skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rampant proliferation of "new" also breaks the hiring process. Companies (i.e. "in-demand startups") want new stacks, and they want to hire people who are experts in everything that didn't exist 2-3 years ago (literally, 5 years experience with a 2 year old platform).

When that's the case, you're either a high school or college kid who can spend all their time learning new things, or you are old and learn new things a few hours a week, maybe nights and weekends.

You can't compete with someone learning (and iterating!) 40-60 hours a week when you yourself can't throw away all your 40-50 hour per week obligations and responsibilities just to keep up with them.
The largest threat to America is America itself.

For the past decades, America appears to be moving away from principles , objectiveness and liberty.

More and more, we see a 'democracy' ran by delusional ideologies and even blind nationalism.
I like the Invent With Python series by Al Sweigart, they are CC licensed and they are a nice friendly introduction to programming with Python (one of the books deals with text games, another with Pygame). I'm not aware of translations into other languages, but they are written at a level for children to understand so they may be worth a look.

There are also languages like Scratch and various "no programming required" game development environments like Construct2. They might be good places to start, but they can also be crutches that prevent progress into more powerful tools.

edit: Is there some sort of downvote brigading going on here? I see a ton of helpful posts in gray.
I was immediately reminded of this old classic

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Could-You-Explain-Programmin...
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The US passively spying on 300,000,000 > China actively spying on [and suppressing] 1,300,000,000. What a wacky world.
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Ah yes, embracing your inner elitist.
Most bonds formed by friendships, however strong, are eventually broken with distance and time. This is different from the "community experience" the OP describes. You don't need eternal lasting meaningful bonds to form a sense of community. The sense of community can be as transient as the bonds of friendship that form the community itself.

College is the last place that can potentially offer this type of community but attending college does not guarantee you'll have such an experience. Even though you missed the experience I'm sure you observed this thing in colleges called "Frats." They get a bad rep, but a fraternity is a good example of a place where you will get this sense of community, however transient it is. Still it is in these communities where you can actually form lasting relationships. Although the majority of people don't see each other again, I'm sure most frat members graduate with one or two lasting friendships.
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http://play.golang.org/p/Hs7gPYTCgi

The issue is not Go (though imo they should update the doc to share the esoterica): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4801122/how-to-stop-time-...
"Data is how better decisions are made" is the problem, not the solution.
Parker when are you going to do another ADP post on Zenefits blog that contains more information on the email that was forwarded to you? I think it could be helpful if you included the screen shots and additional materials the ADP sales rep mentioned. If that was not included in the email, than it seems like that rep knew you would get that email, and you were just baited.
Spurious Correlations (aka correlation does not imply causation)
Conceptually, this is not much different than the TeamCity setup that I am using now. Check-in code with SVN, build server eventually realizes that there are new changes, builds project, and emails me a success/failure message.

Of course, I can build and run the code locally before checking in.
I have 150/50 fiber internet in brazil -- 50% of the time, i cannot watch a 1080p twitch stream, while i can watch a youtube livestream.

twitch infrastructure is notoriously bad for anyone that is not american.
The history of the US is not that rosy. We have always been a nation of criminals, robber barons, and capitalist mercenaries. It was only after WWII that the idea of being a benevolent super power came into being. After that war, the US stopped seizing territory and began to go about forming the structures of cooperative peace.

The question, as i see it, is which is better: small, consistent conflicts lacing the developing sections of the world, or large, sporadic conflicts wrecking the developed sections of the world?
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Life is a balancing act. People who worry about their legacy are usually not the nicest people to be around because they don't have time for other people, and they usually don't really end up making an impact either.

Mind you, I'm not a cynic, I think ambition is a wonderful thing... in the right quantity.
In other words, it effectively makes the process a singleton?
I dunno, even if the blame for going to university too early and subsequent estrangement from the family lies entirely with the parents it's not exactly a happy state of affairs, even if you don't think having sex to pay the bills afterwards is necessarily a bad thing.

All we know about her work as a prostitute, which might have ceased several years ago, is that newspapers reported that she started the work to pay off a relatively small debt and quoted her as saying she enjoyed the work, she may have earned from some of the racy images published and she now runs a blog dedicated to attacking the personalities behind said newspapers. I don't think that really leaves us with enough evidence to speculate on how much she's enjoying her life seven years after those reports.
"In C/C++, you can use bugs in one part of a program to cause trouble in another. That’s pretty darn underhanded."

I would argue every language has that property. But with C/C++ being so closely tied to the ABI of the machine perhaps they are more underhanded than others. But to me, this branding does feel a bit unfair.

