skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely an... Economical or "social outcast" angle that produces a good chunk of these people. You're stuck in a shitty environment , so you find one where you can feel better. This is also a pattern seen with gangs.

RE legality though: meth and tabacco are basically the same level of addictiveness, but tabacco is more preponderant because it's legal.

Not to say that we should "make illegal speech" to deal with this problem, but no-platforming racists (as private citizens) likely helps fight against racism.

It's not ideologically inconsistent to be for free speech but not let klansmen into your home. And there are more than enough service providers for these people, you don't have to serve them. They found a replacement for Cloudflare quickly in this example.
A negative anecdote: a friend of a friend of a friend went on a retreat and did actually lose his mind. He needs help and probably will for the rest of his life.

Just putting it out there for some balance. I’ve heard my fair share of positive anecdotes too.
Patents only encourage innovation in areas where R&D is expensive and/or time consuming. The pharmaceutical industry is a good example. Software on the other hand has far less R&D risk, and the cost of carrying out that R&D is far smaller. What ends up happening is that there's a race to patent basic processes that require very little R&D, but have wide-ranging legal implications. This stifles innovation.

In short, patents aren't beneficial for all industries.
The release cadence for Fedora is much higher. It uses newer everything than the Redhat releases. Fedora is buggier.

>> I won't pay for redhat style software at all.

Will you pay for software? Or do you write and build all of your software yourself? If I ran my business on Centos, I would consider buying Redhat subscriptions once I got to a certain scale. Depending on your business, you might need to have vendor warrantied and supported software for compliance with your insurance and industry regulations, for example.

Open source and free software is all fine and well when you are tinkering with in your bedroom, or at a small startup, or indeed when doing proof of concept or small projects, but when your operations start to scale up and you are looking at resource allocation and want to make the best use of your own resources, having support contracts often makes loads of sense.

A friend of mine work in the Aerospace industry and they where running to some weird bugs with their Java application when they upgraded their Redhat servers. It ended up being some weird kernel thing and Redhat sorted it within a few days. It sure beat them hiring their own kernel dev.
The health system is not working: diabetes has officially no cure but hundreds of doctors cure it. A senator has brain cancer but nobody points him to an expert who cures brain cancer for 20+ years (see the clinic of Dr Burzynsky), low energy, headaches, ADD, ADHD, arthritis and many more diseases are being cured for many years. Alzheimers can now be cured (See Dr dale Bredesen's work) and I can go on.

The health system continues to be in a bad state if Bezos will try to do the same thing cheaper. If Bezos is smart he will have a chat with Dr Mark Hyman on how to introduce functional medicine to the whole country. It is cheaper and ... it works!
Yup, it's an absolutely brilliant resource. Simon sometimes injects some dry humour ("Incident: British Airways A388 near London on Mar 13th 2016, free shower in lower deck" [1]), but it's very level-headed, comprehensive, factual reporting. Well worth supporting, btw!

http://avherald.com/h?article=4957cf35&opt=0
Interestingly, I've been reading that traumatic/bad trips are actually the most healing because they often reveal inner, subconscious struggles and repressed feelings that haven't been adequately dealt with.
A President Felled by an Assassin and 1880s Medical Care (2006)
And yet the standard advice when anyone buys a Windows computer is to wipe it and install a fresh copy directly from Microsoft to remove all the crap your OEM put on it.

Is is really so strange that the advice for older phones would be similar?
I think it's one thing to tell a pollster "OMG, if Hillary wins Texas should leave the US" and it's another to actually vote for it. And, even if one supports the idea that states should be able to do this, it's still reasonable to argue that it should require a significant supermajority.

Your point about the erosion of states rights is certainly fair. In any case, it's hard to say what "prevent secession" means without the context of the circumstances.
"Patents protect the people who develop the technology, not the competition who wants to use it for free after it works."

Equally true of people developing pure math, but math is not supposed to be patentable (except for algorithms apparently).
Nadishodana.

My reasoning: The idea of energy in the body is a very general concept that many different traditions have discovered independently (prana and qi are examples). Most people scoff at the concept but if you progress far in yoga or martial arts the metaphor makes sense and from a western perspective cells need energy to do their thing and that energy requires oxygen, nutrition and blood flow or some means of travel. The better your bodily awareness the more you can feel if a part of your body is cut off from the flow of energy.

Anyway to make a long story short nadishodana is a meditation practice designed to clean the "nadis" or energy channels in the body. Any psychadelic will greatly improve your bodily awareness to the point you will hallucinate vision of your energy flow. Ayahuasca especially helps with cleaning your body and breaking blocks in the energy flow, the more it has to clean the more you will need to change and the "trip" will be more hardcore.

