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This reminds me of a passage from Aldous Huxley's essay on mescaline, The Doors of Perception:

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are
by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers
desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very
nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights,
fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We
can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation,
every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another
to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our
own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put
ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases
communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the
Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where
ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for
understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which
the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.

As thoughts like these have swirled in my head over the years, I have become somewhat obsessed with the question of how my words and actions are interpreted by others, to the point where I often feel like I have no idea what they are thinking. Sometimes I think I have lost some cognitive ability, but others I feel it is just the acknowledgement of the author's sentiment "I assume that my mind is a pretty good simulation of yours, and it's just not."

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http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials... is helpful for finding clinical trials and allows filtering down to a region. Be aware that you can get treatment in major cities and get free lodging provided by the American Cancer Society. For example, in Boston you and your loved one can stay at Hope Lodge, http://www.cancer.org/treatment/supportprogramsservices/hope..., for free and be within walking distance of Dana Farber and Brighams or take a train to MGH. Wish you and your loved one the best!
How hard your body holds on to calories is genetic. I carry a gene variant that makes it much more difficult for me to shed fat cells than other people in my family.
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Smallest distance you can select seems to be 5km, and I live in central London, so that's a few million people "nearby".
Possibly somewhat but that ignores the people who dropped weight, adopted healthier habits and saw improved insulin resistance.
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It would be cool to arrange a meetup some day. I've made an #hnmoscow slack channel, so leave an email for invite if interested.
"where the majority of Westerners require morning caffeine"

Also alcohol.

My observation of popular HN culture shows its believed to be easier to live and socialize as a vegetarian than a non-alcohol drinker. This comes up often in semi-unrelated topics about new urbanism and the perceived level of importance of living within walking distance of bars, not to mention the supposed death of car culture. And it also comes up in "how do I meet people" socialization topic discussions. And health oriented discussions. Occasionally hobby related discussions, also.

Given the enormous PITA it is, according to some, to not drink alcohol, it would seem an obvious startup opportunity for social media inspired socialization or whatever. I'm not currently aware of any non-alcohol related startups. There is at least some love for vegetarianism, so there should be space for not getting drunk as a lifestyle, given that it is supposedly an even stronger social death sentence.
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It's even more complicated than that: Some voices DO speak multiple languages, e.g. the German voice "Anna" (downloaded from System Preferences) speaks excellent German, English, Spanish, Italian, and French:

say -v Anna 'über allen Wipfeln ist Ruh'
say -v Anna '[[lang fr_FR]] que restet-il de nos amours'
say -v Anna '[[lang it_IT]] chi nasce asino non muore cavallo'
say -v Anna '[[lang es_SP]] nosotros tenemos mas influencia con sus hijos que su tiene'
say -v Anna '[[lang en_UK]] are we having fun yet?'
As someone who has dropped enough weight that I could have been on the national weight registry by eating less and moving a little bit more the main difference seems to be whether people stick with the plan or not, not so much that the plan doesn't work or is different between people (after all if you don't lose weight cutting calories you are violating the laws of thermodynamics).

So what causes people to stick with the plan?
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I guess the bit "results should be reproducible" made us think that you were talking about reproducing the previous results (i.e. if the null hypothesis was rejected in the first trial, obtaining again a rejection if the trial was repeated).

If I understand your point, you're saying: "If the null hypothesis is true then with 95% probability it won't be rejected. And, independently of the result of the first trial, if we do a second trial and the null hypothesis is true then with probability 95% it won't be rejected".

Which seems correct, but you might be overlooking the fact that it's not very interesting and unrelated to the discussion.
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It's not a question of handling languages but of handling scripts. I believe all voices can handle Latin, in addition to their native script (So Russian voices can handle Latin & Cyrillic, but English voices handle only Latin).
Count me on your side (former admin--windows, alas). It always seemed to me to be kind of a bullying thing to do when the mark has less privileges as you. Seems like if they can't retaliate in kind, it's just not as fun. I'm sure there are people who have widely varying views on this, though.
Anyone know if Google will allow these to be installed at IXPs? $work (ISP) likely isn't large enough to warrant having one of these on our network but a bunch of us smaller ISPs all peer together at a private IXP (in Indianapolis) and our collective traffic levels almost certainly justify it.

