skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure an HTTP client can be done, but you won't get the functionalities of MQTT and you'll have to support it yourself.

MQTT is always on and it's bidirectional. The client can both listen to the server and talk to it. You sure can do that using some kind of push/pull over HTTP but that's going to be costly. You can sure do HTTP long polling, but that's most probably contains code smell.

MQTT can be used simply to broadcast something, which is quite useful in the IoT world. You got a data that has changed, another client can easily get it and do something with it (either log it, show it, or change its behaviour based on it). Again something that you'll have to implements over HTTP.

> A HTTP client can be implemented by hand with just a few examples in a few hours.

If an implementation for it already exists (and most likely than not it does) you are better of with using it than rewriting it.

Sure you can't do it in hours, but MQTT is simple enough that there's already an implementation for you somewhere. Though seeing this source code, I'm pretty sure it can be pulled off in hours still [1].

[1] https://github.com/knolleary/pubsubclient/blob/master/src/Pu...
That's very true. From my mid 50s perspective there's been a couple of big, "I really should have stuck with thats", but mainly "life's too short to put up with that garbage". Which of course makes it really hard to generalise into advice.
I’m currently architecting a transport administration system written fully in Go which includes XMLEDI over SFTP; this project is perfect as we need to integrate with the current IAM.
600k is staff level TC, not even close to fellow.
Pattern matching is listed there, but I think the onus is on you to describe what you're talking about. I guarantee that any language (even the HN-beloved Rust and Go) can produce hideous code.
I got the box set with those included (and an awesome bust of Neo). I've watched them more than the movies.
Most notable thing about this link is that it hijacked the back button on my phone.
> I found the “human battery” idea pretty silly/lazy

The characters who believe that in-universe could just be unreliable narrators, as in it's not how it really is, it's just what they assume.

There may be fundamental differences between “biological/analog” and “mechanical/digital” computation, and the Machines keep human brain-farms for distributed biocomputing to complement their own.

After all, they even provide us a shared VM to "train" in.

If it was just for batteries, wouldn't cheetahs on treadmills be more efficient?
> and nothing that has come after has really added value to the product

For you. Personally to me things like cross device copy-paste, airdrop, notes and reminders integrations are indispensable now. Metal has brought a huge improvement to rendering speed and of course security between now and then is incomparable.
World on a Wire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire) from 1973 is worth mentioning, too.
iTunes hasn't been intuitive to me in ages. Every update in the past 10 years has made it more confusing.
The US is not morally or legally obligated to support or enable Russian ambitions and has the right, as a sovereign nation, to react to actions against their interest.
PayPal is dangerous they say [0]...

[0] https://minifree.org/paypal/
Case law on copyright for fonts is complicated, with fonts generally having less protection than other works. My impression is that Comic Code is no more derivative of Comic Sans than, say, Arial is of Helvetica.
Why would we want concurrency if we already have thread support and coroutines. Concurrency is a nice-to-have abstraction that is not without overhead and design tradeoffs.
It would be nice to know what the potential long term damage of something like this is. Relate it to exercise. You work out one group of muscles all the time as much as you can, and the rest of the body is near worthless.

At best you have someone who is basically an idiot savant. At worst, you have someone who has forgotten basic life functions, but handles being a soldier like the best of them.
The /sys tree is a similar goldmine.
From a fellow Northern Irish person - thanks for volunteering! I'm a photographer and it really horrifies me when I see people acting like this. I research what is appropriate gear and technique for shoots. I try to influence situations when I see staff are under pressure from patrons, or someone is asking questions that have been clearly answered elsewhere, but it's often a losing battle.

People here in the US can be obnoxious at times, but I don't generally see the level of abuse that I've seen in NI. It's horrible that people even take this stuff online.
Research which needs to be evaluated itself, could be biased, methodologically wrong, etc. In the end dyslectics konw waht tehy konw!
hero's journey is the oldest myth/story; matrix is just another variation.
I have a comment in this thread about stress that might help you.

About anxiety: talk to a psychologist and keep doing things you like.
Agreed, I was really hoping this kind of deceptive crap wouldn't still be present in 2019?
In theory squats should be the same (I think engaging the leg muscles has the most effect on testosterone), but for me deadlifts worked better as well. Doing climbing using a lot of power is even better.
That's a very bad question ! I get the feeling I will need to buy some books once this thread gets 100 answers :) I'm kind of biography / autobiography geek.

The one I really love is Benjamin Franklin Autobiography - truly fantastic read (I've read it twice already, it's about time for a 3rd one !)
"Italian web developer."

