skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>can be just as destructive as sitting on the couch smoking pot all day

All evidence points to it being more destructive.

>Moderation is the thing

That's exactly what I just said.

>and for young people in particular that can be a lot to ask.

It can be. And quite frankly certain forms of media are doing more damage to our youth than marijuana ever could when taken in excessive amounts. Loss of sleep, sedentary lifestyles, in some cases toxic social environments.
What is stopping you adding Spec to your existing code?
(2002) I believe. I wonder where the author stands now? 16 years is plenty of time to get your faith back and lose it again.
It seems that this might not be entirely the case. In young mice, at least, THC slows them down... but in elderly mice, it returns their brain to normal functioning. There's speculation that the young might already have enough endocannabinoids but as we age and production slows, supplementation can benefit memory and cognitive capabilities. That's only supported in animal models for now, though.
"<5 minutes of connecting/disconnecting every time you want to move."

Seriously? I'm looking for <5 seconds.
Very few of the recent popular ones are if at all
>No, I'm saying that operating a site inherently involves that, and that they have the right to choose how to do so, even when that excludes certain views from their site, and that that right is enshrined in the First Amendment.

And I'm saying that no, it is not enshrined in the First Amendment. There is significant legislative regulation that applies to publishers and not to web hosts because they could not possibly regulate content on an individual basis.

That's why your second point is incorrect - if you read the legal decisions that have upheld the Communications Decency Act's Safe Harbor provisions, they aren't based on the collateral economic development cost or big money interests - they are based on the idea that it is an impossible task to regulate obscene speech online and that in order to do so, sites would have to chill speech. This chilling of speech (which is kinda what we're talking about here) is the reason sites are not treated as publishers, with again, the underpinning being that it would be impossible for them to regulate content.

If you are correct that they can do so and inherently do so, then the protections they are provided by not being held responsible, legally, as publishers, for the content they publish, should be stripped from them and websites and host should be treated as publishers, with all the regulations that apply therein.
I work for an American BigCo writing server-side code. I typically put in a 50 hour week. Salary: $155,000

However, I work remotely (I am not American) so I have that flexibility, and I also don't waste time commuting. To me, the extra hours in the chair are worth it.
I spent about 8 months writing data to TSDB. I was sending about 200 vehicle locations per 7-10 seconds for most of the day. I guess around 1 million events per day.

I played around with the data in the first week of setting it up, but then I ignored the feed for months.

When I came back on the 8th month, I couldn't get many/most queries to run in decent time. I didn't diagnose the issue, but I stopped the data stream and archived the database. My data was around 100GB, and I was reading it from a server-grade HDD. (I'll update my answer if I can find more accurate details when I get home).

I don't think it was a TSDB issue, might have been on my side. If I can restore my old data into a fresh DB, I'm going to try TSDB again with the data. I'm doing a Stats degree part time, so it'd be interesting to apply some forecasting knowledge to my dataset.
The Trump Administration Flunked Its Math Homework
When developing a prototype for a 2D rogue-like, I guess using the royalty Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup assets could be a great starting point: https://opengameart.org/content/dungeon-crawl-32x32-tiles
Unfortunately, it depends where in said telco you're working. As someone who works for the same telco as GP but in a different (non-telecom related) branch, people here get paid peanuts. TELUS Digital is an interesting case, since it's smaller, has more autonomy and is better-funded (when you divide by the number of employees, of course) than most other parts of the company. Want to work for any other branch? You're back to bottom-of-the-barrel salaries (not quite offset by other compensation), BigCo bureaucracy and a velocity rivaling that of molasses.

I happen to live in an only moderately-high CoL area too, not sure how people make ends meet in Vancouver, Toronto etc. on similar salaries. It's saying something when government orgs in the same industry are paying more (with better benefits to boot!)
Please don't perpetuate the negative myths. I have met multiple women traveling solo in Africa, having the time of their lives. If you're smart, it's fine.
These companies are basically 'finance' at this point. Instead of markets and assets it's platforms and data.
Once did project working on tourniquettes for rapid transit in Astana for Beijing Second United Construction Group. Later, we somehow stumbled upon custom made drone tender for Kazakhstan's border guard (which later was found out to be just a cover for presidential guard regiment...)

My intention was to try to hire few juniors as assistants, and UI devs. Seemed trivial at first, but the moment applicants heard of us being a foreign company, they instantly switched the talk to paid relocation package, hiring immigration lawyer, and if we can bring them a Chinese passport on a golden platter... This was the case with like 4 out of 5 applicants.

