skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar story but I wasn’t expelled. I was locked in a room and yelled at for a couple hours. Ultimately, I was banned from the library. I loved reading.

The computer teacher setup a special curriculum for me that covered discrete electronics and I attended this in lieu of another class.

He was a former x-ray technician and taught me all about resistors, diodes, capacitors, inductors, you name it. He created binders with these components taped to work sheets with technical information.

The school was ran by a moronic fear mongering admin, but there were at least a few good people who saw I was different. I probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for that teacher.
there is a third award, because it's neither of those two: https://www.bis-space.com/2018/10/07/21144/the-2018-sir-arth...

it's this one: https://www.clarkefoundation.org/awards/

greetings, eMBee.
I think it's hilarious that 2 of the 3 countries hailed as bastions of freedom (by this 1 metric) include Cuba and Eritrea.
Yep.

I've been shouted down at our work book club while reading Mitnicks memoir. I said that a good amount of early hacking was "e-trespass" and "e-vandalism". The non-e versions of those crimes are low grade misdemeanors.

Yet, it was a bunch of shitty laws that somehow elevate them to manslaughter and 2nd degree murder equalivalent.
Chrome is a really nice browser, but we're creating a monopoly for it, not Google, ourselves.

I'm not going to talk about Google being evil or not. But as history has shown, monopolies never result in anything good for the people.

That's why I'm choosing Firefox as my day to day browser, not because it's better or free from a controlling enterprise, but because I want to keep the web as an open and diverse system, and for that, we need different players to play in equal conditions.

It's up to every one of us to achieve this, and to be honest, what are you missing in Firefox that Chrome does? It's quite a nice and decent browser nowadays.
A famous P. Greenspun quote may be savagely hacked for the topic at hand: Any sufficiently complicated No/New/WhateverSQL engine contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of a RDBMS.
Works very well. I've been using it as my main mobile browser for at least a year now. Latest version is great and I recently noticed it even supports Firefox extensions (at least some of them!), which I don't believe android Chrome does.
The AVX512 power issues and startup latency likely mean that using it it will likely be a loss except in microbenchmarks or unusual workloads.
This is completely true. I started smoking at 17 with menthols because they tasted good to me and were easier to inhale. Switched to regular after I got used to them.
It's far, far better than chrome. It even has the same extension mechanism so you can get ublock origin on you mobile device as well.
How have we not learned this lesson from when Microsoft did it? Believe it or not, there are still companies that require sites built for them to be compatible with IE7 because that’s what they standardized on and they don’t want to go through the trouble of an upgrade.

When you hitch your wagon to the same horse you eventually get left behind.
In contrast i see the usual media personalities rallying against the govt. on a daily basis, i do not see how can you claim there is an issue with the media.

They claim emergency at a drop of a hat, the SC makes a lot of decisions unilaterally frequently crossing its constitutional mandate without accountability to anyone.

I would say that the media is doing a bad job of unearthing the actual facts and not being able to portray anything impartially without a political angle to it.

The fact remains that this govt has been cleaning the sins of the 2005-2013 years and initiatives like GST, demonetization even with their short term pains are a much needed antidote in the long term cleaning up of the system. There has been a significant jump in the tax collections from individual taxpayers in this year and last and these are changes that will contribute in the cleanup.
I also use firefox on android. It's really good.
I know, right? Transcripts are a beautiful thing.

Fortunately, in this case, the page is being generated by a simple function that reads the YouTube format — so you can paste in the text, and create (and quickly publish) a transcript for any YouTube video you please:

https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/youtube-transcriber
At least for me, Firefox has taken over again. I am using it on macOS, iOS and of course Linux. The tipping point for me was the new rendering engine, written in Rust, but I really like features like sending tabs to my other machines. On iOS, I prefer the user interface with tabs shown as small icons to the one of Safari.
The Reddit mobile app is so shit. It would be less annoying if their app was actually usable but the website is so much easier to use. I'm so tired of them trying to force me to use their bad app, using shady practices to make me accidentally click on links that open the app.
A similar project: https://www.ventusky.com/

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559581
Sort by controversial
Lexicographically Ordered Substring
I work in the education sphere, and this is not too surprising: one of the most significant factors in students completing more optional advanced education programs are familial and peer expectations, which are then instilled in that student to in turn pass on to their own children later in life. Students from families where they are the first generation to go to college, for example, generally have lower average outcomes. Although some of the variance in those outcomes are due to lower average socioeconomic status rather than familial expectations.
The building I work in downtown always has half a dozen smokers on the sidewalk. Wish they would reserve a balcony or something for them because as an ex smoker smelling it is especially painful to me.
Browsing on ff on Android right now. I think its great. Probably once a week I see a site that I have to use chrome for, but other than that small inconvenience, Firefox is great.
World chess champ vs. American challenger, rough first game, and Woody Harrelson
Also: "Friends Are More Similar Genetically Than Strangers, Study Says"

http://time.com/5095903/genetic-similarities-friends-study/
"Hailed as bastions of freedom" in what way? The only descriptor used to describe countries on the list is the satirical use of "brave".
I use Seamonkey. I wonder if there are people who prefer Seamonkey over Firefox.
I think they have been massively downvoted because they were being a jerk, not because they (don't) value their privacy.
You could create a Privacy.com masked debit card with a fake name and billing address.
Over 30 million adults smoke in the US, according to CDC. Banning all forms of nicotine will not just “freak out” those people for 2 weeks and then they’ll forget about it.

