skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've experienced a trauma-induced anxiety disorder and mdma experiences. You seem to reach a certain level of insight but then suddenly turn strangely dismissive.

> the high you get is a distraction from the pain you are feeling

Sort of. The feeling is of an assurance, a joyful security that releases you to be able to confront the pain without (as much) fear. There's also a shift in perspective that let's you know that a different way of feeling is possible. That's surprisingly powerful.

> are you just finally looking at what you didn't want to all these years?

Yes, exactly this.

> Do you need to take psychedelics to look?

Perhaps not, but anecdotal evidence and a growing amount of research suggests it helps tremendously, especially in cases where it is very hard for people to look at themselves whilst sober.

> I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that psychedelics was just a fad.

I don't see how this follows from anything you've said.
Check the dictionary...there is no multilevel marketing happening there. They don't even have 1 level since there isn't even a referral program. It's a social network, of course he will talk about the network effect.
Are you sure about the doses? Doesn't sound overly therapeutic to me tbh
> What does it matter if somebody genuinely holds heinous views?

"I think you should be murdered. Don't worry, that's just my opinion. But I'll be voting for the 'murder people like you' candidate at the midterms. Do you like my 'Death To The Inferior' lawn sign?"

(OK, so that's the extreme version, but "I think you should be denied a particular kind of medical treatment even if it results in your death" is practically mainstream policy, as is "some kinds of humans are intrinsically inferior" and "people should be deported to countries which will murder them")

Edit: I literally tabbed out to twitter and found another example immediately, https://stv.tv/news/international/1399390-model-targeted-by-...
I applied for Google ~8 years ago and they required that I send them a copy of my transcripts.
Little Schemer is worth reading if only to see a different approach to teaching. I really hope I can find time to read LoL.
Also, I should have been more clear. They may have requested my transcripts when I applied for security clearance.

I'm not even sure where my physical diploma is. I'm sure it's in a box somewhere.
This would be the ideal situation. It would require the capability for the desktop application to be able to restore encrypted data from a USB drive, but it would be a good midpoint between #2 and #4 that I think many security-conscious users would find acceptable.

Bonus points for open sourcing a tiny "backblaze decrypter" command line utility that can do this manually. Though maybe that's a stretch.
Ask HN: Will React Native be licensed under MIT or BSD+Patents?
Or is this issue solved by React being licensed under MIT?
Stick `po $arg1` in your exception breakpoint and it will print the exception (well, for Obj-C exceptions; I don't remember offhand how to look at C++ exceptions since I so rarely deal with them).
There are actually a completely different set of royalties payed to the performer vs. the songwriter.
"Surely globalism is having some measurable impact on the capability of rural populations to find work and make a living."

Globalism has had a huge, positive impact on the ability of many rural populations to find work by allowing them to no longer be rural populations. Look at how the growth of outsourced manufacturing in China led to the largest migration in human history, as dirt-poor subsistence farmers were able to find better jobs in the cities. Similarly, European integration has allowed people from miserable places in rural Romania or Bulgaria to move to Spain or Germany for better jobs.

Even the people who stay in those rural places benefit, because prosperous people in the cities send money back home to their families. I get the impression that in the USA, however, people who have made a good life in the cities don’t send much money back home.
Bobby?
The title point out that it's "overfitted". Basically the AI just reproduced almost the exact song that it was fitted with. It's basically a failed experiment where the machine didn't learn how to make music, but insted just repeated the note that it was taught. Not the best example to show case what RNN can do for music.
The problem is the middlemen and the way the revenue is distributed through them.

Someone who produces and uploads their own video that reaches a stupidly huge number of people will make bank guaranteed, just like someone who is reaching their audience directly through Patreon.

On average you should be able to get $5-$10 per 1000 YouTube video views if it is on your own monetized channel. So that 35 million views probably generated around $245,000 dollars for someone.

Probably most of it ended up in the hands of the record label that owns the YouTube account, and by the time they finished taking their cut the final $200 made it back to the song writer.

My point is that new methods of distribution flattens the distribution and gives you the potential to make much more money if you spend the time to build your own thing rather than going with a record label.
I've been following this series and its great! I'm not saying it was a "bad thing" I'm saying it didn't meet my personal expectations for a "lets build games" book
Not typically a particularly small dose. Sometimes a fairly large dose, in the 150mg range.
Is it possible to do this, today, anywhere in the world (without getting into a study, which seems hard, especially in another country)? I am looking for help for somebody close to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863901
Amazing book to answer that question:

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff...
I agree the connection could be smoother to get there... shrugs not really something I'm spending cycles being concerned about.
I found the original graphics of this game hilarious. Ive never heard of of the game, nor would buy it, but those graphics are timeless. They got me immediately laughing.

