skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The broad stroke of your thinking is in line with ours -- it'll be inevitable. However, we do think it's important to start the dialogue and bring in policy makers as nootropics get more mainstream and as more exotic, unregulated/prescription drugs get roped into the scene. For example, sourcing unregulated research chemicals from labs in China or India zip-tied up in large, plastic baggies is sketchy. Bringing nootropics out of their current 'homebrew' status will really push the market forward.

You should try your caffeine with l-theanine if you don't like an over-stimulated, jittery effect. l-theanine is a pro-drug for GABA, crosses the blood-brain barrier, and is shown to ameliorate some of the edge off stimulants. Our indiegogo campaign for SPRINT makes it really easy to use: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sprint-declaring-war-on-a...
The US system is about punishing people as harshly as possible, not rehabilitating them. It's all about fear. And it's allowed to happen because if you polled the population you'd find that an uncomfortably high number of people view prisoners as less than human. They're viewed as not deserving of any rights so they usually don't have many, if any, people fighting on their behalf which causes them to be swept under the rug and largely ignored.

Also keep in mind that many prisons in the US are run by for-profit corporations. They clearly don't want people to reintegrate. They want people recommitting at as high of a rate as possible.
To add to this, I'm a recent graduate looking for a job and I can't seem to find these "smaller companies" you're talking about. I'm in the field of computer vision and machine learning but I can't seem to search the right criteria or reach anyone but the bigger companies like IBM and Facebook. Where are you looking for these companies and what do you search to find them?
There's a bit more to do before it's ready. Your card won't be charged until you start the beta, so signing up just reserves your spot as a founding user. Thanks!
I'm not sure that it is a safe assumption that this stationary battery will be based on lithium-ion cells. In the past, simple lead-acid batteries have far outperformed lithium-ion batteries in situations where weight and volume were not an issue.
MIT and Harvard's "largess" is funded in part by tax money collected from deaf people. Anyway, donating to a a discriminatory cause is still discrimination even if it is generous or well-intentioned.
> in fact, in many cases this is considered to be good by many people, e.g. by anti-tradeunionists when CEOs fights with unions.

Sure, but arguably they're benefiting the company then. In what way does denying some people fundamental rights that other people are allowed to have benefit Mozilla? It's a different situation.

> Saying that he explicitly expressed hatred towards anyone is misrepresenting the facts

It really isn't. Did you see the Prop 8 campaign? Do you know the kind of offensive garbage anti-gay groups spew, even today? They regularly call homosexuals pedophiles, rapists, accuse them of having an "agenda" to convert others to homosexuality, or that their god hates them. These groups are a wellspring of hate, and Prop 8 was no lily-white exception. The "National Organization for Marriage," a major supporter of Prop 8, has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

That's what Eich was paying to support. If giving material support to a cause forwarded by hate groups doesn't classify as expressing hatred, I really don't know what does.
Now that I think about it, it was a sequence of integers (looking for sub-sequences), not a set.
If they could make it last as long as solar cells are described to last, 20 years or so, then I'd consider it.
My english is not perfect and reading you answer I thing I was misunderstood.

This kind of mobbing and over reaction do happens in France as well and I don't deny that. Recently 3 millions get down the street because 18 peoples has been killed. So I acknowledge that over-reaction is not just an american thing. It's more on the employer side that I'm surprised. If an employer is not stupid why would he fire someone on these bases?
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Also, her job at the time was as a developer evangelist. The high-profile name-and-shame she had engaged in would have made any developer within a hundred miles hesitant to deal with her at all, making her far less effective at her job.
Do you think campaigning to ensure a group of people don't have certain fundamental rights that others do, for no reason other than your own personal animosity, doesn't qualify as sociopathic? I do.
Casual and handwavy, but these two ideas might be worth thinking about.

Maxwell's demon is a good bridge. If you have perfect information you can reverse entropy.

Another way to connect the two is to look at the edge case - when the universe is just a uniform heat - it won't take much information to describe. Yup, same temperature everywhere.
Provided without comment, here's Cantrill on Twitter relatively recently criticizing Linus Torvalds' "idiocy" in a usenet post from 2000:

https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/456540342649487361
I'd say erowid leans more heavily towards recreational drugs which is out of the scope of what we wanted to talk about, but note taken. Definitely will shoutout erowid in any future discussions.

