skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of fraud is risky. And often very worth it if you are very poor and live in a country where laws against fraud aren't enforced. I think the potential for abuse deserves a closer look.
Same here. I must say, in my work experience, I had problems only with engineers as young as me (or around my age) who had a big ego, a very bad personality or the I-am-very-smart syndrome.

Instead usually the "old" engineers who stick in a tech position were always extremely humble even if having a ton of domain and company-specific knowledge with the willingness to share all of it.
If you live in a developed country.
My disillusion and cynicism know few bounds in any matter involving the EU (or any political body, for that matter).
Over the years, something like this could easily morph into 'this open source software certified and legal to use within the EU'.
Lab grown meat. There's a huge market for it, the economics make sense, and it's improving at a rapid rate. I wish I had some money to invest in it.
Turns out planning isn't useful in any way until you assess current situation clearly.
Turns out assessing current situation isn't easy at all.
There is no single clear and easy fix to this.
> which have records of bugs have causing them problems

even glibc?

> I can't see how VLC can be as mission critical as Kafka.

VLC can run on public screens
The EU has been funding the development of open source software through grants for many years now.
That's because the compiler would have to track at compile time which value the "foo" has.
So tiring that he tells the world he's taking the company private in his pointless battle with "short sellers."

So tiring that he falsely accuses a critic of being a pedophile.

He can't control his emotions.
Legal tender only applies to debts.
I am 39 yo and I am not close anymore to any of my HS friends. But I am very close to lot of my University friends. I don't think you need to worry about missing something irreplaceable for life.

Also, do not take other people's memories and nostalgic feelings at face value. These memories usually filter out the bad, boring, irremarkable stuff to make the past sound like an anime. Also, it is often compared to struggles they are facing in the present and wish they could escape.

All that said, I think you do should do something to not feel solitary. I am not so sure that friendships must develop naturally. Sure, they can't be forced, by I think they can (should?) be consciously pursued. That's my approach to keep my best friends close in my adulthood.

Keep an eye open for good people, people who are kind to others and that happen to have some common interests with you. And if the interest seem mutual, make an effort to hang out with those people.

For me, the bottom line: make an effort to be nice to nice people and nice things will happen
Interesting.

I've been messing for a while with my own boilerplate C++ project [0], since I got sick of having to recreate the CMake set up for every app I created. It's taken a lot of CMake magic to get it working and I'm still not totally happy with the config using ExternalProject_add to automagically deal with dependencies that aren't present.

I've been evaluating Hunter [1] and wondering whether to step over.

If I understand correctly, the big advantage of Bake is that it completely replaces CMake for dependency management (at least that's what I take away from the readme)?

[0] https://github.com/kartikkumar/cppbase

[1] https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
Hm, that's odd - ublock blocks access to the site :-/
Thank you :-)

I always thought there must be some special tool, way better than Draw.io, OmniGraffle and everything, but just vector graphics. Maybe quiet some work.
I took a bunch of time and focused on helping coders instead of coding myself. I came to coding naturally and never thought of it as much more than intellectual self-stimulation. It was a lot of fun, and there is some value to it -- but it tends to get a lot more attention than it should simply because it feels so good to do it well. Successful startup founders say that coding is no more than 2-3% of the total effort of providing value to people. I've found nothing to prove that false; and I've seen a lot of companies and startups.

Recently I'm back to focusing more on coding. I find two things most interesting:

1. As I get older, I struggle with attention span and short-term memory more, but I have greater ability to see deep and widespread cross-cutting patterns. It's probably an even trade.

2. I'm not so sure that smart people should be coding. The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that good coding is managing cognitive complexity. You're always trying to make it work, then make it easy to understand and maintain. When I think back on all of the multi-billion-dollars I've seen in project/program disasters, none of it was because the problems were hard. They were all a combination of poor customer/user participation and smart folks taking a problem of n complexity and making it into a problem of n^n complexity. Usually the two were related: tech was constantly used as sort of a band-aid to fix people problems. It never worked, but it kept a lot of coders employed for a long time.

Hopefully this wasn't cynical. I love coding and I love making useful things for people. I have a deep passion for helping developers lead happier and more productive lives. But I also feel an obligation to be honest about what happens. It looks a lot different at 50 than it did at 25.

Think about it. Seriously, would you want somebody telling you that you wasted three years of dev time and could scrap what you have and roll something useful to production in a month? I've done that several times in my career, at various ages, and nobody ever liked hearing it. As I got older they liked hearing it even less. In this business, inexperience, raw intelligence, and enthusiasm are the things we reward. They come mostly with younger folks.

Tech development is amazing and incredible because we create our own realities. But part of that awesomeness is the fact that left alone, we create realities that look like ourselves. It is the nature of the work.
Maybe their wives are taking it too.
Ask HN: Why aren't tech giants using their gTLDs?
Google owns the .google gTLD but they haven't been using it for any of their existing products. So far blog.google is the most used. Why haven't they moved * .google.com to * .google?

