skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to determine the efficacy of actual MDMA (commonly available in the 90s) vs what is referred to as 'Molly' today...

The issue is that they may or may not be actual MDMA - and the unscrupulous label general amphetamines as either molly or MDMA and people unfamiliar dont know it....

The clinical studies should, presumably, be also, setting a standard for the purity, dosage, quality etc around the tested substance...

So to go "off grid" as it were, to test this has risks..

That being said - the efficacy of any therapy session, even when the introspection and emotional response is deliberately induced, could still result in benefits.

The problem with any drugs, beit alcohol, weed, whatever - is that environment (situational and historically) play a large part in the response.

The mental state can be associative to a great degree, and as such - if one has had a tool such as MDMA in the past - but in a really poor environment, the response could be poor.

Read up on it - but never trust anything off the street to be what they claim...
Espresso Brewing Pressure: Is 9 Bars Really Optimal?
Yes, +1 for this. This is what I want, #2, but with a restore that transfers the encrypted data and decrypts locally.

This is how CrashPlan worked. (And incidentally, as I'm sure the guys at backblaze are fully aware, CrashPlan home is shutting down and I'm currently struggling to find a replacement that meets my desires. So if backblaze started to offer that #2 + encrypted restore soon they would gain my custom at the least.)
That's right, any iterative solver method (which already encompasses most of the low level numerical solvers used in physics today) or, more generally, any method that algorithmically guarantees satisfying a particular mathematical constraint after each timestep (say, if you're enforcing fluid incompressibility at each timestep, most* single bitflips will not cause errors that would accumulate over time), etc.

[*] There are exceptions in specific circumstances most of which would produce obviously wrong results or crash the simulation outright. However, I'm not claiming that single bitflips are never an issue for simulations, only that it happens much less often than people sometimes think.
Well if the success of Firefox (née "Phoenix", née "Firebird") is anything to go by, that could be a good start!
> If even people reaching a truly stupidly huge number of people don't get even close to making a living (I get more than that off a few hundred people on Patreon for the work that I do), in a situation where those operating the streaming services are renting out entire floors of office buildings in Manhattan, your question is disingenuous.

Seems like a weird detail to fixate on. Plenty more money has been spent on office space (whole buildings, even) by music industry and music industry adjacent companies that acted as gatekeepers and ensured only a hand-selected few ever made a living off their songs.

> I have NO problem with a world that completely unlinks money from performance, because I'm not a free-market capitalist type demanding that financial reward behave like a 'meritocracy'.

I also have no problem with this, but I think creative people won't be sharing our opinion anytime soon.
If Mattermost is competitive with Slack, that's a serious indictment against Slack.

Mattermost's clients are awful. Just awful. The phone apps are effectively unusable (incredibly buggy and suck down battery like no tomorrow), and the desktop electron app is a complete hog. It doesn't even handle its faux tabs properly (takes half a second to switch, and it resets the position to the end every time you change a tab, which is... dumb), and the scrollback handles high-volume channels very poorly (I have to click "Load more messages" at least 20x times every time I want to scroll back to the beginning of the day). Now imagine every time you switch tabs you have to click "Load more messages" a bunch of times to see earlier messages because it resets when you switched tabs.

If this is the future of messaging, then holy shit. It's almost a parody.
I suspect the answer is money. Well-funded corporations can and do push their fancy, new messaging platforms hard enough to crowd out any emerging open standard, but they certainly have no intention of paying anything more than lip service to the idea of interoperability. They want to own all of this and turn it into cold, hard cash. Who's going to develop the next big, open standard when WhatsApp can turn into billions of dollars?
>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.

Not disputing your numbers but just putting it out there that Hank Green estimated $2-per-1000.[1] That calculates 35m views to be ~$70k.

Google also recently changed its engagement algorithms and everybody's views and monetization went way down. I'm not sure what the latest 2017 cpm estimates would be. That Hank Green estimate was from 2015.

[1] https://medium.com/@hankgreen/the-1-000-cpm-f92717506a4b
Rodney Jerkins is only one of five writers on the song:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Long_as_You_Love_Me_(Justin...

Bieber also has songwriting credit. If the royalty was divided evenly, Bieber would also get 20%. However, it isn't required to divide evenly, and songwriter royalties can be negotiated myriad different ways.
That's not brain interfacing tech. He's talking about wearable headsets like the Emotiv that let you control computers with your mind by training against EEG signals.
Actually, my broader point is that there's substancial indeterminacy to the legal system and that society uses this wiggle room to dole out mob justice.

Do I have to type that sentence again?
I loved this book! I've always enjoyed retro text-based games and this was a fun way for me start learning a more functional style of programming (and Lisp). It was a nice contrast to my daily C++ work.
Thanks for the specific tip! Link for the lazy: http://gamebot.gg/ A Show HN would probably do well (with a bit of behind-the-scenes in the comment), as would in-depth blog posts if you're doing machine learning.

