skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not banal: Challenging yourself to new activities or hobbies that require skill. Seeing the world, interacting with other people IRL. Learning (new topics, reading, etc). Building things. Getting out of your comfort zone.

All those things feel AMAZING while high, even if the banal things feel way better than sober. Cannabis doesn't just somehow discriminate to make only unproductive activities feel better.

I personally reached the conclusion to start seriously self-learning coding while stoned out of my mind and would furiously code in my room while stoned out of my mind. Now, about seven years later, I have a good career as a developer and still get stoned silly every night.
I think the "disruption" thesis presented in the wired article is perfectly reasonable. Clayton Christensen has his own theory of disruption too as you point out in reference to his book. The wired article is reviewing books that analyze disruption in terms of the broader social/legal context vs Christensen who focuses on disruption in terms of a company and the market. Both are valid.
So you wanted to take advantage by not informing them?
Heh, someone a bit like me. My first job was "Assistant to Webmaster" or something like that. $9.05/hr. But I was writing ColdFusion there in no time. After 3 months, out of the blue, they gave me a raise to $13.05/hr. I thought I struck gold!

Seattle is looking good - how's the COL there in comparison?
20 Minute Masterpiece: Training a Style Transfer Model with Colab and Fritz
The premise of the article is nonsense. Corporations aren't conservative or liberal, they are selfish.

Non-billionaire individuals make small donations to promote candidates and orgs (EFF, ACLU, whatever) who already support their interests. Corporations make large donations to influence the policies of people already in office. That's why corporate donations go to both right/R and left/F politicians -- they pay whoever is in power, in proportion to how much power they have. Individuals don't donate to both sides.
I went from Australia (Sydney) to UK (London) and wondering how your costs only went up a 'little'?!
Juju is Canonical trying to play catchup after years betting on the wrong tech direction.

I'm not an Ubuntu hater - I've been a devoted user since ~'06. But one can't deny that RH made better business decisions over the last decade, by not chasing the "windows killer" dragon.
I think there needs to be something like the Apache foundation for Clojure libraries, not handling major dev work, but maintaining working libraries over time.
My first reaction to the new MacBook Airs was, gee I could use that to replace my 15” 2015 MBP. I’ve been wanting a machine with TouchID, but I don’t like the touch bar and like a physical escape key. With cloud work becoming more prevalent, maybe 2 cores and 16 GB is enough.
lol, made me chuckle!
Wow, talk about being underpaid. $220k for principal architect at $BOX? Note that he received stock options, not RSUs, so the value of equity was very very small (strike price is necessarily very close to IPO price that close to IPO). That's 30% less than a senior comp at FAANG, and $BOX may as well be FAANG for all the "enterprisey" things that would be in place at a company that size.

Principal anything should be in the $700k total comp range, if not more.
Where do you get your information?
Starling is great, I used them for my first business account. However, I've since moved elsewhere because 1) no webapp, and 2) no Xero integration. I need one or the other to operate properly, downloading and uploading CSVs gets tiring fast.
Version 2 with caustics: http://emh.lart.no/publish/tda-wasm/v2/
You can now transfer GitHub issues between repositories
>Yeah I don't dispute any of that, but that also wasn't the point of discussion. I'm criticising the censorship of legal content.

Some of that IS legal content. PayPal and Visa/Mastercard have long lists of high-risk goods they simply won't deal with. That's not censorship, that's preventative damage control.
Something else interesting from a few years ago: a compression algorithm that's bijective. http://www3.sympatico.ca/mt0000/bicom/bicom.html

It's similar in the sense that there's more than one possible operation on any file (decompress it, or compress it), and different in that the file type doesn't change.
Projection is a type of embedding. But you can't really describe what LTSA, UMAP, etc. do as projection. LTSA "unrolls" data rather than projecting it.
Why would I want to be distracted while doing a task that serves a certain purpose? I must be the only one not just opening new tabs out of boredom :P
every job (literally every job) has been through networking. I have never had a successful outcome by submitting through the normal HR channels. To your specific question, introduced to people I met online and at conferences. If you're okay traveling a few weeks every quarter, there are lots of opps. Check out, e.g., ops or dev advocate roles at MSFT, Google, GitHub, Cannonical, et al
... with what kind of warranty? included software?
I spent time reading through Joel Grus' "I hate notebooks" slide deck and he makes a really compelling why they (Jupyter notebooks) are not the right tool for many reasons.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...

It was eye opening.

His YouTube live coding on building a neural net from scratch really shows the power of using VSCode to do AI work and complements his assertions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64FV-ez6Gw&feature=youtu.be

Both are well worth the time. All the reading I've been doing on ML/AI really came together after watching and taking notes in that YouTube video.
jQuery is the old paradigm of micro managing the DOM with ES5 code.