Still, a fun contest and an interesting read.
Don't know why you're being downvoted, because this is exactly true. Younger naive fresh graduates are much easier to exploit (or just force to stay in the office longer) than older, experienced people. That is why younger people are preferred.
The CSR is signed by the key that is going to be used for HTTPS on the website requesting a certificate. If the CSR wasn't transmitted over HTTPS, since the Let's Encrypt CA has no idea what your key is, a network adversary could replace your CSR with one containing an attacker-controlled key.
Speaking as someone in the middle (mid thirties, have my masters, led several teams as a technical lead/architect, been up and down the hiring process), I agree completely. I've met several older developers/engineers that I have the utmost respect for, and so much of this field seems to move in circles.

Does anyone outside of SV/startups actually find this ageism nonsense to be anything but a convenient story? I can personally think of two excellent engineers that are 60+, and are some of the most amazingly detailed, experienced and all-around intelligent men I've ever met; age has not dulled them in the slightest.
So Saudi Arabia outlawing Twitter was in response to a US propaganda operation?
In the nuclear age, full-out shooting wars between developed countries are a non-starter. Hence the 45 years of small-scale proxy wars between the U.S. and Soviet Union throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia.
I did some work for a company whose build system involved uploading Java files via a web interface and waiting patiently whilst it compiled them and then refreshed the page with either "Success!" or "Error!" - nothing else. There were some serious oddities (like it didn't understand nested classes, perhaps? I forget the specifics...) which took an awful lot of trial and error to diagnose.

They also had a similar thing where you would upload Flash files (FLAs) and various assets like fonts, and it then compiled it all into a SWF. Again, with no useful output. Getting that to work was mostly just praying and swearing - I'm pretty sure it was non-deterministic. I think that was the closest to tears I've ever been whilst writing software.

The first project I did for them, I allowed two weeks for the build and one day to compile the assets with their system (because I hadn't been told it involved web interfaces and no error handling). The second time, I allowed two weeks for the build and two weeks to compile it.
The desire to have a community and shared culture doesn't make one elitist. The GP could have as easily said they found bookish people they could relate to by becoming a librarian. Would that have sounded elitist or was the MIT name-dropping what upsets you?
No idea. The thought of having something break, and not fixing it immediately, escapes me. A properly maintained Linux install goes down with the hardware. It was like that with Gentoo and my Thinkpad R40, then the X61T used various installs of Ubuntu, and now the X1 Carbon has the same sid install for a couple of years, and it will last a couple of years more.

Ubuntu solemnly annoyed me by botching every upgrade and forcing me to reinstall every half-year. It was window-esque...
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Very nice! The only comment: when you try to select before typing the name, the popup says "Please sign in for selecting your timeslots!" which is a bit confusing, I almost closed. It should say something along the lines of: "please type your name on this box!" I think.
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You're getting downvoted for speaking painful truths.

There is a lot in software that takes more than 3 years to learn: machine learning (real ML, not tweaking off-the-shelf algorithms) and compilers and the like. The problem is that the man-child oligarchy that has taken over Silicon Valley (and, because of SV's influence, the industry as a whole, at least culturally) doesn't value fundamental or technical work (as opposed to doing "make the thingy work with the other thingy" Scrum tickets for a PM barely old enough to drink) so there are so few people doing it, and the competition for positions in real programming is quite high (and the salaries, sadly, aren't as good).

It's easier to get a real programming job at 30 than at 22, but fake programming jobs outnumber real ones by such a large margin. And when you're older and have a family to feed, being too old for the well-paid but fake programming jobs at the Hoolis becomes somewhat of a problem, because real programming jobs are so rare that it sometimes involves a cross-country move to get one.

Ergo, you're old and out of touch and worthless and go live on a programmer retirement farm in iowa because you're not a culture fit with the 22 year old CEOs anymore. yolo, and you wasted it by not becoming a billionaire by 28.

I think that attracting the "old" programmers to a specific city (possibly in the Midwest, say Chicago or Minneapolis, but possibly one overseas like Budapest) is the first step step in taking over the world. I'm not sure what the second is, but an industry that tosses people out just as they're beginning to get good at their jobs is (fuck this term in general, but here it applies) ripe for disruption.
They did that. By then I think they were too far gone (for example, they vastly underestimated how long UL certification would take).
I've love to hear feedback on what people think about using Meteor for the backend. Meteor has some cons but the pros outweigh it for most of my projects.
> things are starting to move in the direction of React.

