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> Language changes over time.

And so I will continue to champion the language uses I want to see. E.g. internet instead of Internet, regardless instead of irregardless, "access" as both a noun and verb, programmer/developer/engineer instead of coder.

May the best word win.
The problem is that the "We" with the foresight are a tiny minority, and of that tiny minority many either despair (perhaps reasonably) or decide to use their insight to make a profit and make hay while the sun still shines.

The problem is that we're human beings, our human nature, and nothing is going to save us from ourselves.
>I often find myself using "except Exception", while I don't like it, I cannot find another way.

This (pokemon exception handling) is a massively, massively destructive anti-pattern.

Once a code base grows beyond a certain size it usually leads to failures which manifest themselves with strange behavior that takes hours (sometimes days) to track down the real source of.
It looks like it's important to switch to a variant of SHA-2 that is truncated (like SHA-384 or SHA-512/256 for example), since they are more robust. No trivial length extension attack since they don't put the whole internal state in the output.

This would be if one cares about how violently you fall if SHA-2 is broken more, but I think you should care.
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Why is it unlikely, given that they've done this exact thing in the past? You're entitled to think whatever you want, but you can't in good faith argue that this isn't their pattern of behavior. You're right that the circumstances are different, but the only constant is Uber underhandedly going after anyone who criticizes them.

And an editorial in HuffPo from someone who pals around with the person engaging in the abusive behaviour is a pretty weak defense. Especially since they did a similar thing before:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/19/uber-inve...
I was referring to "Plants and viruses are also pretty smart." that implied that killing plants is not OK.

Clearly humans have to kill living creatures to survive, but a moral problem only raises when one has a choice. And we do have a choice between eating, say, a ton of grains or feeding a cow 10 tonn of grass and then killing the cow.
This is true, but most of the economic historians I am aware of also acknowledge that America wouldn't have been in the position to leverage industrialization that it was without the economic driver of slavery. Disentangling them is very difficult and usually smells of a political motive.
Did they reconstruct this from the server logs or were they monitoring his laptop in real time?
For this who haven't been following along, this is the CEO of CloudFlare lying in a way that misrepresents a major problem CloudFlare created. Additionally, they are trying to blame parts of this problem on those that told them about the problem they created.
you're not going to bad trip on a small dose. Also, probably not dangerous. Compare that to your concentrated coffee.
I highly doubt that Tony Robbins' "Money" was on David Bowie's list of his 100 favorite books. I had to read "Money", and it was crap. And David Bowie was a man of discriminating taste. Money was published in late 2014 and Bowie died two years later. He probably already knew he had cancer when Money came out, and he had made his wad decades before. Doesn't make sense, and it makes me doubt the rest of the list, which is surprisingly high in contemporary US fiction for someone with Bowie's international exposure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7l8dx-h8M
As mentioned here, it depends what your motivations and career aspirations are. Working at startups (worked at one mature startup, then consulted for a bunch of small ones) gave me experience dealing with customers directly and delivering high impact in a short timeframe. Working in a big company is teaching me to think really big (reach big customers, scalability/performance, high ROI, etc) and giving me the opportunity to learn from many, many brilliant people.
Especially the pace of Internet connection speed is moving in slow pace compared to the bulk of data we create / store every day.
I loved and recommended Master and Margherita. Well, I thought I understood it. Then I had a Russian girlfriend and found out I read it completely wrong. To them it's like Animal Farm rather than say Babe. It's still fun for us but I think it's probably very hard for a Westerner to get right.

I haven't read Clockwork Orange in a long time and I should. I didn't much like anything else he wrote but CO was awesome fun for a 20-something.
"They actually fond a cure for the sarcoma she was diagnosed with, but the cancer had already mutated into a form that did not respond to the treatment and she died two years later 2002"

One could also cite Steve Jobs. Despite heroic measures, his delay doomed him.

(To expand a little bit on this: the Gompertz curve means that even if a 85yo billionaire contracts some cancer and is able to buy a cure no one else can which isn't useless or iatrogenic, he is going to die very soon anyway as the annual mortality risk increases exponentially. This is what is behind those surprising observations like 'curing all cancer would only add a few years to the average life expectancy' - curing cancer just means that you die of dementia, Alzheimers, a heart attack or something else a year or two later.)
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> ... is that the gist of it?

Yes, it is.

I'd like to improve the speech recognition and expected some advice about that.

Another possibility is to add a semantic level with NLP or use another library like Kaldi (http://kaldi-asr.org/).