I actually tried the Hearthstone one and the very first clip in the current example 'Greatest Clips' (BJwDyxrplpo) appeared to miss the actual action (clicking "Disenchant" - which may actually have been the point since it could have been just a tease) but the rest of the clips seemed complete (and interesting).

I've thought about stream-jumping/recording based on simple indicators like increases in chat comments, viewers, followers, etc. How much of this could be built off Twitch's own 'clip' functionality (whether initiating them yourself or aggregating the manual curation of others -- neither of which AFAIK has an API right now) and collecting them later? Separate note I'm trying to hide in this pararagraph: don't overfit if you want to apply this tech to other streaming sites where real money is flowing (aka NSFW).

Personally I don't care so much about specific games on Twitch (except Street Fighter, which gets relatively little love but your videos are a real time-saver) instead of personalities. It might be worth offering this service to them, focused solely on collecting their highlights. had a tough time with the non-English streams but not sure what options you have there.
I'm also interested to see how this will turn out for you using Twitch content if they notice that what you're doing is catching on. Twitch seems to be leaving a lot of low-hanging fruit behind for othes to capitalize on.

Feature wise: more playlists, maybe monthly and/or collecting the highlights of the highlights, with most comments/views/thumbs-up on previous YouTube videos. If there was a way to incorporate chat since most streamers don't in their videos, you should. https://github.com/PetterKraabol/Twitch-Chat-Downloader

Bug-wise, it seems like something is going wrong with the links as the end of this video, appx. 30 seconds of moving images but no links in Firefox with ad block [disabled as legacy]. (8ql3id1lJoM, ilkKuvuna10)
Have you explored high level consulting in inception phase of distributed system design? (and p.s. thank you for your exceptional work and knowledge sharing.)
So, the linked license itself[0] has at least one typo in clause 3:

> must be limited to a period of 30} consecutive calendar days.

The stray “}” is clearly a typo, and if the description in the Manifesto is correct, the “3” should be a “9”.

This is kind of critical stuff to get right in a license.

[0] https://licensezero.com/licenses/noncommercial
The guy wrote a song. It took him, what, a month? For that he earned $150,000? Annualized, that's almost $2 million. I don't see the problem here.
And yet it doesn't shy away from the details. One of the main things I took away was how symbiosis could be the driving force behind evolution instead of purely the traditional competitive based changes.
>Some things don't need updated graphics?

I think the underlying theme of the article is the game was an organic whole. It wasn't just a good idea they put together in the technology available at the time, it was of the time. The best example is:

"once they started looking like actual pin-up girls, that dimension of the humor was lost. It gradually felt less like a joke about a guy who wants to hook up with sexy ladies and more a vehicle for actually looking at sexy ladies."

the improved graphics and the point-and-click interface completely change what the thing is. It stops being some wink-wink "You're playing video games because you can't find a date but we're such losers we had time to make a game for you" and something commercial and knowing. If you knew about any of the Sierra titles you were almost part of a family. You could write to the people there or at Infocom or wherever and reasonably expect a response. Now video games are an industry and every possible niche is filled to bursting.

Then again, there's always some indie game or single-A title that drags me back.
Monitoring SAP hybrid cloud deployments, is it that simple?
Relevant to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301014 , which had its title changed.

I don't think that anybody deciding to work for Google, FB, Amazon from this point on can use any excuse to disassociate themselves from the actions of their company.
I didn't expect Lapham's Quarterly to show up in a Hacker News thread. Good magazine. Worth the subscription.
Password Security 101: How to manage passwords and keep hackers at bay
One of the narratives of the last election was that the "elites" and our newspapers were oblivious to conditions facing working folks in the interior states. It was probably a false accusation, but it helped fuel a wave of self loathing that persists today. (A friend of mine blasted the NY Times for ignoring the Midwest on the same day that they published a lengthy story about Flint MI).

Yet, when someone does write an article, it's seen as offensive.

Is there a right way to report on what's going on?
For all our focus on the indirect costs in coal, there seems to be willful ignorance about the environmental impact of Chinese solar panels. Sure, you can get solar panels from countries with more environmental oversight but that's going to impact the payoff curve.

It's a shame that the focus is on conservation - energy abundance is better for humanity.
There are a few places in AppKit where you need to determine an object's state by catching an exception because there's no method available. (Checking whether an NSColor is a pattern comes to mind -- only way is to try getting the pattern image and it will throw if it's not a pattern color.)

