quite a bit of exposure to an older range of engineers.

I know many 50+ programmers who are doing quite well (monetarily, respect, responsibility, balance). Some independent consultants, some at startups, some with big firms, etc. A fairly wide variety. Not all had to go to management - in fact, I'd say most of the ones I know didn't.

The one trend I've seen is that older engineers that ended up staying with a single employer for the longest (say 10+ years in one job) generally have the most difficulty finding new work when the time comes.

There could be a few explanations for this. One could simply be that people who work for one company for a long time may have a smaller network. That could make job hunting more difficult. Another could be the whole "ten years of experience or one year ten times" cliche.

I do believe there is often some bias against candidates who had extraordinarily long tenures at one company, which may be associated with the thought that these candidates may either be too comfortable at their current job (not need to learn) or so ingrained in a particular work culture that other companies fear that they will not be able to adapt.
I wonder how this approach compare to upscaling via IFS (i.e. "fractal compression"-like techniques). Although the underlying modelling is very different, the fundamental idea seems very similar - learn vectors from the image, apply (possibly a mixture of) them at a different scale. The results certainly look superficially similar.
Why would you say that? There are attempts to regulate them, but those attempts so far are mostly just succeeding in ensuring that the regulating districts become uncompetitive and virtual currency businesses leave for somewhere with better promise.

How are you supposed to regulate these services when anyone can open a Bitcoin bank and serve anyone anywhere in the world with an internet with an internet connection? If they couldn't stop movie piracy, how are they supposed to stop free global financial services? They have even less of a legal case to make for intervention than piracy!
> Github is a platform that should not need a particularly high uptime from the point of view of any one user.

This is totally false. GitHub doesn't just provide a git server, it also provides ticketing and project management. When GitHub is down, projects that rely heavily on, for example, commenting on issues grind to a halt.

Yes, you don't need GitHub to be up 99.999% of the time to do a `git push` every once in a while, but there are other projects that use other features of GitHub besides the git server aspect.
Very cool. Would be interesting to gain insight into how many ROMs are available for each device, as well as if there's an official Cyanogenmod release.
It's good to hear from others who think in the same way-
I moved to a new job last year where there were no fixed hours (my previous job required that I should be in at 9am). This alone made me feel like I was going into the office because i 'wanted' to, not because I HAD to... Ironically I still end up going in for just after 9am everyday anyway, but that sense of freedom leaves me feeling so much happier on a day to day basis!
It is loadable via asdf. You can look at a very silly example here: https://github.com/grantham/clef-reading
It encourages borrowers to borrow possibly recklessly.

It doesn't encourage lenders to lend recklessly (they won't make any money for the credit risk).

Of course, that won't stop anyone from lending recklessly any more than rationality did last time around.
I wouldn't be that inclined to make assumptions about what sort of selection bias there was. I could also argue that people who show up at such gatherings are more likely to be people with time on their hands or who are making a concerted effort to network, while those who are working full-time are busier.
This would come down to IT changing at a much faster pace than medicine as practiced by people. If you get older as a doctor, people still come in with common problems that you can fix and you're very knowledgable by then.

If you work in IT, you would have had to constantly keep learning. If you stagnate, you would be unable to use technology that is relevant any more. In the analogy of the doctor, you would stop being able to service patients because new diseases have come around that you can't treat.

Now the fact that once you get older means you have kids, have commitments, probably get tired and want to rest after you get home from work, it means you have less ability than a keen 25yo able to work long hours.
"If we ship Python inside of Firefox, no one is going to use it because it's not available in Chrome, it's not available in Internet Explorer." Oh yeah? Try me.
Pretty cool. It would be nice to be able to restrict the results to only current phones. For example, I will upgrade this summer and wanted to find a phone similar in size and weight to my current phone, but most of the results were for old phones.
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I just turned 50. I'm a web front end guy having started my career in a multimedia startup. I have as deep or deeper experience in all the latest hip technologies as anyone I work with, as well as broad and deep experience most of them lack. One of my colleagues is roughly my age, most others are 20-35.

I have also worked in management, which I don't much care for. In the projects I work on, there are quite a few people around my age — some like me, others of the legacy tech variety. I think — some significantly older than I.

I don't think working past 50 is an issue if you have the skills and flexibility. But don't expect your salary to keep arcing up exponentially the way it does in the first few years.
I've worked with a lot of contractors. Invariably, if you bitch about guberment and then have a polite chat with the ones who make these kinds of offers, they're trying to get around paying taxes. This might be anecdotal, but it's not pure speculation.