My advise, keep quiet about you being an overseas company till the last moment.
Math major here. When in school, I almost exclusively used PDFs of my textbooks.
My desktop at home had three monitors: a 21x9 ultrawide on the bottom and two 16x9 monitors above. This meant I could have LaTeX, a web browser, and three or four windows with different pages of my book open at once. Well done digital books can quickly be navigated via a sidebar table of contents, or simply using ctrl-f.
It all made for a much nicer work flow than sticking different fingers/pencils/etc between pages and constantly switching my attention between a book and a notebook, and a screen.
Admittedly this was much trickier on a single laptop screen, but with a few virtual desktops I still preferred it to the analog approach.
I think that the real hold on textbook ebooks is the horrendous web based formats that most come in. The above approach would admittedly have been impossible if I were acquiring my textbooks legally.
Anecdotally, a friend of mine and myself use marijuana down the former route. Fleshing out ideas, exploring thought. In fact, functional programming "clicked" for me when I was high. It was still there in the morning!

But that doesn't mean every thought is going to be valuable, or even good. If treated that way, I think it can be a good tool. I am thankfully not prone to addiction or reliance.

It reminds me of Carl Sagan's thoughts [0] and especially this quote:

> If I find in the morning a message from myself the night before informing me that there is a world around us which we barely sense, or that we can become one with the universe, or even that certain politicians are desperately frightened men, I may tend to disbelieve; but when I’m high I know about this disbelief. And so I have a tape in which I exhort myself to take such remarks seriously. I say ‘Listen closely, you sonofabitch of the morning! This stuff is real!’

I find it more fascinating to explore thought while on cannabis and that is what I primarily use it for. Instead of saying "dude you're so high" to a far out thought, I try to explore it as far as it will go. Quite enjoyable.

[0] http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/
Open source is the complete antithesis to "extinguishing software". And it's just such a lazy argument in general.

Microsoft hasn't employed EEE as a business strategy in over 20 years.
This happens to a lot of people (my self included) and I’m willing to bet it is at least partially triggered by the paranoia around doing drugs. You were expecting something bad to happen, or were nervous about something bad happening, so it did.

I had a similar experience. Eventually learned to control my anxiety and now am I able to come down from the onset of a panic attack before it happens. Weed is no longer an issue for me now that I’m not afraid.

Anxiety is a much different issue than psychosis. The psychosis issue is very real but only affects a very small number of people who are predisposed, and even then likely only when they’re young and unlucky.
Ah, right, I'm not sure if you can run the Valve provided binaries without Steam. Although a quick google search offers up https://community.viveport.com/t5/Technical-Support/Vive-wit...
Cannabis slows down certain abstract thinking abilities and you basically think differently for a while. This can be an amazing insightful juxtaposition to normality. I suspect it is the effect on the short term memory centers that make it more difficult to hold complex ideas in your head long enough to find results. I personally do not enjoy critical thinking when partaking. I can feel the deficiency. It does seem to open my creative side, and for me goes best at the end of a long day like a glass of wine or video game.
Thanks for the detailed answer - as you likely already know many projects have taken the approach you detailed in your past paragraph, it makes sense if your goal is more freedom for sure.

I am wondering how you do client side data egress filtering - does each event need to get materialized, assessed for certain fields or structure, and then sent once for each outgoing stream on your sender? Seems like a good strategy for reducing network bandwidth, but it might reduce your throughout moderately (Due to serialization and analysis costs) or cause hotspots (If you have a distributed stream that is partioned in a particular way)? These are normally problems each consumer individually faces, where now it compounds where the producer does that work for each of the N readers. I appreciate the idea a lot, just wondering if you’ve had any issues making it scale nicely for highly subscribed streams.
Getting up and running with ClojureScript (in 2018, with modern tooling)
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I was referring to the cell mode, not notebooks. In Matlab you create a new cell by starting a line with two comment characters (%%), in the Jupyter extension you use #%%. You can then run the current cell with ctrl+enter, no need for selecting anything.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/01/07/ive-got-som...
Art concepts vary significantly depending on the medium, 2D vs 3D, rasterized vs. vector etc. then there's significant variation stylistically.

However, seems as you specifically mentioned pixel art, maybe the following are of interest:

https://www.youtube.com/user/achebit/videos

By the way, the author of those tutorial videos is set to release his game (Dungeon League) some time in the next 12 hours, after ~4 years of dev.
I don't want to mention a single company because I want to protect my privacy. I will share multiple company names where I have worked earlier or that I have interacted with in the past and I know with confidence that they can pay salaries in this range.

LinkedIn, Amazon, Walmart Labs, Flipkart, Google, Microsoft, Directi, InMobi, Intuit.

Some of the company names like Flipkart and Directi is based on very old information (>5 years) I have. I don't know if they still pay as well as they used to.

Any one of these skill sets: Big data application development, big data analytics, big data security, machine learning, cloud development. I worked in distributed computing myself.

