skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mushrooms don't sound safe at all, as far as I know mushrooms have to be grown exactly right or they may develop deadly fungi. I don't know how willing I'd be to trust an unregulated drug operation to grow my mushrooms properly.

I understand that the risk of deadly contamination also exists with non-hallucinogenic store-bought mushrooms, however, there is a world of difference between trusting a regulated business with your potentially deadly food and trusting a criminal drug gang.

I wonder how much the purported "safety" of mushrooms are just because they are rarely used. This survey finds that meth and synthetic cannabis are the most dangerous drugs,and maybe that's more a result of the fact that they are just so widespread than actual danger.

Also, looking at medical treatment alone might be misleading without looking at severity of the condition. Contaminated mushrooms can easily result in death.

Also, I wonder if they even included contaminated mushrooms in the study of emergency room visits. The article uses the vague sentence:

>“Death from toxicity is almost unheard of with poisoning with more dangerous fungi being a much greater risk in terms of serious harms.”

This makes me wonder if the study choose not to consider emergency room visits as a result of contaminated mushrooms.

Sure uncontaminated mushrooms are relatively safe, but given how easily they can become contaminated and deadly, I would question their reputation as a "safe drug."
3 New Vulnerabilities Discovered: Nokogiri, Eclipse Jetty, XSS in Semantic UI
"spanning 10,000+ VMs handling 100+ microservices" ?
I'll bet a significant fraction of the uses of Emscripten are due to its effectiveness as a "yo dawg" or "*ception" meme generator.
> Malicious actors and users will be alerted in equal measure

You have to assume malicious actors will find the vulnerability on their own, if they haven't already. They are already alerted.
Amazon’s first bookstore in New York City sucks the joy out of buying books
Alphabet: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Evaluation
yes, but the 3310 is waterproof, has a longer battery life and has better camera that can be used to photograph A4s and have a readable resolution.
Perfect for hikes or festivals. Would be nice if it can act as a gprs gateway through bluetooth or usb https://www.instagram.com/p/BT676kmBbwFX--VykvNXL0Xv5TgUy7d2...
Show HN: File organization app for Mac, open source
If a person's mental state can impact their decisions and the quality of their work, why aren't we tracking the subjective states of those conducting research? And does http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu provide a tool for doing so?
I like your idea about collaborating on bigger experiments. One big experiment can be both more convincing and more accessible than 1000 little ones all measuring different incomparable things that take 1000s of man-hours just to identify if they're what you want or not.

The trouble is everyone wants to be the special snowflake discovering the special effect in their own special experiment, so now we have too much messy unreliable and inaccessible data to be of much use in the real world.
MTG online enforces the rules AFAIK, so I'd assume they are not that complicated.
Optimizing/squeezing performance out of Python is a rabbit hole:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry...

I would speculate using numba or Cython would yield further performance gains over PyPy...but that's mostly just based on anecdotal comparisons:

https://cardinalpeak.com/blog/faster-python-with-cython-and-...

I just think it is a bit dishonest to try and make a claim as pointed as this article's in 2017 by stopping at simply running an un-optimized CPython script with PyPy.
If they do that on Monday, I am opening 100 startups on Tuesday... even if I think most of them may go down...
That's right. I have often spoken rapidly while saying the real reason(s) I believe lead to failure and then slow down and say "but never mind that, let's work out how to fix this and prevent it from happening, I'll get right on it", or something to that affect.
Consider, too, China's less-favorable demographic profile [1].

[1] http://i1.itc.cn/20140702/2be8_38e3d3f0_51f7_95e6_f762_a7064...
Does anyone know of a place to discuss non-smart-phones? There's https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/ but that seems deadish.
Accuracy in Wrist-Worn Measurements of Heart Rate and Energy Expenditure
Probably about 10 cents.
SaaSing Back – Maybe it should be Service as a Software
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_govern...

