skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This is something that needs to be discussed.

Almost every engineer is using some kind of stim in the morning and sedative in the evening. This can be as benign as caffeine/alcohol, but I've seen this escalate to any one of: caffeine, Provigil, cocaine, (meth)amphetamines on the front end, and alcohol, THC, Xanax and even ketamine on the backend.

It's the only way to deal with the abusive hours. We used to joke at a company I worked at-- that if you weren't an alcoholic, you would be in a couple of years.

Bad companies, really bad ones are setup like this: you have to break the rules to get your job done. But some people are blessed by management and others aren't. X breaks the rules because he's a brilliant leader, Y breaks the rules because he's a worthless loser. We had a VP and PM doing coke, fucking each other (very illegal in California), abusing the staff with bizarre and drug-fuelled behavior, all of which was ignored and encouraged. I was fired for "writing a rude e-mail." :-)

For a time, there was even a dealer in the buildings mail room. You put in an order, and in a couple of days, a DHL, FEDEX, etc. comes with your order.

There's a very real human cost to this stuff. I've seen guys have a stroke in the office due to pressure. If there's any way I can help, let me know.
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I think (not OP btw) that it is more a problem of being in a highly competitive enviroment? These people are all trying to one up each other, which will eventually leads to finding substances to getting an edge over others? (otherwise they wouldn't be there in the first place?)
I think I've yet to met a Japanese person who was even mildly unhappy to see their name rendered incorrectly due to Han Unification. It seems like when Unicode came out, the TRON guys and some other Japanese engineer were pretty vocal about the evil of Han Unification, but the reality is that the average Japanese user probably doesn't care. They get their name butchered at least once a month in their bank account statement (in half-width Katakana), and if they have an unusual character or a slightly unusual reading in their name, their fellow compatriots would butcher their name as well.

Compared to that, the number of times people from Japan browsing at a site configured to display Japanese language with Chinese Fonts? That must happen once in Super Blue Blood Moon, but not that often. And "many" is definitely exaggeration, considering the number of Japanese name which use characters subject to heavily modified by unification. In other words, "bone" is not a popular character in Japanese names, who would have figured.

Han Unification is not without its pains, of course, and I still can't tell for sure whether it was a good idea, but using EUC-JP or Shift-JIS is not going to get you around it, since you still need a Japanese font to display the characters correctly as they should look in Japanese. And I would gladly take UTF-8 over EUC-JP and Shift-JIS every day.
'Serverless' is a LIE vomited out by lying liars.

It ain't serverless.
I like Patagonia’s “performance” denim. http://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-performance-straight-f...
With coffee there is actually a link to poop in some cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

:-)
Even Facebook and Apple employees can't afford to live near the office
Fishing is both gigantic and unprofitable (roughly $44B/year in the hole with subsidies, as of 2014)[1]. Illegal fishing is also a gigantic problem. In fact, illegal fishing is the 3rd largest crime in dollars after smuggling weapons and drugs (up to $36.4B/year)[2]. It also contributes to human trafficking.

Plug: We're working to stop illegal fishing at Vulcan (with satellites!): http://www.skylight.global/. If you're interested, we actually have an open position on the team - http://www.vulcan.com/About/Careers/Job-Listings?p=job/oCIB6...

Hit me up if you'd like to discuss - email in profile.

[1] https://qz.com/1195914/the-way-the-world-catches-fish-defies...
[2] https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/illegal-fishing
The encryption is to protect data from snooping by the cloud provider Apple hosts the chunks on, not provide end-to-end privacy/anonymity to users from courts or Apple itself. Apple has and WILL comply with subpoena's to gain access to the contents of an iCloud account (sans Keychain where Apple has literally no way of decrypting the data themselves), as such you should never assume data in iCloud is safe from a DA or prosecutor.
>I personally would pay premium to consolidate all those into one organized location

Why would you want to increase risk of losing them all at once?
Overall air quality is pretty good in NYC, but street level pollution is nasty. There isn't a day that I don't get huge whiffs of diesel exhaust or a weekend that i don't have to clean off black grime from my windows. Happens less so in cities where you're not surrounded by walls of buildings and heavy street traffic.

