skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology Remote jobs with #number of hours is the future
Now you can choose how many hours you want to work with which location, Either you want to code from bedroom or from a mountain its totally your choice, If you want to pay 2 hours per day or you want to pay 9 hours per day its also your choice.

There are plenty of jobs which requires your expertise for few hours a day, so nocabins is a site https://nocabins.com at which startups can post their jobs for free & Hire an expert with years of expertise for number of hours remotely.

"why nocabins": As per its name nocabins, means there is no cabin culture & you need not to worry about your bosses are watching you, or they want you to be on your seat. so now work freely and find a best startup which suits your requirements.
They have the right to do this.

I still think this is terrible.

Echo chambers are becoming more common with the wide-spread adoption of the internet and people are increasingly worse at handling disagreements. It is so easy to immerse yourself in communities that validate your ideas. Many online services push you into these echo chambers because, in general, people engage more with groups that express ideas they are comfortable with.

The internet is a never-ending record of the adverse effects of echo chambers. Politics, religion, game consoles, programming languages, frameworks, operating systems, browsers, text editors... they exist for just about everything and the effect is always the same. People immersed in echo chambers gradually stop being able to show empathy to those outside their group. Perceived public opinion is a powerful thing and we love to point to popularity as justification[1].

Humans need to be challenged in order to grow. Maybe RPG.net isn't the right place for people to be challenged politically. Then the mods should just ban discussions about any real-life politician. Targeting one politician just creates another echo chamber.

Again, I know they have the right to do this. They should be allowed to do it.

I think it's bad.

[1] Apparently it's called "argumentum ad populum". Cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Will the decline of galleries reshape art?
> I know of at least one organization looking into moving away from Clojure for the purpose of having a more attractive portfolio of assets to potential outside investors.

Out of curiosity, without naming the organization, can you elaborate on this? I don't understand what kind of portfolio you're talking about here, the codebase? Why would investors care whether it's done in $LANG? I thought they cared more about the business and business-related concerns. Maybe they perceive Clojure as being an impediment for fast delivery of features?
> As I've pointed out elsewhere, this argument implies ownership and content control beyond what we've traditionally held forum owners/operators responsible for.

This is false, and appears based on both narrowing consideration of accountability mechanisms to legal mechanisms and a faulty understanding of the reason for certain online exceptions to the general traditional legal liability of publishers, which is not lack of responsibility (otherwise they would apply to publishers more generally) but balancing of social costs/benefits of imposing legal liability.
I believe that we should expect responsible behavior from adults. Only this way a society can also develop responsibility. By prohibiting everything that is dangerous (or just considered as such) humans never actually get a chance to grow up.
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If you use R so much why do t you use RStudio instead?
> (More than NPM FYI)

I found your claim hard to believe so I went digging but couldn't find any recent resource on the total number of downloads npmjs.org handles per month.

I could have sworn they used to publish aggregate stats prominently on their home page somewhere ... but can't seem to find it.

Anyway, aggregating* the download numbers of just 12 of the top npm packages comes to about ~504.4m, or half a billion package downloads a month.

*: using September 2018 numbers.

1: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=express - 21m/mo

2: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=body-parser - 24.4m/mo

3: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=lodash - 64m/mo

4: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=async - 64.7m/mo

5: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=debug - 87.6m/mo

6: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=request - 50.8m/mo

7: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=chalk - 64m/mo

8: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=commander - 61.8m/mo

9: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=underscore - 21.5m/mo

10: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=babel-core - 17.8m/mo

11: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=webpack - 16m/mo

12: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=react - 10.8m/mo
U.S., Michigan based, white male, late twenties, began programming as a teen, no college education.

2009: $25k - Junior web developer at A - 40hr/wk

2010: $40k - Junior web developer at B - 40hr/wk

2011: $50k - Junior web developer at B - 40hr/wk

2012: $50k - Junior web developer at B - 40hr/wk

2013: $60k - Web developer at C - 40hr/wk

2014: $70k - Web developer at C - 40hr/wk

2015: $80k + $5k bonus - Lead web developer at C - 40-45hr/wk, on-call

2016: $90k + $10k bonus - Lead web developer at C - 40-45hr/wk, on-call

2017: $100k + $15k bonus - Lead web developer at C - 40-45hr/wk, on-call

2018: $110k + $15k bonus - Lead web developer at C - 40-45hr/wk, on-call
Maybe they will just deal with it as you did: fix it when it becomes a problem.
Because it’s smaller?
> 1. You should look into what other messengers do with sender/receiver pairs information. One very popular competing messenger logs pairs permanently, serverside, in order to make UI features work.

