skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there are genetic components (and various other things that can be physically explained) to taste, that's true of a great many preferences, that is, those that we use the word "taste" to figuratively describe.

But their are also psychological elements to it, many of which are cultural. So you might like wine, or speed metal, or gangsta rap, or Tolkien, or caviar, or saunas, or any number of other things through a complex combination of genetics and the culture you've been exposed to.
Lotta truth in that article.

The author smeared Hef with the same brush used to dabble a little on Cosby, Trump and Clinton. You've got to admire that-- fair and balanced.
I'm 32 years old and I hate eating vegetables (with the exception of lettuce and celery, since they're practically tasteless). I've sheepishly described myself as a "kids menu eater", though I wonder if perhaps there's a biological excuse for my aversion. I also hate spicy foods... maybe I'm a supertaster? Then again, I like salty foods, so maybe not...
Firstly I'm not a supporter of this Nationalist America First agenda, though the fact that simply because I'm willing to non-judgmentally listen to their side and hear their complaints and say yeah, those things are a problem causes you to react with hostility kind of shows my point well, so thanks.

Secondly, this is not "hurt feelings," not that something -just- being emotionally abusive and nothing else should be an excuse for pretending it isn't a problem, but we'll go with that anyways. No, this is the fact that the middle state's economies have been struggling for years, and that was before the 2008 housing crash, which the cities and coasts have recovered fairly well from, but has left everyone else largely in the cold. Now, it's true that a lot of those issues can be fairly directly traced to the local governments and their bad decisions; some cities, for example Chattanooga, have done extremely well at modernizing. But to pretend that the constant drumbeat of the culture that being in the flyover states (itself a term of derision) is terrible, that everything they believe is dumb, that they're uneducated prudes and all the rest of it has caused an incredible cultural scar between the rural and urban portions of the nation. And successes like Chattanooga are in spite of, not because of, that divide.
> at best they can make them shut up for a while.

Let me fix this for you: "at best they can prevent the Nazi from threatening, punching or murdering members of minorities, while he's in hospital".

Which is enough for me. The ultimate target of Nazis is to eliminate all non-white, non-Christian people, and every Nazi must be treated accordingly. The world already saw once what happens when you don't prevent Nazis at all costs, we don't need to repeat history.

> If instead the Antifa would attempt to befriend that person and to have good faith dialogues with them, they would at least have the potential to actually reduce racism, and reduce hatred on both sides.

This strategy only works on people not dragged into a fully closed world view composed of conspiracy theories (of the sort of "George Soros fabricated 9/11", Flat Earth and other stuff). Given the immense power of Facebook filter bubbles, where people end up with every post on their timeline being either fake news, propaganda or conspiracy crap, it's next to impossible to counter this. You can't counter 10 hours crap per day on Facebook with maybe a couple hours talking - it might have worked in the past, but no way today.
Shooting, shooting, Nazis is one of the things that Americans spent 60 years lionizing, bragging about, celebrating, etc.

How did punching a Nazi once in a while stop being great?
Show HN: Genetically Evolving Website
"I started thinking about other foods I didn’t like. Capers. Kimchi. Cloves. Pepper. Kale. Coffee was drinkable—in fact, positively delicious—only with milk and sugar. Seltzer required enough discreet mouth-sloshing to subdue the effervescence. And I couldn’t imagine why anyone would eat a radish unless paid. It was more like a bee sting than a vegetable."

That's too bad! These spices and foods are all among my favorites. I'm curious what flavors the author enjoys most given her taste receptor situation.

"I dislike—in some cases, hate, hate, hate!—many fruits, and had not eaten a peach or a banana since I was a child, though I had smelled them, with displeasure ..."

This wasn't addressed in the article, but are bitterness receptors involved with tasting fruits? Although it seems more likely the 23andMe test doesn't identify taste variations that involve those flavors. Or maybe those dislikes are just unrelated to biology.
Google, Facebook may have to reveal deepest secrets
The main barrier to more psychedelic research is funding / $$ - far more than anything else.

In the US, access to research funding is a far larger issue than scheduling. The main benefit of rescheduling would likely be through its indirect benefits on access to funding.

Source: I’ve talked with multiple researchers who are studying psychedelics.
They are cheating legally (as opposed to Apple). Yes we should change this, problem is that Ireland and Luxembourg will oppose any changes as they make loads of money from this system.