Moody's downgraded on June 2 2011... or should I say at least "changed outlook to negative"
Sustainability is a function of total annual deficit relative to growth in ability to service the debt. Deficits that lead to productivity-enhancing investments will pay for themselves: education, infrastructure, etc. Deficits that result from cutting taxes will not: the idea that we're on the virtuous part of the Laffer curve has been thoroughly debunked in economic, if not political, circles.

Furthermore, debt in the US is a result of exogenous capital flows, not the other way around. If the US government tightened belts and cut heavily, leading to a fiscal surplus (or even just balanced gov't budget), we would see a growth in private sector debt.

It's one of my favorite hobby-horses, this idea -- because it's counterintuitive until you dive into the balance sheet analysis, then it makes perfect sense. All credit due to Michael Pettis:

http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/70042
Higher order functions separate clojure from other languages

I don't know if that's true anymore. HoF are becoming mainstream - and rightly so.

Java, C++, Python, C#, VB.NET, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Ruby.. they all have them.
Here's how I did it. YMMV.

[NOTE: I do have a fairly taxing full-time job and also go to a boxing gym 5 times a week or more after work, and still made the time to be a creator after all that, by forcing myself to adhere the following rules I set for myself. Not bragging, it took me over 10 years to finally get the discipline, just trying to tell you it can be done.]

1) Stop watching the news * , on TV and online. It's hard at first, but can be done.

2) Sign out of all social media apps, and pick just 1 or 2 that you really cherish, so that you are not out cold with nothing to consume. For me, I was able to whittle it down to just hackernews. HN does a great job of filtering out or flagging Political News articles and other click baity / fake stuff. And the quality of articles and stories are very high. I also use the Show HN tab to inspire myself, when I see that everyday, and almost every hour, someone has CREATED and SHIPPED something useful or awesome.

3) Set a small goal of 30 mins per day, or 1 hour per day to work on whatever it is you want to produce. I started with 30 mins a day and worked my way up (6 months later) to now 3 to 4 hours a day and 6 hours on weekends.

I shipped my 1st side-project last week -- soft launched it -- and am about to do a Show HN within the next week to 10 days.

Hope this helps!

[ You'll notice that when you do #2, your real-life interactions with your online friends and fam will dramatically improve in quality. "Catch-up" convos will happen in person in real life, at the gym or elsewhere, instead of mindlessly clicking Like and blowing hearts online on their "Stories" and "Feeds"]

* Related Reading (by Buffer Founder & CEO): "The power of ignoring mainstream news" => http://joel.is/the-power-of-ignoring-mainstream-news/
They're not talking about dental braces, but about pants-suspenders - elasticated cords that go over your shoulder to hold your trousers up.
I never said anything about what their product is. I said their users aren't a "product", they are an "asset".

Value doesn't come only in the form of software. Only software devs believe that.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

This doesn't exactly fit what you're asking for, but is an alternative workflow where you'll never need to do that.
This article ignores the fact that no one in Somalia uses the shilling any more^. In fact no one really uses money any more. Most banking and financial transactions are done using mobile credit, similar to Kenyas M-PESA.

This has significant advantages for Somalis. Mohamed in Mogadisho can ask his cousin Mohamed in Minnesota to pay for his meal and all Minnesota Mohamed has to do is transfer the money on his phone.

Why would Somalis go back to the shilling? If anything they'll just go back to the USD which has been the staple far longer than anything else.

^Ok I'm being excessive. It is in use but its use is made redundant by access to mobile technology. Those at the poorer end of society still depend on the shilling but even the nomadic pasturalists these days have mobiles and conduct their trade using mobile money.

Edit: One has to wonder if the new TFG in Somalia is re-introducing bank notes to try to damage the hold that the big Telcos have on Somalias financial institution. Considering some of the Telcos are in bed with Al Shabab It's probably in their interest to curtail their power.
Not only is our debt-to-GDP ratio lower than China's, it's lower than most (not all) countries in Western Europe.

