skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>most people like the recreational aspects of it. Deal with it.

I really wish people could deal with that. It's not a miracle cure, it's just a drug and it feels good - like getting a buzz on wine.

Yet people act like it's 1935 and there's some huge "Reefer Madness" thing going on where people are acting like smoking a joint is going to cause a Communist Revolution and the Evil Right Wingers are freaking out because some poor White Liberal smoked a joint.

In what reality are people living in? Smoking weed - occasionally - is mainstream. True - you aren't supposed to smoke it in public, just like you aren't supposed to go Harvey Weinstein and masturbate into a potted plant in front of some unwilling woman.

In what social reality is the fact someone likes to smoke pot occasionally somehow really controversial?

I guess since I don't live in Bumfuck, Alabama and most of my social circle are not hard core fundamentalist Christians I am completely unaware of how oppressed upper middle class yuppie computer programmers with a weed fetish are so oppressed in society.

Must be my white privilege talking.
You are missing his point though. It's not just memorizing the whole song. If it was, when you play a _new_ song, you'd be as rusty as when you first started to learn to play.

But new versions come out, with new sets of songs, and people play songs of the same approximate difficulty as well. If it was simply memorization, they wouldn't be able to play same or near difficulty songs. They'd have to "ramp up" as they memorized the new song.

Obviously, people's brains are reacting to similar patterns (each song has a "style" and many songs are of the same "style" with things like jumps, diagonals, triplets and so on), as well as other subconscious neural reactions.

When you're playing 9-step (out of 10) step songs, you're not watching individual arrows at all. It'd be impossible. You unfocus your eyes and play through your peripheral vision. Your body reacts. You don't need to think at all.

(So nobody is arguing that the Hexagon game isn't "more random" . They're arguing that it's more than just randomness at play.)

It's really no different that carrying on a conversation while playing a game of casual pong with a friend. Everyone just calls it "muscle memory." The pattern is never the same with a ball bouncing off a table. It's not rocket science.
More study is always needed for any given substance that we introduce into the envorment/human body. But due to its federal classification it is very hard to do. The major drawback of marijuana ignoring the effect on the lungs is the hit to the reward center if the brain. But the same can be said about any shortcut to a reward. Especially when you consider the potency increase of marijuana since the 70s. The root problem here as with smoking is that humans are goal driven and if they cannot achieve and do, they will find a way to simulate that feeling.

Also the main medical use of marijuana is via CBD not THC which is the high you feel. For myself it relieves my hand tremors and reduces axiety with no high, which I take as a tincture droplet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol
Netflix and YouTube could start using AV1 as soon as early 2018
On #1: I hear you and I think this is a totally valid approach for a society where we don't have little old ladies and gents who lose the piece of paper on which they've written their key and all their friends are old and they urgently need their secure key so that the doctor can access their health records. Or the kid who comes into the hospital in a coma and you can't get their secure key. Or for the recent immigrant family with no friends and their house burns down with all their secure keys inside. Or for the gay kid who gets kicked out of his house without taking his key and the people that blockchain "trusts" are his parents who just threatened to kill him if he comes home.

The "use case" here is people's lives. People's lives are messy. Blockchain doesn't solve that mess, it pretty much just makes it worse.

We should focus on using blockchain to solve "neater" problems like who owns what and who is contractually obligated to do what, etc. Those problems don't have edge cases that involve a parent who loses their memory or a kid who gets thrown out of his house.
That one stranded me at Heathrow thirty years ago. Where I thougth back another twenty years, 1967, also to the very day, when an epic storm hit southern Scandinavia, tearing down brick walls and huge swaths of forest. No hurricane that one, but fifty years later still remebered here as the october storm. Is October 17th somehow statistically significant?
Well, if the church concluded he is a saint, then he is alive and kicking.

St Nicholas, pray for us!
Even if marijuana were objectively bad to use for every possible purpose, I would still be in favor of it being legalized because prohibition is almost always worse.
Most of the time, it's the best way to invest. Fund managers are so wealthy, often not because they make great picks, but they use manipulative tactics to get people to invest with them. Most of them can't beat the market.
This is only tangentially related but is anyone using Spring Cloud + Consul? Is the integration of the two in a good spot now?
Not that interesting, really.

Nobody forces Microsoft to exist in the EU, or to sell their software to EU citizens. They would simply be forced out of that market.
It is inexistent money.

The world financial system is printing money, they are moving trillions around several nations to hide the fact that this money does not exist.

How would you know how much value in U$ is hidden in Brazil by international banks? How would you know how much U$ is hidden in Singapore, South Africa, Mexico?

You don't know. The US reserves are audited, the European economies are regulated, but the capital movement around the world is impossible to track.

