skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always get brain fog while at work or school, and it always dissipates when I go home.
I haven't found a direct cause yet.
Can you elaborate a bit on what was said for the SCPD program "not being worth the time and effort"?

(Googler here) I took ~4 classes, and they all seemed to be of high quality (applied for the full MSCS, but didn't get in, unfortunately). What are some of the opinions you've heard here?
I bought a telephone book from 1942 and none of the phone numbers work
I get a bit awkward socially after a focused stretch of coding. Some days I'll go 4-6 hours only speaking to one person (a barista) briefly to order some coffee.

The next conversation I have after the coding stretch usually finds me struggling to make my mouth say the thoughts in my head, and then once it does, the sentence structure I use includes more nested clauses than usual.

But even after a 12 hour day of coding I rarely feel fatigued when it comes to learning something new about a technical area I'm studying, though admittedly I don't always spend my spare time working on those things.

I generally get very focused and periodically hours will go by and I won't realize what time it is, only to realize that it's hours later than I had thought. This is a double-edged sword. The flow state is amazing, but sometimes I wonder what happened to the day, even though it was a pleasant day.

I'm about half introvert, half extravert, but for me the most fatiguing thing is being in meetings that seem to last too long relative to their yield. I end up drained and need to recharge for a bit afterwords alone before I'm ready to do anything.
I did reasearch during my MS as well. Tuition + Healthcare + Stipend. Still lost out on 1.5 years of $100k+ a year to slowly lose money (whatever the stipend didn't cover in my living expenses) and get a MS, but I'm happy in the end.
A library is free, even if all of the world's knowledge is online it would cost money to access in addition to paying for internet. The point of libraries is to remove any barrier to entry for knowledge. I can go to my library and get access to journals and articles I would have to pay for otherwise. It is not a huge waste of money, it is a great way to save. Taxes are paid into the library and as a result the community as a whole benefits.

Ignoring all of that,you say people can get all of their knowledge online now. Please remember that you're fortunate enough to own a computer or cell phone with a data plan. Many people only have access to the internet at the library.

Libraries have survived through all of history for a reason, the internet will not kill them. If they are defunded they will be formed by people like Bezos who recognize the huge benefit they provide to society.
A price is set when a buyer and seller agree on a price. If all sellers want a high price, then the price will be high.

The bitcoin price is rising as much because current holders would rather hold as because buyers are willing to pay more than they were in the past.

A Ponzi scheme promises a return, and uses new money to fund returns to existing investors. Cryptocurrencies themselves make no such promise -- those buying with intent to sell in the future are buying with the belief that the future price will be higher, but such a reality is hardly certain.
I made myself a pebble app to do this that I never ended up publishing. Sadly I no longer have the code nor my pebble.
I completely agree. Where I lived at in Houston, trying to find a place to sit and study quietly was near impossible, which is something I certainly took for granted.

Libraries provide so much public good: giving the public internet access, allowing people to read classics and better themselves for free, and giving some quiet space for those wanting to study (and not have to pay for a $5 coffee).
Bitcoin is an alternative currency, really the only thing going up is the exchange rate.
I enjoyed reading your last comment.
While globally it is a drop in the ocean, locally the quality of air should improve.
https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/explore/faq/admissions
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Why would you give your money to a group where you have concerns about their ability to manage the money?
You must be from the past, as blockchain creates value by lowering cost of operations.

Bitcoin, Litecoin - money transfer

IOTA - micro transactions without fee ( Internet of Things )

Ethereum - contracts

Monero - private, non-traceable transactions

the list is long. 99% percent of these projects will fail, but 1% will create added value to the world.
I'm the original author. I can't nap, unfortunately. I feel groggy after a nap and it messes up my sleep schedule. I envy those of you who can benefit from a nap.

I'll update my post to explain that.
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I never liked the "My" moniker, because I feel like the label is speaking to me from the computer's or the vendor's point of view, rather than my own. So for me, it would feel even more appropriate for Windows 10 to continue using it, to remind users who really controls their devices.
Yeah, I noticed I have trouble conversing or paying attention to what the person is saying to me, particularly if the talk isn't geared to resolving a problem.
I overwhelmingly agree with that.

I grew up in one of the poorer places in America - Appalachia. Despite that, we had a nice library, donated initially by a wealthy individual and then sustained by various forms of private funding over the decades.

It didn't always have the absolute latest books, the selection was decent though. It had Internet access very early on and was a valuable, inexpensive resource for young and old people alike. It was also relatively well maintained; pre mid 1990's Web, if you needed to really know a subject in-depth, it was easily the best local resource. The local community benefited immensely from it.