I wish you'd name things and explained what exactly they are doing.
It's not an issue for most equipment though because it's only really the MEMS type oscillator that is sensitive to this type of gas intrusion. It's a very new type of clock and most other devices don't use them so there's basically zero risk.
Does anyone know why the ipython developers rejected solutions in which version control diffs were readable?
Because they are taking a stand.
THE DESCRIPTION OF AIDS
Nothing news here. We all know kids recover quickly. Their minds are still developing and they can shake off whatever bad effects they have accumulated.

Title might as well be:

When Adolescents Give Up Pizza, their health quickly improves.

When Adolescents Give Up bad habits, their behavior quickly improves.

When Adolescents Give Up Facebook, their social circle quickly improves.
We've been using a full Clojure stack (front-end + backend) in production for nearly 4 years and very happy with it (6-8 people full time). But that is very much anecdotal. I guess one thing to note is that the language is very stable, there are very few (if any) breaking changes and a 4 year old library will "just work" most of the time. Even more amazing is that it's trivial to port 40 year old ideas from (Common)Lisp if you're so inclined, or interface with a known good Java implementation. To me that is a big plus, personally I wouldn't even want a ton of extra features in Clojure ... the language is fine and libraries fill in the rest. It does give the impression that not a lot of happening and that it might be fading or boring, but in a lot of settings boring is actually a good thing. The amount of times some NodeJS or Python thing changed from underneath me and I needed to rework an entire codepath or build infrastructure just because the language changed their mind on how things should be done are gladly behind me with Clojure!
> Look at tobacco usage. It hasn't plummeted because it was outlawed.

Disagree to some extent. Outlawing of most indoor smoking has decreased usage significantly. Also disagree with reasons for smoking vs not since many do smoke recreationally to feel good as opposed to fear of withdrawal. Sure, most of the addicted are the latter, but the laws are there to target everyone.
Isn't ADHD typically treated with stimulants?
Notes on creating a successful startup
The homebrew app could switch the contrast to be white-on-black instead of black-on-white. That helped quite a bit with the glare.
I use Clojure in the large, and the lack of static typing isn't something I miss. FWIW, spec allows you make similar guarantees if you use it (technically more, since you can express more than HM type systems).

I think the static/dynamic divide speaks to deep divisions in programmer personalities, but if you're open to suggestion, I would put it like this: As Haskell/OCaML are to static langs like Java, Clojure is to dynamic langs like Python/Javascript.

Clojure has a deep vein of pragmatic simplicity throughout its core libraries and community that I think does more for taming large-scale development than static typing does, but that just my $.02.
Probability allows you to say with confidence that the object cannot or is very unlikely to be certain things. For example, unlikely that the object is a sperm whale or a giant statue of liberty.

That same probability applies to the light sail.
With all due respect, I think your argument is a little silly. Typos are the one mistake that programmers never stop making no matter how experienced they are, in my experience. For the same reason, you can pick up a book by an experienced, established writer and find typos in it as well.

It's useful for your tools to help you catch basic mistakes like that instead of just saying you should work with programmers who are competent enough to never write typos.
> It's no surprise I've had glasses since I was 12.

You might have been facetious, but FYI, the favored theory for the cause of normal myopia is insufficient UV light exposure during childhood. Eyestrain and close focal distance are not thought to produce it even though the latter is correlated with low UV light from being indoors.
Even 8 years ago, £20k ($26k ish) seems extremely low for a developer in a "rich" western nation.

Is embedded development really that poorly paid? I'm quite interested in it myself, but not for that kind of money.
You might find that people are more receptive to your statements if you didn't use insults along with them.
> Everyone I know that smokes daily (a lot of people) is less cognitive than those I know who don't smoke

Are you saying that the most "cognitive" smoker you know is less so than the least cognitive non-smoker?
>I don't think the program lost very much money overall.

It's not about whether it lost money. What were the risk adjusted expected rates of return? Was the interest rate sufficient? Was this the best way to invest that half-a-billion dollars? It certainly was not with Solyndra.

The fact that, in hindsight, Tesla paid back the loan doesn't determine whether it was "worth it" or not. The government may have gotten lucky. That's no way to run a lending business.
one of the pictures in the article certainly makes it look like the books are willing to lie flat, with just a little effort.

(i was expecting this article to be someone reposting an NY Times article from the introduction of mass market paperbacks, and forgetting to put a date on it.)
Paywall bye.
In the same category, substance: https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-designer
The "Livre de poche" [1] has been a thing since the 1960s in France, coming from a francophile culture like mine I was a little surprised when I found out that in the Anglo-sphere there is still such a strong emphases on hard covers.

[1] https://www.franceculture.fr/litterature/linvention-du-livre...
I hear this a lot, but you can do the same thing in the US with a much higher salary. I have taken 4 to 5 weeks off in a year, plus two weeks of national holidays, with no pay cut at all. You can negotiate for more. US companies will pay for your healthcare basically completely (your entire family), and contribute towards continuing education and your retirement accounts.

