skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, this article is trying so hard to sound cool.

> The oil was the brownish color of a stagnant pond, and tasted like old bong water with a hint of lemon.

It sounds like they haven't actually tried bong water, unless the CBD tincture they had was actually incredibly poorly made. Bong water is... not something you just drop on your tongue. It's hard for me to illustrate but it's very disgusting, unpalatable.

> After ingesting it—perhaps, I will admit, because I really wanted to believe—I thought I felt something

I think it's possible that some people feel effects from CBD alone, but most people probably need a more whole spectrum cannabinoid profile to benefit. I.e. the "entourage effect":

> First described in 1998 by Israeli scientists Shimon Ben-Shabat and Raphael Mechoulam, the basic idea of the entourage effect is that cannabinoids within the cannabis plant work together, or possess synergy, and affect the body in a mechanism similar to the body’s own endocannabinoid system. [1]

> I told him that I had tried CBD in coffee

Not the author's fault there... these substances are very opposite.

Finally I'd like to say for anyone wanting to experience the healing effects from cannabis without getting high should look into raw cannabis, or THCA and CBDA, which are the acid forms of THC and CBD and in studies I've seen provide anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer etc. effects (as THC and CBD are claimed to) but without the psychoactivity.

[1] https://www.medicaljane.com/2014/05/14/thc-cbd-and-more-the-...
I agree with the last part, but not the first. As a class, white folks got capital, property, education, opportunities, and more—all denied to black people. I have to think that amassing of resources have an effect today.
Setting the QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 env var does the trick for Zoom on my end.
Darpa unveils ‘extreme’ in-hub electric motors for military vehicles
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that WL promoted those theories.

Clearly if you watch the full statement Assange makes, he's simply establishing a universe of possible sources of the leaks. Statistically, a disgruntled employee is significantly more likely to attempt sabotage than many/most of the other explanations being floated at the time.

Also, FWIW anyone can weaponize a system like Wikileaks, and we should reasonably expect that to be a major source of the leaked data. But keeping in mind that WL is something that can be weaponized, there are many different attacks that can be delivered through it.
We already had a vaccine, LYMErix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Vaccination

No military involvement necessary, only emotional restraint and emphasis on rationality.
> In my opinion, it would be more accurate to compare psychedelic drugs to activities like meditation and fasting

I've done all 3 of these (meditation as in mindfulness), and I disagree.

Of these 3, meditation is the most harmless. It is relaxing, not discomforting (I'll hook into this again at the end of my post).

Someone can start meditating or fasting without guidance (though I recommend guidance in both cases, especially concerning fasting) and resume normal life whenever they feel like it. With psychedelics, that one doesn't fly and if you do meditation in a group such as a 10 day
Vipassana course or are in a religion or cult being forced to fast then you might also feel the same pressure. But that's an outlier; in general, meditation doesn't have such -or any- pressure. It is relaxing.

Finally, I've followed a mindfulness course for people with autism and there is no such thing as that with regards to psychedelics. The psychedelics also affected my autism, and in some situations made it much worse. All of that while I wasn't aware I had autism!
Agreed. However, you should NEVER use company equipment or resources for side jobs/projects unless you’ve been explicitly given the OK in writing to do so. A lot of employers have it written into agreements/contracts that they own any work done using their stuff. It seems like it should be common sense, but I know a number of people who do side gigs using their laptops from their full-time jobs, and I feel like that’s just a disaster waiting to happen if the employer ever finds out.
Perhaps the author was being unreasonable. I see no evidence pointing in either direction.

But that is not the point I was making.

The point I was making is that if the only argument someone has to defend them there actions is "according to the law, it is my community so I can ban anyone for any reason", well that's a bad argument.

People in positions of authority can and should be criticised. Yes, they should still be criticized even if their it is there "right" to do whatever is is that they are doing.

I would also even argue that anyone who only defends themselves by saying it is their "right" to abuse their position of authority should be criticised 10 times harder.

Because if THAT is the only argument that they can make, well that must mean every other defense is even worse.
Understanding multimodality: An analysis of early JUMP bike users
I’ve done a lot of water skiing and have never seen any recreational skiers wearing anything like a wet suit.
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I've been sampling CBD oil from a few different sources the past few months. I just received a bottle from Bluebird Botanicals (as the author did). Their website warns you before purchase about the taste, and after sampling three other products, I just ignored the warning.

I received it yesterday and WOW it tastes AWFUL. It's really bad.
> Bong water is... not something you just drop on your tongue. It's hard for me to illustrate but it's very disgusting, unpalatable.

Start with water from rotten potatoes, add fish oil.
That's giving them way too much benefit of the doubt. The problem had been exposed by tests before the fatal incident. A number of passengers were injured by airborne rafts over the course of two years -- and these injuries were reported and documented by lifeguards. The problem was known even before the ride opened, thanks to independent test results from an outside engineering company.

