skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my mid 30's and if anything I'm in the opposite boat, most of my accomplishments are in the last 5 years, and the last year in particular.

My identity was very tenuous for most of my life, and has only come into focus quite recently. I spent most of my life trying not to be transgender, in particular, and transitioned over the last year. A lot of the things I do and am now would have been wild fantasy even a few years ago. It is going well, and it feels nearly complete.

I do worry what I will do with my life now. Transitioning has been an all consuming thing in all kinds of senses, but the end is in sight at this point. Being the correct gender frees up a tremendous amount of emotional and mental energy - but I don't know what to do with that energy. I've overcome something tremendous but it's left me about where most other people are.

I definitely want my life to be about more than gender. I could very easily stagnate where I am.
One of the few times when regulations like this actually hurt more than help.
Ask HN: Media recommendations for hackers
Hi HN, do you have any recommendations of interesting and entertaining {movies, books, podcasts, etc.} for a hacker.

I'm thinking something along the lines of either Zero Days from 2016 [1], a documentary about Stuxnet. Or something like the talk from James Mickens about IoT security that was recently shared here [2].

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162
Making big life changes. I just don't know where to start, and even after breaking them down into tiny tasks, I procrastinate on them... probably because I'm a little bit scared. Or a lot scared.

The current project is moving overseas. The next step is to find a recruiter in the country I'm looking to move to, since I'll need a job offer and visa sponsorship, and it's really difficult to job search internationally. But it's so difficult even to identify reputable recruiters locally, where you have a network and can ask for recommendations from people you know. How do you find someone to trust in a totally new location?

So I've been putting that off for (checks calendar) 6 months now.
I think the biggest help is living in an area that has a lot of the group you're interested in dating (whether that's men or women).

If you're a single man in the bay area interested in women it's a lot harder than being in NYC or DC (not impossible, but everything is harder). If you're in an area that has a lot of people you get more social skills practice and it's easier to meet people via apps and just regular life.

The other stuff is just social skills practice, wearing nicer clothes, being in better shape etc. All those can be worked on separately, but all of that is given a difficulty modifier based on how competitive your area is.

As someone who's spent years in the bay area as a single man (some dates, one relationship) and then some time in DC the difference in difficulty is comically obvious.
Inventing a Time-Lock Container and Making It on Shark Tank
> If you are a militant Marxist-Leninist in Cuba

You say this as if that is a voluntary, natural outcome for citizens in these countries... they grow up hearing their governments blame every problem (their gov created) on the west, while bad news coming out of the West is promoted widely to convince the public that capitalism is backwards.

So while I'm sure there are some intellectuals who are legitimate marxists in Cuba, I doubt the average working class person knows the difference. If they were given the option of the wealth of the average American (or even Mexican) or the cuban one I bet they'd chose the US in a second over the rampant poverty in Cuba.

The people in exile have seen what the alternatives are. They are better informed, it can't all be dismissed as bias. If anything they should have less bias than a Cuban who has never left that bubble.

And if you ever visit the non-tourist parts of Cuba it's incredibly depressing what socialism has done to them.
I guess it is OK if you are in the inner city of Berlin. But if you go beyond Berlin a little bit, German language is needed to have a bit of a social life.
Quantum Walk in Momentum Space with a Bose-Einstein Condensate
> We're talking about how Facebook not only turned off the API that enabled reposting, but removed all past posts that were made via that API.

No, they cut off the API. The old posts were still there, and tied to the apps that were used to send them. When Twitter then killed their app (apparently, because it wouldn't be usable going forward and in ignorance of the way existing posts were tied to it), then the old posts that were made through that app were deleted. Not because they had used the API, but because they were associated with a removed app.
There's more to this than "forms".

- Their survey tool was one of the earliest and pretty easy to use - they have brand recognition. #uuge.

- If they support any intelligence (skip-logic), then they take bread away from bigger market research companies.

- Their biggest competitors in this space (Facebook, Google Docs) require signing away your life to create a simple survey.

But back to the brand recognition. They've built something simple that captured the market early and have basically dominated.
That's kind of a weird thing to shout on a conf call; I tend to go with "WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!" ;D
Under Fire for the Faith in Nigeria
Much quicker to have the legal team fire off the standard email threat than get the dev team to reverse-engineer the extension and block it (if this wasn't just an automated email).
This is a legitimate question and should not be downvoted.
Wandering Bose-Einstein condensate may lead to scalable quantum computer
I assume you mean this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc.

It seems unlikely to apply to a Chrome extension:

Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc., 942 F.Supp.2d 962 (N.D. Cal. 2013) was a Northern District of California Court case in which the court held that sending a cease-and-desist letter and enacting an IP address block is sufficient notice of online trespassing, which a plaintiff can use to claim a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
When you give someone a pile of money you will always wonder if you get that money back, let alone see a return.