I'd like to see Bezos (and ideally matching contributors) put together an effort to modernize the concept for the 21st century. Virtual reality for example will become an important access technology over the next 20 years, that many lower income people won't be able to afford and will have future job importance in many fields.
> I was lead to believe as long as it was invite only and you didn't charge for attending, it was legal.

The UK seems to require a 'non-theatrical' film licence [1][2] for:

- at one-off events

- at film clubs - whether or not you sell tickets

- in common areas for guests, residents and passengers

- in retail and entertainment venues

[1] https://www.gov.uk/showing-films-in-public

[2] https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/copyright/2014/08/01/film-clubs/
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Out of curiosity what Uni is currently teaching COBOL?
Thank you; I'll be sure to try it out.
That sounds like it could be a nightmare for error handling! How do you work with that? And aren't a great many performance benefits lost when you restrict Go to stdout?

I would think it would be better overall to just create a local http server in Go and use that instead. Or sockets if you're feeling up to it.
What freedom is that?
Not op/parent, but I too have ADD/ADHD-PI and is helped by what some call meditation. My physical therapist at the psychiatric unit mostly saw them as an excercise which have appeared to help people like me.

Briefly, or maybe not so, what was taught to me was an excercise to sit down and experience myself emotionally and physically, with a focus on the latter, and without judging or interpretation.

Thoughs may come and go, I don't cling to them, but neither do I force them away.

There is a physical part in an intention, a will to let the body find a posture that feels both solid and effortless where the respiration movement is not isolated to a small part of the chest or abdomen. The breathing is hard to describe, but when it works right it barely feels like I'm breathing at all, as although most of the chest, back, and abdomen is somewhat involved - breathing becomes so smooth and effortless compared to what my otherwise tense body usually do to breathe.

Immediate effects for me is that the world feels more real, solid, and even that the floor feels softer.
Sometimes I think that maybe this is what feeling both relaxed and alert means? Neither is something I think I have felt more than very rarely.

Otherwise, regulating emotions, tuning out noisy environments etc is long term effects.

To me the excercise appears to reinforce the importance of body perception, raw unprocessed emotions, and physical stimuli over internally generated feelings and thoughts. A stillness to listen to even when I'm not doing the exercises, a recliner in my mind to lean back into when there is too much chaos around me. Not to flee, but to hear and see without getting overwhelmed.

As ADD is characterised by a mind constantly jumping from thought to thought, one that is never still, it's conceivable that some kind of balance between various parts of the brain gets upset, somewhat like when everything becomes a nail because all you have is a hammer.
That's some weird straw man argument. He didn't say books are a waste of money, he said paper books and libraries (physical buildings) are irrelevant, he explained his position.

I agree with him. Libraries are one of the least efficient ways to deliver quality information to to the masses, especially up-to-date information. They are slow, expensive, require driving, paper books slowly rot, buildings occupy useful space.
Has anyone done the math to see the effect of ransomware on the bitcoin price? How much demand is from folks buying their data back?
Hitmakers by Derek Thompson. an easy breezy read choc-a-bloc with anecdotes of what makes something click.
I think that's likely. The combination of the guaranteed income and the fairly low chance that many subscribers will actually use their pass every day means it isn't a big risk for the theaters.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I will add a new check to ensure that table columns are always be prefixed with table name. However, I still think that it is worthwhile to not use a generic primary key name (at least in the common case).
I am a BA(Business Analyst) with mostly traditional Project Management duties. My bachelors was in CS, and I still love to delve into technical details of a solution. I do some data analytics for my product. But have been interested in more analytics driven roles and eventually find a Product Owner/Manager role.

Does anyone have insight if doing Georgia Tech's - Master of Science in Analytics will help me land such role?
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My main problem was eye fatigue. I use Flux (justgetflux.com/) set at 4300K even during the day, and it helped a lot.
Did this calculation a few years back, and living in the Bay Area on one salary (possibly plus a non-engineer salary) looked financially impossible. I'd definitely recommend taking a trip out there and looking carefully at what your life would be like there. Among other things, note that living in a house there is impossible until/unless you win the IPO lottery.
It appears they are routing around issues at bing and yahoo: https://twitter.com/duckduckgo/status/897501100412030976
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Thanks for sharing these interesting anecdotes.
Since 1P-LSD is theorized to be a prodrug of LSD, it would likely be illegal in the United States under the Federal Analogue Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act
Please do so!
Uber needs to go the way of the dodo bird! Let Lyft and others take it's place. Maybe Lyft buys Uber.

Personally and after Uber let $1k get stolen from my bank account and laughed via their bro PR statement (it's the users' fault)it's been great to see all their bad behavior come back to bite them.
Bitcoin already has proven valuable properties. The question now is whether or not the future flushed out value it brings is higher, or lower, than the current market price. There's a lot of unknowns which is why at this time it is a speculative investment.