Gmail (mail.google.com) to mail.google, docs.google.com to docs.google and so on.

Browser support in 2018 should have caught up to support them.

I'd at least expect them to redirect mail.google to mail.google.com if they plan to keep the existing domains.
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Having lived in a bunch of countries over the past decade, it's only when I moved back home to NL that I fully appreciated how easy things are.

Firstly, digital filing is the norm and for "simple" returns, just works.

Secondly, if you ever have a question, you can just call the tax authority on their free phone number, and pretty much ask them anything related to individual or business tax returns.
For the kind of diagram in your example I have been using Cacoo for some time now:

https://cacoo.com

It does not take a lot of practice to get decent results and they also have some nice networking/AWS icon templates. I think they still have a free account option with limited sheets.
Small thefts of crypto are compareable to small theft of cash in the real world?
CLI-matic runs in Planck for easy ClojureScript scripting
I'm kind of curious about those models. Are there any major differences aside from the assumption of incompresssibility? I suppose they probably don't do equation splitting either?

What does the CFD community do? Something like the Finite Element Method? I sat in on a grad course on continuum mechanics from the mech eng. department, but we never strayed from abstract mathematics.
I find that http://realtimeboard.com works very well for me, once I've chosen the right pen width and color. The "smart drawing" tool for example (which converts hand sketches to shapes) is a huge time saver.
This kind of ageism isn't really visible to you unless you're the subject of it. Yes, it's real.
I use Cacoo.
https://cacoo.com/

You can subscribe to a free account. The ‘signup free’ link is somewhat hidden under the pricing sections.
The product has many nice drawing tools and templates and you can export to raster or vector formats.

You can make something like the one in your link by combining some preset icons Cacoo offers with regular drawing tools.

*Disclaimer: I’m a Cacoo developer
I like the reviews on https://www.penaddict.com/top-5-pens/
They have sections for different budgets etc. I have no connection to them, my handwriting is terrible. I just like the site :)
Yes, I know. And?
Found: The plane wreck that could solve a 50-year-old mystery
Ask HN: Why/How do you use user-persona in your company?
I work for a B2B2C AI startup,building chat/voice bot product for businesses.
We have recently started brainstorming to involve user-persona in our day-to-day work.

Even after exploring the available literature, I'm unable to find a perfect answer for a few questions.

- How do you use user-persona at work other than including/discussing them in the development issues/tickets?

- Other than a cultural shift (which will also take time), is there any instant help to your engineering team by using personas?

Would be helpful if you can share some of the practices used in your organisation and the benefits you've observed from it.
Two brothers with the Chinese one child policy, I would have thought that would be rare or a special case.
I posted this because I found the use of oral evidence from seamen to narrow the search area interesting.
I have to say I'm not really experienced, but where do you find such icons, such that they can be simply imported into whichever (preferrably open source) vector graphics software?
My understanding is that Hypogonadism can also affect women. Have a similar study been made on women? I’m under the impression that a lot of women eat painkillers to get through menstrual cramps so this could be a huge problem for women too I guess?
Everyone's life is different, man. There is no benchmark that you need to compare against. Most of my good friends are people I've known for 15 years who I met in high school. Many people I know kept few or no friends from high school. Some of those people have great friends from college instead, while others have few or no friends at all. Some are happy, some aren't-- with or without the friends. I know two separate girls each with almost no friends who are both happy as a lark, and I know a few people with more friends than they can count who are quite depressed.

There isn't a rubric for life.
Follow up: This situation is similar to when England wanted Delhi to be rid of cobras so they started offering rewards for dead cobras. The citizens of Delhi responded to this incentive by farming cobras.

What's the difference? It's a systemic flaw.

If there exists an incentive for finding vulnerabilities, there exists an incentive for introducing vulnerabilities. Bug bounties work great for closed source companies because there doesn't exist a misalignment of incentives. If Johnny keeps writing buggy code, he gets fired. If anonymous234 gets his buggy pull request approved, confederate anonymous456 gets to make a few bucks.

Follow up #2: For the skeptical downvoters, I'll put my money where my mouth is and attempt to capture the bounties using the method described above.
Oh indeed, I'm not trying to say they should not fund these programs, this is awesome and welcome. I'm just warning about a possible pitfall for them to keep an eye on :)
Having worked in a few IT architecture departments at huge companies the most popular tool by far at these companies really shocked me at first: PowerPoint. It's not that hard to build these things by hand using basic shapes. One of our diagrams was about 3 feet by 4 feet when printed and had thousands of elements and lines connecting those elements. Similarly now that I don't use Windows I've reverted to Google Slides.
What are various red flags for you in Swift code reviews?
This also explains why Americans tend to doubt the usefulness of learning cursive writing: it is feels terrible and is quite slow when using ball point pens, but smooth and fast with a fountain pen.
I use Dia: http://dia-installer.de/

It's free open-source software, works on Windows, Mac and Linux. It gives great balance for drawing on grids (reduces arbitrary decisions) and usability (power to draw what you want). I've gotten several compliments at talks for diagrams made using this software, so I highly recommend it.
Cryptocurrency catastrophes in 2018
For the first time, scientists have seen bacteria 'fishing' for DNA
Its better to download and watch as it stutters very frequently.
> very predictably at about 10 days I'm itching to go home and get back to work.

