skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hated high school (Dutch), with a passion. I felt restricted in what we were learning (set curriculum, almost no extracurricular possibilities), I disliked most people and it was posh (I'm not) and therefore had a bit of an overconfident air.

I had fun: I cheated, I skipped classes, my motto was "minimum effort, maximum freedom." I went out a lot in Amsterdam in order to get my social fix and a read on what it means to be social (long story short: if you don't like going out that much, go to places with more interesting music -- jazz, classical, opera, finger style guitar etc.)

For me the fix was obvious: travel in Europe and make friends. It was obvious because I had a huge hunger for doing whatever I wanted as opposed to other people dictating it to me (e.g. set curriculum in high school).

In the end those friendships were short-lived, all of them. But those friendship did give me the validation of that I mattered (and the insight that everyone matters really). When I look at Japanese high school animes, I think of the time where I felt lost in other countries, and gained some friends who showed me their world in all their wonderful idiosincratic ways.

I'm not saying you should travel. I hope that my story just gives some inspiration.

In your youth you can follow your desire, the older you get, the more you'll have to follow responsibilities.
Ideally every developer should have to spend a significant amount of time actually interacting with their customer, and in this case the customers customer. It would give a different perspective about that feature that is being built. It sounded good in a planning meeting and will never be used in the real world.
The less you worry about what you're missing out on the happier you'll be. Focus on what you can and want to do.

TV and anime makes carefree socializing in high school look better than it is.

Colleee is usually a lot better time for socializing than high school, espicially if you're ambitious and nerdy.

Find other ambitious nerdy people that share the things you're excuted about. This will probably be much easier to do in high school.
The best science images of the year: 2018 in pictures
Banning in food = you can't sell food containing the substance as normal food. Nobody would prohibit you to mix it into your own food and eat it, though. So, the substance's uses are controlled, but it's not banned :)
>I would see this practice immediately banned.

That's just covering up for a bigger problem. If you've got a lot of people without bank accounts, just make it easier to open a bank account. Here in the UK, you can open an account in minutes on your mobile phone with any photo ID, even if you're not a UK resident. Banks are required by the banking code to offer fee-free accounts regardless of credit history and to accept a wide range of identity documents, including letters from the welfare agency or a homeless hostel.

https://monese.com/

https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/basic-bank...
I would argue that VSC beat faster and more mature editors for one simple reason -- intellisense. All the other editors allowed the seductiveness of intellisense to go unanswered for years.

Otherwise I'm not sure why most people care about the internals of their editor.
It's a fair question. I'm not the person to whom you replied but thought I'd contribute my view point.

I don't carry cash because it feels more cumbersome and less speedy than paying with card. With cash, I either have to work out close to exact change or--when I'm out for a leisure day and going to several places--have a mass of coins jangling around at the end. I've noticed that I'm now irrationally irritated watching someone painstakingly count out $12.83 in exact change ahead of me at the till.

It also makes it difficult for me to track where I'm spending. That $60 or $100 might have gone to eating out or a bookstore or some other random place. I'd rather have the card transaction to know and categorize for sure.

Speaking of denominations, I'd rather not carry much money around on me yet ATMs around me only dispense in multiples of $20 and then you get into the fun dance of how to get smaller bills if needed. So many shops now say "no change made."

Finally, I put all of the spending I can (basically everything except mortgage and student loan payments) on cards for the card benefits. Miles, automatic cash back, in-store discounts, etc. Those don't happen when paying by cash. (Yes, I know, the benefits are being paid out of the transaction fees that the merchant is charged plus interest that other people pay. I'm aware that I'm leveraging that and that prices would, possibly, be lower overall if we didn't use cards or didn't have the rewards. If that day comes, I will adapt.)
It probably is.

A few months ago I was making a news ticker with headlines sourced from hnrss. I had used 'security' as a keyword and posts with score above 100.

I was looking for other sources that provide security news and stumbled upon this one too.
What I saw was all posts looked quite similar to the rss filter from hnrss, except all articles were re-written in a slightly different way.

It was all just redundant news from the hnrss feed and other popular security bloggers.
I learned so much from Bourgain's work. While most of his work was in Fourier analysis, and later in number theory, he really was a very versatile analyst. Just two of his early papers, on embeddings of metric spaces, and on concentration for covariance matrices started whole fields later. They are very useful now in theoretical machine learning.
Clash of the titans: The battle for India’s giant retail market
It was certainly the case when I went to school (forced to write in fountain pen; born 1990), at least through primary school, and still appears to be the case at some schools (examples: [1], [2]).

(End result: I write in print...)

