skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat disappointed, since I don't like wine either and I was hoping this could help explain why, but my tastes seem to be diametrically opposed to the author's. I even like strong alcohol of other sorts- I've recently grown to like whiskey, since >10% beer is hard to find in my area.

The frustrating thing is that there is a very definite aspect of wine that makes me dislike it, but as far as I've been able to determine that same taste doesn't appear anywhere else, so I've never been able to describe to anyone what that is.

The science here makes me wonder, though, if someday someone will popularize a quantitative framework for people's differing tastes. Imagine an app where you take a picture of your tongue and it categorizing your taste-sensitivity on however many fronts, and recommends a restaurant. Or via a genetic test- 23andme could pay for some of its customers to take Dr Marks' taste-test-battery, and work out the correlations. People love to be categorized, and here's a way to do it that's directly impactful on their everyday lives (and in particular, on a social aspect of their lives.)
> packets must arrive within ~40us (that's us, not ms) of their allotted time, something very difficult to reach in software. (I will be talking about this at demuxed next week...)

Maybe in Ethernet-land, but this is trivially achievable (actually exceeded by more than an order of magnitude) with off-the-shelf Infiniband gear that is available for peanuts these days. Actually it's close to two orders of magnitude if you want to shell out for the latest gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand#Performance
Tall order considering that entire papers are written on the subject, but here's some reading for you: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=effects+of+immigration+w...

Keep in mind I did a degree in economics, so I studied things like this for thousands of hours...

That being said, it's a pretty basic concept that increasing the labour pool will contract wages, especially in the short run. Long term effects are generally positive, but it can take a generation or two, and for those people who are affected by the negative consequences, it's not always of much solace.
I think you underestimate the role culture plays in preferences. I don't doubt you can "maximize the experience", but you can do that with lots of things, for a lot less money. I could obsess over the exact balance and handle shape of the mug I drink my morning coffee out of if I wanted, to give the maximum pleasurable feeling on my hand as I lift the cup to my lips.
I have thought about this a bit lately. Social media can be a very convenient way to keep up to date with people, and to allow people to keep up to date with you. But it has real costs.

I abandoned my Facebook account many years ago and refuse to set up a new one. As a result, it is difficult for my children to interact with me. They post their lives on Facebook, but they don't open that up to the public. So only specific Facebook accounts get to see what they share. That excludes me.

I have to open myself to Facebook to see their content. Alternatively, they could set up non-Facebook websites and "blog" their lives there. But that is harder than just using Facebook, and gets really hard if you want to keep it viewable only by select people. And then I would have to set up an account on their server to be able to see their content. Multiply that by all the people I would have to set up an account with and it's obviously unworkable pretty quickly.

I still hate Facebook, and refuse to set up an account with them. But I recognize that the alternatives are not pretty.

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Do you two understand securities laws?

So properly registered startup securities cannot be traded on properly registered securities exchanges.

If they are not properly registered and only sold to accredited investors, then they can only trade OTC to accredited investors.

The costs of registering to trade on properly registered securities exchanges are too high for startups.

The ongoing costs of transparency for publicly traded securities are too high for startups.

Registered broker-dealers that are able to trade properly registered tokenized assets do not currently exist, even if a tokenized offering were to properly register as a publicly tradable security.

Currently, people are avoiding all of this and get tradable assets with near-zero compliance costs. The rebuttal isn't "just register", it is "just register at a very high cost and lose all the benefits you already enjoyed at a lower cost and lose every possible service provider for the foreseeable future"
Yet they are also people too, regardless of how disgusting their beliefs.

Edit: I should've probably known better than to reply to an obvious straw man. Arguing that responding to nazis with violence isn't necessarily the best thing is hardly advocating "tolerance"
There are fairly powerful portable solar cells these days -- I have one that can put out 5V 2.something A, so it can easily charge an iPad in full sun, or a smartphone in overcast weather.
it's interesting to see the react-native detractors in this thread vs an Ask HN thread we had about react-native a couple of weeks ago. I wonder how many people could really determine an app's usage of RN in a blind taste test. could the disdain for js the language and bad memories of wrapped webviews be bleeding over? in our experience RN has offered a ton of leverage for a small team, and js makes a fine target to transpile to (we use cljs).
Catalonia: debunking dishonest arguments in favour of the bogus “referendum”
Ask HN: Recommended CRM solution for a SaaS startup?
Like every startup our customer dwfinition is pretty flexable at this point, so any recommendation on lean and efficient CRM proccess is appriciated
A great article, but the author is downplaying the severity of the issue. The way we approve of education institutions is through accreditation reviews. The explicit purpose of this review is that the institution being evaluated functions like those of its peers. It is the reason that the job market has gone through several systemic changes in the last fifty years and the education system has not. Having had the privilege of knowing some of the executives at very powerful institutions who have tried to change this, I can tell you that decades of concerted effort have made microscopic dents. The accreditation process is the enemy of innovation in education.
I hear your frustration. It does indeed sound like your case is completely different from the article in two big ways. First, as you’ve noted, you aren’t whoever you are standing up for, and so knowing you doesn’t change people opinion of the other.

