skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Californian here. In college my friends turned me on to drinking. I became what I would describe as a drunk in my 20’s. It was horrible for my body. I’d had some bad experiences with weed but for some reason I decided to try again in my late 20’s. Somehow then I was able to handle the strange disorienting feeling it had previously caused for me.

I’ve found that when I want to unwind with the help of a drug, I vastly prefer weed over alcohol. I currently smoke a little every day. I really do see smoking weed like drinking wine. If you do it a lot and it’s interfering with your life, it sounds like a problem. If you do it a little then yes it’s still unhealthy but it’s not a problem.

I work in tech as an engineer and I consider myself very successful. I know doing drugs isn’t as healthy as staying clean and I don’t plan to smoke every day forever, but for now I like what it gives me. When I smoke, it’s a small hit of sativa from a pipe. Then I get up, put on some music, and clean the house, cook food, or do some mechanical design. I smoke less if I’m going to write software - that’s just how my brain likes it.

But often if I’m going through something hard in life, I’m not good at processing it on my own. I know I could learn that through meditation, but certainly taking a larger hit of the same stuff and sitting down for a while usually allows me to process those emotions. I’ll go in to my emotions, cry, and then work through them. That’s just an evening or weekend thing.

I’ll reiterate that I don’t see this as objectively healthy, but it’s certainly not in a worse class of drug than alcohol. I am frustrated when I go to parties and people allow young children to see everyone drinking but say the weed should be hidden. We have a culture that accepts heavy drinking but we still see weed as some problem. In California it’s not so severe, but I hope to see it legalized everywhere in the world. It’s absurd to send anyone to jail for consuming, producing, or selling this easy to grow drug.
Rick Steves has been an outspoken proponent of legalization for a long, long time now, and it's a testament to his resolve that he's still doing it today with every bit as much fervor as he had when the headwinds were strong.

Keep it up, Rick!
Well, again, DNS has been treated as the source of ground truth for many PKI purposes most of the time for years. It's not new to Let's Encrypt in any way. And it's been a requirement in order to achieve this:

https://letsencrypt.org/stats/#percent-pageloads

And domain registrants and site operators are extremely heterogeneous in ways that could make cert issuance extremely difficult if we made applicants do something new and manual, especially in the offline world.

On the other hand, I've also written skeptical articles about PKI and worried about the fragility of Internet security. Your concerns aren't misplaced, in that a lot of the stuff we rely on is super-fragile.

But in many ways, it's been getting better over time as CAs' power has been getting more and more circumscribed by new rules and technical mechanisms. We have Baseline Requirements amendments that give CAs less discretion in their operations and require more transparency from them. We have CT, we have CAA, we have must-staple, we have databases that researchers can use to find problems. (For a while we also had HPKP.)

So I'd urge you to take your passion about this issue and work on some more security mechanisms to improve the infrastructure, because there's lots more that can be done.

Also, if you come up with good new deployable mechanisms, Ryan Sleevi will be glad to help you make them mandatory for CAs. :-)
why does the world need a large number of gift cards vs fewer/one instead? It is because of the perceived benefits of being a gift card holder/token holder.
LLVM has been pretty amazing on this front.
This is very cool! Thank you for sharing this. We have had a somewhat similar approach, but stored request/response success/error states in request-specific reducers (it may have been better to put that data in the actions).

I think you will find of interest how we've used Immutable.js Maps for reducer state and Immutable.js Records as an easy way to create and pass around (guaranteed immutable) action types.

We were using Immutable.js and functional-style JS a lot in general, so it was a good fit.

https://gist.github.com/adamcee/3191762f2af43ec62a4b335b6695...
If you look at software engineering and static analysis papers for a language like Java, there's often a discussion about using stuff like 2-object, 3-call site context sensitive alias analyses built on more or less fairly standardized Datalog rules. If you look at C or C++, the response is generally "you want a precise alias analysis? fall down in riotous laughter".

The rules for TBAA are complex, and many C/C++ programs violate those rules because it's so hard to actually make sure you're not violating them, and half of the purpose of using C/C++ is actually to be able to do the kind of type-punning that TBAA prohibits.
> Europe is way ahead of the US in a lot of (social) aspects, drugs being one of them.

