skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I did. When I recently bought my first home, I was already aware that I would have to deal with Comcast if I wanted any semblance of high speed internet service. I could've gotten higher speeds for less (for a year before the price jump) and I could've gotten a lower price (for a year before the price jump) if I bundled cable TV...

...but between the so-called promotional pricing, the dicking around with another pile of box rental fees and assorted add-on costs, I just didn't have it in me. On some level I just decided that I would rather risk "missing out" on some minor bit of savings than buy anything more than the single thing I really needed to buy from Comcast.

If I had any other real options I wouldn't buy anything from them. But they are the only option for something I definitely need. I'm not about to pay them for anything more.
To be fair, I actually have around 7 years of experience total, not just the 3 I've worked full-time. It's just that most of those years I was working as a freelancer. My first employer initially thought that the freelance work didn't make me worthy of being more than a junior, and back then, I didn't really know enough about working at a company to disagree.

In those 7 years, I've built up and shipped quite a few products, so I definitely feel like I can say I have more than 2 years of useful experience. But don't feel too offended, I don't really consider myself to be senior - it's just a title that my employers offer me. I definitely know I still have a long way to go before I'm a good developer.
Sorry about that. Sometimes, it's down for a minute or two. Not sure why this happens; shared hosting.
Care to mention what is the language you used in your last job that you are comparing clojure with.
This is a bit tangential to the post, but I've seen a couple comments in this thread that amount to "Clojure is hard to read", but I think that's a really unfair comparison, because people are unwittingly comparing apples and oranges. It seems to me the reason people think Clojure is hard to read is that the language is so powerful and expressive, that when you're reading Clojure code, you're typically trying to understand the actual problem that's being solved, as opposed to just reading a bunch of code that's necessitated by the lack of power afforded by the language. For example, I can easily "read" a bunch of nested for loops in Java, but then I still have to try and understand what the actual problem is that's being solved. People seem to confuse those two things when comparing Clojure with other languages.
That is what the article is about.
Successful people learn when and how often to enjoy what life has to offer and still remain successful. What was meant by "regular pot smoker" is up in the air, but I interpret that those who smoke a bit more than they should, in the same way you can do that with alcohol (or sex, or food, or HN, or whatever, and still remain successful)
I discovered that there are two versions of unrar:

$ dpkg -l "*unrar*"
Architecture Description
un unrar <none> <none> (no description available)
ii unrar-free 1:0.0.1+cvs2014070 amd64 Unarchiver for .rar files
un unrar-nonfree <none> <none> (no description available)

You probably have the nonfree package. I have no idea about what's the difference between them.
Sources on the Presidential funding? Not that I'm in disbelief or even mildly surprised.
One might consider that an artistic/creative revelation. Weed is definitely good for that.

"Why is this code breaking?" Not so much...
I don't like TIOBE, and think it's a pretty bad index, but they search for "$LANG programming", not just $LANG.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-defi...
The answer is clear: in a privately owned business, the owners
Yup, technical divers that do extremely deep dives generally use heliox or trimix which can contain 70-90% and 30-45% helium respectively at the surface. The ratios change at depth due to how the various gasses compress, but it's still a much higher concentration of helium than what you'd experience in pretty much any other environment. Unlike carbon dioxide, helium doesn't cause respiratory distress which is why it's a good replacement for nitrogen during deep dives, and also why it's so popular for suicides
I'd like to learn a modern production-ready functional language (I have some academic experience with SML), since they seem like a good way to grow as a programmer. Main contenders so far are Haskell, Scala and Clojure (Reason might go on the list soon too) - but the fact that Clojure is dynamically typed is a bit of a turn off for me. My experience with dynamic vs static typing is that as a system grows in size and complexity, the value of static typing goes up. Doing a major refactor is one of those things that I find especially error-prone in dynamic languages, while statically typed languages make this much less daunting (of course they come with the opposite issue that you might not be able to compile for a day until you've fixed all the type errors - but I'd take this trade-off any day of the week). Can anyone with experience comment whether Clojure suffers from this too or if it somehow handles the lack of static typing better than other dynamic languages?
hop on IRC freenode at ##hackernews - I'll try to be around.

both on here and pastbin you were deleted :-)
I hate the US system because more money = more exposure. This is broken at so many level. This is hell.
smoking definitely reduces stress when smoking, but it also makes you a more stressful person.