There is so much uninformed hysteria about the US national debt, it's incredibly frustrating and blocking the implementation of better policy.
That's interesting, because I find #() rather less easy to parse compared to (comp) or (partial) for otherwise equivalent expressions.

At a glance I know that (comp f g h) and its flat list of arguments expresses a simple function composition chain. Seeing a #(f (g (h %))) where (comp) will do makes me sift through more parens; more than that though, when (comp) is embraced as convention, a #() is an immediate cue that simple function composition is not what's being expressed, which draws me in necessarily to examine the particular structure of the #() body.
So, what would Imzy do when a user started acting "not nice"?

Because if they're forced to act nice, most people will just quit. Nobody's nice all the time (everybody has problems), and online communities are great for when you want to vent once in a while.

Plus, all the nicety invites narcissistic assholes who think they are better than everyone else.

I've never heard of Imzy either, and I think I keep up with all the potentially interesting stuff online. Launched in 2016 and not a single time I've even read the name.
This sounds very scary and totalitarian. We have the law and the police that's the maximum level of intrusion I am willing to tolerate in terms of monitoring my personal state and behavior. Anything more than that and I am gone.
Science a huge pr problem, one so bad you might as well say science is broken.

The average person is losing faith in science because of high profile failures, and the distrust is only increasing.

I fear Nasim Talib is right.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
Where did you get this info? Every source I see shows China's Debt/GDP (42.90%) as much lower than the US (104.17%).
I think the best model to understand this is Michael Pettis's balance sheet analysis. He covers it extensively, but here's his latest digest of the model:

http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/66221

It really makes clear how stark the choices are for China. The debt binge of the last ~10 years has masked the flattening out of productive investment, and there will need to be a reckoning. Hopefully it's a soft landing, but that will depend on politics as much as anything.
> Quite a few “developers” have even added it to the App Store themselves, violating the GNU GPL license in the process

What violation is the OP referring to?
Reads like more pro-union propaganda
I wonder if that's a WSL bug you should report.

Edit: do you mean the tsv utilities? Because they're working fine here on the Creator's Update.
This was inevitable from the very beginning. Disagreement forms the kernel of worthwhile discussion.

An argument can also be made that "echo-chamber bubbles" are affecting people personally, intellectually, and culturally in tremendously harmful ways, so this is a very tiny step in the right direction.
Javascript may be around, as a compatibility layer at the very least. I tend to agree with the sibling comment, though: WASM at the base, compiled from Javascript (and just about every other language you could want). WASM isn't something you'd be likely to hand-code, it seems like.

None of that changes this fact for me: JS/ES is completely irrelevant to me as a development language. I've learned a bit and found portions reminiscent of a few other languages, but I don't really have a practical use for it, myself.
Detailed press release from Moody's:

https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Chinas-rat...
Whiteboard interviews are more complicated? The alternatives that people usually put forward are either "code a homework assignment for a few days", "pair program with a full timer for a few hours", or "look closely at the applicant's open source contributions".

All of those sound complicated as hell. Perhaps they are more effective, but the whiteboard interview is obviously less complex. And the side projects approach is just laughable considering the number of excellent engineers I know who don't have time or interest to code on their off hours.

A good whiteboard question can tell you a bit about the applicant's design sense, knowledge of key data structures and algorithms, and ability to integrate new ideas. It also has the nice benefit of quickly weeding out the huge number of applicants who can't write DFS on a tree.
While the math isn't exactly right - even if Alexion returned all profits to its patients at the end of the year, the cost of the drug would still be only 20% less than the current price. So instead of $500k, it would be $400k. Would that really change the dynamics of the discussion?
Yeah, I remember this vid with zerglings doding siege tanks shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs

The difference is quite drastic.
Why the NIH might deserve a funding cut
>It’s precisely the people who do want to see the United States build great new transportation projects who ought to worry about why we are so bad at executing on them. Unfortunately, not everyone in politics sees it that way.

