skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A close family member who is an MD in the USA has on more than one occasion said "the hospital is the last place you want to be when you are sick" though more in reference to the higher liklihood of picking up antibiotic-resistant infections than other communicable diseases.
Smokers complain, and now we have e-cigarettes which may be less harmful while still allowing the enjoyment of nicotine and the fun of smoking.

I'm not sure why it's insincere. I keep buying ThinkPads, but I hate the new designs with a passion. (And they hate me; they literally cause me RSI where the earlier ones didn't.) It doesn't make my arguments against the new ThinkPads any weaker.
Upon thinking about it, I agree. I don't want CircleCI to have the SSH key.

I think webhooks are a good model. At worst it could deploy at the wrong time (which would be pretty bad).
"One of the greatest privileges of being on one’s own is the flattering illusion that one is, in truth, really quite an easy person to live with."

Ouch.
> If you mean Hallucinogens, they have been studied extensively and don't seem to be medically useful.

That's not true at all. "Hallucinogens" is a group of drugs so wide that it already includes many drugs already used in conventional medicine. Just go through the many drugs on this list[1] of hallucinogens, you'll quickly find references to potential medical benefits.

Just "potential benefits" though, since there hasn't been nearly enough research done on most of them yet. A lot of them haven't been scientifically studied at all, the basic work Shulgin did is the only things we know about them.

The most common hallucinogens (mushrooms, LSD, MDMA) were considered as very promising by many in the field until research of the potential benefits of them essentially was banned for decades due to the drug war, but that has begun to change now. [2][3][4]

Recent research indicate that certain hallucinogens may be very useful in treating a variety of medical issues - like depression, anxiety, alcoholism, cluster headaches, PTSD, etc etc. [5][6]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hallucinogens

[2] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/11/psychedelics.aspx

[3] http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/research-psychedeli...

[4] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/brain/high...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#Medical_research

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd#Therapies
As mentioned in another comment, if you do this you get the original compressed file. If you capture the audio and then want to recompress it, you'll introduce artifacts.

Although, it seems to me that an intelligent compressor could perfectly recompress the audio back to the original form.
It's only half bonkers, and not the bad half:

It's not just architecture that determines what kind of code you want your compiler to emit.

It is possible, even likely, that the compiler's strategy for a TV plugged into AC power is going to be very different from the compilation for a mobile device with a small battery. And within the worlds of small battery mobile and AC-power or big-battery (e.g. car) devices there will be parameters like heap size, CPU speed, etc. that will vary how the compiler emits code for that device.

Expecting a bytecode designed to be interpreted to be the ideal intermediate representation is a little "bonkers" but it may be good enough that it's not a serious problem, either.
> If you mean Hallucinogens, they have been studied extensively and don't seem to be medically useful.

Eh? Studied extensively? Last time I checked they're all schedule I and haven't really been studied since the 70s. On top of that, in the few recent studies that have focused on them, hallucinogens do seem to be medically useful. MDMA for PTSD, psilocybin for terminally ill patients, etc.
"Why on earth does a random restaurant deserve my real name?"

Maybe because some asshat is selling reservations without their permission or consent?
Better E-mail Receipts for Stripe
The Turk Polishes His Window
Do you expect me to answer 'no'?

Of course it does follow. If you look at how the FEC regulates campaigns, they do so by creating intricate and/or vague rules, which they can subsequently enforce against any speakers or type of speech within their purview. When any government agency is allowed to regulate something, they are given a great deal of deference by the courts and the legislature, this administrative discretion "necessarily allow[s] the FEC to selectively silence any group or type of speech they dislike".
> and now we have e-cigarettes which may be less harmful while still allowing the enjoyment of nicotine and the fun of smoking.

So, we can have digital goods sold without DRM, so we could enjoy them without police state methods attached.

> I'm not sure why it's insincere.

Because by buying from those who push DRM on them, users support and prolong the usage of the said DRM. Complaints won't persuade DRM Lysenkoists. Loss of profits can.
>Don't know where to start? SMB is usually better than NFS for most cases.

Not sure why he feels SMB is better, because in my experience, NFS usually works more smoothly and is easier to setup than SMB. But then, I don't usually use windows.
Law comics exist and they're not boring
Are there protection schemes that "work" on properly user-controlled hardware? DirecTV and Xbox and the like can get away with this since they can ship a big block of hardware. It requires some level of work (not click and play) to crack such a device, even if you know how to do it.