You don't have to be idle while you're traveling. I always spend a few hours "working" when I travel. I find it too tiring to be out all day anyway.
To me, an article like this represents a benchmark for forced ideologies.

The writing is on the wall. Look at the facts. You have twenty year old millionaires pulling in cryptocurrency from the privacy of their own home, with little to no formal training, and not very much special equipment that would be prohibitively inaccessible to any particular individual.

Where is the bitcoin pay gap and glass ceiling. Nowhere. There isn’t one. Nothing is stopping people from moving into this territory. It’s essentially video poker on the internet.

And yet, what kind of gender distribution do we see? An imbalanced one.

So who designed it? Who masterminded this injustice? Why must we counter it with media awareness campaigns?
Sugar is in pretty much all bread. It's a matter of quantity.

I bake all my own bread. I use one level teaspoon of caster sugar in warm water to get the yeast going. You can add a bit more to get a harder crust on the bread. But this is so little, and it mostly gets used by the yeast, so that it has negligible effect upon the taste. Salt makes a vastly bigger difference.

I understand that much mass-produced bread in the US has greatly larger quantities of sugar in it. In the UK, this is only seen in "long-life" bread (which tastes terrible, and I don't know of anyone who buys it).
In the UK most people don't have to file taxes at all. Can't get easier than that.
How do you run unit tests in a bake project?
I had a childhood friend who couldn't read an analog clock, and that was in the late 90s.
Annoyingly the IC sockets tend to oxidise if the board doesn’t! I’ve lost count of the number of them I’ve had to replace in my life.

If it wasn’t for mechanical switches, pots, contacts and some dubious thermal design I imagine the kit would last for 100 years easy. I have 40-50 year old stuff on my bench in daily use.
Great direction! One of the lesser known but really nifty bits of NeXTStep was DriverKit:

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/OPENSTEP/Dev...

Objective-C was a great match for driver development, devices tended to have a very natural OO flavour to them and naturally sorted into classes.

Putting things in user-space seemed a natural extension, that sadly didn't happen at the time even though Mach had the hooks for it (we never got user-level pagers either, which would have rocked together with garbage collected languages). There certainly didn't seem to be a good reason why I had to reboot the machine and wait for fsck when there was a minor bug in the little driver I was writing to talk to an EISA printer controller that had nothing to do with the basic functioning of the system...

(Why would a printer controller be on an EISA controller, you ask? It directly drove a Canon Laser Copier, so, yes!)

Oh, and not surprised by the abysmal Swift performance. Alas, Apple's marketing of Swift as a "high-performance" language has been very successful despite all the crushing evidence to the contrary.
Usually they would be linked on this page: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...
Is Civic Tech Dead?
https://www.github.com/SanderMertens/bake is a fork of https://github.com/cortoproject/bake... Is there any reason why the title link doesn't go to the original?
Terabyte priv/pub keys, "we are the leading pq lattice based implementation", broken implementations, attack scripts. I have the feeling a lot of submissions are the result of pressure on academia to publish...
"The chief explanation for Spain’s pronounced improvement is the country’s Mediterranean diet" -- this is scientific nonsense unless the country has only just adopted a Mediterranean diet.
Foreign cyberattack hits newspapers: Here is what we know
Luck is a huge part of success. It's mythology that if you work hard enough for long enough that the world will become your oyster. Sweat and ingenuity are often necessary but not necessarily sufficient means to financial gain. No one launches from the same starting line nor runs along the same track. And don't forget that all the other smart folks out there are ravenously competing against you for those hotly desired greenbacks. Count your blessings if you are one of the lucky ones.
Great work! Do you have by any chance the C driver latency measurements? It would be nice to have them on the same graph as those for Rust and other languages.
The slides may not be up yet, but you could demux just the video stream out of https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cdn.media.ccc.de//congress/2018/s..., or give me a yell in the next 30 minutes or so and I can do it. Don't have a nice script to de-dupe images though.
My terrible handwriting is my largest regret. I don't know why it turned out terrible. Maybe I did not pay enough attention how to hold the pen properly in school. I have a feeling I am too tense. Really hard to break that habit.
I have a TWSBI and several Lamys, which are great, but the pen I buy and use in bulk is the Uniball UM-153S rollerball. All the fun of a fountain pen without the hassle of dealing with ink. It's the pen for notes and shopping lists. From my Amazon orders, I seem to buy a 12 box of them at least once a year.