Lucy and Limitless were used as a writing hook - cheesiness noted, but they're relevant and accessible examples of how nootropics are entering the mainstream consciousness.
if the battery has capacity of 85 kWh and you're saying the motor consumes 310kW at max, then that would mean a model S only has a range (time) of 16 minutes?

Tesla estimates about 300 miles per charge at 60 MPH
(300/60 = 5 hours)

http://my.teslamotors.com/goelectric#range

so if you get 5 hours out of 85 kw, that means you're using about 17 kW per hour
Holy heck, $12.5K? That's one heck of a nice bug bounty program Facebook has there. That is likely more than the black market would pay for this, or at least a lot less hassle (plus the black market might have little interest as this cannot be used for hijackings, just trolling/harrassment).
Interesting. This can be used with Fluentd as well with the JSONFormatter (https://www.fluentd.org)
I wonder if there's a distinction that needs to be made between offending people and hurting people.

From my self-confessed but unavoidable smug vantage point of white privilege I wonder if being offended is something that needs to be disregarded. I'm trying to remember how it felt to be 'offended' myself and whether anyone other than me should have cared. Is it actually a form of power when one can choose to be offended and know that you can affect the actions of others by doing so?

Genuinely hurting people (emotionally) on the other hand is something different and I'd need to think a lot more deeply about that.
That seems a princely sum of money, but then again, this was a pretty serious flaw. Kudos!
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The state, by definition, is the group that has the monopoly on the use of force. If I see a crime taking place, after deciding whether it is appropriate or not for me to intervene, my next step is to contact the state. I trust the state to take corrective measures: arresting the person, perhaps imprisoning them, perhaps killing them. I also trust them to use force (sometimes lethal force) in maintaining social order.

But on the net, I am only limited by my degree of outrage. Somebody does something stupid -- then each additional commenter takes it on themselves to "up the ante" and make the stupid person pay.

Right now we're just ruining people's lives (!). But as we start seeing these lynch mobs physically start acting out, then the state will no longer have the monopoly on force. Whether or not that's an existential question depends on your comfort level with chaos, I imagine. Whatever your personal view, the state as we know it in many cases will no longer exist.
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I've heard good things about Certified Programming with Dependent Types (http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/).

"This is the web site for a textbook about practical engineering with the Coq proof assistant. The focus is on building programs with proofs of correctness, using dependent types and scripted proof automation."

Edit: There's some comparison of CPDT and SF here: https://lobste.rs/s/c3lj14/certified_programming_with_depend....
I suspect this is a factor of what I like to call the Apple "decay" factor. Year after year, when Apple pushes a new iPhone, your old iPhone becomes slower, making the gap between new and old artificially bigger.

Case in point: iOS6 on iPhone 3G/ 3GS. iOS7 on iPhone 4/ 4S. The trend continues.
Yes, I encourage you to do your own research. A lot of the chemicals have not been formally studied on a significant group of healthy adults. A lot of the models in studies are mice models or alzheimer patients, etc.
I was surprised at the lapse in thorough reporting at that point in the article. It was because a few women in the tech community wrote about her history of passive-aggressive bullying. This made clear that it was not a men-vs-women issue and gave the backlash the legitimacy that led to Richards' dismissal.
Fair enough. So you're saying that deaf people ARE a charity case, you just want them to be a charity case for the original content producer rather than a third party?
Or a generator and a few dozen pounds of LP...
Yeah... I was hoping there were going to be some comments about how other people loved the movie Sneakers.[1] Sigh.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_XRqJV2zdk
So to have a concrete example: in our preliminary test of Datomic, we threw all our page view events directly at Datomic. Every single attribute in the event gets indexed at least 3 times and it grew out of a manageable scale really quickly. We had to find a solution where we can still maintain that data and aggregate it into Datomic when and where we can make useful sense out of it.

In certain cases you can definitely put the events directly into the transactions. In our case, it's just not the right fit and I suspect that many others will find the same constraints apply.
I disagree. I mean sure, I put humans and radiation in the same pingeonhole, but thats more of a devops problem to work out.
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Curious what compounds you've dabbled with.
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They're already starting to lock down all the data that was originally Creative Commons. They've stopped allowing you to download snapshots as spreadsheets, and generally hobbled the API.
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Well, there are both of these, in which the women who worked with him defend him (Julie Sommerville in particular):

http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/11/ladyboss/

http://www.amyvernon.net/glimpse/why-ive-joined-glimpse-labs...

