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Modafinil is surprisingly popular in the nootropics communities. Most people I know have tried piracetam (and other *racetams). I think everyone in tech settles on supplements eventually -- choline, tyrosine, and 5htp. I've had a surprising number of people recommend L-Theanine to me to "take the edge off" stimulants.

If someone is willing to take drugs in the tech sector, they tend to be experimental about it, slowly incrementing their doses and trying research chemicals. Most people come to the conclusion that drugs are too unreliable to use frequently for improving performance and use them as occasional bumps.

People who try cocaine during their professional careers tend to consider it unreliable and dont use it, but those who tried it before their career may continue using it.

Caffeine abuse is pretty common, but rarely makes people more productive, so you see that for about 1-2 years until they realize it's not helping.

Alcohol abuse is really common in high-stress jobs like operations, disenfranchised developers also drink. I don't see many engineers using alcohol as a "social lubricant".

Entheogens (mdma, lsd, 2ci/b, doc/doi, etc) are popular as a party-drug and "social lubricant".

Opioids are under-represented in my experience, probably because their affects dont lead to productivity in tech.
Pagedraw doesn't impose any organizational requirements on your Sketch files! You're right that requiring certain structures is bad UX; we agree and care deeply about following that principle. The incorrect file formatting error means we don't recognize your upload as a Sketch file at all.

Probably a bug on our side. Could you try emailing the Sketch file to team@pagedraw.io and we'll see if we can debug it?
Raw seafood will be available at pretty much any midsized grocery store and most steak houses will have a couple dishes on the menu.

I've carefully said that the stores sell the stuff "raw" rather than "fresh" because I sure don't enjoy the smell in that section of the store (but then I'm probably allergic to shellfish).
A physical memtransistor will be a lot faster than emulating it in software, but you'll also be limited by the original connections and design of the chip. Not as easy to reconfigure as writing new code.
Picking the terms is a negotiation. I think sometimes we forget that the interviewee is also interviewing us as a prospective employer. This isn't a school exam. Hiring is a business negotiation. Pretending that it's not is counterproductive.
I think the article gave a well-rounded view of Glover. He came across as both depressing and egotistical, but at the same time as incredibly intelligent and funny. I was impressed by the fact that he seems to be grappling with existential questions on a much deeper level than most entertainers - many of whom seem to think that their fame entitles them to a valid opinion without any rational analysis. Glover has a solid grasp of Elon Musk's motivations (what he's trying to do with Neuralink) and his ability to seamlessly incorporate ideas like Bostrom's Simulation Argument into a comedy about race in America is striking.

Zooming out, I think that were you to graph happiness levels vs. intelligence across the population, you'd get an inverted U shape. Hence the tortured artist trope. (Realize I'm making a leap here on mainly anecdotal evidence. There are a few small studies on this but nothing I feel so confident as to link to.)

A negative worldview is what pushes us forward - the people who can envision the difference between an ideal and what society currently looks like are the ones who affect change in the world.
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I completely agree. When I'm unhappy with my productivity, part of my self-assessment involves taking a careful look at my emotional state and seeing if there's anything there that isn't compatible with the calm/attentive/enthusiastic/alert combination where I do my best work. And if I turn something up, I either switch tasks, take some time off, or try to resolve the impediment one way or another.
>Then, are Uber, Lyft, on demand services even tech?

I would argue that they are not. They provide services that rely on technology and have been incredibly successful largely due to their embrace of technology, but I would describe Uber as on-demand transportation provider rather than a technology provider.

>Is Amazon only tech when it comes down to AWS and Alexa?

I understand calling Amazon a tech company because they have significant business lines as a technology provider, even if these do not constitute their entire business.

While I have intuitive responses to companies like these, I really don't know where the line is (e.g. how much business one would have to do as a tech provider). I didn't intend to suggest a hard definition but posed the question because I'm genuinely interested in seeing peoples' thoughts on what constitutes a tech company.
On my earthbound connection my government can influence the ISP, but how is the government of [insert-autocratic-country] here supposed to control what its citizen do over satellite internet?

I assume that all communication to, in, and from the satellite network is secured by cryptography to prevent eavesdropping.
To be fair, Jesus was also the messiah as imagined by Jewish people, just a bit earlier in time.
As a basically-everything-except-Chrome user, I'm increasingly skeptical of excuses this. There's almost certainly some feature(s) that you've spent a lot of time on that provide less value than having the app working in Firefox and Safari.

As soon as I saw it was Chrome only, I closed out.
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First, I think that the scientific literature peer review process becoming more like Amazon's reviews would be a disaster for science.

