skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannabinoids are very interesting. They're naturally occurring in both plants and animals and researches believe the Endocannabinoid system (ECS) plays a very large role in homeostasis. Cannabinoids have even been shown to induce apoptosis (essentially reversing cancer cell growth).

Within different strains of marijuana you get different ratios of different cannabinoids (THC, CBD, CBN, etc.) and the self-medicators have discovered that these different ratios are good for treating different ailments.

I'm a firm believer that all cannabinoids need to be fully legal (and the cannabis plant material) so they can be studied in greater detail. I believe one day we'll see cannabinoids in our daily vitamin and mineral supplements (probably not the intoxicating kind though).
Is there any source that says that it was specifically Diku that led to EverQuest? LPMud etc also dates from 1989/90 and also had mana, as had Populous as someone else mentions.

There must be a game before that that also used mana, I think GURPS is the most likely mentioned so far.
It's certainly not a family, but a "team" probably isn't right, either.

If you company wants to use a sports team metaphor, that's fine, but just remember that many professional sports have players unions and guaranteed contracts.

Oh, what's that? Not such a big fan of the sports team metaphor now?
So it's more like Guido refusing to add TCO to Python because that would be oh so hard to do. And look, the stack trace! The horror, the horror. /s
Would you help others?
We are building an iphone app that makes it easy to offer and receive help. Landing page here : http://Happy2Help.me

Would you use it to help someone? Why not? Is there something we can do to convince you?
The full video is still available on livestream: http://new.livestream.com/mbp/events/3083143. I haven't seen individual archived videos yet.
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This seems more like an example of framing/presentation. Not to say they werent nice people :)
A messy situation. If you are giving bonuses related to how much money the person makes for the company, but then docking them based on other factors, there's a lot of room for abuse by the company. Every dollar you don't pay as bonuses to this guy get paid to soemone else, right?
Yes, I see the smiley, but I thought it would be fun to measure this effect anyway. I whipped up a small Python script to measure the potential savings, and ran it across the 450kLOC GlusterFS codebase. It reported 3.4MB of savings (both realized and potential because our code isn't as consistent as it could be). I'm generally in the spaces camp myself, and believe that 3.4MB just isn't worth worrying about any more (despite being worth ten of the floppies that were omnipresent even several years into my career), but it's still a surprisingly high number.
Is it Supposed to be This Hard?
Ask HN: Help me validate my idea
I am avid reader and I enjoy reading quotes. I miss an app (iOS/Android) where I can read quotes from particular tv-series/movies. I haven't read too many novels so I am not much interested in quotes from there.

Could you give some feedback on this? Should I pursue this idea or not?
If yes, what features would you like such an app to have? Any ideas on the app name?

Thanks.
The story is old but I have to say that anyone who manages to outsource his job to China for a quarter of his paycheck and get top-notch quality (he was considered a rockstar programmer until they found out), has my respect.

You don't fire such a person, you appoint him CEO.
As much as it sucks that GS lied about him getting a raise for making them a bunch of money, he really should have gotten their promise in writing.

As any trader knows, words mean nothing. This isn't kindergarten.
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Sorry for the paste-bin, but I crossed the 2000 char limit and was struggling to edit this down.

I did not posted on my personal blog because I don't want to potential employers or new co-founders to know how in bad shape my health is.
Yeah, that's been my experience as well. I'm 38, and I get pinged for a job about 2-3 times a week, but basically I don't want to work at any of them (ask me again in 6 months).
Looks like we finally found that guy who knows 'One Weird Trick'.
Adobe announces the biggest update to its core products since CS6 
Today Adobe are releasing a major update to Creative Cloud. It will see significant updates to all 14 major applications, and there’s more exciting news about the product range.
I like to think the article means to say: be nice and fair, including to yourself.
There's plenty of lobbying in northern Europe, but in the US, there's even more.
Very nice! Those are the most elegant set of conference notes I've ever soon. You definitely have talent.
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High salaries, don't necessarily make for effective teams. Work at a bank and you'll see what I mean.
Oh, and your last sentence reminded me of something else. My Swiss company was bought by a large American Silicon Valley company. The first time the C-level staff came for an all-hands meeting was a strange experience.

The Americans were smiley and happy and joking around in the front of the large meeting room... I think I'm becoming more European because I felt like they looked like idiots (idiot in the literal sense). The Europeans (about 100) were quiet as they usually are in meetings - some polite chuckles when an American would tell a joke during his talk, but they were getting frustrated at how long the Americans were taking to get to the point.