Granted, that doesn't continue after you stop working for them, but we do have federal government provided money and medical coverage after retirement age. I think people have a caricature of what the US system is because as Americans we have a culture of complaining about our government, which I usually wholeheartedly participate in :)

The bottom line is, in my opinion, if you like your particular culture, you will be happier where you are because it won't be replicated quite the same anywhere else. But the overall standard of living for software engineers in the United States is extremely high. Even when people are complaining about housing prices, they aren't much higher than in Europe, and you get a really nice living space for it that is usually much larger with nicer amenities. And in many places in the US, including where I live, the prices are cheaper and I get a nice big house with land and a beautiful view.
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Pediatric neurology and neurology are different specialties in medicine because developing brains are very different from adult brains.

I'm all for legalizing pot and it's just natural that young people _experiment_ with drugs. That does not mean that constant drug use during adolescence should be perceived as normal or harmless.
It's more of a shame there turned out to be so many of us.
maybe it's due to Canada legalizing cannabis, but I feel like I've been seeing a lot more "pot is bad" messaging lately.

Is this to head off any other countries from thinking about legalization ?
I am very glad you asked!

I wrote and deployed (to production) some Clojure code at Netflix just yesterday. Among other things at Netflix the Mantis Query Language (MQL an SQL for streaming data) which ferries around approximately 2 trillion events every day for operational analysis (SPS alerting, quality of experience metrics, debugging production, etc) is written entirely in Clojure.

This runs in nearly every critical service, ~3000 ASGs and easily > 100k servers and Clojure allows us to also compile it for our NodeJS services as well.
I can speak from experience about user perception of security, having previously run security product for a major UK fintech (which works with Monzo). A large proportion of users would complain that biometrics and/or PIN was not mandatory when opening the app. Many people share devices, especially iPads, or have family members that know their device passcode (or have a registered fingerprint or face).

Making it mandatory (or strongly pushing it) greatly increases the level of trust people have in your company. The data suggests it is a worthwhile convenience trade-off.
I'd disagree with this.

Primarily been developing with Clojure for 5 years now with some pretty large codebases. It does depend on how you write your code but favoring pure functions, pushing immutability to the edges of your programs allows you to refactor without fear.

Clojure also has many things to aid in this such as pre/post conditions, clojure.spec (which allows you to build complex type definitions), and of course test.check (property based testing).
Thanks for sharing!

I have a question coming from Erlang-world eg how exactly did you implement concurrency? Erlang VM has a counter for each VM instruction and does process switch based on that, did you implement something similar? Is this preemptive concurrency like the one in Erlang?

And a second question - will it work in Pharo? :)
If you think you’re better than average, especially top quintile, then moving to a big city will offer so many more opportunities it will more than make up for the temporary pay cut or hit to quality of life. Of course this all depends on your goals and situation such as having dependents and age. But it could pay off big by giving you more chances to network, start businesses, meet a high income earning spouse, etc.
> As far as my observations go this is particularly not fitting the perception experienced under the influence of weed.

And that is the point of what they're saying. Being bored can be uncomfortable. One route out of that is to do something more interesting and productive, another is to alter your perception so that you are ok with it.
> if people have problems, as bad as things like hiring programmers who struggle with indenting code, making typos in variable names

Those are the kind of things that the computer is best suited to. It's better if the programmer's brain is left to other, more challenging tasks.
I think actually it's #2 because companies in italy must pay additional taxes over the RAL (RAL - Reddito Annuale Lordo / Yearly Gross Income). Those taxes are for TFR and other welfare taxes.
There’s nothing other than reality. Drugs are part of reality. Have been for millenia.
How a drone can pull more than its weight
And if you're the only one hearing the dog whistle and everyone else just wants kids to have a better start?
Here is my salary history for comparison (Bangalore). Every time I dream of hitting $100k gross, my government prints boatload of money devaluing rupee and bringing my $ salary down. I have kinda given up on the 100k milestone at this point:

2007 - 0 YOE - 350000 INR ( 4600 USD) - Software Engineer - American company (indian office)
2010 - 3 YOE - 900000 INR ( 12000 USD) - Senior Software Engineer - Small indian company
2012 - 5 YOE - 1200000 INR ( 16000 USD) - Lead Engineer - Korean company (indian office)
2014 - 7 YOE - 2900000 INR ( 38000 USD) - Staff Engineer - American company (indian office)
2017 - 10 YOE - 5400000 INR ( 72000 USD) - Principal Engineer - Small American company (indian office)
2018 - 11 YOE - 6200000 INR ( 82000 USD) - Dev Manager - MNC
At least it's only for income past $94k, if I'm not mistaken.
> Weed makes you feel - provided one responds positive to it - not weary, not impatient and one finds the present activity overly interesting.