Secondly, it sounds like you are trying really hard to convince them, and failing. The man in the article was not trying to convince at all at first, but rather to understand. Oddly enough, working hard to understand someone else is one of the first steps to their allowing themselves room to understand your views.
Immigration does not lower wages, and is not a net drain on economies in general and certainly not on the uk economy. Outsourcing certainly has had an impact, along with globalisation, the internet, and as will robotics in the decades to come (a lot of jobs will melt into air in the coming decades, not stolen by foreigners but simply cease to exist).

We are certainly seeing the results of upheaval and change leading to widespread malaise, unrest, rising nationalism and xenophobia, and I fear leading to another world war, for war is the logical endpoint of blaming foreigners, competitive devaluation and beggar thy neighbor economics.

I would urge you to study the demographics of voters in the referendum though, they were very mixed, the only clear split was urban (lots of immigration) pro-eu vs suburban/rural pro-exit. I’d strongly dispute that Brexit was some sort of rational revolt of the working class (who mostly live in cities) against an invasion of polish plumbers as you describe.

Like America First it will not end well, and certainly won’t help structural problems in the economy or dying industries. That’s a matter of National govs disgracefully neglecting their population, and as we’ll see, nothing to do with immigration.
>>What I have an aversion to is people who want to talk endlessly about wine

Do these people actually exist or have you just heard about them on TV and over-match any time you hear some one talk about wine for more than 30 seconds?
I used to be the same way. If you have the stomach for it though, I urge you to pick up a $10 Malbec or carmenere. The flavor is much more distinct (and spicy).

I find they go great with even heavy, spicy meals.
> How could anybody hate me when they didn’t even know me?

That's an easy question to answer. People are not islands. They conform to stereotypes, culture, so at least to some degree one can group people into common patterns of behaviors and values. And people can hate some of those patterns.
Maybe when bar fights went out of style? For many of us, all fighting is bad, other than in the military or maybe a boxing ring.

I wonder how much of this debate about "punching a Nazi" boils down to attitudes about fighting in general?

Here's a interesting essay about the reality of bar fights:
http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2014/01/21/lessons-from-bar-fi...
No, it doesn't work for us the same way. You can't go out and befriend Klansmen and expect that to have such an effect on them because they'll just think you're one of them.

I have family like that too, and the only thing to do is be very clear you have zero tolerance for any kind of racism. Even the small kinds. You can still be kind to them once they understand that, though. I still have these debates with some of my closest family members.

The trick is not to let it get wrapped up in politics. I have an uncle who is deeply anti-liberal and who thinks I am a liberal. He's always trying to bait me into a political discussion and I just don't respond to that.
She listed major staples of my diet and I still can't finish a glass of wine.
I can't even read the map on my phone - on both the PDF and the website, the text is too low res to read. I have no idea whether this is a problem with my phone or the content (I'm on wifi so it's not my ISP "helping"), but this is a constant frustration.
Isn't this very different online versus offline? I can belive it working offline on a one-to-one basis, but not online.
I feel like this article told more about the people reading and writing at The NewYorker than anything else. The lexical field is fascinating.
Orange juice clearly doesn't go with food in the same way that wine does.
Yes, and that's kind of the whole point - the world is better off if everyone is able to write their own code implementing better, more efficient data storage without worrying if someone else might have done that before them. It's important to note that patent laws are created not for the benefit of creators but for the benefit of the general public - the public gives creators "temporary monopolies" only because and only to the extent that these protections are expected to provide appropriate incentives to the creators that benefit everyone else in the long run. The question is about which particular cases warrant the state to enforce an artificial monopoly, a restriction on what technology others (including other creators) are able to use in their business. If a particular protection gives no benefit to the wider community, that protection shouldn't exist.

Patents solve a problem where inventors might reasonably choose not to distribute improved products widely because they're unable to ship them without revealing how they work. We want them to sell these inventions to wide markets without delay, so issuing time-restricted patents is useful to achieve that goal. As other posters stated, shrinkwrap software has the same issue (so patents might be useful for this scenario) but SAAS does not; you're going to use the brilliant and truly novel idea for efficient data storage anyway, and if other people would be restricted from doing so then that makes the society to use inferior technology with no good reason.
is this something like includeos
http://www.includeos.org/
There is one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it[1]. The trouble is that it's steeped in 1990s assumptions about system administration, user knowledge, and deployment environments.