PS I fixed my comment, I thought it was Ireland but in this case it was Luxembourg.
Now go write about how developers substitute planning and architecture with
testing, because it's common on the other side of the fence to dismiss
designing with words "tests will be the first API user".
In the refactoring section, it says:

Note that if you don’t have if __name__ == '__main__',
the code won’t run anything since the function is
initialized but not executed

Isn't this backwards? That test isn't required to make the code run, it prevents the code from running if the file is imported as a module.
I don't agree with your analysis that copyright is too weak.

Copyright was helpful in an age of boxed products, but is now largely irrelevant in an age of SaaS.

But in an era of SaaS, trade secrets law seems like more than enough to defend a company's IP.

If you invent a new data storage system, as another comment suggests, you can protect it quite effectively with trade secrets if you start a data storage SaaS.

IANAL, but trade secrets law also seems to provide some protection against reverse engineering even if you ship a boxed product: http://cdfirm.com/pitfalls-to-the-defense-of-reverse-enginee... Though it's not iron clad and varies by jurisdiction.

Personally, I'm much more comfortable with trade secrets law being iron-clad, rather than patents existing.
True, but you also have to avoid spending more money preventing fraud than would actually have been lost to fraud. This is a huge problem in, for example, welfare/public support programs, e.g. Reagan's fear of imaginary "welfare queens".
Almost everyone would agree at least some things should be illegal to express or share, like child pornography or calls to physical violence.

Human rights end at where someone else’s rights begin. It’s obvious following from this that perpetrating physical violence on the innocent is wrong and must be stopped. But what of people who glorify, encourage or publicly plan to do such a thing? Do you always have to wait until people translate toxic words into toxic actions?
Antifa and Nazis are both extreme fringe groups and not representative of a majority of society.

It would behoove everyone to think about that when reading about them; both extremes receive an amount of attention disproportionate to their actual amount of influence.

And by punching the Nazi, now it's a major news story with two "equal" sides instead of a footnote about a crazy dude in the subway.
And there are even more categories really.

- Overweight, unfit, and sitting/standing for long periods.

- Unfit and sitting/standing for long periods but not overweight.

- Sitting/standing for long periods but not overweight or unfit.

If obesity was the only health-related issue you could just eat less. If Obesity and unfitness were the only issues you could just get some exercise outside of work hours. And if all three are an issue you'd want to keep active as much as possible during work (although not too much... because physical labour jobs hurt people's health too).
As it happens, it is also the rare story on the subject that plays exactly to the opinion that the HN community already holds; namely that it is more effective to engage even the most vile theories in measured debate, and that any attempt to reduce the publicity that, for example, racists get will only make their ideology spread faster.

The irony being that sometimes people opposing that theory are to be found at the bottom of the threat, flagged and dead. But I'm assuming that to be the work of people agreeing with them, trying to empower them.

Meanwhile, a writer as mainstream as Ta-Nehisi Coates (https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/) can write all the #1 bestsellers he likes on the subject, but is considered to be "flamebait" here.
> Firstly I'm not a supporter of this Nationalist America First agenda

What a world we live in, where a government putting their own people first is considered a bad or controversial thing...
I'm sorry, but self taught or otherwise, learning is always an 'ongoing process.' Learning is never complete, cartography, coding, or anything else.
It is exceedingly common that a trip will alter a person's perceptions permanently. Such changes likely were the direct result of having taken the substance, and wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Without knowing your specific circumstances, another thing to consider is that it's possible that didn't have a scientific approach to measure the precise mass of LSD that you ingested for any or all of your trips. Perhaps you were "lucky" in the sense that you never (inadvertently) received an extra strong dose. And, your biochemistry might be more tolerant to LSD.

Dosage affects everyone differently, hence the current wisdom to play it safe by scaling up dosage systematically.
I once talked to a guy working in the local government responsible for all-things-roads in a town in Germany. He showed me some maps and building plans of bridges and told me that these maps/plans were actually highly classified in the cold war.

Makes sense to me that the soviets collected everything.
I almost upvoted this, but then I realized, with dawning horror, that you might actually be serious.
I hadn't considered that. Will definitely look into some other sort of indicator.
Yeah well. Constitution aren't that sacred https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Belgium?wpro...
I don't think I'm a supertaster because I like wine, capers, black coffee, and, in fact, most "strong" things. But I don't like coriander/cilantro. I'm one of those people for whom it tastes like soap. I had also heard of a thing called a "highly sensitive person" and I would rather attribute my dislike of coriander to that. I just notice that, in general, I am far more sensitive than many people. I hear things, see things, and taste things that others don't. And, like the author of this article, I don't say it to brag because it's actually very often a liability. I can be irritated by something which nobody else will notice.
also really fresh stuff? Straight from someone's backyard?
why the downvotes? the distributed, permissionless transactions seems to be a design goal for cryptocurrencies. if so they are perfect for dystopia given some mass communication mean exists, even something like ham radio will do.
So it is A/B testing with random candidates? Simple, but promising idea.
But I think flavour is an outlier here.