I base this line of reasoning on anecdotal experience with using microdoses of psychadelics along with meditation to treat swelling after exercise and from having tried Ayahuasca and DMT before.
Only tangentially related, but here's a piano-inspired crossing in Warsaw, Poland: http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Poland/East/Mazowiec...
The OP did seem to be suggesting that this map was somehow different from other political maps, otherwise why make the point at all?
The issue doesn't appear to mention the modules that the user has elected to install.

Can this be reproduced out of the box?
>>I find that assessment difficult to swallow and was asking for a citation or example of when this happened.

It happened in post-WW1 Germany. Nazis were originally a fringe movement. Even though they weren't particularly competent, they were able to gain power and influence due to the ambivalence and apathy of (and tolerance by) the masses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power...
Considering the US still throws people away for going near drugs I’d say the pendulum doesn’t need to swing further the same direction.
We never made such a claim.

Cloudflare's CEO has basically come out and admitted that now it was powerful well connected individuals threatening him instead.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/24/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-princ...
Great question. Currently we just store your risk score for state info.

The questions we ask are from this website: https://doihaveprediabetes.org/

Do you have anything specific we can do to address your concern? A privacy policy at the beginning maybe?
Unless i'm wrong and just missing something, this just seems like an attempt to "make fun" of NPM by complaining that it's using up too much space.

There's nothing useful in the issue about what the person is doing that can cause this, what they expect, what applications are causing this, etc...

Just that it's taking up 10GB of space.
> If Catalonia represents 19% of the GDP and 16% of population is nowadays receiving in a sustained manner 8% of the country investment.

That does not mean anything now is it ? The problem is to know if 8% is enough or not. And even if it is not enough, is there anything in the 92 other percent that is unreasonably spent ?

For example I pay way more in tax than I receive from the State. Is it a problem ? It depends: I'm not sick or in trouble there is nothing that the state can really do for me. If I were sick then I would like to receive some of my money back in healthcare. The amount should be the same than to anyone with similar problem. If I receive less, then and only then I have room for complain.

Here in the UK, the North complain about just the opposite: how much money is on already wealthy region, completely neglecting the crumbling infrastructure outside the South-East.
As a concept I think this is interesting. Could actually be great as a plugin similar to e.g. Grammarly, where you can automatically do this for all your comment fields.

P.s. As a red-green color blind person I don't see a difference between the two examples (might also be my phone). An additional visual indicator might be helpful.
Github pushes topic branches to production and if they don't cause troubles then merges to master. The idea is that good state is defined as works in production not just passed CI tests.
> You can argue that hacker culture had its day in the sun, and that the world should move forward.

I don't want that, I want more hacker/maker culture, not less. I also want to figure out how to fund my own hacker/maker habits, but that's a separate topic. ;)

Patents do seem to be getting more toxic, but I base that on media reporting and stories of patent trolls, and not stats on the economy or number of lawsuits. So I'm curious to know more about the health of the system from a statistical perspective.

Ultimately I don't know what the solution is, and I might change my mind, but right now I don't feel like nuking the patent system is the right answer. But I do wonder if something like disallowing patent sale or transfer would help -- a company can only have a patent if the person who did the inventing worked for them at the time. They can keep it if the inventor quits or dies, but they can't sell it. Maybe something like that would stop the shell companies?
Do you need an app to go to the toilet, too?
> The "understand first, then use" aspect of many functional languages is what kills systems in the crib when you're trying to build something that provides business value.

This notion that one must "understand first, then use" is limited strictly to the particulars of the language. It's equally true of other languages: one must understand at some level how the language works to build anything with it.

It also isn't clear how having to understand Haskell and having to "understand thing" are the same thing, as the author asserts.

An uncharitable reading of the article is that it's a sophomoric insult to people who don't use Haskell, as it apparently dismisses them all as people who don't care to understand things but only to more or less mindlessly and practically randomly build stuff. I surely hope that wasn't the intent.
There used to be a time when twitter tried to brand itself as "the free speech wing of the free speech party"[1]. Obviously they have changed their stance by quite a bit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/twitter-f...
I understand why we fear nukes being exploded over our heads. What I don’t understand is the recurring notion of a weapon designed only for EMP attack. If an attacker can get a nuke over my head, I fear the nuke.
I even managed to move the address bar in to the title bar, but unrelated to my CSS, the browser toolbox now refuses to open...
> But "good UI" may not be "good marketing" or "good branding" and these companies are placing a premium on their brand at the cost of the user experience.

it's unclear where 'at the cost of the user experience' comes in.

you say that good ui "doesn't get in the way", and later that platform windowing toolkits should be used to avoid distraction. this seems to suggest that platform toolkits are "good ui".

aside from branding, one driving force for cross-platform ui is that some don't agree with the premise of platform uis being "good ui".

