skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh this sounds like exactly what was wrong with the early LSD promoters. Psychedelics are the mythical "love bomb"? I do not think the evidence supports that. While I think the world would be far better off if everyone had tried it, I don't think it'd stop wars or anything. At best, it might get people to sit up and think a bit, and turn to rationality for explanations.

But in real life, seeing as how one's predispositions get highlighted with acid, we'd probably end up with a lot of people thinking they now know the answers. Or that their trip showed them that (Allah|Zeus|Quantum Democracy|Whatever) is the True God and go all nuts on that.

Leary and others made up these unsubstantiated claims about the effects of acid and really tried to sell it as something beyond what it is. It's a damn awesome molecule that does really nifty shit to brains, and certainly bears plenty of research and use.

But to say it can cure cancer? Come the fuck on man. That's just new-age heebie jeebie nonsense with no basis in reality. It's why a lot of pro-LSD people are simply not taken seriously, because they forget it's just a molecule messing with brains' perceptions.

(Unless you meant cure cancer in the "well it made you feel better, and feeling good is important to health so it might give you a better chance against some diseases", in which case it's not much of a claim and certainly shouldn't be phrased that way. Hey, Apple products can prevent street crime, because the metal bodies might slow down bullets and make an otherwise fatal shot survivable!)
I tried reading this on a Samsung Note 4 - the one with the really large screen. I bet I scrolled ten times to get to what I would consider the 3rd paragraph due to all of the ads. Hell, bring back blogspam if they can condense this down to something readable. Forbes is as bad if not worse than buzzfeed these days in terms of obnoxious ads.
"I predicted..." really? with a link to your comment even? hahahahaha, you're so proud of yourself for repeating what's said here every hour of every day, it's amazing. do you act this way in RL?
Original article: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0S32F020151009
Of course it is, at least if the optimized compiler is compiled with an optimized compiler, but also generally fast compilation is optimal.
If "company X" (a customer of Amazon) is sharing EU citizens data through amazon AWS to the US, who is sharing the data? Amazon or "company x" ?

Amazon has approval from EU data protection authorities, but "company X" apparently doesn't need approval?
I think the key word was "longterm" with the assumption that psychois is more associated with short term episodes.
Nice writing. One point/one question:

. section titles can be finished with {{{1 and then no closing brackets are necessary. It will just wrap to the next {{{1 occurence.

. regarding nvim: how can I find out what the defaults are there? Probably I have quite a lot of definitions which are no longer needed...
You're underestimating the difficulty of scaling Mnesia the way WhatsApp did (one source says "In-memory Mnesia database using about 2TB of RAM sharded across 16 partitions to store about 18 billion records." [1]). The prevailing wisdom in the Erlang community was that Mnesia could not be made to do such things. The only well-known user of Mnesia at anywhere near this scale prior to WhatsApp was Klarna. To achieve this, Klarna employed at least one of the original Mnesia developers who wrote proprietary patches for their system [2]. So while you accuse parent of being reductionist, your views of WhatsApp's engineering challenges also seem reductionist. Erlang/OTP software doesn't write and scale itself ... large-scale distributed systems are decidedly non-trivial no matter what tools you've chosen.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...

[2] https://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/601/EUC2...
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That is indeed a very worrying case, but is not related at all to the riots.
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but productivity never was it's intended target - skype was killed on mobile because of shitty notification requiring the app to be on for the longest time, call dropping, software block to 3g calls.

basically they shot themselves in the foot on the mobile market with an half assed implementation, and even today the notification system on skype mobile apps is dumb, especially how they handles balloons (the only app that could do worse on notification balloons is facebook)

whatsapp may not be a cornerstone of reliability, but it has an incredibly frictionless mobile user experience.
Nothing to do with software freedom, everything to do with security/auditability.
Ask HN: Perfect existing skills or build new ones?
I am college student in Junior year. I am comfortable with building ruby on rails applications.
I have not been able to decide whether I should keep building on my existing skills or I should explore new fields? For example, if I have some time at hand, should I spend that on reading source code of rails, learn things like Meter, Node.Js, NoSQL etc or should I explore completely new fields like software development with C++/Python or may be android/ios app development? Big data and AI are quite interesting as well.
You guys must have made this decision at some point.
The organisation appears to have been successful after implementing that approach. But causation doesnt imply etc etc
There's these two for HN:

http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hack...

http://insightmine.com/hacking-y-combinator/
Maybe governments should stop being such a big spenders. The problem is that they never cut their costs and people seem to accept that (at least in Europe). What are these people (politicians) even doing the whole day? Most countries in Europe are super small and quite easy to manage.
Disabling the search highlight seems like a rather lowly use for leader+space. Great guide though, didn't know about quite a few options in here, wildmenu is great.