Absolutely true. In the US transit projects are big ticket items, so it's a chance to take care of the people who put you into office. After awhile voters become cynical and won't support these projects at all. It shouldn't cost a billion dollars to lay a mile of track and people realize that.
US debt to GDP is more than double China's. Where are you getting your data?
I'm glad that works for you, but it's too bad that trick only works in a single country. :P
I wish n-gate.com took requests...
The Cortex-M3 emulator in browser is extremely useful without the MicroPython part --- a C++ toolchain can equally take advantage of it.
The text I quoted had nothing to do with monolithic repos.
Ask HN: Why blog as a developer?
The common answer is, "It's nice to give back, blah blah".

Besides that, what real value does blogging give to you, the developer?
I think the article is in violent agreement with you (at least the latter half of it). It in fact argues just that - they shouldn't go back to the shilling, precisely because nobody uses it (and instead they should go dollar/mobile/etc).
Apparent Problem: governments and people who accept the legitimacy of governments exist.

Apparent Solution: a secret, untraceable and unaccountable murder network that keeps killing people until only the anarchists and killers are left. Oh, and the most effective killers become the de facto power brokers of the new world order.

... something something liberty?
Crypto Currency Project Leader Trolls Market with Fake Announcement
> Align let bindings in two columns

> I do it by hand, which I consider to be a small price for readability boost that big. I hope your autoformatter can live with that.

Cursive's formatter has this option.
It should work in Chrome 57 or higher or in Firefox 52+. Support in Safari is not yet released as far as I am aware.
You really don't want to cater to the easily offendable, imo.

I remember writing an ebook on affiliate marketing when it was a new thing (free for email subscribers), which had the word Bullshit stamped on an image. Two people said maybe I should tone down the language heh.

Fuck right off, buddy :D
I ended up here: https://ipfs.io/blog/25-pubsub/ after reading up on scuttlebutt (again). They've implemented a pubsub mechanism on IPFS, which would (neatly) handle the data distribution challenge of SSB, and largely be compatible with SSB's ethos. They don't have a way to make it so only certain people can publish, but that's a technically surmountable challenge (either filter out invalidly signed publications now, or wait for them to have their solution in place).

Pairing these two approaches, SSB could make a neat application on top of the IPFS pubsub infrastructure (with some work)
There is a watered-down version of Office in UWP.
The built-in OneNote is actually this UWP. It uses a different stylus filtering algorithm from the desktop version, which is why I don't use it myself, but rest assured it works just fine.
honesty question, why should they give a darn about the internet archive?
The specific chip in use here has two actual cores each with up to 8 hardware threads ("logical cores" in current XMOS marketing parlance). The hardware executes instructions from the active threads in a round-robin fashion. Due to pipelining, there has to be at least 4 clock cycles between two instructions from the same thread, so maximum per-thread speed is 1/4 the overall clock speed and you can execute up to 4 threads on each core with no further slowdown. Also, the hardware cores don't share memory and communicate only via message passing, and the threads generally communicate in the same way. It's an interesting architecture which no-one's really made any use of on AmigaOne hardware for the whole 5 years it's been shipping with it.
Oh you're right. Strange that the full page didn't load on my phone. My mistake, thanks for pointing that out.
We at GitLab are looking at GitVFS but have not made a decision yet https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27895
I agree. Thankfully, as human beings, we're capable of coming up with systems using this technology to solve the subjectivity problem in a responsible, ethical manner. It doesn't have to be one involving the law.
Cherry picking hotfixes into maint branches is cool until you have stuff like diverging APIs or refactored modules between branches. I don't know of a better solution; it kind of requires understanding in detail what the fix does and how it does it, then knowing if that's directly applicable to every release which needs to be patched.
Yes. There are a bunch of cores, plus SMT. The datasheets for their parts give equivalent performance depending on how many threads you have. XMOS chips are in that category of Neat and Weird, which is perfect for an Amiga type system.
Diego Gomez Finally Cleared of Criminal Charges for Sharing Research
How on earth can you think that 300k is a basic living wage in the bay. Even with insane housing prices, this is like 10x the national median wage. Knock out 1/3 for taxes and you are left with 200k per year. How are you spending the 190k per year on rent and transportation that would be needed to knock you down to typical post-expenses income levels?
In a world where investors invest in photo sharing apps and social media websites because of the potential billion dollar payouts - why would you limit the potential drug payouts without limiting the social media app payouts?

