skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can trigger a paradigm shift in many other areas, not just mental health care.
Except it's so hard to explain this to a 'normal' person, who's never taken any.

"If God were to permit you a brief voyage into the divine process,
let you whirl for a second into the atomic nucleus or spin you
out on a light-year trip through the galaxies, how on earth
would you describe what you saw when you got back, breathless,
to your office? This metaphor may sound farfetched or irrelevant,
but just ask someone who has taken a heavy dose of LSD."
- Tim Leary, The politics of ecstasy, 1968

It's similar to the 'overview effect' reported by astronauts who've been to space.
Of course it triggers a paradigm shift and 'cures' depression or other mind-loops that we find ourselves in so often.

It's good to see that there are more discussions about psychedelics in the scientific community.
I suspect there are many (more and more) scientists and academics who use psychedelics so
I think we will see more and more material published on this subject, apart from the huge amount of anecdotal material available online.

I also suspect that people use more psychedelics now than ever in our history.
And it's happening globally. And it's a good thing.

Because I believe psychedelics are the mythical 'love bomb' which can stop wars and bring peace to people and other species on Earth.
And they could, in theory, cure cancer - certainly the psychological and spiritual effects of the disease, which could bring remission to it's physical manifestation.

So yeah, there's lots of research still to be done.
So to successfully contribute to US based open source projects you need intimate familiarity with US culture and politics not to make a linguistic faux-pas? Got it... but it doesn't feel inclusive to me.
Phone numbers as ID is actually a really important innovation. I worked in Kenya for quite a while, and found that many people had email accounts they had no idea how to actually access. Email-based authentication doesn't work for a considerable proportion of the world's population. But cell phones are pretty ubiquitous: This ease of authentication is a big part of why whatsapp is kicking ass in the developing world.
Sorry, I agree that for a Windows desktop only app Delphi is a good solution, even today. And at some point in time Windows desktop was the only thing that counted. Now there are other platforms as well and for backends and the web I think there are much better, easier to use and more modern tools.

Delphi's approach feels a bit over engineered, in the wrong places. Maybe because they try to lock-in instead of being flexible and open.
Good point. The TPP is such a nightmare that we have even forgot the mass graves.
Yes, you don't "give away" your plans to the public because then they may be able to use the democratic process to do something about it, you keep it secret so that you can manipulate the media over a short period and swing through your sweeping changes.

The thing is that is completely anti-democratic. If it hurts democracy to do the best thing for a small capitalist overclass then democratic nations should be choosing to uphold democracy. I wonder if there are any such nations?
A more representative test (like running a car on a treadmill) requires a dedicated testing facility that nobody wants to pay for or wait in line to use.
>I have often wondered what thousands of Twitter employees are doing all day long? Their platform and apps have been stale for a long time.

They are adding new complicated features that all users hate to "increase engagement".
This gives a very interesting data point to the "open-source" vs. "free software" debate. Normally free/libre software zealots would tout BSD/ISC/Apache licenses as a way to never get back any downstream changes. And yet - cloudflare did contribute back nicely to a BSD-licensed project, in a situation where they were absolutely not under an obligation to do so.

In fact, even GPLv2 would not have imposed an obligation to publish changes here, only a super-strict GPLv3 would.

One data point of course, hardly warrant a far-reaching conclusion; still - that is something very nice to see.
If LSD is this safe in a black market environment: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

I don't see how if it was clinically manufactured and administered the risks couldn't be acceptably mitigated. The interviewee seems confident the government is on board and things are going down a new path though so I guess this could be a thing now.
Great writeup and thank you making it clear that you want people to understand what's happening. I love the clean style of your site.

Let me also recommend some of my favorites:

set matchpairs+=<:> " match < and > as well
set ignorecase " case-insensitive search
set smartcase " upper-case sensitive search

If you already use ctrlp, you might also cpsm [0], a better matcher for it and ctrlp-funky [1] which allows you to go to methods and other symbols in a ctrlp style.

[0] https://github.com/nixprime/cpsm
[1] https://github.com/tacahiroy/ctrlp-funky
No, it doesn't. I strongly believe there are many other important factors like user base, growth ratio and active users than define the real value.
From what I see, that failover uses DNS. The endpoint stays same, but it's pointed to new IP address or so...And the app may continue to use the cached IP from DNS query. I have to write a daemon to listen to RDS event and restart our app if it detects a failover event :(
I completely agree. This is a conspiracy by definition: "a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful." The unlawful thing being the laws they are trying to pass (as they are not yet laws, and not determined by lawful structures: judicial system). Its all going from executive to legislative, and we are fucked.

