skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need someone's opinion on this since OP mentioned c++. If I take c++ as a specialty language would a companies be more willing to hire people in their 50-60's I know it's a difficult question to answer but I feel like c++ is a ageism proof skill much like Fortran or COBOL. Let's all find a solution to this problem as this topic always come up every month on HN. So which programming languages are "ageism proof"?
It was because of this assignment that I witnessed a grown man cry.
Go is nice. I like it a lot. It's very readable, it reduces the number of good ways you can do something to usually just one, it's fast, fat binaries are awesome, great concurrency primitives, etc...
To all the positive patsy's of the HN forum: the exception doesn't make the rule.

Instead of being lulled by the veil of consumerism draped over your eyes, realize companies only maximize profits and do 'good' as an accidental side effect of their goings-on.
The BBC Micro:bit has nothing to do with Sparkfun, they're just one of many resellers.

http://microbit.org/resellers/

Premier Farnell is the manufacturer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Farnell
Feel like I have to share this hilarious fake interview with Stroustroup (creator of C++) here http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
The etherdelta domain was hijacked. Please do not use the site right now
At my University in Timisoara Romania, in my class in pure Mathematics 75% were women, I think the men were attracted more to the computer engineering at the other university but I do not have numbers, anyway girls still loved Math when I was at university 15 years ago
In the US, law enforcement is split among too many organizations to implement a Big Brother system competently. Every little police department has their own system, and private sector systems aren't integrated with government systems. Look at the mess in DC - their camera system was taken over by a botnet. Not even to use the camera data, just to mooch network resources.

There's an business opportunity here. There's an outsourced surveillance industry, but it's small.[1] One of the big players has only 9,000 cameras. Nobody has scaled this yet.

Amazon might. They've already convinced millions of people to put a microphone in every room, reporting to Amazon HQ. Now they're getting into cameras and door locks.

Google, probably not. Their Nest unit makes stuff that looks good, but doesn't work well.

[1] http://stealthmonitoring.com/
and for having lived in Amsterdam for 2 years now, I guarantee that the way bikes (and traffic in general) are handled in the Netherlands is far from the safest way! :)
That was the plan with Babylon 5, except the digital assets were lost...
We do seem to be talking about two different things. How do you figure difficulty affects the price inflation?
Healthcare AI: Redefining the industry
I would gladly fork over money for them and other news sites to keep the servers running in lieu of ads.
It definitely upped the gamesmanship required for cloners of cartridges, and it made the system somewhat future proof.
>Bitcoin isn't growing in value because it represents shares of a business that makes real money

Neither is Tesla making real money. Or Amazon.

Yet their stock prices continue to grow from speculation about how valuable they might be one day in the future.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that. It's the same with crypto.

For sure those two companies are "safer" bets than most (or perhaps all) cryptos... but the underlying principle is exactly the same. It's just degree of risk involved.
Unix time-sharing system: Unix programmer's manual, 7th Edition, Volume 1 (1979) [pdf]
I beat you by 2 weeks ;)

Code open sourced, and auto updating website every time I use the script

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832124
jakemor.com/hq
1280x1024 was on the low side in mid nineties. Intergraph InterView 28hd96 had a max resolution of 2048x1152 @ 80 Hz. $10K in 1997. Carmack famously coded Quake 2 on one of those.
I saw Googles self-driving car (Waymo) doing exactly that in front of me. It used the bike lane for a while before turning right. (That was in Mountain View)
Thought thats odd.
You're missing the point. The problem isn't using C++ internally in the OS -- it's exposing public C++ APIs. Because there's no stable ABI, that creates a dependency on the specific compiler.

That's exactly what happened to BeOS and Symbian. Both were stuck at GCC 2.95 for many years after mainline GCC was already at version 4.x.

There's a ton of C++ in macOS/iOS, but it's wrapped to plain C for the public userland APIs.
Its precisely comments like yours that illustrate perfectly the arrogance of proponents of the cyclist movement.