Not just interface wise, but internally: the new Glimmer engine is similar to React as well, but takes advantage of what Handlebars knows about how templates can change to do less diffing. (I think React is gaining something similar soon too)
I think the point is that the decisions aren't as high-risk when you are single and don't have other people to support (especially children). The consequences of failure aren't as high.

Instead of being able to share a place with a few people (maybe even sharing a room) and sharing utilities, internet, cable and so on, you are paying significantly more for housing, food, utilities, transportation (bigger car), clothes and insurance/medical costs. Those costs could easily be 3-4 times as much as a single person.

If you are a dual income family, you may also be paying for child care and have the extra responsibilities of getting your children to and from child care and/or school (let alone actually spending some quality time with them). Working late has a much higher cost and being out of a job has much greater consequences.
Well, you have to know the words before you can put them in a rhyme. In the poor black neighborhoods where hip-hop emerged, that's no mean trick. The only reason I ever heard the word "Mephistopheles" growing up was because of Magic: The Gathering. I don't think I knew who or what "Damocles" was until well into adulthood. And you have to know the stories before you can invoke their meanings. Kanye is almost certainly far better read than people give him credit for.

A good intro to hip-hop history is Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang

http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Stop-Wont-History-Generation/dp/0...
One exciting thing about software distribution with ed25519 signatures is that when Ripple finally releases their threshold signature library for their cryptocurrency we get the ability to create public keys that express software signing policies for free!
Investors use age as a primary factor. Companies can't, for the reasons you described.
What about looking at Corona, if he has a mobile device or tablet to test on. It is simple to make simple things quickly, the physics libraries aren't complex.

https://coronalabs.com
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First off, at no point did i say we should repeat the mistakes of Gulf II. That was an intellectual leap made by you.

Second, i was responding to how blase you seem to be about what ISIS is doing and what they are.

I do not know what should be done. My inclination is for volunteers from any country be sent in to keep the peace and pursue these fucking monsters. Not nation states, not governments. Volunteers.

And just to be clear. Smurf yes. The US should have a standing policy that if you melt people's faces or destroy priceless historical treasures because your stupid little book told you to, that we wreck shop. But that is childish and far fetched.
What about Unity? There are plenty of example projects and easy to follow tutorials that will allow him to make something up and running that's impressive really quickly. Wouldn't expect him to make something from scratch at that age, but he could certainly amend from an existing concept. It won't necessarily help with teaching programming but it's a great start. It's what we do for work experience students and they love it.
Why would anyone want to stay on Win 7 though? With the exception of businesses who rely on legacy software of course.
It gets worse. Some VPN providers, in order to save money on bandwidth will implement split-tunneling where they route HTTPS traffic out the hostile side of the connection rather than via the VPN tunnel with the assumption that since it's HTTPS it will be protected. A shockingly high number of applications including more than two dozen banking apps I've reviewed in the last 18 months fail to properly validate the public certificate provided by the server during the TLS handshake and allow self-signed certs like those generated by SSLSplit. In the context of free WiFi and a VPN provider that routes HTTPS traffic out the hostile side of the connection in a split-tunneling model it is possible for a man in the middle (MitM) to have full control over the HTTPS application traffic.

One of the first things you should do if you have a VPN solution is to make sure, via HTTPS that your IP address is the actual IP address of the VPN provider:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=what+is+my+ip+...
OTOH, http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/~maurer/SieveE/apl.htm
Well, you could be a great doctor or teacher, for example. Great architect or artist? Poet, author? There are many ways to contribute.
Game Maker Studio is popular.
Commentators in boxing are actually pretty solid and have spoken millions of words about robberies, about corruption, about bad judging etc. It's an insult to imply only Teddy Atlas does this. Especially when Teddy is considered controversially within the sport, as both a guy who's been in boxing for a long time and respected for it, but also as a guy who is a complete idiot. I stopped taking his comments seriously quite a while ago.

In the Geale fight I saw the headbutt, too and I agree they should've mentioned it. I actually rewinded the video the same day to see if it was a headbutt and it was. But it's not controversial or corrupt because Geale was getting a total annihilation. Geale didn't even mention it, hell he quit, a sign that the headbutt wasn't at all a factor but that he simply wasn't able to do anything in the last 3 rounds and kept eating the left hand.

But yeah the point on viewership being nr 1 priority in boxing is completely true. Boxing has no league system, no rankings, no single federation. Its matchmaking politics behind closed doors, and those are based on viewership because that brings in the money, which often has nothing to do with making the most competitive matchup. And that indeed means people dodge GGG, a Kazakh who lives in Germany, fights the US, and who's got a 90% chance of knocking you out, is not a fight anyone wants to take because it's little money for lots of risk.