I spoke with one of the C-level staff afterwards and I had to assure him that the Europeans weren't upset about the takeover - most of us were happy for it. The Europeans were just more serious and respectful than the Americans were used to.
The new thing going on is that Apple is letting you detect the size of a touch on the screen, which lets you approximate pressure by how smushed the tip is. Still going to be less accurate than a Wacom or similar stylus, but it's an improvement over being less accurate and not having pressure sensitivity.
Much better.

Unfortunately, checking out the domcop.com site, I'm afraid you guys have a long way to go in making it "responsive". You've solved a lot of the "technical" HTML and CSS challenges — but the design and UX totally melts down at smaller screen sizes, and on devices that are touch-only (try figuring out what those nine menu icons mean without hover events).

Ultimately, there's a lot more to being "responsive" than basic UI acceptance testing on a range of devices. You have to do proper cross-device user testing to see if people can figure out how to move through your interface fluidly. If they can't, you need to redesign certain aspects of your UI.

There's also a strong argument in many cases for not going responsive at all. If your "phone" and "desktop" use cases don't line up well, you may be looking at a situation where an m. site (what is this, 2003?) is actually more appropriate. That way, you can serve a UI specifically optimized to the tasks your users are likely to be performing on a smaller screen.

tl;dr: "Responsiveness" is a UX problem as much as it is a technical problem. Don't ignore the user-facing side of the equation.

Addendum: regarding point 6, "Learn about how responsive design works before you start" — you're confusing learning responsive design with learning how to use Bootstrap. To actually learn responsive design from scratch, a good place to start is Ethan Marcotte's classic Responsive Web Design: http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design
The title is a bit of a troll. A good Scala developer will often be able to write Scala code that outperforms similar Java code. I agree with the gist of it however, that the performance is simply comparable and therefore irrelevant to the choice between the two languages.
Traders don't know that at all. They often make deals solely on coming to a non-written agreement. For example, trading in the pits.
And, surprisingly, it still seems to be not fixed.
Wouldn't such a question on imdb or tv.com forums give you more feedback?

Personally, I'd love such app. I love quotes from Mad Men, GoT and White Collar.
Almost everybody I have ever learned something truly valuable from was a nice person.

I have yet to meet an example of the single-minded-asshole-genius who is actually a success.

Most of the truly credible successes I have met are nice people and highly regarded.
Is there a bigger picture that I am missing? Not sure why this is significant beyond the sheer amount of money.
Here's the video link, not sure where it went... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyEvp59OBog
Depends how efficient you want to be about it. Also, respectful is quite different from "nice," but people's definition of what being nice means is quite diverse.
App running inside gmail? How does that work? Are there more of these things? Can I write my own?
Does he?

> Deeb Salem, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) trader who said he helped the bank earn more than $7 billion, wants to be paid the almost $5 million difference between his 2010 bonus and what he told his mother to expect.

Money is the glue that keeps these firms together. If I felt I was legitimately owed this money, I'd pursue arbitration too. I'd rather buy my mom an island somewhere than pad the pockets of Goldman's shareholders with my money.
>Starts with the assumption that brain / brain activity = conscious self.

It's not assumption that there is nothing more to the mind than the material brain. This is based on very strong empirical evidence.

We have about 100 years worth of Neuroscience.

We also have fundamental physics and laws of chemistry. There is no reason or evidence to believe that something magical is happening in the brain, or that somehow particles which behave according to the laws of physics outside of the brain, somehow don't, when part of the brain. We have a very good understanding of all the fundamental forces that govern the physics of our everyday experience.

> I just think this assumption ought to be challenged, rather than taken for granted

Challenge it then. What is your reason to believe the laws of physics are broken in the brain or that the mind is more than the material brain? Is there even one shred of evidence for that?
This: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcom-enemy-unknown/id6395448...
I understand that bonuses are supposed to be performance based compensation. But if this guy is claiming that he's consistently performant and has a great reputation, maybe that portion of his compensation should have been moved from bonus to base. I can't blame him for leaving, but I also can't really sympathize with him for thinking any portion of the bonus was guaranteed.
Using American sports teams is a particularly bad example because the draft system typical in American sports means athletes are not free to choose among employers [1]. In addition, American sports teams tend to be massively subsidized in the form of stadium and infrastructure funding from the public till.

It's even worse as a metaphor for American companies because the typical office worker isn't under contract let alone a union negotiated one.[2]

[1] Ok, maybe the 'no poach' collusion among tech industry titans makes it a little better for that sector.

[2] Where the American professional sports metaphor does fit a bit is in its tendency toward non-investment in youth development - i.e. on the job training - which in the American sports model is subsidized from the public till in the form of scholastic sports in local high schools and public universities. Elsewhere in the world, professional sports teams tend to provide elite training to children and teenagers under a model similar to that of Angel Investing. A few big winners pay for all the false positives.
What Bankers Read At the Beach
> Not if you're running Windows.