Schlitterbahn ignored and/or attempted to cover up all of these reports, as is documented in the indictment.
This talks about good reliability of the RC 4000 software. I used an RC 4000 -- which seemed pretty steam-driven in the '80s -- and the immortalized phrase quite heard often enough from our Danish colleagues was "Ze compuder ish all schrewed upp". (Pardon the accent.) As far as I remember that was typically software rather than hardware, and I wonder why the discrepancy.

Anyhow, back home, our GEC 4000s¹ were fast and pretty reliable, running the OS4000 operating system. I've never confirmed it, but I assume "4000" was a tribute to RC 4000, given its similar software design and terminology, though Nucleus, (the moral equivalent of?) the microkernel, was in hardware/firmware. It's an interesting counterpoint to the RC 4000 monitor generally described as slow. As the GEC 4000 architecture was later emulated decently fast on M88000s, the speed wasn't just down to the original hardware; such 1970s microkernel-ish designs could work well. Skål PBH.

1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_4000_series
What difference does it makes that these are links? Is okay to publish anything if it’s a link?

The guy lost his mind. Shame because I actually respected him before this.
NO, Python is not simple at all, especially nowadays with all the asyncio stuff and tons of new features in 3.4+. One can't even follow what's happening with the language.

I don't understand where this nonsense is coming from. Probably ignorance? You might not know too much about it to understand how huge and complex Python is.
> he collaborated (as far as it is understood) with another country, to undermine the governments that imposed sanctions on it for the crimes it has (still does) committed.

Can I explain? Did I miss something?
Sell out to Microsoft...
The only case where it might even be a question is if you're directly taking what you are working on during your day job and putting it into a side project, aka stealing their IP.

Other than that, no, your time is your time and unless they are paying you then they have no say as to what you work on no more than they have a say in what you eat for dinner.
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While I may agree with the author's sentiment, platform denial will never be the correct answer when trying to change minds, nor will pushing the idea that there are questions one may not ask or that simply asking certain questions makes one somehow evil.

Beyond that, TFA could use some editing. I highly doubt that the users who frequent The_Donald are pro-Obama, or that the AskHistorians moderators suffer a daily barrage by Jewish supremacists.
Not saying that python great for this, but this exact use case is literally what matlab was created for. I'd take python over matlab any day, but people have been writing crappy matlab scripts for their dissertations for a long time now.
From comment in this thread about a Lenovo: "I ended up installing NVidia's proprietary driver which let me disable the MX150 and use the Intel video card instead. Machine seems to run a little cooler since.". Might help if you don't need nVidia?
>> I told him that I had tried CBD in coffee

> Not the author's fault there... these substances are very opposite.

Well depends on the strain, right?

Sativa + Coffee probably has a enhanced little buzz.
under the tongue intake ?

I'm wondering if it's possible to inhale CBD with the old bowl of near boiling water.
I recommend mixing it with honey! My favorite drink with it is CBD + honey + matcha green tea + ice.
> Redfin, the Seattle-based home buying site/app, has been beating this drum for years, recently stating that we will see “mass migration” from the Bay Area based on housing. The CEO writes “Silicon Valley is going to leave Silicon Valley… the technology companies… they’re chasing talent, and talent is chasing affordable housing.” Redfin specifically identifies Denver, San Antonio, and Houston as the next hubs newer generations will seek out.

Rather odd choice of Texas cities in my opinion. If you're going to go with Texas, I'd think Dallas and Austin are more obvious choices for technical people.
I imagine "tech lead" means a lot of different things to different companies. In my current role as a tech lead, I also have management responsibilities and conduct 1-1s, do performance reviews, write code, write requirements with the product team, and do software architecture for the service I maintain.

Formerly, I was the most productive developer on the team and solved the hardest problems. Now I spend 30%-40% of my week in meetings and try to avoid taking the big hard problems because I have to context shift so frequently. I'm only on call every 5 weeks but if things go sideways (as they sometimes do), I'm usually the one woken up in the middle of the night by the person who is on call for help. There is another top developer on my team who is now the superstar who has taken my place.

I've only really been doing this for a year or so, so I don't have much advice. I doubt I get compensated for the amount of additional stress I have. I've been debating on forcing the issue, but I do make quite a bit of money in a LOC area.
Scripting languages have that property. Some are even more gradually learnable, like Perl, where you don't need to be exposed to anything from the language beyond what you want to do and it will run your code.
You know this episode of Black Mirror with Hamm...? Nevermind
I think that is wrong. I have debated with Holocaust deniers before. It is laughably easy to debunk their arguments. Denier brings up canned argument #5: Dachau had no gas chambers. A coherent counter-argument can be googled up in 15 minutes. Denier then moves on to canned argument #6 and you repeat the process. Time consuming, but not hard at all. They are so stupidly easy to expose that banning them just makes them appear more powerful than they really are.

