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I disagree. It's legal in Peru, where all of the cases I listed occurred. (Technically, it's a gray area where, in the case of indigenous practitioners working on foreign guests, the law literally has nothing to say — neither legal nor illegal, but tolerated because tourism dollars. Indigenous folks treating indigenous folks is black-letter legal, and protected.) It's not prohibition, but rather greed and predation, that create most of the harms that have happened in ayahuasca practice in the jungle.

I've never done it, but I have a strong sense that pharmahuasca would be cold, sterile, and missing some of the je ne sais quoi that the "shaman piss" [1] experience offers. I'm sure it would still be a valuable experience, and one I'd be open to exploring, but drinking trees works well enough for me, thanks.

I mean, sure you can puke (I often do, sometimes several times in the course of a night), and it tastes horrible, and your sweat smells like tree bark at the end of the night — let alone the end of the week. That's just the process, though, and "optimizing" it out would probably also remove many of the things that are actually among the most valuable (for me, and everyone else who does this more than once with whom I've spoken) aspects.

EDIT: footnote added.

[1] Interestingly, in one of the earliest-documented shamanic traditions, tribes on the Siberian steppe would use amanita muscaria mushrooms, which are visionary, but also mildly toxic. The shaman would take a shaman-sized dose, and journey, then collect his urine (which still contains threshold doses of psychoactive metabolites), and serve that to his "patients".
Take heart, and don't lose too much cynicism. People feel like they have to include all this "hippy shit" because of the exact reason this question was asked - "if only I could find a good company who's mission I believe in!"

Too many companies making incremental BS apps or IT pipeline tech that delivers cat pictures 0.1 ms faster. And both groups ("we're bringing Utopia to Earth", "we'd mug you for cash") are still doin it cause it looks like it makes money, or people advise them they need to say these things to make money, or it'll get chicks / dudes, whatever - no matter what they say out loud. "Silicon Valley" is pretty spot on in that regard.

It's just a pendelum swing. In a little while we'll be back to "greed is good" while we help people 'connect' with high school friends they never actually liked.
What would have been better, though perhaps not technically possible, was to try WiFi while keeping the mobile data active, only switching if the WiFi worked well. Not sure it's possible to run both at the same time, though.
> but have no idea who I am.

If you pay with a credit or debit card in your own name when using that card, the store very much does know who you are.

Target dispenses with the entire loyalty-card-and-discount idea to just match by payment data.
T-Mobile will pay early termination fees: http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/switch-carriers-no-early-termi...
Yeah, imagining him touring while writing his thesis has been a source of inspiration lately.
Isn't it more complicated than that?

Today being behind on military technology by as little as 5 years can be decisive in confrontation. The last decade has brought huge changes in military technology including super and hypersonic missile delivery systems (these can defeat the US's current interception capabilities), THAAD technology, directed energy weapons, new reactive armors, satellite bombing systems, startling new radar arrays, hybrid warships, autonomous drones, practical railguns, missile adhoc networks and intelligent interception, material science bringing in new stealth materials and body armor, satellite kill systems, not to mention advancements in electronic warfare. There is constant pressure on the US, because it is the second largest arms dealer around the world, to constantly build better military equipment. And there is constant pressure to do the same because the US's military might has everything to do with the geopolitics that continue to make it rich.

The Washington Consensus chose 25 years ago to continue the investment of military with a pivot in tactics and to uses its military might in tandem with 'soft power', financial leverage, social disruption, culture export, etc in an attempt to fix its success and the success of its allies with "minimal bloodshed" - but a form of colonialism nonetheless. It will continually sell off old equipment to aid in funding new research and development.

The US is a world empire - and while this can be seen by looking at a map of military locale it is better seen as a Capitalistic one. It uses its host of leverage, import-export bank, 'structural adjustment programs', 'value sharing initiatives' and the like. The US's foreign policy is wrapped up intrinsically in providing energy security to the first world, which means constant interventionism in the Middle East. It also has a huge number of security and military obligations around the world - e.g. right now we're promised to go to nuclear war were there to be an attack on Latvia.

The US has many reasons to be militaristic - its waning economic dominance but continued military commitments and global footprint, its obligations and its own incentives to fix its success during continued globalization. Military contractors feed this fire, yes. They benefit from it, yes. But it is not as simple as military contractors lobbying successfully.
New documentary on Steve Jobs takes a more critical tone
If Meerkat is a productivity enhancer, then surely Yo is one as well - when people don't have to write text messages, it saves time for something else.
At Graphistry, we are powering nextgen visual analysis through real-time GPU clusters that stream right into your browser. For example, we cracked a botnet a couple days ago using it. Visually exploring millions of data points in real-time is a hard problem for both infoviz design (hairballs!) and high performance programming (1000 node GPU clusters), but unblocks some of the biggest industries (finding criminals, avoiding economic meltdown, datacenter rootcause analysis, ...).