Another particularity: the WAV file is serialized in JSON (as an array).
> Some people take trips and never come back off these drugs

What? Hallucinogens don't cause physical dependency and tolerance builds quickly so psychological habits are hard to form as well.
Nice idea! Can anyone point the data. May be we can try RNN to generate the passwords.
I'll second that. There is nothing that will change your life more than developing a daily meditation practice.

My mindfulness practice helps me to achieve direct insights in software engineering, though that's not the reason I do it. I do it for the insights into my own psyche, and for my mental health. It just happens to be the case that quieting the chatter in you mind will help you step out unproductive thought patterns in engineering more quickly.
Fascinating. I never considered the carbon footprint of companion animals. I'm sure that cats are more harmful per mass unit than dogs, being obligate carnivores.
Startups that die do affect the overall perception of startups, but at the point of going out of business, the business no longer cares about its brand perception.
Yes, we definitely can.
The reason I didn't do this was because I did not have enough cpu/gpu power.
The results will be better if RNN is applied.
They Keep iPhone app gets updated quite frequently. I suspect that the shut down of Chrome browser external apps for all platforms except Chrome OS in 2018 [1] is probably (part of) the cause for infrequent updates.

[1]:http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/19/12555052/google-shutting-d...
Oh I totally agree about that.
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> North Korean suspect in custody

Yes they've arrested a North Korean, along with a Malaysian, Indonesian and Vietnamese, in an investigation into the murder of a North Korean.

> and Malaysian authorities have named, have CC footage of

What is this supposed to prove? On the day the half-brother of the North Korean leader was killed, some North Koreans based in Malaysia were unexpectedly recalled by Pyongyang to report on it and, like everyone else leaving KUL that day, appeared on airport CCTV?
Indeed, it would be nice if the article acknowledged the existence of BLAKE2b.
Here's the data.
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Had several somewhat similar experiences in my career. I think the general public would be surprised at the amount of duct tape and chewing gum that's behind things that appear to be important processes.
LSD happens to be really really cheap! Like €4,- so microdosing is probably cheaper than smoking. They say it also lasts for many hours.

The rest of your points are still valid though :)
You live in a fucking bubble if you really think thats the case.
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I cannot agree with this enough. I have a very very very rigid morning routine that includes deep breathing and internal listening. I started doing this when DigitalOcean began to scale and my Dr. prescribed Fluoxetine, I learned about meditation for concentration and creativity. Not only was I able to manage my stress better and curb my adderall usage, but I also became more focused and sharper.

Edit: I've tried all the psychedelics ad nauseum, fun but not for me when it comes to working. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> In 30 years, declassified documents may even point to the US's CIA.

What would the US stand to gain from attacking someone who fell out of favour with the DPRK regime?
i have a gpu. may be i can help. let me know or point me where the whole data is available. thanks
Or just go to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Imagine not being totally clueless, dosing appropriately, and having a relatively normal (perhaps a bit more open-minded) day at work. Not all drugs are created equal, and almost all of them can be used responsibly.

I find the micro dosing trend distasteful, but I hate anti-drug propaganda even more. This is just another BS comment from someone who has never done drugs and looks to force their misinformed values and opinions onto others.
My team has been using Step Functions for a couple of months now to orchestrate application deployments. It is way better than our old SWF-based solution - I especially love how easy it is to implement dynamic backoff between states.

Biggest gripe: updating a state machine is still not supported (you can manage state machines through CloudFormation now, but I believe it updates with replacement, meaning the state machine gets blown away and replaced by a new one with the same name.) We've had to roll our own versioning to get around this.

If you'd like to know more about how we are using Step Functions, as well as some specific benchmark comparisons against our old SWF architecture, feel free to check out this post: https://forrestbrazeal.com/2016/12/29/serverless-workflows-o...
What would you recommend, how could one start meditating? Is there a practice, or book or something you would specifically recommend? And what time interval would be not "too soon" in your opinion?
True. Add to that the farming of the grains you're feeding the animals, 90% of which will not be reclaimed in the final product. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...)
I just want to throw out there that dietary restrictions are ultimately tribal. Kosher and halal laws are full of obscure and pointless restrictions (such as ritual slaughter and prohibition on eating foods prepared under an idol) that have nothing to do with health, but everything to do with establishing who is "us" and who is "them".
There appears to be a prophylactic compound that can prevent the effects of VX:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyrylcholinesterase#Prophyla...
Regarding typing errors in production, I meant that we never encountered an error that could have been directly prevented by a Java-like static type checker[1], e.g., a function with an int parameter that was called with a string argument.