I think the air quality in in the city is only good because it gets quickly blown out to sea.
This sounds kind of in line with the theory that drugs are kind of a zero-sum game. You got a lot of speed earlier on and achieved a ton, but then paid for it later on. Kind of like a, "no such thing as a free lunch" economic theory, but for drugs! Not to knock you or your methods, just an observation.
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This makes sense generally. In our case, though, my family was facing ethnic persecution. We came to the United States as United Nations refugees. We were not seeking economic opportunities.
That doesn't fix the problem for existing characters though, right? If I run a file through "iconv -f SHIFT-JIS -t UTF-8" then it's going to come out using codepoints that are rendered as the "wrong" characters in most international fonts, right?
Your last point is a particularly interesting one. A lot of the most productive and skilled people I know are also very clean. But a good number of them are also using stimulants.

I think we all inhabit a world of people who think they are productive - in the sense that many people optimise for the appearance of productivity as opposed to optimising for actual productivity or value generation. I can honestly say that stimulants make a vast, objective difference to my work output and quality (but I actually do have ADD so I'm not a good measure). I have also seen many other people produce extraordinarily good work on stimulants. At the same time some of the very best people I know don't need them and wouldn't touch them. We don't all have the natural ability or background those people have, so stimulants are a proxy. Quite probably many people are not achieving their maximum potential simply by using stimulants. Quite probably many people are decreasing the quantity or quality of their output by using stimulants. But objectively (as in, see the scientific literature) they do work. Whether people make them work for them is a different matter.
To chime in from the employers perspective, we've found it hard to find full-stack web developers in NYC with more than a years' experience in a dynamic language (we use ruby, but are happy to train people on the specific stack). There's a lot of talent at the recent boot camp grad level and experienced folks in finance. Would love any tips on attracting solid mid-senior talent in NYC.
Have you found any good software for handling backups on Google Drive? Their pricing is appealing, but I haven't really done the research to see what the software is like.
In the years since deregulation, airline fares have dropped by more than 50%.
I did, and they were fine. Still no aerospace engineers or plasma physicists (for example).
Sounds like a movement toward crowdsourcing, long overdue for our increasingly broken scientific process.

If the HN experiment has worked for so long, surely, with proper controls on participation and interaction, there's no need to worry about any kind of "Wild Wild West," as the author put it.

What I wonder is whether anonymity would be better or worse for some kind of semi-public peer review forum.
A "new study" AKA a marketing gimmick dutifully reported as if it were the truth from God's lips by press release dumping ground websites. One important point: are the bots liable for malpractice, or no? That's one of the things that you pay for when you pay for a lawyer: you pay them to put their necks on the line, also.
The original Superman , the comics one is more like Moses, now the movies are "converting" him in Jesus-alike.
Apparently some mice do menstruate[1]. Do mice have another mechanism for handling the issue the author raises: "What to do when the embryo died or was stuck half-alive in the uterus?"

[1]: https://www.nature.com/news/first-rodent-found-with-a-human-...
That's exactly how every human-vs-AI evaluation is measured. For example, if you have an AI detect whether an image contains a cat, your first step is to have a person manually check every image. Of course it is possible for the test/evaluation labels to be incorrect. Nothing about this case is special, at least nothing you have pointed out.
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I was struck by how well done this piece was - astonishing.

The question I'm left with is: what can be done? How do you pull out of a tail spin?
I’m actually wearing some Uniqlo EZY jeans that are really just sweatpants disguised as jeans. They’re just as comfortable as sweats but appear to be jeans to the uninformed observer. Maybe you should check those out.
Could be, I didn’t look into it myself since I don’t have an O365 account.
I think New York is good but overrated as a food scene, especially dollar for dollar.
Unlike Anchorage you can actually fly to those places straight from Seattle as a commercial passenger.
Having lived in both SOMA and the Mission, I wholeheartedly disagree. The vast majority of people I met at coffee shops, restaurants or bars in the city worked in tech.

Living in Manhattan (East Village) and Brooklyn provided a completely different experience. It was a rare to meet people who work in tech.

In both circumstances, I haven't been going out of my way to try to meet people in any specific industry.
Isn't Spanner outrageously expensive?

ISTR reading to basically avoid touching Spanner if you're just experimenting or playing around, unless you are prepared to receive a very large bill (something like ~$700/mo. just for the lowest-end setup).
11 Tough Questions That SEO Agencies Don't Want to Answer
I love dropbox but one of their biggest problems is their refusal to support more than 300,000 files in their sync clients. I have considered moving to google but I need local copies since I often don’t have internet connection but I still need my files. Either way, they have a useful product even if they won’t dominate the enterprise or consumer market.
Here in Canada I've seen caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis in the office, all seem generally well tolerated. I have heard of people taking narcolepsy drugs for productivity, but that was just one person I knew and I have never really seen people taking, or talking about taking much else at work.
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It's really super easy to judge people from the outside, especially with parenting. None of these decisions are made in a vacuum, and especially in low-income immigrant populations, there are many factors at play. When you've got a double digit food budget in which you can't waste a penny, no spouse around to help, and 3 kids who all need help with their homework, then fighting a nightly battle over eating food that takes longer to prepare and you could barely afford to begin with is probably a lot less important.
They've clearly spent a significant amount of product development on building out their enterprise functionality. The functionality there is pretty powerful.