The administration is attempting to weaken our sovereignty and globalize [overthrow] our government. They should be charged for treason.

If you voted Obama last time, please don't vote this time. Your bad judgement isn't necessary.
> Don't forget even exploited workers still choose where to work.

We're not talking about long hours or low pay here - although those alone should be cause for concern, but about working conditions that cause death and permanent injury.

They're not slaves, but they don't have that much choice about where to work. And they don't have any power within their place of work.

Why do you think women "choose" to work in a clothing factory with no fire safety where they're locked in by supervisors?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/bangladesh-fact...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/bangladesh-fact...

Or in clearly unsafe factories?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/rana-plaza-bang...

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/24/...
I'd love to see that sql cli app of yours. Is that available for public?
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So... have you known people who've undergone this chemical love carpet-bombing who are tremendously peaceful, between themselves or with people who were not similarly treated?

Because I've known a lot of people who used a variety of drugs and many who swore by LSD, mushrooms, ecstasy or a combination, and they weren't a teeny bit less likely to start petty fights over pretty much nothing than the rest of us, nor were they more free from prejudice towards specific groups of people, etc.
SO I can't help but wonder, why can't we breed real Teacup Pigs? We can breed real Teacup dogs, tiny cats, hell we can even breed tame foxes and even Miniature cattle[1]

If there really is such a big market, any many pig owners love their pets, why doesn't someone actually selectively breed for tiny adults?

[1] http://www.naturalhub.com/grow_meat_breeds_cattle_small.htm
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For those just getting started or using vim only occasionally, Tim Pope's vim-sensible is a good, conservative starting point. It just sets some reasonable base configs instead of Vim's crazy default settings. No custom keybindings or fancy plugins included.

Vim is by default intended to be compatible with some historical implementation of vi. In my opinion, it doesn't make any sense any more, but I guess there is some reasoning behind the decision.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible
What is the "spiritual effect" of cancer?

And just how do you believe that psychedelics "could bring remission to [cancer's] physical manifestation"?
exactly, beside, a disconnect between test regime and real world results is expected.

what VW did was not just optimize for the test, but cheat the test, which is: those cars in the article are able to pass the tested restriction in the test regime, while disabling the cheating code wv engines were found not to be able to match test restriction even under test regime.

no one here was busted for real world emission. that's kind of understood already by regulators which built the test assuming the result would trickle down in real world usage even if not 1:1
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As I suspect the "unique digital exhaust" tracking problem will only get worse as machine learning improves, sometimes a proper Butlerian Jihad seems like the only solution. So I remind myself often that such an extreme solution can always happen later, so there's no excuse not to fight for a better solution in the meantime.

When faced with a very difficult task, there is a tendency in humans to feel helpless and unable to affect any meaningful change. This quickly spirals into a nasty form of learned helplessness. This feedback loop can lead to a nihilistic attitude. If you can't win, why bother trying. Even Feynman succumbed to this problem[1] after the Manhattan Project.

One thing I do know about the people trying to put the General Purpose Computer back in it's bottle, and the people who are so terrified of their fellow citizens they create a surveillance state to try to preserve their status quo: every person that succumbs to a defeatist or nihilistic attitude is one less person is one less person standing in their way.

[1] sigh - it seems the BBC took down the video I had bookmarked. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE#t=1114 ). A quick search found the video at dailymotion (jump to 18:34 for the comment I'm referencing): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24gwgc_richard-feynman-the...
> Have people suddenly forgotten what happens with data in the US?

I am afraid that this EU law will not protect your data against those who made the laws.
Well, there goes my weekend/week.

As someone who joined Twitter recently this sucks. I left a great job to come work at Twitter because I believe in what they're building and now a few months in I might be looking again. :-(

To be fair, the first week I was asking myself what all of these people do. I wish the company had been more transparent with this but I understand why they can't start telling people there will be layoffs, people panic and worry like all 4000+ employees are doing now.

Think before you type a rude comment too, most Twitter people read HN and will see it. :-/
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I bought an Ubuntu phone, and here its the netwok effect that stops my friends switching to Telegram or anything else.
This is required due to Python's semantics. You can't optimize that away unless the code is written to explicitly turn a global into a local.
It totally is spam. It's three short commercials. Hell, it's spam for multiple companies at once, it's like, quadruple-spam.
I stand corrected -- after some Googling, I now realize it's more like 4G/LTE than anything else. Thanks for clearing that up!
What about using Tails instead of Whonix?
I think all this travel makes it easy to spot you on cameras (traffic, random street cams, etc) which may help to identify.