And yes, we're looking for the right data viz folks to help us harness all this performance and help data analysts make sense of it all.
Very much so - I naively thought Ada was going to dominate before C++ did. I tried three times to make Ada the shop standard ( in very small shops ) but there was always something that didn't fit.

It is also very strange to me that Bruce Powell Douglass' work has largely gone unlauded. As clunky as UML is, the class of tools there - beginning with ObjecTime - provide considerable value. Of course there are flaws but it nearly seems of no interest at all now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9242710
Steve works for a relatively unknown company making products for businesses, mostly using Java/C#, whose technical staff seems to be based in Atlanta, which is not a super attractive city for tech workers.

Your experience comes from matasano, a company where people get paid to be hack, a dream job for many techies, with offices in New York, Chicago, and Silicon Valley.

Is it surprising that your experience is exactly the opposite? I would imagine there's a huge self-selection factor at play here with regards to who applies to work for each company.

(None of this is to say Steve's company isn't awesome - I'm sure it is - just that recruiting is going to be much more difficult).

p.s. - I agree with you that tech interviews are terrible - I just don't think anyone has got it figured out yet and what worked or didn't work at you for you at matasano is not guaranteed to work or not work for the rest of the industry.
I have to say... that was an excellent post. I would have just voted it up and left it at that, but I thought it deserved a little extra. Very good take on the subject.
obviously this isn't production quality or scalable but interesting. on the topic of video streaming, could you build something like twitch.tv with this type of tool? or are there other tech stacks at play in order to make video broadcasting possible.
Unless, of course, you're interested in strafing what's on the ground. If you carry 8 missiles, you have 8 shots. Assuming you can get a lock on what's on the ground. If you have 10-30s of 20mm or larger, you can do wonders on, say, a convoy of trucks.

While we used to have different planes for different tasks, the staggering costs of current/future models is killing off such things. And as there's no external threat today (for the US military), the enemies are themselves - the different services. Nobody in the Air Force really wants to support those in the mud. But they won't give them fixed wing aircraft (A-10) so they can support themselves.
Yea, absolutely.

Especially when if you really wanted to you could put together a small home machine shop using e.g. Sherwood CNC stuff for a couple grand. The part size would be limited, no more than a couple of inches, but you could do proper metal and wood working.
I've found that turning WiFi off and on again will also reset the 'poor connectivity' decision.
Wow that is tempting, the electronics are crap of course and the MK8 extruders are known to be subject to heat creep but the frame and case and basics are there.
>Honestly I don't get how you can perceive that he's happier, but still see him as having changed "for the worse".

Well, from his perspective it's a worse change in personality, but from his friend's perspective he could be happier. So he's recognizing that his friend seems happier despite the change in personality he perceives to be bad.
My friend and I were talking about cryopreservation. He chimed in insisting that my friend agree to give him his “eternal death”. When asked to stop, he made creepy comments to the effect that blocking him would not help.
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You can't set a precedent of paying for privacy because you can't pay everyone who can spy on you.

Making spying expensive and difficult is expensive and difficult, because most people are transparent. Think of how much work it takes for an espionage service to maintain an agent in a foreign territory. It's not good enough to have dead drops and cut-outs and safe houses; you need an entire network of them so you don't create patterns, and then you need to compartmentalize it to guard against the inevitable compromises.

The problem for privacy advocates is that encrypting everything itself sends a signal, albeit an obfuscated one. The solution ot this is 'everyone encrypt everything' but most people simply do not have the motivation to do so. Notwithstanding the 'everyone has something to hide' argument - most people don't. Either their private matters are unimportant, or they're not important enough to be leaned on for anything.

Further, from the standpoint of a bad actor (eg an overbearing state or any private extortionist), you don't need to penetrate people's privacy to compromise them, eg 'Help us out even though you are unwilling to do so, or we'll spread the word that you're a pedophile' would be enough to suborn many people's cooperation, without the accusation having any factual grounding whatsoever. In western society being labeled as a pedophile is so bad that most people turn off their brain as soon as they hear the word and are willing to impute guilt automatically. In fact, they don't even need to get the word right: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.so...
My theory is that Manhattan and Apollo both had exceptional, unicorn-frequency leadership. Both had flawed leaders - Tom Lehrer wrote a song about Werner von Braun, and Lesley Groves is a legendary ... figure, but it got done.