If you didn't think that Dickinson was being a racist, misogynistic, victim-blaming rape apologist, why those tweets in particular? This whole discussion is happening in the implict context of the Valleywag article that touched this whole thing off, where those explicit accusations were made with those tweets as evidence - we aren't discussing this issue in a vacuum here. They're certainly in bad taste, but bad taste doesn't deserve the accusations that he's had thrown at him. You listed multiple implications of the tweet, but then called it "the worst" of a lot that include jokes with racial slurs about rape of a venerated religious figure, so it's pretty safe to infer that you aren't giving it any of the charitable readings; if you were, it wouldn't be anything worth mentioning!

My point in all of this, relevant to the original article, is that these sorts of accusations can have a profound and disproportionate impact on those affected, even if the truth is something else entirely. I think it's unfortunate that Dickinson was fired from BI because they couldn't afford to have the accusations against him associated with their brand (and note that it was the baggage that was the issue, not him actually being a misogynist to his employees or whatnot), but I don't think it's an unreasonable response - he made a bad choice in what he said, and he suffered the consequences of it. I do think it's unreasonable that he remains effectively unemployable because of the bogeyman that has been constructed around his name in which those tweets are trotted out with accusations of racism and sexism every time someone mentions him.
> Yeah, this is where idealism and values run head-first into the brick wall of reality, and no one really knows how to fix it.

That's the thing. We do know how to fix it. We just don't know how to fix it in a way that preserves social mechanisms such as public shaming of people you disagree with.
Here is a quote from the book to reiterate my point ('Roman' is Roman Dial, of which more can be found out here: https://www.travelalaska.com/Experience%20Alaska/Alaska%20Lo...):

I bring up McCandless's hubris and the dumb mistakes he made-the
two or three readily avoidable blunders that ended up costing him
his life. "Sure, he screwed up," Roman answers, "but I admire what
he was trying to do. Living completely off the land like that, month
after month, is incredibly difficult. I've never done it. And I'd bet
you that very few, if any, of the people who call McCandless
incompetent have ever done it either, not for more than a week or
two. Living in the interior bush for an extended period, subsisting
on nothing except what you hunt and gather-most people have no idea
how hard that actually is. And McCandless almost pulled it off.

"I guess I just can't help identifying with the guy," Roman allows
as he pokes the coals with a stick. "I hate to admit it, but not so
many years ago it could easily have been me in the same kind of
predicament. When I first started coming to Alaska, I think I was
probably a lot like McCandless: just as green, just as eager. And I'm
sure there are plenty of other Alaskans who had a lot in common with
McCandless when they first got here, too, including many of his
critics. Which is maybe why they're so hard on him. Maybe McCandless
reminds them a little too much of their former selves."
I can't really blame SendGrid for thinking that a tech evangelist who deliberately publicly shamed a couple of developers over an unfunny private joke is maybe not a good fit. This doesn't justify all the abuse that followed, though.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism:

> In his book Flat Earth News,[3] the British journalist Nick Davies reported a study at Cardiff University by Professor Justin Lewis and a team of researchers[4] which found that 80% of the stories in Britain's quality press were not original and that only 12% of stories were generated by reporters.[1]
For a new skyscraper built in 2007 especially for the needs of the New York Times, the "one page meeting" conference room seems very small: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g1874/behind-the-...

The projector is also pointing towards the window to a small screen. This room seems like an afterthought.
I do the same thing, I use my real name as my username on all social media sites including Reddit. I always think to myself, is this something I want permanently associated with my real identity?

It could obviously backfire. You say something that you think is fine, someone else gets offended, and they know exactly who you are. But generally, I think using your real name makes people more accountable for what they say online.
Two of the women mentioned in this article were doing just that. They posted pictures that the wrong people found offensive, got doxxed, bullied, and fired.
Do you think people should get fired and ostracized for donating to Planned Parenthood? They literally murder babies. What kind of person thinks murder is ok, and would donate money to help an organization systematically murder? This kind of person does not belong in a position of power, full stop.
I must honestly say, I don't get why you'd be pissed off about something like this, nor why would the community lynch you for creating an account.

