skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“You don’t quit skating cause you get old, you get old because you quit skating.”

— Skateboarder Jay Adams, 1961-2014

I am nearing 40 and recently took up skateboarding.

Naturally before I did so I searched for, “Am I too old to start skateboarding?”, fully expecting the result to be “yes!” and wondering whether or not I would let that stop me. I came across this profile of Neal Unger, a (now) 60+ year-old man who took up skateboarding in his late 50s:

https://www.absolute-snow.co.uk/articles/youre-never-too-old...

YouTube is full of videos of skaters in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, and it encouraged me to give it a shot.

It's been interesting to experience the reaction from friends, family, and strangers when I told them I skate, or when I skate in groups of younger people (they are almost always younger, unless they're the folks running the skate shop/park).

My conclusion is the same as Pamela Druckerman's in her piece here: grown-ups don't exist. Your body will age, you will be more conscious of your mortality, society will judge you or ignore you, and that transition can be really tough.

But you can flip the “age out of wunderkind” feeling she mentions — you can use the “don't care what you think” attitude that often accompanies getting older to question the status quo and do the things you want to do anyway. As you age you can become remarkable not just for the things you have done but for the things you decide to continue doing — or the things you decide to start doing. Suppressing your ambition and confining yourself to a subset of the activities that were once available to you because you feel older or because “old people don't X” feels like a sad way to live.
Also for B2B the end of the year makes people less price sensitive because if they will loose the money if they don't spend it.
We're the minority.
5 Steps to Incorporate AI in Your Startup Product Development – IQVIS
My understanding is the same - in C#, async and await are syntactic sugar for callbacks. The code is massively transformed into a state machine for the events.
Crisis at Void Linux as Lead Developer Goes Missing in Action
Do you mean Football or that sport where armoured people play with Rugby ball? Anyway, both are boring :)
I live in Tokyo but hadn't heard about this. Could you please recomment a couple.
MS says ''Windows 8 and 10 automatically disables SuperFetch service''

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Defrag-Show/Defrag-Disab...
At least $400k, ballpark, factoring in the employee costs.
Can anyone explain to me what the rationale is behind the license stipulations that Mapbox, Google Maps, etc all use for their less expensive plans "Asset tracking not allowed". It's the exact same map, but at a different use. Not very net neutral or mindful of the open source ethos.

Case in point: have several small admin applications, Mapbox and Google want $500+ for them because they're internal and restricted access.
Hmm. 44, love metal, enjoy football. Still kind of pissed the Chargers left San Diego, even though I live in the bay area now.

(Also, even though I've been here for a long time, freeways are called the. As in I take the 101 north to San Jose. But that is a wholly separate argument. :D)
Hrtew
Disappointed by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I'm more curious about why Gundotra left Google. Hopefully that story will be "declassified" some day.
I think activity is essential to the human character. We are not far from a point where we don't have to work for food and other basic necessities (though, as usual, the future is here but it's not evenly distributed).

We can sort of see it with very rich people. They do stuff even though for many of them their activity adds peanuts to their existing fortune. I'm not talking about the hyper-active, super-ambitious types.
The most significant change I've noticed in myself after 40 is a refreshing lack of reckless excitement and energy expenditure over shiny new ideas and projects. I do only what I believe I want to do, and nothing more. The result is that I do very few things, yet do them well.
> which survive about a year

What are you doing with those? I have one reusable bag which is 11 years old now. I just throw it in the laundry about once a year and it's as good as new.
Pilot's spectacular photos taken from an airplane cockpit
G R A F X 2
"Pixels not Dead!"