This money does not exist in reality, there is no record of it anywhere. But does anyone care? Has anyone read the Panama papers? Billionaires and world leaders are hiding trillions in bank accounts that you can open remotely, without hassle. This money is unaccounted for.

Banks are free to move as much money as they please around the world, they just print money and move it.

The trillions in funds around the world do not exist. The markets are rigged.
Maybe we'll finally find the argument against index funds: when the majority of market power is essentially in auto-pilot, it can't steer out of a crash.

It's crazy to think that we can look at the market and opine over the lack of animal spirits.
It means "nothing further beyond"; life never moves beyond the senior year of high school.
Hmm, but if the perihelion changes position and the orbit doesn't change shape, the only other option is that the entire orbit shifts—is that it?

My understanding of precession is that there are two levels of rotation: an object rotating on some axis A, with axis A rotating around another axis B. So in the case of the perihelion precessing, what would be the corresponding parts? I was assuming the only precession taking place was of Mercury itself because the axis it rotates on (axis A) rotates about some other B axis.

Edit: to clarify, if the above is a correct description of precession, then in order for the perihelion itself to precess it would need to be rotating, and the axis it's rotating about would need to be rotating about another axis. My understanding is that neither the perihelion nor the orbit are rotating, so they can't be precessing.
69% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. If you are in debt inflation is a benefit to you so long as your wages keep pace with inflation.
Also: Rover offers insurance. This probably has an effect on customer retention.
Here is the link to the paper:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2017....
a simpler solution could be to outsource the data to locally registered companies (Either, a subsidiary or a shell data owner). That way Microsoft can deny the data as they do not own it.
BUILD AN ETHEREUM MINING RIG (AKA MONEY TREE)
I guess what has changed is the amount of news and media people can have access to nowadays. In good old days, dissenting opinions were pushed into the inner folds of a magazine and all "no end in sight" news on the front page, because everything was about delivering good news and optimism. Nowadays articles exist as a website link ie there is not really a frontpage of sorts and then being negative sells a lot.

Though it will be interesting to put together what the print edition of newspapers are predicting - boom or bust?
People engage in political dishonesty to pursue their goals.
It's not surprising. It's just like many well-informed feminists parroting deceiving statistics like "70 cents on the dollar" to claim that women aren't getting "equal pay for equal work" when they know it's not true. They know the disparity is largely due to choices made by individual men and women, plus the time consuming nature of child bearing, but they want government action to mandate equal outcomes. And there is a thoughtful argument to be made for such action. But they think they can better sell the idea by claiming pay discrimination.

Understanding and engaging with the underlying motivations of the opinion leaders is going to be more effective than just demonizing or ridiculing the people who follow them.
> How would you know how much value in U$ is hidden in Brazil by international banks?

What on earth are you talking about? Are you saying the U.S. Treasury doesn't know how many dollars it has printed? Or the Federal Reserve doesn't know many dollars banks hold with it in reserve? Or how many dollars the banks it has under its jurisdiction have created? Note that apart from cash, the latter two categories are digital and intensely tracked.

> You don't know

Are you presuming or asking? $1.58 trillion of which $1.53 trillion are Federal Reserve notes and the rest coinage [1]. While estimating the exact amounts in any given country is not easy [2], just as estimating the exact number of dollars any person knows is far from definitive, the aggregates are tightly controlled.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/1996/1096lead.p...
They are justifying lynch mobs.

On top of this they seem to live in a fantasy land where these tools they create will only be used for their own agendas.

The abuse they are trying to justify is on par with the perpetrators abuse they are trying to stop.

Wrong on many many levels.
Back in the day I've had a website ranking in the top 3 of Google for "start using cgiproxy". Honestly, I never knew why people would search for such a complicated phrase, but I've found the keyword somewhere and optimized the website for it.

Do you mind telling me why where you searching for that phrase instead of something like "free proxy" or "cgi proxy"?
If you're left wondering how banks simultaneously caused but benefited from the great recession of 2008... take note of the fact that bankers OWN Washington. Then as now. From Clinton, to Bush, even Obama (who had RECORD numbers of ex Goldman Sachs executives in the executive cabinet during his presidency).

People should be infuriated about what happened in 2008. But it seems like the wool has been pulled over the eyes of the public. As long as we have our smartphone beeping away with people liking our pictures, then never mind the disturbing truths of our reality - that wealth is being siphoned away from the public, into the hands of an increasingly small group, at a record pace.
How do you feel about bitcoin then? This is happening in plain view... you don't need to assign motives and mix in nation states, bitcoin is the most obvious example of pure speculation and literally is printed money with no attachment to fiat....
Yes, it's far too easy to get caught up in the hysteria of media, internet comments and tweet storms.