The new paradigm is using data binding with the latest language features.
This comment... I've thought about this a lot. I think asking this question is probably the most meaningful insight into this failure that has appeared.

What GitHub has done is create a giant single point of failure in the form of a globe spanning under-tested mysql database to manage a vast number of unrelated git repos, most of which are dormant. At any moment only a minuscule fraction of these repos are actually mutating.

One can imagine a system that doesn't conflate every GitHub repo into a monster distributed mysql database. Each repo could be coupled with an independent SQLite database, for instance, that spins up in a few microseconds and synchronizes with its distributed copies only when necessary. Otherwise these lay dormant and available, safe from the vagaries of some under-specified planet scale mysql instance.

I imagine testing such a design would be vastly easier as well; one need not replicate the conditions of this mighty distributed mysql construct. Whatever aggregation is ultimately necessary (analysis, billing, etc.) could be performed with asynchronous ETL into some database with minimal coordination and no risk to availability for customers.
Why would I need Bayesian Statistics?
*businessman trying to get a profitable product launched handles business.
TBH a woman travelling alone is at risk pretty much anywhere in the world other than the Vatican
Their job posts say "up to 60k", so it's not just a bad title. It's a blatant lie.

The main question, for me, is what point the article is trying to prove. The cynic in me believes that it's an effort to drive down permanent developer salaries by saying "we already tried to offer above market rates and it didn't work, so we're bringing them down again".

From a .NET perspective, I think you'd be lucky to get £100k a year in a contract role, let alone as a permanent employee. With that said, if you want to earn more than £50k in the south west, your only choice is large multinational company (which are mostly in London), management, or contracting.
The only thing that would make electronic book-reading, for me, replacement for paper books is guaranteed, 100% future-proof integration.. like, I need a book-reader that will last 50 years at least, have the ability to store books and retrieve them (i.e. zero lock-in), be solar-powered, and most important of all, an actual feature of books nevertheless unmatched by computers, user-maintainable at the hardware layer.

I think we have a way to go, but I'm sure there are devices out there that will last 50 years or so, as a place to put all the books I've loved...

Until then, I maintain a fleet of computers of course, however under the known circumstance that when the lights go out, there'll be not much to read.
GitHub: Transferring an issue to another repository
Loeb library is like this but I’ve never seen anyone walk around reading them. Maybe this is because of who I hang out with :)
This is fantastic stuff, thank you.
You can separate the data with multiple page apps. Either by having different JS for each HTML, or even rendering the HTML on a server which in itself calls the API.
It's not the size of something that makes it visible, but its brightness. Without actually doing the calculations, I'd bet there are stars you can see with your naked eye that are similar in apparent size or even smaller. In order to see detail, you'd need a lot of magnification. But your eye or a camera are able to detect that "something" is there due to the fact that there a lot of photons coming from that direction. The article talks about them observing dips in brightness, so they were probably just looking at a single pixel, or a handful of pixels at best.
What an incredibly dumb thing to say.
Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen..
Therefore it's natural to experiment with heroin?
This is my experience as well. I started working pretty heavily with Clojure about 2 years ago and just now feel that I am getting the hang of it in terms of style, yet I still feel like I have a ways to go.

This has not been my experience with languages like Java, Python, Go, etc. where I feel that I can write good, clean code in a matter of weeks from reading through style guides and understanding language conventions.
We did churn our share of low performers at the beginning. I'd say 5 of the first 10 hires stuck (most of the churn was us terminating the relationship). The ones that stayed were able to refer a friend or two.

Also, another downside: fraud. We ran into 2-3 folks who were operating outright scams, ranging from an agency posing as an individual, to identity / account theft.
Ending the Era of Patronizing Language Design (2009)
This kind of thread (and blog post) always intrigues me. What causes people to share their salaries like this? Your individual case is not interesting. Aggregate data is interesting.
> And the same goes for whoever steals/subpoenas your machine.

Yes, because clearly all other encryption technologies are so vulnerable to theives and cops. There's only a pile of evidence of TrueCrypt and Bitlocker being quite effective in the field against both criminals and law enforcement agents.

And that's not to mention SSD-based technologies which still allow for portability while mitigating some of the more theoretical attacks.

> The data I care about I have (encrypted) backups of. Not having backups and hoping that a specific hardware failure will not affect my ability to restore is equivalent to, well, just not having backups to begin with.