If I like different music to you, I think very little of the difference is in the ears and almost all of it is in the mind.

One reason why I think this matters is that the brain is mutable, and it's very likely that I could learn to like a kind of music that I don't like at the moment. Maybe I could also learn to like a flavour that I dislike at the moment, but I probably couldn't learn to care much about a flavour that I can barely detect.
When I was a kid I used to play with "Creepy Crawlers" which was a form of liquid PVC that you'd put on a mini hot plate, pour into a mold, and as it cured it would give off a smell that I always remembered. So as an adult I find that certain wines give off that same smell. I've tried to explain this to people who know wine but so far no one has had that "aha!" moment, I assume it's some type of long-chain polymer formed by the phenols in the grape skins.
> The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution says the government cannot make laws that prohibit free speech.
It doesn't say that members of civil society must tolerate any and all speech without consequence or pushback.

That's just shamelessly trying to get something in through the back door when it won't fit in through the front door. "Oh, the _government_ isn't oppressing you but they'll just look the other way while businesses and vigilantes do it to you instead. nudge, nudge, wink, wink"

And what will you do when the day comes that your political opponents come to power (elections haven't been that favorable to the left recently, in case you hadn't noticed) and find you've left them this nice, neat, and completely "legal" mechanism to wreck your lives?
Like what happened in lord of the flies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
> Software is not math! [...] its like saying all biology is just complex physics.

I hear you, and I agree with your points. But this general idea isn't exactly what I was talking about, and I don't draw such a hard line, personally. I did say that software was both method and apparatus, and I feel like you might have overlooked the apparatus part. Math has been normally viewed as only method and no apparatus. But this all really depends on what software and what math we're talking about.

I'm claiming that for the purposes of evaluating patent criteria, it's becoming more difficult over time to draw a line between math and software, not less, and I stand by that. It's possible to use math for what should be patentable inventions, and it's possible to use software to represent mathematical statements that should not be patentable.

Software to evaluate PDEs by numerical method, or to integrate expressions symbolically, is hard to say it's not math. Software to send email is harder to say it's math, except that unlike biology, we know the mathematical details of every step along the way, whether it's character encodings or network routing or spam detection or UI.

The distance between software and pure math in my mind is a lot shorter than the distance between biology and physics. But I agree that there is distance in both cases. The argument that software is math is (I think) easier to make, due to Turing and to the fact that we turn our code explicitly into binary math and CPUs only consist of arithmetic operations on numbers. The abstraction doesn't yet seem big enough to separate them.
Maybe you are talking to others, not me, but I'm not "still exploring my preferences" regarding wine. I honestly don't care...there are probably 10,000 things that I would rather spend my time exploring compared to wine. I enjoy wine 99% for the buzz, and if want something that genuinely pleases me as it goes down the hatch, and I'm not trying to impress anyone with my sophisticated tastes, my first choice would have to be a combination of whole milk and Nesquik powder.
As a computer scientist, software absolutely is math. Software is not bound to CPUs/etc.; you can evaluate algorithms by hand with a pen and paper if you want to, and you will get the same answers (maybe more slowly, but likewise if you use a slower CPU or a non-optimizing compiler). Lambda calculus is without any doubt a field of math; any code can be represented by equivalent lambda expressions and you can convert to lambda expressions automatically (a common compiler strategy for functional languages).

Yes, C and Python do not look like the expressions in a typical algebra textbook -- but algebra does not look like calculus or geometry either. Representation of your algorithm is irrelevant; as you say, it is the wrong level of abstraction.

Oh, also, in case you were thinking that there is some important difference between software and math, here is something to think about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

(Executive summary: all (terminating) algorithms are proofs of mathematical statements.)
This really will be political and I’m sure get me downvoted to hell & back.

It’s amazing that the old political guard still haven’t got this. Look at Spain today. What do you think would work better - hitting them with rubber bullets and batons or something more loving like sending people down to make it “Hug a Spaniard” day and making the Catalan people feel closer to their fellow countrymen?
The anti-patent hate group at the EFF is at it again. If they think a patent is "obvious", let them file a post-grant objection.
A society beyond consumerism
Cheers, had not heard of pharmahuasca before.

> Ayahuasca has a lot of bad side effects such as vomiting, sea legs, and diarrhea

Those are side effects which can occur; not side effects which will occur. Ie. possible side effects.