Make no mistake though, bitcoin is already valuable as a value store, especially for wealthy individuals who live in countries not quite as stable as the US. It also has a place as a convenient high risk investment at the high risk end of any investors portfolio who is looking to increase their risk adjusted return.
> Well, in a nutshell, it's not a Ponzi scheme, which is not just a random slur you can fire at anything that vaguely seems like fraud, but a specific scheme that works in a specific way.

Please explain. How is Bitcoin not a Ponzi scheme? It checks all boxes:

- No immediate value, nothing in Bitcoin has worth outside of it. No IP, no machines, no added value to society

- Old investors get paid exclusively by new investors (buy at $500, sell at $3,000)

- Heavy marketing by old investors through promises of extreme gains ("if you bought in 2011, you'd have made 10,000% gains right now!")
Let me give you a hypothetical company IT department: while you are allowed to work there with any education background, only an MBA can be a manager. How do you think they would perform at IT tasks?

Who runs libraries? People with Masters in Library Science. I expect severe budget and certification crises would come to any library that won't put a certified librarian in a head position.

Or, I'm a working class guy and it's Sunday, my traditional off from work, can I go to the library? No, it is closed because there needs to be Master Librarian on duty and they've negotiated a contract to never have to work Sunday. Now the facility sits there unused 14% of the time, during the most likely time it would be used.
>Are books a waste of money?

For preservation and dissemination of information, definitely. They might be useful for education, especially children's ed, though.

> In-person public speaking events?

Don't need a library for that, there are many other places this can be done.

>Museums?

Libraries and museums are different.

> Especially as the internet is increasingly fractured, censured, monitored, and otherwise limited.

As if that does not apply to libraries: Once it is legal to censor an item online it will also be removed from libraries.
They do have "stakeholders" which, naturally, can't profit from either operation or sale of the nonprofit, but, crucially, _can_ control creation of commercial spin-offs and spending. I.e. While de jure they can't be called owners, they still can (and often do) profit indirectly.
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Moving to SF/SV sounds fun, until you look at the quality of life. If you're hellbent on going this route, IMO you should possibly consider the NYC route and live in NJ. Your prices will be high as well, but the quality of life is much better. You can easily commute into NYC via train and then get back to NJ and have some ability to have a "normal life" without being in the city.

That said, there are other options. Look at WeWorkRemotely.com and RemoteOk.io for remote jobs. Get a good job, work remotely and have a good quality of life.

I almost went down the SF/SV route many times. Each time I ran the pros/cons and SF/SV has the worse return on life value for a family, IMO than almost anywhere. I've worked remotely for nearly 9 years and love this life. No commuting. Just my .02.
Ya, I wouldn't single out MS as particularly bad here, but they used to be much better about this than the other companies. Now they are reaching down to parity, and developer support used to be their greatest strength.
>In many languages: arr[idx] = nevalue

The thing you have to keep in mind is that this kind of naked mutation is probably the main source of bugs in programming today. One of the main advantages of OO was that it demarcated which functions could modify a "global" variable. But if I get a weird value in one of my fields, I still can't trivially tell how it got there, I can only narrow down to methods of the class (and possibly the inheritance tree, depending on variable visibility).

Due to that, there is more ceremony in modifying things in Haskell. The language works best if you write most of your code in a way that doesn't mutate anything and then limit mutation to a small area using the advanced techniques developed in the language. But doing all this requires a pretty substantial investment so you probably need something to convince you that the end will be worth it before you start. I don't know what you tell you, what got me interested was something like:

> fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)

and

> max = head . sort

but I understand that's not going to motivate most people to completely change how they approach programming as a discipline.
Many have tried, but my guess is that it's extremely difficult mainly because the government is involved, and decades of archaic systems (and minds) that you need to deal with. The word "fast" isn't in the vocabulary in this industry, and every decision moves at a snail's pace. Granted, there's a reason and you can't simply fuck up and prioritize into the next sprint that you'll fix the previous fuckup.

The other issue (at least in the USA) is a ton of compliance stuff you have to deal with. HIPAA compliance is such a pain in the ass. It's not "cool" or fun, so it doesn't usually attract great devs or people that don't want to deal with constant red tape and permissions for accessing things. Naturally, this business sort of attracts the bureaucratic minded people and the really efficient people end up frustrated/burn out and move into an industry where getting shit done is easily quantifiable in the short term.