Then again, with tens of gigabits to Chicago (where Google has a major datacenter) it probably isn't really necessary.
Wow, that's really useful.
For everyone who is as bad as me in bash, to actually use it put it like this in your bashrc:

function clip()
{
[ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy
}
You can be intelligent without being neurotic.

There are some key insights that open up that path. The biggest one is that any thought that you experience in your mind is it's own thing (thought, distinct from concepts, which are much more subtle and ephemeral).

The reason is that for the mind to experience and process thoughts, the thought itself is carried by emotional streams. There is a wide-spread tendency in people with high intelligence to fool themselves into thinking they have high emotional intelligence, or don't need it.

These emotional carrier waves on which thought rides on have an affect on your ability to think on things, or decide on an action. One common neuroticism is when the thoughts start looping on each other. On the surface, those loops appear to chain rationally and logically, one to the next, but if you were to pull your awareness from the thought and go deeper into the emotion, you'll see it is actually the emotions in control.

Suppressing the emotions and awareness of the emotions will actually backfire on you. You get more stupid when you do. You cannot separate thought from emotions. (As I mentioned before: concepts and abstractions are more subtle, so it's possible to flash through them without a thought-stream).

You can't separate thoughts from the emotions on which thoughts rides upon. A lot of intelligent people with poor emotional intelligence will trick themselves into thinking they can. It does not help that accusing someone of being emotional has been weaponized.

Example: Most programming language / OS / design flame-wars are really people being moved by powerful emotions rather than a rational discussion, though the participants often trick themselves into thinking they are being rational.

tl;dr emotional intelligence will supercharge your existing intellectual prowess.
Hi HN! This is my fun side project that I'm using to teach myself lower-level concepts around multithreading and sockets, outside from my usual high-level front-end development. There's still a lot of stuff to implement, but I finally have a working "demo" going. :)
This is a great insight; the behavior is an addiction just as much as one can be addicted to the substance.
The way we each approach and interact with social media does say a lot about us. However, as in my case, and im sure others here would agree, I generally prefer to not interact with social media by actively liking or sharing things. I merely observe, I use the social media tools that allow me to connect and reconnect with others, but I believe that the onlooker or the analyst that tries to derive information from my likes and dislikes, will ultimately come out empty handed. So this indeed says a bit about me, but I may be entirely different from another fellow "observer" of social media who also doesn't actively like or share.
> I take exception to the use of the word 'invention' here because that most likely implies that patents are at stake.

Why shouldn't patents be at stake? Maybe they've come up with something new and non-obvious, or maybe they haven't... we can't exactly tell from this article though.
I use it for reminders, too -- eg

sleep 240 && say "tea done"

so I don't over steep my tea
Yes[0]. Apparently the records lie at 41% for GaAs and 27% for silicon[1] so they're being a little bit loose with the stats, 20% for silicon is consumer grade panel level.

0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide#Solar_cells_a...

1] http://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/appendices/solar-cell-eff...
Are you at SIX? I'd guess there's at least one of these there, if Google themselves aren't connected. I'd wager Akamai and Netflix are at SIX too.
> However, I think they will be much safer than human drivers.

I think they'll be much safer than the worst human drivers. I doubt they'll be much safer than the best human drivers.

Yes they won't fatigue or get bored or change the radio. But they also don't have any insight, just rules and machine learning. That limits their ability to predict.
My apologies, in this you are correct. I confused Matthew Paris’ map of Great Britain with the Anglo-Saxon map.

For the other things, you are not correct.

Like I said, different cultures from the northern hemisphere had different conventions. The European ones in the Middle Ages had east at the top. The Arabic ones had south at the top. The Greek ones based on Ptolemy, as you say, had north at the top.

You keep mentioning the flow of rivers, but have yet to present any evidence that that was a universal reason. All you do is repeat yourself.

Given all of the European maps with east at the top - I listed several, from several different countries - which rivers are they aligned with?

For example, the Wikipedia page describing why a "T and O map" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map ) is made with east at the top says nothing about the flow of any river in explaining the layout.
Thanks, that's good feedback to make sure I'm more clear about my offering.

My goal is not to be a full-time outsourced product manager. Instead I'm trying to fill the gap in early-stage startups that don't quite need a full-time product person.

Founders of early-stage companies must carry the vision, but sometimes they need some help in execution. My goal is to help them execute on a monthly basis.
That data would be served from Google's own datacenters.