Returning anything to investors should be seen as a positive. If you disagree, go give someone 6+ figures and have them lose it. You're opinion will change rather quick.
Riot's First Steps Forward
A Tale About Requesting Chicago's Mayor's Office's Phone Records
> Why would they accept the lowest bid?

I meant to say highest bid.

What if the highest bid that you receive today is not as high as what you would receive in 10 years? The government owning land, is by proxy, the public owning land. As a member of the public, and as such, a minority shareholder in that land, I want to either see the proceeds from its use be distributed to me, or, if it will be sold, to be sold at a good price [1]. If a buyer willing to pay such a price is not found today, then I'd rather sit on that land for a decade, then see it go for pennies on the dollar. As a shareholder, I don't give two rats asses about giving up my stake so that someone else could optimize overall economic productivity today. I want to optimize the overall gains for myself, overall.

> Optimal for society at large, through efficient allocation of ownership rights. I don't understand your use of the term "hope", since there is a lot of empirical and theoretical evidence that markets are better resource-managers than governments.

At its extreme, the most efficient allocation of ownership rights would lead to the government selling off all the oxygen in the country, and you having to pay some rentier, just so that you could breathe. Optimizing for situations like this is a fringe, highly ideological position.

[1] Markets aren't always liquid, there are, at any point in time, few buyers for billions of dollars worth of land, the few bids may not be competitive, you may not get your money's worth if you start a resource firesale tomorrow.
This just starts a death spiral though. Slacks next step is to start detecting the objecting code and banning users from using the web interface that are found using those tools.

There are a bunch of folks doing this already for ad blockers.
The biggest problem, to my mind, is that there is no process for retesting.

IMO you should have to re-take the test every 5 years starting at 50... and maybe ever year starting from 70 or 75.
Band Pass Filter and Power Amplifier for Simple HF Data
Programmers got it from mathematicians. I had the impression it was a fairly long standing use of the word.
They also ride in the snow!

The Dutch rain typically comes in 15 minute blocks as bands of clouds cross the country. So most Dutch cyclists would check the Buienradar rain radar app on their phones and adjust their departure time accordingly.

Coincidentally to this discussion, last weekend I fell off my bike in Amsterdam: Cycling too fast, in the rain, hurrying to an appointment, and misjudged a turning, braked too hard, skidded, and hit the gutter.

That was my second bike crash in Amsterdam. The first was 8 years ago, when I was cycling, carrying a TV. Also in the rain.
Older devices running node?
Nope. The stuff you can get from party stores (in the US, anyway) definitely isn't; more than one person that I have heard of has committed suicide with it.
I've got a really dumb question that maybe you can answer. Keep in mind the last time I was in a chemistry class was 10th grade (half my life ago)...

How is the boiling point of any of these elements determined? I cant imagine that we got some helium in its gaseous form and cooled it down below -267 degrees and then heated it up slowly to find out. Is there something about it's atomic makeup that allows that number to just be calculated? Thanks.
use String#padEnd/padStart instead of your zeroFill
I totally agree about process vs Process. And I dont know who would every really be to opposed to process as guides or how tos. I am a huge fan of self-process and having my own coherent Confluence pages on how to do things and setups and FAQs.

The only thing I would say is that the word of mouth can work quite well still even in large spaces due to hierarchy. If someone on your team doesnt know how to setup a repo and there is no process It is likely the leads responsibility to convey this information.
I'm not sure. I'm always messing around with different projects.

I used blocklike.js to jump from Scratch to JavaScript. Then I worked for months on this one game for the app store called Sticky Quest. You can find it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sticky-quest/id1425679649?mt... This how I learned how to use npm packages such as Cordova and Eslint.
So you want to write open source?
look for we are legion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Legion

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177843/
You'd have had to live through the nineties to understand it. That was cool at the time; 90% of web pages had animated images like that (the other 10% had animated "under construction" gifs; and 100% had visible visitor counters and a link to a guestbook, before "web 2.0" comment threads was a thing).

By the way, the puppy and the cop Clippy were remnants of the failed experiment "Microsoft Bob", which attempted to create user-friendly environment by imitating a whole house, instead of just a "desktop with windows". Those were wild times, full of possibilities, when (almost) no one had much idea of how personal computers ought to be used.
Please explain what the levels of kissing are? Or link to a description?
I think that was the point.

