skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried stimulants before? Adderall/Ritalin? For me, even at low doses the effect is pretty profound. If you genuinely have ADHD, no other solution has such profound effect (based on the research). Individual results vary, it is no miracle for all, but as a group, ADHD sufferers benefit greatly. It is low risk all around. If you manage it well the risk of addiction is very low. I think if you have not tried
this path try it first. It just works for most ADHD sufferers.
I think this article assumes that 'learning to code' and 'being a programmer' are one and the same. I personally believe than (like many things) there is a huge difference between the two - I do believe that anybody can code, but being a programmer is a completely different kettle of fish.

Anybody can code, sure. Not everybody can code professionally.
I suggest that you (re)read Cathedral and the Bazaar if you really are curious about the difference between a project worked on by 200 odd developers in a company and an open source project.

The more we learn the less we know.
Ask HN: Where to find engineering consultants for very small scale engagements?
I've run into a challenge at work that's in an area I know very little about - Windows, corporate networks, and web proxies. None of the other developers on my small engineering team know a lot about this stuff either.

I'd love to talk with an engineer who does have experience in this area. My company would be willing to pay somewhere between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars for the time. I'm basically just looking for a phone call or two and maybe a bit of screen sharing.

I think my questions are a little too open-ended for the Stack Exchange sites, or other online question and answer forums. I'm looking for general advice about best practices, plus answers to a lot of random little questions. I feel like it's probably mostly stuff that I could figure out on my own in a few months, but I don't have that much time, and a conversation with an experienced dev could really help accelerate my learning.

Does anyone have any advice for where to find people for this kind of engagement?
Ive been concerned about Zuckerberg and Theil using Trump to get their FWD.us thing passed and start importing cheap developers here.
This was ten years ago. Since then various organizations, most notably InWorldz LLC, have improved their forks of the server code a great deal.

So far, these new grids are somewhat constrained by trying to remain compatible with Second Life, but that won't always be the case since Linden Labs will probably give up on Second Life at some point.
George Hotz wants Comma AI to be the Android of autonomous driving
Raspberry Pi organization launches Debian+PIXEL
Has anyone actually tried Nootrobox?
"systemic lower rates of pay for women than men"

Do you have a reference for that, specifically a recent one concerning the US?

Last I heard there is a pay gap (in the US) if you don't consider job titles, but close to none if corrected for industry and title.

I'm under the impression it's more of a gap in job position distribution, which may partially be explained by males better average negotiation skills/outcomes and the majority share males have of physically taxing and dangerous (i.e. military) jobs.
Waymo isn't the first to announce a low-cost LIDAR. Quantergy announced one last year.[1] They even demoed it. It never shipped. Continental, the big European auto parts company acquired ASC's excellent but expensive technology last year, and promised a low-cost version. Hasn't shipped yet.[2]

These things will get cheap as soon as they're being built in quantity 100,000, instead of quantity 100. Really cheap if they can be made with standard CMOS processes, which has been done experimentally. Most are GaInAs technology, which is expensive.

[1] http://quanergy.com/s3/
[2] http://www.continental-corporation.com/www/pressportal_com_e...
Yes, see for example the data discussed in this recent article,

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2016/12/20/libera...

This isn't new, it's been known for decades that academia leaned left, and in particular certain areas of it (humanities and social sciences).
This would mean no H1B visas for those graduating straight out of college because they would have the least salary.

The prepared restriction of $100,000 will do the same because undergrads aren't going to get $100k straight out of college.

That in turn is going to mean fewer international students in US universities. If they can't get jobs after spending 4 years and racking up college debt then they aren't going to come.

If the best and brightest aren't going to come to the US educational system then the US educational system is going to hurt.
It seems like it would be so easy to fix the H1B problem. The problem is that the "body shops" just file a ton of applications and then get the number they need because they don't actually care who they get, they just need warm bodies.

And then there are the companies that actually need skilled engineers who pay really high salaries, but only apply for the people who they actually want.

So make it an auction instead of a lottery.

10,000 visas available this year? Great, the 10,000 highest paid workers get in.

Edit: It was pointed out below that this wouldn't be fair to recent college grads, so perhaps it could be split on age or years of experience or something like that.

Another solution would be to automatically convert student visas to H1B after they graduate from an accredited institution.

You can see how this will help. Check out the data[0]. Wipro, a standard Indian body shop, is paying their H1Bs a median of 69K. Netflix is paying a median of 169K, with about 100 jobs over 200K (and a few above 500K). Google and Microsoft are a little lower than Netflix.