You can disagree with the tax system in the US, but that doesn't make tax evasion legal.
I'd be curious to know what the answer to that is as you cycle through the ages. What percentage of people at 30, 40, 50 & 60 are able to have a career in programming?

There going to be people who won't be able to at all those ages, but what percentage is the question.

Anecdotally, I'm 49 and getting better and better (great yearly reviews as well) so it's true for me. So the answer the the questions is "yes", but that doesn't help much.
The contraction "I'm" is only one word.
Just, a ridiculous question.
It would be helpful if you could give an example of those life-challenges. If nothing else, it could be a sanity check to other middle aged developers (like myself). :-)
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I double-majored in chemistry and math. I remember talking to a few of my chemistry professors and finding that they missed actual lab work; managing their research labs, getting grants, etc. was a full time job. This wasn't true of the math professors; they actually had the time to do the research instead of just supervising graduate students.
I'll throw in my work in this area: http://sediment.io
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It could also be because the interface on mobile is significantly worse than on a desktop. Just doing a search, by typing into the already active text box, is easier than trying to navigate to the URL bar, hitting the wrong keys and getting the URL wrong. It's easier to just do a search and let Google work it out.

Honestly I'm surprised how many how almost exclusively use their phone to go online. It's seems like a huge step backwards in usability.
I turned 45 this year, and my career is on an excellent upward trajectory as an ops programmer, which is what I've been doing since I was in my early 20s. I hesitate to call myself 'devops', but that might fit. But I write code most of every day, and things have never looked better.
It seems to be considered a single word.

Not sure if these are valid references, but:

1. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091003034818A...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)
I'm 51 - no way I'm getting hired as a programmer. But I am coding for my own business, doing better work than ever.

I used to be in general management, but retrained as a programmer because I love the tech, and to be location-independent. With today's development tools I am as productive as a team of ten back in the day.

It is strange to me that old people are pushed out of the industry.
It already did, two decades ago
Is it time for a NGO based Git hosting service for OSS projects?
Grooveshark is also a good delivery target for Flash-based exploits since the music player also depends on it. I remember times where some sketchy ads would crash the flash plugin consistently.
It's almost as if the government as a social institution continuously and inexorably acts to expand and reinforce its power over society, regardless of any constitutional or rational or utilitarian grounds for its expansion... as if the people in government seek to reinforce and expand the job security and fiscal prospects of being an agent of government, regardless of whether their actions are welcomed by or beneficial to the people they are ostensibly meant to serve, or actually just ever more patronising and controlling overreach...

/s
Setting up a GitHub alternative is quite expensive but if you're just making your deployment system more robust it doesn't need to be more time consuming as having a server which you can SSH to.
Same here, only boots extremely slow (I have the original HDD but 8gb memory)
I don't think the other people are at fault here. I think it's reasonable to assume that someone with a stereotypically black name is black, just like it's reasonable to assume that a random IT professor is male based on the fact that 90%* actually are. As long as you owe up to your error when you notice it (and e.g. apologize). It's a reasonable optimization that works out more often than not.

The problem only starts when the treatment of the person depends on the category they belong to and if that difference in treatment is not based on reason and evidence.

*example, may not be accurate
I don't know when that particular name for it dates to, but some sort of liberal arts requirement has been around for even longer. To be sure, if you take the minimum and take courses that aren't really liberal arts (e.g. accounting or microeconomics), it's fairly minimal. But the opportunity is certainly there to get a fairly broad education.
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I did not suggest any platform because I don't use any platforms. I prefer to do the work myself and that's the impression I wanted to convey to my readers.

Thank you for your suggestions though!
With zero snark, because I've never had the (apparent) pleasure of working with a lisp, what are the use cases for Common Lisp? It barely registers when talking about building APIs and production cloud platforms for game services, which is my current wheelhouse. Clojure comes up, of course...
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It will. Banks absorbed creditors' risks and lend them money for mortgages anyways until 2007. The financial crisis caused the government to bail out the banks, whose risk increased because they ate up all the mortgagee's risks. Now the governments are beginning to see problems, and the central banks are absorbing the risks. I think what happens next is the crisis with government bonds spreading from Greece to bigger nations and affecting the U.S., but the crisis will be aborted by central banks, somehow, eating up all the risk. The central banks' risks will in turn eventually be absorbed by currencies, which, when stressed too much, will fall apart and hyperinflate. I think signs of stress include overpriced assets, and volatility of value.

