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Same here. Mid 40's now with a PhD so I'm 'overqualified' as well as 'getting on a bit' if someone really doesn't want to pay for me!

For the last decade I've been in small start-ups where you wear many hats, Head of this, VP of that. However, even when I'm focusing on business development I'll probably find a way to cut some code. "I could use MS Access for this. Hmmm maybe a better idea would be to write some python and plug the data into an sqlite dB instead" - is usually how my brain works.
I don't think it's always assumed, and I would absolutely agree that someone who has moved around as an internal consultant who may be building things for different parts of the business (some firms might call them SWAT teams or fire jumpers) would be coveted by other firms. It depends on the company.

You reference a 1:1 ratio between engineers in one role and engineers moving around. Based only on my experience I would estimate that ratio closer to 5:1.
At 52 I became interested in F#.

By 53 I determined the future of software engineering is in strongly-typed functional languages. I left my job as technical director for a product line of CoreLogic's and began a professional sabbatical studying, writing articles, and speaking.

Eventually had to go back to some contract work.

At 55 I was hired by the young Stanford and Yale alumni founders of Tachyus as the first engineering hire to develop the strongly-typed functional software platform for the company. Tachyus is doing very well. http://www.breakoutlist.com/
I would argue that this is actually the fundamental innovation here - shifting of the cost from the employer to the employee.

With Trinet, you get negotiated rates that are pretty fantastic - but all the employee sees is an outdated interface, and all the employer sees is the monthly overhead cost per employee draining their bank account.

With Zenefits, the employee doesn't see that their health care actually costs more (the employer typically covers the same amount regardless), and the employer doesn't have that monthly fee.

It's as compelling as it is accidentally insidious.
These submissions are just highest voted ones. Calling them best is a bit of misnomer, I think, something I find akin to having a site called "Best of the New Yorker". I would make fun of someone who would consistently have that dictate their input instead of using their own tastes and serendipity to access the stories they would find attractive.

This is why I never have felt the need to use or would want to use the many tools listed under the other comments. The only purpose I think such aggregation creates is to understand the collective tastes of HN readers.
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Also, it's a very editorializing expletive deletion. Relatively serious* news organizations like NPR tend to avoid that sort of thing. If it was their edit, one would expect a simple "[expletive deleted]", or a rewording that didn't call attention to itself.

*In using the word "serious", I only mean that NPR is among the organizations that are commonly perceived to be among the most serious news organizations. I'm not being ironic. Neither am I making a personal value judgement.
I hope this has a big impact on Uber even outside of Kansas.

I think any customer would prefer background checks for drivers. Being defiant against them is just bad PR.

Background checks cost $20, or if you go through a channeler because you want your results in a couple days, you can pay $50.. This is a tiny price to pay for the safety of thousands of passengers, not to mention it wouldn't cost them anything, as they could defer the cost to the drivers as a part of the application process.

Trying to skimp out on insurance also goes further to show a wanton disregard for passenger safety.
It may not be your choice. At some point it becomes more and more difficult to get a job interview if you don't have more impressive sounding job titles on your resume.
All of this nonsense about insurance and checks and blah makes me weep for humanity. If I can hitch hike legally, why can't I pay for the same service?

Basically it seems to me that regulation has the effect of forcing lifestyles upon people. You can't just sell people things, you have to be a Thing Seller and devote yourself to that regulatory environment and then you can sell some of the people some of the things.

Bonkers.
I work in mainframes and have always done pretty well. Worked for a few companies, seen the world. I'm late fifties. Maybe I'm 'lucky', but somehow the more I learn the luckier I get.
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I never said I wouldn't pay all of my taxes.

but you can still move your company to another country and not get double business taxed (which will save lots of money) and get your money in a different way than just a pay check.

It's only fair. If the US government decides to make it difficult for businesses by raising taxes to the point of ridiculousness, I'm going to leave.
I think I agree with you, but I'm hesitant to to slight somebody for how they making an honest living. All "jobs" aren't created equal, especially of many jobs are contracted or low paying without benefits. It's unfortunate that this kind of (presumably it's political in origin) rhetoric has colored our reality as it has.
The PD is different, as I mention twice in the article.

> Formally, there are two Nash equilibria, at C/D and at D/C. This distinguishes it from the prisoner's dilemma, which has an equilibrium at D/D.
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Same in many European cities, where even UberX drivers have to have a "private driver" license.