I switched to vim from subl about a month ago - it took a bit of getting used to but I'm loving it now. I still use subl for some multi cursor wizardry but that's less and less common now.

I found the disabling the arrow keys in normal mode was the point of no return!
Pretty tangential, and i've no idea yet as to it's accuracy, but i loved the idea that the human race's "emergence into consciousness was triggered by our ancestors encounters with visionary plants". From an ironically, as otherwise i probably wouldn't have stumbled on it, Ted Talk by Graham Hancock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w

Out of interest, are there any other theories as to what might have caused this "leap"?
I can't speak to the privacy implications but one benefit is that you can now do the

register in app -> email confirmation -> login

flow between the app and mail, rather than the app, mail, safari for the confirmation link and then back to the app
Add interactive documentation to your JavaScript apps with Intro.js
There are many well understood approaches to scaling this. There are operational challenges to it, but it's not that hard. E.g. decompose large follower lists by using reflectors, and cap the size in the messaging system to a suitably low number. Now you've reduced the issue to one of sharding it over enough machines.
Hah! I also initially thought this, then I assumed it was because the most connected people were the most connected, and had more voting power.

But I missed the fact about the others who were not able to connect with others around them. Increasing connections between those around you is the solution here, not disrupting the connections of the highly networked ones.
The US calling on the Chinese to stop cyber-espionage is ISIS telling Al-Qaeda to stop raping women.

I am sure the Chinese know this and are laughing at the arrogance of the US govt. The US govt are fools if they think china is just going to stop.

The thing to do would be build a better system to protect systems critical to national security. Rather than spending all the money bankrolling the biggest surveillance system in the history of the world.
I think the article hints that the reason why people voted the way they do is because they didn't have connections to the people close to them.

We should encourage and increase the connections and links between people, rather than disrupt or change the links of the few with the most connections.
Yeah, you can look at it like that, but if you don't mind me saying I'd suggest that attitude is indicative of our approach to formal education, which rewards being 'right' regardless of how deeply something is understood, rather than rewarding getting something 'wrong' and learning why in the process of exploring further.
I don't have a concrete answer to that, but my experience in the online advertising industry and the associated laws tells me that it is the end-user facing company that is going to get the blame in case something goes wrong. They might get away with it in case they really, really did their due diligence and were unable to be aware of any wrongdoing, but that's going to be hard to prove.

For example, if a publisher decides to make money using some shady ad network, and that ad network distributes malware / violates privacy rules / whatever, the publisher is the one that's going to hang for it, not the ad network. This will mean that publishers are naturally incentived to get really good guarantees that the ad network (or, more relevant to this point, the hosting company) isn't violating any laws. I suppose there will be some standardized compliancy test that these hosting companies will be doing to give their clients some assurance that it's safe to host their data with them.

In the end, I think this is good for EU citizens, and sucks for the people who have to deal with the laws.
We're doing 5Mpps (routed, net bridged) on a single core with a project we're calling netmap-fwd.

I'll blog about it on blog.pfsense.org in a few days when I return from Brazil.
I've been building a small game on Piston together with a friend. It's in a super early exploratory fase. You can see how we deal with the event loop here:

https://github.com/tinco/super-susano/blob/master/src/main.r...

That calls into the draw loop here:

https://github.com/tinco/super-susano/blob/master/src/engine...
This is known as the "Stoned Ape Theory" and was (to my knowledge) first popularized by Terrence McKenna.

http://www.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/McKenna/Evolution/

From the link above:

McKenna theorizes that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open -- following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way.

Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. The changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet were many -- McKenna theorizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
It is way better to use 'emrun' command than python server.
It supports: observe console output, you can pass command line arguments to your application. It creates server automatically.
Could you rephrase the question, please? I was a bit confused by the wording.
In the UK we now have an office of tax simplification: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-tax-si... I think they have a long way to go yet.
Yes, but the dividing criteria is completely arbitrary. The medical term would be chronic. To me psychosis means a form of mental illness, so it looks like the GP doesn't have a clue.
Oh man, that brings back memories. I used to play Dark Castle on my father's Compaq Portable III (a giant semi-portable suitcase of a machine, with a tiny amber screen). Viciously hard game as I recall (as so many were bath then).
There's also https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth, by Tim Pope.
Cuba actually has a higher human development index than Peru despite a lower GDP per capita - despite the economic sanctions against Cuba.
You're really on to something with parallel construction.

Using Palantir they can map all the celltower data, etc, to find people who are present at the place and time of multiple crimes. But they don't want to explain all this in court.