I ride bikes and am an pedestrian since all My life in said cities. Yet people like you feel inclined to judge any one who doesnt agree with them into the class of „unworthiness to talk to“.

You people cant even read my Statement correctly: I was talking about the dangers to the pedestrians by the cyclists.

Not everybody who rides bikes is a dick, and yes car driving dicks have the advantage of their bodies being protected.

But my Main point, that got lost in peoples mouth foam is, that at least dick-drivers are accountable. Cyclists arent. They can leave marks on cars and ride off. They can insult „fucking pedestrians“ and ride off. They can attack other (slower) cyclists, and ride off. Cars cant because in dense urban areas they arent as easy and as free to navigate.

And besides from being stolen, in all those interactions the cyclists doesnt have to fear damageto his vehicle.
Do you also stay still while doing this, or do you have to monitor what’s in front as well? If not you’d effectively have to monitor three separate directions all at once.

Seems to me it should be safer to block the cycle lane to avoid having traffic pass on the right, so you really only have to monitor in front and to the side when making the turn. Cyclists behind will then simply either have to adjust their speed, or decide whether to cross into the car lane and overtake on the left.

This thread made me realize I don’t actually know the rules for this here in Sweden. I’ve inquired with traffic authorities, because unfortunately when searching on their site for cycle lane rules you only find a picture of what cycle lanes look like. :o(
But that means cyclists must either wait, which we know won't happen, or move into the faster moving traffic to overtake.

It's much better for the car to have to wait. It doesn't seem to be a problem in the Netherlands or Denmark.

It's true, you have to look very carefully before making the turn, and to make the turn slowly.

In Copenhagen, the busy roads have a separate light for cars turning right vs bikes going ahead.
This article needs more exclamation points.
How does the iPhone know the battery has been replaced? Cycle counter? If the cycle counter is stored on the battery then fine but if stored on the phone then it seems like replacing the battery might not solve the problem..
Thanks, we've changed the url to that from http://www.wsj.com/video/life-inside-chinas-total-surveillan.... It's generally better to post a link to the host article. WSJ is an edge case, but paywalls with workarounds are ok (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and users almost always usually post workarounds in the thread.
http://archive.is/pMV4U
I recommend against purchasing surveillance services from a company that does not have HTTPS on their landing page.
road and track Need for Speed, had other ports, but 3do was arguably the best version.
I tried the excruciating task of building a real-time multiplayer game with server-side authority using only Firebase and Google Cloud Functions.

Basically I handle all the logic in Firebase rules and lambdas. Any destructive action goes through a GCF that updates the Firebase Realtime Database. Actions that happen often (like moving) are updated directly by the client but validated with some overly complicated Firebase rules.

It's very nice not having to worry about servers and scaling, but it can be a really painful development experience.

Let me know if you want to try it out and I'll post the URL.
I think it depends on the timescale. In the short term, a 'bad' hacky solution is usually quicker than a 'good' one, but it will likely slow you down over the medium to long term.

If the timing of that bad hacky solution being shipped is critical, then it's actually the perfect solution and the right work was done quickly, which is great. If it's not, and is rather the first piece of a new feature intended to last for a while, then the work on that feature as a whole may be slow as a result, so then it looks more like bad and slow work.

I think with experience comes the ability to choose the appropriate approach for the problem at hand, whereas inexperience will usually lead to the short term quickest easiest route being chosen every time by default.

Another subtlety is that, typically, more experienced people will actually deliver the 'good' solution faster, which results in a double win if that is indeed the correct course of action.
and I'm pretty sure that one of the touted benefits of self driving cars is that they are able to constantly monitor a whole lot more than a human driver would.
NK != North Korea
NK == Naughty Kids
I'm from around Ghent in Belgium and study in Ghent and last year the city introduced a plan where no cars except for taxis and some public transport is allowed inside of the city centre. It's absolutely awesome because Ghent is a student city and you can get anywhere in Ghent using the bike but you can also get anywhere by car by parking nearby in an underground parking lot and walking the rest of the way. But it has made it so much safer and easier for cyclists (and people on foot!) to just get around.