Scandinavian countries have some of the most insane zero-tolerance drug policies in the world, so I don't know about that.
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>There is nothing wrong with this

Yes there is. You're selling investors on capabilities you don't have, or at least intentionally misleading them about your abilities. Unless you're explicitly telling them that you WILL have "The best automated way to do X!" and are working hard on it, you're deceiving them.
Classic example of a law just to make criminals out of otherwise law-abiding citizens. Marijuana law is such a textbook example of everything bad about government. We needed a constitutional amendment to allow the government regulate alcohol, but now you don't even Congress to regulate drugs, you just need the executive. And it can be illegal at the federal level, legal at the state level, illegal at the local level, but not "enforced", so the TSA can get you charged with a felony because you're transporting your small amount of no-THC pain balm across state lines. What a mess we've built ourselves.
I would add one more thing - even if the technology is objectively awful, it is worth learning if it serves some practical purpose. Learning something is not value judgement of its objective quality, it should be in part rational choice.
Home sellers now use spycams to gather intel on prospective buyers
KER gets latitude when it screws up, because it's a mod. The game itself needs to be damn-near perfect - and it can't be, because some rocket configurations are inherently impossibly to calculate total dv for (eg, a lunar-orbit rendezvous mission a la Apollo).

I totally agree about not adding the autopilot. Mechjeb exists for those people.
The kiosks over here allow you to customize your order, and I assume they're the same everywhere.

It does appear that the kiosks are limited to removing the default ingredients, rather than allowing extra ingredients. Maybe this is a general policy change, but in the past I recall asking for bacon on a bacon-less burger and getting it. So could be that ordering with a person still has an advantage in some cases.
I agree with 99% of what you said, but in the case of weed, while I don't think it should be hidden per se, it has a known "secondhand" effect on those in close proximity.

So perhaps it stands to reason it's just the usage that should be kept at a distance rather than the admission of use. Too bad so many are still terrified to admit their use where it's still illegal. May that change more rapidly in the future.
I'm guessing the paper trail is because it is not always obvious that it IS a crime. Nobody tells you on your first day at work what constitutes insider trading. At my first company, you got an email saying "you are now an 'insider' for SEC purposes" if you got important enough (so I heard, anyway). Is it insider trading if you sell your stock because the new manager over the division is terrible? Is it insider trading if you're working on a product that you think is awesome, so you buy some stock? I'm guessing both of those are not insider trading, despite that you are acting on information not available to the public. From there it doesn't seem like too great of a leap to not consider that news of the hacking you are working on is also not insider trading.

If you asked me, "is it insider trading to sell stock because you know the company has been seriously hacked and the price will drop once news gets out?" I'd probably say "yes." But if I were in the situation myself, I'm not sure if that question would occur to me.
I believe this falls out directly from the finite speed of light and fact that gravity would distort spacetime. You'd eventually end up with gravitational wells that light can't escape from.
Bad science, in a random sample, testing showed no correlation between brain activity and psychopathic behavior.
hardware incubators, VCs, Angels interested in hardware.
Being in the YC community for years, it's delightful to see someone like Rick Steves be in the top page.

His shows on PBS became the the main reason why I decided to work remotely whilst traveling all around the world.

He shares knowledge like no one else, I highly recommend you watch his shows and also his talks on YouTube.
He has started his own company Flux Biosciences in 2017 after learning some important lessons...

"With Theranos I learned that entrepreneurs have to sell their vision," he said. "But you have to have some line between having a vision and seeing something that’s just not there."

"[Flux Biosciences] is developing point-of-care medical tests on blood, urine or saliva. Right now the company is working on a test for testosterone in saliva which could give a consumer health information but wouldn't serve as a diagnostic test that would affect medical care, as Theranos' tests aimed to."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elliekincaid/2017/10/03/after-b...
I’m guessing she wasn’t renting a small studio in Palo Alto. Wonder if they’ll claw back any of these ill gotten gains.
21cm was initially misleading; that's the origination of the hydrogen line at 1420MHz; by the time it reaches earth it is doppler shifted down (redshift) to 78MHz!

I worked as an antenna engineer on the VLA's low-band Epoch of Reionization expansion project in 2014[1], which focused on 74MHz signals. They've been looking at this frequency since 1999 [2] but who knew they were 4MHz low! (I doubt that they just didn't look there, likely some other effects or local RFI problems, as Australia is a lot more remote than New Mexico.)

[1] http://lwa.phys.unm.edu/users14/Ellingson_MJP.pdf
[2] https://www.nrao.edu/pr/1999/74mhz/
I wonder if caloric restriction may have strengthened his immune system and increased his life expectancy?