Whereas any software-based mechanism, without buy-in from the OS/OEM, is essentially going to always be one click away from being cracked, as far as end-users view it.
There have been ongoing studies as recently as 2010. The issue is Hallucinations are considered a significant side effect, so you need a vary large benefit to over come it or a low enough dose people don't notice.

PS: You just linked several recent studies which hardly supports the 'completely suppressed' due to drug war argument.
I've been using Rhodecode for a while now and it's solid for the most part. There are a few features that I wish they would implement soon.
BBC News - Germany arrests man suspected of spying for US
Except with Spotify you are not buying music. You are paying a subscription to their streaming services. DRM is the only way they can protect the artists. On top of that, if you are paying 10 dollars a month and ripping the DRM off their streams you are stealing, and completely missing the value proposition of streaming music.

confusing Spotify with amazon or apple DRM would only display lack of understanding on part of the consumer. The truth is for streaming services you are NOT buying music!!!
looks like a pretty and simple app. I'll give it a try. To get it distributed faster I'd suggest to support offline maps especially for mountain bike trails, for navigation and comparison. This is still a pain in mountain biking and there's no dominant solution out there (yes Strava and Runtastic are trying). A lot of bikers still use special gps devices and there are lots of (open source) projects to collect the trails. Maybe you could build on that for a next version.
It says 'You can test your site with a color-blindness simulator, such as Colbindor'

But there is no such way to test a site persay, only upload individual images.
I was thinking the same, but maybe it's because they're dried?
> Except with Spotify you are not buying music. You are paying a subscription to their streaming services. DRM is the only way they can protect the artists.

1. Renting does not make sense for digital goods (I already explained in the past why).

2. DRM doesn't protect anything. I.e. it can't enforce the renting paradigm. This very article demonstrates that DRM is broken and it can't stop piracy. Therefore there is no need to use it ever even if we assume that it's an ethical practice (it is not). All DRM does is punishing paying customers by crippling the usability of the product (limiting supported devices / platforms / players / formats and so on), while having zero effect on pirates who pirate the same stuff DRM free.
I've taken them a few times, and all have been positive experiences that let you explore existence. I remember at the time I was reading Flow the psychology of experience. And while I was under the influence at work, I started thinking about how that book applied to what I was doing, and was seeing it happen all around me ( auto assembly), no loss in motor skills because my skill level of that job was higher than the amount of thought actually needed, so my unused thought energy seperated from my actions, I started looking at things differently, mainly myself and that point of response to stimuli for action or whatever. The point where if you notice it can lead you towards or away certain goals with some sort of common thread.

words cant explain, because it will help each individual upgrade their mental operating system differently.

there was a two week span where I took a small dosage each day, and i felt better than any anti anxiety or anti depressant I've taken previously. Have never taken another "mental" rx medication since, that as about 4 years ago. marijuana excluded ca-legal
Thanks, saved me time for searching.
A: Hallucinations are not always that common. You can have intense experiences without actual visual hallucinations.

B: While they made me a side effect, it seems the benefits come from having experiences, not as ongoing medication like SSRIs. That is, people can have a deep experience, possibly have audio and/or visual hallucinations, then recover for a day and have a significantly different outlook on life.
I don't understand why being funded has anything to do of only hiring US citizens.
I totally agree, but a lot of people do.
Psilocybin is certainly good for what ails me...
Frustrating to use their players? Not for 99% of their customers who don't even know what you're talking about. Don't like the restrictions? Don't buy it. Isn't America great?
I very much agree with this point.
Yeah the caption is "a man displays dried mushrooms", as if that had anything to do with anything. Their file-photo folks really mailed it in on this one.
I'm very interested in what it would be.
Invisible.im: Anonymous IM using TOR hidden services and XMPP
have a look at: https://wrapbootstrap.com

may also chat with these guys http://www.bootply.com/ if you could partner.
The stimulus space provided by wallstreet is incredibly impoverished. While a bundle of algos that deal with text and numbers (and has quite a bit of agency) might one day develop into something very similar to what we call consciousness I suspect we will have an extremely hard time recognizing it. We really have zero way to measure consciousness. Autonomous agency? Yes, there are already machines that build their own models and take action based on them (most people, rightly or wrongly, don't consider them to be conscious). Perhaps wallstreet will seek to create algos that examine themselves as part of their model of the world but that can lead to some nasty chaotic behavior, and without having some sense of 'being' in the world that informs its own actions I might argue that we can simply point to the Chinese room experiment and suggest that we come up with better measures for whatever it is we refer to when talking about consciousness.

I might also note that the author grossly oversimplifies human beings and the vast amount and diversity of information our nervous system is continually collecting and processing without our awareness that ultimately feeds into consciousness.