Tonight I visited IRC, joined #grafx2 channel on Freenode and got "WOW!" effect[0] - Adrien Destugues (aka 'PulkoMandy')[1], one of GrafX2's developers since 2007, told that v2.5 released[2] few hours ago, but he found one issue with "make install" script and fixed it on next commit[3]. So, all just now ready for package maintainers ;-)

Source code hosted on Gitlab - http://gitlub.com/GrafX2/grafx2

Version history - http://grafx2.chez.com/index.php?article4/version-history

Packaging status on Repology[4] show current state of "grafx2" package in repositories of different OS (Linux-based, BSD-based, etc.).

Soon links to all known binary builds will be collected on official site on "Downloads"[5] page ;-)

There are many features for customizing[6]: keyboard shortcuts, skins, fonts, bookmarking folders, etc.

But AMAZING feature of GrafX2 is Lua-scripting and possibility to create addons![7]

One of most known free addons package is "DB's TOOLBOX"[8] produced by Richard Fhager (aka 'DawnBringer') - collection of many AWESOME Lua-scripts for different tasks. Latest version of package is "DB's TOOLBOX v1.4"[9] and was released on December of 2017!

NOTE! Web-site now migrated to http://grafx2.chez.com (if you will try visit http://grafx2.tk it will automatically redirect you to current web-site).

Old wiki[10] still hosted on PulkoMandy's web-site.

P.S.: My screenshot taken under Linux - http://i.imgur.com/FOSI7kq.png

[0] http://i.imgur.com/NHZC9Ge.png

[1] http://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=20122

[2] https://gitlab.com/GrafX2/grafX2/tags/v2.5

[3] https://gitlab.com/GrafX2/grafX2/commit/8e94f338dff72024ec4e...

[4] https://repology.org/metapackage/grafx2/versions

[5] http://grafx2.chez.com/index.php?static3/downloads

[6] http://grafx2.chez.com/index.php?article12/customization

[7] http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2/wiki/UserGuide/Lua

[8] http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12854

[9] http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26080

[10] http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2/wiki/UserGuide
Alphabet Founders’ Letter 2017
Exploit is the wrong word. It's America and they're free to quit. Nothing's keeping there except their own desire for money. They won't starve without that job so it's not wage slavery. They simply choose to do it.

And why affiliates? The GP proposed giving money to internet advertisers. They are surely not the most deserving group of people on Earth.
It is particularly annoying if they introduced a serious bug, ie datagrip not refreshing queries, in the version you got when you purchased it, the one after the trial that worked. Then, a year later you get downgraded to a version that is useless.
This looks slick. Great job!
Ureyr
Why isn't there a subscription option?
Also building their own ISA http://en.c-sky.com/ and working to get support upstreamed https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/18/226
Well, it's a given there is little direct benefit to me in this, but I am wondering if there is even a benefit to the finance system overall. It feels like this is simply not sustainable, and is done because huge wealth created it's own rationale of what can and cannot be done.

Hedging ones expensive house mortgage.. that was neat.
I'm 47. I don't worry about age that much, but I recently had a fitness checkup at a gym. I'm no great athlete but I do run and cycle a bit. I mentioned I was training for a marathon.

The instructor, in her 30s, encouragingly exclaimed "ooh, you're doing very well for someone nearly in their 50s"

I'd never felt so old in my life :(
I can interpret that two ways.

1. I should act like I am going to live forever, take more risks and do not dwell on the inevitable shortness of my existence

2. I should not act like I am going to live forever, I should take more care of myself and value each day for the small precious gem that it is.