Not if Windows puts money in the pocket
...apart from them owning Instagram.

It's naive to assume that a company will defend their subsidiary. I am not condoning how they treated you but your assertion of the app has nothing to do with Facebook is incredulous.
Because it is so cool to hate Facebook. You win the negativity award for today.
I agree.

Also, Steve Jobs was probably even more driven, perfectionist and hurtfully direct than Phil. But Steve was just growing up in a different era, and cleverly realized that when a lot of people are looking, you should try to keep the illusion of being kinda nice.

Phil is not hated by everybody. Me, I thought Fez was kinda neat. I don't care about his demeanor, great art survives all that.
We also have one of those signs, from when a good friend lived next door to Dr. Bob's workshop (he being the purveyor of those signs). He's an incredible (and incredibly oddball) guy, and a visit to his workshop / junkyard is a great example of the part of New Orleans that most visitors never see.
That's what I really hope when I think of an employee who screwed me completely over after I gave him a chance and spent a lot of time training him...

But from the last news I've heard being a snake has been very successful for him and he's landed a high position in the new company where he works (taking over the guy who hired him).

I hope one day it all catches to him but I'm not hopeful.. I just wish the world worked like this.
Shoot me down if I'm missing something obvious here, but:

One solution would be for Apple and Android to have an "environment" section for applications. You'd be able to set these environment keys when publishing the app.

Apple and Android could provide an API to these environment keys, and they'd be published in an encrypted form as part of the application manifest.

Bonus Points: It would be relatively simple to provide the facility from the AppStore provider for changing / cancelling these keys.
It's that convention and exclusion of special abstractions that appeals to me by keeping the cognitive load to a minimum. I can focus on the problem without thinking about the language. If Go became like various other languages, then what would be the point? We already have Java, C#, ...
If you want a video game that engenders the same kind of backstabbing, tension and mistrust, you might want to give Defcon a go. It's nerve-wracking.
Adios to the Tiki-Taka Men
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Unfortunately, this guy doesn't understand the CAP theorem at all.

Once you are distributed, P is not an optional. Rather, in the case of network failure, consistency or availability is what suffers. A system cannot be both CA and distributed.

So, for example, Elasticsearch is not a 'CA' solution despite the diagram in the article, but is actually closer to PC (although, in practice it is far more subtle than even that as it is not perfectly consistent, and configuration options allow for some trade-offs between availability and consistency in the case of communication errors.
Quite an achievement. Best of luck to you and your wife.
I work with a legitimately talented and hard-working Lead Architect who is not nice.

He's constantly petty, degrading, and passive-aggressive. He'll interpret whatever you say in whichever way allows him to insult you. His "arch reviews" are provided in a way that makes people feel shitty instead of making them smarter. He doesn't create sharable documents or written guidance. He is, in essence, a borderless micro-manager, who shits on the whole damned engineering team.

He's tolerated by the CEO because he shipped the first version of the product quickly, so the CEO thinks he's brilliant.

He's tolerated by the CTO because the CTO doesn't realize that his ego and passive-aggressiveness have both swelled as the company has grown.

He is the reason that many of our best engineers have left. Every single one of his direct reports has transferred or quit in less than 12 months.

He is undermining a great company.

At this point, he better hope that we have a great outcome despite his bullshit, because if he doesn't make enough money to retire, he's fucked. Zero of the engineers (and engineering management) would ever work with him, ever again. It's too lousy of an experience.

And the really sad thing is that if he was just nice about stuff, he'd be one of our best employees. But he has to be a dick about every single little thing. He has to be snarky. He has to be the smartest guy in the room. On all topics.
Where on earth have you pulled that assumption from?

A well regarded Quora answer and several HN discussions have yielded that the myth is not that people beyond 30/40/50 stop being engineers; the myth is the 25-year old creator/entrepreneur/engineer.
How currying leads to elegant, readable code
Learning about responsive design means more than learning to use the bootstrap grid . Sure,the grid system is great and works in many cases . However, there comes a time when your websites will hurt if you don't truly understand the fundamentals of responsive design .
Thanks. I don’t use imdb/tv.com forums, so that idea didn’t strike me earlier. Thanks for pointing that out. I will also post it there.
Me too. If I'm buying cheap it's cuz I'm poor atm!
It may be likely that if the world did work like that, he wouldn't be such a snake. People are conditioned to think that stepping on other people to get ahead is the only way to be successful. In that sense, I too wish the world worked like that, because then we would have a lot less snakes.
Hmm. What you say makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for the link to the book. It looks pretty interesting.
Arms race among online financial advisors gives investors much more, for less
little reason for it to be an app, and lots of websites along these lines already exist.
Airbnb's Battle for New York
Netherland definitely comes out of a period where food was not judged on taste at all, which led to very tasteless potatoes and tomatoes. But with increasing access to good international food (during the '90s in particular), many started yearning for good food with taste again, and since then there's been a real turnaround with much tastier vegetables, more local produce, and more free range and organic.