[1] http://www.stmichaelandstmartin.co.uk/handwriting-1/
[2] http://www.st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk/handwriting-pol...
Sharing 360 Degree Tours of Virtual Environments
Ask HN: Will you pay $1 for personalized news only for you?
Just a market research. Do you think it is viable?
Are you saying the air in Singapore is good? Or that clean air is good?
Blame reward cards and a lack of regulation on interchange fees. Stripe charge 1.4% for European cards, but 2.9% for non-European cards. In the UK, a brick-and-mortar retailer with fairly modest volumes can pay as little as 0.35% for debit card transactions; factoring in labour costs, it's often cheaper overall to accept cards than cash.
There are limitations like I cannot rent an office for longer than six months and my company is registered in Estonia with an Estonian address (I use leapin.eu which takes care of the accounting part). I get your point and when you are selling physical products I cannot see how that would be possible. However if you are doing location independent work like coding or designing it is almost effortless to not become a tax resident.

Also the Dutch tax laws don’t care about the company as long as you pay the personal income tax plus some employee insurance tax.
This one includes a few more devices:

font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif
Concurrency Patterns in Go
Electronic Evicence in Criminal Matters
SF startup CEO tweets beating video, pleads for more police
Exactly this. Removing wisdom teeth in particular seems to affect everyone in totally different ways that can't easily be predicted, so doctors over-prescribe and give strict only-as-needed instructions.
My two favorites parts:

- always cross: native builds are just build=host builds.

- preprocesses as separate step efore building
Sneaking in Network Security
Update: You can now submit your Laravel related links to LaravelCollections.com
this shits a run-on thought so be warned before you read it:

learn to skate, you'll have a quick mode of transport in urban/suburban areas, you get to meet some cool people, widens your music exposure. Chances are these skating kids have spare boards, ask if they can help you learn, most people are down to hang out a little after school and skate for a bit.

Seriously I was in a similar state, but skating helped me branch out to other groups of people, I ended up meeting cool people through it, and I now surf with one of the people I met through it. Plus whenever we are in SF i feel really comfortable street skating.

Be ready to fall, and thats part of the learning, and the balance acquisition. its a life long skill, but a gift that keeps on giving.

also don't take off the plastics that cover the ball bearings on the wheels, people say that they "help out" but it really trashes them, if anything get some Red Dragon Bearings and call it a day, they are super good besides ceramics. If you have the ability to get a board ($110 new) get something some Thomas Trucks, Enjoi Board, and some Spitfire wheels.
If a developer is relying only on the product manager without first hand experience. It's a recipe for failure. I am a huge promoter of making devs do CSR, hell even make them do sales calls on occasion. The insight to the end user pain points is important. Devs need to hear it first hand.
>Biometric data can usually be gathered from a person, often discreetly

Not only that, but merely authenticating a user into the system will always produce a full duplicate of their secret.

So unless all terminals have the same clearance level, any compromised terminal allows for escalation. Since the number of biometric markers is limited, you are bound to have overlap, hence this ridiculous race towards more exotic and extreme biometrics like "vein auth".
Discussed here (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249796
No evidence of communication and morality in protocols: OTR protocol version 4
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> Is it normal that I don't have close friends and that I'm solitary? Am I missing out on anything?

Not really. Not everybody needs to or wants to have a huge circle of friends. And let's face it, it's impossible to have a huge circle of close friends. You wouldn't be able to maintain the friendships AND your studies, hobbies, etc.

> What hobbies do you advise me to adopt that I can do in a group, with camaraderie?

Strength training, hiking, biking, running, dancing, watching anime/drama/movies in a group -- so many to choose from. Just try out whatever interests you. You'll end up meeting lifelong friends just doing that.

And trust me, high school is a not a big deal. It's a very small chunk of your life compared to what's ahead. And what's ahead is much much better.
Attacking Chrome IPC [video]
The last time I set up a Linux box, it used SysV init. I know there are others, but I was under the impression that SysV was sort of the default. It was kind of a pain as I recall, but not terrible. But I wasn't managing dozens or hundreds of boxes, so maybe I didn't really feel the pain that presumably caused someone to come up with this solution.
This is one of the products I bet will go to Google's graveyard soon
Memsad why clearing memory is hard
TL;DR: marketer fails to science.
A Blockchain Picture Book
And PINK sells sweat pants with really ugly giant lettering. That's the font the high end is emulating.
Seems like it would quite easy to game the system. Make contributions with known vulnerabilities and then submit an anonymous bug report when the contribution is approved.
Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [video]
Internet of Dongs: A long way to a vibrant future
Its based on how personalized it is. If you can give me some good content to read, I will surely.
> Is it normal that I don't have close friends and that I'm solitary?

This is quite a common narrative. But it is also very easy for it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't believe that it is easy to make friends, it will be harder to make friends. People are social creatures. Smile, laugh, enjoy yourself, and celebrate the people around you; and you will have friends.

> Am I missing out on anything?