Which one does the Mahabharata suggest is the better interpretation, or should I hold both in my mind at the same time?
At least at the beginning, Chinese semiconductor industry does not need US market. Domestic market is large enough.
I meant it's crazy impressive. Three of four grandparents I had lived quite long lives, and I witnessed first-person how their once exceptional mental capabilities quickly deteriorated once they've crossed 88-90 years threshold. Being able to still work regularly at that age is just an amazing achievement.
I would suggest not to join a hobby, interest group etc. with an agenda of making friends. I think such a plan might create some unnecessary mental pressure on one's behaviour. On the other hand if you join a group with a topic that really interests you, chances are you'll be sorrounded with at least some like-minded people. And then, if you casually fall into a conversation with someone, then you grab the opportunity for making an acquaintance. And that person might some day turn into a friend.
I always assumed they run MRI patients through a metal detector first, seems like a sensible precaution to me.
They're monopolies by user choice, which is a fundamentally different dynamic from monopolies of old. https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/
Herf
We need to never stop learning and we need to keep deepening our human relationships. These both take on new dynamics in our 40s, especially as we realise we are an older person in most contexts and how quickly that reflects in how we are treated (the Paris café is a wonderful example of so much of this experience)
...get a real job. Both you as a con artist and you... as... wait for it... the person pretending to be an imposter you are.
IMO it's not self-awareness that most people lack but lack of willingness to self-control fueled by the notion that 'being natural' is a good thing.

Given that the will is there, the best way to influence your behavior is mental modeling because how you see things will affect not only your mind but your body and imagination is a way to see what you want to see.

Whether the model is correct or not doesn't matter. Half-believing it is sufficient. That's how superstition works. Beware that models, not unlike drugs, not only can but often do have side-effects.
The obvious answer is that Facebook were having some reasonably public disagreements with traditional media organizations, most notably Rupert Murdoch's, over the question of news articles viewed on Facebook.

The problem was, Facebook was essentially running ads against the content of Murdoch's media. Murdoch reportedly asked Zuck to simply pay for the news articles that were in the Facebook feed - and Zuckerberg reportedly laughed him off.[0]

So now, we have a massive public trial, conducted by all the public figures most indebted to Rupert Murdoch.

[0]:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/22/rupert-mu...
I'm almost 40 and I've been snowboarding and skateboarding off and on for most of my life. Recently it's been all snowboarding which I love and will never stop doing.

A few years ago I started skateboarding again to keep in shape for snowboarding in the summer. I'm writing this from bed as I'm recovering from an ACL replacement due to a fall I took skateboarding at that time.

I agree with the "do what you want to" sentiment but sports like skateboarding are a matter of when you'll get injured, not if. And those injuries have an impact on other things you might want to do. So be careful.
The Open Standard for Blockchain Certificates
Both ideas mentioned are bad:

- spend money boundlessly

or - balanced budgets

What governments should do is spend appropriately to maximize the welfare of their people which includes not having runaway inflation and also borrowing and spending during economic slumps.
It is never acceptable. The decision to permit this in US patent law and subsequently elsewhere was a huge mistake, in my opinion.
For many people their partner is their best friend. As a rule it is just the one partner.

There is much benefit in being monogamous. Polygamy or frequent changes to whom the partner is comes at quite a cost in time and effort.

Similarly with friendships, there is a cost to having 'hundreds of close friends' (as if such a thing could happen). There is also a cost in trying to push one's 'friends quota' beyond what we have (5-6 close friends) to a wider circle of not-so-close friends.

Yet some people - those with 500 Facebook friends - think that having more than the small circle of close friends is a desirable thing, which it may be but only in the way that having a harem of partners is a desirable thing.

There is also the matter of being part of a community. We all need to belong. Yet too many people hop in their car, drive out their driveway and never say hi to the neighbours.

Superficial neighbourhood friendships are fine. The guy who you say hello to whilst you are walking the dog is okay to say hello to even if he votes differently to you. That superficial chat about the weather is okay.

Recently had a funeral to attend, of a neighbour. Although this was a well attended service I was quite surprised at how some people chose not to go to the wake. Those dog-walking saying-hellos do actually matter, this was what made the funeral mandatory for me but meh for those that did not care to go.

By actively going to a church group or dance class I didn't really have my heart into I think the resultant relationships would be as fake as my belief in god/dancing in silly shoes. Your friend might think he/she has success but there may be others in the group who think that he/she is a sad letch rather than someone passionate about what they are doing.
Joining a dance class to shed a few pounds (rather than to get laid) is legit though.
Started bouldering at age 48. Stronger than I've ever been in my life, and in better shape generally since my mid-20's
Kfgf
There is plenty, possibly even too much self help material out there.