Not to say the market won't revert.

But it feels hysterical to declare that "everything is crazy."

For comparison, we had hurricanes, presidential scandals, yada yada in the late 1990s.
Inevitably the markets will crash, new articles will come out detailing the "death of index funds" after five plus years of low or negative returns, capital will flow out due to the new index fund "retirement crisis", and we'll be back to where we started.

Stay the course.
Couldn't we just force cigarette companies to make cigarettes biodegrade in the rain? Seriously, they're basically all chemicals anyways. After a few years the problem would vanish.
And that's precisely the problem that an immutable issuance schedule, like Bitcoin's, attempts to solve (fairly successfully so far). It prevents either of those 2 sides from unilaterally manipulating the currency supply to rob the other side after a contract or borrowing arrangement is signed.
Incontrovertible is hard, especially when many make a living from not seeing the evidence. That's why the tobacco industry was able to hang on for so long. This is more important but we'll waste decades convincing the holdouts.
It works? For who?

Ask the people who lost homes in 2008 if it works.

99,99% of world wealth is held by less than 1000 people.

Can you wrap your head around that? Less than 1000 people control all the wealth for the other 7 billion people who happen to be alive on this planet.

The environment is a wreck, the world is being destroyed, entire coral reefs are dying, we are pouring radiation into the sea, there are artificial islands of trash in the ocean.

We as a species will not last more than 100 more years on this planet.

What exactly "works" in your opinion? You have an iPhone built by slaves in China? Is that it? What works?
Just edit AMP out of the URL.

https://www.imore.com/onavo-app-claims-shrink-iphones-data-u...
...Or it's just a site to keep up with friends through messenger, events, pictures, etc?

You just have to do a bit of work to filter out the crap from your timeline (unfollow/unfriending)
My son asked for approval on this app just this morning and I had red flags waving all around my head as I read the description.

Learning that Facebook is now involved is just icing on the cake.
Also, there's weapons in some games (both melee and long range) that have considerable "wind up". You click, and they don't actually attack for awhile.

Chivalry, for example.

Part of the fun is learning to control the wind up correctly so that you are in the exact place (you being a moving, rotating person AND then being a moving rotating person) somewhere in the future as opposed to "close in until within range/in-scope, then immediately triggering the left-mouse button." You have to continue guiding the attack as the attack is winding up.

Another interesting one is long range sniping in simulator and quasi-simulator FPS games like say, PUBG. There's bullet drop, and people can move toward, away, and side-ways. You've got to place the shot ahead of the target, for a given targets speed (walking vs running, vs in a vehicle), and lead the appropriate amount. The amount also changes with distance (obviously) as well as different guns have different bullet velocities (less velocity = more lead), as well as different scopes (2x/4x/8x/15x) which offer drastically different required mouse movements to get the appropriate crosshair movement (even if the "lead" corrected for magnification is the same).

God, I love our brains. I would love to read a textbook on EXACTLY that kind of learning. Subconscious, neural learning.

Oh, and that's one great thing about PUBG. The combination of low-level muscle memory for maximum speed target acquisition and firing, with the constant high-level mental strain of planning 2, 3, and 20 steps ahead. Solving for "this situation right now" (shot this guy on my screen AND how do I outflank this guy walking nearby but out of sight that is also trying to kill me), solving for "what happens next" (if I fire, will it attract another, full health, group of people that will kill me?) and solving for "how do I keep getting closer to the blue zone to reach the end game without dying."

All of those circuits are absolutely required to "win" in a game with 100 players and only one winner. For the fun of it, I really should write down my other mental processes that go on. Getting further in the game (closer to 100) is all about learning to train your brain into juggling many problems at the same time as well as specifically targeting areas where you are lacking. Like if you're not good at close combat, you can get near the end by sneaking but you will eventually die. And combat at short range, medium range, and long-range combat all have different strategies and tradeoffs. Combat with groups is different that combat with 1 enemy, or a pair.
>Your LSD theory is, um, odd.

Really? You must be completely unfamiliar with the history of LSD, which was introduced to American (and Britain) by the CIA (and MI5/6.)

Odd? I was 15 when I went to the public library and read the well-documented history via such famous books like "Acid Dreams" and "My Problem Child" and "Storming Heaven."

What I say is "odd" is how the Silicon Valley/In-Q-Tel has been able to reintroduce LSD - and make it "cool" again - while conveniently ignoring the well-documented history of why stuff like LSD was made illegal in the first place.