I didn't see where they're looking to have something exactly like Amazon. To be charitable, I'd assume that they would have more controls and reputation-attribution in place to ensure that many concerns would be addressed for a "more open" system.

Many times a finding is presented at various conferences well in advance of it being published.

Do you mean that you have to go physically to a conference to learn about other possibly-important discoveries in your field?
Would be cool to see the paths ranked in order of “narrowness”, e.g. ranking a path with shorter, more specific articles more highly than a path that goes through a mega-page like “France”.
Looks really cool!
If it actually generate nice code, it will be awesome!
I’m gonna play with it this weekend!

How does it work with CSS?
What do you think calculating the "significance" would add?
I live in Germany and can confirm that almost every German acquaintance I have who are in my age(27 have been here since 22) and work in tech has smoked or actively smokes marijuana. According to them it is "no big deal". Both men and women. I worked at an employer in the Cybersecurity industry, many potheads as well, openly so. At that employer there were around 60 people counting the secretaries. I know, for a fact, that at least 10(one woman, a couple of the men with anxiety issues and depression) smoked marijuana, at least one did coke and all had the typical "drink booze till you pass out" German attitude.

Take my anectdata with a grain of salt.
I think it applies to aspirin too. You thin your blood, reduce some swelling. You feel better. But maybe you don't heal as quickly. Instead of being immobile and allowing resources to gather at the wound we get back to our work. But our work is leisurely these days and we probably don't need to heal quickly.

Perhaps if you are a runner and you take these seemingly benign medicines to reduce pain and swelling, you end up causing more permanent damage by continuing to run when you should not (I have experienced this).

I think a lot of medicines work by turning off or on processes that are important but inconvenient at the time. Painkillers are probably the best example. We shouldn't take them when we are healthy, it would be dangerous. Other medicines, such as antibiotics, work by killing pathogens directly and don't affect our bodies like the drugs in this discussion.
“If I was white, I wouldn’t be sleeping on no couch”
For a guy who has 2 or 3 'homes' his choice of sleeping on the couch at the office appears more to be a personal preference, that he feels keeps him in the game at his highest level.
I've read countless stories of white guys sleeping on couches for their startup,
Elon musk for example crashing on Sean Parkers couch instead of going to his house.
The analogy I like to use is "buying on credit" - you can choose the time and place of your enhanced productivity, but you pay for it later, with interest. You're not actually creating any new productivity, just shifting it around.
> what do you see as "properly designed" that still supports density?

I don't support density. I understand some like it, and that's good for them.

But I personally hate it, and I know a lot of other people that hate it as well.

I would hate to see the US switch to that being the primary form of life. But I'm not really worried - enough people hate it, that it's unlikely.

The highest density I'm willing to consider is a 2 family row house (i.e. side to side, not up and down) on each plot of land. Anything denser than that and I'm not going to live there. Each house should have a front and back yard, at least some space on the sides between houses.

We are not animals, there's no reason to pack people in like battery farming.

Unless that's what you like. If you like that, more power to you.
Comments like these are what makes selling software to consumers such a joy. The time it took a CSR to read your email asking for a 50% discount off of $10 a month probably cost them all the profit they would have received from that account for a year.
Seems odd to call it "OpenCat" but refuse to share STL files for the 3d-printed parts or source code for the project.
In the absence of anything other than a common origin, it may not be based on Moses. The story of Moses abandonment and adoption is itself a retelling of an older Sumerian myth, and thst was probably a retelling as well.
If you're not allowed to make money helping poor people, there's very little incentive to do so.

The world didn't grow to the level of abundance that we have today by everybody agreeing to work for each other for free. We grew through voluntary, mutually-beneficial, exchange.
As someone who moved from LA to SF to Brooklyn, this exactly. There’s a ton of factors that are very personal. I need a big city; SF is just too small, among all the other reasons I disliked living there. I’m happy to pay for a place that has the things I actually prefer. This sentiment, of course, goes both ways. NYC isn’t for everyone. I don’t want to live in Midtown...
Pharo & Squeak (and I suspect also most commercial Smalltalk versions) are another dynamically typed language that have a high grade JIT solution.

see: http://opensmalltalk.org/
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If you find this interesting, I'd recommend reading the SciFi novel Children of Time. Really, the less you know about the book the better. It's full of surprises.
All the KYC laws in the world won't help when someone in another country transfers a bunch of bitcoin from the exchange account to theirs.

Or even worse in some cases, someone that maliciously "burns" all of your bitcoin irrevocably destroying it forever by sending it to a bad address. Even if you catch the person that did it, that bitcoin is gone forever, and you can't just bring it back without concensus of the extreme majority of all miners and users (which isn't going to happen in bitcoin, it barely happened in Ethereum when it was much smaller with the DAO hack)
I think you’re right. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347431/
If you want to just discuss rhetorics by all means here is one example of that claim.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/06/flashback-abc-news-w...

