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Have that found no gold artefacts at Göbekli Tepe[1], which is by some distance the oldest temple[2] (or whatever it is)?

I had an impression that there had been, but I can't find anything except the famous carvings.

I find Göbekli Tepe absolutely fascinating - it's so much older than any equivalent sites that have been found. It's 6000 years older than Stonehenge, 7000 years older than the Sumerian civilisation, and before the invention of pottery. Maybe some of the oldest dwellings at Jericho[3] are comparable, but there is nothing like the constructions of Göbekli Tepe that old at Jericho.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

[2] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-world...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho#Pre-Pottery_Neolithic....
Wow, 30 years! Is it for a medical condition? I have a friend with ptsd who uses regularly, but he claims he feels a "buildup" in hos brain so he does a week or two on and a week or two, sometimes more off. Do you feel that as well?
This is absolutely true. For example, the US gov depends on 128 bit equivalent crypto to stop quantum factoring attacks for the foreseeable future.
Plenty of people have opiod problems and live normal lives.
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We wouldn't want to go asking questions, would we? I think the tone of my comment is on point: it would be interesting to know, and I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask questions about how many foreign nationals are currently doing jobs that could be done by Americans. Especially in the context of the ongoing debate about STEM surplus vs. shortage.
Almost anything can be addictive not much we can do about it.
Pomme de terra
I think your comment it accurate. As I mentioned doing paleo multiple times before I never reached ketosis. Cheat meals on the weekend aside, I also included sweet potatoe (after runs), honey and nuts (almonds, cashews).

This last time around, where I experienced the change (I believe ketosis) I can basically say my diet consisted of: eggs, chicken (mostly dark meat), red meat, green leafy vegetables, and sometimes pork. Honestly before this thread I thought of ketosis as a state, and not a diet, so I will look into it a little more and see if this last diet I was on was more consistent with ketosis than paleo.
Smoking isnt the only way to consume mj, btw. Tinctures, edibles, lotions, lip balms, etc all offer alternatives. From what I understand vaping reduces plant particulate the most, but the high temps can hurt throats, so an ideal setup would be a vape through a bong.
Any kind of smoke inhalation CAN cause cancer
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> Despite the fact that I'm known for sometimes not being very polite to some of the desktop UI people, because I want to get my work done. Pretty is not my primary thing. I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled.

Pretty much sums up why it won't happen until someone starts imitating Steve Jobs and DICTATING how The Desktop should look like. And that means more pretty than functional.
I can't for the life of me work out which one you think is OK. Neither marijuana nor alcohol, in non-excessive quantities, will necessarily cause serious health effects, and people consume either whilst living perfectly 'normal' lives.
Here are some interesting statistics:

>> The EPI study, written by University of California-Davis computer science professor Norman Matloff, compared American-born college graduates holding degrees in computer science and electrical engineering to their foreign-born counterparts.

>> There are, of course, reasons for this that have nothing to do with intelligence. More than 80 percent of H-1B visa holders are approved to be hired at wages below those paid to American workers for comparable positions, according to EPI. And because H-1B workers and green card applicants are locked into jobs with whatever employer sponsors their visa, they have less less leverage to push for raises and promotions. As Matloff puts it, "the worker becomes a de facto indentured servant."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/h1b-visa-bloomberg-f...

Also:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/microsoft-stem-e...
"bringing the number of supported file systems to 35. (Remind me, how many file systems do Mac OS X and Windows support?)"

A bunch of fucking nerds who don't understand consumers are never going to take over the desktop. I've watched Linux for 25 years, basically since the beginning. Stop telling people you're going to take over the desktop and figure out how to get another 1%, then repeat. I'd recommend starting with "putting all your wood behind one arrow".
For many years, Radio Shack was one of the few convenient places for consumers to quickly pickup random small parts related to electronics, audio, ham radio, etc.

On the other hand, there's a very rose-tinted nostalgic view of Radio Shack in many circles. The chain's main business as far back as I can remember was selling a lot of overpriced and low quality audio gear and other consumer electronics. It was far more a shopping mall location for unsophisticated consumers to buy their stereos than it was a makerspace of some sort.
Finally! I've waited for something like this forever! Thank you!
Most of it has been from BTC-ETC markets, which shows that support for ETC came mostly from outside the original Ethereum community.
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I think you’re settling an unreasonable standard for discussion by mentioning the 10x engineer as hiring target.

It’s often difficult to find someone that doesn’t outright lie on their resume. It’s hard to find someone that will be able to contribute to your team rather than make a negative impact.

I try and hire engineers and we have to go through dozens of candidates to find someone who just seems motivated and competent
nonbel expected to see an image of the object on the page of the submitted article. (Which was the smithsonian link.)

nonbel didn't see the image, and thought that maybe it was being blocked by their ad-blocker / etc software. nonbel turned all that off, and was disappointed that there was still no image of the object.
addiction + adverse effects on one's brain/life.