I also fail to see what this article is stating. That people are travelling to build a personal brand. Maybe some people but nobody in my circle. Everyone I know travel because they want new experiences. They save little items and trinkets from those experiences to remember them. Not to post them on social media.
For people who missed it, Microsoft didn't actually fork Lerna and potentially copy-pasted the code.

https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1002696931527700481

And quite honestly yeah I read that Github issue. Hard for me to believe they would just be like "OH YEAH WE COPIED SORRY ABOUT THAT!"
Is there a link to bonfire somewhere? You're not talking about Facebook's video call app are you?
> I virtually skipped having social interactions

That was me, too. It was a trade-off for me. I was reading Hawking in primary school and there was no one to talk to, so I was feeling lonely.

Programming was my lifesaving straw, but I don't wish any kid the kind of isolation that I've felt in my youth. I had to learn many of the social stuff later in life so it evens out IMO.
Many CI server configurations will rely on running jobs under a role which can only assume other roles. Individual jobs will then assume the role they need.

Something like this infecting a popular Node.js / Python / Ruby package could potentially do a lot of damage.
> My dad showed me git last week.

Anyone else miss learning this quickly?

In all seriousness, congrats. Keep at it. There is always something else to learn. It's the career that never stops giving.
Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
“Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software” @Cerebralab2 https://medium.com/s/story/imaginary-problems-d4f2921bd1b8
Lawyering is fun
Not saying that you are doing something wrong, but the AWS case kinda sounds like it will eventually grow to be a table of its own to me. Tomorrow the manager/architect/client comes and tells you that you need to associate some data with the region, and boom, you have a new table and a new foreign key constraint.

Again, not saying you're doing something wrong, just sharing a thought.
Those are good points. The report from LANL that I edited in after my original rough estimate mentions these issues too. It estimates an electricity requirement of about 170,000 kWh to produce one Mcf (28,317 liters) of helium by atmospheric separation in a dedicated plant. The cost of electricity dominates the overall process cost for helium production via atmospheric separation. In the state with the cheapest industrial electricity, Washington, it would cost nearly 27 cents per liter of helium for the electricity alone.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
I know of no other domain where it is expected that you learn on the job and don't come pre-built with all the necessary knowledge to perform on day one.

If you are doing 15$ an hour ask for some place that will hire you for 20$ at the bottom of the barrel, knowing you want to learn on the job and ask if that salary can be reviewed every 3 months.

Also where are you located? Some of us might be looking for interns or junior devs willing to learn.
How to use LEDs to detect light
We all like to complain about the annoyances and uselessness of the TSA (EDIT: and other post 9/11 security changes) or the cramped seats and extra fees that come with a standard economy ticket, but not enough attention is paid to how much safer and cheaper flying has become over the last few decades.
The Helium in the atmosphere is in the equilibrium of being produced by radioactive decay and escaping to space.
Nice. I tried Formula 1 constructors, and all those that I tried matched their liveries. Force India returned some pinks, Ferrari returned some reds, and McLaren some orange.
Surprisingly there are some embedded developers who use Node. I would assume those devices have a trimmed version of the Node stdlib.
All the comments applaud the change and to avoid the unavoidable, but isn't the unavoidable a "normal" path almost everybody takes? When you are young, you have all the options. When you're done studying, you realize you choose a path. And the options deminish. Than family life, husband/wife, kids. Now you're options are crushed. You need the income. The kids need the stable home. Of course there are a lot of variations (people not studying, not having kids, being wealthy, etc), but I think the majority do study, work and have kids.

I wonder, is your father still around? Did he have other plans? Or, like you, "life happened"?

I'm not saying you shouldn't spice up your life by getting out of your comfort zone. I'm saying, accept the part that "life happened". You did nothing wrong, you walked the path, like the rest of us. Now make the best of it!
As androidgirl said already, you need a certain amount of helium for floatation. Intuitively, you wouldn't expect a balloon with just a few molecule of helium to magically float.

But next time you come across such a deflated helium balloon, maybe try inhaling its gasses? If your voice changes, you know there's at least enough helium for that.

I don't know how safe that actually is, but it seems to me to be a common thing without much reporting of ill effects. Still, do your own research before.
Tourism is part of traveling. Surely, you don't think traveling is ludicrous.
does anyone notice how if other people say something along the lines of: 'we need to stop outsiders from coming here' it gets explained away as something like 'altering the character of historic cities'

whereas if an american says it, it gets explained way as: 'they are a racist protectionist bigot'.
Maybe start taking on as much responsibility as you can for the role you want before you have it. Obviously that has to be done respectfully and in a genuinely helpful manner relative to however has the role now.

But if you focus on the idea that anyone in a company can have a CEO type impact (or other role impact) if they learn how to manage themselves and others well, then you may be more motivated by the challenge and progress toward your goal.

And you will be 100% more qualified than you need to be when you officially get the role you want. So think beyond just the next step.
Helium isn't really a resource that speculators can sit on. We get it as a byproduct of natural gas production and no one is going to stop extracting natural gas just to save helium for the future. And once you have helium it's expensive to store.
We ran into this when we launched AtomicSlack, a digest summary tool for Slack groups.

