jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When Albert Hoffman was put on trial in the late 1960s for LSD manufacture, his defense was that he was actually caught with ALD-52 (his discovery). He lost on account that he synthesized LSD first as a precursor.

Urban lore has it that some of the "really good acid" in the '60s under the moniker "Orange Sunshine" was actually ALD-52. This is heavily debated and we'll probably never know for sure how much, if any, ALD-52 was circulating.

Most interesting is that even though he was incarcerated, for whatever reason, the DEA never got around to scheduling ALD-52. It's technically still legal.

In order to combat designer drugs, the government put in place the Federal Analog Act which means you could be thrown in jail if you're caught with a previously-undocumented or never-scheduled drug that the courts find is similar enough to a scheduled one. However, this has only been invoked a handful of times (only 2 I can find) and would likely only ever been used against distributors. Bottom line, a recreational user is extremely, extremely unlikely to be nailed on this law.

Lucky for you, there's this massive, above-ground lab in Europe called Lizard Labs https://lizardlabs.eu/ and produce lab grade products. They might as well be the Eli Lily of gray market psychedelic drugs. You can't buy from them directly but they openly list retailers selling their products. If you live in Canada, Europe, or the US, there's a retailer that will ship to you super discretely through the mail. No tor required.

Here's their list: https://lizardlabs.eu/retailers/

I've never had an order seized, lost, or scammed. I mean, it's paper--nearly impossible to detect. People that have lost shipments have generally just had the item quietly seized by customs with no further repercussions. I've used theindoleshop.com multiple times.

Cheers.
Fully autonomous cars seem a decent bit away still.

But I think you could hail a (mostly) conventional car (like a Tesla, but with Waymo's sensors) to most locations reliably. Even if you had to be behind the wheel to take control in some situations, but you could still rent the car by the minute/mile and take it wherever, that would still be 10-1000x better than renting a car conventionally, and it'd be 2-10x cheaper than Ubering.

I think the majority of people would pick driving themselves over Uber for most fo their trips if it meant half to 1/10th the cost. They could easily make a 20% profit on $0.55 a mile + $3.00 to start. Your average trip in NYC and SF is now ~$5 instead of ~$15.

I'm not sure why no one is pursuing this option. I know Google REALLY wanted fully autonomous cars. But this seems like it could just be another option in Uber/Lyft.

I would go as far as saying that we should be exploring this on the Municipal level. I wouldn't be surprised if 30%+ of car owners in major cities would get rid of their car if a reliable service at this price point existed.
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Amazon’s corporate offices in Seattle gave a $1,000 campaign contribution to Indiana’s governor. It was years before Holcomb would next face reelection, and Amazon hasn’t donated to him before or since.
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US state governors are this cheap? :)
Travis Oliphant, here. OpenTeams is much bigger than me, but I have been part of the early team putting energy into the effort. Henry has captured some of the personal motivations for me. They are sincere. There are plenty of ways for me to make money more easily than wrestling with the economics of open-source software. This is my calling and something I care about a lot. You can watch a video of me talking something about this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCEUPosJuIY if you want to get to know me better.

I have had the privilege of watching open-source projects I started or participated in get used by millions. I want to see a world where more people are paid a great living to work on open-source software. There are several approaches to improving the funding fabric for open-source. OpenTeams is one of them. Quansight Initiate (http://www.qi.ventures) is another one. Quansight Labs (http://labs.quansight.org) and Quansight (http://www.quansight.com) are others. A group of us are also working on a few other ideas including FairOSS (not going to give the website because it is a behind-the scenes operation for now --- ping me if you are interested in learning more).

I have spent many years writing open-source software, improving open-source ecosystems, hiring open-source developers, and paying people to work on open-source software. I have also spent the past 12 years in particular working in industry watching open-source get used and seeing the disconnect between open-source usage and open-source communities.

There are several business models that can work to improve things. With OpenTeams we are building out a platform and ecosystem to help open-source communities thrive by directing money from industries that use them to the communities that exist while also learning from the basic laws of incentive alignment and local choice making that are at the heart of every economy.

One of my core believes is that not all software will be or should be open source. I don't make this conclusion lightly. However all software will be based on and use open source foundations. Those communities that produce these foundations should be able to thrive and yet retain their freedom and self direction.

OpenTeams is a platform to make that happen by connecting companies that use open-source and want to fund specific features and improvements with organizations that hire open-source developers to work on proposals that have input from community participants and leaders. Some initiatives will be new projects, some will be usability improvements and feature proposals for existing projects. An effect of OpenTeams is also to enable a place for all open-source contributors to build their reputation (not just contributions that lead to pull-requests).