Its like rubbing yourself with poison ivy, just so you can have the relief of itching a scratch
Bitcoin Investors Divided into Optimists and Pessimists
Classic Game Postmortem: Gauntlet
This is why I switched to a Kindle. I can comfortably hold it in either hand without having to pry the pages open.
We aren't making any more land though - property prices just seem to grow and grow and millenials have little hope of owning a house at the same age or with the same quality that their (often poorer) parents did.
> Intolerance of intolerance is the only acceptable form of intolerance.

So now the game becomes figuring out how to label what your opponent is doing as intolerance so that you can conveniently be intolerant of it.
I've met so many proponents of weed who say it makes you more creative and artistic

Trouble is, all these people just smoke up and watch TV instead of doing anything creative
In threads such as this one, everyone creates a new, throwaway account, possibly with a password that will never be reused. It looks like a waste to me. There could be the possibility of logging in as “guests” with temporary account in order to post anonymously.

I work as an IT business analyst / Project Manager in a large Italian company.
I am 0 percent on board with home assistants and other IoT devices at this point. You either 1) buy an expensive surveillance device from a tech giant with an awful user privacy track record, giving them free access to your network and conversations (and even installing a spy camera in your home for some upcoming products, thanks but no thanks Facebook!), or 2) buy a shitty closed-source botnet-in-a-box that was either made by a home appliance company that has zero experience making secure software or from a startup that has zero experience in making either home appliances or secure software.
I reject the framing that suggests these are the only two possibilities: 1) it’s no big deal; or 2) it’s reddit’s defining quality.

Neither is true.
OP here:

Fair counterpoint, although when I wrote that I was more referring to the HTML knitting (via knitr). Also, there's a few very-new VS Code plugins for R Markdown which look very very interesting. (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=neuron.n...)
I am low IQ. Please give me a hint
Can you disclose the contents of your email here for the wider public?
I think the best of all possibilities is move to silicon valley, get a high paying job, earn the confidence of those around you with good work and communication skills, then go remote and fight to keep the same salary. Then live wherever you want.

This can be done, people are doing it.
White male, middling state university CS, Software Engineer track, US east coast HCOL cities. Never more than a straight 40h/wk.

2006-2009 - small co - 40k -> 50k
2009 - took a year off to travel - 0k
2009-2011 - small co - 65k -> 80k
2011-2012 - stereotypical startup - 100k
2012 - Tried to start a software co - 0k
2013-2018 - non-unicorn medium co - 105k -> 175k
Array destructuring for multi-value returns (in light of React hooks)
They use helium to make it lighter (joke)
The Econometrics of Halloween
Hi. I don't see how that's 'the most fundamental sense' at all, to say the least.

"Fooling myself" meaning not agreeing with your opinions? That's not a nice or useful way to talk to people. "We're all just organisms" - I hear that and I think "ah, next comes the faulty argument that was a premise of".

What's wrong with men eating fish. Ah, good question. I don't think you're really asking it, it's rhetorical. But there's a serious vegan/vegetarian literature (I mean, in ethics, written by philosophers) if you really want to learn about the subject. I don't think me talking about that here will be any use to anyone, human or fish.
context: https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1057611461999112192
Weave.jl
I'm kinda on the same boat. I love physical books and have hundreds of them. There are some books that are, in my opinion, best read in physical format -- generally old books, because there's more than just the words to add to the story (feel, smell, etc).

