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> So... when you say buprenorphine works great in terms of binding, I get the impression that you mean that the effect lasts longer, and that it is needed less frequently? That would have helpful practical ramifications, yeah.

Exactly, yeah. For most people it will "hold" them for 24-48 hours. Unfortunately for me, it only holds me for about 12, but that should hopefully mean that my final withdrawal symptoms are more acute and less drawn out.

I'd rather a week or two of agony than months of less-intense but still terrible shit!
I am legitimately excited for Ubuntu 17.10, the GNOME theme looks great.
> If it's not neurons that produce consciousness then there must be some other physical phenomena that generates experience.

Not necessarily. If you think about it, consciousness is not physical. My thoughts have no mass. My experience of the color red has no height or width. Why should we assume that something that is not physical must come from The physical world? I think the best argument is that neuron functioning correlates with thought. However, as we know, correlation does not necessarily mean causation.

I think one big hurdle for understanding consciousness is that people still have a matter – only mindset. I think people need to recognize that consciousness is not material. Then they will begin to make progress on the fundamental question, which is how something that is not material can arise from matter, or whether it comes from another source.
i believe that when hosting source on github, you guarantee the right of others to fork the repository

that right would seem to preclude forcing the forked version to change the name
True, but that is because the farmers have access to huge fields which let them deploy their equipment efficiently. Autonomous farming would let you theoretically use more marginal lands which are not currently suitable for manual farming.
GDP per capita probably. If California was a country, it would be on the top 10 list, only beat by some small oil rich countries.
Yeah, there's a nice link in the comments on the chrome bug on how Lua does it with upvalues: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=315190...
> What's damaging to the culture of this site is describing strong gender bias and oppression as "women were given the opportunity to be homemakers instead of laborers."

I assume by that you're saying that shaming people is ok if they "deserve" to be shamed.

You can't take the hacker news rule, "You should be civil to each other." and say it should apply it selectively to those who you agree with.

It doesn't make hacker news "better" to have only one viewpoint, by shaming all others because they don't match the mob approved groupthink of what right and wrong is.
> There is no way of showing that the subjective “red experience” is not simply a label applied to a particular set of conditions in the “physical world of things”.

This can be turned around to say that there's no way of showing that a particular set of conditions in the "physical world of things (or processes)" isn't an abstraction from subjective experience.

Either way, you have an explanatory gap. I know I have red experiences. I know there are abstract explanations for how my visual system works, how objects reflect light, and so on, making it possible to see objects as colored. I don't see how the abstract explanation (the scientific one) explains my having a red experience, because an abstract explanation isn't the same thing as having an experience.
There are many gaps in our scientific knowledge, yet for nearly every such gap except consciousness, we are quite certain that science will close those gaps. Why is that?
> Is that the case? Or is it that men leave a field when the pay begins to drop?

Supply and demand as well. More workers willing to do a job means the offered pay can be lower. Sellers market VS buyers market.
Yes but does not work right now with office 2016 unless it changed recently.
The best Linux desktop by far is ChromeOS.
> Please revisit Sipser's proof

In this kind of context, you should provide a link. This kind of thing can spill over into "You're wrong because you haven't done the work to see that I'm right", and minimizing the work you're pushing off shows good faith as well as increasing clarity that we're talking about the same thing.

I think it's more likely we're talking about different things than either of us failing to understand the relevant proofs. I'll take a look, though, when you've provided the link (and ideally some explanation of what you see as important).
I doubt the hive mind of HN will notice this comment, but if you read the Glenn Greenwald book, No Place to Hide, it shows this is actually a tactic of the CIA to get you to use compromised security. Plausible: Kapersky is actually blocking the CIA efforts, so they need you to use a compromised version of security from some else.
1. They were having sex in vechicles.

2. There was nepotism in hiring.

3. The founder "hit" on employees. The founder also has a hedge fund in the city? What a guy. Quite the go getter. BOD gave him the boot, but will be at the end of the year.

4. The Vice President supposedly paid women to loose weight, and he kicked garbage cans. (He denied everything, except kicking the cans. 'There's So much stress in a start up!'

5. I still don't know what the company does, nor care. I don't know what allegations are true, or false.

6. Moral of story--don't say anything off color, sexually suggestive at work. That goes for females too. Don't have sex at work--ouch! Gotta be hard being a CEO in this bubble? So many difficult rules! So much stress for the Founder! (I hope this dudes wife has a prenup? Then again I'm still not exactly sure what crime he committed, other than being a privileged white male, with poor social skills?

7. I'm still kind interested in his hedge fund. I'm astonished over the money certain white males can accumulate in America.