HINT: California parents in the 1960s were not particularly happy that intelligence agencies used their college aged children as subjects for unethical and in many cases out-right illegal drug experiments - and continued to do so when they used the democratic process to try to stop it.

>Just because these drugs have overly enthusiastic users doesn't diminish the fact that they do have some real value.

"Drugs" is a pretty wide category, isn't it? Heroin is a drug - so is aspirin. Would you care to be more specific?
It's not the cloning part that you should worry about, but the acquiring customers part. How will you communicate your service to their customers, and to new ones?
I see. Over the years, there's been a lot of similar research into localised earthquake prediction. Results are not actionable yet.

I am not at all informed on the subject, but hours-since-last-slide(s), their proximity and magnitude would be some additional factors you might consider using.

If historical weather and geo-tagged slide data is available for the whole region, you could use it to train and test models.
Yes, the apple magic keyboard with 15ms latency.
Machine Learning with F#
Printed what?

When was the last time you moved a trillion printed dollars?

"Printing money" today means moving virtual money around.

Banks can make money appear in Cayman Islands. "Here is a billion dollar SWIFT money order", that is it. There is no billion printed dollars. They "print" money at will.
Seems a bit Orwellian to suggest that bitcoin is money printed from thin air. Yes, bitcoin was instantiated at some point, but at that point it had pretty much zero value. It has a fixed rate of issuance which will eventually end, and no one can change that. It is the opposite of fiat in that respect.
Modeling metro delay as 0 minutes is completely unrealistic. For example, the scheduled trip time from New Carrollton to Foggy Bottom (all on the Orange Line) is 36 minutes. In reality, it often runs well over 50 minutes.
Based on my reading, the fault lies with JAL for executing the wrong repair procedure. Why do you think the fault lies with Boeing?

Boeing specifies: "repair procedure is like so" and due to misunderstanding, pressure to bring equipment back into use, failure to acquire the correct parts or some sort of similar problem [all my speculation btw], JAL maintenance executes another repair procedure that seems equivalent to them (or at least adequate).
There's no evidence that this was due to legalizing marijuana. It's more likely due to first responder's greater access to naloxone.

"In April 2015, Colorado passed a new law, Senate Bill 15-053, expanding access to the life- saving drug naloxone, which is used to reverse overdoses to narcotic drugs, such as certain prescription medications and heroin. ... An individual at risk of overdose."
No snark, I'm genuinely surprised: Does anyone still use faxes anywhere on the planet?

I sent my last fax twelve years ago, and considered that a retrograde outlier. Some agency requiring a signed piece of paper, not accepting my emailed pdf with a pasted in scrawl, but all roses and thank you, sir when same document uploaded to a random webservice and faxed. I do occasionally give up on Humanity.
The rebundling of Craigslist
OR she’ll be the one person in her grade without it, get isolated from social activity, and get detached from her friends. (Coming from first-hand experience of someone whose parents restricted them from video games and social media)
Scientists narrow down the mechanism whereby cancer cells metabolise sugar
> Are gyroscopes entirely local or does the gravity of distant galaxies present a sort of universal reference frame? Or is it something else entirely?

Something else entirely. You don't need other galaxies or a universal reference frame. Even if the gyroscope were the only thing in the universe, it would be easy to tell if it were spinning: a very tiny person standing on the inside rim would be held down if it were spinning, or free floating if it were not.
I was thinking in aggregate - their potential on the economy as a whole.

As an individual, they are obviously the best bet. But I'm just trying to read in some possible externalities.
> This problem is so obvious that it must have been addressed by the people proposing this.

I feel like this sentence could be found on the graves of many a failed startup.
The Crash of ’87, from the Wall Street Players Who Lived It
Tragedy, Perseverance, and Chance – the Story of CAR-T Therapy [pdf]
> Printed what?

There are three types of money: central bank reserves, physical currency and commercial bank money. The U.S. government (Fed and Treasury, respectively) directly controls the first two down to the cent. Commercial banks "make" the final one, but to get the right to do that they have to agree to Federal Reserve jurisdiction (internationally, this happens with central banks entering into swap agreements with the Fed, i.e. opening "accounts" with the Fed into which the Fed deposits U.S. dollars whose--since this needs to be said--quantities it gets to track).

If rando Brazilian bank says "I have a billion U.S. dollars" and doesn't tell the Fed, they counterfeited. They can spend it in Brazil if nobody checks (hint: everyone checks, this is what the SWIFT and Fedwire protocols were designed to facilitate). But if they try to wire those funds to anyone else (or any other Fedwire or SWIFT member), the books won't balance and the message will be rejected. Someone will then have to (a) get real dollars to cover their crime or (b) risk having themselves, and/or their central bank, booted from the Fed's international system.