[0] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=wipro&job=&city=&year=All+Y...
And the thing that destroys the drive to work hard to learn is the part that you allude to in your second paragraph: rentier activity.

> the cost of living in desirable American locations has gone up astronomically

They financialised housing. It's killing the west. It's creating nothing, it's appropriating wealth.

Sad to see that other thread on what people would do if they could afford it. So many cited their mortgage as the blocker. In the same thread some guy cited his 400k annual bonus for high frequency trading.
Is it though? What Google has is certainly better than the publicly available lane and crash assist Tesla has, but Tesla has already shown demos of true autonomous driving, in fog and noting pedestrians, etc. It likely just needs a lot of training but cars are already on the road with hardware.

Is Google ahead for a final product? Quite possibly, but they don't have a product and Tesla doesn't look far behind sortware wise, though it is hard to tell.
Yeah, i love 0 A.D., but i don't consider it a "rewrite". There are at least two ongoing attepts to create open source AoE:

- https://github.com/angered-ghandi/OpenAOE (AoE I)

- https://github.com/SFTtech/openage (AoE II)

HN posts about openage:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830652

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511084 (with some links to other interesting games in the comments)
Giving serious thoughts to the just-announced Dell XPS 15 that'll take 32GB of RAM, and has the new Kaby Lake CPU, and a GT 1050 in it.

For reference: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-15-9560-laptop/pd
Two thoughts come to mind:

1) If Microsoft is already/still at ~90%, is there really room for a big time come back? Getting the rest of the market is small potatoes compared to what they already have.

2) How much of the market does desktop represent, anyway? Most people I know do not own a desktop. They may have a laptop, but they may also only have a tablet and/or phone.

Now, I believe you are actually suggesting that Microsoft can leverage their desktop market to get back into tablets and phones, but I don't know . . . so far, their efforts have been disappointing, and frankly, people are used to their Android devices, so Microsoft will actually be the weird phone even if it is the normal desktop.
If it's just a few in the entire senate, then that sounds like it's just a small minority that is extreme? Like every group has.
It's difficult for me to relate to this. For me, fatherhood has been a source of great joy.
> In fact the default "you should have children to be happy/successful/not-be-frowned upon" is arguably the wrong one.

As biological organisms, our sole purpose is to reproduce. Our minds are designed around a lifecycle that includes having children and grandchildren. Betting that forgoing these will make for a happier life seems like a terrible wager.
You are right. That is what would happen.

If other companies don't like it, then they should make their salaries competitive.
Take a look at an application of deep learning in accelerating complex 3d rendering. (Two Minute Papers)

Stunning Video Game Graphics With Voxel Cone Tracing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOWamCtnwTc
No one is saying it isn't a valid word, though.
Rats != People
If the money goes to taxes I'm afraid it will lower the employee's salary. How about going by the highest salary offered instead? That would ensure that the pay stays competitive and foreign engineers don't get hired just because they are cheaper.
Boils down to bigger TVs. A 50inch tv at 1080p doesn't look so bad. But project it onto something much bigger and things start to look pixelated. 8k sounds like a nice resolution for people who have projectors with 3m diagonals.
Perhaps. I wonder if other people think the same way.
I would like to see a fairly hefty tax on top of visas, the proceeds of which go into funding some useful program. If companies genuinely need these skills, you're going to pay more for it than hiring local.
This would mean no visas for the international students graduating out of US colleges. Someone with a bachelor degree isn't going to get $100k straight off the bat.

That in turn will drive the best and brightest to stay home and not come to the US educational system.
Strange - I just saw something similar to this a few weeks ago, it looked like a workplace trying microdosing on their employees. At the time it seemed fake but now it makes me wonder: http://imgur.com/gallery/gYnnM
That works too. Or do a minimum salary of xxx,000$.
Exponential Laws of Computing Growth (ACM article on Moore's Law)
No one other than Peter thiel. The USA is much more purple than you might imagine.

The solution to the H1B fiasco is to let individual companies straight up bid on the 100,000 visas, irreguardless of nationality or occupation and be done with it.

Then we could put the money from this into a scholarship fund to pay for US citizens only.
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4 year STEM degree from an american university seems like a good place to start.. its not enough but better than a fake or real engineering degree from somewhere else.

Because how the lottery is structured, anyone who went to an american college for undergrad (4 years) plus two years of OPT, has lower chances than someone who just did a masters degree in an american university (1 year), and equal chances with anyone else in the world.

Anyone who spent first 6 years of their adult life in the US is much more likely to adjust to the american lifestyle than than anyone else.
GPD Pocket will be a 7 inch touchscreen laptop with Windows and Ubuntu support
> I would argue, however, that Aristotle (and many of the ancient philosophers) are actually very valuable to read precisely because of their historical impact, and how their works shaped the course of human thought for millennia.