We use types as a documentation tool so the noise you are talking about is actually very useful to us. When someone unfamiliar with the code wants to call a function, a quick look at the signature is usually enough now that we use type annotations. Before that, we provided that information in a docstring, which was more verbose so longer to write and longer to read.

We found PyCharm to offer a better out of the box validation experience than mypy (less configuration), but it's not perfect, i.e., we still see occasional false negatives and false positives. Ultimately, we did not include type checking in our build pipeline, but as the tooling becomes more mature, we will definitively revisit that decision.

[1] I know other languages have more powerful type systems that may have prevented some errors we encountered, but I don't have enough experience with these type systems applied to large systems to comment on that.
Just curious, if google's going to shutdown plus one day?
I feel like it should be version 6 instead of 5.1. Many should be considered as major release
As far as I can tell, the app proves nothing, except that the data comes from you. At the end of the day, you're taking a bunch of data and signing it with a PGP key you made up. That data can be anything - it doesn't prove that you were actually there, or that it's a real photo.

God know why the article was flagged, though.
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Sure. The error, I'd say, that makes this outlook seem negative is the misguided desire for intrinsic meaning. It doesn't make sense for something to simply mean something - that word takes an object. Something can only mean something to someone.

I think this (the idea that there's some inscrutable higher level of meaning) is either a) a natural human intuition that can be broken down and discarded or b) an outgrowth of growing up in a society where there's a continuity of more-meaningful and less-scrutable things that we receive wrapped in packages that say: "this is important", namely, high arts, and the guilt that you feel when they don't move you (unless you happen to have previously received the necessary context). This reception - it's probably a twisted class thing - is what's wrong. The good art should be obviously good.

This cultural reception isn't limited to art, there's all sorts of disastrous cultural apparatus that causes a youth to end up thinking they're missing something or the world isn't supposed to make sense to your innate intuition.
Ex high school literature, weird jazz, 20th century music in the formal tradition, "modern art", but also lawns, the weird way the king james bible is written, math education, band class, gerrymandering...
Steve Jobs had good prognosis but he delayed the surgery almost a year and relied on 'alternative medicine'. Even with late start he still lived eight years after the diagnosis when doctors used all tricks money can buy.

> he is going to die very soon anyway

This is true. People close to 90 are one flu and pneumonia away from death.
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I have been awaiting for the wait-for-signal feature too.
Albert Camus' Myth of Sisyphus had a profound influence on me. Very roughly, Camus says, the universe does not care about you (or anything) at all, and life has no meaning in the sense we were looking for.

_But_ we can make our lives meaningful by doing things. We can give our lives meaning through our actions, if we can accept that it is only ephemeral - the moment I stop doing it, it ceases to be.

The act of restoring meaning to meaningless life is - to Camus - an act of rebellion against the pointlessness, a refusal to give in. But it takes us back to a place where life is not bleak at all, but something to be savored.
I did a similar thing recently. Archived my tweets and then deleted them all. Something to note is that archives don't come with local copies of photos/videos, but I found a handy python repo to help with that [1].

[1]:https://github.com/mwichary/twitter-export-image-fill
Yes, it was really fun.

On a related note, I came across a website several years ago that has a lot of info from the annual meeting Q&As, as well as other interviews, etc. It's quite long, but I found it very enjoyable to read.

http://buffettfaq.com
The consensus seems to be that failure was inevitable given the mis-management and non-understanding of the entire project. Stake-holders not on board, no decent data to work on, requirements changes, and more.

There was some discussion 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683360 (9 comments)

And just so many other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13699403 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13693523 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683910 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731098

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13695799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13694788

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13689483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13687982

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13686861
You can explain a lot without a higher authority. For instance humans gossip so if you screw someone over, word spreads and can have adverse consequences. That can help do gooders and help pro do good genes to spread in the gene pool for example.
Map is not stable. Especially as you use it to navigate. I just almost park my car on the highway beside the Hiton hotel I want to check in!
Wow. Look at all the effort that went into developing these weapons. The sheep incident alone shows how uncontrollable these weapons are.
Then again we also do a lot of great thing and create and experience love and beauty. I have no idea how to quantify and weigh the good against the bad, so perhaps it comes down to temperament if you consider the human existence an overall negative or positive experience.
I don't think it's the case here, but false flag operations always have a clear motive. If I were being a conspiracy theorist for this case...establish a narrative to justify something you plan on doing later.
You're comparing apples to oranges though.
I agree, and what would worry me about seeing passengers in the aisle wouldn't be the risk of people bouncing around or fuel running low, but the worry of "what other things are seen as not very imortant by the airline I'm flying?".