But I consume almost all my modern sci-fi on an e-reader of some persuasion. That, too, adds to the story.
The easiest implementation would be to use the 2 least significant bits in the blue channel, and the least significant bit of the red channel, to encode your data payload. Just sticking the data in the metadata portions of an image file seems like hiding behind the only bush in an otherwise featureless field. ("Reginald Maudlin, will you stand up, please?")
Primary disadvantage of using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks: Writing R instead of numpy / pandas python.
> Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain.

I'm sorry, but what? You can't make claims like that without providing evidence to back it up.
Watch the MRI scan of a 35 yo alcoholic and the MRI scan of a 35 yo heavy pot smoker then do the comparison again.

The liver can more or less heal itself until it's too late. The brain, not so much.
Throwaway account. Mid-30s male born in Eastern Europe, working in the USA.

Washington DC area:

2005-2009 - ~ $25K (grad school; part-time research assistant, code monkey, and sysadmin)

2010-2011 - 0 (bad things happened)

2012 - $56K (software developer, remote contractor for a Canadian company)

2013-2016 - $74-82K (software developer, contractor at a government facility)

2017 - $90K (software developer, contractor at a government facility)

NYC

2018 - $150K salary, $275K incl. stock and bonus (software engineer, FAANG)
I haven't been to africa but i've been to a lot of supposedly 'dangerous' places and most of them are not so bad if you avoid doing the kinds of things that get tourists in trouble (drugs).
OP here:

reticulate isn't native to R Studio yet (it's in the insider build), but will be interesting to see what happens with adoption then.
Smalltalk "messages" are not asynchronous, but they are also not "good old method calls."

One example of that is that objects handle any message and if it doesn't know how to reply by default (defined in Object class) it raises an error.
But this can be redefined (message doesNotUnderstand:) to do anything you want.
This is where sites/services/apps like PlutoTV are great. They're essentially a bunch of streams of mostly low-cost programming presented in a guide-type format. Nothing amazing but it serves the same purpose as basic cable if you just want to watch old movies, MST3K reruns, or cooking shows.

Even YouTube can serve this purpose if you get a decent set of subscriptions going and loads of TVs have this built in these days (even if you didn't really want it). For others, there's Chromecast or similar to put these things on the big screen if you don't have a computer or other "smart" device already hooked up.
The article is wrong when it says: Absolutely nobody who knows anything about Macs – or computers of any kind – is going to recommend that they buy the old model.

Two things better on the old model: keyboard and MagSafe.

I'm glad I own an older Macbook Pro Retina. I'd always have "keyboard anxiety" with any of the new models: is this the day my keyboard fails? And: do I dare take my laptop outside? Will airborne dust get into the keyboard mechanism?

Bah!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Nick Zakas is an acclaimed author in the JavaScript world. He probably makes a decent amount more from speaking and conferences, but it's still surprising to me that in spite of having multiple books under his belt that was all he was making considering how much of a value add it is just to have his name for whatever company he was working for.
A perennial problem in Clojure is libraries that reach a mostly "done" state tend to look inactive to outsiders, because the language is so stable there's almost no maintenance work.

So inevitably, someone will ask "Is lib foo still being used? The last commit was over 8 months ago" and then people have to chime in, "yes, it's still in heavy use".
The article is about middle and high school aged kids. Many places don't let them drink alcohol for similar reasons described in the article either.
> pot makes you feel fine with being bored.

How do you define "boredom"?

According to Oxford Dictionary it means:

"Feeling weary and impatient because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity." [1]

As far as my observations go this is particularly not fitting the perception experienced under the influence of weed.

Weed makes you feel - provided one responds positive to it - not weary, not impatient and one finds the present activity overly interesting.

> And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.

In my personal opinion I think that's alright. Not everybody has to be "good" at something. Whatever that even means.