Sorry I don't have a convenient way to offer you to connect with me while protecting my privacy. If you or anyone can create an online medium somewhere where we can talk anonymously, I can join that. I can answer your questions here too.
My KotlinConf 2018 Recap
I've been wanting to become a vegetarian for some time to reduce my carbon footprint. But it is so hard. Do you or any other vegetarians have some tips for lazy hackers like me? Thing is, it is really easy to eat two burgers for lunch (costs 2€ at McD) and it is quite healthy. I have not found any vegetarian options that are similarly convenient, cheap and arguably healthy.
ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework, Will Be 'Part of .NET Core' Going Forward
Do you need 4K? The 3rd-gen Apple TV has optical audio out but it's 1080p only. Very nice interface though. If you already have a 4K TV, does it really not have optical out built-in? My Roku TV has it and it's about as cheap as 4K TVs get.
I think some of that is due to the nature of the people it attracts, namely, grumpy, older, I've been burned before, programmers. I use Clojure constantly and have for 10 years, but I've never felt a strong need to proselytize. I just make money and enjoy coding, day in and day out.
Never did much clojure outside Riemann "configs" but I found the experience of light table's insta-repl fantastic. Scratch pad type workflows are a fav of mine(linqpad is amazing) and insta-repl blew me away.
While that's true, and the legal definitions are derived from the moral foundation I'm applying here, they themselves aren't really my point. Rather, it's that the reason they're protected classes in the first place is because they're (basically) things people either can't control about themselves.
Ideally legalization will remove this pop science and anecdotal experience presented as fact, as more studies can nail down what this drug is actually doing to people.
The constraint programming part isn't the bit that makes the difference between a good and bad crossword. The difference is in the quality of the clues. Generating plausible 'cryptic' clues is probably well beyond the ability of current AI.

If you wanted 'Jeopardy'-style clues, that's easier.
In both the government and private industry, both which are needed, the overlooked ones are the individuals and teams that make these innovations.

The big fish are the government and private industry that helps drive forward, but when you break it down to the particles that make up the system, you'll find individuals, inventors, entrepreneurs, good managers, smart financial navigation and encouraging of the open creative state.

Anything that allows the smallest of nodes in that system to flourish, the individuals, should be noticed and rewarded.
Why IBM bought Red Hat: It's all open source cloud, all the time
And dozens of us are playing them. Dozens !
The state of discourse online is such because of the Culture War, and the Culture War predates Trump, and possibly caused Trump to be elected in the first place. The current phase of the Culture War began with universities getting creative with their definitions of "bigotry", "white supremacy", "racism", and "sexism". The worldview promulgated there eventually percolated to the mainstream and is a massive driver of the ongoing cultural conflict.
A strong concept and implementation will overcome art limitations. Just look at the success of Rimworld for example, which has sold over 1m copies - or of course Minecraft (150m copies sold).
From sensor to the Cloud in 15 lines of Python
It's the same keyboard (size/keyswitches) as the Macbook Pro.
I am always excited to spend 1,2 hours of my life updating Fedora every six month, so I could get its new wallpapers.
Cool project, I really like the 'marker' feature!

Do you mind if I make a suggestion:

Remove the hint text about how the design process, or what kind of feedback the designer is looking for. Might even be better to get rid of the description section entirely.

Why? Because all it does is bias opinions by preemptively explaining and justifying the design before people look at it. It's kind of like a director showing you a 'behind the scenes' of the special effects before you watch the movie.

A better test would be for the designer to upload two different logos, and let the designer ask questions like: Which logo looks more reliable to you and why? Which logo would you associate with a 'fun' company? etc.

Source: Work in UX, I often write and design testing strategies. Honestly, most design feedback is useless - unless carefully gathered and filtered.
Honestly I think that can be fixed quite easily with a phone case. I actually prefer a case on my XS because it's so damned slippery if you lay it on anything with a slight slope it's falling off, and it's easier to hold.
I don't know about the UK, but there was a recent breakdown of salary of US vs France and though there is a delta in the absolute salaries offert, the gap was almost closed when considering health care, vacation, or other benefits. It's important to consider that the salary can be buying you a lifestyle and some savings, not a high-score.
Fixed this in my fork :)

I want to combine, but Neuron has stated they will not be accepting any PRs until December.
Do you agree that this stance ignores the idea of local economies factoring into why dollars are not valued the same everywhere?

Most companies I've known charge what they would consider "base rate" + some kind of Cost of Living multiplier. See Buffer's example: https://buffer.com/salary/staff-engineer-web/average
Oh, yes this is another excellent example of pain while building Clojure code bases. Though I'll say I only agree with half of your statement. I've found the interactive development story to be great with nrepl/fireplace/vim but the debugging is downright terrible... this is the single biggest blocker to me using it for larger systems.
There's quite of bit of interesting startup stuff going on in Bishkek, given it's size.

https://maddevs.io/en is quite a cool development consultancy based there, which has been involved in development of namba taxi, an uber type app.

namba itself has a whole host of projects similar to the more well known startups in Europe, e.g. Namba taxi, Namba food, and a video streaming service.

ololo (which was referenced in the piece) is a lovely community of different startups, and art projects fostering an entrepreneurial spirit.
For housing = yes it is crazy.