Not sure what the point about whether new york or not. The general point was that there was alarmist claims as those I linked to in the previous post.

I was responding in the same style of the claims about what the so-called "climate deniers" had claimed. I could ask the same questions with regards to the claims about what climate catastrophe skeptics have said if I wanted to be that pedantic.

I am still waiting to hear how our decisions curved those predictions as you can't have it both ways.

jschwartz is trying to have it both ways. Both claim that we curved a catastrophe by our actions while questioning it was ever claimed it would happen.

This discussion illustrates the two major views debate back in 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-28qNd6ass
What is the cutoff?

And yes, I didn't say they were rational players :)

Which the article says, we shouldn't expect.
A few years ago, a police report made on the other side of the country, got my cryptomoney back from some punk scammer kid, who was dumb enough to give me his friends real address to ship an item to. I gathered so much intel on his internet habits that it didn't require much police intervention to sort out. His Mom and Dad weren't pleased :)
And the air, you almost can't see the people in the background.
Sounds like brutal work. Does anyone here have experience with this type of work? Is there a reason why processing poultry hasn't been automated? If we have automation systems that can put cars together, surely processing chicken is within the realm of possibility?
You're welcome. Another possible solution for you is a dc-dc laptop brick like these:
https://www.powerstream.com/ADC-p006.htm.

Fit your gel cell with an auto accessory socket, then plug in the power supply.
Great. One less lock-in to worry about it. Kudos to Valve for paying for open sourcing it.
When I was much younger I was exposed to a variety of different drug users. Everything you said is 100% spot on with anyone that abused drugs.

I've come to learn that there a few different kinds of drug users.

The first are the users who have not yet had to face the reality of drugs or how drugs affect them personally, even if they are suffering consequences from use. The mental gymnastics at play serve to protect and prolong drug use. I see this all the time with white-collar and middle-class users. They may have to take drugs to function, will crash, lose sleep, have mood swings and resultant relationship problems, but it all gets rationalized away because they have a job and aren't homeless yet.

You'll see things like projection, minimization, rationalization, denial, shifting blame and intellectualization used to defend, deflect and justify drug use.

Another type stays rational about drugs, despite how easy it is to let the honeymoon period trick them into believing that there are only positives and no downsides. They don't tend to lean on the psychological defenses mentioned above. They also tend not to abuse drugs chronically or end up dependent.

The final type, if they haven't died, has been kicked in the ass by drug use and was forced to be brutally honest about it. They might still use, but they know they have a problem, or they might be sober.

If you see a person talking about drug use as if there are no downsides, only positives, you are probably witnessing someone who belongs to the first camp.
Yes, thank you for this. I think I did overlook this. I can see how this must be very prevalent.
I think he was odd because of what he did to his eyeball, and his treatment of other poeple. I’d go so far as to suggest that “odd” doesn’t even begin to cover it. His interest in religion and alchemy don’t even register, given the period.
I can give you an example/analogy that I personally believe in: I think that science and religion (the part that comes directly from scripture without intermediaries) are two ends of a really tangled morass long rope/thread. They might be different colours, thicknesses, and different textures, but they ultimately converge to being the one same thing. I think of religion as being a sort of mission statement (the why) with a some general guidelines of how to behave and what to expect (e.g. a interface in object-oriented programming), and science being a sort of detailed, meticulous set of steps (the how) to extract information from the environment and observable objects (e.g a concrete class that is supposed implementing the interface). Unfortunately/fortunately, the compiler doesn’t yell at you if you aren’t implementing the interface correctly, so you have to figure it out for yourself.
>gaining marketshare

Where is Apple gaining market share? As near as I can tell by available data [0], their market share has been pretty flat for the past decade. Apple's revenue share may be increasing as low and mid tier Android devices continue to improve and proliferate, though.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/216459/global-market-sha...
The kind of truth relevant for faith isn't the empirical sort that science concerns itself with, it's the kind of truth that is contained in wisdom. Faith is guidance for all those situations where it's not practical to set up a double-blind study to decide on the course of action, it's the belief that there is good and bad in the world and that you can make meaningful decisions that will increase the good and counteract the bad. The opposite of faith (which doesn't have to be religious), is nihilism, not science.
> When I first heard Kanye's "New Slaves" I thought I was learning something profound about the black experience. But [...] the whole thing is about his fking clothing line

It can be both of these things. Postmodernism weaves commerce, irony, and sincerity together, for better or worse.
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One of my favorite Harry Connick Jr. moments is when his audience is clapping along on 1&3 (frustrating) and he smoothly transitions them to 2&4. Extra fun to see how happy his drummer is with the change (visible cheering arms behind Harry after one of the camera angle switches).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=--qv9SI6vws
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As an additional comment about the 'white-collar' aspect of things...