> Think about it - how many people (as a percentage of users of an app) will use it on multiple platforms?

depending on the region, i'd wager a lot, actually.

> Hubris also comes into play. Obviously the UI models used in xxx platform are not perfect, but every app designer thinks "users will prefer this over xxxx's default, no question about it" (...)

do any compare various options and using their reason, experience and advice, and then conclude a particular choice is preferable because of it's properties and characteristics?

> (...) because they view their layout/navigation/ui/style to be the greatest thing since sliced bread and cannot fathom that users might actually prefer the device's native windowing/widget toolkits to their abomination.

how many people are we talking about?

truly it is terrible for the fascist designer to impose their design abomination upon the beleaguered users.

...but what about the liberated users no longer under the savage yoke of the gross and repellent 'native widget toolkit'?
Patents are state enforced monopoly rights, let's be clear about that.

In what circumstances do we want to have monopolies doled out, even timed ones? Even in the classic image of the sole inventor who does something shrewd but ends up with nothing because he didn't patent it; is it really the best outcome to have this one person get rich while lives are lost and technological progress of society slowed because the monopoly pricing imposed is prohibitive for all but the wealthy?

The best scenario for a patent is as a subsidy for inventions that could not or would not exist without very substantial capital investment. Software methods by and large do not fall in that category.
(To contextualize [hopefully without misrepresenting their positions], Lurie and Vlad both think/thought that axiomatic set theory is not a proper mathematical foundation. Their disagreement lays in how to construct the reformalization of mathematics (Univalent Foundations vs Higher Topos Theory).

A (very rough) analogy would be the general consensus of climate change scientists agreeing on global warming being the result of the rapid re-release of fossil fuels into the ecosystem but disagreeing on whether the cause is from shipping container barges or the rapid industrialization of the BRIC nations.)

Here's what's regarded as the seminal resource[1] on Univalent Foundations. "Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics" which Vlad was working on at IAS. Not only mathematicians but logicians and computer scientists have made large contributions to this work. Names like Awodey and Robert Harper will certainly sound familiar to the C.S. crowd here.

[1]https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
DNA from old skeleton suggests humanity's been here longer than we thought
In software, by doing nothing. Merely not punishing for innovation (via submarine patents) is enough. Other incentives and protections seem to be enough for the vast majority of software, which is not patented. To give a specific example, we'd be 20 years ahead in video codecs if they weren't a research minefield and innovations of open-source community weren't tainted by patents (in this area there are lots of people keen to innovate, but they have to bend backwards to make something good strictly out of 20+-year-old algorithms, because anything not obviously outdated is undeployable due to litigation risk).

For other areas, like drug research, I think publicly-funded research is a great solution. When new drugs are invented, they should be produced as cheaply as possible, repaying investment by saving as many people as possible.
A lot of people have this strange image about refugees. These people fled from a war zone, not because they don't have any food or are illiterate. In fact, a majority of the refugees are here because they have money which they spend on the journey to flee their country. Among them are doctors, physicians, engineers, etc.
From what I recall, the thing making this referendum illegal something from the 1970s....

Not sure if that changes your opinion

and it also doesn't answer the question of why the national government is bothering anyway
> Equally true of people developing pure math, but math is not supposed to be patentable (except for algorithms apparently).

Yeah, exactly, and this is why software is getting more contentious, right? Software is pure math, and it's also method and apparatus. The patent system was designed as a line between concepts and physical inventions, but software perches right smack on top of that line.
Patents used to keep inventors from taking their secrets into their graves, but now it seems they only support some kind of cold war between big players that can afford to produce lots of bogus patents possibly usable for retaliation. Also, and this is a nice side effect, everybody who cannot afford to waste money on this is kept out of the game.
"Stupid patents" is a pleonasm.

Never have I seen a compelling argument for patents.
Patents are great in a vacuum, but long term in a system of capitalism, they too tend to coalesce under ownership of the wealthiest.

Edit: grammar

Edit 2: word usage
As Daily Stormer's CTO I can personally attest that your concerns are very well founded.
"Will someone lay out a realistic plan detailing how you'd implement BI in the US?"

I have been open-minded about BI, however, the so-called "opioid crisis" in the United States has made me more skeptical.

The accounts I have read in books and periodicals have confirmed my own experience growing up in a poor, semi-rural town: poor whites in the United States already have resources that are effectively equal, or greater than the basic incomes being proposed.

Poor white people in rural America have a roof over their heads (perhaps not their own) they have some amount of disposable income (walmart, unemployment, disability, whatever) and they almost always have access to grandmas Buick or dads Chevy truck. They are very likely to be obese. These people killing themselves with Heroin have food and shelter and cars.