Its anecdotal and merely one experience as well, but I had no problem with diarrhea or vomiting. Sea legs, yes, which I knew beforehand. Hence I made sure I was able to lie down (which I did).
What makes you think they'd be more useful than gold in such a situation? In much the same way the have no direct use, and their use requires wasting scarce resources (energy, bandwidth) on performing transactions.
How about we stop building apps for refugees and help our local poor who at least have contributed in the past to the local economy instead?
Although the difference isn't as big as you think: when you buy from an ISP, you typically pay for a router (and space/power to host it), a $250/mo cross-connect fee, two ports if you want reliability, and you have a >2x unit price increase just from running a port at <50% average utilization. But yeah, it's still cheaper if you have >1Gbps of traffic.
A succesful Git branching model considered harmful (2016)
You seem to conflate 'democratic', 'legal' and 'desired'.

Something can be democratic and illegal - when laws are enacted to prevent certain applications of democracy, as it appears to be the case here. Something can also be democratic and undesired - many on here that Brexit is an example of that.

But words have meanings. A referendum if held under basic voting and independence rules is by definition democratic. Even if it concerns unilateral secession.
I don't think this is true. You can disagree with a person without having to make every effort to signal they are evil. If you do this it just becomes group a vs group b. We like to form groups and defend our own instinctually. But our societies have grown in a way that means these instincts no longer help us but hinder us. Only when you find a way past that can you actually reason with a person.
There is nothing in the Cloudfare ToS that state that if they find the content objectionable that they can terminate the service.

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

The only way they can terminate the terms is:

"Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to: (a) breaches or violations of the Terms of Service or other incorporated agreements or guidelines; (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies; (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions); (d) discontinuance or material modification to the Service (or any part thereof); (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems; (f) extended periods of inactivity; (g) you have engaged or are reasonably suspected to be engaged in fraudulent or illegal activities; (h) having provided false information as part of your account; (i) having failed to keep your account complete, true, and accurate; (j) any use of the Service deemed at Cloudflare’s sole discretion to be prohibited; (k) use of fraudulent payment methods; and/or (l) nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with Cloudflare.com and associated Services."
Things settle down after marauders. Then you bring out the coins.
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I got the reference, but alas "Queen" was wrong, had to type queen (all lowercase) after seeing your answer here. Ruh.
I've tried this, and sometimes it's worked. When it has, it's usually when I'm part of the group that's hated by someone. As in this article, or in my personal experience talking with people biased against atheists or liberals, I was able to make headway by demonstrating that I am not the idea of what they hate.

I have had absolutely no progress with this when talking about homophobia, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, or anti-immigrant biases. I'm a straight white male with no Jewish heritage in sight and an nth generation German-Irish American. 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. The cop-out from the other party is that being liberal, I'm brainwashed or following my mainstream media marching orders or something to that effect. That my impression and my testimony that black people aren't lazy, that women are not less capable managers and programmers, et cetera., is irrelevant to the person I'm arguing with. I'm not black/Latino, I'm not a woman, I'm not able to demonstrate those things in a way that is convincing.

This is deeply disconcerting to me, because it seems allyship helps in some cases (LGBT movement) but from testimony I've heard at conferences, the best way to change a homophobic or transphobic person's mind is to first, be their friend or family member, and second, come out as LGBT. The monumental success of acceptance of the LGBT movement seems to be almost entirely from encouraging people to come out to their friends and family members. Without downplaying it too much, I think that the language of allyship is primarily helpful at convincing people in power that they can be part of that movement, but it wasn't useful in changing people's minds.

My question to Hacker News is: why should the burden be on me, someone who is opposed to the KKK and the resurgent white nationalism in this country, to befriend people? And is there any evidence (or personal testimony from other commenters) that this sort of thing works when not part of the targeted minority?

Because I am exhausted. Again, I want to reiterate: "killing with kindness" was tremendously successful for me when I was dealing with people that didn't like some group identity I shared: liberalism, secularism. But it utterly fails when I try to talk to say, a racist friend of a family member who calls Colin Kaepernick "caperdink" and Barack Obama "obummer". Kindness doesn't seem to work when as a white man, they expect me to be kind.
It's not awful, but there is room simplify it and tune it for your own needs. Using master as the develop branch is a fairly simple and sensible one. Most simpler workflows are basically git-flow trimmed down in some way. In a big team, I do like to keep release branches to isolate the polishing of the release from other development work. (Without it, teams tend to have a code freeze, which is unnecessary with a release branch.)