EDIT: I thought I should do a quick search on that idea and it turns out that I am not the first person to have asked that question:
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=463854
Thanks for reporting this bug, it'll take just a few moments to fix it and restart the simulation ...
Unity and Unreal Engine are really pushing each other to amazing heights.
Sounds amazing.
NASA releases summary of investigation into SpaceX’s 2015 launch failure
I had a similar thought when this story appeared this morning.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-whistleblower-shook-th...
Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with 'massive fraud'
They should still pay a full time wage, even if it is only four hours. Or find other duties to fill the remainder.
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What does this git command do? I have used git for a decent amount of time and still have never used this.
So if you commit massive fraud you get a slap on the wrists. Meanwhile people committing minor crimes (in comparison) are incarcerated.
Thanks for sharing link. This mostly goes to just one person? I would like to donate to fund research to help the most people benefit, do you know the foundation?
There are amazing ui’s which provide really nice interfaces to git. I always cheerlead http://gitup.co when I come across git complain threads (I love gitup!). Try it and you’ll quickly realize that git is hard to use because it has a terrible command line interface and because the git commands manipulate state which is not at all easy to visualize from the command line.

Being able to Visualize the state of the repositories provides a huge win when learning the actual concepts behind dvcs (which are NOT complicated)
The Congressional Black Caucus Is Asking Silicon Valley Why It's So White
I don't think anyone is misunderstanding your point, I just think its ridiculously backwards. It's the equivalent of the government breaking roads so they can create jobs fixing those roads.
If software can simplify bookkeeping and make the profession obsolete, and you deliberately make your software in a way that keeps that inefficiency at play...you guys are gonna wake up one day and realize you spent all your time serving the bloated middleware instead of the true end user, and your market will evaporate before you know what happened....

We get that from a short term perspective, it may make sense to keep it too complicated for the end users, but efficient markets will prevail short of forced intervention.

If that is how Intuit thinks, I cannot wait for the day when they get displaced.
Hedera and MZ reveal blockchain alternative
From the Financial Times:

Here's the nuance of her formula:

Commit fraud as an attractive, well-connected WASP woman who happened to be neighbors with well-connected VC Draper family.

Tell a great story: Stanford drop-out who studied Chinese, afraid of needles, wants to help the world.

Leverage Silicon Valley connections to pull in other really big fish, such as Kissinger, et al, who would be really, really embarrassed that they were so hoodwinked by an ingenue.

Use that cognitive dissonance to raise more and more money, while having no technology whatsoever.

Get even more and bigger fish such as Biden to vouch for you.

Wrap your company in total mysterious secrecy.

Declare anyone against you as against women in business. Works like a charm and will happen again in the future.
This is potentially a real effect, but in this case, the exact unit economics will determine exactly how much it matters.

Thanks to a focus on software and automation where we can afford it without hurting the experience, it's been good enough so far where we haven't noticed this affecting our decision making yet.
The shell might be the least neccessary to mechanically port as it could be easily implemented in the target language and probably doesn't change that much.

The core is where the real compatibility issues lie and where it makes the most sense to translate, as well as where the core vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited lie.
Give it a try - it produces git logs which are much more 'graph-like', and really help visualize the different branches used in a given repo. I especially like the `glola` alias provided by the `oh-my-zsh` git plugin.
> We know that brain is quite elastic

I'm assuming you mean plastic.

This is what he says:

> My bias is that even though I work in growth factors, plasticity, memory, and learning, I think the whole idea of plasticity in adults—or really after puberty—is so overblown.
+1 for HtDP. I think it is also a really valuable book for anyone coming from JavaScript who wants to actually learn how to do functional and reactive programming properly.
> Advertising is part of capitalism.

Because the core principles of Capitalism could function without advertising, I think this is incorrect.

The main point I was trying to make was that advertising does not remove the inherent Democratic component of Capitalism.

> You're describing creating demand. Someone didn't want something because they didn't know it existed. Now they want it. This is the most effective advertising possible.

The advertiser didn't really create the demand though, it existed before them?
Everyone I know who got into crypto has the same story: for some silly reason they all bought like 5-10 different coins and it would be inordinately complicated and expensive to sell them all.

I'm pretty sure whatever "newbie guides" exist out there purposely lead people to this awful state.
>`volatile` has pretty much no correct uses outside of accessing registers in low-level code

Sorry, but what are you guys on about? You use "volatile" if you don't want the compiler to produce code that caches a variable. You use it all the time in embedded systems, or when writing multi-threaded code, etc. The usage of "volatile" is very clear, and should be well understood. "restrict" isn't used much because it's a c99 standard first of all, and second of all, it's like "inline"; it might make a difference, might not, and not a lot of people are in a situation where they have to shave off cycles.
Updated. Thanks, all.
Cryptopal, a decentralized platform that reinvents how people and brands connect
As Addition they do:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...

Unrelated to norways ferrys - but for ocean traffic- is it energetically more feasable to fly a drift anchor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anchor
ahead of the ship with a drone- and then wind the ship forwards against this "relative" resting position?
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He bought it and then asked you what he'd just spent all this money on?
I don't think leaky abstraction correctly describes the problem here, because the leaky thing (the fact that history is not linear, and multiple people edit the same files, and that everything is distributed) is not actually an abstraction. In my mind, Git forces you to deal with the fact that history is inherently nonlinear, and then you can choose to create a linear history by the way you use Git.