Dropbox has a lot going for it. While the concept of a "file" is constantly being abstracted away by The Powers That Be, its still the most general form of data storage and sharing, and its something every power user will always need. Dropbox has proven that they have unique organizational expertise in this area; competitors have had years to come up with something as powerful as Dropbox Sync, and no one has yet. I'd argue Google is the only company close, and its still not as good.

I might be in the minority, but I am fine with Dropbox's product development speed. They could go out and buy new companies, but I'm afraid they'd start approaching "Atlassian-style" product development; silos of products that only work together through tightly defined integration paths, bad user experiences, promoting a piecemeal "we use Jira but nothing else because they're not the same product" approach instead of a single "Dropbox Experience".

What I'm not fine with is their product direction. Enterprise features are great! But Showcase? Why did they have anyone working on that? They should be focusing on attacking the team collaboration space. Maybe that means building out knowledge base functionality like Quip or Confluence. Maybe that means more Paper-like document types, like powerful spreadsheets or spreadsheet/database hybrids like Airtable. Maybe that means enterprise chat like Slack! Or, maybe foundational PIM tools like email, calendar, contacts, custom domain management, etc. I don't know. But they definitely do feel like they're in a period where they're not sure what direction they should be moving in, and I hope they fix it.
Some observations.

First, I think that the scientific literature peer review process becoming more like Amazon's reviews would be a disaster for science.

Second, although a scientific discovery may take months to publish in a journal, that does not mean that the scientific community is in the dark about it. Many times a finding is presented at various conferences well in advance of it being published.

However, scientific peer review is broken. I think one of the best things that can be done is to separate data gathering from analysis. With machine learning, there will be a great demand for high quality raw data. It would be great if scientists and institutions could achieve recognition for collecting methodologically sound, high quality data. Often times, a high quality data is not made public, but is milked to produce a series of papers by the institution or researcher that are all based on the same private data source.
Some Levis have stretch fabric - I buy 514s, there may be others. Make sure that the label calls out the stretch material.
That website is so broken on mobile. Every 2 seconds something else loads an moves the text away from its current scrollposition.
I fully understand people's dislike of surveys. I have done a bunch of research on testing microservices (read a few papers and the blog posts of devs and netflix/spotify/uber), but the only reason I included a survey is that it is a specific deliverable for the paper :( was hoping to get a few responses
> Bringing from Earth a few tons of nuclear-powered jet engine to use water as propellant would take building such an engine first. We're not even close.

That's not true. NASA built and tested designs for a nuclear engine in the 80s, human rated even, and the results were spectacular.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
Agree, most public research (In the U.S) is in a poor place as far as "asking the right questions". The amount of under powered and poorly designed studies that get published has driven me to almost ignore research in all but a few journals. The justification (and conclusions) for these studies are delusional at best

There is a lot of high quality science, but the signal to noise ration is quickly getting out of hand. Peer review is a busted methodology and i salute place such as arxiv and bioarxiv that seek to disrupt the old paradigms
Random Matrix Theory.
A typical example is improving ranking in (custom/site specific) search. E.g. a client of a company I used to work at spent a huge amount with them having developers manually tweak search results. To add to it, they had multiple different stakeholders (e.g. sales team, executive team, their customers) who had different ideas about what should rank highly for different queries.

But they had a very simple metric right in front of their nose:

Their "product" was bookings at their customers restaurants. They were paid per cover.

One trivial improvement over the constant manual tweaks would be to simply record the probability of a user choosing to book at a given restaurant if that restaurant is present in the search result for a given term or set of terms.

Once you have that data, you can use Bayes theorem to take a set of tokens for a search and produce a list of probabilities that a given restaurant will be a good match, and rank accordingly. And you don't even need to understand Bayes theorem (though as someone who usually don't like maths papers, Bayes paper is remarkably understandable with very little mathematical background) - you just need to be aware of it and be able to use a simple library.