Also worth noting that our experience of consciousness is very much a fabrication created by our brain to impose consistency on the world (my go to example, used here before being our blind spot). I'm not so sure that wallstreet really wants to replicate the kind of 'filling in' that seems to be a critical part of our conscious experience.
OK, maybe you're right about limiting government (I think you're wrong, but I've been wrong before). So how do you think there's a snowball's chance in Hades to limit government when there's so much money behind the current setup? How are you going to cut the defense budget?
> But don't you sometimes have to work with other people's code too?

Yes, I suppose I have gotten "burned" by other people's JS quite a bit...but not any more than I've been burned by other people's bad SQL or C++ or C#, to be honest.

> Sure, other (better) languages have surprising behaviours too, but they are mostly good surprises that empower instead of restrict.

I am assuming that by "better" languages you are meaning type-safe ones... I know this is not a popular opinion, but I honestly just prefer dynamic typing. When I code, there is only room for one whiny child in the equation: me. Not the language I code in. I would rather not have my language throw a temper-tantrum and break down because I gave it something a millimeter different than what it was expecting. If the object is supposed to have "thing" and it has "thing" then shut your mouth and use it, language. Where JS gets weird is that it tends to put "thing" there in some cases where you didn't expect it, but honsetly after learning the few cases where it does that, I've never had a huge problem with it - I think, like everyone, I bumped into some mild surprises (ya the radix thing with parseInt and [] == false and soforth), but they were never more than just mild surprises in development. I know it drives people insane - and some people will swear that there is no way to build large systems with it. I suspect those people are the same ones who asked the teacher for extra homework for the whole class when they were kids. That was just never me, and I would just respectfully disagree. To me JS is just a ton of fun and there are too many people making too many awesome things with it to ignore. Apparently TJ got tired of it - maybe I will one day, too.

Until then, I just wish people would recognize that the reason JS "won" the language wars of the mid-late aughts was specifically because of the "get-out-of-the-way-and-let-coders-code" dynamic built into it - IMHO the modern web could not have been built with anything else. If you have any recos for "better" languages that share that dynamic, I would be very interested in hearing them.
The media spent decades basically felating McCain for championing cfr.
Long time incumbents can assume their position is safe unless there is a well funded challenger. Incumbents have plenty of air time and name recognition.
plus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_(2012_film)
Thanks for the words of encouragement. You're completely right, I loath marketing and sales and terrible at it. I kind of lived in a delusion for a while that if I made the product good enough, it could sell itself.

The $1/month has been an unmitigated disaster. I'm making peanuts from it, (yay, credit-card fees!) and it severely damages the "value" of the company when I'm trying to sell to a big customer. I'm almost tempted to just make it free
A few reasons to use Underscore.js (or Lo-Dash)
Macbook pro with Retina, and a Dell 24" monitor.
> Correct; specifically, before November 1, 1952. Every dime we've spent on defense since then has gone towards fighting a kind of war that's not ever going to happen again.

The hydrogen bomb does not render obsolete conventional warfare. See, e.g., all the wars nuclear powers have been involved in since 1952. War between nations is a dispute resolution mechanism of last-resort. A weapon that just leaves everyone on both sides dead is inapplicable to that end.

Take, for example, a hypothetical war over some limited resource (take your pick, they're all running out). Is anyone going to use nuclear weapons in such a war? No, but they're not going to handle everything through diplomacy either.

> And that doesn't even get into the absurdity of a combat aircraft with a human pilot in 2014, much less the 2050+ amortization timeline of the F-35 project.)

We have quite a few advances to make in communications technology and AI before human pilots are obsolete. As long as we need human operators, the wireless communications infrastructure is too fragile (susceptible to jamming, etc) to use in combat, and we're nowhere near fully autonomous combat aircraft.
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> If you mean Hallucinogens, they have been studied extensively and don't seem to be that medically useful.

LSD and Mushrooms can be an effective treatment for cluster headaches (a debilitating disease which is said to be "The most painful medical condition known to science").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache

Interestingly, the effect lasts for weeks after the dose is taken (and the hallucinatory effects have worn off).
B: That's not quite true, there is ex some LSD research around pain management where people where far from having hallucinations.
Technically not off-topic, just a digression.
Her name's Betsy.
That's true, unless the original audio is 24-bit and your audio driver is sending 16-bit audio to your sound card, or similar sorts of loss are happening post-decompression.