It hasn't reached all corners of society yet, but there's definitely change in the Dutch attitude towards food.
Cybersecurity firm says large hedge fund attacked
I would have assumed Plan 9 would have been supported in some capacity for obvious reasons,
Or at least head of outsourcing
I chuckled when I read "We have a legacy data warehouse based in Hive and Elastic MapReduce, with backing data stores in S3.". I guess things have come full circle. It wasn't long ago that a relational database solution would have been "legacy".
I just noticed this session in the Go track for Google IO... It might be nothing of course, but I don't remember seeing anything Android related in a Go session before: https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/eeeb1991-0...
i know i shouldn't judge with this small amount of info, but still...

you normally aren't paying an employee in training even close to the normal rate in the profession. which is obviously correct, but makes the argument that the employee screwed the employer by leaving after the the training kinda strange.
Lol. We do not live in a meritocracy, you do not become a CEO with mere talent.

(I realize you were being sarcastic, but misinterpreting you enabled me to make my point elegantly)
As I said, I'd like to see the actual statistics - I have a hunch one way, but I could well be wrong. But I'd love to see an actual study of the age breakdown of the population of people actually engaged in technical areas.
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> he was considered a rockstar programmer until they found out

I assume his work was being done by a whole team of engineers, though; is it really all that difficult to get a team of five people to contribute more than you're expected to do by yourself? A recent graduate from a top Chinese university can be happy to make less than USD 2K / month. I know a few making 5000 yuan / month (USD $800) plus housing in a company-provided communal apartment.

If you're looking to outsource something to some young but highly intelligent chinese programmers, do let me know ;)
He wasn't a pit trader, and GS isn't a pit. If the guy can handle making a couple of billion trading mortgages, I'm sure he can handle contracts 101. Pits work entirely on trader to trader rep. Bonuses are discretionary management items, and the rule is if you don't like their discretion, you jump ship and stick it on base at Bank 2.

If you want a bonus guarantee, get it in writing, and stick it on base.

Otherwise, suck it up.
It does rather depend on how you define "meritocracy":

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Is it really a "requirement," though? It sounds like it makes it easier to look at formulas as you would, say, on paper, but you can still build the same things as methods & functions.
Does anyone know which consulting firm in China he was outsourcing his work to?

Asking for a friend...
Is it me or are people switching to non-relational data warehouse architectures simply because it's en vogue? How many companies do you know that have enough data where a non-relational DW would actually make sense? I wonder, have we really pushed relational databases to their breaking point?
WordPress for app development
Cool. After watching the video, I understand pg's post about founder accents better: http://paulgraham.com/accents.html

I can understand you, but I had to focus on it, instead of focusing on your product.

The screencast is fine, although long. Structure the benefits and features you want to communicate and outline these before diving into the "how". Script the audio. Don't wait for the sync to Asana.
Aren't, in this case, the window registry entries involved are more similar to udev rules?
You're right that I was projecting my personal experiences. The people who I have worked with who called themselves blunt and honest were the same people who never defended an idea and instead resorted to calling everyone else idiots.

Saying you are blunt is often a way to sound superior or right when being rude to someone. Very few problems are as straight forward as 1+1=2, which is easy to state bluntly. Most problems though are more nuanced than that, and I have personally found that people who like to think themselves superior to others like to hide behind words like honest and blunt.
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Well, this is a Chrome plugin. And yes you can write your own. Check out https://developers.google.com/gmail/ and http://gmailblog.blogspot.in/2010/02/gmail-chrome-extensions...
That's not true totally, since you can side load on Android it's trivial to spoof an App Identity to match what the facebook app is expecting. You can get the Identity from the original app. What is somewhat more difficult is doing this across a bunch of phones since the Play store won't register your app if it's spoofing another apps id. In the end it's just a series of hoops to jump through like almost all security. The more hoops you put between you and the bad guys the less it's worth jumping through them, in theory that is. There will always be the guy who has to know.

*edit I mean it's not true that the attacker can't impersonate your app. Your description of how it works looks right on to me. :)
I've avoided it for so long as it does look like it's either a manipulation guidebook or a social skills for dummies book. Your comment has convinced me to give it a go :)