Yet another reason I stay away from Slack.
There is almost zero chance slack would win this case and I doubt they would even try.

Adblockers inject code into sites. So do password keepers. If sites could sue adblockers because it breaks their terms of service, don't you think they would?

You are not bound by the slack terms of service except in the scope of your slack account or an API connection of some type.

Someone else can use my software all day long to break their terms of service, but that doesn't make me liable. I didn't agree to anything.

People need to realize that terms of service are a civil contract. It's not "illegal" to break them. Especially if you didn't agree to the terms.
The creator of the well-known board game Scrabble, which a significant portion of my life revolves around, was named Alfred Butts.
Ebikes have become very popular in the Netherlands among the elderly. They're used to cycling but find the effort of a conventional bike harder as they get older.

Incidentally the one age group in the Netherlands with an increase in road deaths in recent years has been 65+. That's largely attributed to them using Ebikes to travel much faster, while having comparatively slow reaction times and less resilience to injuries sustained in the higher speed crashes.
You are not modifying slack (their product), when you request a website all they are sending you its a bunch of characters, including characters inside CSS or JS files, rendering those its up to your machine, you are not legally binded to render those in a specific way, otherwise screen readers would all be completely illegal, all threads of not modifying your local render of a website always end poorly by the people doing such threats, examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2r3uok/we_developed_a...

https://www.quora.com/Is-AdBlock-legal-If-not-specifically-w...
> Does this mean all public officials are not allowed to block twitter users?

If the use of their account meets certain legal criteria which make it a limited public forum, yes; that's generally true of official government accounts, whether of an office or office holder, but can be true of notionally personal accounts if used for government purposes (as the court has evidence, including White House statements, was the case for Trump's “personal” account.)

Note that while Trump's Twitter account is the highest visibility case on this issue, there have been a number of similar cases regarding local government offices and officials accounts on various social media platforms with the same general result before the case about Trump's account was filed.
I struggle with the management of my life, honestly.

Dealing with a chronic health condition, working full time, exercise (which often doesn't happen), spending time with friends and family (whom I've been neglecting in favor of a project), and finding time for the absurdly long list of projects I want to work on (which never gets shorter as I rarely get to work on them).

The health and work thing really take up all of my time. It's kind of a bummer, really.
That's exactly how it's implemented. You can hover over the pictures' corners to show the original image.
They don't sue adblockers because they wouldn't win.
You guys dont use Google Docs, Netflix, or Youtube?
Ah yes, I'm a native German speaker, but it hadn't occurred to me that "Übersee" does indeed mean "Overseas". It's a different meaning for both "über" and "see" than I had in mind.
I get what you are saying, but you still meet new people at the tourist traps, in fact I would wager that you are more likely to meet people willing to talk to you in the popular tourist destinations. Having been off the beaten path I can tell you first hand that many locals aren't interested in chatting up foreigners, they have jobs and lives of their own. Not saying it's not an actual experience you could have, but you can have just as fulfilling experiences in unpleasant locations.
Sorry, I got that quote backwards, it should have read "People are always ends not means.".
Hell, I'm 50 and its the last thing I need.
Even further, shouldn't it only be necessary to liquefy down to Nitrogen, which should leave some gas that has a very high percentage of helium, and then use the same method that's used in separation of natural gas and Helium?
Happy to pay for my Spotify every month. Prob the thing I feel most comfortable paying for.

Online iCloud storage. Being on the Mac ecosystem just makes it easy

Gym membership: gotta stay healthy
Well, I mean they are under no obligation to send a C&D. They could have gone right to a Trademark suit.
No, this is virtualization - vmm/vmd is a legit HVM.
I didn’t draw a conclusion. This is now the third time that I’ve pointed that out. It seems like you badly need me to do that to make your point somehow. Is this causing you to not see it when I write it?

Secondly I’m not sure I’m “indicting” anyone. Only observing that there was absolutely zero knowledge about facts behind the situation and no ability to respond to my two minute gathering of facts. This isn’t an indication of a lack of critical thinking. It’s an indication of a lack of thinking of any kind whatsoever.
Wouldn't that be self-defeating?

If the path less travelled becomes more accessible, then it stops being the path less travelled.
This article resonates with me after my recent vacation to the Amalfi coast. The narrow roadways are clogged with buses and the buses themselves are so full you often have to wait in line for an extra hour to get on one.

Sounds like the experiences I had... in 1999 and again in 2009. The Amalfi Coast has been, is and will continue to be popular with tourists for a reason. It's beautiful and it's a ferry ride away from Capri & the Blue Grotto. Good luck finding something similar to the Blue Grotto.