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The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can both invest in yourself, while investing in other opportunities. The problem is how to allocate your resources optimally.

Having early access to motivated and talented programmers that may have a good idea for a disruptive product or technology seems like a potential advantage for a venture fund.

Particularly if those seeking funding are also seeking training and career advice.
So the cultivation and sale should be totally unregulated? (By which I mean, status quo - it's on a DEA "schedule" and outlawed, so growth, sale, consumption all occur outside the bounds of regulation.)
So are the bricks which hold up my home. Don't pretend you're a legal expert.
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It sounds like the study was poorly designed. Having an actual PI would have helped. The IRB probably would have seemed a lot less painful with a better-designed study and an engaged PI.
But weren't those "outside our hearing range sounds that can distort our hearing range" present in real life when the recording was made? So I would have heard the distortions had I been there in real life?
Do you somehow differentiate sticky headers from sidebars?

For example my personal site uses a sticky sidebar for primary navigation and if you hide it, you won't be able to browse anything.
To me, it's obvious that if you give unrestrained access to something and increase its availability, more people are going to use it. I'd be leery of reports that say otherwise. In fact, the current opioid epidemic is a testament to this.

Mushrooms are not for everybody. I don't want my kids using them. Should they be illegal? I don't know. I'd take them being illegal over making them easier to obtain.
Everything is removable with a sledgehammer. Many things are made of constituent parts that can be removed, but that doesn't mean that the original owner has rights to it.
Thank you for your advice. I've changed the text. I hope to get a chance.
If by "well-fed" you mean getting enough total calories, you are still mistaken.

Kwashiorkor is the condition of not enough protein while actually getting "enough" total calories. What's more, low overall protein intake actually increase your need for essential aminos, due to the body synthesizing non-essentials from its supply of essentials.

There are also serious health effects (eventually leading to death) associated with deficiencies in specific essential aminos. Lysine deficiency is one. You only need 28mg a day but if you are eating mostly wheat it can happen.[1] If you are lysine deficient it comes with its own disorders and it also leads to micronutrient deficiency.

[1]http://www.pnas.org/content/101/22/8285.long
iPado Pro with iOS11, is pretty much the computing devices Apple has always envisioned for. So it is time to let iPad be that devices, and start treating Mac as workstation / production, professional uses.

Everything in the Mac lineup is a joke. Macbook Pro with Touchbar, we already had a discussion on that few days ago, forcing a $200 component on every Macbook Pro. Keyboard, even the so called improved Version 2.0 in Macbook Pro 2017 still sucks. And it is very VERY common to have keys not working properly. Just ask any friends working in Apple Retails.

iMac Pro, lets wait and see because I could not figure out, without a change of design how they managed to cool down 500W TDP within the same space. And the things is, I have this suspicious they could always have done it, but decided not to.

Mac Mini, It hasn't been downgraded for 3 years when they last took the Quad Core option out.

All Desktop Mac, still have HDD as default. No amount of CPU Core, GB of Memory is going to get you the speed improvement of SSD. And Apple talks about caring for User Experience?
They’re NOT getting away because they’re nowhere near dominant. This doesn’t apply to them at all, because they don’t license iOS or make deals with manufacturers to push Safari as a default choice. Apple builds their own hardware, so they can ship whatever they want on it. Microsoft on the other hand, dictated hardware manufacturers what software should be installed on it.
I'd argue that's a natural state of competition. Whenever a party reaches a dominant position, they'd use their power to stifle would be competitors (absent any regulations preventing otherwise).
Then I'll say that I'm working on something similar, it's just not ready at the moment. I'm retooling my gaming site into a gaming alternative to Medium and the likes, and will hopefully launch a general version for all subjects at a later date.
Shhh... we are going to need to preserve our Guerilla methods dude.
That's because these days it is very hard to get even a starter house (in a good neighborhood) even having a steady job.

And I have not seen too many steady jobs in high-tech.

The only option to get ahead is to either play the lottery or "do a startup" (pretty much like lottery)
I thought this was going to be about Ruby...
Canssandra is much more difficult than an SQL database to build functionality in, but can scale linearly with the number of nodes added. I quite enjoyed it’s deliberately imposed limitations to help you write a scalable data layer.
GRPC-Go performance Improvements
Yes, relational databases are easy deal with. A single machine with proper backups can handle data needs for most companies. The explosion of managed service providers makes this even cheaper, faster and easier to start with.

ORMs can do 95% of most project data access needs and a little bit of SQL knowledge allows for easily creating and editing tables - or use the numerous GUI tools out there.