Probably, but such is the narrative of life. If you're concerned about unknown unknowns, then do more scary things. If you like programming and art, try skateboarding or maybe join the debate team and do some public speaking. Just do different stuff. You don't have to abandon the things you like, but you have to make time and space to push yourself into places that are uncomfortable.

> What hobbies do you advise me to adopt that I can do in a group, with camaraderie?

Anything with a group of individuals who are working together. Team sports, band, some ROTC, debate, school newspaper, . I would also caution against the impulse to be "better" than everyone else. Camaraderie comes from working together as a team, not from being better than your teammates. There is enough available success in the world to go around. There's no need to step on people to get there.

> Will college be the same or different than high school?

Both. People will still come in all flavors. The amplitudes of their behaviors will likely be different than what you're used to, but the same behaviors will be there.

> Can I have the same kind of youthful fun when I'm an adult?

Depends on how you define "youthful fun" and "adult". The available options of a 70 year old person are much more physically limited than a 17 year old person. And there is some continuous curve that links those two points. But at 70, you've had a lifetime to accumulate wealth (and maybe some time to blow it too), so the 17 year old may be more financially limited than the 70 year old. Do what you can with what you have.
Conquering Large Numbers at the LHC [video]
There's the symbiflow umbrella project that subsumes icestorm. In addition to ice40, they have apparently a working synthesis toolchain for lattice ecp5, and are working on supporting xilinx series 7.

https://symbiflow.github.io/

That being said, AFAIU newer generation fpgas from xilinx and Intel have encrypted bitstreams, foiling reverse engineering attempts. One can hope that the emergence of an open source synthesis toolchain would encourage new entrants by lowering the entry barrier.
What if they took all the office suite licenses budget and they invested it in an open source office suite project like LibreOffice, Caligra suite (formerly KOffice) or Gnome Office.
Not sure anyone can give you a good answer with this level of detail buddy. $1 for an app? $1 a day? What kind of news? In what way will it be personalised?

I’d say if you mean a news aggregator, it sounds unlikely.
Enclosure-PUF: Tamper Proofing Commodity Hardware and Other Applications
I've been learning Elixir as well and practicing my Elixir with this year's Advent Of Code. So far, I've really been enjoying writing in Elixir but if there's one thing I wish it was better at, it would be debugging in Elixir. Maybe its because I'm so used to using Chrome's developer tools, but I wish there was something as easy and simple to use like that for debugging Elixir.
Absolutely my bad. I got sucked into it somehow despite it being clear the topic was lost nearly right away.
20+ open source free accounting software
I have been using Void for months on the desktop, and I like it very much, especially the package manager, but something that REALLY annoys me is how bloated every package seems to be.

Maybe you only want to use Writer from Libreoffice, but you have to install absolutely EVERYTHING, many gigabytes including Java stuff that only 0.01% will ever need, and this is true for most packages, QEMU is another horror example.

In Alpine Linux almost every package is split into multiple
small sub packages so you can install only the stuff you need. This is great.
P≡p Engine Development – Tales of a MIME Warrior
I wonder what kind of experiments/projects you will do with given instrument.

My company tried to sell "cheap" (as in ~1000/1500 USD) VIS/NIR spectrometers, but it was very hard to actually find some viable market.

You can actually find modules[0] that will give you quite a good performance for given price. Electronics needed to run those devices are quite complex, but I even seen some open hardware boards available that might be half decent. Still, you are going to be in territory of 500 USD even in fully DIY build.

[0] https://www.hamamatsu.com/eu/en/product/photometry-systems/m...
Also UK. Some 'abuse' of A&E happens because people cannot alway get access to a local surgery as opposed to driving to a nearby hospital, especially at weekends.
Can't one just use font:menu?
> it's now basically just an overcomplicated init script.

That's probably the better way to express what I was trying to say. It seems really complex and rigid (and probably brittle?) for a script that's used basically to start services, but I may be missing something since I don't use Linux much and only then usually on a spare laptop. And as Theo once said, the process of booting an operating system is non-trivial. (Or words to that effect.)
>Fever is the reason people died so much before discovery of antibiotics.

I thought bacterial infections were the response were the reason people died before antibiotics. Fever is the body's response to infection, a primitive means of fighting it. If somebody has a serious infection and you give them anti-fever medication but no antibiotics, they're still at serious risk of death even if their fever goes away.

According to the first article I found while Googling: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/well... :

"The best evidence suggests that there is neither harm nor benefit to treating a fever with fever-reducing medications like acetaminophen or ibuprofen."

"In 1997, these data led to a large, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of ibuprofen in 455 patients with sepsis, a life-threatening infectious condition. In this study, ibuprofen failed to prevent the worsening of sepsis and failed to decrease the risk of death."