Do you want a black market? Because that’s how you get a black market.

Tobacco is a public health crisis. Encouraging safer alternatives (eg e-cigarettes) and slowly making nicotine consumption socially unacceptable is how you make progress. You don’t solve it by just banning the substance entirely (see how that worked out with alcohol).

To add a finer point: nicotine, while an extremely addictive substance, seems to be fairly inoffensive. The delivery mechanism (eg smoking) is what gives you cancer etc. A bunch of people addicted to nicotine does not seem to be much of a public health problem if they’re all using inoffensive delivery mechanisms.
Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting at Affirm
can you add some context?
Zenefits raised $583M to build their platform... So to first order: seems reasonable.
Who are you? In the absence of knowing literally anything about you it's challenging to "humanize" your comment. It's just another in a sea of anonymous comments written by arbitrary commentators.

Sure I can trawl through your post history to try to better understand through what lens you see the world, but I don't have the time to do that for every single comment that I read on HN/Reddit.
Is a "data controller or data processor" well defined in the law? What in any way could somebody ever twist the wording to include a person living their life?

What if this person had a hobby of simply collecting and cataloging information bout people they come in contact with?
are you fucking kidding?
That's my point - very little land was owned by the Republic of Texas government. It was all (or nearly all) owned by individuals/families. And after running up large debts to fund the national military in order to keep Mexico at bay, they didn't have the money to buy any land to be turned into parks anyway. Part of the deal upon joining the USA was that Texas would give up large areas of land out west in return for $10 million, to be used to pay off the debts.

You'll see the importance of private land ownership to the residents even today. When the Texas Central Railroad tried to acquire land for a bullet train a few years ago, their attempted use of eminent domain fell more than flat.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/02/23/come-and-take-it-emi...
Can someone explain to me what those countries do wrt Chrome?
I love Firefox, but I'd also recommend Epiphany. It's basically Safari but for Linux, maintained by GNOME and integrated with Firefox Sync. Best of all possible worlds.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web
Notes on the Curatorial Challenges of an Emerging Media Art Form
It's really good, I'm using it now, but Google deliberately cripple the UI on it unless you use a user agent switcher.

There's a specific plugin for it, Google Search Fixer.
I use the mobile Firefox on stock Android. There are certain issues like emails from Gmail not showing up correctly. But that's a minor pain compared to the adblockers and other features that I can use.
This is probably true, but I don't know what else to do (counting HN as social media) - I don't really have any friends or interesting activities. Basically go to work, do work, go home, repeat. Anyone have any suggestions on how I could live a more interesting life and/or have friends?

Sorta pathetic to be posting this here but since every other comment is talking out eliminating social media use, maybe some comments on what to replace it with would be helpful.
Is it nicotine the harmful agent in cigarettes or is it the smoke, tar and other byproducts of combustion?
"The stats are meaningless without total traffic share of these countries"

They do publish the sample sizes per country. I assume the sample size is proportional to traffic share, but it's not stated explicitly. Some of it does look odd...the sample size for Turkey is close to the sample size for the US. http://gs.statcounter.com/sample-size/StatCounterGlobalStats...
Good headphones to block distractions/noise.
Brings more tranquility into everyday life and more work done.
Recommendable (https://www.jbl.com/wireless-headphones/EVEREST+310.html)
The switch to Geckoview is for Firefox Focus, which previously used Blink (the Chrome rendering engine).

Standard Firefox for Android has used Gecko from the start. It is gradually being upgraded using the Quantum improvements, but the rate of change seems slow. I thought that the emphasis on multi-threaded processing in Quantum would be particularly useful for mobile, because the single threaded processing capability of mobile (and particularly non-Apple mobile chips) is very limited, but there don't seem to have been massive improvements.

I think it’s a shame they relegated Servo to a research project, integrating Servo into Gecko has been long-winded, and the most important target of porting a parallel/multi-threaded layout engine isn’t even being discussed. Frankly, given their $500m budget, their core mission of browser development, and the massive importance of mobile, they probably should have pursued both Gecko and Servo at the same time. Even if Servo only supported flexbox layouts it could be very useful as a wrapper while wider compability was being pursued. The emphasis now is on WebVR, which seems not very relevant to the mass market.
Another breathless article about l33t hacking where the method is just stumbling across passwords.