I would go of less travel (maybe buy everything in close distance but far away/unconnected to your main residence)
The medical term is "Apoptosis" and the Wikipedia article is a good intro to this very complex topic [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis
neovim has some saner defaults, by the way.
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This really does seem plausible to me. Create a parallel construction scenario and it seems a lot more public friendly when they abuse their powers.
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The transition would be easier if there were any available at a decent price.
A spiritual effect of cancer is it reminds the organism of its impermanence. We walk on earth without acknowledging the true significance of impermanence, but of course, it does not necessarily need to take to something as earth shattering as cancer to remind oneself of impermanence. As far as remission, OP could be alluding to 'mind over matter', etc. I could say more, but skeptics gonna skeptic. In these matters there are usually opposing sides which never meet in the middle. One side emphasizing the importance of direct experience and the other side first demanding proofs of that experience before themselves exploring (as if certainty is communicable), a fear based reaction to not simply plunge into the unknown and see beyond recurrent thinking.
We open source stuff because it's a virtuous circle. We think other people will look at our code and make it better!
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Sorry but your yellow fever is blinding you to see and accept the facts. I am not american nor is english my native language and i do not watch any mainstream english media.

Yes you do not see a gun violence in China because guns are banned and are only in possession of military and triads. The most violent crimes are carried by the poorest using knives,shovels or anything they can use. And that is not being reported by anybody. Or do you really believe in country of 1.5bn that it is impossible to hide these crimes ?

In China if you are a white foreigner you can freely walk around drunk because if you go missing it is not that easy to hide the truth from the public.

Guns are US problem hey have you heard of 2nd most brutal shooting ? That happened in Korea a country where even a licensed hunters have to put their weapons in safes in police stations.

The worst mafia in China is its government. I know you do not care about any of these because you live in a relatively rich region but only if you would see millions of poor souls working in China then you would finally understand.

Rich and big cities are not CHINA! They are mostly a relict of past western influence.
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The lead TPP negotiator is ex-Citibank,
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/28/us-trade-rep-wal...

"Noting deep ties between the country's top trade negotiator and Wall Street banks, ten groups representing millions of Americans are calling on the White House to make public all communications between U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and the massive financial institutions that stand to benefit from proposed trade deals."

What about lobbyists? http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-...

"... 400 pages of email traffic between USTR officials and industry advisors ... the emails reveal a close-knit relationship between negotiators and the industry advisors that is likely unmatched by any other stakeholders ... Many of the industry representatives are themselves former USTR officials ... Jim DeLisi of Fanwood Chemical said he had just seen the text on rules of origin, and remarked, “Someone owes USTR a royalty payment. These are our rules. … This is a very pleasant surprise.”
I mostly agree, but the scale of what Twitter is doing technically is very different.

Network size is not as important as how messages are distributed within it. Whereas most WhatsApp messages are one to one, on Twitter they're almost always one-to-very-many.

If 10000 Twitter users with 1000 followers each send a tweet, that's 10000000 messages hitting queues. 10000 WhatsApp users sending a single message each are likely to result in 10000-20000 messages (sometimes people have group conversations).
Firstly this is bigger than just the riots. There are people doing long sentences for being present at crimes committed by other people. (Some of them may be fully deserving as they planned it together but others rather less so.)

Secondly do you know anyone who's ever been questioned by the police? The situation when they offer you the caution is rather intimidating.
Watsapp works for me without any issues and its so simple, even my mom could understand it pretty fast.

Skype sometimes hangs on my pc and on the phone. Both my pc and phone have a good configuration yet Skype does not play nice.
The way I see it, the "natural" languages don't make sense because they aren't planned. But as with other things, I find that the perceived weirdness of other languages often comes from what we're used to. You might, for instance, make a similar argument regarding normal use of the sound for the alveolar trill [0].

As for the German grammar you mention, English is really the odd one out here - grammatical gender is fairly common.
German is a weird language, though:P
I think what really makes German weird is the [0] grammatical case.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_trill

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case#German
I'm a Brit, first time I've heard about Jade Helm. a quick DDG search showed multiple hits for "conspiracy theories".

Ultimately people want to think they are living in the most critical important times of the world ever. But this is a fallacy of how we live, in the present. Everyone has thought that their time then was the most critical. Look to history to get perspective and the pinch of salt we need.
Also, it's amusing yet disturbing the disconnect.

Just three days before this leak everyone was told we're doing well, we're going to grow and hire more people and build these great new things. They also had a big talk about leaks and then went on to show 4000+ people the full product plans for the next year. Then, sorry, we're firing a bunch of you. Oh yeah, don't leak anything we just told you. :-O
> There's a popular meme "If you're not paying, then you're the product".