Regardless, I work in the healthcare industry currently and it's a shitshow for lack of a better word.
Neil Shen
Founding Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital China
Real Time Net Worth — as of 8/15/17
$1.06 B (!)
https://www.forbes.com/profile/neil-shen/

This guy is actively building the instruments of oppression and making a ton of money doing it. Certainly doesn't match the kind of unilateral oppression connotated by the word "victim".
I miss that "UH-OH" sound from WS_FTP
Uber is in 83 countries though, Lyft in just the US. They have a simply enormous global market to tap with programs like this.
Can you please open an issue or send a PR to update the documentation? Thanks!
I totally agree with ytNumbers, family and support systems make a huge difference in quality of life. If your wife needs to run out to do an errand without your daughter, she can call family today. That won't be available in the Bay Area, and you'll wind up paying someone (not to mention finding said someone).

Also, you should look into Cost of Living calculators. They will take into account your new salary, cost of living (rent, food, gas, etc.) compared to your current salary. http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/

Smaller living space and more traffic are two downsides to the Bay Area. The weather is probably nicer, though, so any outdoor living space can be more utilized.

Personally, I have allergies. That would also be a consideration when moving. Can you take a few weeks trip out with everyone to see if there are any problems (or if existing problems go away)?
> That would probably climb to more than $100,000

$100k for talent in NYC is not good.
yeah there is much to say! (good and bad)

Alas running a digital studio, a startup, and being a father to a wild 5yr old boy has produced few disposable hours(sigh)

..however weekly Medium posts is something i've been meaning to do...especially as im living abroad.

thanks for the encouragement.
Could you please clarify?
Check your light, seating & posture, chronic muscle tensions, and most of all diet. Thinking burns calories, your brain gets something like a fifth of all the oxygen you take in...
This guy is pretty high up: https://www.forbes.com/profile/neil-shen/
Only if it turns out the work is actually good. If not this is exactly what should happen in peer review.
I have no formal academic credential in CS. I got my first job as a programmer off of Craigslist, and I recommend taking a look to everyone who is having trouble finding an entry level position. People/companies advertising there typically don't care too much about pedigree (this should not surprise, given the branding of Craigslist), and also usually aren't looking for rocket scientists.

I agree with the advice others have given re: years of experience: it's rarely a hard requirement.

Take a look at this list of software jobs for NYC[1]. I see three or four entry level positions just on the first page.

[1] https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sof
I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event.
It's richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.
eradication of Malaria (1000 deaths daily, much more suffering and cost to society).

If great efforts are made to eradicate diseases in an area that has historically been subjected to various diseases such that the local population has adopted the reproduction strategy of having large amounts of offspring to counter premature deaths, but upon eradication/reduction of said diseases there is significant delay in the abatement of the overproduction strategy if it abates at all http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-worlds-most-important-graph/

if this population surge then expands beyond it's historical borders and causes mass societal disruption on a neighboring continent whose civilization has historically contributed great innovation and wealth to the world at large, and subsequently, said wealth and innovation contribution declines because of said societal disruption, do those who sought to eradicate the various diseases harbor some responsibility for the diminished prospects of the world at large?

Granted these are delicate questions but I believe their being asked has not just validity, but importance.

Certainly, simply ignoring pain, disease, and suffering is almost universally unpalatable.

But modifying one aspect of a complex system for what appears to be perfectly benevolent reasons, it is not at all surprising to find there could be downstream negative effects, negative enough to far outweigh whatever beneficent contribution you thought you were initially making. How do you make value judgments in such cases?

Gates himself has said it is far better to help people where they are regarding the recent unauthorized population influx events in Europe.

So I don't believe he is entirely blind to these potential downstream catastrophic effects.
> Leaving a support system/family behind if you have a child (and considering another child) is not trivial.

So much this. Soooo much.
The additional money would not buy you an equivalent quality of life. It's that simple

In addition to the increase in money not being enough to buy you an equivalent quality of life you will be living in a completely different culture. This will wear on not only you but your wife. You really don't want to be turning your life upside down and ditching your connections/support network at this point in your life.

SV, NYC, and similar are places where you go to make money. They are not places you go to settle down.
>I'm still surprised more companies aren't doing it.

Microsoft issued bonds[1] to fund the acquisition of LinkedIn even though MS had plenty of cash in the bank to buy it outright. (Not sure how much of $100+ billion is in USA vs overseas which may have made the $26 billion cash payment for LinkedIn a stretch.) Alternatively, Microsoft could have paid via stock -- but they didn't. (Or maybe Reid Hoffman negotiations said "no" to MS stock.) In today's climate of low yields, healthy companies can buy companies without stock or cash holdings. Just issue bonds.

Facebook bought Instagram and Whatsapp with stock so the calculus was different there.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/news/microsoft-leads-aaa-bond-sa...