Over time, would limiting the potential profits in life-saving drugs increase or decrease the number of life-saving drugs developed?

In an economy where people can choose to work in any field, and investors can choose to invest their money in any field - what better way is there to allocate the people and money resources than by letting people voice how valuable something is with their wallets? Do you want to force someone to buy a third car instead of buying a new drug treatment?

If you understand the invisible hand theory (actually understand it, not just the everyman's definition) I think it's difficult to (a) argue against in general and (b) argue against for certain life-saving industries especially.
You ran it more than once? That's battle-hardened, in my book.
If these artists/creators get picked up (which is in many of their interests), they are faced with pressure to deliver, bedroom or not.
Analysis being determined by a(n essentially) democratic vote is actually just replication of results.

While the system is highly flawed now, I would argue that collaborating to build perfect experiments carried out by multiple labs would not be a good idea. You point out if people made the same sorts of choices then perhaps everyone just has the same biases and errors. But if all the people on one experiment collaborate, then they'll definitely all have the same biases. Instead, independent verification in which the nitty-gritty details are abstracted away for a more general methods section would allow for more alternate takes at approaching a problem.
Ask HN: What could a Quantum Physicist do?
A friend of mine is a Quantum physicist and is looking for a job (in Boston).
Universities are missing funds and also doesn't often provide a sane environment.

His knowledge of IT is limited to using linux and scientific programs (little python+R)

In what industry or position could he work for?
Maybe training in "Machine learning" ?
> The ZTE Blade A110, for example, is a full-fledged Android phone and costs £50.

Where can I buy the ZTE Blade A110 for £50?

I've seen it for £69 (Carphone warehouse) or £79 (Argos).

You can even take a punt on devices like the Vodafone Smart First 7, which also runs Android and costs just £20. The Nokia 3310 doesn't even have Wi-Fi.
That is an interesting point but doesn't really have any thing to do with rare disease drugs. There is no marketing for these drugs.
New mini DJI drone – Spark
"In my experience a lot of JavaScript code is already unreadable after having passed through minification"

I think that's the point. Obfuscation.

All minified code is easily de-minified if you want to know how it works (and can understand the language)
hey thanks for doing this, could you elaborate on what you mean specifically by built too much? are you talking about specific features? any examples of specific ones you'd have held off on?
Exploiting a V8 OOB write
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When Duet is on, the iPad is akin to a second monitor and can show macOS Dash.

When Duet is off, the iPad is typical and can show iOS Dash, which can handle inbound searches such as from a laptop.
I sort of don't like how centralized Reddit is, but there is indeed a subreddit for everything.

UpliftingNews, Wholesomememes seem to be very popular, positive shit being the main content
The parent is talking about total debt - public, household, and corporate. China's public debt isn't too much but the corporate debt is what has skyrocketed. Many analysts treat Chinese corporate debt as more-or-less equivalent to public debt (and don't do this for the United States), on the assumption that the government will bail out SOEs rather than allow them to fail and create widespread unemployment. That may or may not be true, but that's why they make statements like "China's debt is twice the United States'".
I really hope its not. I don't expect any of the people I interview to have ever seen my question or even the particular algorithmic solution before. Good candidates should be able to come up with efficient algorithms to transform and manipulate common data structures on the spot.