[1]: You put the third party code in /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages.
4 forms. Trade secrets are intellectual property generally managed by state law.
I really resonates with this, I've never thought of my own approach in words, but this would be it. Stressful but rewarding. Just don't crack amirite
It's interesting to me that you find celery tasteless. I can't stand the flavor myself but I'll eat Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower all day long.

Not to mention wasabi, horseradish and other pungent foods.

Can I ask how you feel about garlic?
That is precisely my point
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Link to the paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B38Is3bZ7gigVUtfTW9nTGc3T2c...
> Do you mean your cravings were gone? I don't think one ever fully heals from an addiction. You're still an addict, just not one who's practicing their addiction (giving in to it). That is precisely where professional guidance can aid one.

I did not need to resist cravings, because for a few weeks after the trip I had no cravings to consume sugar, caffeine, alcohol or cannabis (or indeed, overeat, watch porn, masturbate etc).

The temptation was gone, because the cravings arose from a desire to escape emotional suffering, and for a time after my trip there was no emotional suffering: there was peace such as I had never felt before.

Does that make sense? I cannot speak of chemical / physiological addictions, I haven't experienced those.

A few weeks after the trip, because I had not built up the ability to resist cravings, and due to chaos in my life the emotional suffering returned, I eventually gave in to my cravings.

Now, a few years later, I no longer consume sugar, caffeine, alcohol or cannabis: after years of struggling to quit them, gradually reducing my consumption over time, the cravings have reduced too, and it takes less and less "effort" to do the right thing.

I'm also working on emotional healing (I believe the emotional healing experienced on psychedelics can be done manually, it's just more difficult to do it on purpose than spontaneously during a "bad trip") which has had the result of my impulsivity and escapism being significantly reduced: there is less and less to run away from.

For some context: Four years ago during a time of great distress, I would get high literally every 2 hours during the day. If I went too long without, an overwhelming sense of terror would return and I would be unable to do anything productive.

Nowadays I count "time since I last got high" in months, rather than minutes.

Current nemeses: high-carb diet, internet surfing.

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Regarding expectations: I agree. This shit can really fuck you up. I had epileptic seizures for the first time following my trip. Not for the faint of heart, or those with mental illness in the family!

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I can't edit my comment anymore, but I now realize that it does not address the immense dangers.

BTW, my trip was not Ayahuasa but a combination of LSA and cannabis, which turned out to be a very dangerous combination. I included my experience here because from what I've heard from friends who have done Ayahuasca, my experience was extremely similar, both subjectively and in its consequences.

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PSA: Weed is a psychedelic, can awaken latent mental illness

I would like to add that cannabis can be very dangerous, given the right (wrong!) brain chemistry. The paranoia commonly associated with cannabis can develop into full-blown psychosis if you have the DNA for it. Even after years of smoking with apparently no problems!

I know multiple people who have ended up in jail and mental institutions this way. Buyer beware!

Best wishes
3 buck chuck is not the same wine each time. It is whatever is surplus and they can get for a low price (and meets whatever their quality standards are), and sometimes it is the exact same wine that goes for $40 or more. They sell it off for cheap to reduce supply to maximize profits. I know a "wine snob" from Napa -- he actually was paid well to write about wine -- and he explained in detail, and mentioned that there were lots of "in the know" wine lovers who would go to Trader Joe's, buy a bottle, take it to their car and taste it to decide if they wanted to go back in and grab 20 bottles.
This article is about the DailyStormer. They proudly called themselves nazis.
Are you accounting for confirmation bias in your anecdotal experiences?

There is no "western" perspective, there is only reality and falsehoods. Whilst I am a proponent of meditation and mental health, I don't think prana or qi exist as real physical entities in the real world because their presence has not been detected in reproducible, controlled settings.

There are many religions in the world, all of them false when scrutinized through the lens of science and reason. The whole concept of life energy is not grounded in reality based on the available evidence (or lack of evidence).
this is equivocation.

nazis were a german political group. they were a member of the axis forces which fought and lost against the allied forces in ww2. that group doesn't exist anymore.

so-called "nazis" that people refer to today are largely just people subjected to lazy labeling.
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> github link

I'll get it working shortly, but it is a static website and all the functionality is in a single page ("ga.html"), so "view source" will show you everything that github will.