For loads of clubs - you'll pay the same. There are hundreds of tiny clubs in London - many offering free or very cheap entry every night of the week. Yes London has a few expensive clubs (that are generally rubbish once you are in if you aren't paying for champagne) - it has loads of great places to see live music, comedy, djs and acts for pocket money. Just pick up a copy and Time Out and you'll def find soemthing you are interested in... 'If one is bored of London...'
Which is one of the big problems with cannabis studies.

THC is known as the "active" ingredient in cannabis. However we know it's definitely not the only one.

There are 113 identified cannabinoids. Most are believed to have some effect. And there's terpenes that are believed to have effects as well.

So the problem is that ever single bit of cannabis has different ratios of these chemicals. Even two plants with the exact same genetics grown in same conditions can have widely ranging ratios. Which potentially means widely ranging effects.

The good thing is with legalization moving along we should see a lot more high quality studies that can help us figure this out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid

https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/terpenes-the-flavor...

http://www.ncsm.nl/english/what-is-medicinal-cannabis/active...
iPad Pro 2018: All-Screen Design, No Home Button
Have you looked into https://datproject.org ?

The dat protocol originated as well as a way to facilitate sharing in the scientific community: https://www.datprotocol.com/

There is a project of a browser built on top of it: https://beakerbrowser.com It's only nodeJS for now, but maybe serves as inspiration.
1. Conservatives and even Trump supporters don't want that.
2. Thanks for pushing normal people even further to the right.
Unfortunately this extension has already died in activity. I forked the extension here: https://github.com/pavanagrawal123/VSNotebooks . A lot of bug fixes and usability improvements have been put in!
Apple did a bait and switch a few years back by actually switching from more powerful Core i5 U-series to Core i5-Y series, aka Core M. Virtually no tech media entity paid attention to the performance difference between the two (spoiler: Core i5-Y had lower performance), because they were all too focused on regurgitating Apple's PR claims about increased battery life or some other features.

Now, many years later, the Air is still stuck on a weak dual-core Core M chip, and I have no doubt the A12 Bionic in the latest iPads is actually faster than it.
> Why would investors care whether it's done in $LANG? I thought they cared more about the business and business-related concerns.

I think the concern is around how hard long term sustainability of the codebase. If it's built in a relatively minor tool, there's merit to the belief that it'll be hard to find people that know it well. (And this is discounting the possibility that a dynamically typed language might be less suitable than programming in the large than something that has more static checking.)

When I was 23 and fresh out of school, I'd probably called this line of reasoning ill-informed at best... after all, a good developer can learn any language, and you'd only want to hire _good_ developers anyway. Twenty years later, I'm a lot more sympathetic. If you're trying to deliver business value under time/budget/risk constraints, adding a known, short-term risk (a minority language) for an unknown, longer-term benefit is a hard sell.

I think the Lisp-like languages are particularly prone to this in that they derive so much of their power by providing lots of mechanisms for abstraction. (Higher-order functions, syntactic macros, multi-methods, etc.) If you have the right abstractions in your code it can be great, but getting to that point and maintaining it can be expensive. (And in the meantime, you also have a great deal of power for shooting yourself in the foot.)

My general sense of languages like Clojure is they are very good for people with experience and time to very carefully consider their problem space. However, that's not necessarily a great description of the modern IT profession.
I agree with this comment. The quality of life in a place like Bangalore or Mumbai is quite bad when you compare with an American city. Imagine spending 60 minutes to 90 minutes for one way commute to work just 6 miles away!
Should they just pay development more, or all employees of the company?
I bet for most folks on HN the mechanics and programming are the easy parts. The art is really what makes or breaks games.

This is true, but from what I've seen the gamedev community seems to generally take this adage too far. At a recent meetup, I spoke to a developer for a project updating a well known IP. Their multiplayer slows down then crashes. I started asking questions, like, do the synchronizing objects have an update cycle? He didn't know, and it had been going on for months.

There's some big fraction of gamedevs who seem to think of programming as almost an afterthought. I see a parallel with the fraction of recent grads who think all they need of programming is the ability to glue libraries together. The medium really needs a balance of multiple abilities. Otherwise, it's like a musician who can write lyrics, but can't sing and play, or someone who has excellent chops on the guitar, but can't sing and write lyrics.
Civilization and society is built by people working together under the coercion of masters. Often, to be masterless, is to live on the fringes of civilization. That is, unless you, yourself are a master.
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What's funny is Canadians often lament their lousy salaries compared to their US counterparts. But I've found that by "US", they really mean "Silicon Valley". It's not a fair comparison.

Also, quality of life matters and should be factored in.