To Mitsubishi Pencil Co (makers of the Uniball): please make a green ink version!
Small sample size makes publication bias much more likely as well
I've tried. It doesn't work too well. I'm too used to my big monitor at home, and my build/test farm.
Synaptic protein regulates anxiety behaviour
We should take in mind that Spanish is a diverse country with different climatic areas. The Mediterranean tag is a gross oversimplification.

In terms of weather, the North is as mediterranean as Ireland or Paris. Soria's winters had more in common with Chicago than with Valencia, (Valencia would be closer to California). Canary islands have their own atlantic climate.

The "Mediterranean diet" tag is also a gross oversimplification.

In terms of population we are also one of the more diverse countries in Europe, an historical melting pot of catholics, muslims, jews and americans with a salt of hindi, therefore we grow free of many stupid food taboo's. We eat a lot of seafood and pork meat is culturally ok.

Having strong bonds with America, Europe and Africa gave us access to a lot of different exotic products. There is nothing mediterranean in chicken, milk, bananas, chocolate, tomato or potatoes. Neither bread or wine are "Mediterranean" products in the strict sense. Not exclusively mediterranean species or cultured exclusively in the Mediterranean. A diet based in bread, meat and wine should be named "castillian diet".
As the sibling comment also says the strength of PHP is the hosting offerings. I use PHP only, because it's trivial to create smaller sites with it on cheap shared hosting, because PHP hosting is offered practically unversally everywhere.

For bigger companies which host their own sites, other languages may be better choices.
A better way to counter crypto maximalists
There's a distinction between your examples: the first ones are user tools, the latter are backend applications or libraries

My guess is that the main objective is to address user-visible bugs. While a glibc bug is certainly impactful, it is usually solvable before it gets too widespread.

(And as I much as it's "not the right way", higher level apps work around it before it is fixed)
The airplane bit is a big blocker for me. I've yet to do a successful dropper converter that didn't explode on a plane for me.

Forum responses are usually vague and along the lines of "try different viscosity ink," which, yeah, but there's tens of brands and thousands of flavors.
Naproxen / Aleve?
> Why is this still a thing?

Movies.
Interesting!

As our devices have gotten faster, the user-space/kernel boundary is becoming more and more of an issue. I was shocked when my supposedly super-fast MacBook Pro SSD (2+GB/s) was only giving me around 250MB/s.

Turned out mkfile(8), which I was using without thinking much about it, is only using 512 byte buffers...

https://blog.metaobject.com/2017/02/mkfile8-is-severely-sysc...
Just as a side hint: did you ever get your vitamin levels checked? I had migraines with aura a couple of times a week until I got a full vitamine check up on B vitamines and Q10. I had a huge lack of B12 plus Q10. I managed to compensate with supplements (the expensive ones from the pharmacy) and didn't have migraine now in 3 months. Might be worth looking into :)
I've added them to the git repo: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages/blob/master/s...
Another possibility is that your CD player might not be flat. Marantz, Yamaha and other manufacturers add their slight sound signatures to their higher and models.

I never benchmarked my Yamaha CD-S300 to other devices, but its flyers and web site never says it's completely flat on the analog outputs. The reviews of the player notes that it has the distinct Yamaha signature too.

Also "Monitor" and "Flat" devices as their name implies sounds pretty flat and dull.

All-in-all you should consider taking response graphs of your devices rightmark.
Visa+to+Acquire+UK+Cross-Border+Payment+Service+Earthport+For+£198M
On the flip side, anyone who obtains the physical device likely has access to the key (your fingerprints are all over it)
That's a Libreoffice issue, not Void.

You'll see the same thing on any Arch-based distro too for example, and I'd venture to guess that most distros are the same since there's little incentive for them to rip apart upstream packages and repackage them.
I wasn’t aware an allergy had to be life-threatening to be classified as such. In fact, double-checking with a dictionary confirms it isn’t defined that way.

I grew up allergic to chlorine (swimming pools). The allergic reaction was/is eczema. This was not life threatening. For the past 12 years I’ve suffered from pollen allergy annually. Also not life-threatening.
The Mediterranean diet is practically based on it. It's the most significant difference in the southern Italian diet and the American one. People use what would seem to be horrifying amounts of oil to a typical American. They lead active lives into their 80s and 90s. The oil supports the consumption of more vegetables (by making them more palatable). The fact that the longest lived people in the world outside of Japan are consuming very large amounts of it (Spain, Italy, Sardinia, Greece, various Mediterranean islands) should suggest it's not a bad thing to consume. For reference, people in these countries are eating 250ml a week per person (15L a year in Greece). But this is only correlation.