There are a lot of benign addictions, which we call habits. We should be a bit more careful in casually classifying marijuana as benign on grounds that is not as bad as heroin.

Edit. "Classifying" in educational sense, not in legal sense.
I've lost weight and kept it off for years by using a similar method. Sometimes the weight just seemed to melt off, though I've had to tweak a few times to get to my current weight. I was nearly obese at one time, and am now no where near overweight. With each of these changes came some weight loss and habit changes. Basically, all I found was to learn what works with your body and build healthier food habits.

First, I started eating less meat. This was mostly due to having gall bladder surgery: Afterwards digestion of those fats was more difficult. Though this improved, the habit stuck.

I started eating more vegetables. I didn't cut fat or carbs or anything, just added in vegetables. A few formerly disliked vegetables are now in my pallet. I figured out I could like a lot of foods simply by repeated exposure.

I eventually went mostly vegetarian. I eat fish once or twice a week and meat substitutes. I don't suggest this unless it fits with you, but I feel better and enjoy foods more. I did similar things with other foods - eat fruit instead of drinking fruit juice, whole grain pasta and better breads. I still dislike milk.

I cut out soda. I didn't really plan to for weight loss, but after a while it tasted syrupy. I now only occasionally (every 1-2 months) drink it. I eventually cut out sugar from coffee, more for simplicity in ordering.

I started cooking daily, and if I want a certain food, I just plan to make it or buy it. I eat candy regularly, for example. I eat until I am very full every night. Most meals are simple, but I do make my own bread. This is more habit building than anything, but I found I enjoy food more and nearly always feel satisfied. It helped moving to a country with less ready-made foods.

I paid attention to when I am the most hungry. For me, no matter how much I eat during the day, I want a good deal of food in the evening meal, and generally want a nightly snack. I figured it was silly to eat lots during the day, and the my snacking habits just kept me going. Breakfast is usually black coffee. I might eat a piece of bread with a slice of cheese a few hours after waking, but otherwise I just eat a handful of chips, nuts, fruit, or something similar. The snacking habit really started from laziness and simplicity, but it works.

As far as exercise is concerned, I don't like it. But my main form of transportation is walking, and I gained slightly when I stopped having places to go, so I might have to actually make an effort to do this more often.
As far as we know, it doesn't. Some studies suggest that it may shrink lung tumors.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23802821

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/cannabis...
Linus has a serious problem understanding what products are, and what usability means.

The commands for git are an example of that -> they don't make sense. They are very poorly designed and counterintuitive.

Linus I think has this belief that 'technology & complexity = power' when really, it's 'products that do useful things' that matter.

Making seamless experiences matters. Consumers really don't care how many techies think something is cool, they don't care about drivers, or open-source, they just want it to work.

Linux could absolutely provide the foundation for the desktop, but whatever is on top of it will have to be equally innovative and provide a lot of value, so much so that I'd argue that the high level OS layer will be 'the hard part' not the kernel.

Here's an example: "system, orangeFS, bringing the number of supported file systems to 35. (Remind me, how many file systems do Mac OS X and Windows support?)"

Really? Who cares. You only need to support ONE, the right one, and support it well. Maybe there is an advantage in supporting a few others, but not really. This is a perfect example of 'engineering' that doesn't necessarily ad up to any end-user value.

"Pretty is not my primary thing." and here it is. Linux conflates 'aesthetics' with 'design'. A very common failure. They are not the same thing, not remotely.
By definition addiction has a harmful effect on the user.

> We should be a bit more careful in casually classifying marijuana as benign on grounds that is not as bad as heroin.

Yes, definitely. I'm strongly in favour of legalisation, but I recognise that for some people cannabis will be harmful.
Nice! After clicking the button a few times my first inclination was also to open the console and see how I could make my life easier.
Maybe the $30-60,000 per year spent to incarcerate every low level drug offender could help. And it's not like they're avoiding managing it now between policing, encampments and incarceration. Not to mention health costs.
Your reasoning is flawed. GNU/Linux took over server and mobile. Nothing stops it to happen in desktop anytime soon. No need for a fucking stupid Steve Jobs (I agree with RMS, thanks god Jobs is gone).

Edit: this place should not be named "hacker News"
> I think we all have experienced reading again something we read young and loved and finding a lot more meaning in it.

My favourite example of this comes from comics:

Try looking at Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run (issue #20 or 21 of volume 2 - the 1982 revival). It's a masterpiece that is well worth reading as an adult.

Now try looking at early 80's X-Men. While e.g. Days of Future Past is good, one of the reasons some of the arcs like Days of Future Past stands out so much is that many of these series were so full of excessive amounts of tedious exposition recapping things that just happened and reminding about and explaining things to the reader all the time, and the standouts were the few exceptions that treated the reader as a person with somewhat more mental capacity than a goldfish.