[1]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bored

EDIT: I would like to mention that weed only makes me sleepy and helps relax. Also I don't think that one should respond to boredom (how I understand it) with weed - not at all. Drugs are never necessary to grow personally and often detrimental due to overuse.
>Prohibition has worked wonderfully well

It very much hasn't. The War on Drugs is very much a catastrophic failure, claiming the lives of millions with no tangible improvement to control drug addiction. Meanwhile liberalisation and decriminalization programmes (e.g. Portugal for decriminalization and de facto tolerance without legalisation) have been much more successful. When will you start looking at empirical evidence and realise prohibition simply doesn't work?
Invasion of Poland
I'm curious, was this pay from raised money or did you actually generate revenue to cover your pay?
I don't understand that either. You might screen out the smart Dr House who is good at diagnosing, but doesn't have the dexterity he would need to be a surgeon.
Nope. ADHD is a spectrum. Often times it was/is misunderstood and its victims would feel isolated from the world. Marijuana would make that worse on certain vectors. It is not a silver bullet. It is a role of the dice. And the condition of the moment that you take it in decides the fate of the drug's effects on you. Could be good or bad.
Considering that miniature books have been a part of literary and publishing history since at least the 16th century, I doubt this modern rehash will drastically change reading any more than the existing four centuries of iterations.

That said, mini books with this horizontal orientation are a cute and maybe convenient idea for some people. Anything that removes barriers to reading paper books is great.
"An Abundance of Kathrines" (title image) was a pretty cool book.
>before regulation leveled the field again

Before regulation locked out any possibility of long term successful competition.
Geeze, I didn't realize the faded paint look on cheap styrofoam decorations were hand-scrubbed by slaves. Something about that hits me harder than other stories of cheap labor. It's just such a frivolous forgettable item.
The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?
You can't refactor Clojure without fear like in Haskell. It is actually possible in Haskell now to defer type errors to runtime, but I haven't heard of a practice of using that, even to aid in refactoring.

See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18345672
No, it means "you have freedom of speech, but I don't have to pay for your megaphone".
This article summarized some of the pitfalls: https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunction...
I meant a step above from hello world. Doing something simple is simple.

The node, webpack, react stuff is very complicated indeed
Ha. I can just read books on my watch. Nice try
inhaling any type of smoke is bad for your lungs. Combustion of organic material releases carcinogens. That is pretty basic science.

https://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/marijuana-an...
If you use it right you don't just vegitate. It makes you far better at many tasks and can be used to do epic amounts of work so long as you get your work that requires a lot of thinking done first.
"considering how much of a value add, it is just to have his name for whatever company he was working for."

Unless he's working for a javascript tool builder, why does his name add any extra value to the company?
Show HN: The prime knots in JavaScript
Excellent points! From my personal experience I'd also like to add that there is a bit of preference involved. I find Lisp like languages much much easier on the eyes compared to Javascript or other C-like syntax. This is also partially due to the excellent support of s-expressions in editors with things like paredit [1], parinfer [2], or clever-parens [3]. With that functionality the syntax becomes nearly invisble and you're editing a /tree/ rather than characters. Coupled with autocomplete and auto-indent [e.g. 4], the code is much easier to manipulate in my experience (but again, might be preference)

[1] http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.ht... (also http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html)

[2] https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/

[3] https://github.com/luxbock/evil-cleverparens (Vim with Emacs via Evil)

[4] https://github.com/Malabarba/aggressive-indent-mode
Unfortunately it has much weaker specs. No thunderbolt, only dual core CPU, slow Wi-Fi. They didn't even care enough to tell us the screen resolution, which is at least to me an important thing to know before buying.
Optional is fine, I'm not looking to force anything on anyone else, but as an Android user without a fingerprint reader, there's no option.
Uber and airbnb outcompeted them by offering lower prices and disregarded obviously outdated laws. The phone was what actually disrupted the industry not the actual services.
I have never understood this concept of detaching from work only to wake up the next day and having to face it. Why would you detach so much?