A lot of this is my own observations, so take it with a grain of salt.
Elite Dangerous could do a bit to make their text easier to read even on the DK2 - I think they expect players to rely on other visual signals and so they shrink their text too much.

That said, I think Crescent Bay would help to solve the problem.
This said, I'm thinking that it's probably better to just list the last 5-10 years of experience and drop the older stuff. Though, when listing education, it's probably difficult to list your education without saying when you graduated (there by indicating your age).

I'm 38 and I'm reading these things, getting a little worried, though I'm a very quick learner and trying my best to stay on top of what's going on (it's getting harder, things move so quickly!).
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Agreed - and the pricing information is
a) cumbersome to get to
b) weird..

The prices below apply in the indicated regions only and are shown in US Dollars. [1]

LispWorks 7.0 for Android Runtime, annual license with free upgrades and technical support

€800

1: http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-lw4mr-2c.html
If I type my phone "Galaxy Note 4", I get it compared to the "Galaxy Note4" (missing space), which has different battery/screen/weight specs.

http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/similar_to_4245
That's an excellent question. I'll have to revise the article to go over what to do after you've created a negative keyword list.

Thanks
It'll force you to hire expensive lawyers for all the pre-court maneuvering, which tends to be a good deterrent to any small agency or freelance consultant.
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You don't have to win it to bankrupt the target with pre-court maneuverings.
Consumer Drone King DJI Raises $75M to Build Lndustrial UAV Developer Platform
It's mind blowing how fast we've got to realistic virtual reality with Oculus Rift and graphic techinques like global illumination (e.g., see "Unreal Paris" demo: https://youtu.be/Y6PQ19BEE24) and inevitably forthcoming real-time raytracing.

We live in a truly incredible time.
hahaha, I have yet to see that happen but I don't doubt that it happens!
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I did the same test. I feel the same.
I always saw money as some sort of unit for value. Everything valuable is expressed in some currency. Inflation is expressed as "things becoming more expensive", not "money loosing its value". Money seems to be the most basic part of how our economy works.

I think the next decade will change everyone's perception of central bank money and cash, going from the most basic law on value, to just another thing that can be traded with another thing, losing or gaining value. The real question is if merchants will still accept these "I owe you" notes in the far future, instead of requesting something of real value.

Timing means everything for something to become successful, and bitcoins couldn't have hoped for a better time than now.
That dude's got a lot of weird bleep-blorp does not compute opinions about human nature.
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GitHub is a much larger target, and has many, many more moving parts than your average Gitlab on, say, a Linode virtual server.

Github will probably have more downtime which you can do noting about, than your selfhosted gitlab, which will probably fail because you upgraded something, or tinkered with a configuration.

It's a numbers game. They have more people monitoring, they spend way more money than you do on uptime/services, but such a service doesn't get more stable as it grows.

I trust myself way more than I trust GitHub or other hosted/cloud services because I cannot affect/help them in any way when stuff happens.

Ultimately, I know this, I accept this, and I happily use GitHub, Bitbucket and such all the time.
That was the exact purpose of the post and thank you for recognizing it!

Thanks for reading; I really appreciate it.
Heh, that could be a good trick against hypervisor malware. Just run inside your own hypervisor...
No no no, this is a funded startup, he used the power of social relationship and communication medium to reach out and generate interest
We just went with a single group text file with all the jobs and which ones could be spread out. Saves the programming and gives the sys admins / DBAs an idea what goes when.
A $550 video card on top of the price of the device itself? If that is the case, I'm going to have to wait for a device to come out like Hololens that can stand on its own.
Hello, I'm a Bitcoin community member, I can help clear this one up for you:

1) Bitcoin is claimed as a legitimate alternative to cash money insofar as: Bitcoin proponents believe that, if the world valued Bitcoin, it would function superbly as a money. So "legitimacy" here means "workable" or "beneficial" - it has nothing to do with legitimation by governments.

2) Many Bitcoin proponents are of the opinion that governments destroy wealth and hamper economic progress by trying to restrict and control the actions of people, in so doing preventing more organic and consensus-based mechanisms of social organisation emerging. Thus the argument that Bitcoin should not be subjected to existing cash laws is a) an attempt to prevent Bitcoin from early smothering by suspicious governmental authorities and b) an early-game strategy, the end game of which would be the significant or total disempowerment and/or disestablishment of government.
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If anything, that demo demonstrates how much more important getting the screen door effect under control is, as opposed to increased resolution.
Actually the flip side is true. We must not have deflation to protect the wealth of people. No one with any amount of money has it sitting in cash. Heck, anyone who owns a house with a fixed rate mortgage is going to prefer moderate inflation to deflation.