Git's main abstraction is the fact that everything is a content-addressable blob. This "leaks" but it's not a major contributor to the problems people have using Git, at least from what I've seen.
Except that everyone who knows the person in the article corroborates that he shows psychopathic behavior.
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Has anyone seen an articulate defense of this legislation?

I can clearly understand the opposition, but I am having trouble figuring what is driving the introduction of the bill in the first place. I do not want to fully judge it until I understand what the other side is thinking.
Surely because the end user bought both games clears things up a bit? If there's no intention of letting the resulting Franken-game off of the PC it's generated on, what outcome beyond more money for the games company could come from that?
Ok, so I guess I won't be using any cloud services of companies falling under US jurisdiction any time in the future.
Thoughts on Travis CI
This is great - messaged.
Wasn't this when they were trying to ban /r/the_donald outright from /r/all? I feel like they were trying to penalize the "real" score but somehow kept that the same and accidentally set the "fake" score to zero instead.
Is there something like this for Canadian businesses?
I don't think justice and schadenfreude are terribly different.

Schadenfreude is taking joy in someone else's suffering.

Justice is taking joy in the meting out of suffering to people who deserve it. People argue about who deserves what, and laws and justice systems exist to manage those arguments. But the idea of righteous retribution for a wrong is pretty close to universal, and looks like schadenfreude to me.
It'd be easy enough to store a key in a deck of cards.

(just map the alphabet to cards 1:1 and ignore some cards)
No your sentence should be that of whats historically been the sentence, not 700% more than average.
Employee movement between companies in Alphabet is not really different than movement within Google.

I would consider movement within Amazon to be more difficult than movement within Alphabet as you have to interview again for your new team at Amazon, or at least this was the case when I was there.

(I work at Google and previously worked at AWS)
> I was at a dinner recently where a grandmother was discussing her granddaughter .. She's beautiful, smart, and a sociopath ..

My diagnosis: The granddaughter is being subjected to emotional abuse by one or more of her 'care givers' and acting out in this manner as she lacks the emotional maturity and verbal skills to express herself.
The sheer speed you're talking about isn't nearly high enough for mass to change significantly. You need to get very close to the speed of light before this is the case.
Increasingly, I'm wanting to live in a place where there is no IP law whatsoever. Is there such a place on earth at the moment?
Surely you're joking mr. richardfeynman.

Come on guys, think this through. Hawking. Eating. Movement.

I'm sure he would have appreciated this joke though and how it got at least two of you ;)
Hard to know if they're even real people or just bot-driven accounts.
Access to the stairs and each floor requires scanning your badge. That access had be revoked
Same with RIT(Rochester Institute of Technology), the cooperative education program is a huge boost for placement. Most of us end up getting hired before we even graduate at the same company. You go into the workforce with real experience, school credit, AND you get paid(requirement).
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Easier said than done. My last team said they had used git a lot. Some were even very experienced.

What they referred to was what I could most accurately describe with "Treating the GitHub website as a Dropbox except it forces you to confirm conflicting files on upload."

I wish I could find the right words to convey what a nightmare that was. They ignored directory structure, straight up just committed any merge conflicts to the default branch, no sense in what happened in which commit, etc. Frequently overwrote each other's work, since their most reliable merge strategy was deleting the file entirely and then reuploading their own copy. By doing so, they created an endless series of conflicts where they alternatingly uploaded each of their copies -- both locally having a cohesive version, but anyone pulling from them got one or the other, depending on who uploaded last. They usually "fixed" this by hunting down the git conflict markers in the code and deleting just those, leaving two nearly indistinguishable copies of the conflicting hunk. Frequently the only difference was whitespace.

If you tell a person lile that to "just use git more!" they would, best case, not know where to start. Worst case, they'd keep doing that.
Ah I see, its git repository history. The 2 places I have worked at thankfully have other ways of visualizing this. I also don't view the different commits using git. Rather use a different tool like Phab etc.
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So, do we deliberately transmit at that wavelength, with the intention of attracting the attention of ETIs?
don't be an asshole rule
I could be wrong but it sounds like Bethesda don't own rights to the voice acting. They only licensed it for the purpose of FO3. Outside of that they can't grant or deny anyone permission to use it. Presumably there is either another corporation who owns the VA rights or the individual artists own the rights. There were some big names involved so I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
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Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767433
don't be an asshole
that's the best skill a lot of people in engineering can be assholes.
Not to mention that the most common way of creating a branch is by using git checkout, and it also reverts files, and also switches branches, again all based on what flags you feed it