Relaxing is overrated. It deprives you of powers you have developed or will develop, only to make you a more powerless person.

And a powerless person can never and should never relax.
Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote
I'm always shocked by the difference in pay in the tech industry between US and UK.

For similar career path, my pay has consistently been significantly behind this based on a pure currency conversion.

And also I'm sure our living expenses are higher. Most hardware I buy seems to be priced the same or very similar in $ and £ so effectively charging a premium to UK buyers.

Am I comparing wrong, or are US tech works really so well played?
MagSafe is very cool and given the investment in power bricks I have around here it'll be a hard habit to break.

For me the most interesting aspect here is knowing there's an upgrade path now for legacy MBA and Mini owners.

Legacy MBA owners don't generally want modern MBP laptops due to price/keyboard/etc but don't want the MB either as it looks like a toy.
If you think post-2012 MBP fans are noisy, you should try a Dell - you'd go insane after a day.

As long as you don't run in clamshell mode (which kills airflow) and have reasonably powerful models, MBP fans are usually little more than a gentle whirr when the system is a bit taxed. The big Dell models seem vacuum cleaners in comparison.

I use mostly Jetbrain IDEs, Firefox and VirtualBox, with an external 4k screen, on a late-2016 MBP, and it's silent most of the time.
Work for Toronto-based company. Most of our developers work remote (in S. America, Europe, Asia, etc) and were discovered via Upwork.

We've been growing, so all the good devs have been retained long term (12-24 months and counting). IOW, if you're good (decent tech chops + strong English communication), you can find long-term engagements via upwork in places that pay well.
Here you go: https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2016/09/reg...
There's got to be a great scifi story in there somewhere.
Also in an effort to counter the humble brag, here is my salary with the years changed slightly as not to dox myself. I’m also not in Washington/California/SV/NYC.

I hope this also shows that the best way to make money is by frequent job hopping.

My salary is about average for the area.

1995 - 2000 wanted to get out of the small town where I’m from and my best opportunity was based on an internship I had the year before as a computer operator. Soon they had a programming project and I was the only programmer they had. I was also in graduate school at the time - starting $10/hr - ending salaried at $35K.

2000 - 2007 Software Engineer mostly doing C/C++ — starting $52K ending $70K. The bonuses steadily were cut and the raises were abysmal

2008-2012 Software Engineer at a small company that went out of business. Mostly doing C# with a little C++. Starting $77K, Ending $84K

2012-2015 Senior Software (in reality a mid level .Net developer) - starting 90K, ending 93K

2015-2016 Full Stack Developer - mostly .Net with some Angular. Starting $115K - Ending $115K

2016-present “Architect” at a small company - starting 63hr (contract - I took it for the learning opportunity and there was a position that I was eyeing) - present $135K.

Next on my agenda is to be an overpriced “implementation consultant”/“Digital transformation consultant”, etc. after my youngest graduates in 3 years.
How horror changed after WW1
Talos machines are large workstations. Much of the System 76 business, and much of the "daily computing" is now laptops. I don't think a laptop with a Power9 would make sense, even if the system could be crammed into a laptop-ish case.
For beta user, back when Monzo wasn't yet a bank account, the only to put money on it was to pay by card.

This was a habit that a lot of us had taken, and as described above, it was just easier to do all in one place:
- Go check your monzo app
- Notice you're low on fund
- Top up using your card

A lot of us haven't switched completely, because why would you when other current account can give you travel insurance, small % of interest, etc.
All drugs work this way: alcohol, cigarettes, weed, facebook, coffee, etc.

The problem is confining to a narrow usage pattern. It is just impossible for 99.99% of people over 30 years of their lives. All will make mistakes at one point.
I've nevet seen a hymnal with thin paper. They are generally rather rugged because they are designed to hold up to long term use by multiple people.

Is it common where you are to print them with thin paper?