We are in a pre-alpha stage at the moment, but will be continuing to add features and are open to suggestions and ideas.

Thanks for your feedback.
In my country, no one can buy land up to 4 meters (13 feet) away the sea, rivers and lakes because it is a public domain. Because of this, tourists from other countries like to come here and enjoy every beach...
What I don't understand about self-driving cars is that once all cars are 'self-driving' enabled then there won't be a need for the complicated AI and computer vision work since if all cars have the tech might as well just have a standard where they are constantly communicating their position with each other (add signs and traffic lights to the mix). The challenge then would be to how to efficiently route all cars simultaneously. I have the opinion that all this investment in the long run will be discarded and will only be useful in the transition period where roads are shared by humans and algorithms. Thoughts? Is this future vision shared by people involved in the self-driving world?
I don't completely think that this is an execution issue. Do we really think there is a large market out there for "flattr-ing" blogs and other sites?

I don't know how many people would pay for/donate to something they're getting for free.

Something about not buying a cow when you're getting milk for free comes to mind...
Agreed. One of the delights of ambiguity is that it allows one to project one's own prejudices into the data. Allow me:

For example, what does it mean that 31% of people want an Android phone but a whopping 50% of them buy one? Is it because the lower price is compelling undecideds to switch? Or is it because carriers promote Android in-store because the advertising rev. share is more profitable for them (see http://paidcontent.org/article/419-androids-secret-sauce-goo...). Or is it simply that Android simply kicks ass? Or all three?

But, on the other hand, what does it mean that the Android installed base is 37% greater than iPhone, but Android browser share is only 10% greater? Does that indicate that some people aren't using the smartphone features of Android, and instead are just buying them as cheap phones with cool cameras and email?
I put up a few spare notes ;)
You're pretty much correct, but the building/installing step is responsible for a lot more Cast code than the runit part is.

When you run "create instance redis0" the high level steps are:

1. Create a new directory structure in which to install redis.
2. Copy all the redis files into a version-specific location in that structure.
3. Process any templates (for config files, etc) that were provided.
4. Create symlinks from the version-specific install location into a version-independent data root.
5. Create various symlinks for tracking the 'current' version, etc.
6. Create the runit script.

I might be forgetting a step somewhere in there, but you get the idea.

edit: fix list formatting
The most reliable way to defend against fringe politics from becoming overly influential is to make voting mandatory, as Australia does. See Hotelling's Law for why.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotellings_law
Consider mobile devices as a swarm of sensors. If there are enough devices in an area with barometric pressure sensors, perhaps the data they provide could augment existing weather forecasts. As far as I know the Xoom is the only device with a barometer now but perhaps there will be more.

If we get access to more sensors we'll figure out things to do with them.
Yeh so I am going to go out on a limb and say that this is very risky - I guess the mitigation for the risk is the small amount per angel, but considering that they only raised $1.5M an have 6 people on payroll....that just seems excessive.

Should be interesting to see what Kevin comes up with and if he can re-invent another industry.
Ultimately any physical interaction can be abstracted into math - ultimately, in precisely the same way as software being executed by a computing system. I keep coming back to a recognition of every argument against software patents ultimately reducing to an argument against the concept of patents in general.
Identities and financial information is worth stealing.

People, before you go nuts securing your computers routers and phones, talk to your doctors office about adding additional security to your medical records and freeze or add fraud alerts to your credit reports including NCTUE which I had never heard of until someone walked into Verizon and walked out with 4 unlocked iPhones after opening a new account in my name.
Those are all maintenance and repair expenses, which GP mentioned.
I can't disagree with most of that, but honestly in non-major cities the experience of getting an Uber is just like 10x nicer than the experience of getting a cab. If nothing else they made things way more convenient.
Among Us is $5 on PC/Switch and ad-supported freemium on Android. Not a AAA game as discusssed on this thread.
And so did a bunch of folks who held black money no?
Laws don't require a literal monopoly, but significant market powers so yes, market share does a monopoly make via the power of that share in most circumstances. Of course being a monopoly in the legal sense isn't in and of itself illegal, it's leveraging that power to self serving, uncompetitive purposes.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area. Some courts have required much higher percentages. In addition, that leading position must be sustainable over time: if competitive forces or the entry of new firms could discipline the conduct of the leading firm, courts are unlikely to find that the firm has lasting market power.
I think "necessary but not sufficient" is an accurate way of capturing our goals for the interview question. Some really great candidates felt just like you do about the question, and we learned over time how to present it to senior candidates in a way that did not (at least in my experience) trigger that reaction.