Antwerp also recently introduced a measure where only cars with a low amount of "exhaust gases" (can't really find the proper name as of writing this) are allowed in the city centre. I haven't been there since, but it's also something I truly admire going into the future.

I visited San Francisco last year and it was a true nightmare to get around in Mountain View by bike. I have never felt more unsafe on a bike in my entire life to be honest. I am driving on a bike without a biking lane next to cars that are going close to 100km/h. It's truly insane. Visiting other cities in the US as well have been awful from a cyclist's point of view compared to most of the European cities and cities from the Netherlands are amazing as well (something you don't hear very often from a Belgian).

So all in all, please just ban the car in most places in the city imo or do something like Antwerp that drives (pun intended) people towards electric cars faster.
They don't need consciousness, they need to quit ignoring the laws of physics when making things move.

They keep breaking the viewer's suspension of disbelief because they want to show their characters being so bad-ass that they defy the laws of physics. Instead of seeing people with super-human traits, they see really expensive cartoon characters.
In Copenhagen, often you have a green light, so you can concentrate on behind. Then check ahead when behind is clear. (You are usually stopped, and if not, no driver behind will be surprised or angry by your stopping to ensure the path is clear.)

Don't expect the throughput of an American city road. It's not unusual that only one or two cars can make the turn before the light is red again, if there are lots of bikes.
You still need to jump through hoops with GUI. I don't think that's going to change anytime soon, since their focus is mainly on developer command line scenarios. Still, when you need UI, XRDP or Xming work adequately.
> There's no expectation that if you're a girl you must suck at math (or science/engineering in general),

When I was going to school girls were usually better at math. I remember getting help from them with some calculus problems.

My CS teacher in high school was a woman as well and before teaching she worked as a programmer. She was a great role model for girls I'd imagine. Well she was a great role model for me too because she was a great teacher.
Cyclists need to be trained as well.

I live in Berlin and too many times cyclists almost run me over and didn't even acknowledged the fact, just flipped the bird at me.

I have never been in a dangerous situation with cars, just with cyclists.
How did you notice something was amiss?
Isn't this inaccurate in today's climate?

> Use case: the key advantage for bitcoin is that it does away with all bureaucracy, all transaction fees, and perhaps foremost, all transaction delays and gatekeepers in the financial system.

Maybe in 2011 that was the case?
Please don't post snarky dismissals to Hacker News. I'm dismayed to see this from you here.
I’m not sure about the explicit training, but drivers in Germany are generally pretty excellent when it comes to dealing with cyclists.
Please keep going.
> While C++ standardisation hay have gathered momentum, it still has enormous inertia

That's pretty much irrelevant. The last couple of standards already updated C++ so that it covered all aspects that were deal-breakers decisions on whether to pick up C++ or any alternative whose selling point was being an updated C++. After C++11 (and now C++17) no one in their right mind would decide to rewrite a whole project because of static ifs.

Moreover the irrelevance of D is the only reason why it's trivial to reinvent D when it suits anyone's fancy. A committee of experts deciding on what goes into a standard is not the same as a developer deciding on a whim on what he might implement next. If D was relevant and it's adoption motivated an ISO standard to coordinate which features went into any implementation then I seriously doubt that it would do better than C++.
SQLmap is a great tool for automated scanning and exploiting of SQLi vulnerabilities. Like everything though, it can miss the occasional exploit, where someone with the expertise might be better suited, but generally speaking it’s an awesome place to start.