At the time, I didn't see the difference. I enjoyed X-Men and Swamp Thing equally. Now, going back and looking at those old X-Men issues is - with a few exceptions - almost painful and only worth it for the nostalgia.
I guess you can also look at ketosis as a state. Maybe paleo diet even gets you from time to time into ketosis without really intending to do so.

What I also wanted to say is that you can find sources for carbs in the paleo diet... especially if you do sports (and you did it actually as you mentioned)
> might be an unwritten rule
that's not a source, or even anything close to it. Purely hearsay.

> They just hire a bunch of hackers and make sure it stands up to 15 minutes.

Stands up to 15 minutes of what? Smashing the side window with a crowbar? Angle grinders through the driver side door? Who hires them? What sources do you have that say this? You seem very authorative in this thread, yet have nothing to support your claims.
Do you know/use git?
I'm really laughing of all these stupid HNers who think they are better product developer than Linus. Poor boys.

Edit: this place should not be named "hacker News"
> Pretty much sums up why it won't happen until someone starts imitating Steve Jobs and DICTATING how The Desktop should look like.

But we have plenty of distros where the people behind it do just that?
Sure, but does it justify its place on Schedule 1? Hardly. As a whole alcohol does far more damage to society and yet it is very lightly regulated.

Maybe Schedule 4 or 5 might be more appropriate? i.e Xanax, Tramadol, less than 200mg codeine, etc.
because it doesn't add anything to the discussion.
'Conflict' diamonds can be viewed as another way for DeBeers and others to control the trade, by limiting the supply of diamonds into the market.

Global Witness, the organisation who pushed for the 'blood diamonds' campaign, disavowed it in 2011, because the scheme did not actually provide effective guarantees that the diamonds sold were not blood diamonds.

Others have pointed out the strange absence of any 'blood emeralds' scheme, even though they are often sourced from the same corrupt organisations and countries. But the fact that natural emeralds are much rarer than diamonds means that no-one needs to artifically limit their supply...
> I'd recommend starting with "putting all your wood behind one arrow".

I agree that that would make it more successfull... but what's the point in being successful if you do so by throwing out your unique benefits and cloning a product that already exists?
> anyone interested in this subject also look for 'Gerasimov Doctrine' for a thrilling read.

Are you referring to Mark Galeotti? I'd like to read an analysis written by a Russian scholar on this, would you have any sources?
Heroin is awful, but if heroin-addicted people can get heroin, they're fine.
The Good and Bad of Microservices with F#
mathematician moonlighting as a software engineer. ;)
Didn't they get the memo. It's "STEAM" now because everybody's job has to be portrayed as a crucial resource with a made up labor shortage.
Aha, seems I reinvented a wheel again. But I think the simplicity might be an advantage of wu. modd seems to be too complex for someone to getting started at the first glance.
I would not conflate "all tobacco products" with cigarettes. I smoke cigars, you don't inhale cigars, they're not designed to be inhaled and in my experience and the experience of the people who I know who also smoke them, they are not addictive to the majority who smoke them.

I am not disputing that cigarettes are indeed addictive, overwhelming evidence suggests that they are, but cigars in my experience are not and I would guess pipe smokers would also fall into the same category.
" and then kick them out once we've trained them. "

University is not 'tranining'.

A STEM degree doesn't really prepare you for much.

At a startup, you have developers, product, product marketing, marketing, finance, ops, HR.

Most devs are needed for their practical skills: experience in programming, getting through nightmare builds, tons of APS, grasp of server technologies etc. etc..

Most devs are not dealing with highly scientific or 'researchy' things.

I think STEM grads are often much, much better placed to do Dev, and if they take the time to learn the skills, I'll take an Eng/Science grad usually over others because there are a bunch of other intangible benefits, but smarty pants arts major could easily do the work if they were motivated, and sometimes that has advantage today given focus on user experience which is sometimes a little too intangible for some to grasp well.
It's basically cookie clicker with an actual plot and an ending.
> disposable razor blades

Now there's another industry that only survives by the grace of marketing and people not bothering to buy a cheaper double-edge alternative.
That wasn't super successful when attempted with alcohol.
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Would it be require a lot of changes to repeat the training process mentioned in the article with video instead of stills? Aside from the increase in data being processed.
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Is that actually common? Don't know about the US but haven't seen very much of that in the rest of the world.
And I have anecdotal evidence of people smoking marijuana everyday for 10-20 years and remaining extremely productive.

Oftentimes drug use is a symptom of a greater psychological problem/issue. Perhaps the underlying issues are causing the negative behaviors and the drugs are only enabling it.
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But, productizing addiction of known deleterious substances should be illegal.

Are you really willing to give up on sugar?
>> Tax Reform Act of 1986, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986#Tax_tre.... .)