That said, there were also plenty of candidates who came to the question guns ablazing with the same attitude, and then failed miserably. I'm not saying that's you -- but rather that it worked out in practice to be a fairly good filter for whether people actually had (enough of) that skillset.
> I think it's also growing iteratively (amortized constant, but still reallocating and copying along the way).

Nah. Let's see why that isn't the case because it's instructive:

0..len is a Range, Range implements core::iter::TrustedLen which is an unsafe trait that says "I promise" (hence it must be unsafe) "that my size hint isn't a hint at all but my actual exact size".

[ Rust's "built-in" containers and iterator adaptors eagerly implement TrustedLen, you should consider doing likewise if you make things that you're absolutely certain know their correct size and wouldn't otherwise be TrustedLen ]

Because Range implements TrustedLen the Map also chooses to implement TrustedLen since it doesn't change the length and can just pass along what Range said.

The iterator.collect() call effectively ends up as spec_extend(iterator) on the Vec, and spec_extend() for an iterator with TrustedLen uses the size hint to reserve() the appropriate amount of space in the vector up front.
> That is not at all clear from the problem description.

Seems like everyone else here thinks it’s perfectly clear.
I have DELL box with SDD/HDD/i7, running with one 28" 4K LCD monitor; integrated graphics can only drive this and nothing else, so no multi-monitor. I don't really miss it though; 4K is awesome.

My laptop is a 15" rMBP; everything is running Windows 8.1.
We are nowhere near the limit of VC wealth preventing the hiring of great programmers.

In other words, the wealth generated by previous waves of great programmers working on projects is most definitely not the limiting factor here.

Why would more wealth then generate more projects?
Cory Doctorow just needs to STFU and go away.

Lets be clear here, CD is primarily a science fiction writer (feel free to look at info up yourself), not a programmer/engineer (like Richard Stallman), not a researcher (like Michael Geist), not an activist (many many examples we all know) or quite frankly anyone of any relevance. He's the new breed of self-aggrandizing web whore that gets himself shoe horned in "tech" sites or simply via his dumpster blog Boingboing. To stay relevant he takes popular internet news (say gamergate) and takes the most hardlined politically-correct stance on it. A great example of this would be how he recently co-authored a fictional book about a "female gamer". I mean... comon...

For the sake of the internet please ignore this person and support people who make a real difference. (I fully expect to be voted down for this by not brainlessly applauding these hipster heroes)
What tech skill shortage? I understand a few companies like Google have trouble finding people with advanced math degrees, but most startups are just basic websites / mobile apps.
Your mention of community college reminded me that I had a friend in similar circumstances several years ago (young, bright, but inexperienced and no contacts, plus in his case new country).

I advised him to take a programming course at the local community college, but I told him the greatest value he'd get was almost certainly not what he would learn in class, but the connections he would make with students and faculty.

Fortunately for him (and for my reputation as a sage) before the first semester was over the boss of one of his fellow students literally knocked on his door to recruit him.

At the time he was sleeping on his brother's couch. Don't be afraid to ask for help from family if it's available, it can be crucial, and one day you'll return the favor.
To me the most important factor is how relaxed your muscles are when working. That is, even while frantically typing on my keyboard my fingers spend most of their time resting. It's very easy to keep your muscle contracted the entire time and that's where the danger is.

This is something I learned from my music teachers. I would get nervous while playing and my muscles would get all stiff leading to missed notes and sounding dry and whatnot. Most importantly, I was thinking about how to position my muscles to get the sound I wanted rather than thinking about the sound I wanted and letting the muscles do their thing. They made me realize your muscles needs to breathe and to use the window between impulses to relax them.

I could have the best posture, best keyboard layout and everything else but if my muscles stay contracted the entire time I'm working I'll definitely feel it at the end of the day. Be it on the guitar or computer.
> I already talked to him about lowering his share options (which he currently holds about 40%, (same as me, after seed round dilution))

if you're a co-founder and all you have is options and not a significant chunk of real equity, i'd say the problem is not that he isn't pulling his weight, but you (that's you, not him) got short-changed for the amount of work you are doing. and you are probably upset about that.

if he's a CFO/money type that's been charged with fund raising, money management, records, dealing with vendors and HR, etc, his compensation (no actual equity?) is probably correct, or even under-valued.

in which case, if you go to the board, you are going to be forced into a position of justifying why you want an increase in compensation for your work, instead of lowering his compensation for the work he's doing.

these are the kinds of things you learn so that your 2nd and 3rd time around are easier.
At least we know who that anonymous job advert was for last week.
Soft Skills podcast never fails to brighten my day - https://softskills.audio/
Expectations. It is all about managing expectations. If you expect things to be finished in a certain amount of time and they do not, delays are a huge frustration. If things are finished before your expected time, you are satisfied or happy.

