skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
chiming in here to corroborate that stimulant use/abuse is heavily prevalent in scientists and startup types that i know.

even the md/phd types who have been in clinical practice for 20 years do it, even after they've had kids etc. most only abuse coffee-- you can tell because the norm is to drink coffee until you're literally red in the face when there is serious work to get done. there are people who abstain, of course. they aren't looked down on, but they're probably not as productive on average.

coffee isn't bad at all. but plenty of others use/abuse prescription stimulants too, usually a bit more clandestinely in my experience. but if you know what to look for it's easy to tell when they're on them.

it makes sense. the point where people need stimulants the most is in synthesizing experimental insights into new hypotheses in light of other literature. it takes a lot of brainpower to keep trucking... you can take a crack at it without stimulants, but you'll run out of steam quickly.

as far as the downside, a handful of people binge drink to come down, but it isn't the norm, except during social events. there are a few who smoke weed / take xanax at work to calm down, but these are frowned upon somewhat.
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at the risk of offending NLPers/Vision/Speech I just think those tasks are 'easier' in a variety of ways.
This article is about the low-touch versus high-touch tension of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421438, illustrated by Dropbox versus Box.
In general this is true, but I would guess it's least true in hospitals?

They have a lot of throughput and are generally over-burdened, so 'driving away' patients isn't much of a risk. Beyond that, a lot of their patients are there because it's the nearest hospital and aren't actually choosing where to go.

At least anecdotally, my impression is that PCPs and clinics worry about satisfying patient demands (e.g. antibiotics for colds) to maintain revenue, while hospitals mostly worry about how to get more patients who can pay and fewer who can't.
Paper is interesting but boy have they missed the opportunity so far imho. Paper doesn't come close to what Quip has been able to do, and they failed to capitalize on email. My impression, right or wrong, is that they are very slow at development compared to their competitors.

What I think the article gets right is that Dropbox focused on files - which are being abstracted away. At my current company, we have Dropbox and Google Drive, but it's clear that if we're going to use G-Suite then Dropbox needs to go.

What they could do: with their new-found public status, they could buy Smartsheet to get a solid Google Sheets competitor. I'm sure they can find a calendar provider.

Of course, I'm not confident that they should point their ship into the eye of Office 365 and G-Suite - I just don't see what their other options are.
In “Binge-Reading Disorder,” an article for The Morning News, Nikkitha Bakshani analyzes the meaning of this statistic. “Reading is a nuanced word,” she writes, “but the most common kind of reading is likely reading as consumption: where we read, especially on the internet, merely to acquire information. Information that stands no chance of becoming knowledge unless it ‘sticks.’”

Or, as Horvath puts it: “It’s the momentary giggle and then you want another giggle. It’s not about actually learning anything. It’s about getting a momentary experience to feel as though you’ve learned something.”
Yeah but this car was three years old and was certified pre-owned, with low mileage. You're suggesting one that is pushing two decades of service. We looked at those kind of cars too and it was obviously a worse choice unless you love rust and frequent repairs.
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I oddly ran into a description of something like this from someone that was a prisoner of the Japanese during WW2.

Something about how every Japanese soldier, officers included, would squat while doing stationary tasks.

That is, if i understood the description correctly.
Like others have said try to keep your A/B tests the same except for the one change you are testing.

If you haven't already check out patio11's book.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/21/i-wrote-a-book-on-conve...

It still has lots of great info.

His block, podcasts and comments here on HN are worth checking out too.
I believe the need (or desire) to re-invent oneself several times during a career will become soon the norm rather than the exception. How to not make this a social liability is a challenge ahead of all of us.
> Something invaluable to me on an iPhone is the switch to silence alerts.

OnePlus's phones have that, and it's great. Of course, OnePlus also have some nasty privacy failures … but then, Apple have some nasty openness failures.

I'd love to be able to just buy a decent phone, with a replaceable battery (because the batteries fail first), which I, not some vendor, own.
> Sounds a bit like Baron Münchhausen pulling himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a mire by his own hair.

It sounds crazy, but you've likely seen what NVidia did with high-resolution synthetic faces using their progressive GANs; I'd totally use them as training examples without any hesitation.
I don't share your confidence in the distinction. Both statements can be true today, but as a result of those being true people will not build bike lanes and will cater to drivers. The fewer bike riders you have, the less it is that likely new development will accommodate bike riders, which means you have even fewer bike riders.

Obviously people CAN overcome these tendencies, but it requires a stronger push (which is why we have unhappy bike riders everywhere, or Americans that disapprove of the electoral college, or terrible public transit) "Inertia" seems a very apt metaphor.
The word "irregardless" exists, whether you/I/we want it to or not.[0,1] All I can say is that it is indeed surprising how quickly confusing neologisms that should be chucked in the bin soon become sad facts of history.