It also has sane defaults, which means scriptkiddies chancing their luck with it should be easily spotted in your access.log, or depending on your environment a WAF/IDS/IPS should block/detect quickly.
llvm bitcode is a compiler IR and nothing else, it's not architecture-independent. There have been independent bytecodes based on it like PNaCL and SPIR-V, but they're not nearly good enough to run any old app on.
Not really, because (as the OP states) there are many places that will sell you BTC but not really allow you to get cash back out, e.g. because of your location.
I read this article thinking it was written today and slowly realized it was written back in 2011. If I read it in 2011 I would have laughed at his reasoning. I still laugh at it but he happens to have made a shit ton of money.

And this is a great lesson in why not to short stuff.
No, you don't get it: it's NOT Open Source. Because currently, there is NO way to build it from the sources.

Putting the sources on GitHub is something, but only with a very complicated build process which is not documented or even using URL's that are private/internal to Citrix.

That's why people start to push Citrix to at least release a documentation on the build process and/or exploring the difficulty to build it. See https://xen-orchestra.com/forum/topic/562/xenserver-7-3-and-... and also the Citrix thread regarding that: https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/391868-xenserver-73-ann...

So far, no answer from Citrix.
Would you please not post off-topic flamebait here?
Yup. It also:

- Is a signal that the driver intends to turn. Drivers should also be using their actual turn signals, of course, but as a cyclist I would much rather have a driver who fails to signal merge early and turn, rather than turn with no warning.
- Allows the cyclist to more easily get around to the left.
You are correct. Toy Story 1 and 2 were resurrected around 2010 for 3D re-rendering. It took a team of 4 or 5 working for the better part of a year, IIRC.

A 3D movie like Toy Story isn't like a Maya file; it's hundreds of thousands of files in a gigantic filesystem, and many pieces of complicated software working together just to compose them and generate a mere description of the scene, let alone make an image out of it. Getting the software to a place where it could reproduce an image at all was a feat.

And the end result, if everything goes well, is just the same image rendered again from two angles instead of one. The images would not magically look like modern graphics, because for that, an artist would have to re-model the characters to be higher resolution (and then re-animate them to be up to snuff), re-surface them, re-light them... basically re-make the whole movie. Not a button push. :)
[ == if (*dataptr == 0) goto ]

Isn't this wrong? I mean, `[` starts a loop, it doesn't mean goto `]`. Unless I'm getting the semantics wrong, at least one iteration should execute, even if the current cell is set at zero.
Which is not buildable "as is". Cf my other post here.
It does not, no. The average age is 29, and they've brought in some people in their 60s. https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q42
Well, as a CS student in a not so highly ranked university, it's not surprising that grads from top CS schools end up in Google, Microsoft Research, etc. They know how stuff work much deeper than others. Of course this is not a generalization. There are some crazy dudes in other universities or even not in university at all.
What happened to BeOS and Symbian was dying before gcc 4.x, released in 2007, became relevant. Nothing to do with C++ ABI.

Other C++ OSes are doing pretty ok.
This got me thinking about human cognition and the meaning of mathematical truths, or even how does one know that something is true (and I assume that probably none of this is original).

At which point would Mochizuki’s work be considered proof? If another person regarded as an authority would claim to fully understand it (but couldn't explain it better to their peers)? If only 10% of mathematicians specialising in this field could understand it? If 40%?

What if only a few percent understood the proof, but managed to "prove" to others that they understood it by using this knowledge to unlock other difficult problems?

This seems to point that even in mathematics we can never claim to know what is true. At most, we can hold a belief, an assessment based on some parameters that increases our degree of belief that something is true.