It’s like a bank leaving its doors and vault open, and whoever walks in and grabs the money being lauded for his bank robbing prowess.

Also, they are very much at fault for knowingly using someone else’s credentials. It doesn’t matter how easily they obtained them.
Does MIPS have some advantage for applications like NICs, or is it just a matter of using what they’ve been using?
The social function of intellect (1976) [pdf]
I didn't watch the video yet but pt 2 and 3 is 100% correct.

I am in EU. We're supposed to have "amazing healthcare". Yeah, well, maybe if your face is in a ditch or you're dying alcohol poisoning? If you're one of those who managed somehow to function with insane levels of anxiety... you when you finally find the strength to reach out and heal.. you find out that you get a pityful 200 EUR a YEAR for psychotherapy (that's what my healthcare in Belgium pays).

Anyone healing significant trauma is going to do one year of therapy, probably more. At the very minimum twice a month, otherwise you lose the rhythm. Realistically, 5 times a month tapering down to 3-4 times a month, for a year or two or more. It's exhausting too. To heal and make real progress, you go to therapy like a beaten dog, keeping your heart open all the time, accepting to feel vulnerable all the time. You don't get to hold a mask, you have to undress and put it all out, every session... takes a lot of determination and courage. But who gives a shit. Here's 200 EUR for your troubles, good luck.

On top of that, in my case I have a 7 year gap in my career in IT. Doesn't help getting back into employment! Often times with trauma from early life, you don't grow in an environment surrounded by sane people. You're surrounded by dissociated parents / siblings. At school nobody gives a fuck or has the sensibility to ask questions. So in all likelyhood if you managed to function in adult life and hold a decent job, you're starting therapy much later, when it takes longer. So hopefully you got some savings otherwise well eat shit son.

I guess I have to be truly grateful that here in Belgium our "unemployment benefit" system is lax enough, that it allowed me to take the time to heal. But don't you go tell them that! I can only imagine what it was like for my parents, when they didn't have that kind of support.. because even with the unemployment benefits, I've had to fork out THOUSANDS of euros for my therapy.

Anyways just need to rant I guess.
Fulltime Safari user here :) Only using chrome for development.

I guess even North Korea are active Chrome users? Who would have guessed.
By 'backdoors' are you referring to the TeamViewer client they installed on a student computer in the back of a science classroom? If so, suddenly my grandma is now a leet hacker.
Is there a browser with something like uBlock Origin/Matrix built into the browser engine? Something like SELinux for the web. The user should have the option to take fine-grained control over the content in their browser on a site-by-site basis.
By resisting Google, which to me implies that they're instead using Firefox. That may not be true, as they may be stuck on IE or dominated by some other browser. I don't know the numbers...it was just a bad attempt at humor.
Well, you can begin to develop a hobby and then attend meetups associated. Find a swing dance group on meetup.com that is beginner friendly. Find an outdoor hiking group. Look for community or religious centers (if you’re religious) on coffeeshop ad boards... Friends tend to occur from there, as you meet more people. You could also take classes, make small talk with classmates and eventually do study groups.
How is going for you? I've been curious about how often it has trouble rendering a site.
Why would you say it probably does not? Aren't you falling into the same lack of evidence trap you claim is present here? As an aside, this conclusion is bolstered by research into factors influencing student outcomes in modern time: Even controlling for socioeconomic factors, students from more educated families and peer groups tend to complete higher levels of education, and thus perpetuate that cycle with their own children later in life. That's the same cycle being observed in this article. There may be other confounding factors that were the cause here, so further examples would be enlightening, but as it is this is a result that fits very well within the existing body of knowledge regarding factors that influence educational outcomes.
Everybody is shouting at each other about how right they are and not listening to what others are saying to try to understand their point of view. The net result being giant echo chambers clashing against one another and the media using that for fun and profit.
As a user of both (I use IntelliJ for Scala development and Spacemacs for everything else), I'd say Evil is way way better. The IntelliJ vim plugin is awesome, but it will never feel as integrated as Evil does. Emacs is way more extensible.
Firefox on Desktop, Brave on Android.
I use Epiphany on both my desktop (Fedora) and my laptop (OpenBSD). It's nearly perfect, but it's annoyingly crashy. Random web pages (usually news sites, weirdly) will make it bomb right out.
Related issue discussion: https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger/issues/377
I also used Firefox on Android for a pretty long period, but to be honest I ended up moving to Brave.

I run Nightly so I get the improvements quickly, but even with that Firefox is still far behind Chrome.

- Firefox does not have a JIT for 64-bit ARM (AArch64). Didn't benchmark but this does make a difference.

- Running a extension based ad blocker seems to degrade performance and the difference visible on a smartphone SoC. I think Brave has it written in native code and deeply integrated, and it seems to perform without making things super slow.