I was expecting something along the lines of Angola, or Salvador. In your case, Italy is Europe. Open a UK Ltd, or an Estonian Entity. Before you will have to worry about anything related to "esterovestizione" you'll already know whether the company is actually working or not. If you start to have cashflow, get an accountant, if you file your taxes in Italy, and there's nothing shady about the Company, you're doing nothing wrong.
Rust stdlib uses strings because it's just piping through to LLVM and that's what LLVM expects: http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#inline-assembler-expressio...

There's also a Rust version of Dynasm.
Backwards compatibility is one of the highest priorities for C++, which is a significant constraint in removing "ugly" constructs and syntax. It can also force the use of verbose or unusual syntax for new features, even if the new features are a net positive for readability.
tDCS is not a new technology by any means.

I did a week long retreat last year using a prototype tDCS device made specifically as a beta for helping mindfulness practice. I found it useful as an aid definitely in relaxation and as a byproduct for focusing. I would do it more often if they figured out a cheap, sustainable way to put the electrodes on the head without all the gels/sponges/etc.
I think the Problem isn’t that it is everywhere, but it is a Font with a lot of character and people use it in all the inapropriate cases.

If you print a warning sign, the choice of Comic Sans (or Papyrus etc.) is incompatible with the message you wanna express. If you use Comic Sans for a childrens birthday invitation or well – a Comic – then your choice of font fits the message you are communicating.

Most Fonts that aren’t simple serif or sans-serif fonts add an additional message to the message you are conveying. Something neutral like an Helvetica/Arial/Calibri will not be perceived as conveying any additional context.

So fancy fonts essentially get into the way of your message if you don’t know what you are doing and this is the way Comic Sans got it’s reputation.

Additionally Comic Sans isn’t even that good of a Comic font to be honest..
>In this scenario - a single client might be able to influence their immediate surrounding if there aren't enough redundant checks in place.

When it came out, hex editing was still the easiest way to cheat at computer games and as such that is how I saw the loading of weapons and even altering local physics like Neo could do.
Not the OP, but I have similar problems as I don't have a fixed address, or even country of residence. I can get around that by hiring a postal address (...I think). Either way, it's not as easy as "just fill in a form" and there are real costs (probably more than the income it'll give me).

(after that, there's the entire hassle of taxes. I don't mind paying them but at this point I have no idea who to...)
I would love that feature, and the ability to have a function that takes name + value pairs from a struct. However I suppose once you go down that rabbit hole, you may as well have all the features of annotating members and accessing that data too
How coupled is druid to druid-shell? It would be great if it would easily be embeddable into projects that already have platform native windowing code.
Title should sound more like this:Increased learning speed in monkeys.
It's also from 2017. As we are now two years later, have these findings been replicated with humans?
Library authors and maintainers.
next, we implement bresenham's algorithms, then we embed antialiasing.
Initially thought this article was going to be on the lack of trust regarding media/news...
I feel like Herb Sutter has always written favourably about compile time tricks, and it's reflected in his audience
Beginner question!

I want to use a game engine in my video editing pipeline. I want real time video acquisition, real time shading, real time camera manipulation, depth / fov tools, object and scene management, etc. I want to extend it to do all sorts of things, but basically the gist is to mix video editing and game engine, and put actors into complex virtual scenes in real time.

Which engine should I use? Which one supports more video things out of the box?

Ideally it works on Linux, but that isn't a hard requirement.

Also, if you can answer my questions on Skype/Hangouts (or in person in Atlanta), I'd be happy to pay $$$/hr. I want to get a broad overview of the space.
Since we're playing that game, i nominate Paint Shop Pro 7 :-)

There are very few (and minor) things i'd change about that software and apparently its developers thought the same because the biggest change they did after that was to change the program's theme (in general i think when a commercial program has ran out of important stuff to add the next thing they do is to change the program's theme :-P).

Also Delphi 2 and C++ Builder 1. I refer to the IDE there (they're essentially the same IDE except one uses Object Pascal and the other uses C++), not the language (as a language the ideal would be Delphi 7 with some functionality from Free Pascal like dynamic arrays and generics). The only thing i like from later versions is the inclusion of auto-completion, but beyond that (and especially after Delphi 7) there is way more bloat than good.

And MS Paint up until the Vista version. The only thing it needed was a tool to draw arrows. I curse the Win7+ MS Paint every time i want to draw overlapping rectangles or a rectangle and then something else.

Also WinHelp, whatever was the last version was fine. This didn't "fall from grace" as much as it was outright killed. CHM/HtmlHelp is nice (everything else that Microsoft has produced on the help front sucks) but the ability to add CSS and JavaScript on it means that many programs do add CSS and JavaScript (though TBF authoring WinHelp shows that it is a hacky hack of great hackiness, but i'm referring to the overall UX as a user, not author).