Being sloppy with crew rest, sobriety, maintenance schedules, would make me much more nervous - and the people in the aisle might indicate a bad attitude.
True. But some manufacturers in the Alibaba platform already solve these problems with alibaba's financing services , which remove all/most of their risk.

And if that all allows some manufacturers to offer cheaper prices, other manufacturers will have to do the same.
Pretty sure it is supposed to be Money by Martin Amis, not Tony Robbins. looks like a few of the titles/descriptions are mixed up on this list.
They want me to approve my e-mail address (again) and this process seems to be broken. No e-mail. Nothing in junk.

Well, …
Actually we are constantly shown immigrants and brown people in a bad light, so I find it interesting that you see it at devisive when it's actually the truth. Of course it seems inflammatory, but he shot random people for being brown, and some Americans get all bench out of shape. It's as if there's a different standard when the perp is white rather than other. The story of the black kids assaulting the white guy in Chicago was a massive story, but I bet you didn't comment on that one...

Your entire post reeks of bias btw.
When I read awful code that does not work, there are two typical contexts:

1. I wrote it and it never worked.

2. I changed something and broke working code.
Your last paragraph contradicts your first -- top athletes doping do get performance gains, while your first paragraph seems to indicate you don't think that small doses of LSD are effective (for the people taking them).

I get you might be against performance enhancing drugs wholesale, but there's nothing "inherently wrong" with taking a chemical to perform better. If anything, it should be a personal choice, like working longer hours or taking a higher risk job.
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I despise the way you've dealt with this issue with as much dishonesty as you thought you could get away with.

I will be migrating away from your service first thing Monday. I will not use you services again and will ensure that my clients and colleagues are informed of you horrific business practices now and in the future.
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Microdosing LSD is not about "getting through your day." If you were complaining about adderall addiction, maybe you'd have a point. Microdosing LSD is about changing the user's thought processes, making them more creative and more able to make and explore abstract connections.
Those are only their LONG holdings, and rentec isn't a long only fund. In addition, SEC disclosures lag behind and doesn't disclose at what price shares were acquired.

So by looking at their SEC disclosure forms you can see which investments would have made you money in the past, the only thing you now need is a time machine.
God know why the article was flagged, though.

Submissions are flagged by members; if the submission accrues enough flags, the '[flagged]' tag appears. Enough HN members thought the piece was inappropriate for HN. Off the top of my head, members may be feeling "fake news" meme exhaustion, or have come to the same conclusion you did, "the app proves nothing", and thought it wasn't worth discussing.
Bad trips have been the most valuable trips for me, the ones from which I've learned the most. Not to say that I'd seek them out deliberately or anything, but I think it's a mistake to view bad trips as necessarily worthless or necessarily harmful.

I see bad as confrontations with one's psyche, with one's subconscious, with things one has been denying or avoiding in ordinary life. To the extent you consciously face your demons on a bad trip and try to learn from it, they can be of great and profound value. For me it has been, as they say, like years of therapy compressed in to hours. Both the good and bad trips have also radically changed my understanding the world and the horizon of what I consider possible.

As much as I'd like to, I don't think I can in good conscience recommend that everyone take psychedelics, as everyone is different, everyone reacts differently, and people at different stages of their lives are ready or not ready for certain experiences. Especially at the higher doses, it could be a very profound, life-changing event -- for better or worse.

I would definitely treat it with the highest respect if one ever considers trying it. Those who decide to would be wise to prepare thoroughly, find out as much as they can, have an experienced sitter they trust, do it in a safe, supportive setting and with a healthy frame of mind where they have no other obligations at least for that day and the day after. Best of luck.
> I'm really disturbed by that mindset. Surely, you are not saying that without belief in some sort of God, you personally would cease cooperation and rape and murder and steal?

No I'm not saying a belief in God is necessary for what we would agree upon as moral behavior. However, I could easily see the case being made by individuals who might think that what we agree on as morally correct behavior being nothing more than our arbitrary beliefs. And that, from their perspective, rape or pedophilia makes them feel good in the way eating red meat makes them feel good.

So on a spectrum with complete moral bliss on the far left and complete degeneracy on the far right, I think we live somewhere on the left side. Furthermore I think a big reason we live there and not right of center is the wide spread belief in a higher authority/authorities.

> Next, I have the same expectation of basically everyone I encounter (except some sociopaths, against one has to guard appropriately).

Why? From where is your sense of "Fair Play" derived? Does it all boil down to the non-aggression principle and if so, from where is that derived?