8. If I owned any company. My first speech would be, "Don't use this bubbly job as a place to socialize." And that's the rub. So many people use that bubbly job as their hatching ground for socializing. My ex went to work daily in SF, and complained the gay men at work wouldn't hit on her. I once told her that if she's using work to socialize, it's pathetic. She read me the riot act. Never said anything about her job again. I need to say this-- San Francisco runs very low on available straight men to socialize with. I've seen women throw themselves at average dudes. Average in all categories. For one--stop it. To the guys who get the big egos; stop it. Or, keep it up, and get kicked out of your own company.
Sounds like you have not used LInux for a long time. Try Solus next time to get a fresh look at things.
Old habits die hard. Also, I don't particularly like having to learn _yet another_ command to get what I want. It's bad enough having to learn differences between operating systems. Learning differences between operating system _versions_ is really quite annoying. Add in a healthy dose of bias (I seem to recall seeing one of these commands was just a python script instead of a compiled program), skepticism (about it being 'better'? it's different, for sure, I don't know about 'better'; it doesn't appear to use the normal command line switch methods, so that's definitely not better! and, one command which has to parse subcommands? that flows against the old adage of "have one purpose, do it well"...), and paranoia (why change it? why? the old one was just fine and did exactly what I wanted!); you end up with an old guy like me stuck in his ways.

Edit:
Also, I wasn't aware that the old commands were deprecated and definitely didn't have a handy one-to-one conversion reference like this link. So +1 for that
You are saying that the minarchist Night Watchman State will have 10 carrier strike groups? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It's fairy easy to get PCM out on any one platform (which means you can build support for Win/Mac/Linux by writing that small C code 3 times), and as Jasper_ noted, the rest is just math on some integers or floats, so there is nothing much platform specific about it.

I think the bigger issue is that non-experts sometimes get tasked with adding support for things.

The "audio device API that leaves the sample rate completely unspecified" example is, believe it or not, one I've seen before elsewhere. And yet, if you know the first thing about PCM samples, you know this is a mind-numbingly stupid mistake to make. Yet it's a mistake that a few people have made into shipping products, because they can't or won't reason about audio, and this did not stop them from being in charge of an audio API.
I always thought some browser vendors who own mobile app stores wouldn't appreciate gamers having access to a distribution channel for great games on their platform that they didn't control. You can't have great games without great sound, so their mucking up the Sound API would be a nice way to stall the emergence.

It's a conspiracy theory, I know. Reality is probably far more boring and depressing. :/

Like the blog poster, I cut my teeth on the Mozilla API, and I was able to get passable sound out of a OPL3 emulator in a week's time. Perhaps Mozilla could convince other browser vendors to adopt their API in addition to Web Audio API?
I've seen a lot of headlines about studies of psychedelic drugs and compounds having a positive impact on addicts.

There are a ton of articles out there, most seem like clickbait, but there are studies that have been done such as this one [1] which say that LSD has had a positive impact on alcohol abuse. I'm not saying this is the cure, but I do think further studies could prove beneficial.

Edit: Added pdf of paper [2].

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269881112439253

[2] https://www.ntnu.edu/documents/139226/8932977/JOP439253.pdf
As a Jewish person: yes it is. It really should not be used by any legitimate publication anymore because of the dogwhistle status it has gained.
Cygwin is essentially a distribution, so like any distribution their packages are recompiled for that specific distribution and available in their repo. It's not too often you download a random binary for Linux and run it, but that case I concede.
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>Linux distros are ugly and the people making them have no taste.

Of all possible complaints about Linux, you've picked this one? Come on.
I know that, I was putting a random number.

Regardless, we could still have a fleet of robots go build structures there, then another that will grow things in the structures...

We talk about sending men to mars, but I think it's short-sighted to not first figure out how to send and deploy resources and robots to pre-build infrastructure for said humans - and we should be practicing on the moon.

Or why is it that nobody seems to be talking about this? And specifically talking about practicing in the moon?

Spacex is really focused on a rocket that can get to mars, how much more quickly can it get to the moon?
There are some things you just don't joke about. You don't joke about bombs at the airport, you don't yell "fire" in a theater, and you don't joke about assaulting a high-profile politician. I don't care who you are are or what you're "known for", the Secret Service has to take each one of these seriously, and now they're spending my tax money to confirm that this dude is just doing it for the "lulz". That, and Clinton gets to walk around wondering which sycophant is going to take this request seriously. Teaching him a lesson? Damned straight, him and every other wannabe that thinks this is cute.