Seems a bit like sect behavior to me (arbitrary rules and punishments).
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I agree that the easier it is to understand and reason about code the better. That's why I'm opposed to most uses of auto. It makes code harder to understand. It might not make code harder to understand if it was used with tools that doesn't exist. But those tools don't exist. I'm constantly re-evaluating my opinions and for auto I keep reaching the same conclusion. I pray that someday new tools are released that make my work life better. When they are some of my re-evaluations, related to auto or otherwise, will certainly change. But sadly that day is not today.
In my experience clueless clients are at least as big a problem in that regard as clueless designers. i.e. the designer creates a design that's beautiful and usable, and then the client takes it into a conference room with a dozen of their colleagues, none of whom have any experience in Web design or usability, and they come back with a long list of change requests that all make it less usable.

"We were talking over your comps, and Bob had a great idea! All the links should be the exact same color as the body text. With no underlines."

"But how will anyone know where they're supposed to click?"

"Consistency is really important to us."
I was with you until you said that distributed energy is more efficient than large scale energy.

A large scale hydroelectric, battery, or wind plant will be far more efficient than distributed energy in the home. Solar may benefit from capitalizing on under utilized residential real estate, but absent that incentive, a large solar plant will also be more efficient than a distributed per home grid due to standardized install and maintenance, larger inverters, and optimized layout (most home systems are non tracking).
Would society really be any better off if people aren't held accountable for what they say?
A big problem is people being too smart for their own good. But that happens in all languages.
If $12,500 seems like a lot of money, remember that Facebook theoretically loses $22,453 for every minute their website is down. In other words, they generate $12,500 every 33 seconds.

Paying out that sum of money to increase the number of people searching for security flaws is quite smart.
>imagine Louis CK making that quip.

Here's Louis CK doing a bit about being so disgusted by a gay guy rollerblading that proclaims "go skate into an AIDS tree, you motherfucker."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q--gp6YpOpQ
In the context of Coq, the word "corecursion" is always used for coinductive recursion. I guess a Coq programmer would call what you describe "mutual recursion".
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I'm the developer of this, which has: A transcript editor, Full-text search over the transcripts, The ability to use the transcript to seek.

For example: http://presentio.us/view/d8b58e

(edited to fix formatting)
The market rate would just fall to near zero. The surplus from different homes would have very similar patterns. When it is sunny and bright out, everyone has surplus. At night, nobody does.

You are buying when everyone is buying and you are selling when everyone is selling.

That isn't even considering reliability. With wildly variable production, we will have to pay out of the ass for peaker plants to pick up the slack.
From near the bottom:
"Some further studies failed to reproduce the original experiment's results, but in at least one of these studies[12] both caged and "park" rats showed a decreased preference for morphine, suggesting a genetic difference"

Still, it's an intriguing result. The reviewer comments from science and nature would make interesting reading - too bad they are not public.
Also remove the clutch and gears and brakes. Those just add weight. Moreover stopping by backpedalling gives you a much better feel of the road.
I saw that bit about McCarthy too. I wonder if his point was that while you can do functional programming in lisp, you can do a lot of other non-functional-programming stuff too, and so in that sense he didn't see Lisp as an implementation of lambda calculus.
He acknowledges that in the replies, but this particular "idiocy" is not one of tone, behavior, or offense. It is about bad technical policy in the pursuit of ego, which is something that Linus has done several times since.

(And he's a brilliant enough kernel hacker that he can work around his own bad policy and still come up with a system that works well, but that doesn't mean it's not bad technical policy. I feel bad begrudging him for making a worse product when it's so good due exactly to his skill, but still, the product could have been better if he avoided making these sorts of decisions.)

Anyway, I do kind of wish Bryan would issue a clearer apology for what he said 20 years ago. But I also kind of wish we lived in a world where he didn't have to, and it's obvious he's grown up in the last 20 years.
How do you define "baby"?
I can kinda see why the punishment is so harsh for a form of communication that COs can't intercept or witness.

I don't think Facebook should be suspending their pages - but I can understand the punishment.
Nothing is offensive or inoffensive, in and of itself. A person is offended by it, or they aren't.

Offensiveness is a function with two inputs; it depends on both the thing and the person in question.
"You're giving that the most contorted, charitable reading possible."

I don't think he is, but given you only have 140 characters on twitter, everyone should give "the the most contorted, charitable reading possible" unless you follow up with the person and get a clarification of their tweet. Hell, given autocorrect, you should do that even if you think it is plain.
There's limited political incentive to improve the lives of a non-voting group. Legally, a large amount of prisoners or former convicts can't vote since they're disenfranchised (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement#United_States_...).
Edison won in business, becoming rich and famous, rather than dying poor and alone like Tesla did.
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