The really frustrating thing is that Obj-C didn't even have exceptions originally, so someone basically looked at exceptions when they were added and thought: "I know, I'll use them as part of the API"...
Got it, thanks. Will fix.
OnionShare: securely and anonymously share a file of any size
Solving fake news at scale; a Facebookers perspective
Ask HN: Anyone willing to hear me practice my 6 min pitch via Skype?
I need to practice my pitch.

Anyone willing to hear it via skype and give feedback?
One-click micropayment donations via web/OS standards and/or cryptocurrency; centralized patronage sites that allot money to OSS projects based on various metrics; different licenses for assets and code, with assets only available to licensees? Some ideas.
Steem is the future folks.
There is no best tool or technique because there is no silver bullet.

And what do you mean by automated testing? What kind of tests? Unit, integration, regression, black box, white box?

Automated testing is only one tool, that every system should be using. Manual testing is obviously too tedious (though sometimes required) to do for all test sequences for most systems so of course we need to automate.

But what do we test? How do we develop the tests?

Do we test type invariance constraints? In a dynamically typed language you absolutely should! In a statically typed language, you might need to. In C I need to test that my int foo is within the expected range. In Ada I can define a new type Foo which will always be within the right range. Both are statically typed, one offers more than the other.

How do we define a unit? Do I want tests of every class, of every function? Do I write unit tests for private portions of classes? What should be hidden from users as "implementation details", but actually matters to me as the implementer.

How do we actually test out concurrency bugs? I might have a concurrency bug that shows up in 1 of 20 potential traces of the concurrent system. But practically only shows up 1 time in 1,000,000. That's impossible to show with tests with any reliability, but almost trivial to show with TLA+ and some other formal methods (if you can abstract the concurrent algorithm properly). Maybe the bug only occurs when I have at least 10 users on the system, but is still rare or hard to force into existence.

The alternative: Learn static typing. Learn math. Learn formal methods. Learn multiple concurrency paradigms. Learn multiple languages. Internalize their concepts. When you write a program, design the program. Maybe not a full formal spec, but you need to know what it should do or you cannot verify it. You cannot have any confidence in it.

You use a dynamic language like Ruby? Guess what, you can make it do something like Ada's type system! Create a new class instead of using a generic integer that redefines + and - and other ops so that you get the desired properties (like range constraints or modular arithmetic) but still otherwise acts like an integer. You use a language like C that lets you clobber all over the memory in other threads. Great, learn about channels, semaphores, and message queues. Pick the appropriate subset (or library if viable) and design your concurrent algorithms in a disciplined fashion.
U.S. secretly tested carcinogen in Western Canada during the Cold War
I actually stepped down as being an advisor. They just haven't updated that part of the page. In my post, I address this. Bottom line: I don't plan to treat the company any differently.
Keep in mind that banning these drugs for personal consumption wasn’t nearly the intellectual crime that banning the research has been.

Substances have been banned in cultures for thousands of years. In the US - long before psychedelics came under scrutiny - opium, cocaine, and other drugs had been made illegal, but not before the 60s was actual basic research by scientists and physicians also banned.
API Star, a Python 3 Framework from the Makers of Django Rest Framework
Are they doing 6months and 1year follow ups? Short term relief is not that interesting to me
git: (noun) an unpleasant or contemptible person
> Is the solution here not simply to turn off mobile data when you don’t want to use it, if you’re on such a restrictive mobile plan?

Or add warning and cut-off thresholds, isn't that alredy possible?
You need to get out more. The problem with companies is not that they are intelligent, but that they are artificial.

>What people are worried about is:

>1. Soon we will be able to create software/robots that replace tons of human jobs. This has nothing to do with "companies as an AI".

Well, there is now a tendency for big companies to hire smaller outsourcing companies to provide labor and shield the first company from the liabilities that come with hiring human labor. I know I do not have the kind of proof that courts, and HN some dwellers, demand... but from hearsay in the local job market it is public knowledge that managers and ex-managers at main company are often owners of the outsourcing ones, or at least it was so 10 years ago before Indian companies like TATA raided the market.

Also, it is not as if outsourcing companies are making peanuts. More hearsay, supposedly first hand, says that they charge as much as 1,000% of employees salary for their services. It is not possible in the US, but in the offshoring side of things, US based headquarters usually do not have a grasp of how much/little the foreing job markets are.

In the local market, $1,000USD per month is a great salary for a junior programmer, and good for a senior one. Cost of liviing is lower that most US cities, let alone SFO...

> 2. A super-intelligence will be created that is vastly smarter than any human, and can make itself even smarter, but will have different goals than humanity.

Superintelligence is a red herring. If you command as much resources as a Fortune 50 company, you can do a world of harm if your goals are sufficiently opposed to those of the general society. You just need to be "intelligent" enough to not go under during the next couple of years, which most big companies are.