It is, in a sense, the other side of the coin of control. We have schedules and needs, and we want to be in control of these things. In order to be in control, we need to remove the unknowns -- have the right expectations.

Visiting a customer when your project is past due is an effort to help them understand what to expect so that they may feel more in control of the outcome. The customer's money is on the line. They are happier when they have a reasonable handle on the situation.

Practical example: It is far better to tell your customer, "We expect to receive the parts in two days, and we will call you immediately" than "We will call you when we receive the parts."
You seemed to type this post just fine--out of curiosity, did you do that aided with anything, or what sort of problems do you have with CLIs resulting from your dyslexia?

I prefer CLI tools during development because the tools tend to be simpler ("rougher") and easier to compose into pipelines. If you aren't using your tools this way, you're missing out on a lot of what makes them useful. They also are a lot easier to script and write documentation for...type this, type this, type this--okay, according to your shell history, you didn't type what we told you to and there's your problem.

GUI tools are useful for when I'm debugging graphical issues in the frontend (what is the DOM looking like starting under the cursor right now?), or need to very rapidly switch context in the backend (what are these variables set to? What is the prototype and doc for this function invocation?). They are annoying to script, and annoying to document for other developers. They also tend to be much larger and less composable than other tools.

As far as the git stuff, well, it's best used from the command-line.
I'm much more tired of comments on ambiguous naming. There are at least two other people in my city who have my name, and many more who share either my first or last name. Somehow life goes on and this is not a topic of major controversy. But when two pieces of software have similar names, people just can't resist commenting endlessly and upvoting this content-free bikeshedding at the expense of actual discussion.
Absolutely. It's just so much better than any IRC client. People looked at the iPhone and said "but all of this technology already existed!" That isn't the point. It had never been put together in a user-friendly way.

Slack hasn't invented anything new, but the entire product is a delight to use.
Either I misread the parent's question or (s)he edited it. I had read it as "[...] cases where Z3 will say sat, but not output a proof when you ask for it", and was simply trying to clear up the misunderstanding that a 'sat' answer should come with a proof.
One more vote for Manufactured Landscapes. The forever shot in the iron factory is a major revelation.
facebook should have tied him up with a long term contract. I thought ff was acquired for the talent not the platform. big loss esp if they acquired for talent and not platform.
+1 on PGP support
There's just so many ways to consume information these days, that physical newspapers seem to be the least effective medium at this point. I subscribe to the NYT on my Kindle and haven't looked back.

They aren't doing themselves any favors by sticking with the large paper format either. Trying to read a newspaper in any sort of tight quarters like an airplane is a fools errand. I'm curious if they've ever considered making newspapers magazine sized.
True. Perhaps it's because medical school is harder than law school. Or perhaps because if a doctor gives free medical advice, and something goes wrong, someone could die and he get sued. If a lawyer gives bad advice, the typical downside is not as bad, plus, a lawyer is less afraid of getting sued since he can defend it against better, cheaper, more efficiently. Just brainstorming aloud.
I agree that the connection is tenuous, but long-term capital gains taxes are of special interest to founders since they affect their net returns on exits.
It might actually be true this time, but haven't articles like this been coming out every year or so for the past 20 years? Maybe longer--- it was sort of the rhetoric Apple was using in the mid-80s, when they pronounced the era of the big bulky box dead, heralding the era of sleek, light-weight machines like the all-in-one Macintosh and the fits-in-a-briefcase Apple //c.
Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh.

Holy cow. Maybe this is how the Visual Studio rumors started.

I really hope those tool palettes undock, for those of us with multiple screens: http://yfrog.com/9e6lhj
A good alternative for a sweet tooth is Honey. Not the cheap rubbish but the good stuff (e.g. UMF 10+). Manuka Honey even has antibacterial benefits and tastes great.
Not only that, but there's such a backlog of great, reliable desktop machines from the last decade! For most stay-indoors purposes, a seven-year-old Dell machine is just fine, and due to the numbers produced is effectively free (or near-free if you need to add some more memory and a new video card before it seems right).

Of course I remember laughing at the crusty oldtimers who, back in 2000, swore they were happy using a '386 running Debian for all their needs. Forgive me if I'm sounding like one of them.
Coups as in Putin installing pro-Russia actors? :)