It doesn't help that the guy's no Schwartz or Snowden. He's not defending our rights, or revealing the erosion of our rights, nor saving puppies. He's known for being a jackass. And we all like a jackass until it hits the fan, and then we all collectively back away slowly.
You can make much more profit trading here than is actually possible, because buying virtually won't affect the market.
Maybe that big bank should decide not to get credit reports from Equifax and not to send them data. It would be a way to show that self-regulation works before the government forces their hand.
Looks have improved a fair amount.
The normal user still wouldn't know how to install any software they know on it, however.
And I'm not talking about an open-source alternative from apt.

Also, touch screens <3
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I assume you're talking about the Federal Insurance program (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security). Because a lot of people on the left want to spend more money on those.
A lot of snarky comments here, but I've been using Ubuntu shell on Win 10 for the past few weeks and it's really fantastic. Way faster than a VM and much more compatible than cygwin or msys.
My sister, who majored in philosophy and is in absolutely no way technologically adept, has been a fulltime linux user for 12 years now (including 4 years in university).

My partner, who is a grade school teacher and is in no way interested in learning about technology, has been using it full time for 2 years now.

My dad, a 6 year user (4 years fulltime), same story about level of tech competence...

There are others. I suspect that you are expecting to not have to learn anything new and are looking for a visually identical Windows clone.
A monoid is just an algebraic group which is missing the concept of the inverse element.

This has been gutted out of the group so that the category theorists can then see monoids in situations where they would otherwise have to rack their brains to come up with the inverse operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)#Definition

For instance, the set of character strings and the catenate operation are almost a group. The identity element is the empty string.

Closure holds: if a and b are strings, (cat a b) is a string.

Associativity holds : (cat a (cat b c)) is (cat (cat a b) c). (Which is then just (cat a b c) to a Lisp programmer, (cat a) is a, and (cat) produces the empty string.)

Identity element: empty string. (cat a "") -> a

Inverse element: oops!

We would have to postulate some sort of "negative string" so that (cat "abc" -"abc") produces "".

Then we have the problem of what is (cat "abc" -"xyz"): the combination of a string and the inverse element of a different string.

Let's not bother; just drop this axiom and call it a "monoid".
Tablets are still a thing? Large phones and Laptops is what my bubble uses.
I don't buy that at all.

It seems much more likely that consciousness is an emergent property of a neural network with the right feedback mechanisms in place and probably with some close tie in with language.

Poke someone in the brain and consciousness changes, take a tiny bit of LSD and consciousness changes - it's not a magical property.
No, I'm saying that the offense of using strong language when describing something bad is completely trivial when compared to using nice language to lie about both past and present in service of the counterargument.

Bad faith arguments wrapped in nice language are vastly more destructive to the conversation then a little foul language.

We should not misinterpret "be civil" as "don't use the word 'ass.'"
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This is a random thought, I'm not sure where this can or should go, but this article made me think of universal healthcare. One of the arguments for a single-payer is that it takes the burden of understanding healthcare and health insurance issues from employers.

One of the general issues with corporate structure is that corporations are machines that are to prioritize profits above all else, hence, their turning a blind eye to his issues. This is because a CEO isn't just an administrator for a money making organization, but is a caretaker of culture, ethics, and morality of a company. Work is so much a part of our lives that a person in a supervisor position over us actually has a lot of power in other aspects of our lives: food, shelter, healthcare, future work opportunities, even access to a social life given our work centered culture; and this gives them power to leverage it to hurt others.

This isn't to alleviate any of his guilt, but somewhere in here is a larger comment on our culture and how many jobs should not be the "best welfare program" (or shelter program, or food program, or social program, or networking program, or etc.) that our lives should not be dominated by work only.
They had to ban slap bracelets because the cheap knock offs weren't sanded down and ended up being sharp pieces of tape measures tape.
Well, I'll have to re-read the linked article. In any case, while I probably did not phrase it in the language that globalists themselves would use, but would they flat out refute my definition? Or would they merely nuance it?
Exactly. All the more reason to make sure the 4th is upheld.
I've got a pair of Grado headphones and a set of those exact AKG phones and I test a few different songs with each pair of anytime I'm assessing a new set of headphones. I test "Fame" by David Bowie, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, and "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead. The Airpods sounded great for in-ear headphones but they did have a significant break in period of almost 2 weeks. In addition to the fit, ease of pairing, and the overall experience, I can still wholeheartedly recommend them. The AKG's are great but they're not for the same target. I'm not going to go running or working out in my AKG's or my Grado's.
Install hyper terminal, it is a lot more bearable than the ugly default console emulation on Windows.
I have. None are wireless and offer the same ease and consistency with as good of sound as the Airpods.
Not the poster you're replying to, but I'd say mindfulness and meditation. Learning to look inward can be an incredibly powerful tool for dealing with issues like substance abuse.
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I think you might be correct in some domains, but farming isn't one. You simply can't grow all crops in all places, nor is that allocation of land a good use. Barley grows well in flat fields. Not so well in the wooded hills outside Atlanta. Hops won't grow at all where it doesn't freeze in the winter, and basil needs lots of sun and water. We've mostly optimized where we grow crops for land use and yield already, so, it is indeed a supply chain problem to move them to where they need to go.