Denialism isn't unique to the Holocaust either. It is used in lots of countries to try and cover up their less than stellar past.
Truth to be told, T470p is weird beast because of it's incredible thicknes compared to non -p models. I think that most people who really need the power are better served by P series anyway.
How is THCA not psychoactive? THCA generally undergoes decarboxylation when the environment shifts (acid, base, temperature), and just naturally over time anyways, so it autoconverts to THC, and even probably requires that conversions to touch the receptor.
>organizations that were openly hostile to American interests.

Exactly which organizations are you referring to?
Advice to talented professionals everywhere:

If you have reached the age of 30, you should already own your home. If not, buy a home immediately. NOW. If you can't afford anything decent close to your place of employment, quit your job and move somewhere where homes are more affordable. Your future happiness depends on it.
do you think there's a market for flavorless CBD products?
Get paid in 30 mins from nothing but watching videos
I'd like to see research comparing the effectiveness of cannabis in small doses, against other psychedelics. If your goal is to benefit the largest number of people, then it makes sense to start with a substance that a significant fraction of the population can access without advanced social skills and risk tolerance.
Sorry, but you don't have no clue what you're talking about.

Python is an imperative language by nature, and lamdba is very uncomfortable to use for anything than a simple expression. You can use functional elements up to a certain degree, but it will be a pain if you try to force it to be a functional language; you simply can't go very far with it.
There are other UIs for Masto e.g. https://pinafore.social/ or https://brutaldon.online/ The benefits of open source :).
I went from Latitude E7200 series to XPS15. I love it except for:

1. The webcam placement is terrible. If I'm taking notes during a call, everyone else gets a great shot of my fingernails.

2. I have to carry dongles for Ethernet and HDMI.
FWIW, Purchasing a house and having children are no longer desirable goals for a substantial number of people.

Looking at trendlines and extrapolating is a pretty good way to see the future.
And they're being charged as murderers. I wouldn't say they're being romanticized, per se, but reality is seldom black-and-white enough to paint someone one-dimensionally as a monster and still be telling the truth. Seldom does a baby come out the womb and people go, "What a monster, he is going to kill someone someday."
I must be stuck in the past. What's great about lambda functions in Python?
I love the Dell XPS 15 9570 with 32GB and a 1TB SSD. I have a docking station (TB16, although the D6000 looks okay too) and I run two 4K 32" monitors with a wireless keyboard from it as my work desktop.

It is thin, light, long battery and I feel like I am not making any performance sacrifices.
I would try Fedora 28, or if you are a bit more technical- Arch. I'm running Arch on a 13" and it works flawlessly. I've had a lot better experiences using Fedora when compared to Ubuntu.
I don't know what the situation is now, but back when they were trying to push it toward standardization, NaCl was tightly integrated into the Chromium codebase with spotty public documentation. It would have been quite burdensome for other browsers to integrate and maintain, let alone for non-Google engineers to significantly contribute to and influence the direction of development.
Edit: nevermind, I apparently rm'd the offending locale directory last time I encountered a bug like this and sort is silently ignoring LC_ALL:

bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory

I can't reproduce this bug:

$ (echo '"'; echo '/') | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sort
"
/
$ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.26

What version are you using?
Pretty much and Python has massive library availability and consistently good libraries (PHP and JS have lots of libraries but the quality is...meh and to an extent they silo much more than in Python - though both languages have at least improved their (PHP with composer and PSR/FIGS and JS with npm/ES6 imports)
It's still there, you can create modules with it. there are some examples in sources

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?luactl+8+NetBSD-current
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?lua+4+NetBSD-current
Just as any journalist might spend hours hanging out with a source, developing sympathy and rapport, WL has to use some of the same strategies.

It's a tactic used by detectives, journalists, psychotherapists, etc. It is appropriate in some fields and is part of the professional standard and is not a reflection on credibility.

I do not think we have to look far to assess WL's credibility. When is the last time that significant source material has been provided to some other, competing transparency organization? WL is the market leader and in spite of having been under attack for years has not been left in the dust of some other competitor. In that sense WL has tremendous credibility.

When is the last time someone has leaked a trove of data to the NYTimes after WL sat on it for months waiting for the perfect moment to deploy it? This simply hasn't happened.

All it would take would be one big story where the leakers publicized that Assange said no to the story or that he sat on the information. I think it's quite obvious that Assange actually would publish any significant story at the earliest opportunity.

Snowden chose not to go to WikiLeaks for his own personal reasons and because he wanted to be extra cautious about how aggressively the information was disclosed (to protect national security). Wikileaks is specifically not willing to heavily editorialize the leaked information (by omission or actively) because doing so would create doubt about why he suppressed information, and such doubt would actually harm WL's credibility.