> which properties should be read-only

When I say "properties", I'm talking about the Google Analytics accounts, properties & views. You don't want to leave a PC/TV logged in with admin rights to GA, so the sensible thing is to add a new user just for the PC/TV with read access to the GA stuff you want to show.

I sure hope people aren't looking in my awful source to try to do anything.
If the criterion for helping someone is "has contributed to the economy", doesn't that exclude children, the handicapped, the unemployed in recession areas, and many other groups without work history?
In a country where a law that is only supported by 17% of the public easily gets through the House and only fails in the Senate by a single vote.
There are three things here that you've intertwined.

Process -- This is the science of creating circuits on silicon wafers using lithography, etching, and doping. There is a large body of knowledge around the physics involved here. Materials science and Physics and Silicon Fabrication are all good places to start.

Chip Design -- This is creating circuits which are run through a tool that can lay them out for you automatically. HDLs teach you to describe the semantics of the hardware in such a way that a tool can infer actual circuits. Generally a solid understanding of digital logic design is a pre-requisite, and then you can learn the more intimate details of timing closure, or floor planning, signal propagation and tradeoffs of density and speed.

IP -- Clearly all of the intellectual property law is a huge body but most of the IP around chips is patent law (how the chips are made) and copyright law (how they are laid out).
> I think a large number of the people protesting on the other side are not neo Nazis and white supremacist

Who wears swastika flags, shows the raised arm salute or marches with robe-wearing KKK members or globally known right-wing extremists, deserves to be called a white supremacist, and deserves all consequences that come with being a neo-Nazi.
Given the article this basically comes down to "We don't know".
It is not being stated that he supports the same views. Only on some points they align.

For example, some of the far right such as DS are anti-capitalist. We wouldn't say that anti-capitalist are far right, although some far right groups align on that topic.
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I'm not taking a stance on the CEO's actions.

Merely disagreeing with the claim that Daily Stormer are not nazis. They are.
I wouldn't describe celery as practically tasteless. I enjoy many vegetables but I can't eat anything with even a hint of celery in it.
> Do you think an expensive restaurant should be able to deny service to a guy who comes in shirtless even though it is completely legal for him to walk around like that?

If the restaurant benefits from special safe harbor exemptions to food safety laws because they have so many customers from all walks of life that they supposedly can't spare the resources to play hygiene police while serving everyone on time, then no.
No. Trade secrets can be taken to your grave.

Patents are in the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8:

The Congress shall have power ... To promote the Progress
of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times
to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries.

Rights to their Writings means copyright. Rights to their Discoveries means patent. Promote the Progress means incentivize.
Capitalism, part 2: Status as Currency
I think abandoning ecclesiastical Latin terms for things is kind of random, and isn't usually very correlated with religiosity. (If people actually wanted to be secular about it, they would nowadays say "era volgare", "era comune", "era comum", etc.)

Edit: for example Portuguese has retained numbered weekdays (like Hebrew and ecclesiastical Latin practice), while Spanish has gone along with the widespread European trend of using the classical Roman names. In Spanish the first work day is the Moon's Day, while in Portuguese it's Second Day (based on the Biblical second day of creation).

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

I don't think we can read any huge theological or cultural implications into this difference, though.
i suppose it helps that nazi party was abolished in 1945...
> But using street violence against street violence only serves to destroy rule of law

Which rule of law? A state that outright finances and supports right-wing terrorists (e.g. NSU), actively looks away when Nazis are terrorizing entire neighborhoods while at the same time heavily repressing anti-fascist activity does not deserve to be called a state with a "rule of law".

As for the street murders and street clashes, most of the time these were provoked by the SA marching and rioting through worker hoods (e.g. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-Aufmarsch_in_Braunschweig).
>I've tried, in earnest, to apply the same "killing them with kindness" philosophy to folks to people who hold abhorrent views towards groups that aren't like me, and it's failed miserably.

Perhaps it is because their racism isn't motivated by hatred, an intense feeling that all members of some racial group are uniformly odious, but by reason, an accurate judgement of a group tendency. It would be absurd to try to kill a machine learning algorithm that accurately predicts a racial difference in recidivism or default rates from non-racial data using kindness. Similarly it is absurd to try and convince racist people who aren't bottom of the barrel scum like those featured in these articles to renounce their views by being a visible outlier.

I'd like to read an article about someone trying to convince Curtis Yarvin, Jared Taylor, or Curt Doolittle to renounce their views by being kind to them. They are always picking the low-hanging fruit.
What did you learn about them?
Totally agree. You can make distributed apps that uses HTTP. The IPFS project have interesting ideas about immutable links to data.