To be as efficient as possible, these devices would only serve content that is accessed by many users (e.g.: popular Youtube videos).
How are Republicans more "extreme" than Democrats? As a non-citizen, therefore not born and raised in America, they both seem pretty extreme to me in regards to their own ideology.
Another fun one:

say -v cellos dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo

Edit: 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' if anyone is curious.

There is also 'Pomp and Circumstance':

say -v Good dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum

and Chopin's 'Funeral March':

say -v Bad dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
For comparison, google offers competitive fresh-out-of-top-tier NLP Ph.D.s ~150k cash + 50k /yr bonus.
Then it would have been far better to ask people to code a subtle XSS exploit.
You might find the Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header useful for identifying CSP issues and deploying policies without actually blocking anything.
While it's not quite what you want (as the specification language is not JSON---it's more like C declarations), "protobufs" allow you to generate serializers and de-serializers in a number of languages.

http://github.com/google/protobuf
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The big exception is the prop trading industry based in Chicago.
So true, it's amazing what effect the mind has on how you see!
Meh, I work for an ISP. We have lots of hosts in our facilities / on our networks that don't belong to us. If we don't manage it ourselves (i.e., if it's not one of our devices / servers), it's considered untrusted -- that includes customer connections, co-located servers, and systems like these. From the ISP point of view, these Google servers are no different than anything else.
Thank you for this post.I live in the middle of PA and am planning on making a move into philly, so this info will be useful to me too.

From what I can tell on meetup.com there are plenty of meetups for various technologies. The tech scene won't be as big as in boston, but it seems sufficient.
Yep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)
Yes, I appreciate that the FCC's proposal imposes the fewest possible restrictions, but you'd be crazy to think that it will work this way in practice. It's far easier to comply with FCC regulations by preventing any modifications whatsoever than to lock down the specific modules.
Yup. Everything about this posting screams red flag to me, from the derisive snipe at freelancers to the drug-testing requirement to the strong indication that they expect everything done yesterday (but, naturally, would never themselves put in the mental effort to prioritize anything).

I'm almost tempted to troll them with an application (factually honest, of course), but only almost.
Python libclang bindings make this kind of task quick work: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/tree/master/bindings/py...
> Deciding whether and how to couple two pieces of code is a fine art in software development, and as such, it's a point of never-ending tension as systems are designed and redesigned.

To expand on the theory here:

Specifically, this is a tension between coupling and cohesion. Coupling means dependencies between modules; cohesion means dependencies within a module. High cohesion reflects a module’s focus on just one responsibility, which really does need everything in the module to get done.

> > Woah, increased coupling is always a bad thing, right!?

Increased coupling is always a bad thing – all else being equal. But if increased coupling results in increased cohesion too, it may be worth it. Higher cohesion is better, and lower coupling is better.

> All use is coupling. All reuse is additional coupling. A system with minimal coupling is a system without any abstraction or invocation.

How do you know you don’t want such a system? Because it has very low cohesion. The duplicated parts all over your codebase will only be used by a few parts of their modules, rather than most of their modules.

Note that cohesion is measured relative to the size of the module, not as an absolute count of connections. If you pointlessly extract the full body of a method to another differently-named method, you have increased the number of intra-module connections. But you have decreased cohesion, because the module is now bigger, yet your new method is only called once within the whole module.
Why do you think that position to be extreme? (serious question)
Blind yourself and test repeatedly. Either setup a script to turn data on and off, or get someone to do it for you. Then have them give you the phone without interacting with you. Repeat several times. If you can reliably determine when a phone is using data, that's probably something to look into.
> what we call Schizophrenia is really 8 separate conditions with similar symptoms

I don't think we'll be able to say for sure how many different conditions there really "are". There may not even be such a number.
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> Portland, Seattle, Boston

None of these are exactly cheap cities (Portland might be the closest), and not everyone wants to move to a city just to do a job they could have done from home.
Sorry to hear about that.

My mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma. She had the "standard" treatment, surgery to remove as much of the tumor as feasible, radiation and chemo. In the end, she passed away in about 4.5 months from her initial diagnosis. The doctors had originally given her 1-2 years; I don't know if that was just an optimistic estimate in order to give some hope, or whether my mother just happened to be one of the cases which didn't survive the average estimate (everyone can't beat the average...).