Their problem is that there is no point to their lives. They have no narrative to attach themselves to and no meaning to their days. I don't see how Basic Income solves this, since they have what amounts to a (admittedly, precarious and haphazard) basic income already.
I think the main impact is that I had never heard of that website before cloudlfare took that decision. Massive publicity.
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I know this post will probably get flagged because it is so political. Still, I think this article is something everyone needs to read, especially in the current political climate where identity politics and group think have pitted groups of people against one another and spurred them to violence all over the western world.

This article shows the classical liberal values of discussion and dialogue are so important to making progress.
Mitigating a HTTP GET DoS Attack (2014)
How long was it between 7th grade and when your headaches started occurring? My optomitrist was surprised I did not have headaches, as I have similar eyes to yours. However, he didn't feel there was any need for intervention unless there was a problem. It's been a decade without issue at this point.
A380: first flight 2005, about 215 built

B787: first flight 2009, about 600 built

A350: first flight 2013, about 100 built

Off the three, I'd mostly avoid the 787. I still find the A380 the most comfortable, due to all the space. Lower cabin altitude in 787 and 350 is nice, but doesn't compensate for cramped conditions.

I'm a bit concerned about bleed air. (The high pressure air to maintain cabin pressure comes from the compressor stage of the engines, and could be contaminated with oil/fuel/?, and so far only the 787 has done away with that ("bleedless aircraft").) But, damn, that spacious A380 cabin.
Well, from a game theory point of view, look at it like this: You can't meaningfully execute on patents (enforcement nor acquisition) unless you have resources. Those resources tend to come from companies that programmers work for, not individual programmers working at home.

So if you want more hacker/maker culture, your position would seem to run counter to that goal, no?

I love playing devil's advocate too, but there are situations where it's not quite so easy. If you feel that the hatred for patents is an overblown concern, I suppose it would be best for the people in this thread to post stories about how patents have materially affected their lives and their work. There are plenty.

Even lacking that, though, the core argument is that you need money to be able to do anything patent-related. Most hackers don't have these kinds of resources. And since patents can be used against them, advocating for patents leads directly to the disenfranchisement of hackers.

EDIT: One thing that makes it difficult to see the kinds of statistics you'd like to see: Chilling effects. When patents hang over us like a specter, you'll never see how many ventures are aborted before they're even started due to fears about patents.
Last night I finished a project I’ve been working on in my spare time. It’s a web app where you can set up a group of messages, and get one of those messages texted to you at scheduled times. I use it to remind myself of things that are important but I tend to forget throughout the day.

While at work, I might get “Writes lots of tests” or “Go for short walks”. Every night at 11, my phone buzzes with “Get lots of sleep”. I wrote it as a script about a month ago, and have found it surprisingly valuable. Now I’ve finished a web app so other people can use it too.

Lessons learned:

I’m finally decent at estimating time for projects. I can do that by breaking it into the smallest pieces I can, remembering the longest it’s taken me to do that sort of task (not the shortest) and then doubling it (to account for missed stuff). That seems to be about right.

Writing an MVP script for myself was huge. I did that in about 3 hours and this project has taken more like 50. Having something useful already was very motivating and I learned a lot over the month. I hardcoded everything (the schedule, the text, my phone number) into that first script just to get something working. I was able to reuse the shuffling code, so it wasn’t totally scrapped.

Stack

Python 3 (Used pipenv for the first time and I’d highly recommend it)

Django 1.11

Postgres

Bootstrap

jQuery

Providers

Hosting: Heroku

Code: GitHub

DNS: EasyDNS

Bug Reporting: Sentry

Texting: Twilio

Bootstrap Theme: Lumen by Bootswatch

Home image: MockuPhone

So, give it a try and let me know how you like it!

https://www.solitext.com/
So some guy on the internet says that a friend of a friend of a friend of his lost his mind on Ayahuasca? Based on schizophrenia rates, I suspect pretty much everyone even has a friend of a friend that might catalyze their latent schizophrenia through psychedelics. But, the idea that psychedelics cause mental illness in those that otherwise would have been fine is not supported by scientific evidence[1][2], only anecdotes.

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/no-link-found-between-psychedeli...

[2] http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/03/28/lsd-and-schizophreni...

[3]
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I'm not sure either, but I believe Kemono refers to animal faces (and there seems to be some reference to the anime series, 'Kemono Friends'?) and Puyo may refer to the puzzle game series Puyo Puyo, where 'puyo' pop when you place 4 or more of them adjacently.
Is there oppression of human rights by the central government? Is there discrimination against catalans ?
In other words, what's broken that secession would fix?
Interesting. How did you do signed code reviews?