More so, let's consider the case when the company has "substandard intelligence", say if the management team is incompetent, or if they are distracted with internal conflict and lack the ethics to put the interest of the company ahead of their own, personal gain. A stupid company with plenty of resources to burn can deliver truckloads of hurt on its way down, and it does not have to be intentional either, unforeseen consequences are way more realistic ways for bad things to haven than the kind of evil performed by Bond-movie villians.
Bucky Fuller calculated that we would have the technology to provide a decent standard of living for everyone on Earth by sometime in the 1970's. We just have to deploy it efficiently. And there's the rub.

Put another way, all our problems now are psychological.
It's not a PR position. I don't work for corporate communications. I work for the search team. I'll be sharing more about the role after I have more time at Google and shape it more. But it's definitely not PR.
The world is indifferent to people's existence. People will only ever mean something if they accomplish something, not because they're people.

Why should I, or anyone, see differently?

> What's the value of 1 bedtime story read to a child?

Well, if we could perform a large study, starting during the participants' childhood, with half the children read X bedtime stories and the other half read X-1, and could somehow control for every possible source of confounding influence across the participants' entire lifetime, then we could see whether there is a statistically-significant difference in the two groups' distributions of net worth at retirement ... then we could begin to answer that question. (In order to get a complete answer, we would need to repeat that experiment for many different values of X and fit a curve to all the results.)

Needless to say, neither you nor I will be alive when that study is published, even if we are alive when that study becomes less-than-impossible to perform.

So today we can at 2nd-best say "not enough information", and at best make a slightly-educated guess of "it's likely negligible among all other influences on children".

> We are all going to die man, life is not about money and profit.

Even if I assume so, my experience is that life utterly sucks without the freedom imbued by money (which, incidentally, is obtained via profit).

Yet I also dispute your assertion to the core. Life is most definitely all about money and profit. Because (a) whatever you think life is about ... you will invariably need money to pursue that goal, and (b) unless you're a farmer or hunter or etc., you literally cannot live without it, unless you steal, which is unethical and criminal. (Under some governments, I'll grant, it is possible to not earn one's money; so the "and profit" portion is not as applicable. Still, even in such cases, someone earned it before having it stol- uhh, taxed from them.)

Oh, and because you're making this assertion, I can also tell that you have at least some modicum of money and profits; otherwise, you would not find this assertion so easy to make.
And it went out for delivery again today. Once more, the package had a delivery exception as apparently Amazon Logistics can still not find the apartment after I spent the time to have my account updated with instructions.

Ordered Wednesday with 2 day prime, and it now isn't coming. At no point did Amazon offer to reship the damn thing with a real courier that knows how to deliver packages.

Called in again and they promised to deprioritize Amazon Logistics. Got a 1 month prime extension and a promise that the package might come next week and if not they will re-ship it. The customer obsession Amazon principle definitely at play here!

Awesome!
I've not heard of that book before but will have to check it out. Did it happen to mention any of the experimental research done showing that removal of 'junk DNA' makes organisms (microorganisms anyway) less capable of adapting to environmental change? As I remember it, some researchers took a bacteria (probably e. coli, that's usually the easiest to do this sort of thing with but I'm not certain) and separated out two populations. In one they let it be, and in the other they stripped out all 'junk' DNA that didn't play a role in protein synthesis. Then they introduced harsh conditions to both (I think something like high acidity or low availability of food or something like that) and while the 'junky' population adapted relatively quickly, the 'pure' population quickly died off and wasn't able to gain beneficial mutations quickly enough to survive.
This seems antithetical to the OSS movement, almost like a "Yeah, we released our code as open source, so everyone can learn, extend, and distribute. But we've changed our mind and SURPRISE - now we want a payday!" Open source only applying to other open source? C'mon - who are you, Stallman?

If companies have to pay for licenses to OSS they will simply stop using it. It makes sense to a business to benefit from the freedom of others. If devs are expecting a payday, don't release as open source. I know that sounds like I'm saying "stop being a jerk" and I am.

The idea of OSS has been the sharing of software with limited license responsibility, but adding in a specific license for commercial use thru a command-line interface is going to be too much of a nightmare to manage.

This will end up turning into another GPL border dispute (to use Heather Meeker's term). Which code is covered by the open-source part, and what's covered by commercial? Where does my software start and yours ends? I figured that if devs don't want software used by companies, they could use the CC-NC licenses.
You just come across as someone who has never experienced MDMA, LSD, or Psilocybin.

No downvotes from me, I can't speak to that.
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Smokin' and Jokin'. About the only part of the service I miss.
Thanks for the tip. It's usually not a problem to figure out what's wrong (the exception is dumped to the debugger), but it's a bit useless that the main editor in xcode switches to an irrelevant disassembly view at the same time :)