It's worth reinforcing the state of the job market for successful software engineers, and how that relates to drug use.

I try to be productive at work, but ultimately, I'm not very stressed about financial matters or job security. After starting my career, I've never been without employment for more than a month, and almost never without it being my choice. I also have a substantial safety buffer.

With those factors, I'm able to have a comfortable and relatively worry-free life with my partner, and besides a bit of recreational fun, I don't really feel a need for escape from my life.

I have a bit of an addictive and depressive personality, and I could see myself abusing substances in a different life situation.
I read a great, great paper about training systems against this. Obfuscation is currently easy against AI, but obfuscation that fools an AI and a human could still detect (Purposeful perturbations). This can be pre-trained against by incorporating such perturbations programmatically during training.

Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.06640.pdf
Being licensed as a money transmitter has nothing to do with with crypto trading regulation. In fact many of those licenses explicitly state such:

>Coinbase, Inc. is licensed by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as a money transmitter, but such license does not cover the transmission of virtual currency

On top of that, we're talking about the big players like Bitfinex, who created USDT simply so they didn't have to comply with any sort of banking laws, let alone securities trading regulations.
> How about use something like total volume of capital that's flowed through the company/or facilitated by the company?

Sure, if you measure by exactly what an investment bank specializes in, its unsurprising that Goldman does somewhat more of it than Google, but still...

> For Goldman Sachs that would be trillions or on the order of the GNP of the largest countries.

For Google, if it hasn't already crossed into the trillions it will soon; at over $100 billion in annual revenue with over 20% annual revenue growth, it doesn't take that long to pump a trillion dollars through even without counting money flowing through in forms of transaction facilitation that aren't revenue, such as Google's various payment systems.
Thanks to PageDraw crew for helping with this... looks like it’s a bug in the upstream netrc package used for persisting user credentials locally. Workaround for now is to copy your project to the C:/ when playing with the command-line version of pagedraw.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with a user entering <script src="http://evil.example.com/"> </script> in most any field, so you're not talking input validation but instead input restriction. I'd rather have my outputs properly escaped that have arbitrary restrictions on my inputs.
> In my case, it's because I run/cycle with my phone (I'm not getting the Apple Watch so don't even suggest it) and the bulk of the 6/7/8/X series is way too much for me.

...ok? I mean people would suggest it because it's the solution to your problem. It doesn't have to be the Apple Watch, but some sort of fitness band seems to be a much better solution than hoping against logic that phones will suddenly become tiny again.
I do this for a site I manage and it was remarkably easy to set up. I would recommend this for people who have familiarity with AWS, but not as a first introduction to AWS.
The solution isn't proposed to use ML. It's simply an analogy.

If you're performing statistical inference on sample sizes of 12 you can't then be surprised by a lack of predictability.

And I'm pretty confident the majority of experiments are using sample sizes larger than 12.
It's cool because it can train on very small data sets and recognize multiple images in one frame. For example, draw a chair, then draw a lamp next to it. It will recognize both the chair and the lamp not having been fed millions of images of chairs and lamps together.
Loved that story in the nytimes. Keep up the good work. I think you're on to something here.
Created an account just to say this: First time in a long time I've seen something this fun on Hacker News. Just spent the last 10 minutes trying to see the hidden connections between Bagels and the Atlantic Puffin. Great work!
I want to preface that I know no more about AI than the average technologist, so I'm not making any claims.

>> Various paths proposed earlier turned out over optimistic and dead end.

> False. Various paths proposed earlier are the same ones being turned into profitable solutions today. They are the same ones underlying the bulk of white papers today. There weren't over optimistic. They weren't dead ends which is why various groups are using them to suck down billions of dollars today. What happened that caused the previous AI winter is that people rushed fundamental research into applied engineering.

How do you fit full brain emulation in that description? And in particular Henry Markram's work with Blue Brain and Human Brain? As far as I know it doesn't have any profitable outcomes, and people have been working at it for decades - and now even with pledge funding by the EU and others to the tune of a billion euros - yet nine years after Markram said we could have a functional human brain in ten years, nothing much seems to have emerged.
>500px is a decent place to share photos and see other people's photos, but it is plagued by a total absence of non-photographer audience.

Isn't that the whole reason for them to exist in the first place? I think the problem here is the expectation (maybe internally at 500px as well) that every site has to hockey-stick its way to enormous success. A social-enabled portfolio site for photographers sounds like a very sensible idea to me.