The requirements involve documented regular maintenance and insurance coverage that would include passengers, not sure what's the business logic behind opposing them.
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That's where I see a Catch-22. You need a specialization to get hired, but in doing so severely limit your job options. Of course, in some sense that is a side effect of demanding specialization in the first place.

I did real-time radar signal processing for six years, and hardware production support on radar electronics for 3.5 years prior to that. I can't convince anyone that these experiences are easily transferrable to other areas such as robotics and medical devices. In fact, I don't even get the chance; hardly anyone will even give me a phone screen. Yet I have been doing NLP for the past three years and can't get recruiters to leave me alone about it.
You can't decrypt information or validate a public key's signature with the hash of a private key. You need the actual private key unencrypted at some point; we solve this in most of our certs by encrypting them with a password that the user has to enter to decrypt, but access to the unencrypted private key is absolutely required at some point.

Hashing is for passwords, not for keys.
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Containers already fully depend on a shared and complicated kernel to do containment (which is why some say "containers don't contain" e.g. http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2014/09/yet-another-reason-... ).

Virtual Machines have a smaller attack interface to the host, so they do have a chance of containing malicious code.

Kernels were supposed to contain processes, providing them with a virtual private memory space, virtual storage access so they can't read or write any file you don't want them to, etc... but only openbsd is really trying to make that work.
The article references the Prisoner's Dilemma and notes that they are different and have different Nash equilibria. The structure is different.

Giving the strategy of the actor whose payoff is considered first and the other actors second, the order of payoffs for FD is:

D/C => C/C => C/D => D/D

The payoffs for PD are:

D/C => C/C => D/D => C/D

PD has a dominant strategy of defection because independent of the other player's strategy, you always get a better result by defecting.

FD lacks a dominant strategy because whether a particular strategy improves your expected payoff depends on the other player's strategy.
Indeed. You have to do it 40+ hours a week, 50ish weeks a year. I'm not sure there's anything I'd voluntarily spend that much time on with such consistency.

I know some people can lose themselves in video games for whole weeks, my experience from the couple of times my wife and kids have left me home alone for a few days is that I have about 16 total hours of pent-up video game binging in me at any given time, and once that's satisfied I'm totally done with video games for the next several days and would rather fix things around the house or catch up on my reading or get outside. Anything but play video games.

If I had to wake up early to go play video games 40 hours a week every. single. week. (with another 5+ hours lost to commute) I doubt I'd make it through the second week before I started to dread it. And that's if I got to choose the games and didn't have to do anything work-ish related to them, just play, so 100% ideal conditions (not like the notoriously-crappy jobs of video game testers)
> The other two flaws would allow attackers to gain a greater level of control over a system than they should have.

What level of control should an attacker have ?
Beyond the the ~7year business cycle, career stability in Medicine vs. Engineering is subject to long-term trends.

For the current 50 year old cohort, the end of the cold war has to be the most relevant factor in the opportunities available to them. There's nothing like a bunch of missile projects to get MIT-er's some work.

The spending rate on US healthcare is probably not sustainable over the next thirty years, and many physicians could see Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements plummet. In short this observation of career disparity could be reversed after several decades of unforeseeable future occurring.
That's a good point. Like most Americans I forgot about the US/UK difference in nomenclature. I'd think the problem would only be bigger for UK "Professors" than for US "Professors" because UK Professors are more senior by definition.
Part of my point is that personally I would describe myself as a programmer first.

Those titles for me has been a means to a higher salary, not something that defines me, and often not something that have defined my roles very well. Despite being "technical director" at present, I spend most of my time on architecture and devops.

But if you care less about the money, then staying in a pure developer role saves you the aggravation, and I know many people who have opted to refuse to be promoted into management positions because what they enjoy doing is the programming and they've been less willing than me to take the titles and find ways to program anyway.

I've personally offered people management positions more than once and had them turn it down for that reason. Including people above 50.
We were talking about this yesterday in my astronomy department and one of the professors here told a similar story about some radio interference at the Green Bank telescope. The astronomers there had noticed that for some time there had been a small burst of radio interference every day right around 5pm, plus or minus about 5 minutes.

One of the employees at the observatory is a guy who drives around and talks to the locals to try to track down any sources of interference that the telescope is detecting. He went around asking people if they were using their microwaves, cell phones, wifi, etc., and none of them were. He eventually went to one lady's house and happened to be there right around 5pm. He was asking the usual questions and she said she hadn't been using her microwave, etc., but then she said, "Oh, could you hold on a moment? I have to feed my cat." And then she put a can of cat food in an automatic can opener. That turned out to be the source of the interference.