You could make the same argument for theology, yet you rarely hear people talk about the importance of reading someone like Irenaeus (for example). And if someone like that is studied, it's often looking at their historical context and their historical impact, rather than someone like Aristotle where the focus is often on the works itself. You don't see many people saying we should be reading and arguing Irenaeus' theological theories.

A class on Aristotelian epistemology is not a class on "Western thought," and trying to mask the former by disguising it as the later only suggests that there isn't a terribly great reason to study it.
> The idea that conservatives should be represented in academia is a kind of a affirmative action, ironically

No, it would be affirmative action if they were given preferential treatment in order to increase their numbers. If instead just existing discrimination against them were removed, that would not be affirmative action.

> Should environmental science departments hire climate change deniers, for ideological diversity?

Strawman - no one is suggesting that.

Historically, many great scientists have been conservative as well as religious. Many people that fall into those groups accept evolution, climate change, and so forth - for example, the Catholic church accepts both of those.

Science isn't a partisan issue. But on college campuses, it looks that way with conservatives a shrinking minority.
Doing drugs at work is nothing new. In some industries, smoking weed is common, is others, people regularly do coke and other hard drugs. Ritalin and pharmaceuticals are common enough, and while LSD is popular among the tech community, again, nothing new.

What will be interesting to see is real data to come out concerning the benefits.
Ask HN: What advice would you give to someone who wants to get into hacking?
i.e. proper hacking, as in security research.

How do you go from being a standard developer to finding, for example, web browser vulnerabilities, or picking apart malware to figure out disabling their command & control network, or taking the firmware off some device and finding ways to root it?

How do the professionals do it, and what are the prerequisite knowledge and skills?
Reclaim Your Privacy
It was purely anti-rust, no Go involved.
Having spun/graduated out of X (also now an Alphabet subsidiary), Waymo is now a subsidiary of Alphabet and so by technicality it's more accurate to refer to it as Alphabet's Waymo, rather than "Google's Self-Driving Car"
What happens when every car on the road has lidar and your sensor is bombarded by oncoming traffic?
We already have a well established work place drug habit and its called caffeine, thankyouverymuch.

Its also worth reading Hamiton Morris' position on micro-dosing[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/HamiltonMorris/status/809124813256228865
Regardless, the H1-B program is sold to the public as a way to bring over highly-skilled individuals into roles that require those higher skills.

Yet, time and again we see that the emperor has no clothes: these programs are used to import labor from overseas because it's cheap.
$100K is not a big barrier in SV right now. I've hired an average NCGs for $90K in the past so someone with enough experience to qualify for an H1B would easily surpass $100K.
Ubuntu Tablet in desktop mode with bluetooth mouse and keyboard quick test
> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them.

20% of Santa Clara County voted for Trump. 20% of funds raised in Santa Clara County went to Trump. That's a small fraction by two-party system standards, but it's not no one.
I'm from Italy and so were 2 of my programmer friends. We're used to English, though. The other guy is from Sweden. I wonder if it sounds better to people whose first language is English.

It doesn't seem like you care (I guess rightfully), just a note.
I'm thankful; without this comment I wouldn't have thought to rotate my nyms. Being able to downvote is pretty cool but hmkay.
The hard part of coding professionally is getting a job. Practice is much more important than native ability for most intellectual activities until you get to the very peak of competitive performance.
Exactly. The shell would just treat "sudo" as a builtin prefix similar to "time", but would then run the real "sudo" with an appropriate shell invocation and proper quoting.
Because in the long term everything you see will be destroyed and humanity itself wont even be a thought, so don't worry.
""Conservatism", at least the modern variant, and "exploring and expanding knowledge for a greater good, while entertaining ideas that you don't necessarily agree with" are literally antithetical."

This is completely not true.

I think you might confusing 'popular' liberalism (i.e. progressivism) and 'popular' conservatism (i.e. evangelicals, social conservatism, small government etc.) - with actual liberalism and conservatism.

Universities were always fairly Conservative, it started to change in the 1940s-1960s.

The 'liberals' in University that people are complaining about are progressives - not liberals: 1) There is a lot of 'social justice ideology' that is not particularly scientific and more perversely 2) a lot of ideas are openly suppressed because they don't promote the ideological narrative of many academics.

The banishment of speakers, not allowing profs to talk about certain things because of potential 'trigger warnings', historical revisionism, and the shaping of courses to meet ideological narratives (CLASS Montreal protestors demanded a 'feminization' of the entire course material etc..) - none of this is remotely liberal by any definition.