The software story in "Moon Machines" should be required for anyone who does software. The whole thing should be interesting to anyone; it's a great example of documentary filmmaking.
Wow, that sounds rather horrid! But it seems everyone is switching to UEFI, and MS was happily showing of ~2s boots due to it. Is the complexity because of bad engineering, or politics growing scope, cluelessness, maliciousness, just to keep competition (who?) out via barrier to entry, or what?
It already does that for access points that require logging in (or accepting a ToS). It shows an exclamation point on the wifi icon, and continues to use mobile data.

This behavior was introduced to my Nexus 5 beginning with Android 5.0. It's actually a bit annoying—it broke an app I had purchased that could record and replay scripts to automatically log me in to access points, and the app maker can't (last I checked) find an API that will allow them to re-create the functionality.
If the mission becomes opposing ISIS style forces, I doubt guns will be obsolete. <insert Warthog argument here>
It would be nice to see a followup about performance considerations.
Nice to see the actual comparison of the binary size (and there is the 2x and 3x png). On the other hand, to be fair, the memory footprint will be more with the ASCII version (text + final NSImage loaded as bitmap in memory) compared to png (only the bitmap in memory, directly loaded from disk). The size of the bitmap is big anyway: there is no compression.
There is another solution, the CRL Distribution Point, or CDP. Entrust implemented this rather elegantly in their product starting in the mid 1990s and still use it today.

Instead of having a monolithic CRL, the CA publishes smaller CRLs and writes the CRL location on which a certificate would appear if revoked in the certificate itself.

In other words, every X certificates, the CA creates a new CDP, call it CDP_n, and all subsequent certificates issued between now and +X from now have the location of CDP_n written in them: That's where you look for their CRL.

+X certificates from now, the CA creates CDP_n+1 and starts writing that into the certs.

The size of X can be set, tuned, based on certificate lifetimes, number of users, etc., etc. If you want your CRLs to be fresher, use a smaller X, have more CDPs.

The other nice thing about the CDP is that it ties the CRL retrieved from wherever (an LDAP repo, a web site, etc.) to the certificate: The certificate contains within its signed payload a reference to the CDP location and the CRL contains within its signed payload a reference to the same location (the issuingDistributionPoint) so you have a high integrity check that the CRL being used to verify the certificate is actually the right one, even if the certificate is valid and therefore not listed thereupon.

This prevents an attacker from fooling you into trusting a revoked certificate by replacing its CRL with one that doesn't match it: The replacement CRL will have the wrong iDP, one that does not correspond to the CDP in the cert.
That's ordinary C89 behavior, not a C99 feature, and I'm pretty sure Microsoft supports it too. The C99 feature here is VLA (variable-length array), arrays whose length is a runtime value.

If you change m and n to be constants, it works with C89.

The rule is simple (yet confusing!): In a function prototype, if the parameter (top-level) type is an array, it is de-sugared to be an element-pointer instead.

Thus, the code you wrote with constants instead:

#define M 10
#define N 20
void f(size_t m, size_t n, float a[M][N])

De-sugars, as per C89 ordinary rules, to:

void f(size_t m, size_t n, float (*a)[N])

And it is an ordinary array degradation to a pointer, except instead of pointing to a float, it happens to point at a float[N].
Water soluble support structures are another one that you need dual extruders for. You can make some more interesting shapes when you don't have to worry about overhangs.
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Ah, that makes sense and is fair.

> Huge fan of yours by the way. You should do another AMA on /r/SysAdmin.

Heh, thanks. I appreciate that! Maybe soon I will do an AMA.
The best ModeX variant I used was at the very edge of what the hardware and monitor could manage.

400x300 87Hz.

I modified one of my games at the time to use it and It was comically difficult to play because the movement was synced to the framerate and consequently played almost 50% faster.

I always wanted to write a paint package for it using temporal dithering. You can get away with a lot with a 43Hz dither. Mixing colours of similar luminosity doesn't flicker annoyingly at all and gives you way more than 256 colours
Surprisingly, one of the best examples of the use of public choice economics is the BBC comedy series "Yes, Minister."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
C++ inherited this particular complexity from C, so it naturally falls out of a complexity comparison.
> except slower/more deliberate.
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Prove this statement. Given that the A-10 shoots from above, that's where the armor's thinner. DU penetrators do a fair bit of damage, independent of the rumoured radioactive burst upon compression. Couple of rounds in the engine probably turn the tank into a bunker.
Arrays are not necessarily located at compile-time-known positions.

The compiler translates all symbolic names to addresses, regardless of whether it is an array or not.
He went back and hid the more sensitive LJ entries, IIRC, so I don't think it should be a problem.
>Honestly I don't get how you can perceive that he's happier, but still see him as having changed "for the worse".