So they sit Constable Collins down with the video footage to parallel reconstruct evidence for the jury. And the PR department then decides to turn him into a super-hero with mythical powers, to further the cover.

That makes a lot more sense to me.
Has anyone tried to get something like Watson to understand tax law?
In the summer of 1982, I remember watching a movie from one in the dorm commons building. I don't remember the movie, but my bias is toward 2001. Anyway, I suspect they lost out because the \R in VCR is for "recording". There's a bit of compact cassette versus 8-track in the way things worked out.
I don't use vim as my go to editor so I may be asking a silly question; does it just use idiotic defaults or something? I've only met a couple 'vim users' who could just hop onto someone else's vim setup and be productive, and I've never met a single vim user who could use someone else's setup without making comments about everything being different.

I guess the question is do people modify vim cause they can or cause they have to?
Meanwhile, I still can't edit a playlist while playing it.

edit: constructively put - there's simpler stuff to fix UX and match user patterns still isn't there?
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I'm sure you can take a guess as to what Twitter employees do, what with the ad platform, firehouse access, APIs, infrastructure, frontends, celebrity management, support, and then the fact that it's a giant company, so HR, marketing, sales, finance...

I mean, it's obvious. And WA isn't necessarily a replicable model for all companies.
The reason I made that comment is that I would not in any way describe Scientology as "successful". Most of the stories I know of people who associated themselves with it are people who were leaned on by the organization and essentially forced to remain active. I also don't find myself thinking there are tons of people who are part of the organization, which was supposed to be the entire point of this strategy. I am actually kind of shocked that you say "the organization appears to have been successful after implementing that approach". Like, the idea wasn't just that they'd succeed in tricking people into thinking they had a ton of members and was successful, but that they would actually be successful, and that seems to not be the case.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/scientologists-how-many-of-...

"That's one Scientologist for about every 12,000 Americans. In other words, the total number of active U.S. Scientologists is about the size of your run-of-the-mill local credit union."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

"In 2008, the American Religious Identification Survey found that the number of American Scientologists had dropped to 25,000."
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Hubris, much?
Chinese all-cash buyers of U.S. homes have tripled
I wonder if this will have an effect on private equity for startups immediately, and have an effect on what some see as a VC bubble. Twitter was often hailed as an example of a company that didn't need - not just profit - even a monetisation strategy, because growth! Ads! User data! You're the product! It's becoming more obvious that this may be a hollow way to speculate about returns.
I think there is definitely some promising legitimate cancer therapy with cannabis. Although I agree with you in general. If you have experienced the effects of MDMA or LSD it's not too far fetched to say that it really can promote world peace.
> is the content legitimately licensed to be reproduced on Youtube by its owner?

I sincerely doubt it, which is why I didn’t (and generally don’t) link to such things on YouTube – they get removed and the link goes stale. But when walterbell made one link to the start of the episode I thought I’d make a link directly to the part I quoted, so people wouldn’t have to search for it.
If you want to stop phone books from being delivered (and you're in the U.S.) start with https://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/
“Death is not carte blanche to forgot the bad parts” Jobs movie captures the man
For me, it's because I can. When I find a job I do often, I add it to the config, when I find a tool that makes a job easier I pick it up. Bare, freshly installed vim is quite useable, but is missing the affordances of my personally customized environment.

It's kind of like the difference between being able to cook and walking into a strange kitchen and immediately knowing where everything is. In my home I'm comfortable, I know that the vegetable peeler is in a different drawer than the steak knives. In a friend's home, I'm just going to have to ask where something is every few minutes if I want to get work done.
what is the benefit of representing tabs by 4 spaces?
Correct, the defaults are indeed idiotic, probably because they are from the last century. I even have a freaking plugin installed to properly close buffers (https://github.com/cespare/vim-sbd/).

It's indeed harder to use vim without my customizations. I guess it's more like a "build-your-own-editor from parts" kind of thing.
Spiral of Silence¹ is basically the same idea, as I read it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence
Social+Authentication+in+Node.js+with+Passport+-+Michael+Herman
Our Midwest workplace recently hired a developer from California who could not afford to buy a house. He said competition from all cash buyers made it very difficult.
the limitation of which is that most content on a user stream is pulled passively by the users or is a paid advertisement.

as a discovery/exploration tool sucks.

if it had interesting suggestion based on hashtags and followers beyond 'follow this three more person' daily mail it could be a nice networking/news tool, but so far it cannot really help me navigate in the millions streams that might be interesting but are accessible only knowing that exact hashtag

I followed a couple news outlet, I guess there are many more that may interest me but I can't be assed to search them and if I discover them myself they go by preference into feedly, not twitter.

on the other hand, it had been great to follow this and that indie game developer :D
"avoid the social networks like the plague" he said and posted his opinion publicly to HN
Why not use it to find corruption in government - that would be much more useful for the most.
Great guide, thanks for sharing. Although that B and E remapping.. man, it hurts!
On my home machine I have a vimrc of about 30 lines, but I could do without most of it, I could probably reduce it to about 5 lines if I had to. So whenever I use vim on a computer at university or on a new machine in the workplace, as long as it has syntax highlighting and auto indent on, which it usually does, that's fine for me.
The default vim config is pretty barebones.