If anything, SQL actually lets you be more agile by allowing for quick queries to fix data or do a complicated 1-time report without having to write up and deploy code. This probably has more to do with the SQL language itself which is why it's surprising that MongoDB never tried to implement any of it.
This is far from being deployed, per another article on the same demo (a much better article, if you are interested in learning more):

Much of the technology is there to drive robotics and autonomy into maneuver formations, but when it comes to developing the tactics, techniques and procedures, the Army is figuring out “how we want to massage this,” said Robert Sadowski, robotics chief with the Army‘s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. “The next 10 to 15 years will help us figure out how we want to embed robotics and autonomous systems into the formation.”

http://www.defensenews.com/land/2017/08/25/us-army-tackles-t...
Poor choice of headline for this site, IMO. I can't be the only one who clicked expecting something about the Ruby REPL.

For the benefit of anybody else confused by the title, IRB in this article refers to an "Institutional Review Board" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
Of course, different professions have different amounts of "get a bigger piece of the pie" versus "make the pie bigger". The trades are more obviously positive-sum: if people get better at making houses, more houses end up getting built for people to enjoy. Things like patent trolling are negative-sum: when a patent-trolling office expands, they do so at the cost of putting others out of work at a greater rate.

However, this isn't the point that the "free college for everyone" crowd is aware of, let alone considering. It's straight equivocation between "college degree holder earns on average $X more" and "an extra college degree is worth $X more to society as a whole".
OK, as a purely useless concession, I will grant you that base 60 gives you more rational numbers that you can express as terminating decimals. (Uh, not decimal decimals, but... whatever the right term is.) But, first, every rational number is exactly representable in any base (as a fraction, rather than as a decimal expansion). Second, this doesn't help you at all if you're taking trig functions of almost all angles, where the result is not rational.
I believe that recorded music is a ton of waves of different frequencies going at the same time. You still just need to sample at twice the highest frequency. Overlapping frequencies may have some audible effects that may be undesirable (like beating [0]), but those would be audible in the real (analog) signal as well as the sampled signal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)
Oh please that's an absurd argument. Nobody here is saying we should ban every possible dangerous thing. The question becomes what are the recreational benefits of using the drug when weighed against the possible risks and side-effects. If you're willing to present statistics that more people overdose on caffeine than cause violent crime on mushrooms, then maybe you'll have something.
The missile was clearly a message. According to the CNN journalist that talked about it, who is in NK, this is the response to the "fire and fury" threat by Trump.
For me, there's a viscious circle at work here.

I don't use my phone that much because the usability is rubbish, and when I do I find it an exercise in frustration.

So, when someone asks me to make a website usable on mobile, I really have no idea what usably on mobile would actually involve. And the result is I make a single column of content which is 100% of screen width and has all the buttons and text inputs enlarged.

I've tried looking for advice about this on the web, but because mobile is such a hype-driven area, the search engine results for any mobile web design topic are inevitably marketing idiocy.

So, where can I read something by people who've done real usability experiments on touchscreens?
A summer working on Strava's Android application
I only take a few minutes to actually find something. I ascertain them by looking at the technologies and the documentation. I don't know whether it actually works well without using it. But looking at the components and docs gives a good hint.

I usually look at what I'm trying to do pretty carefully before even looking for a boilerplate. I've usually been thinking about one of these excursions for quite some time before it's time to code.

I don't expect boilerplates to actually solve problems. Just to provide a base for me to solve the problem on.
09:30 to 10:30 explains the effects of quantisation extremely well! Overall, that is one of the clearest, no frills, to the point videos I've ever seen.
Thanks for this comment -- it was very high quality and led me to spend 2 hours reading about this stuff. It looks pretty cool and I'm going to give it a shot. Reading about the fountains and several other community aspects really does make this seem unique and fun
The study in question seems to be here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/43/13201.full

I wouldn't say that the Wired article explains what the study found all that well. (It involves asking participants to read one of two different versions of a scientific abstract and judging the study's quality.) Maybe discussing the paper would be more useful?
the devil is in the DAC and ADC. You just can't turn 16bit/24bit data directly to/from analog without much loss. The 1/65536 accuracy voltage divider simply don't exist.

So, you have to up-sample the songs to high rates with less bits, like 1bit to 6bits, then do the conversion, and get the best SNR you can.

In this sense, there's simply a lot of advantage of using 24/196 since the above conversion can result in less loss and higher SNR
> this video demo is one of the very best I've ever seen

I have said the same thing. I was a film major, a video producer, and a tech writer (now a programmer), and I am in awe.
I think there may be some hysteresis effect going on here. If wealthy countries developed their tech industry sooner, you'd expect them to have a larger installed base of projects written using older technologies.