"Another thing to kill the laughs for me was the move to better graphics."

There's something to this. Some things don't need updated graphics?
counterpoint: nuclear-armed USSR, and since then nuclear armed former Soviet Republics with poor nuclear security, definitely including Russia in this.
second-counterpoint: global warming is also bad, actually damaging the earth instead of potentially damaging it.
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Based on what? They're going for a different result than just getting high - the doses aren't likely to match what one might take in a club.
Who in the Swedish government is doing the aiming? Neither the link nor references give anything concrete, only what appears to be hype about how it could be possible.

Why would Swedes, who apparently already use low-cost bank cards and a smart phone application called Swish, want to switch to a cryptocurrency?

The reason given was to empower: 'the unbankables’ - that is people without a bank account - and those who do not own a smartphone. Bitcoin, however, has the ability to solve those problems through technology. Users do not require a bank account, and they can, in effect, spend their money anonymously.

How can those without a smartphone use a cryptocurrency?

What are the transaction fees for Bitcoin these days, vs. the cost for using a Swedish debit card or Swift?
But, it's not a sniper shot. it's a crowd of 10k people.
It's not Oracle for starters Shlomi. You should know that ...
> Does anyone actually want to program in "C++ with instance methods banned"?

Well, passing a "safe this" pointer as the first parameter to a (static) member function isn't that hard to get used to, is it?

But I don't disagree with your gist. If memory-safety is your only concern and you're not trying to salvage an existing codebase, then Rust might be a better choice.

But if you're trying to add memory safety to, say, an existing C implementation of SSL, the SaferCPlusPlus route would probably be less effort. Even when non-static member functions are banned.

> (which is most of them)

Personally, I consider RAII (deterministic destructors) an essential feature for safe, efficient programming at scale. That leaves only two choices, C++ and Rust, right?

And if there's a memory-safe C++ option available, there are some arguments for choosing it over Rust.
> I just clicked the link in the email and turned everything off.

That's false; Facebook demonstrably does not work that way at present. If you're getting Facebook emails, the unsubscribe link is scoped only to the particular type of email notification it appeared on. You'll continue to get all the others until you click unsubscribe on each individually, or go into the settings and disable email notifications totally.

Again, they use dark and overly complicated UX patterns to make difficult for people to unsubscribe totally, and this is almost certainly intentional (but deniable). I think it's totally reasonable for someone just assume Facebook's whole unsubscribe system doesn't work, as it's not really reasonable to expect people to invest the time to learn Facebook's deliberately bad unsubscribe system.
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I routinely help others with operating system upgrades in my day to day so out of necessity I upgrade as soon as a general release becomes available. It's also why I have multiple layers of backups for my data.
Yeah, things like Ellis Island and hobos riding the rails are really things we should aspire to return to. History is never wrong.
A short web page I put together with some more info: https://rollsafe.org/mdma-therapy/
Wow, you don't have any experience with these drugs, do you?
The opposite of an open source book.

I'd assume the parent is thinking of something like the "Pro Git" book, available on Github as code and licensed under creative commons. https://github.com/progit/progit2
For a moment, I thought somebody wrote an article on how to beat edw519's HN karma.
Evidence of cannibalism, violence, etc in early hominids suggests that low population numbers didn’t offer a cure to the problem. We are the problem.
By the same token, tests can only verify certain properties of a function. How could you test that a function is free from side-effects? How could you test it never returns null?
how is showing your mental prowess talking down to "them"?, that is what interviews are for, you probably don't want to work for anyone who can't stand in a room with someone smarter then them, remember everyone is different, you will only feel stupid for a little while or in a state of lacking something, but in some cultures this behavior would be taken as a direct insult, i agree with you there, but hopefully you don't live in those countries, where everything is personal and macho...
That's the point, it violates the open source definition.

See https://opensource.org/definition :