I thought it was a well written piece worth reading.
I'm 41 now, but around 36/37 something odd started happening. When I hit the gym teenagers in the locker room would say "good evening sir". As you can guess the percentage of "sir" raises every year :-D At first I tried to compensate deadlifting more than them but now I must feel happy if I can retain my previous year lifts.
Are index scans supposed to be faster with prefetch? It is random read at 8kb. I usually set read_ahead_kb to 8kb on disks/tablespaces for indexes.
The Decreasing Usefulness of Positive Visual Security Indicators
Nfsdr
decide which female customers to downgrade

The French would not consider it a downgrade but a term of deference and respect. They don’t think about age like Americans do. Look at Macron and his wife, he was 15 and she 39 when they met.
There's no downside to adding LinkedIn contacts unless you're really into reading the curated feed or something. In fact, having more connections can be beneficial
Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
The title and why?

Recently discovered CMus and am a big fan of Pandoc and youtube-dl.

This has me wondering what else I'm missing out on.
I had assumed this was going to be something to do with the Chinese daigou buying agents in Australia.

I was stuck in a pharmacy the other night behind 7 Chinese guys, all buying 4 cans of formula each (the limit), all sharing the same card.

I don’t think that is illegal exactly, but wow it’s annoying.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australian-companies-still-need-...
Advertised deceptively so as to engineer maximum clicks, something which I have no respect for, especially from an organization I used to hold in such high regard.
I took up mountain biking more seriously two years ago when I was 44. I wondered about the same question you did last year and found similar answers. You're never too old.
And also by one gets frustrated with developers that think they can change the "paradigm" because the existing one is "boring" or "inefficient".
> It's a bit like a tone-deaf person learning a musical instrument. Through immense effort and 'fine-grained, mechanical learning' they might actually get pretty good, but they're still tone-deaf, and might never become as 'fluent' as others. If you're that type of person, the approach you describe can be frustrating and relatively ineffective.

I can now reliably beat the puzzle in Myst that involves a piano and a set of sliders now, and it only takes me 15 or so minutes when it takes normal people about 30 seconds.

(I go back and play every 3-5 years because I enjoy the crazy storyline)
You just can't impress everyone.

"This new protocol allows anyone in the world to transfer information semantically and graphically with anyone else in the world"

"Big deal... that's just another form of vocalization that animals have been doing for millions of years!"
Publish Content to Connect with Your Audience
>> (Irritatingly, men are “monsieur” forever.)

Yeah, this isn't true. Young men are called "jeune homme" in cafés and such.

And then when you get older there comes a time when you're called "jeune homme" again, in a weird sarcastic-but-kind way. You will hear very old men be called "jeune homme" all the time, and then everyone laughs. Apparently it's a joke that never gets old.

(Source: am French).
[gender specific article]
There is no way this is true. People were running BBS systems out of computers in their closet in 1997, with thousands of users.
Go to chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

Select `Document user activation is required`
Relaunch chrome

Alternatively Mute sites that play sound from
chrome://settings/content/sound

Which ever works for you
That wages are basically "pay off" for the amount of abuse you're subject to.

That running your own business takes a lot of energy & involvement and is not the route to make money easy.

That every raise / significant amount of money, inspires for about 3 months, then it is the new normal.

That there will be people around you who do less and get paid more.

That budget is addictive and it hurts to shrink it.

That people who work for you or live with you, will not doubt that the money flow is eternal and guarantied and take 0 measures to prepare for the day you can not provide.

That it takes hard work & dedication to improve your income, and is freakishly easy to sustain.

That there is one moment in time to do financial negotiations and that is before the contract is signed, after that you will have to move to improve.