It's not in the same category as "for all intensive purposes". But that's just the way language evolves. "Intensive" in that case should be "intents and", which, I believe has the same heritage as "clear and present danger", "crimes and misdemeanors", and "cease and desist". All these phrases are redundant lawyer-speak that came about when the law was being translated from Latin to English in the, what, 14th century in England?

So, yeah, there are people who want to _sound_ educated, thinking they'll use a high-falutin' phrase like "for all intents and purposes", they get it wrong and say "for all intensive purposes", and instantly reveal themselves as the uneducated person they actually are. (But only if their present company includes an actually educated person, of course.)

But rather than passing judgment on uneducated folks for using eggcorns[2], it would be more compassionate to reserve that judgment for the actual content and meaning of their speech, and not the superficial form it takes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/irregardless-real-word-regard...
[2] http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
> It’s far more important to have a ticketing system that functions reliably and supports your processes than the other way round.

The most efficient ticketing systems I have ever seen were heavily customized in-house. When they moved to a completely different product, productivity in addressing tickets plummeted. They stopped generating tickets to deal with it.

> After process, documentation is the most important thing, and the two are intimately related.

If you have two people who are constantly on call to address issues because nobody else knows how to deal with it, you are a victim of a lack of documentation. Even a monkey can repair a space shuttle if they have a good manual.

I partly rely on incident reports and issues as part of my documentation. Sometimes you will get an issue like "disk filling up", and maybe someone will troubleshoot it and resolve it with a summary comment of "cleaned up free space in X process". Instead of making that the end of it, create a new issue which describes the problem and steps to resolve in detail. Update the issue over time as necessary. Add a tag to the issue called 'runbook'. Then mark related issues as duplicates of this one issue. It's kind of horrible, but it seamlessly integrates runbooks with your issue tracking.
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No it won’t. We’re not getting evacuated rails anytime soon for the same practical and economic reasons we haven’t had them yet. This goes doubly for passengers on these things.

It’s bizarre, as someone who understands some of the physics, and economic limitations to see people suspend their brains and buy in.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601417/the-unbelievable-r...

https://www.inverse.com/article/14643-the-problem-with-elon-...

In short, crazy expensive, nightmare maintenance, safety issues, pulling a vacuum over such a huge vessel is crazy, and oh yeah people will vomit up their very souls at such speeds, unless it’s nearly straight.
edit: found email info
>People who use a lot of stimulants tend to love talking about themselves

As opposed to people who don't?
TL;DR: I've had issues with alcohol in the past, and am currently on prescription drugs to focus at work.

I've bounced around a bit.

After losing my job in '00 I started drinking pretty heavily. That was probably my worst period, and definitely in the abuse zone. I was able to pull myself out of it long enough to get work, which helped me keep out of trouble with it for a while.

In '06 I was working in the banking sector in NYC. There was a pretty string drinking culture there. Never at work, but afterwards you'd head out to bars and have a half dozen beers, then maybe go to a whiskey bar. I'd stumble home at least one night per week.

I had to do a lot of introspection about this and decide whether I wanted alcohol in my life at all. In the end I feel like my drinking was trying to avoid a shitty point in my life. If I hit a point like that again I stop drinking altogether (this has happened once since then, and it went well). But otherwise I don't really worry about it. I probably drink about twice/month, and usually only a drink or two when we go out for a nice dinner.

These days I've been having focus issues. I've always been borderline ADD. After my son was diagnosed with ADHD he started on Methylphenidate (in the Ritalin family) and I saw a night and day difference. So I saw a psychopharmacologist and I'm taking 60 mg Vyvanse (in the Adderall family) most work days. I don't use it when I'm not working, and I never stack more than one. But there has been a lot of pressure to keep up with peers. I'm 38 years old and have two kids, working as a software engineer at Google, my team lead is 22, and the average age of the group is 23. I just can't match their work-life balance. The Vyvanse keeps me focused on my job, and my peers and manager have noticed and commented on the increased productivity.

I've gone through periods when I smoked pot heavily to unwind from stressful work. These days I smoke extremely rarely.