Due to other life circumstances, I didn't have that much opportunity to research the issue, but my takeaway was basically that you can group stuff you find on the internet into 3 groups: A) research, results which may be inconclusive or at least not dramatically better than the standard treatment B) desperate grasping at straws, typically by patients or their kin, not experts in the field C) scams prying on the emotional anguish of the affected persons. So my conclusion and recommendation would be to trust your oncologist, and/or if you want another opinion, ask another oncologist. Unless you're an expert able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, don't put to much trust into whatever you may find on the internet. (FWIW, I have a research background, although not in medicine; YMMV.)

Beyond the medicine and treatment thing, a few other points:

Realize that glioblastomas have extremely poor 5-year survival rates (or however you wish to measure it). While a positive attitude is always important in dealing with any serious disease, the bottom line is that, most likely, your relative will pass away within a couple years. There is no miracle cure.

IOW, perhaps rather than obsessing over whatever cures may be brewing in research labs, focus on your relatives quality of life for whatever time she/he may have remaining. Also keep in mind that brain cancers are nasty in that they can change the personality of the patient, and towards the end they can get more and more incoherent, sleep more and more and eventually go into a coma. So if you have something important to say to or discuss with your relative, do it ASAP rather than wait until it may be too late.

My family, including my mother, took solace in that she had lived an almost full life, she was on the verge of retirement etc. I can only hope that your relative is also older, for a younger person I can only imagine how utterly devastating and hopeless it must be.

Best of luck to you and your relative.
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Emission controls yes, but CO2 release cannot be captured and you can't beat entropy - energy is wasted on conversion from chemical=>electric=>mechanical rather than just going directly chemical=>mechanical.
IIRC you could push a button and it would automatically read a card into locations 1 through 80 and start executing at location 1. First instruction had to be a set word mark (, i thing) because instructions were variable length and needed a word mark to denote the end. I also seem to remember that 4K meant 4,000 not 4096. Long time ago and we all danced a happy dance when the 1401 came in to replace our 407 accounting machine with its plugboards. Well not everyone. Some were afraid of the new machine and certain that the time was still not right.
> File this under "doable but not easy."

Does that mean it's easier to bring foreign hires into Japan, or into US?
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http://pickthehottie.com/ was fairly popular and predated Facemash by several years.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least that Zuckberg would copy it. Seems to be his modus operandi in life.
Another neat trick to bypass this particular type of silliness is to install refcontrol (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/), it allows you to control the Referer header. Set the referer for wsj.com to https://google.com, goodbye paywall.
I wish we had a modern day radio shack that sold these components off the shelf along with a detailed guide to building it and tinkering with it. It would be a great weekend project you could start on a whim.
> The real magic in the sunflower though is that its a dual cycle system harvesting both thermal and electric energy from the system.

I did the same with that setup above, the collector was water cooled and the hot water could be used. Taught me a ton about what you can and can not do to a normal (cheap) solar panel from a thermal point of view. That's a lot of suns to concentrate on a single panel and the effect on the life span of the panel was quite pronounced, even with sufficient cooling.

The big trick (at least, so I thought) was that I figured out a gearing that would allow you to drive that whole setup with one motor and a small solar panel.
Ask HN: What are the things that you buy to save time?
Hello all,

In the past I was a minimalist, and today I'm growing to appreciate the need for extra time to be productive.

I'd like to know what are the things that you buy, in life, in order to make more time available.

Examples: dishwasher (kitchen), mixer (kitchen), Synology (NAS, automatic backups), etc.

Thanks!
You shouldn't have been downvoted, thats a valid technique for some. Often phrased as "nothing tastes as good as being lean feels".
Not to be overly picky, but the three stars visible thing is when Shabbat ends on Saturday night, not when it begins.

The start of Shabbat strictly speaking is when the sun dips below the horizon and is commemorated by the lighting of two shabbat candles.

The last time for lighting those candles is 18 minutes prior to the astronomical event of sun-below-horizon, which under rabbinical interpretation is the true beginning of shabbat (that is, the last minute during which "work" -- in the technical, term of art sense -- may be performed without sanction).

It's a key event in Jewish ritual and not surprisingly there's a ton of commentary and meaning-making that has attached to how, when, where, and why Shabbat observance is undertaken. It is said that "More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews."