jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Depends where you are. If you're in the San Francisco area, you'll see a lot of people display Grateful Dead logos - eg bumper stickers on cars, t-shirts, or even cufflinks (I've met quite a few senior executives who were 'deadheads' at one point, same way you'll run into all sorts of people at a Burning Man event). You can safely assume anyone showing off their Grateful Dead affiliation has tried LSD at least once.

One reason people don't talk about it much is that if someone is arrested and has LSD, the amount in their possession for evidence purposes is based on the weight of the delivery medium, usually blotter paper. So what you might think, that's only a few milligrams per square. Unfortunately the standard dose, which is soaked into the paper, is about 50-100 micrograms. Thanks to the 1986 anti-drug legislation and the 1991 Chapman decision, the weight of the blotter paper was included as part of the 'mixture containing LSD' without regard to the very low dose:carrier weight ratio, so even a modest amount owner for personal use could easily pass the threshold for a presumtive attempt to distribute, attracting a long sentence.

This has been fixed to some extent in the most recent edition of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, but that was only last year, after 20+ years of really jacked-up sentences. Now the sentencing commission assumes a carrier weight of 0.4 milligrams (vs. a base dose of 0.05ug for the chemical itself: https://books.google.com/books?id=TbJlhRCG4NYC&pg=PA164&lpg=...

Here's the current drug quantity table, which sorts people into different groups depending on the amount they possess: http://www.fd.org/docs/select-topics/sentencing-resources/cl...

This still seems an order of magnitude too low to me; a quantity suitable for personal use could put someone away for a couple of years. So it's not the sort of thing that people flaunt openly the way many marijuana devotees do.
If I understand you correctly, Heroku does make that possible. You can use Heroku Toolbelt or their web dashboard to add environment variables.

Adding environment variables to a file is just a convenience.
Like in coding, complexity in a business partnership might be a warning. The book Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Meister has a lot of lessons for anyone running a traditional parter/associates firm, and the last part talks about splitting the profits. My read is that a "dumb" approach (equal split or simple seniority-based) is okay, and a "judgment" approach (publish criteria, but have a committee make the final decisions) is okay, but a metrics-based approach is risky. I agree, and for small operations I think the simpler the better. Anyway, if it's something you're thinking about, the book is a solid, meaty read.
Pretty useful info, thank you, never realized one could get away with just WOFF nowadays.
Sorry, that could have used more explanation, especially since I'm really hypothesizing after the fact about why it works better to start fast and end slow, and that hypothesis involves a few steps of inference.

It's pretty clear that the human brain is good at simple integration over time to predict where an object will be in the future, or how long it will take to reach a destination. What it doesn't seem to be as adept at is estimating those things when something is changing speed. I would guess that the reason for this is a combination of the math being harder, the results being more noise-sensitive, and it being less crucial in our evolution to anticipate rapidly accelerating or decelerating targets.

So my first premise is that we estimate time-to-destination based on speed, and that we are slow to update the estimate when the object changes speed.

My second premise is that time perception is heavily influenced by expectation. If click something and then nothing happens for a moment, our wait-time expectation is essentially unbounded, since we aren't even reasonably sure that anything is happening.

If you add a spinner, we become more confident that the wait will end, but the time expectation is still high. If the spinner lingers for too long, our only way to update the expectation is something like "I will be waiting for some significant proportion of the amount of time I've been waiting so far". That's not good, because it actually causes your expectations to invert with respect to reality; as time goes on, you feel further from the end, not closer.

So the idea is that a progress bar feels faster because it gives a decreasing expectation of time left. If the progress bar is accurate, then once it has moved half way, you will expect to wait exactly as long as you have already waited.

Now, the trick with the decelerating progress bar is that it lets you beat accurate expectations by causing the user to underestimate how long they will be waiting.

For example, suppose you accurately estimate that it will take 6 seconds. In the first two seconds, the progress bar will fill, about linearly, to 40%. The user will therefore expect the bar to be full after 5 seconds. After 4.5 seconds, it will be 75% full. If the user were to estimate based on there entire time so far, they'd correctly expect to wait another 1.5 seconds. But that doesn't seem to be what happens. Instead, the user continues to expect less. And so on. In the final moments before the progress bar disappears, the user simply doesn't have time to adjust their expectations.

What seems to lend additional credence to this hypothesis is that you can get even better results by adding random slowdowns and speed ups (while maintaining an average fill curve of erf(erf^-1(estimate)*t/estimate)). When the bar passes the 75% mark where it slows down for good, the user still expects another jump. You can even confirm this expectation by filling the bar at the end it disappears, since at expected completion it will only be 87% full.
The right way to do in-person exchanges is to use an escrow service like LocalBitcoins. Zero confirmation transactions are pretty easy to double-spend (and could be even easier in the future [1])

The seller funds the transaction in the escrow service before meeting the buyer. The buyer sees it's funded and can write down a confirmation code that the seller doesn't know. Then when they meet the seller counts the cash and sends a SMS to LocalBitcoins to release the funds. LocalBitcoins responds with the confirmation code which the buyer can check then hand over the cash. No one needs any computers, only the seller needs a phone.

I tried it once and I felt like an arms dealer or something.

[1] edit: IIRC there's some proposal to be able to override unconfirmed transactions to recover coins in limbo due to no transaction fees being included, or something.
Whoever edited the title did a poor job. It was submitted as "LG Display Develops 538ppi (2560x1440 at 5.5-inch) AH-IPS Panel for Smartphones" to present all the important information at once. I don't know why the moderator prefers the marketing term used by LG.
I made Mardown-Powered SkyDrive-Hosted blogging platform a few weeks back.

All you had to do is claim a username/url (by navigating to it), login with SkyDrive and start adding markdown files to the "StratosPress" (name of the service) directory in SkyDrive. No need to manually sync/push/publish. Just save and as soon as the file gets synced, your blog post is updated.

Unfortunately, nobody seems to use SkyDrive. And even if they did, who would give a random guy on the internet access to all of their SkyDrive files. I know I wouldn't. Too bad there's no way to restrict file access to third-party services.

Silvrback looks alright, but it still seems a bit too bloated to my taste. I'm not sure why exactly.
It's unfortunate so many people are downvoting you apparently just because they don't agree. I'm not sure I agree, but you have a totally valid and reasonable point of view.
He's afraid of being shouted down... so he makes a post about how HN 'can't handle the truth'(tm)? That's a weird way to avoid being "shouted down".
Today that may be so; but prior to 1914 it was possible to move around anywhere in Europe (including the UK -- excluding the Russian Empire) without a passport or identity documents, and pretty much legal to settle anywhere. While the cost and difficulty of moving back then was greater than it is today, states had very porous borders and it was practical to vote with your feet (as in fact my grandparents did).

The first world war put an end to the old order and made nationality non-discretionary -- and we're still dealing with the fallout today (as witness the permanent floating founder visas thread on HN).
Maybe they are thinking of charging for their content as London's Time currently does. Although I do not know of any site which provides the content of The Times for free, there is no reason why people would not start doing so where all newspapers to start charging for content.

So maybe they are indeed preparing for a certain sort of internet balkanisation.
> Indeed. The “savage” reads Shakespeare, which no one else in the book does anymore, for example.

Keep in mind John is the son of Thomas and Linda, both from outside the reservation, and shares very little with the natives.
I've never heard of rumors (let alone proof) of people working on military project who all of a sudden start disappearing. The Washington DC area should be full of stories of engineers who went MIA. The 'risk' surely doesn't stop 1000's of NSA, FBI and military personnel and contractors to work there.

I guess you can debate the morality of developing weapons. I'd say that blowing up an Iranian nuclear bomb factory is a net positive. But that's irrelevant to my point, which was how great it would be to work on a cutting edge project with heaps of resources.
You could try Ayahuasca. It should be a bit easier to prepare than pure DMT, and more pleasant to consume too. The plants needed to make it are legal; the result is not, but since you're going to consume it soon after, I wouldn't worry about it. Just make sure that you consume no tyramine some time before and afterwards.
Careful.

One of the cornerstones of democracy is that the ignorant will chose who also governs the educated if they are numerous enough.
I've seen this convention before. I personally find it more useful to tag commit messages with [fix], [docs], etc. It makes it more easily searchable, which is IMO what you really want. You can:

git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | grep "\[doc"

to see documentation commits, and count them by piping to `wc`.

Emojis feel... complicated. What do they mean? Here you're just typing the literal word so not much to remember or search.
I think the idea of a pure free speech space is great in theory, but probably impracticable.

Could I post as much as I want? Do bots that I authored, posting on my behalf, count as my own speech? What if I effectively DDoS the system, will I be censored then? Preventing DDoS is essentially censorship, even though the DDoS is also essentially censorship of others by preventing them from being heard at all. It’s like the paradox of tolerance.

It reminds me of a “free speech wall” in a city I used to live in. At some point all writing on that wall becomes unreadable due to volume. It was also regularly wiped clean.

With FB we’re talking about psychological DDoS of truth, instead of infrastructural DDoS of information.
I have a shared hosting account with Dreamhost. A while back I went looking for accessible stuff under other user's accounts. It was fairly easy to find both readable and writable directories.

This was a while ago so I don't know if they found a solution. User home directories are private but you can easily guess common paths under them (eg wordpress).
Well, technically I don't, for the reason I don't know if the abominable snowman exists. I have yet to see one I knew to be a df which was even close to being convincing.
I thought it was some awesome breakthrough in underwater engineering that makes long term underwater human life sustainable, but the article had nothing to do with that and was much more mundane.

How about "Humans can survive rising sea levels"?
So now instead of getting the cheap cable that frays, buyers get the half price cable on amazon that literally bursts into flames. It's clear that these cables at least from apple are considered wear items in their eyes, but the alternatives are almost worse, sometimes catastrophically worse.
I'm from Brazil and Portuguese <-> Spanish is not that difficult, at least to be able to communicate so currently I speak a "bad" fluent spanish.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604394, which was posted first.
Fascinating! I found that reading Marvin Minsky's The Emotion Machine, explained a lot about how might a brain be built to produce such results. And there is an entire chapter about what scientists in this article are calling analogical machines. Minsky calls them difference networks.
>some car components could be made upgradeable by their manufacturer -- like entertainment units -- but they don't

Almost every single car part can be "upgraded", courtesy of the aftermarket. It's not necessarily a worse system.
"Open borders" was the historical situation for much of US history. It's comparatively recently that we've been closing them with anything like effectiveness. That said, the nature of "open borders" changes as transportation becomes easier, which it did dramatically over that period.
It's a Good Bad Movie:

http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/books/english/e_books

> A type of book which we hardly seem to produce in these days, but which flowered with great richness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is what Chesterton called the “good bad book”: that is, the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished.

[snip]

> In each of these books the author has been able to identify himself with his imagined characters, to feel with them and invite sympathy on their behalf, with a kind of abandonment that cleverer people would find it difficult to achieve.
I think it's because it is the only group chat product that teams/companies can reliably adopt. Many companies would like chat, and it's always been available, but the employees don't use it. Slack's onboarding process and interface make it really easy to get people addicted to it, and make it easy for it to grow inside a company.

Our company is a good example of that; we have a lot of habitual resistance to improving communication methods and now some of the more unlikely people are on it and loving it.

The unlimited free tier certainly helps. I know we would not be using it if we had to get everyone going on a free trial, and I think other companies are similar.

Finally, now that a lot of companies have used it and talk about it, word-of-mouth is carrying the company into its high valuations.
I just yell over to Alexa (Amazon Echo) to add it to the shopping list.
I'd rather live in that world than the world where my national legislature flees their chambers in fear of a mob trying to overturn the democratic process. Do you have a third option to suggest?
ARM takes it further and just licenses its IP, leaving to its licensees the decision of whether to outsource production to Asia.

Not all necessarily outsource to Asia. I think STMicro and Infineon still produce some ARM microcontrollers (microcontrollers; these are not smartphone CPUs) in Europe.
> We've reached the point where the American left is afraid of the idea of free speech.

Not only that, but people like you and me who comment in defense of it are fading from the major platforms. For each of us who grew up with free speech as the cornerstone right in a free and just society, there seem to be many others who did not ever care about this, or actively seek to destroy it for the benefit of their own group.

It's worth remembering just how many warnings that this would happen eventually we have been left historically. Centuries of being reminded that people would come for these rights if we did not defend them. I never thought it was going to have to be our generation, though.
global communications platforms should allow all legal posts. this is dumb precedent and these 2 tweets are pretty tame
I agree: if say the 3 nodes used different implementations, this would basically be an ideal situation.

I don't know about Mastodon's case, but in Matrix the extremely low popularity of alternative servers is kind of a big roadblock.
They did, on another occasion https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19

Also, Antifa was planning an attack on the white house after election day.
They DID murder someone. US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick.
Can you tell me anywhere this isn't the case besides maybe people raving on the street? Genuinely asking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CnamzIE3Rg
Yeah, I here you. In my day job, I do sysadmin work, not programming, and decided to install org-mode to write docs and notes on my laptop.

I now make a point of not ever opening up the init.el file unless it is Friday. No way in hell will I go down that sinkhole during a nasty work week.

Now I have returned to procrastinating on HN more exclusively again. Everyone wins!
This is how DeepMind will train its pacman AI. Brilliant. :)
The judges are the historians, and they tend to have the last word.

You've conveniently created a nice sliding scale from those that marry their same-sex partners all the way to those employed by the NSA and if the present (international) trends are any indication you may very well be right in the way you ordered those, maybe the last two should be swapped, time will tell.
I found the way Google dealt with YouTube logins to be pretty horrendous.

For a long time YouTube kept asking me to associate a google account with my YouTube user ID. So I gave in and tried to do that.

I tried to use one of my three other gmail addresses — no, that doesn't work because they were existing Google accounts. I had to create a brand new gmail address just to associate with my YouTube user ID.

I also keep forgetting the email address I used to associate with that ID. They have user name recovery, password recovery, but not email-associated-with-username recovery.

The whole experience was drawn out and terrible.
They have infact done so on multiple occasions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonalds_legal_cases

EasyGroup and Starbucks have both been involved in similar trademark lawsuits.
Useful post!

Does anyone know: Is it recommended to mount a directory via sshfs? My idea: Mount whole server filesystems into /mnt/servers/<server_ip> ... and then conveniently work with it using desktop tools.

Can it be done? What are the downsides to that?
Probably because most of the people working there would like to keep their jobs.
Implementation details aside, this is a fantastic use of metrics in two ways: it exposes them to the user in a way calculated to improve their experience, and it provides hard data that this feature is printing money hats. It also establishes a baseline for further improvement (I would be tempted to pull a Zynga and show the user a progress bar at 95% saying that they are almost done and the one little thing they can do to complete their listing is to make with the clickyclicky.)
>you either have "knowledge" or you have "false beliefs" based on best available science.

Personally I think it would be truly naive to imagine that we now have what you call "knowledge" as opposed to having in science the best (based on consensus) available description of the universe. If you wish to call the standard model "false belief" then I can go with that but it seems a bit overly fussy.

We should understand that we take our axioms and build on them and measure against them but that we need to adjust those axioms as evidence comes to light.

Axioms, many scientist fail to realise, are beliefs without scientific justification. Not only is physics built on them but the mathematics we use to build our physics and the logic that we use to support our mathematics are built on them too. What is more Godel shows us that we can't prove that logic to be complete and consistent from within.

Yes Pyrrho is my hero but I think Carneades went a bit far.
>No, "belief" and "evidence" are orthogonal.

In which case no evidence exists for us.
Wow, this is fantastic, thanks! I was looking for something like this a while ago and the closest I could find was transocks, which is Linux-only, not overly stable, not actively maintained, and TCP-only.
But still a good proportition of them ends up spending their lives in there by returning again and again if not being sentenced for life straight away.

It's as if being a criminal was a lifestyle some people choose to adopt from the beginning. They don't even want out of it, and some want back "in" because that's where the culture strives.
Works pretty well for us when followed. Just making a suggestion, since constitutional changes seem in the works for Ukraine.
>Of course Eclipse & Visual Studio are crappy, we all know that. Nobody is questioning that.

You'd be surprised. They might have clunky editors, but they're far more advanced in dealing with code intelligently (refactoring, AST parsing and transformations, knowledge of structure etc) than ST or Emacs.
When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP. We are talking about things like OpenVPN which can do TCP over TCP, but that is generally a bad idea. It's default mode is TCP over UDP, as it should be.
Can you test out of the lower level classes?
Yuck! After all these years of high level languages, having to use a mid-level language like objective-c to develop for iPhone feels like a step backwards! If only HTML5 / phonegap was more of a viable option.
>if there is any idea/thought in my head, I simply write down an

Sounds more like twitter/facebook updates. Believe there is a higher quality bar for blog posts.

> I would worry about post formatting, title of the post, my potential readers etc.

That's what I do and more (multiple drafts) when writing most blog posts. I expect bloggers I read regularly to at least attempt the same.
"There is no need to work on getting your name out there for top execs at a startups."

But you will if they start to get any kind of investors.
No, it talks mostly about raises rather than promotions. Even if you focus on promotions, many companies will let you get more senior developer/engineer titles with the responsibility and money that comes with it without moving into the management track.

Now, the article does assume you care about moving up at least in salary and likely in position as well, but that is true for a wide swath of the population.
E-mail provides no security. An e-mail can be forged simply by using telnet to connect to and SMP server (usually your ISPs) and typing the appropriate message (see wikipedia SMTP. The easiest fix for this is PGP as mentionned in previous posts. This is, however, a horrible solution since it will alienate many users (think your mother). The simplest solution that will do a good enough job is to send back an e-mail to the user with a 'preview' of his post for him to OK it since receiving e-mails is more secure.
> Because Github does not want to be complicit in Chinese government censorship

I think you are missing the guy's point: what is the difference between Russian censorship and Chinese censorship?
Github made a deal with Russia - why not also China?
Agreed, maddening. I kept my Firefox installation pinned to 74 for as long as I could because of this, but I had to give in and update to 85 a couple of weeks ago for something. I scan the release notes for each release in hope, but no.

I don't really care about consistency with other browsers - I don't use other browsers very much. I care about consistency with everything else on my desktop.

(It's not just about the option - I didn't even use the browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll option myself. The clickSelectsAll=false behaviour - the one that was removed - had been the default on Linux.)
From one dev to another, can't thank you enough! Just bought it on the App Store to support you.