Fascinating. I hadn't seen that before.
Topic is Desktop computers. Not Development computers. Users of Desktop computers have specific requirements not necessary related to the development. Ignoring their requirements would definitely not allow you to take over the desktop.

> this place should not be named "hacker News"

Well couldn't you be a "hacker" in terms of UX, product design and other things as well?
I use git daily, and I'm comfortable and familiar with it.

Git commands are poorly designed.

My friend, I suggest you are part of the problem: smart people who grasp arcane things as a badge of honour and lord it over others in a demeaning way, totally lacking in self-awareness.

Git would be a better product if the commands were more coherent and structured. Some people - especially Linus - have no ability to grasp this.

Given what I've seen from Linux - he basically added commands and features will nilly, without much thought. There is no 'design' of the git command line 'api'.

There are some other bad flaws in git design.

Which is why Linux will never be on the desktop ... (again with the caveat that someone may build something on top of Linux that is good for the desktop)
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Yeah, totally common (Brazil)
Do you know the process of hiring for H1B? You have to _prove_ you can't hire a local, AND that the salary you are offering is fair. Yes, most of H1B jobs are menial and boring, and employees don't hold much leverage, but they are "underpaid" because of the nature of most such jobs (supporting ageing JEE / mainframe systems with lots of legacy code no one else want to look into), but it isn't that there a lot of competition for these kind of jobs, worth of TheDailyWTF front page. I started my career in software engineering with something like this: supporting a ton of spaghetti code coming from a large investment bank. If I had chosen a H1B route back then, of course I'd change this job immediately after getting a green card. But somebody had to do it, right?
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> What many people do is [...]

You've provided no sources or anything
Git, even for a command line system, is hardly an example of good UI. It's a very powerful system, but when you compare its commands and usage to something like Mercurial, for example (especially early in GIT's lifecycle) Mercurial had much better named commands, it was designed to be a lot easier for someone coming from the popular RCSes at the time, and did not have contradictory argument placements in different but related commands.
>anecdotal evidence of people smoking marijuana everyday for 10-20 years and remaining extremely productive. //

What roles, in what areas, have they risen to in this time?
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a) The official averages are low due to collective collusion.
b) They only have to advertise somewhere in the dusty corner of a newspaper nobody reads.
c) They've successfully conned Congress into believing that there is a labor shortage without any real evidence such as rising salaries.
d) That's what Infosys and Wipro are for. H1Bs on demand.
That's like asking for alcohol that is not denaturalised. You need to prove it's for... well, serious purposes.
Yeah, let's talk about foreign intervention, Assange and his vendetta, how some private information was not censored, possible geopolitical implications, or how Trump may be implicated. Did I forget any other diversion tactic? The efficacy of such methods is worrisome; even smart people are unable to look behind these curtains.
By that logic sugar should be highly illegal. Obesity kills orders of magnitude more people than heroin.
Any politics usually get flagged and downvoted to hell.
Its actually mich worse than that. AFAIk the only place that produced the only stuff they did allow to be used for research was a Uni in Mississippi. The real kicker is that they were extracting THC from the plant matter, then spraying the thc on plant matter in measured doses! So they werent/arent even allowing the few people allowed to do research on actual normal mj! What about all those other cannabanoids!?

Look, bottom line to me as a Constitutionalist, is that no one can tell me what I can or cant do with my body. It's unconstitutional to make illegal, and while theres plenty more for why it shouldnt be illegal, thats all I need to know to be pro legalization.
They all suck. Maybe we need another distro?

Wow, this is such a difficult problem. Let's just get back to bragging about how many file systems Linux supports. "And how many file systems do Windows and Mac OS support?" "Yuck, yuck, yuck"
The parent comment is specifically about cap-exempt institutions though, which typically pay everyone following rigid pay scales. In this case, an H-1B (or often J-1 actually) always costs more.

Now you can argue that postdoc and research positions don't pay well enough to attract local talent[1], but I don't think you should conflate this issue with the typical Indian consultancy companies working their way around H-1B constraints.

[1] Which seems true from what I've seen. I know people at the Berkeley Lawrence Lab who would triple their salaries working in the industry.
This piece is, indeed, very well written. A couple of months ago I used it in a subject's work in the master program I'm enrolled, in which I analyze Erlang's features for providing software fault-tolerance. If it would be useful to anyone: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4R-MWo1s2mTc0hMc2Z6czU1ekU...
They can be different but it's not a necessity - you can do scientific research for recreational purposes.
Reminds me of Larry Niven's Ringworld, or more specifically the Puppeteers and their planet-ships fleeing the galaxy.
I bet alcohol is a much bigger problem on university campuses.
I'm not sure if that will help. But if the Linux world did want a Steve Jobs like individual, it has one in Mark Shuttleworth.