I just heard this story second-hand, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of all the details, but it seems plausible enough to me.
> I will never understand this argument. What right do people have to a return on their savings?

None. But people are coerced into depositing their savings. To such a degree that the typical person simply cannot comfortably think about not depositing their money. That's for pimps and drug dealers (and they expect that even pimps and drugs should start doing that as soon as they're successful enough to figure out how to launder it).

And what do you get for depositing it? For the last 20 years, bankers have been deputized as spies, first for the drug war and only for deposits of $10,000 or more. But now for tax cheats, and for deposits less than $10,000. How much less? No defined amount. If they think there's a chance that you're doing $100 to try to skirt the $10,000 rule, then they have to report that too.

God help you if you run a small business that brings in a few thousand per day/week... I suppose then you're expected to save it up to $10,000 before depositing, just to avoid suspicion (though the DEA will then be putting you under a microscope).

We put up with alot of shit to deposit money. It's not absurd to think that if we somehow play by the rules, maybe that money will earn enough interest to keep up with inflation. Hell, we all grew up being taught in public schools that banks use deposits to earn money, and give us a cut. That's the way it used to work, at least... now I guess that they earn all their money by gambling with the viability of the world economy and playing games of "Spot the Pyramid Scheme!", so they have to penalize us for it.
For me that'd be a great interview. Being young in the mainframe business is a drawback!
Glad to hear they could reach a deal in Portland. The terms your describing is, I think, essentially the terms KC is asking for now. Uber is holding out that the Missouri legislature will override the city ordinance with regards to ride sharing. A likely proposition as Missouri's legislators are so readily influenced by those with money and love overriding home rule in the major cities.
When you hitchhike, the driver's insurance is in effect. And when you get out of the car, it's still in effect.

With Uber, as soon as you get out of the car, it's possible that the driver suddenly has no insurance in effect, until the next passenger gets in.
Again, how does that get to the build box? I also have several local copies of my code on my computer, but that doesn't help the Jenkins machine get it unless I scp (or whatever) it over.
Not liking a language seems like a very far-reaching thing. There are people who were born into that language and have little choice but to use that language to communicate. They weren't born with only red clothes are being able to dance nothing but traditional Mexican music (btw, which traditional Mexican music do you not like? Huapango? Son jarocho? Rancheras? Bandas? There's not one musical style in Café Tacuba's Re that you like?).

But disliking a language is disliking something very entrenched within an ethnicity. I'm sure that there are Mexicans who dislike some of our traditional music, but how many Mexicans think that Spanish is ugly and are embarrassed to speak it? How many Germans think the same about German?

If indeed native speakers don't consider their own language ugly, then foreigners who think that seem to be exhibiting a kind of xenophobia.
Why should people care less about Indians than people from Oakland? Are Indians lower beings than Oaklandians?

Given that the US is the wealthiest country in the world, with (in many ways) the world's best educational opportunities, and India is very poor, it is likely that somebody in India had to struggle much harder than somebody in Oakland to obtain a quality education. Hence the Indian is likely more employable.
He is one of the founding generation of technolibertarians.
Two white people are definitely more employable on average, even if they're felons and the black people have college degrees!

We perpetuate those statistics on work experience, etc., because the playing field is uneven to begin with. We have a nice little system in which further discrimination is "taking reality into account" once we've ensured a substandard elementary education and reduced chances at a good first job. Read the study: it, of course, controls for educational and work experience.
> One of the things that galls me about this industry is its belief that experience (which is not the same thing as age) is a negative.

I see this as something that shifts during economic cycles. For example, right now nobody appreciates much that came from those who survived the dot-com bust. Those skills will be invaluable in the next downturn, whenever that happens.

Regarding "TwiFaceGoogSoft": there is an old maxim -- never hire anyone directly from {big-tech-co}, if that's the only place they've ever worked. (In the 1980s, it was IBM. In the 1990s, it was Microsoft. In the 2000s, it was Google.) The maxim developed because those ex-big-co employees were perceived as failures when encountering a non-advantaged environment. The prevailing wisdom was to hire those people "once-removed" from those companies, so they wouldn't learn those lessons on your dime. It might not be fair, but the perception has remained for a long time, even as the big-co name has changed.

In the end, as an industry we need to simply get better at hiring. All these biases only serve to screw us up.
I deal with this from the exact opposite perspective. I have a very midwestern sounding name and people are often surprised when they meet me in person to see that I am a big black guy.