In fact, there's no need for a controversial proof to show this - it occurs with the simplest of mathematical proofs -
after all, everything we believe in is based on the ability to detect consistency or lack thereof, which in itself is based on the ability of a system (in this case, our brains) to have a memory and notice where something happening now is consistent or inconsistent with something stored in our memory. Now this is quite problematic in terms of proof, because how can we trust our memory with a 100% certainty? The answer is that we can't. We attribute a high probability that what we know is true based on the consistency of other things we remember, but we can never prove anything .
IMHO in every country, at least in the first world, your profit from BTC growth would be taxable income, Canada is not special in that regard. The only question is whether it's interpreted as capital gains or something else in your jurisdiction.
I would call him lucky, not clever.
I'd probably try some things that the fear of death presently keeps me from doing. Probably tell a few people what I really think. Other than that just making sure my affairs are in order and eating whatever I want!
Ha! Good one! Maybe compared with other countries? But that doesn't stop them from ignoring your right of way, parking in the bike lane, pushing you to the side at red lights or pushing in front of you dangerously even when its not you who is blocking traffic, because obviously there is nothing worse than being stuck behind a cyclist.

Not to pile on to much on the drivers, because other cyclists are also often terrible in their behavior on the street, but they at least are less deadly to other cyclists. So while it could certainly be worse, there is a lot you have to deal with when sharing the road with drivers who either ignore or outright hate you.
If you look at movies along the decades everything is amplified. People have shifted their references. I get mental fatigue watching movies these days because everything is fast, quick, chopped, extreme. It's like a manga, without the childish part. High power doesn't mean high dynamic. For instance in Se7en, there's one single gun shot, the whole movie is tame but when that shot occurs the shift is so strong you feel it. It's a musical thing, what makes it is as much the notes than the silence between them. Balance.
Amazon May Be Preparing to Launch a YouTube-Style Streaming Service
I have suggested many times that the things computers are good at include looking up inconsistent rules in a database, so this doesn't seem as if it should be an either-or issue for the car, it should know all the rules and be able to follow them as appropriate, where a human might be forgetful.
It's really just NYC that forbids it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red#North_America

(I was a bit surprised to learn that all 50 states permit it, and they lose federal funding if they don't. Other than NYC, I've never encountered a place that doesn't, but I'd thought it was really a state-by-state thing.)
I spent $200k on biohacking.Became calmer,thinner,extroverted,healthier&happier
good luck Riding a skiny tired racing bike in the snow when compared to a fat tired MTB
A big factor might have been ISP-provided routers coming with random passwords printed on the underside of the router instead of uniform defaults. The same tactic would work with many IoT devices but the incentive isn't there.
But most of that work can be reused, you're not building the whole software from scratch each time, so those fixed costs get diluted.

According to Wikipedia[1], there are about half-dozen commercial systems that get heavily reused.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...
Influence of external elements on social media analytics data
Symbian wasn't dead in 2007. It was the world's leading smartphone OS and shipped in tens of millions of devices yearly.

Symbian's inability to upgrade the platform to modern compilers definitely was one factor in its failure to gain developer mindshare, and the C++ ABI was the reason for that. They had painted themselves into a corner with a '90s C++ embedded dialect and had no easy way forward.

I'm curious -- which modern OS exposes a C++ API and is "doing pretty ok"? I can't think of any.
> and the city literally is not allowed to say, "You want this to get fixed? Either convince the rich folks to actually pay their taxes, or be willing to volunteer..."

That sounds like an excellent campaign poster.

The city is a public institution it shouldn't have opinions. But the politicians who govern it are very much encouraged to do so.

I suggest you try to run on a political platform of taxes and better services. Then you'll see of Americans want that.
The 1280x1024 resolution is weird though, it isn't 4:3. So everyone running it on CRTs got a stretched image. That resolution was for 17" and 19" LCDs which actually had that 5:4 aspect ratio.

But yes, 16:9 is a total abomination and it is a shame that 4:3 is completely dead. They make excellent secondary displays (and good primary displays as well).
My colleague is a 64-years-old devops guy. He looks like 78, he sounds like 80, but his brain is working at full speed and his IT-knowledge is not only very current, but also backed by 35 years of experience. He is the most valuable guy in our team. Any company missing out on people like him is shooting itself in the foot.
Hmm my understanding was it was formed as a research arm of exisiting companies. It also has a very long history and didn't become famous until much later in it's lifetime.