Something like WL can easily be weaponized by state actors, disgruntled employees, estranged partners, etc. Because of that, the decision not to suppress any significant stories is crucial. WL won't publish paraphrased rumors, it publishes the actual source material so that there is no need to make inferences or imagine what was kept back.

It's ironic if not a bit absurd that Assange was asking Don Junior to turn over damaging information about his own father and that his remarks are used as evidence that he wanted Trump to win the election.

On a related but tangential note, it's remarkable to me that nobody has leaked Trump's tax returns yet. I'm also surprised nobody has posted a bounty on Ethereum for the first person to send the tax returns to Wikileaks and publish the decryption key and checksum in a public ledger.

One other thing that I'll mention is that I think that people who like one of the two major parties are much more likely to perceive someone else's behavior as being motivated by partisan loyalty.
As a parent I can't imagine losing a child...

A parents whole routine with life is do things, check kids, do thing..... every moment you would be aware that something is terribly wrong.
I disagree with your first sentence. Say that you work for Amazon, and you start an e-commerce side project that directly impacts the growth of e-commerce outside of the Amazon marketplace. It may be a negligible share of the market, but you are still negatively impacting Amazon's sales. There is a reason that they put conflict of interest in the fine print, and posing the question helps bring more context.
THCA requires heat to be activated into THC. In fact most strains of cannabis contain hardly any THC at all; it’s almost entirely THCA. That's why eating raw buds won’t get you high. Only when you ignite or vape the plant material does it get converted.
It's NOT simple at all, see my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17584388
For the 90s, yes. That future happened and now we're looking at a new one. For as much as I dislike the language and most of the software built on the JVM, I do think it helped advance the world of application-level software development to a better place.

Without it, people would likely have built the same memory-hungry, slow, and bloated software, but in C++ with all its added risks, lessened portability, and none of its advantages (except maybe better start-up times). There are more problems that need fixing, but Java at least solved some of them.

Edit: Java, and other languages and systems like it, really. Java had the advantage that it was familiar to C++ programmers.
Belgian political leader predicts European civil war is near
So is Soma on the horizon then?

https://www.shmoop.com/brave-new-world/soma-symbol.html
Finasteride can help, but this is far from a solved problem. Trust me.
One could argue that the Roman Empire also started coming undone in the 180s.
You literally lose brain activity and effectively intelligence/IQ when you get PTSD. You can slowly train your brains with mindfulness, getting in the diffused mode of thinking. The trick is to focus on small victories. Learn different meditation techniques and try them out. You'll get your favourite ones eventually. FWIW, I can highly recommend going to a mindfulness course. Guided with audio, a decent book, and a (hopefully) good teacher you'll have use of it for the rest of your life. An unintended side consequence is that I am now, truly, never bored. I've been afraid to be bored without a mag, without my smartphone, without my bag with me, without my wallet, without my lock pick set, without electronic devices, without my powerball. Mindfulness skills I always have with me though (although I do mostly still prefer guided)
THC and coffee is so popular there is slang for it - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stoner%20spe...
Phishing sites list
Hi guys!
My name is U53r and I've just discovered Hacker News.

First of all: sorry if my english isn't perfect, but I'm not a native speaker.

I'm looking for some phishing and fake websites like this http://cdn.ffdefenseupdate.com/_install.html , just to see how they are made and analyze them.
Thanks to all those who send links!
Here's a link to Blindsight, the Peter Watts novel mentioned in the post above. It can be read in browser or downloaded as a e-book. It is (IMO) well worth the read.

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I don’t feel like this applies as broadly as it used to

There are numerous small business owners, started with buying the domain and building a website

The tools for this are just GUIs over devops processes anymore.

Very little insight is needed about the DNS system or HTTP

There’s no reason this couldn’t be wrapped in an appropriate workflow for users

That’s something of a vain talking point for IT folks

Like saying patients need to know everything about anatomy and physiology before using OTC cold meds
Anecdotally, as someone with moderate bipolar depression and severe anxiety, a 1:1 THC/CBD tincture has been a miracle cure for me. I’ve spent my whole life going through every SSRI and mood stabilizer in the book, and the side effects have always been worse than just going unmedicated. This is the only thing that has ever truly helped me. Cannabinoids seem to be highly synergistic, where THC can ease the depression but increase anxiety, while CBD decreases the anxiety to be manageable. Either one alone is far less effective.
It should be pointed out that the degrees in question were as follows:

Degree: Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A)

Majors:

* International Business

* A+

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Majors:

* Farm Sciences

* Straight A's

Perhaps the surprise and indignation of a person who discovered that "Straight A's" is not a real major in Yale does have some comic value.
I thought viruses weren't alive as such?
Can you elaborate on this? I'm nowhere near 30 yet, but I'm curious as to why my future happiness will depend on it.