So there's no evidence that such drugs actually stop fever "before it gets too late" in adults, as they don't reduce risk of death. I had wrongly assumed the same applies to children.
I took my first device-free, solitude experience
I am an orthopedic surgeon during the day and at night I write code. I just don't believe that spending a few hours watching surgery actually helps. You need to really work with the software, a solve daily problems and be aware of what problems are trivial software fixes.

For instance, when I sign lab results I get to see the references for twenty year old subjects. It would be much more helpful to see the patients last lab result (in 60+% of the cases this is available).

Another example is in the ER where we have a list of all the patients. There is a column for my name so that I know which cases I am handling, unfortunately that column is too the far right and only visible after resizing the other columns. This setting is also not saved so each time I open the list I have to resize over and over again. If you could move that column to the left would be great, or even just bold font my patients' name.

The major problem that I see is that we have:

- huge monolithic software that make any change a living nightmare

- all changes are treated as we were doing open heart surgery. Most stuff we do is trivial but having a standard that high makes it almost impossible to deploy updates - especially the minor changes that really would change things.

- 80% of users complain about the software but very few understand the underlying problem.

- much of our software is spec driven - I can sign my lab results and I can see the patients in the ER, no one bothered to add the last tweaks to actually make it easy.
> High percentage of old people working.

Also means old people carry on getting exercise and feeling like they are a useful part of society.
Replacing the floppy drive has broken the hard drive?
I think the community would keep this to a minimum just through normal peer pressure and shaming.
Why not both?

FYI a lot of european government offices run LibreOffice.
I once proposed to extend that to allow array size checking.[1]

The trouble with C static array sizes is that the compiler doesn't do much of anything with the information.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/safearraysforc43.pdf
Before the cryptocurrency protocol wars, there was the WWW vs. Gopher war
Perhaps we didn't read the same article. What it says that the root of problem is the Windows IO subsystem architecture. Change NTFS for anything and you will get the same problem.
And in some places in Europe that is illegal. At least here in Finland adding any hidden fees to a retail list price is illegal (meaning that VAT is already in the sticker price too)
That's the major appeal of biometrics, the user is considered an attacker, either by knowingly transmitting his credentials or getting dupped into it.

Biometrics restore the illusion of control to the designer, they now have the luxury of no longer caring about user behaviour, it is just a body moving through the system. Except biometrics doesn't work.
OS/2 was a high end desktop OS, but NT diverged a little and took some heavy design principles from VMS (hence it’s name, WNT) and was thusly pivoted towards back office systems rather than desktop usage.

At that time Microsoft’s server offering was a UNIX platform, Xenix, but it was becoming clear that there needed to be a platform to serve workstations that wasn’t a full blown mainframe. So
Microsoft handed Xenix to SCO to focus on their collaboration with IBM so the intent there was always to build something more than just high end workstation. And Given it was intended to be administrated by people who were Windows users rather than UNIX grey beards (like myself) it clearly made sense to make the GUI a first class citizen; but that doesn’t mean it was sold to be a desktop OS.
Okay, that's enough ibuprofen for me. Ever. Fuck the whole pharma industry.
As other people will probably tell you, I hated HS. For technical people it seems to be a common thread: stories of the type "I was miserable until I went to Uni, when I found out there's other people who like talking about the Linux kernel" are everywhere. So I will risk it and say "yes, it's normal to be solitary in HS if you're a technical person, but College is often better".

As far as hobbies go, it's more about you than about the hobby. I had a drawing group where we would gather at coffee shops and talk and draw for a couple hours. Sports are also surprisingly entertaining once you do them because you feel like it rather than because someone tells you to. I made lots of friends through martial arts.
isn't that what most companies are trying to do with their feeds? that sounds awful, no I don't want to live in a personalized bubble.
When I mentioned cumbersome, I'm referring to these things: transferring cash between personal checking to and from Venmo balance, and the number of people who use Venmo.

While both services offer immediate transfer(within an hour) from balance to bank account, Alipay's is free while Venmo asks for a small fee(or free for same/next day).

Then, population usage. Cheap Hot dog stands in NYC only accept cash. Apple pay if they're trendy.

All Dumpling/bun street stands in Shanghai use Alipay. Everyone in China uses Alipay.

In America I’ve found it to be a "Venmo? Zelle? Cash?" charade when it comes to exchanging cash.

Although don’t get me wrong Venmo has made splitting checks in America easier between friends - but it just feels like I only use Venmo for that purpose(splitting bills between friends) while Alipay I use everywhere.

I realize now cumbersome wasn't the best word to use to differentiate Venmo and Alipay - the better word to describe the differences between these services is "usability". And of course, I should also mention that these two services are geared towards two different services, so its a bit unfair to compare.
Qt is LGPL, you don't need a license to maje a proprietary app with it (chromium and thus electron are under LGPL too)