Is it is "for the better" for someone to be happy and ignorant/naive/delusional or to be of sound mind and unhappy? Not that this applies to the OP's post, but I've known people that have changed (by drugs or otherwise) where they've become happier, but also less mentally stable.
What I find most interesting about this is that NPR misunderstands that putting a paper up on arXiv is not "publishing" a math paper.
I have so many great memories of learning coding by writing little games that used Mode X for the graphics.

I was able to get so much experience experimenting to optimize my code to draw stuff on screen fast enough to get a decent frame rate, and I learned a lot about pointers, memcopy, peek, and poke, etc. One of my biggest "breakthroughs" was when I realized that drawing sprites by looping through one pixel at a time with an if statement to either draw or not draw depending on whether the pixel was transparent wasn't as fast as preprocessing the sprite using a form of RLE and then copying strips of pixels in one operation with memcopy, essentially skipping over the transparent areas for free. Later I found out that technique had already been around for decades, but 11 year old me was super excited when I figured it out.
Or why not just delay your marriage?
No. An array has size (N * sizeof(element)). Arrays are immutable in their address in the same sense that any lvalue is immutable in its address.

int x;
int y[2];

The two declarations above are similar, one happens to be an (int). The other an (int[2]).

The difference is that when you take the rvalue of an int, say x, you get an rvalue int. When you take the rvalue of an int[2], you get a degraded (int *) rvalue that points to its first element.

Until you convert the array object to an rvalue, it is no more related to an (immutable) pointer than the above int. Both have an immutable address, like all lvalues do.
Aya can have a very feminine, mothering aspect to it at times, and in many traditions, it's referred to as "la madre", or even just "she". It's not something I've experienced often, but it's lovely when it does show up.

As for what it's about, there's no real universal answer to that. Everyone's every experience of aya is different; it's what happens when that individual drinks that dose on that night. There are commonalties and themes you start to see and be able to work with, given enough experience, but there are very few absolutes.
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That's a nice resource, never saw that page before.

Just to clarify I'd say Eloquent JavaScript is a nice book, and definitely a beginners book. I say this because it seems you are saying the annotations could help "people not quite there".
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Better than blog/spam rehashing the same thing: 'zomg look what I found in this spreadsheet'
Nvidia is a publicly traded company lol.
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It was an awesome feeling when my card deck compiled and produced the correct output the very first time !
Semi-OT: I find it somewhat striking about the state of neuroscience, though of course unsurprising, that Chinese philosophy is capable of telling us something about ourselves that isn't unrecognizably exceeded and elaborated on today. Sure, now we can point to general regions containing billions of neurons and determine that it plays a role in conflict resolution; and we know a fair menagerie of molecules that modify consciousness in predictable ways, though nobody fully understands the mechanisms; and modern behavioral experiments have produced a lot of interesting data about psychology. But just for a second, compare to the situation with, say, traditional Chinese medicine versus modern medicine. A situation where we have multiple orders of magnitude better understanding today, and the only thing the traditional way has going for it is that it's had quite a lot of time to gather empirical data. Traditional medicine may sometimes produce effective treatments (along with a huge amount of snake oil placebo), but it's essentially dumb luck combined with a semi-effective selection process, whereas modern medicine, though far from perfect, creates and proposes treatments on a drastically more detailed, and essentially rational and correct basis.

How long will it be (if ever) before we can say the same about neuroscience?

How will the world change then?
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If someone was playing emotional tricks on me during an interview, such as telling me I'm wrong when I'm right, I'd lose interest in the opportunity.

One interviewer tried yelling at me for no reason, just to see if I would react or flinch.
The Marines use the F/A-18 Hornet and, for close air support in particular, the AV-8B Harrier. Both are slated for replacement by F-35 variants.

They also fly the AH-1 Cobra, which the Army already replaced with the Apache.
Live streaming tech can certainly use push forwards.

Communication methods that people laugh at (AIM instant messaging) can be reappropriated into something useful (hipchat, slack) years later.
I was using the wifi at starbucks recently. While both my MacBook Pro and my iPhone were associated with the WiFi, I was unable to ssh into my (jailbroken) iPhone, nor could I ping it.

I expect that the access point prevents devices on its networks from communicating with each other. That can prevent such snooping but in my case it prevented me from getting my work done.
Something is happening, its called weather. And before weather was co-opted by political agents with an agenda to control people to enrich themselves, that's all it was.
> What it can do is provide reasonable close air support against Toyota pickups and infantry

So can helicopters, drones, and Harriers.
No. Everyone has their own experience. Some feel like they completely disappear from this planet. But the job of the shaman (and the group) is to not let you go to far into your mind and yet allow you to experience the medicine fully.
That was the first thing I tried. Didn't work.
What is "english boxing"? My quick search was inconclusive, my intuition would suggest it could either be a bare-knuckle, a humorous, or gentleman-like variant of boxing.
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