After dabbling in the alcohol addiction, I don't want to fall back in that, so I keep a pretty close eye on myself. My wife also feels comfortable telling me if she thinks there's a problem, so I feel supported by the people around me.
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I have found that the high tolerance for recreational activities throughout the workday has made software development easy to cope with. Stuck on algorithm? Go play some ping pong. Stressing about a bug? Pick up Dr. Mario or maybe some Ms. PacMan. However, since my brain is expected to be on full speed all the time, I do find myself drinking a lot of espresso. Around 8 shots per day. In this profession, we work weeks and often weekends to meet deadlines. I cannot imagine that software developers who abuse drugs could live through a typical software project. And I can't recall any professional developers who use drugs. Although I did know a graphic designer who I'm pretty sure did crack. Not 100% sure though.
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Interesting, took me a while to discern your meaning here[1]. I had never heard of John Bradford, but basically, it's in the spirit of "There but for the grace of God, goe I".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradford
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Fear that the new power won't overlook the misdeeds they (the old power) undertook while in power.
These types of busy-work machinations are often done by cloud providers around encryption. The purpose is apparently to say they use ciphers but also keep the keys in order for decrypting data.

Cloudkit and iCloudDrive use Account Keys, but it isn't clear if those are key encryption keys or data encryption keys. It also isn't clear if those are protected from information only from the client, or if the cloud is able to freely read them. The differences are massive in regards to privacy, and this document really doesn't have the needed technical information to make an informed decision.
Think back to about 2009... there was a company called drop.io that was purchased by Facebook and their product summarily executed. It was a simply and elegantly executed Dropbox, Slack, Box, Discord-ish all-in-one solution. It was about 5-10 years ahead of its time.

There is room for Dropbox to expand and grow revenue beyond file storage/syncing. One hopes the billions they will raise after IPO will be applied to a more drop.io-ish offering.
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Agreed--this was a huge source of philosophical dissonance for me when I lived there. The issue is just as persistent in the East Bay (specifically, Oakland/Berkeley) and is worse, IMO, because Berkeley espouses a progressive/compassionate/environmentally+socially friendly image, to which it does not adhere in practice.
There were 1,137 homeless reported in London [0], a city with a population of 8.8 million. SF has 7,499 [1] for a city of 870k. There are actually more homeless in SF than all of England.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/25/rough-sleepe...
[1] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-new-count-shows-...
This is, subjectively, absolutely insane to me. In your experience do people have an easy time going off these substances?
That first photo reminds me of the Gotham Public Works logo from the Batman universe:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_2Oqwk1Gqs/TcauyYazjaI/AAAAAAAAA...

I wonder if it was, perhaps, inspired by this famous photo?
I'm guessing Congressional memo redactions, especially these days, aren't quite up to the standards of intelligence agencies that have to redact and release for FOIA on a daily basis.
I was in an accelerator with a company called beagle.ai that did exactly this (among other things). Their site appears to be down this morning, I don’t know if that is a temporary or permanent state.
Wonder if JS notebook environments like this one, Observable and runkit.com will eventually all consolidate and (hopefully) integrate with Jupyter Notebook / Lab

https://jupyter.org/
"That place is New Jersey."?
It has the highest property taxes in the country, high insurance rates, etc.

I grew up there, it definitely has it's downsides too.
I'd choose it over California, for sure, but New Jersey is definitely not cheap.
Hardly a drug, but I take a "cosmonaut pills", Phenylpiracetam, for years. No side effects for me (tho it varies from person to person as I saw), but compared to Adderal (which I'd gladly take but it is too much pain to obtain here) it is like kiddie vitamins.
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>We really won’t know until Xi dies in office.

We would also know if he is replaced 5-10 years down the line while still very much alive.
It’s not just in the industry, it’s probably from high school or uni, but yeah you have the idea.
> This technology will never fully replace a human lawyer, but it can certainly speed up their work by highlighting the most important sections of a story.

That's optimistic thinking but AI can and probably will replace lawyers and doctor's at some point. At least a large majority. All legal consulting could easily be replaced, courtroom lawyering will probably be the last to go because a lot of that is emotional to sway jurors one way or another..

Unless the jurors are replaced by ai as well...
Everything but the weather. Lots of NJ transplants in Atlanta and Florida. They make the trip back up to walk the boards and rub elbows with their old friends for a few weeks but spend most of the year where it's warm.
it's heavily dependent on the right genetic makeup from what i know.

for some it provides clarity, for others, fog. the dopamine transporters are very mysterious to me.
This will not take a lot of time for spambots to figure out. Would it?

Are there any web-application-firewall level spambot filtering that would ensure that the bot traffic can be continually monitored and the rules to block spambots can be continually updated?
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You do know there are a lot of "accomplished" people according to their own CV who can't actually code their way out of a paper bag, right?

The more senior someone gets, the more expensive. It's worth the company's time to screen for basic aptitude, especially when someone claims greater expertise.

> As a consequence, I rather start my own company

By all means, you should definitely do that and stop worrying about job interviews!

> if you employed me with a bit of a good will on your part

Good will is something you earn. And you earn it by doing things the company needs without complaining. For starters, they need to be able to compare candidates against each other when hiring. Fighting that, and asking the company to evaluate something you've done that doesn't allow comparing you against other people, isn't something that will benefit the company.