This is a good strategy, I too employ it with the majority of my important data, but it's just not realistic for normal people. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some scratch note or IDA database file that I'd be missing if I lost my desktop drive today...
Doesn't coercion happen if you dont pay the loans back?
No problem, if anyone has any feedback, please leave it in the issues. I want to make this extension great, and I would love the community's input!
One time, I was playing Heat Signature and I was doing the final mission for a character (Characters have personal missions they can accomplish, which are much harder than normal missions and can give you special rewards). I had two useful weapons: an acid gun that would kill enemies by burning the flesh from their bones, and something called a Glitch Trap. You can place glitch traps at your feet, and if any enemies walk over them, it will disable any electronics they're carrying; this means that their shields will be disabled, and they won't be able to call for help on the radio.

The ship I was assaulting had about thirty people on it, a fairly large crew, but in my first attempt at breaking in, I was able to kill the captain of the ship. This is significant because if the captain is dead, the ship can't flee to an enemy station.

Everybody on the ship had electronic shields and armor, but they were only armed with concussive weapons; a concussive weapon will knock you out, but not deal any permanent damage.

It ended up being a horror movie in space. I'd attach my pod to the ship and board them, drop the glitch trap at my feet, and then get spotted by an enemy. They'd knock me out, pick up my body, and eject me into space, and I'd have to remote-control my pod to pick my body up so that I could board again. But crucially, when the enemy picked me up, the glitch trap disabled their shield! So now I'd board the ship, stalk and skeletonize the poor crewmember who found me last time, and then go get seen by another person so that I could glitch trap my body.

Eventually, people are carrying my unconcious body past like fifteen skeletons of their former crewmates, futilely dumping my body into space in the hopes that they'd be rid of me, and then I'd return to kill again, like the horror monster that just won't die.

When I finally killed everybody on the ship, I took what i came for and left a derelict ship filled with skeletons floating in space forever, and then retired and passed on the acid gun to somebody else.

Heat Signature is a fun game.
We're experimenting with Jekyll + Vue and it's working great so far.
Yes, it's 100% ideological. I don't want to associate with people who don't believe that vaccines are necessary to prevent illness. They probably have other beliefs that go against science and I don't want those people in my life, or my childrens' lives.
>It took a few decades to get there, but it worked.

Better to count lives not decades though
>Yes, it is perfectly normal for people to experiment with substances when they come of-age.

Oh yeah? 13 year olds 'experimenting' by doing lines of coke seem normal to you?
> And I'm saying that no, it is not enshrined in the First Amendment

Then you absolutely fail to understand the freedom of the press.

> 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.

I am unable to find cases meeting this description; I can find cases, OTOH, that have upheld the broad application of Section 230 because narrowing it would defeat it's intent by discouraging self-regulation and editorial control, which the court found to be a central part of Congress’ intent, most notably Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir., 1997), which noted:

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Congress enacted § 230 to remove the disincentives to self regulation created by the Stratton Oakmont decision. Under that court's holding, computer service providers who regulated the dissemination of offensive material on their services risked subjecting themselves to liability, because such regulation cast the service provider in the role of a publisher. Fearing that the specter of liability would therefore deter service providers from blocking and screening offensive material, Congress enacted § 230's broad immunity "to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children's access to objectionable or inappropriate online material." 47 U.S.C. § 230(b)(4). In line with this purpose, § 230 forbids the imposition of publisher liability on a service provider for the exercise of its editorial and self-regulatory functions.

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Well, if your definition of smoking marijuana is going outside, walking around, thinking about stuff or talking with friends, then yeah, it is also an alternative to boredom.

But when you finished the joint, you will still have to do something. And after the active part of smoking is done, the "beeing high makes you more likely be okay with beeing bored" still applies.

And I can promise you that I am not ignorant when talking about marijuana, and neither am I opposed to people smoking it for their enjoyment.
On the flip side, they are also DRMed to hell and back, so you don't actually own them. You lose your right to sell or share them, you can only read them on devices approved by the vendor who sold them to you, and that vendor can even reach into your reader and take them out of your library under certain circumstances.

(Yes, it's technically possible to remove the DRM with tools like Calibre, but now you're breaking the terms of the agreement under which they were sold to you in the first place.)

I occasionally check out ebooks from my local library via Overdrive. The DRM doesn't bother me in that scenario, since I have no expectation of being able to keep a library book. But I would never in a million years "buy" one.
The problem with most recent books is that they use a glue-based binding, but the glue seeps into the spine far enough that it makes laying them flat difficult.

However, if you bind it yourself, you can get the desired behavior pretty easily.
I have a summary of my process in the footnote of an older comment[0], but I've been able to get it working with hardcover books, and experimented with using a little bit of thread to reinforce the binding.
So far, none of my books have come apart and they all lay flat.
The problem with this is that you either have to print your own books or remove the binding from existing ones and then rebind them, which is not especially time consuming but not exactly fast either.