And of course WinAmp 2.95, i do not think this needs explanation :-P

Finally i think Visual C++ 6 (with the addon to add tabs) is the best VC++ version - again about the IDE, not the language. Though overall i prefer Borland's C++ (C++ Builder, Borland C++) mainly because the compilers are much faster (and i do not use C++ much to care about any missing features).

On the Linux side the last version of Xpdf to use Motif was the best Xpdf, GNOME2 is the best GNOME and Gtk2 is the best Gtk. Though Gtk itself is lousy, the only reason to use it is for GNOME.
Subscription model is actually way better if you don't want to end up with feature bloat. Because you actually get money from users even if you only ever fix bugs and improve performance.

If you freeze your features you will soon arrive at a point where everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.
Okay, yes, some people like to have hair. This is fine.

This article is also telling me that there may be a method for permanent hair removal that functions by disrupting the physical shape of the follicle. Or by interrupting the intercellular signaling within follicles.

I'm looking for a "cure" for having hair. The only permanent cure available so far is to stick a needle electrode into the follicle directly and electrolyze it with sufficient current to kill all the cells inside it. This can have unintended side effects, such as scarring, and has to be done follicle by follicle.
What I find so bizarre is that I spend my youth in Connecticut (not far from Lyme itself) walking with bare legs/feet through the woods for long periods of time and never found any ticks on me or showed any Lyme symptoms, while people I went with would end up covered in ticks after just ten minutes in the grass.
Probably a lot simpler if you shave your head, no?
> There may be a fundamental difference between “biological/analog” and “mechanical/digital” computation, and the Machines keep humans for distributed bio-computing.

IIRC, that's pretty close to the rationale in the original versions of the script, but it was changed because the movie executives thought it was too confusing.
IMHO, #3 - Usability Test should never be part of the code review, the author of the PR should make sure that changes do what they are supposed to do BEFORE opening a PR.

Developers should be responsible for their own QA. QA is not what code reviews are about.

There are always exceptions, of course. Use of the common sense should be highly encouraged, e.g. if proposed change is complex or reviewer want to visually confirm this change, feel free to checkout this branch, but it is NOT a requirement for a good review.
I doubt any study of hash functions restricts itself to studying a very tiny subset of all possible (infinite) inputs. The security of hash functions is always studied under the assumption of arbitrary inputs.
If that's true someone needs to fix the wiki[1]: "Estrogen pills used in hormone replacement therapy are commonly red in color."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill
Giant ticks which hunt their prey confirmed in the Netherlands
https://thinkhumm.com/
You're right, but they probably have/want to cover the case where you've given someone just your phone number (or just your email).
> drug masking prostate cancer development

This is only an issue if you're over 50 and have trouble peeing (isn't that a sign of prostate cancer anyways?). Remember the demographic these are derived from. Propecia wasn't brought to market as a hair loss drug.

> a gay bar anecdote and ten acquaintances.

Yes let me get on hn to talk about sex. It's not like I can't delete this or anything.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "hijack"?
>it's more a stubbornness to accept aging and eventually death

also known as...vanity
Emitter: A high performance, distributed and low latency pub-sub platform
bots != real people
The degree to which lists of corporate scandals are near-end loaded is concerning, though this may reflect recency bias.

Wikipedia is particularly prone to this, though I'm finding few other reliable sources with a different picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_an...
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A 2009 SSRN paper suggests growing pressures:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1440769
Interesting stuff. I always knew of the different parties involved in a CC transaction, but this explained in a super simple way. Kudos. Weird that there is no about section and wth is the author ?
There is no QC check, it works on votes. I think anything could end up here. Which casts quite a bit of shadow over what has been here.
It got flagged for the title I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20529383

Few hours later after flagging an admin has changed the title to the current one and un-flagged it. I just copy-pasted the title from the original one in the submisison without thinking much about it. In retrospect, the new title is much better.

Also as another commenter hinted, Apple has some very loyal fans.
Interesting - this works just fine in Firefox, but the same styles in the Stylus extension for Chrome aren't working. I can see them in the DOM, they just aren't having any effect on the page. I've tried targeting both the testid and the classes and neither seem to work on Chrome.
> without all the gels/sponges/etc.

I doubt that's going to happen anytime soon. ECG/EKG/EEG's require the probes to have a good electrical connection to your skin. And dry skin is a pretty terrible conductor.

The gels help the probe adhere to you skin and provide better conductivity. You'd still need something to hold it in place anyway.

Protip for removing the gel: Warm water helps a lot :D
They've also added a whole load of negative features, or needless complexity, and taken away the helpful in the name of fashion. Maybe I liked coverflow. Or an analogue clock on the lock screen. Maybe I liked big album art on the lockscreen when playing music instead of the absurdly tiny thumbnail of now.

