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I'm not sure how you're measuring excitement, but I wouldn't say it's died down. The entire field is only four years old, after all. This really isn't enough time for a technology to mature.

At the time I felt like I became noticeably smarter. That may have been the arrogance of a 20-year-old, but the perspective shift was so vast that I was forced to think about things in completely new ways (for years after the trip was over). It definitely made my thinking much less rigid, regardless.

I also knew long beforehand that subjective experience is filtered by the brain, but having that fact forcibly shown to me was a whole other ballgame. I was also much calmer and more giving afterwards. I'm not sure why - maybe spending eight hours while super high and with a diminished ego makes you want to revisit that mindset.

Long after the trip and even occasionally today, I still see patterns in trees that are very reminiscent of how they looked while tripping. This may be a bit silly, but it's a nice cautionary reminder that my brain is capable of imposing order where there is none.

Superficially, I went from hating to loving electronic music, and felt euphoria for the first time.

> Dr. Griffiths noted that patients received extensive support, which may have deepened and secured their life-affirming transformations.

> “People will take psilocybin at a rave or at Burning Man” — the art and performance desert festival — “but the effect,” he said, “evaporates like water running through their hands.”

It certainly doesn't hurt to have a trip sitter or to discuss the experience with someone understanding, but this is a completely unwarranted conclusion. It seems like Dr. Griffiths needs it to not have an effect outside of a clinical setting, which is just so unfortunate. I would rate doing mushrooms as one of the single most important decisions of my life.

It will be interesting to see the response when this data is hacked and the browsing histories of the politicians who passed it are released to the public.

Yes. It's just noise. But I guess it's hard to write a story about how nothing has changed in decades.

well that's 52 years from now, and for some perspective, FORTRAN was released 59 years ago. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that a paradigm shift will happen in half a century.

Is this why Gmail requires microphone privileges? I've been looking for a feature in the app that actually needs it and have been coming up empty.

I would highly recommend Xubuntu instead. Aesthetically I don't think there's a better Linux distro, and it's almost to the point quality-wise where I'd recommend it to my parents.

No, not at all. It's basically just a discussion of what it means to be conscious and the ethics of creating sentient machines.

> The site is currently offline and the bank relies solely on its backup data center, located within a couple of miles’ proximity.

> “Moreover, to ensure full integrity of the data, we’ve made an additional copy of our database before restoring the system,” ING’s press release reads.

What? Am I to interpret this to mean that ING has a single backup of its data under normal conditions?

Is it not possible to replace an existing string in the binary with that one?

How can a metal be more ductile and also perform as well in crash tests?

In Ubuntu, the mouse pointer disappears after locking the screen or suspending [1], and the Fn button combo can take minutes to change screen brightness [2]. These bugs have been around for months and years, respectively. You simply cannot get non-power users to use an operating system with issues like this. Perhaps there's a more polished distro, but if the one that's touted as the beginner-friendly one has such obvious user-facing problems, it's just not feasible to get past 1% market share.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1573454 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manage...

> I even tried putting up a little animated gif, but despite the rave reviews it’s been sitting around for 2 years and has only gained 16 github stars. :(

If I'm working on so many projects that I need a special script just to navigate between them, there's no way I'll be able to really contribute to any one of them. Am I not seeing the obvious use case for gh?

Consider that many countries have made the transition from high birth rates and low literacy to the opposite. There's no reason to think the remaining ones will never change.

I can't remember the specific example, but it was a scenario where the source language was ambiguous but the target required more specificity. It was like "give me some bread" in one language and then when I supplied "give me a piece of bread" it told me it should have been "give me a slice of bread".

While I could see where it was coming from, this would be incredibly confusing for a beginner, who wouldn't even know to report this as a problem - they might conclude that "piece of bread" was just incorrect.

I have failed beginner Duolingo exercises in a language in which I'm fluent, due to it quibbling over something that truly could be translated in several different ways.

Did they find a way to remove bots from the download statistics? My very obscure image library had over 2 million downloads despite an estimated 10 to 20 users, which would make 30,000 effectively equal zero.

> the number of jobs where the main task is to do computer programming is projected to decline in the coming years, as companies hire overseas computer programmers who may work for less, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

I'm surprised by this. I've never had a good experience with outsourced programmers. Am I just in some unfortunate bubble of failure?

DNA that's hundreds of thousands of years old has been recovered [1]. Sorry for the non academic link but the number I've always been told was just under a million years, this seems reasonable at first blush.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49366487/ns/technology_and_science...

What would be the point? Either the open source could be built, in which case you could have ad- and tracking-free windows, or you couldn't build it, making it impossible to develop.

You might want to move our copy it to another directory. I had this problem recently when I wanted to use an env that had a bunch of packages that take a long time to compile, but since it didn't work I had to reinstall them in a new env.

It's just a protein. It evolved in bacteria and archaea to operate in those cells. There's no mechanism for it to exit the cell, or replicate, or evolve, or anything you'd need to get it to from one organism to another on its own.

I am glossing over the concept of gene drives, which is potentially worrisome, but as far as accidents go the risk is literally zero.

OP below asks about contaminating water supplies.

No. You could eat a jar of it and nothing in your genome would change - you'd just digest it like any other protein. You could sit in a bath of it, again, no problem.

In fact, the downside of crispr is that making changes in mammals is still difficult. Progress is being made on delivery mechanisms, but it fundamentally can't go into a runaway process. You'll always need an injection of some sort, or some deliberate action the part of a doctor.

I wonder if you could defeat this by using your left foot (assuming the fingerprinting was done when you used your right foot).

Has it been stated anywhere that they won't allow a temporary embargo after publishing? Like how some funding agencies allow papers to be behind a paywall for 12 months and only then require that it be open access?

Comments that provide no information or insight are generally downvoted.

I'm not deliberately live streaming every conversation I have all day onto my feed.

The Sentinelese and the people on Andaman Island must have been once been a single group living in the same place within the last few hundred years. The language would change somewhat after they split up, but it is still mutually intelligible apparently.