"6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

"Non-commercial" clauses by definition make something not open source.
Maybe someone can rent one for one minute and run lstopo.
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Turns out writers weren't being paid for their songs, but were being paid for a portion of the massive markup on a plastic disk. Now that the disks are gone, the value of the song is laid bare. The same has largely become true for software. How many new Lotus's or Corels are being funded today?
The dosages used in the FDA Phase 3 research are 80mg or 120mg initial dose followed by either 40mg or 60mg 1.5-2 hrs later, respectively.
Functional and Reactive Programing with Java 8
This is very interesting. Why was it thought that at-large districts would dilute the black vote? Blacks were a minority in every southern state, I believe, so naively one would think that they would stand to benefit from at-large districts and suffer from gerrymandering. The only way I can think this might not happen is if the plan were to only have a very small number of the representatives (like one) be at-large, but presumably the relevant proposal should be to have all representatives be elected on an at-large basis (?)
The devil's advocate ("advocatus diaboli") is the person who is in charge of arguing _against_ making someone a Saint of the Catholic Church.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/politics/trump-hurr...
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U.S. Retail Job Growth Turns Negative for the First Time Since 2010
"But now distribution is free, instant and global"
The only word in this phrase that's new is global. You could always go out on the corner and "instantly distribute" your music for free. What we are seeing in music is the same as we are seeing in the retail industry with Amazon. Those who own the distribution channel create the winners and the losers. With certain distributers having so much leverage they take power away from the creators. It becomes a race to the bottom.
To me, none of these seems like a real improvement, and they all have drawbacks.

Part of the reason the current layout works is because it is well chunked. You have 123 on top, 456 in the middle, and 789 on the bottom. 0 and functional keys, which often serve their own purpose, get their own row. Four sets of three, nicely like the way our minds like to remember numerals and sets of numerals. Shape-wise, 1-9 are in a square, in numerical order from left to right just like a paragraph, then the others continue the pattern to a lesser extent. This creates a very easy and forgiving mental map because it is a simple shape, the full width (more or less) of the display or device, with a familiar pattern.

In contrast, 4 of these designs have different numbers of numbers on each row, some with several different widths. You'd have to remember, was it three numbers in the first row, or two? How many in the second? Was that one with an extra button on the side?

So to start these designs don't seem to consider why the original design is successful.

Next they don't seem to include the context of the thumb thing. We often hold our phone in one hand because precision is not required for most apps, for example Instagram where all functionality is within that bottom easy zone. But other apps require precision, many games for instance, and it's likely people change their grip frequently for those contexts. Is there data on that specifically? Anecdotally I seem to remember most people I know holding with one hand and dialing with the other. So the reach of the thumb isn't as big a consideration as the designers might think.

And as others have pointed out it won't save much time, since hardly anyone uses the dialpad except the occasional adding of a contact or dialing of a conference line.

I don't mean to rag on this (rereading, I sounded more critical than I am), I think it's fun to try to redesign stuff. But it reminds me of when people try to remake the ordinary wall outlet. They start modifying it without really considering how deceptively well designed it is.
Chaos is the New Normal
The rates paid to songwriters by Spotify & Pandora are similar: about $0.00007 per play.

Source: royalty statements
I love it! Now, if it can render content where:

- HTML is replaced with S-Exprs

- CSS is replaced with lisp

- javascript is replaced with lisp

Then I think I'll be ready to join whatever cult you ever feel like starting :-)
I'm really confused. I was providing an example of why he might be using African-Americans as the subject of bigotry for such a question. Atwater happened to be a prominently involved in politics with a great deal of influence over generations of ideologues, but this [particular thread starting with my example question] has nothing to do with politics directly. I never accused you of anything, so I'm again lost.

Also, that was an either-or question...
>Somewhere along the line the presence feature got dropped, and now we're always 'Available' even when we're not.

Before you were only available when you had your PC on, you were connected to the Internet, and your IM program was open. Now you carry your perpetually running IM program in your perpetually on and perpetually connected mobile in your pocket.
I really do miss the slow and methodical Mozilla that was not out to chase the latest Chrome fad...
One of the concept mockups says patent pending. If the author is attempting to patent this I can see why he wants to re-open the established standard, but there isn't much value in changing how the buttons are arranged. And frankly, if he's trying to patent this button layout, it doesn't matter if it's any better because it will never be used due to the patent.

The future is more likely dialing by voice than it is a re-arranged button layout.
Yes: MAPS is hosting a benefit dinner for psychedelic research on Saturday (tomorrow) night http://www.maps.org/nyc2017
The Stability Mindset
First heard of this from Frank Ryans book Virolution. It explains a lot of what had been termed junk DNA previously.
How is quantifying your contribution to a company on a CV not taken positively?
Lessons Learned with DevOps Engineering Experiences
> Constantly being assailed like that takes its toll, and can lead to those people withdrawing from social media, removing their point of view from the discourse, and emboldening that of the bigots.

From my understanding of social media, it hasn't been workable trying to stop outright racist comments being hurled at those marginalized people -- so I just can't agree that not actually addressing the cause so we don't hypothetically do less damage than is actually being done right now by the problem is a workable idea. That's the kind of squeamish bargaining done by people without the stomach to tackle complex or hard topics: "Can't we all just get along without it being messy!"