Actually, one of the main goals of Neovim[1] is to provide better defaults[2], such has syntax highlighting.

[1] https://neovim.io/

[2] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/276
This one's a bit older but I based most of my .vimrc on it: http://unlogic.co.uk/2013/02/08/vim-as-a-python-ide/

and

http://www.sontek.net/blog/2011/05/07/turning_vim_into_a_mod...
See also: the New York pneumatic mail system (although that didn't move people).
http://untappedcities.com/2013/03/15/nycs-pneumatic-tube-mai...

(not to be confused with Beach Pneumatic Transit, although that didn't move mail: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beach/ )
Samsung: workplace distractions cost UK businesses £250m
The interviewee acknowledged that, and said people with predispositions to it should not take these therapies. They have reliable screening tests.
I've been testing your recommendation of using ag in ctrlP (let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'ag %s -l --nocolor -g ""'), but the performance seems to be pretty much the same. Do you notice that much of a difference?

Disclaimer: I'm using a SSD.
^ The mentality that brought us the security theater at the TSA, the incredibly invasive surveillance of the internet by simply collecting everything on it, and continued reduction of personal rights in favor of "security". Enjoy your fallacious arguments folks: hasty generalization, cherry picking, anecdotes, appeals to emotion and fear; some of them shown in the parent comment, ... until you wake up.
> Think before you type a rude comment too, most Twitter people read HN and will see it. :-/

No criticism? Is it bad if I say that they have a very simple product that doesn't need so much people? Is it bad if I say every feature they add they ruin it more? Is it bad if I say I would rather go back to 2010 Twitter?
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Neovim Defaults

From the current docs:

[0] https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-option-default...

From the GitHub issues page:

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2676
I'm not sure I understand the announcement, my head is spinning a bit from the bureaucrat-speak but...does it in essence read

1) Amazon is compliant because they have a special (political!) deal in place

"""AWS has already obtained approval from EU data protection authorities (known as the Article 29 Working Party)"""

2) Amazon (or AWS customers) can still transfer EU data to the US

""" [...] can continue to use AWS to transfer their customer content from the EEA to the US, without altering workloads, and in compliance with EU law.?"""

+

"""[...] to enable transfer of personal data outside Europe, including to the US with our EU-approved Data Processing Addendum and Model Clauses."""

If so I'm worried.
So if you have a breadboard and a USB to serial adapter, you could build the bare bones version of this for about $6 and maybe break the bank at $15 if you had to buy everything.

I've got a usb to serial adapter just sitting here, definitely trying this project for just $6

Wish it only needed 5V supply, I have endless phone chargers laying around from 500ma to 2a
“When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard.”

— Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

https://thepiratebay.vg/torrent/9369039/The_Prisoner_1967_10...

http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/torrent/9369039/The_Prisoner_1...
I'm using command-t and it works fine for me even in large code base.

AFAIK, ag shines for searching code in large code base, if you are just doing matching with a list of file paths, ag is an overkill.

EDIT:
And if you set `wildignore` correctly, you wouldn't have a lot of files. Getting node_modules/ out of my Command-T result made it much faster. I actually wrote a plugin[0] to extract patterns from `.gitignore` and apply to `wildignore`, so that Command-T and CtrlP could have a shorter list to search for.

[0]: https://github.com/octref/RootIgnore
Is there a bigger privacy implication than the app itself phoning home when you open it?
Ah, never mind, that is a genetic algorithm. I was on my phone, so couldn't read through your code easily. Expressions are more often evolved using a technique called genetic programming, where the "DNA" is a tree structure, and operations like crossover are done via swapping subtrees among different members of the population. Check it out, it's cool stuff. It gets used often when you're evolving programs, rather than something with a more fixed genome.

Since I'm on a phone (again): how do you deal with malformed expressions, and changing the length of the genome?
I'm talking about rude comments about the intelligent people that work there.

Where do you work, lets compare products/people and the impact the product makes on the world shall we?