That when "the man" is hurting, employees instantly become assets that are let go in the blink of an eye.

My initial projection to out perform my parents financial improvement compared to their parents took rather drastic risks and I guesstimate my kids will have a hard time to sustain that improvement.

Money does not make you happy, the lack of it makes you creative. What hurts is having less then last year.

Income, costs & (net) results varies greatly per geographic area.

One man's fortune, is the other man's pocket money.
It's Git, it's got a history, this would do nothing...
Dude, Henry Ford came up with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordism in 1910. And Ford was not famous for being very nice.

I'd say Bezos has a lot of work to do on the "taking better care of his employees" front.

And regarding space travel at this point it's just an intellectual fetish based on reading/watching SF (and I'm a big fan of SF...). Except for the "single point of failure" thing, which hasn't truly been an issue for the last 65 million years, we should be fine on Earth for the next decades, at least.
so it's a combination of looking old enough and good looking enough to be married. (having a ring on also would trigger this.)
What time do you usually go to sleep?
> Maybe the person who hired the web server admin, has since left to work with something else. And there's a new boss / hiring manager

yup, i've observed this happen.
Original 1959 Do-It-Yourself Computer Project
(I'm french)

Strictly speaking, you're right. Mademoiselle is for unmarried women, and Madame for married women. It's like Miss vs. Mrs in English. But for some reason, there's this assumption that older women are married, and younger ones are not, or something along these lines,
> They won't starve without that job so it's not wage slavery. They simply choose to do it.

Aren't those people paid close to minimum wage? People on minimum wage don't live in an utopia where they have all the freedom in the world to move around as they wish, unlike Silicon Valley employees being paid 200k per year.
Bhercw
"Sure, they lied to me, but I enjoyed the content" is not what I want from The New York Times. It harms their reputation to engage in those kinds of manipulation tactics.

I am becoming less and less likely to click through to any of their content since I don't like being lied to by anyone on the Internet, especially a news organization.
I was in a somewhat similar situation and was fretting about it for weeks. I had founded the project and done all the work, things were going well, and I asked a friend to join as co-founder. I felt after a few months that he wasn't pulling his weight, and I was concerned about how to approach this, and how I would ask my best friend to leave the business.

Turns out, he had already been interviewing and wasn't keen on staying. Start-ups weren't his thing, he wanted more stability.

The best thing you can do. Talk. If he's going to be your co-founder, you want to be able to have frank conversations.
Hey Daniel, you've really hit the mark. I'm glad there are people out there like you. Rock on, man!
then publish under a pseudonym?
You are basing this off of...what, exactly? Employees vouching for contractors are able to do so along any metric, but given that they are sticking their neck out professionally on their behalf, I assume that the criteria they care about the most is the exact criteria that will later be used to determine if the contractor was actually a good egg.
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

Average dividend reinvested and inflation adjusted return between 1949 and 2016 is 7.5%

>>> def comp(A, n, i):
... m = 0
... for x in range(n):
... m += i**x
... return A/m
...
>>> comp(9000000, 67, 1.0725)
6053.012676780852

Assuming costs of 0.25%, she needs to invest a little over 6000 2016 USD per year to get 9 million USD.
I have developed an instinctual reaction to automatically deny permissions like remotely that for any website, and I think most people have. Websites asking for permission to send notifications provokes the same irritation. I think - "I am in the middle of doing something, I don't want to stop and think carefully about permissions for some vague and abstract future encounters, I want the annoying dialog to go away and the site to get out of my way."

Notably though: If some dialog like this came up even on a specific site like Youtube where I would almost invariably benefit from granting those permissions, I think there is a huge percentage chance I would knee-jerk deny the permission even when if I stopped to think about it, denying that permission would probably make my user experience worse. Lastly, there is an almost infinitesimal chance of me ever seeking out the settings to re-evaluate my choice on this.
Same thought here. It felt like this article was without any substance whatsoever.