> or by simply reading my CV and clicking on the links there.

You're expecting people to spend time reading your projects before they screen you? If you got the call, it's probably because someone read your CV. That's all you can expect at this stage. If you want them to click the links and read the rest, then you take 30 minutes to do the phone screen, and another 30 to do the coding quiz. Then you get to have a conversation about your projects.

If they never ask you about your projects, then yeah, maybe you shouldn't work there. The coding quiz is only one small part of a many-part process.
Not helpful.
Sometimes technically correct isn't correct enough or good enough. The symbol was - in large parts of the world - tainted by the Nazis. By Germans (I'm one).

Sorry for Buddhists that suffer in Europe, but I am a supporter of the ban of this symbol (and lots of other speech, Free Speech is a different concept from elsewhere).
Nothing really. It's just that NYC decided to go into tech, and they have a lot of capital they can use to take in that direction.

NYC could beat Boston in Red Sox fandom if they wanted to.
I generally love talking about myself, but I don't love talking about how I had a glass of cab last night, and how I can't wait to get home and have another.
Sounds like something of your own making. Actual tech employees in the Bay Area are still an overwhelming minority of people. Yes, tech is more of a minority in NY and NY is more of a hub for other industries.

But if you only hung out with tech employees in SF, that was a bubble of your own creation.
> All the large ones (Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) give coding puzzles as part of their interview process.

They are considered the best and give above average compensation. Is your company considered the best, properly paying top talent, to employ the same schema? Those tests were done to distill the top end performers with the accepted risk of huge number of false negatives. Now every mom-and-dad shop is trying to use it. That's why I call it insanity, getting extreme practices into mainstream in our industry.
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One of our hiring managers uses HackerRank as a basic filter. (If you are applying for a position called Data Scientist and you cannot do a linear regression, you are applying at the wrong company.)

I think an email like this would be just fine, for them.

I think it would go over badly at companies where HR runs the hiring process.
Yes, you are right.

I'm not used to the American terms for ingredients, it's labelled glucose syrup in Europe.
If they are assuming they know more than everybody involved and making suggestions to a process they haven't even gone through 20% of, then yes, they are probably a bad fit.

It's extremely hypocritical to criticize someone for the very thing you are doing (assuming the other person doesn't know how to do their job). Couple this with the fact that they are not asking for any advice on their hiring process, it's a pretty rude thing to do.

A little bit of fluff added to the wording doesn't make it suddenly polite.

> I would not want to hire someone who can take any task and complete with minimal issues.

Someone who can't do straightforward tasks without having an issue is incompetent, pedantic, or both.
What should a beginner cyber security curriculum cover?
As far as I know the reverse captcha (thats what the honeypot is) is still not seen by bots and they just fill out the field as per usual.
I can add one anecdatum, I'm from the Netherlands and don't know of drug abuse in the two businesses I interned at. I do know that some friends of mine, who are devs/engineers, occasionally use various drugs recreationally, but never for work.

The only drug use I know of is ritalin or other legal stimulants for those diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, and of course coffee/tea/alcohol.
Logged in to upvote this. Birds of a feather flock together.

I’ve personally never come across anyone who (admits) to using anything stronger than Redbull. In fact, we have some employees who don’t even drink coffee, opting for “natural” stimulants which come with less of a crash. Yerba Mate seems particularly popular these days.

However, I may be in my own bubble; I’m very interested in seeing what you find!
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How can I, as an employer, provide a fair interview process if every interviewee gets to pick terms? A uniform process isn't because we think it is the optimal process, but because it is the best process that ensures fairness.
Watch for your son to start heel-striking too, if he isn't already.

I think you're right about the large-scale brainwashing! But I think another essential part of the solution is going to be re-evaluating our society's relationship with sitting. I don't think it's a coincidence that the "tipping point" for a lot of children, where their movement patterns degrade, is when they start sitting primarily in chairs, rather than on the floor.
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> They would not get Google Play Services

If I have Firefox and thus can load up any Google web page, do I need Google Play Services?
what makes you resist going that route? Do you also feel pressure in the profession to work longer, produce more, etc.?
I’m not having a problem reading what you wrote, although I admit that my psychic powers are for crap. In other words, I read what you wrote, not whatever subtle variation you felt. Taking context into account, I suspect that what you actually wrote was pretty much accurate, without the post hoc qualifications.
I should have searched. This is actually quite useful to be aware of. Thanks.
Yes, but do you know of any large software project that only ships when they hit zero bugs? Actually, this would probably extend to all products. Creating a product with no known defects is not possible AFAICT.