[you'll want to do some tweaks to account for the difference that position in the result makes]

There'll be an endless stream of improvements and more advanced methods you can use, but the beauty of applying Bayes theorem to data like this is that it is very simple, and you can explain to people why it ends up ranking the way it does very easily (the action you record, such as the decision to make a booking, serves as an "upvote" effectively).

There are lots of more advanced approaches you can take if you have the time and the skill and sufficient data, but the above works reasonably well with very little effort and is very often a substantial improvement over whatever manual attempts people make at guessing how the ranking ought to be. And it can be applied not just to search results, but to pretty much anything where you can derive an input set of terms (be it e.g. categories, or a paragraph from the text on the page) that has some likelihood of having some relation to how people will like another item, and where you can record an action against a related item as a "vote" for that connection.
Sounds like something Bill Burr would say.
Billboards around here (Philly) are listing themselves as $10K/6mo
https://github.com/edent/Dynamic-SVG-Calendar-Icon/raw/maste...
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Alphabet/Google Chair John Hennessy on his new gig, fake news, and tech's future
A group of 5 engineers, left to their own devices, would probably produce about $100k worth of value. An effective manager can extract two million dollars worth of value out of those same 5 engineers.

If you don't believe this, you may have never had a great manager.
> One thing I can promise you though, is that you do know people who are taking stimulants. They just aren't telling anyone

Yeah, I guess so. I'm also in Berlin, and a lot of people take some kind of stimulant. As someone not taking any stimulants (not even coffee), it was quite hard to spot it in the beginning. At one point I was working with a larger group of people and only after a few months I was told that more than half of them were on some kind of stimulant almost constantly.
The problem with these numbers is that adjusting an entire salary for cost of living only makes sense for people living paycheck to paycheck. The real question is how much wealth a tech worker can accumulate in each city. If you're saving 10% a year no matter where you live, you're best optimizing for salary and ignoring cost of living.
Ask HN: How can I teach others to code?
So I am self-taught. I don't work as a professional dev, but I am at a point where I can more or less create a working prototype and deploy. And now I am trying to get my friends to that point. I have guided them for the past few months and they are at that stage where you know the basics but have a hard time understanding how you can put everything together to develop your project. I did try building a project with them and show how things are done, but I am not that good at doing this and it turned out to be just me doing all the coding with explanations that went a bit over their heads and no one asking any doubts when it became confusing.
I find it weird that whenever AI comes up, it's not to help but to replace.
Do you use G-Suite or O365 alongside it? I don't see significant improvement over a Google Doc.
"official"

FTEs is one way to slice it, but kind of dumb.

Seattle is home to two of the five biggest tech companies in the US.

Boston has had an IPO every year for the last ten years that exceeds any in NYC history.

LA has had the only 11-digit IPO in the last five years, outside of the bay area. It's also capturing the zeitgeist in a way that NYC no longer does (that's subjective, of course, but I'd debate it).

Just by market cap, Sydney's three biggest tech co's would are more impressive than NYC's.

NYC is an awesome startup city, but the idea that it's the clear #2 is silly.
I'd recommend one of the featured experts, Stuart McGill's books to people having back pain. Straightforward practical advice but with an HN-level of science-based nerdiness behind it. Not the fuzzy woo that you find in many health related topics.
I was at Cambridge for 4 years and I can safely say that none of the professors in my department were using stimulants other than coffee. I can clock someone who is up across a crowded room. None of them were ever up. A large number of the ambitious PhD students and postdocs were though, and a very large proportion of the undergraduates. I think it's probably a generational thing. Students sell to students. Nobody is selling to professors, and even if they tried, those people have already achieved their success in a generation of people that didn't have access to these things.

I think we will see a generation of people come into these positions (e.g. professorships) where a significant proportion of them are using pharmaceutical enhancement as one of the many tools in their box. Stimulants aren't magic, they don't make idiots clever. But if you're a clever person who is tired or stressed, they can (seem to) make a big difference.
I completely agree.

I also love the influence NYC industries have on tech startups. Warby Parker is tech+fashion, Buzzfeed is tech+media, Betterment is tech+finance.
Anonymity would be better in my opinion (to start off with). Way too much name recognition, and "good old boys club" dynamics happening in way too many areas of science i follow (genetics, agriculture, prediction)
GP does raise a valid point though. Most consumers don't pay for a product with cheaper, comparable alternatives just because they are feeling philanthropic.

The fact of the matter is, if Company A doesn't meet their needs but Company B does, they will pay Company B, and no amount of great software, service, and wages for very talented people will change that.