Your complaint is like saying that surgery hurts, can't we just let the infection fester? The surgery doesn't even hurt as much as the infection! Why would we do that?

This is, for the moment, setting aside that we could work with technology to do better at time/place of those questions and filtering so the stream isn't overwhelming for (or even involuntarily sent to) any particular marginalized person. And so at a technical level, you're solving the problem in an inefficient way (trying to legislate human nature versus changing how we route text online).
I wish I had seen that (or if I had seen it before just remembered that) a few months ago. I work on an internal project that is core to part of our business and we are on our 3rd iteration of our platform in less than a year. An when I say iteration, I mean from scratch re-write. I will say it was probably necessary to go from the first to second platform with a re-write because the first one was half baked and didn't do much of what was needed. However, the 2nd to 3rd platform was not necessary and like Joel says, could have been refactored instead of scrapped entirely. Our QA person was super pissed too since they had put in so much time and effort into creating test cases for the platform we had and now they are completely wasted. Not to mention, because we are writing the newest iteration from scratch we missed deadlines because we had to deal with more than just business knowledge (which the team lacks as all but one of us is new to the specific domain in the health care realm) but putting together a new platform that could be extensible (just like the previous version of it was supposed to be) for future clients and outputs.
Unfortunately, that would be labeled "socialism" and made political suicide in seconds.

If you think that's true then it is, right?

I have dissident rightist view points. I hang out with dissident rightists. I've never once heard them say that UBI is worse than the status quo, and I think pairing UBI with reduced low-skill immigration is something 95% of them could get behind.

Sure, the Paul Ryans and Pelosis of the world might gnash their teeth over UBI but it's something that nearly everyone outside the status quo supports.
>there's major (valid) fear on the part of the establishment when a radically different movement picks up steam

What do you mean by "valid" here? Do you mean they are afraid for society, or themselves?
What? Piracy isn’t the evil that it used to be 15-20 years ago where people would rip cds and tapes.

Nowadays everyones music is hosted and streamed legally on youtube/spotify/play music/any generic music service. The days of people paying $20 for an album cd just to listen to the one hit they like are long gone.

If artists trust their popularity then they can pull their music from streaming services, indirectly forcing fans to purchase their albums (like taylor swift did a while ago). But even this isnt an option for smaller artists, who would just disappear into obscurity because of how over saturated the industry is.
Sometimes the second dose is lower, but this is the typical ballpark which is supported by research.
Disagree if you are going for anything senior in consulting. This stuff only sounds like meaningless buzzwords if you don't speak the language, just as all Swedish sounds to me like the Swedish chef muppet. We could similarly lol at the vagaries of techspeak or any other expert domain language with its portmanteaus and abbreviations. Non-wannabe users of this business type of language expect every word to be up for challenge and defendable, and are actually using it for concision not empty wordiness. Having said that, any expert argot does of course narrow your audience which may be undesirable and demonstrate poor communication skills (though sometimes you want to do precisely this and show you are a peer).

What is alienating to Europeans is pushier approach and assumed familiarity in US-style cold sales, in B2B particularly. And also hidden assumptions of the MBA set (e.g. grow fast and cash out, and shareholder value being the sole true purpose of being in business) - those need to be made explicit and don't always align to company missions.
FYI, your parent website refer room has an expired SSL cert which causes it to be unavailable in chrome. Looks like it expired 2 days ago.
Thanks for your detailed answer!

> In the case of the Zip file download, we chose the format of zip because both Mac and PC (the most common desktops) natively understand it with no additional software needed. In other words, if you just lost your computer, go to ANY COMPUTER ANYWHERE and you can fetch your files with a web browser. Zip preserves the file hierarchy and the last modified time, so it's "pretty good".

Security issues aside, from a space and time perspective, that's much less convenient for both you and me: it takes time and space for you to prepare the zip file, and space and time for me to save it and extract it. It would be better to install a simple client and restore the files directly into a directory. In the case of a few files, it doesn't matter much, but in the case of gigs of files, it definitely becomes a problem.

Is there any chance of you implementing a more CrashPlan-like restore option in the future?

> Longer Answer: To clarify, Backblaze produces four different products/modes for different customers with different needs and requirements. We want customers to choose what is appropriate for them. One size does not fit all:

I wish this explanation were on the Backblaze web site, because this makes it very clear. :)

Is there any chance of implementing a hybrid of #2 and #4, a client-based, zero-knowledge option? i.e. basically, CrashPlan's client in the private-key mode.

If Backblaze were to implement this, and add a Linux client, I'd seriously consider switching.

Thanks for your time.
Exactly, this is what I mean by "do not scale." It takes many years, if not decades for one to become a decent developer. We simply cannot afford this.