I can be in a waiting room and when my name is called, the person calling me is sometimes surprised when the 6'2" 250 pound black guy responds. I don't really see shock but I do see surprise.

I admit, I have been guilty of this as well. When I was working my way through college, I took a summer job at a machine shop. I was told that I'd be working with "Jorel" on a particular shift. I was expecting, for all the world, a black guy. Well, I showed up for the scheduled shift and I met Jorel. He was a young white guy. It immediately made sense to me. I said to him "Your dad is a comic book fan, isn't he?" and Jorel confirmed that he was. Then I said "With that name, people usually think that you're black, don't they?" and again he confirmed that they did. For us, that was the end of it. He was a nice enough guy and we worked well enough together.
I'd suggest that moving around (internally or changing employers) usually requires someone to learn new things. People with long tenures in a single company can also learn new things, but it may not be a job requirement - they have to learn off the job.
The 2nd. She was not welcome everywhere in town; she was viewed with suspicion in stores; her family's social circle was several notches lower than expected from her fathers' position (scientist at Los Alamos Natl Labs).
As finance relates to economics, many academic economists would pass it just fine.

The anti-intellectualism of attacking models has become really disconcerting. Should we start dismissing coders for using abstractions, that solve real problems, with no ties to the reality of the machines running the code?

If you make a statement about how X will result in Y, you have some model upon which your idea is based. That can be critiqued and studied to see if X does in fact result in Y. Everyone uses models in their thinking without realizing it.
If you are awesome at whatever you do, you will be in demand.
If my recent experience is anything, Uber needs some serious regulation.

I live in SF, and was flying out of OAK. I had used Uber only once before, a long time ago; but this time, I suggested to the wife that we use Uber again. We had to leave SF at 7:15AM - 7:30AM or so.

Around 7:15 I pulled up the app, and saw that there were several cars around (as they usually are). I requested an UberX; punched in the destination. A driver quickly accepted, and Uber said he'd be there in < 5 minutes. A couple of minutes later, I get the notification that the driver cancelled. OK, I tried again. Same thing again: driver accepts, and then a minute or two later, cancels. This went on for 4-5 times. Now, time is getting tighter, and I have a large suitcase; and cabs don't come around in my alley. I tried Uber again, and this time Uber says: "Surge pricing in effect! Rates are 1.5X". I knew what was going on; but I had to accept out of desperation. What do you know? A driver quickly came over and we were on our way. The driver did say that some drivers may not have wanted to go to OAK because traffic back would have been bad.

But here's the thing: a licensed cab cannot refuse to take you to your destination! Uber seems to be set up to take advantage of riders with their "surge pricing" scam.

This experience left a bitter taste in my mouth, and I made sure I installed Lyft for the ride back.
Isn't this against the whole free software/open source philosophy?

"In the U.S., tips are the way certain workers earn a living wage. For example, waitstaff in restaurants and bars typically are paid far less than the standard minimum wage.. Tips make up for the difference between the standard minimum wage and the amount they actually get paid."

You aren't a worker, you are donating your time to build a project for others. If you would like to get paid, work for a company that will pay you or start your own OSS consulting company.
SocketPlane or OVN.
Yeah, I mean it's like a background check will protect everyone: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2937996/Woman-33-rap...
Inspirational, but he is also obviously exceptional. Not everyone has 16 books under their belt.
Lots of people game without playing everything on max. The difference here is that the oculus WON'T work with the max setup. Most other games work just fine. I play lots of games on my iMac I use for work, but it obviously can't run the oculus. I'd have to buy another 1500-2000 machine just for it, and that is tough to swallow.
My dad made it to a couple months before his 65th birthday (2005) as a Cobol programmer. At that point he was probably still employable as a Cobol programmer if he had been willing to relocate outside of Florida.
or due to how well you can 45-minute-puzzler your way into a butt warming a seat at a bigco.
409a valuation. There is a process. But generally the common price is much lower than the preferred.
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Thanks Justin! I think it's worth all the extra effort
> Game theorists always seem to assume that there's no such thing as nuanced communication.

No, they don't. Non-iterated, binary-strategy-choice games are the simplest things in game theory, but not the whole of game theory. The same as the simplifying assumptions used at the beginning of an Econ 101 class aren't the whole of economic models.

Nuanced interactions in iterated games (and what kind of games nuanced interactions actually make any difference in) is, in fact, studied in quite some depth in game theory.
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Ah thanks for the clarification. Today I learned.