In short: Universities liberal arts faculties are are illiberal institutions.

On the whole - I think it has much more to do with the admins and Uni culture - as defined by a vocal subgroup of students - than the course material itself.

The student unions are more than 50% of the problem.
It's good. From the article they mentioned that manufacturers didn't want to work with Google on self driving cars.

They didn't want to sit back and just let them monetize their customer's driving habits. Some manufacturers err on the side of customer privacy whilst others would prefer to own the revenue stream.
If it top tier companies generally speaking the talent level is there, but if you are interacting with Offshoring company, it is usually a hit and miss.
Linux kernel initialization, translated to bash
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I have not seen this in general - there is for sure an effect on some not wanting to come to the US, but from what I see in developer circles and what I have seen in academia, the US is by far the most popular location to move to. The opportunities are still excellent if you can get through that crappy immigration filter.

Truth be told, immigrating to the US has been tricky for decades, if not longer - historically it is a very popular country to immigrate to, but there are filters currently founded on xenophobia/nationalism/racism/etc. These speculated changes aren't really much different in that vein, except that it closes a loophole that is abused. There are more guaranteed ways to get into the US, such as the L-1 visa. There are also ways to get an H-1B visa without going through the lottery.
The linked paper discusses using its enormously parallel nature to quickly solve large instances of NP-complete problems.

Aside from this, imagine taking a "smart" medication that uses biological computation to determine exactly where/when in your body to optimally release the medicine.
You have to love the big spike in Windows 98 usage in Feb '16 (https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qp...)
You're right. "Polynesian Dead Reckoning" doesn't appear to be a thing at all. Maybe the GP was referring to the "cold reading"-like ingenuity of their navigational techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
But anyone can label themselves whatever they like and there's no way extract the "true" viewpoint of that group.

Without something resembling a common definition, you're going to have a hell of time having a sane, productive discussion.
First time I've heard of this practice, it's a very very large percent of the pie. Makes me wonder why they don't just mine?
Thankfully the large physical size of the car means that the amount of sensor data is going to be at a maximum when you're on a busy highway and fairly minimal. Something that is constantly modelled today.

It's a very interesting question especially if self driving motorcycles take off which have the ability to move in highly unpredictable ways.
May already be happening. Anecdote: A real estate agent in Ann Arbor told me this week that most of her recent customers are coming in to work for Waymo.
But the other salaries are competitive when scaled by cost of living, it's that SV and NYC salaries are so high because there's a housing shortage going on. Also: quality of life, who wants to live in a shoebox in Oakland? People will trade a lower salary for a less insane commute.

One theory is that software is concentrated in SV because employee turnover is so fast in that line of work, it's quickest to find a new job in SV as opposed to anywhere else. The dominance of SV is people taking a salary hit to insure against catastrophic outcomes, i.e. running out of savings/unemployment and health insurance.

Why not have a commission decide on how big the shortage is and then issue green cards depending on occupation? Whoever wins one can work for whomever is pleases him, instead of being tied to the employer for years and years. Yes, I know it's possible to change jobs, but it's not for those with weak stomachs or dependents.
Drawing is not 'fun', it's technically and ethically complex.

Driving is not 'fun', it's technically and ethically complex.

Cooking is not 'fun', it's technically and ethically complex.

Life is not 'fun', it's technically and ethically complex.

<insert any hobby here> is not 'fun', it's technically and ethically complex.

The art of click-baity article titles is not 'fun', it's technically and ethically complex.
I can't speak to any abuse of these programs, but as a US citizen I value my co-workers on H1-Bs and want them to stay.
>wouldn't be truly appreciated as part of a formal, scientific method... until... [later] thinkers really formalized it.

They didn't formalize empiricism or the scientific method. They couldn't have because they didn't have the tools. In fact, it's still not formal.

The reason nobody formalized the scientific method is that science depends entirely on the process of induction, and nobody understood induction in any kind of formal, rigorous, mathematical way until the middle part of the 20th century, with the work of men like Kolmogorov, Solomonoff, Vapnik, and Chaitin.
Certainly. The nordic model is basically that the labour market is kept quite liberal, to the benefit of companies, but this is balanced by a strong social security net. This is in contrast to how things work in most of the rest of Europe, where there are strong laws in place that protects workers. The result is that it's much easier to start and run companies (and to fail in doing so) in the nordics.
Yes. Expecting anything to be secure by default is unreasonable. It would be nice, but I would not just expect it, I would confirm it.

Expecting it to be secure on the internet is even less reasonable.
Piston uses a bunch of pure-Rust image handling libraries. It just integrates them for use in games.