That's basically what he said. You're doing something that you'd ordinarily find boring, but now you don't feel bored.

Feeling bored is your mind telling you that you should be doing something else.
Turns our I'm not the lowest. This Indian guy got me beat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18343659

>Where do you live?

Southeast Asia where my total annual expenditure is less than $10k USD. Thanks to this I'm putting more than 50% of my gross salary into my retirement savings. Despite my low salary I probably have higher net worth than most HNers.
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Antiques, time, gold, and bit gold (2005-10-31)
> (One of the future Trump adviser’s least favorite words? “Politics.”)

What's with this unrelated off topic dig?

Secondly, what's the point they're trying to make? That Thiel is a hypocrite? If so, you can both hate politics/government and work to try to improve it. One strategy is to do so from within. Musk was trying to do the same for a while.
I purchased a sony DPT-RP1, and while the build quality leaves something to be desired (panel gaps), It is the first tech product in a while that had a little bit of that magical feeling to it. I don't have to truck around all of my textbooks anymore, and the epaper means my eyes don't tire as fast.

(I do not work for Sony)
I re-read the thread and you're right, you were a bit unfairly "attacked" for asking a reasonable question.
I focused on what you said without taking context into proper consideration, sorry for that.
I was not responding to your original question, but more so to ... something in my head I guess.

Of course, absolutely, explaining what we do is hugely important. Actually I think
that bringing new knowledge to the rest of humanity is the second most important
thing after actually generating said knowledge.

> can't be expected to appreciate your work if you can't explain it.

The frustration is that people only seem capable of appreciating science when it has
direct and tangible benefits for humans. (and that's why i posted the previous post, not cause you dared ask a reasonable question)

"Why do you do this?"
"What can we use this for in humans?"
A reference to the article about helium breaking iPhones?
This is so awesome. St. Jude is my team.
Latacora has its token Clojure person: me. I write Clojure every occasion I get, we've shipped Clojure code to customers, et cetera et cetera.

Most of the stuff I'm doing in Clojure would be possible in other languages, but in a sense that's only one notch below "Turing tarpit" possible. So, in the only sense that a startup should care (would you f'ing ship it?): only possible in Clojure or a handful of close cousins.

I'm hearing less about it on HN these days? But it was a great language yesterday, remains one today, and there's constant development of tooling and community :)
What does "true freedom" mean to you?

Having to find something to eat every couple of days or being at the mercy of the weather is also restricting freedom.

I think freedom is a state of mind which can be compared with "acceptance of the present". From that perspective everybody can be free. (I'm not speaking for extreme situations like sickness or imprisonment)
I don't remember my total history exactly (yearly increments especially), but it went something like this...

- 1999: 32K, sysadmin, tiny ISP

- 2000: 48K, sysadmin, small telecom co

- 2002-2013: 65K->105K, sysadmin->developer, small telecom

- 2014-2018: 120K->140K, developer, medium sized co

This is all in Portland Oregon, and does not include bonus or stock numbers. Having recently been a manager for a while, I'm paid slightly higher than average for an experienced developer at my company. I'm in the process of looking for my next gig. Mostly because I'm bored, not because I'm looking for more money.
>Update: This article has been update with comment from Springer, a publisher of academic research, which has dropped ACE as a client after 14 years of working with the conference.

Do we really need to go through this again? Is this what the future of conferences is?
I've used all three, and at least in my opinion, Scala is the most production ready by miles.

Clojure is great if you like dynamic typing...by far the best dynamically typed functional language out there. Beware of claims that clojurescript and clojure are the same language. While both are dynamically typed, clojure's type discipline is strongly enforced (type errors will throw exceptions) while clojurescript will fail silently. I personally know of a team that experienced a million dollar bug because of this subtle distinction...you absolutely have to be prepared for it if you plan on using both. If you like gradual typing, there are some great options.

Haskell is good but the language's strictness (especially around effects) is very demanding. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing. In my experience/opinion, it's a good thing in some use cases and a bad thing in other use cases...but there's no way to opt out of it when it's a bad thing. Further, the ecosystem is far less useful than the jvm ecosystem.

Scala definitely has its faults, but its type system is extremely expressive without being extremely restrictive. I've never felt restricted by it (like I did with Haskell), but it regularly blows me away how easy it is to refactor and fix errors. The Java interop is far more intuitive than Clojure. Drawbacks: The only really useable IDE is Intellij. Some libraries tend to form an ecosystem of dependencies which don't play well with other ecosystems (ie some libraries are "Scalaz-only", some are "Cats-only", etc), which can be really annoying at times. Java interop isn't extremely straightforward in the case of collections (if that is a big concern, go with Kotlin which is phenomenal).