This effect explains why Java, C and C++ rank higher in high-income countries. It also explains why Android ranks higher in the rest of the world -- I suspect in many places, people are leapfrogging PC's altogether, and a lot of people have a tablet or phone as their sole device.
Going out on a limb here, but I think there may be more to the story than they both ate a couple of magic mushrooms.
Scott Wiener introduces bill to add 3rd gender option to California state IDs
An alternative method:
1. Write a white paper (about anything, just include lots of buzz words)
2. Launch ICO
3. Party for 10 years
4. ?
5. Make money
Some notes:

1. This will have a 180 day signature gathering window, beginning soon after the California Attorney General gives it an official title and summary. It's my understanding that this window will begin within the next 65 days (I think the AG has 50+15 days to get the summary + title)

2. Signature gathering is incredibly expensive. A cost estimate for this ballot initiative would be $1-5 million just to collect enough signatures to get it on the ballot. And then either it needs to have really good initial polling (perhaps 60%+ in professionally done polls), or needs to have millions of dollars for ad spend.

3. To make this win, two things are likely needed: Firstly, comprehensive polling to figure out if this will even get the votes needed if it gets on the ballot. 60% polling would be ideal. If it polls well, then it'll need massive numbers of volunteers to collect the ~365,000 signatures from California registered voters.

If you want to help: Nothing is needed yet, unless you can directly help Kevin Saunders - though soon, signature gathering help will be needed. Once the signature gathering window starts they'll either need $1-5mm in donations, or a massive number of volunteers. If you know Kevin Saunders who proposed the initiative, perhaps encourage him to do professional polling with likely voters, as there's a possibility that it could make things worse off if it gets on the ballot and fails. Also please encourage him to reach out to groups like the Drug Policy Alliance to get their expertise, if he's open to learning from them. Contrary to how it may seem, my understanding is it's not good to have a ballot initiative make it to the ballot and fail - it would be better to not have it on the ballot at all.

Read about the process here http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/how-qualify-...

Also if you're a philanthropist with interest in this space, there's serious possibility to do good things right now, particularly given the increased democratic turnout that the 2020 Presidential election will bring - ballot initiatives for Drug Policy reform will have a one-time advantage in 2020. If you're a large donor looking for something valuable and underfunded that could make the world better, I'd suggest reaching out to Ellen from Drug Policy Alliance. If you're a large potential donor I'm also happy to help and answer questions over email based on what I know and share my notes, email in profile.

Lastly, pretty exciting that drug medical research and policy news has been all over HN recently. As a commenter in another thread noted, these (i.e. MDMA, Psilocybin) are genuine examples of suppressed technologies - so it's exciting to see them progress.
On the plus side magic mushrooms generally are not habit forming. (Lots of sources out there on that.)

In my own experience I remember thinking how it felt like a nice 20 hour scenic drive. After a long drive like that I was all set for a few years before desiring to do it again. (And not purely for hedonistic reasons, either. I appreciated the "bad trips" the most!)

However they can still be misused, so one day if they are decriminalized I would hope a fair amount of education would be allowed, if not encouraged. Perhaps legitimize a qualified sitter arrangement, if feasible.
> These drugs have no accepted medical use and a high potential for dependence and abuse, according to the DEA. Heroin, LSD, and marijuana are in the same category.

This is a pretty absurd comparison, grouping marijuana and heroin in the same category.
What about for non-humans?

Consider a dog that lives with a musician who plays, for example, trumpet. The musician plays the trumpet at home to practice, and also records his practices to review.

A trumpet produces significant acoustic energy out to about 100 KHz [1]. When the musician plays live the dog hears a rich musical instrument. When the musician plays back his recordings, half the frequency range that the dog could hear in the live trumpet will be gone. I'd imagine that this makes the recorded trumpet a lot less aesthetically pleasing to the poor dog.

[1] https://www.cco.caltech.edu/~boyk/spectra/spectra.htm
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I don't think psilocybin should be scheduled, and I think folks should be able to buy pure psilocybin, psilocin, 4-ACO-DMT, etc. online under the driver's license model. But I don't really see any reason for mushrooms themselves to be legal to sell, given that it's just an unknown dose of psilocybin that comes in a form that's mainly of interest for historic and spiritual reasons. It seems to me that selling mushrooms themselves should still be at least a misdemeanor and come with a substantial fine.
If android apps make 15% of what iPhone apps do despite having a much larger market share, what would be the point of targeting a smaller fraction of that? Even if those users are all willing to pay you're probably not going to get higher than that 15%.

The "high-end" at market on iOS is bad enough, would you want to try and fight that battle on android?
Right, but unlike cannabis, this is coming from the "top" down, not a popular movement on up.
Criminal drug laws aren't stopping the opioid epidemic, and they prevent us from asking the real question: why is it that so many people prefer an opioid stupor to being productively engaged in our society?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Note the overlap between the suicide maps and the opioid overdose maps:

https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/

People are killing themselves. Heroin and fentanyl are just tools.