- While I can't judge on the UI (actually I miss the tab gestures on Firefox), Firefox often glitches like not loading custom tabs, page search getting stuck and some others. This was quite stressful.

- The sync is super glitchy. It can easily be days outdated unless you trigger it manually.
> It's really not clear what's going on in the Indian state.

It's crystal clear actually. Decades worth of stupid decisions (or indecision, as many claim) are finally bearing fruit. Unfortunately the current government, the first in many years that is actually taking some decisions to get the ship in working order is gonna get caught in the quicksand created by its predecessors.
Good luck lecturing people what to call things...
Yes it should be (1994) in the HN title and not 2003, as it was published in "IEEE Computer, April 1994."

I'd guess the mentioned "update" on the page is not relevant, that is, that there aren't any important changes compared to the 1994 original of the article.
I recommend a gym, specifically a class based one like a boot camp or CrossFit. These tend to have a similar cohort of people who show up at the same time every week, so you’ll get an hour of exercise and social time wrapped up into one package.

Friendship is created by repeated interaction. Anything that has you running into the same people repeatedly will typically create friendships.
>Seriously if I'm buying a laptop one day and I'm finding out that there's no power cable in the box, I just bring it back and said that they made a mistake and forgot something.

There is a power cable, just not a long extension that also used to be.

>What about just stop buying those things?

What about we still want them, and we don't want to buy and suffer a subpar (for our criteria) alternative just to get them to be more generous with their profit margins...
CSS Baseline: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
xsv is great -- as is csvkit, which preceded it and is probably a bit slower, but has a few extra utilities that I find essential:

- in2csv: extracts Excel worksheets into CSV

- csvsql: produces (and executes) the SQL needed to create a table and insert the data from a CSV

I found these scripts to be profoundly useful when working with govt data and needing to provide a automated workflow that collects and collates their Excel spreadsheets and converts them into CSV and SQLite databases.
I too don't see why tsv is better than csv. That said, as many people have pointed out, commas have legitimate uses in fields like Address of a locality etc. and this could cause a problem in scripting.

About exporting using random characters, I have found that ~ (tilde) is almost never seen in actual data, hence it can be used as a field separator in most cases. Another safe choice is the | (pipe) symbol. (In Windows, you can change the field separator in the "Region Settings" - a rather weird place to have that setting.)
What kind of utility do you derive from Alexa/Google Home that is so vital to you?

I'm genuinely curious because your comment made me think I might be entirely missing the point of those devices.
I read a time ago corrupt officials take a cut of every project. Don’t know if still a fact.
RescueTime was originally a desktop app and works really well there. I can see why they’d want to work on mobile as well. Hell, I’ll bet customers requested it, but you can never forget whose garden you are playing in.
I especially like how relevant the search results in DuckDuckGo are whenever I query `[search term] !g`
Microsoft was only held back by their own incompetence. GFWL, Internet Explorer, Zune, Windows mobile, the Microsoft Store,... they had all the power in the world to force that upon us but failed because their products were _so_ bad even non-tech people went through the trouble of finding alternatives.

Google, however? Their stuff at least works. They never had the luxury to send people through hoops, 3 seconds and people give up on the web. So that’s what makes Google so scary. They’re omnipresent _and_ competent.

My only hope ist that, as they grow, their products get worse which empowers better competitors.
Find a hobby you enjoy and do that. Also, fix any obvious flaws, such as poor dress, being out of shape, persnonal hygiene, etc. lastly, practice small talk: when at a store, make a comment to the clerk, try to make them smile, etc

The goal is basically improve socialization skills (small talk), remove frictin to friendships (hygiene, fitness, fashion), and then put yourself in situations where you meet people (hobbies).

A local couchsuefing group can also be good, if you staet couchsurfing hosting.
Fair is a matter of perspective and opinion and not a universal fact though
>Yeah no. Actually there are two main drivers, the one you mention (called “demand”) and the one you’re leaving out (called “supply”)

Yeah, no. What the parent said covers both demand and supply. Price is exactly what people are willing to pay given both demand and supply.
I'm using Firefox Focus on Android as my only browser for a year now and it's great!
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – Cheap
This goes for all companies, but I’m tired of every product shipping with a USB cable. I have plenty already, it’s wasteful to keep shipping more. Further, can we all migrate to USB C, that’ll further reduce the need to include a different kind of cable with each electronic device.
It’s our fault? Good luck betting on the general population researching alternatives, then. I use Firefox religiously but have no illusions that it will take over because people’s idealism.
Since no one has mentioned it yet, please also try firefox lite on android its 3.5MB and very usable.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.ro...
How to Mount S3/Wasabi/DigitalOcean Bucket on CentOS and Ubuntu Using S3FS
Chrome is a data collection app with a built in browser