Many devices have hardware acceleration for mp3 decoding, which also helps with battery life. I'm not sure how many devices have hardware accelerators that can be used/repurposed for Vorbis decoding in the Spotify case. I believe it's less common for hardware decoders to be useful for FLAC decoding, so there may be a battery life penalty for re-encoding mp3 or Vorbis audio as FLAC. (I also presume everyone realizes re-encoding lossily-compressed audio using a lossless codec likely pays a size penalty without any quality increase.)
Personally, I transcode from FLAC to MP3 using Lame's -v 2 VBR preset. My ears can't tell the difference from source at that setting.
ISOs available here:

http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/
> With respect to these "matching" systems, I do not believe that anyone should be forced to support (through taxes,) campaigns they do not support.

I can appreciate that. It's infuriating to feel like our tax dollars are going to things we don't support. I guess ultimately it seems to me like a question of net result- if some of my tax money goes to support campaigns I hate, but the overall result is a system that works better and is able to solve more problems effectively, that seems like a worthwhile trade.

An analogy might be public schools. I have my share of complaints about how many public schools do things, and sometimes my tax dollars wind up supporting crappy school policies, but ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to go to school seems like a net win, so I don't want to prevent my tax dollars from going there.

(As a side note: I'm open to replacing the public school system with something else that does the job better, but to bring the analogy back to our government, I don't know of any more promising approach to fixing government.)

> For one thing, this disenfranchises the people who expressly refuse to support any candidate,

I think the voucher system doesn't do that. You could always chose not to give your vouchers to anyone.

> and necessarily helps people who have positions which give them access to the subsidies (such as members of the Republican and Democratic parties).

I don't see how this would happen under either system proposed on https://mayday.us/the-plan/#fundamental-reform-in-the-way-el.... Can you elaborate?
Wonder how much money EA is making off of Dungeon Keeper now.

They could do worse than to NOT change the ads, but update the game so that it's actually free to play. "Sorry people, we screwed up. Here, have a game. We won't do that again."

But EA, being EA, would never do that.
while true, that doesn't make it a bad comparison. Languages like Swift are one step up on the foodchain, they provide more abstraction. Comparing to a popular language one step down is a good way of showing the cost (or lack thereof). I'm sure 10 years from now we'll all be going "Language X is faster than Swift in certain cases!"
Steve Ballmer as Neo from The Matrix
Thanks for posting this.
I wrote a whole thesis about computer vision using Ruby instead of C/C++ [1]. Now I am working on computer vision with GNU Guile (Scheme) [2]. Not that I have convinced many people apart from myself about it ;)

[1] http://www.wedesoft.de/ruby-computer-vision-thesis.html

[2] https://github.com/wedesoft/aiscm
Ask HN: Need help ... looking for advice
Hi,

I've been part of the HN community for about 5 years and I think I've hit the lowest point of my entrepreneur career and I'm looking for advice. I've been working on my startup for 5 years now and I've made a lot of business mistakes which has cost me dearly but I'm extremely happy with what I have created. Marketing has blindsided me and the tolls of starting a company by myself has caught up to me.

Basically I've run out of money and what was suppose to be a for sure thing job, that would have seen me earning 6 figures a year, just fell through. They liked my personality and my skill set but they loaf that I still believe in my startup. They don't see me as a long term employee and that scares them.

I tried looking for contract/temp work but there is none around my area that I'm qualified for. Those that I am qualified for, are all looking for full time employees and me doing my own startup is turning into a real BIG negative. I think it's the city that I'm in, Ottawa, Canada, but they don't value how much more difficult it is to start a company, than it is to just work in a department for a company. They almost see you doing a startup as taking the easy way out of life.

For those that have started your own business but was forced to go back to work for money reasons; what did you do? Was finding work difficult? Did you just out right lie and say that your start up failed even though you still wanted to pursue it? Did you move to an area like San Fransisco or New York where it's better understood how challenging starting a business is?

Thanks
Distribute encrypted firmwares instead so that hackers have to first extract the (in this case globally distributed) private key.
Just pipe dd to pv
If someone is angry you may be doing something right
You are so ill-informed. Read the book "DMT", from one if the top psychedelic researchers, who states that not only are psychedelics understudied, that much of the research that's been done in the past is not easily accessible. He calls it one of the biggest losses of psychotherapy research
I should have clarified, and have done so now, that I meant that research was stopped for a long time. Since the early '00s research has finally begun again:

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/11/psychedelics.aspx

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/brain/high...

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/research-psychedeli...
In all fairness, in previous outbreaks, rural hospitals WERE methods for spreading Ebola.
Getenv returns an empty string just like unset env variables act like an empty string on the command line. If it returned an error, people would complain it works differently than they're used to. You can't please everyone.