Snow Leopard, iOS 6, Word 6 (or 2003 if we have to take the modern era), all seem easy choices, yet the companies doing it never seem to notice they jumped the shark. Dropbox 10x the size with built in messaging anyone? Thought not. :)
The kindness of the CCP, obviously. /s

In all seriousness, you can make "bread" from damn near any grain if you're persistent enough and grains of various types (and small fruits, i.e. berries) can grow basically anywhere. It's large fruit and vegetables that tend to require easy mode to grow (which makes sense since they spend proportionally more resources growing that the fruit they produce). I'm not sure what's native to tibet but I assume they have some sort of wheat-like grass that can be farmed and provides grain for bread.
> Secondly: Your change probably isn't for the better. Not for me, not for the majority of existing customers.

Things could be much worse. When the change suddenly prevents users from doing X, something they invested all that time, attention and effort to be able to do all without an option to change back. All software where updates are controlled by a party that develops it is at constant risk of becoming a piece of junk for and frustrating at least some of its users or most or all of them. In comparison it's not that big of a deal if software is a new competing alternative, like Wayland for example. If it breaks lots of use cases for existing users it will simply not get anywhere, only fragment ecosystem a bit with new niches.
Brazilian Financial Service Provider Exposes 250GB Customer Data of Local Banks
Developers also hate change, unless it's their own change.
I said specifically "a claim of factually superior rank". Just an opinion stated as fact is not the same thing. E.g. I looked at all the comments for the highest scoring article currently on the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531987 ). I found opinions stated as fact, but none that simultaneously deprecated anything else.
It almost sounds like an episode of alien abduction. Except the aliens were white men in a ship, not Martians on a flying saucer. We have indeed fashioned the villains in our fantasies after our own image.
I'm curious, why would you not open random links into a separate incognito tab?

Doesn't everybody do this today?
why avoid crypto?
Yeah, there's been a bunch of studies published on how this works for humans too. Just a matter of moderation. Only thing is, we don't know about long term effects (if any) yet.
Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
The data does exist, and they are and have been collating it into one super database according to the article pknight posted. So I go back to my argument:

> So we should wait until every one's details are leaked before deciding this is a bad idea because it will inevitably leak?
Neat. It doesn't produce anything much like any of the standard generators in DCSS. Tempting to add it...

I note, however, it has the entertaining property of having no dead-ends in a corridor. It also produces extremely few pillars, which could be an issue. I think it's OK for LOS opportunities. Looking at it, I don't think it ever generates crossroads, though.
Coincidence that Stallman has all the letters of Satan? I doubt it!
I think this is much older than October 2017: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/linux

KnowYourMeme.com claims it's from 2011. I don't want to spend time checking it, but I remember seeing this copypasta during my entire experience in reddit (since 2014/2015 ish)
More money than anyone imagined: an explanation for why the bubble never burst
People do hate change, regardless of how much better that change is. I don't think I've ever seen a UI redesign over which users didn't get into a massive uproar. I certainly saw the massive uproar any time FB introduced a UI change.

Sure, some UI redesigns are just plain bad and users are justified in hating them. The twitter redesign does appear to be clunky/bad as you noted. The new Reddit seems to be another case of the redesign being pretty bad.

But users will unfailingly hate every major redesign without fail regardless of how much better it is. If users had their way, Windows 10 would still look like Windows 98. Facebook would still look like this [0].

[0] https://boostlikes-bc85.kxcdn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20...
Ask HN: What does being successful mean to you?
What's your definition of "success"?
Press Release Oak Tree Business Systems, Inc
The idea of trusting any institution whose naked reason for existing is making money is absurd

How ironic that the idea that businesses only exists to make money for their owners came from the same institution as the article.
What types of security vulnerabilities could apps like LibreOffice or Photoshop have?
Not parent commenter, but what helped me was to track my daily meditations on a big calendar by marking them with an 'X'. My meditations started at 20 minutes. I would listen to some meditative bowl music or rain sounds and set it to end after 20 minutes. Alarms are startling and could ruin a good session.

I also had a little corner of my house with a pillow to sit on. I would change into comfortable sweatpants and pop in my headphones and start just counting my breaths.

I hope this helps you start!
Is that what Mechanical Turk for nowadays?
Co-incidental timing?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/death-penalty-...
Am I the only one relating this to PUBG, and that moment when you're low on health, with a torn police vest, 30 bullets left in AKM, no compensator, no meds and a whole squad taking the stairs up to come rip you apart?
Do they really? If you do a cost benefit analysis on using older versions of software that work better for you, including the probability of exploitation of both the new[0] and old versions, you'll find that it very often doesn't work out. Besides which, if you're really concerned about it there are plenty of better ways to mitigate those threats like sandboxing.

[0] updates have been known to make software more vulnerable too you know.