Lara's been talking about moving up to meet GGG though, that'd be interesting. And Froch in the UK, perhaps in Wembley again, that'd be interesting (and not easy for GGG either). After one of these fights GGG will probably have a big enough name to fight some big fights. Canelo's the next goldenboy, he makes money whoever he fights, and he weighs more than GGG even at SWW, so a GGG Canelo fight is likely for late 2016 or early 2017. Golovkin's biggest problem though is that 160 is just a really thin division right now and all the big opponents and money is below and above him. Even the nr 2 and 3 (ignoring Cotto) in Quillin and Lee are a joke, and ignoring them as they're dodging GGG and aren't special boxers anyway, GGG cleaned out the entire 160 division. There's nothing really left for him there, but without guys like Froch/Ward at 168, moving up isn't a great move either. And moving down to 154 makes little sense as SWW guys like Canelo weigh 174 for his 154 fight, while Golovkin weighs just 170 for his 160 fights. It's really hard for him.

About your Don King note, replace him with Al Haymon and you've got your list of 2 guys running boxing this day and age, Arum and Haymon. It's pretty insane.
It has absolutely nothing to do with legacy. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will largely be forgotten in a couple hundred years. However, humanity benefits from their contributions.
You can expect most interested watchers to already have the game installed since they play it themselves.

But yeah, it's no silver bullet for sure. A common problem with older games that had this feature was that stored replays of matches wasn't compatible with newer versions of the game.
My understanding is that the 6-deck shoe confers a mathematical advantage, not simply a card-counting advantage, over an 8-deck shoe. If you use the calculator here you will see that it improves odds even under basic strategy play:
http://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/calculator/
I see your point. Honeslty, there is probably nothing VCs can do to solve this problem. They are but a small snowflake in this avalanche.
There are only two categories of skills/abilities. First, things that older people are better at, and are legitimate business concerns. Second, things that older people are worse at, and are not legitimate business concerns. There are some things that some people put it one category, and others put in another. E.g. tolerating technical debt, knowing the latest JS frameworks or accepting longer working hours or higher risk.

Total agreement is not needed on which skill goes in which category. What is very important is that you don't try to assert that there is a third category of things older people are worse at and are legitimate business concerns. That would be ageist and invite downvotes.
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AFAIK this behaviour is caused by VPNs appearing to the OS like another network interface next to the existing "real" one, and applications usually don't give you the option of forcing them to bind to a specific interface. Otherwise they'd just behave like there was no connection before the VPN establishes one.
Both at home and at work, I have two monitors, but I keep the second one off maybe 75% of the time since I'm doing things that don't require the additional screen real estate and I don't want to get distracted. It's still totally worth having it available for the 25% of the time when I'm doing tasks that really require it, though.

(At work I really only need to see one window most of the time. At home I do more stuff that requires multiple windows, but I use a tiling window manager which helps get the most out of the first monitor before needing to add the second one into the equation.)
On the flip side Netflix only hires "fully formed adults". No interns and no fresh college grads.
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Neil Gershenfeld is responsible for two of the best courses at MIT: "How to Make (almost) Anything" and "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling". Neither are compatible with healthy sleep habits, but both are transformative. I took NMM and, to this day, one my biggest regrets is never taking "How to Make (almost) Anything."
The idea that a large scale conflict will inevitably lead to nuclear exchange is so silly. Most nuclear weapons are not strategic, they are tactical. Regardless, no one would nuke the property they are trying to occupy.

The reason their have been almost no real wars since the 1940s is because business interest has taken over control of every western government.

I know people think there is a ton of profit to be made in war, but the damages so heavily outweigh the benefits that i have a hard time believing that is the sole motivation for hawkish policies.
Do you mean production support for hosted redis instances? If so, loads of companies offer this, most notably AWS through their ElasticCache service.

I can see a broader need for enterprise-level support for custom builds, perhaps.
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ISIS exists because Islam has a jihadic tradition, and young, disenfranchised men are prone to violent actions. It's not like this is a problem specific to Islam - the Crusades were a similar exercise for christianity (where the Crusade wasn't an outright pirate raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade), and China has historically had lots of rebellions when the population of angry young men gets activated.
So i guess the whole AIDS thing was just a fluke? We just stumbled into billions invested and millions treated?
Microsoft TouchDevelop was posted here on HN recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545019

I tried out one of the examples to make a Flappy Bird clone in 5 minutes - pretty neat.
I think smart campaigns, especially for manufacturing projects, should limit funding so that they can work out the kinks in their product, and if they're wrong on cost estimates, they limit their losses. If they're successful, they can always do another kickstarter to ramp up manufacturing.