Popular and irritating since (a) it's incomplete (if you're paying, you're increasingly product, too, since companies aren't going to leave rifling through your data as a way of making money alone), and (b) it's become a kind of astroturf ad campaign for certain companies.
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I am not going to try to convince you that's none of my business. You are either coming from top 10% of talented chinese or your family was simply rich. 90% chinese can't afford what you can.

And air pollution is not problem in China ? Are you kidding me ?
Just ask my any korean in Seoul how air pollution from China is not a problem. And THAT IS SEOUL that's being hit by chinese air pollution.

The pollution in chinese cities is too big to not consider it an issue.
Didn't even know these things existed, even though our family had the first vhs and cd players in our neighborhood.
Amazing that they actually got this to somewhat work, persistent fellows :)
> they had no idea how to actually access.

My mom back in India finds email address and passwords confusing but she immediately understood watsapp and how to send messages to her sister in US.
"In interviews I was not able show my true skills"
Do you have sideproject? This makes a lot easier to show you true skills if you can show to recruiter what you have done, talk about it etc.

Besides, to pass well a programming interview you need one more thing: self-confidence. Somebody mediocre but with a lot of self-confidence looks better on job interviews than somebody with good skills but with low esteem and with no confidence.

Recruitement is a psychological process rather than technical.

Second important thing is to be cool or appear cool to you recruiters. If you're good at programming this counts as cool. If you have some interesting sideproject you can talk about, this also counts as cool. If you are up-to-date with current trends (you probably need read much of Twitter, HN, Reddit, Github etc.), this also counts as cool etc.

TL;DR keep calm and be confident and appear cool.
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Ex-Tweep here. You'll probably be fine. You'll probably continue to do meaningful work at twitter. I hope they cut people who have done nothing for a long time, not people who joined recently.

If not, there is a vibrant alumni community who is happy to welcome you and help you network and adjust, even if you were only working at twitter for a week. If you don't find it, email me (in my profile) and I'll help you find it.

Good luck (but you don't need it)!
That's what I've always wondered really, why are CCTV's often so bad? The old systems (from what I've seen on TV anyway) seemed to put the image of four cameras onto one video tape, reducing quality even more.

Of course, a million cameras running 24/7 produce an enormous amount of data, that just increases exponentially as quality improves. They can probably easily discard 90% of the footage with basic checks (is there anything besides the background visible), and use a smart compression algorithm, but still.
> None of it actually works in any useful way,

I'm generally okay with surveillance, but people should know the capabilities of what's already in place, and your comment seems to trivialise the powers they have.

If it had been a more serious crime (murder, rape) they would have looked for all the other security cameras in the area, and then worked out the route the criminal took to get to the crime scene and to get away from the crime scene.

The images they showed you were not good - but with a million cameras there's going to be variability in image quality and length of data storage.
To be fair, water can also poison you.

Nothing is risk-free.
Take note of the people who kept parroting that line about this needing to be negotiated in secret, because otherwise a meddlesome, uninformed public might misunderstand and damage an otherwise positive thing. There was plenty of this on HN, too, and thanks for nothing.
It will be open for review, but not for modification. Thanks to "fast-track", Congress will just get an up-or-down vote. So, no, the final provisions won't be secret before they become law, but it doesn't matter at this point. Congress doesn't have the ability to say, "We'll take the good, but not the bad."
I respectfully disagree. By your argument if I can get enough people to pronounce "cat" as dog then dog is the new pronunciation of cat.

There are correct ways to say things that people just don't know and would likely be happy to be taught. I had a friend that thought "turret" was pronounced "tur net". Another friend who thought it was "punkin" no "pumpkin". Both needed to and wanted to be corrected. It's disserve to tell people "come to this website to learn correct pronunciation" but then not have it actually be correct.

As another example are foreign words and names. There's no EE sound in Tokyo, nor Kyoto. There's no "awe" sound in "Pocky". The fact that westerners will go to great lengths to say "Nic ha wha gura" instead of "Nik ah wa gra" or "Ca pu chee noh" but won't spend the minimal effort to learn a correct Asian pronunciation is effectively racist. Some will say "but I'm saying it as it's spelled" but since they aren't following the same rules "say it as it's spelled" for European words it just proves my point.
I've known about thirty people who have used Lsd routinely for years, and I have to agree with you. The only significant difference is that some of them talk like it drammatically changes them. The effect doesn't seem much different from the people I know who really like a hobby and exxagerate its effects. I of course know lsd is something serious and psychedelically powerful, and agree it should be studied.