What's happening in those red areas of the country? Economic collapse and social alienation.

If people want to check out and slowly (or quickly) kill themselves making drugs illegal won't stop them. They'll get them anyway or they will find other methods.

As far as mushrooms go: they are not particularly addictive. There is not and never has been a 'shroom epidemic. I highly doubt there ever will be. They can be a little bit dangerous, especially if you have latent psychological problems. They're not some kind of panacea either. But they're not really that bad and they're definitely not worth putting people in jail over.

The fear that we have of mind altering substances is totally irrational, especially when placed next to the lack of fear or stigma that we have for so many other more dangerous things. If you drop acid or 'shrooms you're a demonic criminal even though the worse you'll get is a bad trip and maybe some psychological disturbance, but if you kill yourself cave diving or rock climbing you're a hero.

Would I want my kids doing them? Not until they're adults and not without care. It would worry me a bit. It would worry me a lot more if they got a motorcycle. I see crosses and candles by the road all the time. I've never read about anyone dying from 'shrooms.
That was actually a very nice read! I just finished the book and certainly remember the meat factory scenes the most, but couldn't help but feel Upton would have been disappointed from the message he was trying to ultimately convey.
Ask HN: What are good books for advanced data science?
I am looking for books or online sources on advanced data science. There are plenty of books introducing Python, Numpy, or Scikit-learn. There are also plenty of mathematical treatments like ISLR, ESL, ITILA, and beyond. But I want to learn more about advanced techniques in day-to-day data science. How to do statistical modeling from data. How to attack difficult problems. How to avoid fallacies n.b. Anscombe's quartet. Reading occasional HN comments on these topics made me realize there is so much to learn on these.

Senior data scientists -- what sources have you used?
The question is if you're trying to earn your living doing that can you wait long enough for "a few" to become "everyone"? There are a lot of businesses that fail because they're too early.
wouldn't a halfway decent solution to this be to lower property tax, lessen zoning laws and fines, and otherwise do things that will bring down property/building prices?

This would allow those who currently rent to be able to buy land, put a manufactured or temporary lodging on that land, and live there legally and cheaply, compared to a traditional home in a densely populated area.

It seems in my opinion that supply is artificially constrained, and that is why Airbnb is so popular.
It was entirely political. The Nixon administration made drugs highly illegal to badger hippies and blacks.
I had trouble modeling sql because I started with nosql and used this exact approach.
Except for verbatim/code blocks (i.e. line starts with two or more spaces) with, which are basically unreadable on mobile once they
stretch to multiple lines; I get that the intention is for code blocks, but they seem to be misused for quoting OP somewhat frequently.

It works be so much nicer if these blocks could render differently on mobile; it's surely not that hard for a computer to determine what is coffee and what isn't?
I eat a lot of cooked beans (and oats, sometimes) - lectins and other toxins are how plants defend their seed (etc, but seeds are obviously critical for reproduction.) Toxins are quite common in foods, and we deal with most of them well, even raw. Cooking was a massive advance for homo sapiens because it destroys most of these toxins, breaking up large molecules in general. Some plants have more durable toxins than others. Oats are at one extreme end of the spectrum, in good part because seeds are usually small and easier to heavily defend than, say, a root such as a carrot. It's that simple.
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People who get drunk on alcohol are super violent all the time: murdering, mutilating, and fighting each other, and getting in to car accidents where they kill a whole bunch of people -- so much that it's not usually considered newsworthy to point out any particular case of someone being drunk when they got violent.

Now, how often do people get violent from taking mushrooms? Basically almost never, which is why a news story like this gets coverage.

Of course, people can and sometimes do (non-violently) freak out on mushrooms, which is why it's important to treat them with respect, take them with a sitter under a good set and setting, and perhaps ideally under the guidance of a therapist.
It's true that much popular music is heavily compressed, but you normally wouldn't encounter two differently-compressed masters of the same song. Two exceptions would be radio (some stations used to apply their own compression, and perhaps they still do) and some high-quality releases aimed at audiophiles that are produced from a less-compressed master. I wouldn't think that streaming services like Spotify would re-compress songs.
That explains AR, what about basic android functionality being stuck because your device isn't updated?
At my greatest aspiration, I'm no more than a casual music listener - however I am very conscious of pitch. On more than one occasion, I've noticed that a song I'm familiar with seems off pitch, as in lower or higher key than I think of it in my head - and I seem to notice that particularly around shitty speakers or bluetooth or some combination of the two. Glad to know I'm not crazy :)

To your point, I would lean towards bluetooth as I've never associated the phenomena with Pandora. My friends and I mostly use Spotify.