All the actions taken by the fed since 2007 (and the rest of the world really) was to stop deflation not inflation.
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Once it's the norm for browsers it wouldn't make much sense not to use HTTPS everywhere.
We all make decisions and assumptions based on our past experiences. It's perfectly natural that if we keep seeing the same input leading to the same output over and over, we begin to associate that input with that output. Sometimes the input doesn't lead to the output, which helps us inform our future actions, but there's nothing inherently wrong with making assumptions and taking actions based on our experiences.
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Okay, I'm not quite understanding the idea of the negative interest rate other than it's levied against people who hold on large stores of cash in their accounts. My question is under what situations would a bank implement such a policy? It is because there's no way for a bank to invest the funds? Or is it something deeper?
This is also true of a PEO (e.g. Trinet).

Yes, Zenefits has a gorgeous interface which feels much more modern and sleek than something like Trinet. The trade-off is that the healthcare benefits are inferior for a small company - because unlike a PEO, Zenefits is NOT pooling together tens of thousands of young, healthy employees across many companies and getting a good deal from insurance companies. Yes, as an employer, you don't play the hefty admin fee you pay Trinet - but you just don't have access to better plans for your employees.

The other pain we've found is that at the end of the day Zenefits is simply a wrapper around third party services (healthcare insurance, payroll etc.). If everything is smooth sailing, there is no problem. the moment something goes wrong there's this super frustrating finger pointing session where you have to call Aetna directly, or Intuit Payroll and Zenefits blame each other, or no one wants to cop to a payroll tax filing error. If you have an employee waiting for some critical healthcare reimbursement, this he-said/she-said is the worst. Never had to deal with that with the one-stop-shop PEOs.

Zenefits has great software but the customer service needs some catching up. Maybe this round of funding will do it.
Honestly, I'm really excited about all these headsets. But I can only afford to buy 1 (day care) To me Vive seems more immersive from a gaming point of view, and hololens seems more practical. I bought a DK1 a few years ago, and developed a few things for it, but it wasn't super compelling for me (yet).

I spend more time in my basement woodworking these days then gaming. So i'll probably buy a hololens, I want to design furniture in 3D while seeing how it will look in the spot that it will eventually "live". I know AR != VR, but if I can only have one, i'll choose AR.
I don't know what to say other than I disagree.
main.cpp : Main Driver Code, reads the input number
to be factorized, and tries to factorize
it. If it fails , declares number as Prime

Have you successfully factored any of the RSA challenge numbers?
Found this about the Valve offering:

"A developer edition is set to launch this spring, with the consumer version becoming available "later in 2015", which we guess means the same November release window as the other Steam kit."

http://www.wareable.com/vr/htc-vive-vr-headset-release-date-...
Sure I'll consider it

First of all, what's with that standard? 'if you didn't invent something new, e.g. through research, it doesn't count.' Or, if you kept things together without making progress, it doesn't count? So a police officer or a fireman or a nurse, who cares about that, they're not advancing society because they didn't happen to build a better tool or a new medicine. I mean what are you even arguing here?

And second, alright so let's apply your standard to engineers who spend their entire lives applying laws of physics they didn't invent or models that existed for decades, sometimes even before they were born. e.g. designing the 10000th sewage system in just another city according to existing principles, would you call that 'taking credit for work done by grad students / previous engineers' and dismiss it as unimportant, when it's a truly significant part of society? And how do you rate a software engineer building the millionth crud app for some use case? Say like Hacker News? Unimportant? Of course not.

I mean the heuristic here to help think about value is to remove from society/laborforce for a moment anyone who ever does something that's already done before. And then keep anyone who's building something new. And then compare it with the opposite. The former will result in chaos, the latter will result in a more or less stable society with a lack of progress.

Now obviously you need both. If we didn't have the guys doing new stuff, we'd still be living like we did 50k years ago. But we need both, and the implication that it's somehow only engineers who do the new stuff just isn't true. I mean hell just consider how far engineers get without the professor teaching them all those lame things other people already figured out like laws of physics.

Anyway I get the feeling I'm misconstruing your points but you kept offering questions as things to consider so I just try to interpret what you're implying as best I can. Feel free to just concretely make your point instead.