Also, I'm not sure how automation of labor democratizes supply. supply isn't constrained by labor. It is constrained by yield. Automation won't solve that as much as chemical engineering or more land would.
from the github (which hosts caddy source) faq:

Note: If you publish your source code in a public repository on GitHub, according to the Terms of Service, other GitHub users have the right to view and fork your repository within the GitHub site. If you have already created a public repository and no longer want users to have access to it, you can make your repository private. When you convert a public repository to a private repository, existing forks or local copies created by other users will still exist. For more information, see "Making a public repository private."
Sure, women were a minority in the field in 1985, but they were a much larger minority than they are today.

I don't see how the end of US involvement in the Vietnam War would explain the percentage of female CS majors peaking a decade later.

Why are you so insistent that there must be some historical aspect behind the numbers of the past, but not the numbers of the present? What makes you think that the way things are today is the "natural" state of things, when it was never the case before?
They may not be but I even the EarPods sound good to me and have good range once they're broken in. If you only ever put them in your ears for 1 song and decided they were no good, you're not going to get the best or most objective sound.
One of Farhan's premises for pair programming is:

> Many people assume that the bottleneck with coding is typing, but the bottleneck is actually at the thought level — it’s at deciding what to code

but in my experience coding, this is not true at all. Most of the time, it is very easy to figure out what needs to be built. What takes time is:

- integrating with broken libraries

- fixing said libraries

- discovering and fixing edge cases as you code

- writing extensive integration and unit tests

- making sure the code is well documented

- going through code review cycles, fixing nits and tests

- refactoring the code to make it easier to modify

- setting up rollout mechanisms to migrate from one library/database to the next

It's all mundane wiring that takes the most time, and I can't imagine how a second programmer peering over my shoulder while I do these things would make it go faster/better. But maybe this is just true for large companies, where requirements are made pretty clear (versus startups, where engineers contribute significantly to figuring out what needs to be built).
Nice UIs won't fix people's broadcom wireless cards.
Elementary OS[0] is visually very nice, especially after a slight theme change[1], but the core team behind it makes quite radical changes and decisions about what the OS should be (mostly about how it should be an unmodifiable, unchangeable "OS for dummies") that is starting to push me away.

Especially when basic things like taking a screenshot with your keyboard, as well as setting up hot keys, has been broken for a year[2]. The eOS team appears to be more focused on forcing Windows 10-style OS updates that download in the background - even over metered connections - and force you to restart[3].

[0] https://elementary.io/

[1] https://wefunkster.deviantart.com/art/OSe-Light-Xtrlght-GTK-...

[2] https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/7703/unable...

[3] https://www.bountysource.com/issues/43123447-automatic-secur...
i found the github faq that i remembered:

Note: If you publish your source code in a public repository on GitHub, according to the Terms of Service, other GitHub users have the right to view and fork your repository within the GitHub site. If you have already created a public repository and no longer want users to have access to it, you can make your repository private. When you convert a public repository to a private repository, existing forks or local copies created by other users will still exist. For more information, see "Making a public repository private."

https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/
Hot arid climates? In the CA central valley there will be little dew in the morning in summer as it's probably already 70+ degrees F, so the earlier the better.
For what it's worth, for software installation there's now "snaps," the new "universal Linux package" format that Canonical has been pushing.
I agree. I'm fairly sure I was put through the same if not more of a challenge than hers when I moved from one province to another.
There's an important distinction, however, between redistribution that seeks to create a more free and just society and retribution that seeks to prevent a society without consumers.

Most tech people in favor of redistributive schemes like UBI are in favor of the later.
Having just lived through Hurricane Irma and received texted warnings of people ringing doorbells just after the storm, and then robbing homes, just a mile from me, I ask, who is living in a fantasy world?
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George W Bush was not an upstart by any definition of the word. To be sure, he had no particular claim to talent but then his father had been President and his grandfather had been Senator.
The federal government choosing to disallow a vendor on the basis of (presumably) security claims/policies is not a bill of attainder.