I wonder why this style of binding isn't more common?
Is it just too expensive or are there durability concerns?

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0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877525
Why in the world would you spin up a new OS process in Erlang? Having its own process model is at the very core of Erlang's design, so it seems very odd to want to bypass it.
Use AES and SHA with ease (runs in node and browser; can use window.crypto)
You're right, they must have been showing ads of some sort. I simply don't remember any; perhaps they weren't that egregious or so numerous that I would recall it ~13 years later. I know I didn't have any adblockers installed on my PC until at least 2010, so I must have seen them if there were any.
India Unveils Statue of Unity, World’s Tallest Statue
This is what a real dcma takedown looks like: https://github.com/CanadianJeff/fuckr
Finally someone beat Montezuma's Revenge without imitating human demonstrations! Very cool. I wonder why the algorithm then fails so hard on Pitfall? I would expect them to be similar problems.
Previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308370

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=107683
Do you like your company? I'm also in philly but can't seem to find a cool company to work for (I have a software job as is but have been looking). The city feels somewhat dry of interesting software companies.
Interesting to hear about C++ in this context, since of my goals is to make C++ more like Clojure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vohGJjGxtJQ

There is a lot of I could say about the relationship between C++ and Clojure, but I'll leave it at that for now :-)
"Embedding" is the term I've heard used for this most often. It's definitely the term that seems to dominate in the literature. (Just to pick a random paper off my reading list: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03856 .)

In my mind "embedding" carries the connotation that you're moving into a smaller space that's easier to work with, and where things which are similar in some way are near each other.
This talk goes into detail how Clojure plays out in larger teams, particularly how they worked to maintain REPLability for a huge monolith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BThkk5zv0DE

That said, I think a lot of the preoccupation with rewrites is just premature optimization. Just a while ago I noticed some open source Clojure code of a startup acquired by FB got rewritten in Haskell. Was very glad to see founders don't seem to be working on this new code-base. Probably moved on to do higher value things.
Encrypted using passwords = not encrypted. Yeah, okay, tell that to the FBI who couldn't break TrueCrypt only a few years ago.
But the normal treatment is amphetamines, isn't weed sorta the "opposite"
Found this tool, that help measures your air
Yes, this is true. ADHD is caused by the frontal lobe "executive control" cylinder not being able to take control as much as it should.

Often low dopamine and noradrenaline levels are to blame. (L-Tyrosine on an empty stomach can help, if you're looking for a natural solution.)
You claimed Aegis is an embedded system. It's not.

Your link specifically calls out general purpose computers, not embedded systems. Java is probably not the worst language to use in that particular application, but it's certainly very close to the bottom of the list.
Ask HN: What's the complexity in fixing SharedArrayBuffer across major browsers?
SharedArrayBuffer was disabled by default in all major browsers on 5 January, 2018 in response to Spectre. Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer

10 months later, they are still not fixed yet except in Chrome: https://caniuse.com/#search=SharedArrayBuffer

What is the complexity in fixing it across other browsers?

How did Chrome 68 manage to fix it?
that was a suicide
I think you may find it harder to relocate after 10-15 years. Your friends and community will be in SF, and leaving that, especially in your 40s can be very hard. When I moved in my early 20s, it took between 2-3 years to re-establish my friend networks and community in a new city. I would be hesitant to do that again. Kids make it even harder, as you may be pulling them away from their closest friends.
It's a well-established, respectable area of research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias

You think simply because it implies a value judgement that you can be skeptical of it?
Oh, it's resolved. It's just we don't agree on the answer.
>‘Thus,’ write the researchers, ‘the main effects of the intervention were wholly positive, and no costs of extraverted behaviour were detected for the average participant.’ The advantages were to a large extent mediated by participants acting more extraverted more often – though, interestingly, not by being in more social situations: ie, by changing the quality of their social interactions, not the quantity of them.

I was under the impression the extrovert/introvert distinction was essentially one of quantity: the introversion demand less social interactions, extroversion more.
This conclusion reads to me as if it said, "It is mentally healthy to consistently assert yourself" which I take to be true regardless but that also kinda calls into question this whole distinction to me.
"...personally I wouldn't even want a ton of extra features in Clojure ... the language is fine and libraries fill in the rest."

And for anything else there's macros.
Yes I understood it, can you simply not believe that somebody doesn't want to live in a generic neighborhood behind a white picket fence?
Software Design Patterns: Best Practices for Software Developers
Why is that? There is a world of difference between stating that young people are naturally curious, and stating that drug 'experimentation' (or 'experimenting' with some other dangerous activity) by young people is natural.
They have some numbers on their blog. Its very fast but I think their tests was both index and data in memory.