skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is probably a typology of negative trips, but obviously very little science has been done on it. My (inter)personal experiences identify a few distinct culprits, perhaps amongst many, or perhaps all a naive fiction i've constructed for myself:

1. Overstimulation, an inability to cope with all the new perceptions. This is especially pertinent during come-up. If you experience overstimulation in sober life, you'll probably recognize it. If you haven't, it feels like agitation and confusion.

2. Anxiety that is brought into the trip that is either consciously perceived or not beforehand. If something's bothering you at the back of your mind, it's going to come up front and center.

3. Intrusive thoughts. There's no reason why they can't happen on a trip, right? Like sober life, the best thing that makes them go away is acknowledging them and letting them play out. Trying to force them down can make them worse. Intrusive thoughts can lead to disturbing experiences even if they don't result in a bad trip.

4. Panic from feeling your own body in unfamiliar ways. Your proprioception shifts rapidly with LSD. You might not be able to tell where your limbs are, or whether they even still exist. The solidity of your body suddenly feels a little too insubstantial. You can't tell if you're too hot or too cold. Blankets don't seem to work. Come-up can be rough like this. You need to have immense trust in the world that you're ok, that you're not falling apart, that your body can take care of itself and your brain will soon compensate for the new chemical situation and restore homeostasis and understand your modified internal senses.

5. Temporary psychosis. it happens and i am not qualified to suggest a remedy or reasoning to it.

Edit: Sleep! Sleep deprivation is definitely on this list. Can't sleep on acid.
>he real problem is that a decent PC will now last five years

The real problem is that there are no killer apps driving a need for faster hardware.

PC 1.0 was an office WP/accounts machine
PC 2.0 was a home entertainment, Internet and games machine
PC 3.0 was a pocket/handheld version of 2.0, and is still catching up with 2.0

Meanwhile we're still waiting for PC 4.0.

VR might be a good-enough driver, but I'm not yet convinced people want to use a PC with a giant plastic blob clamped to their heads.

If displays shrink to the point where they're light and unobtrusive, and hardware gets fast enough to have local versions of something like Siri (but smarter and better), full VR/AR could definitely become a 4.0 thing.
I live in China, and previously in Japan. My point is that the majority of the Japanese economy is not made up of exports to China, which in turn are not in majority made up of robots, as the parent believes.
No more coffee?! Now that could start a war.
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> It's funded out of workers wages, and paid back to workers in proportion to what they paid in.

No, its not. There are "bend points" where the ratio of earnings to benefits is reduced. (The benefit is 90% of average indexed monthly earnings up to the first bend point, plus 32% of AIME between the first and second bend point, plus 15% of AIME above the second bend point.)

> If you remove the cap on social security contributions without removing the cap on payouts, how is it anything but a special surcharge on people who earn money from wages?

Since the cap on contributions is a per-working-year cap and the cap on payouts is a maximum limit applied after the formula aggregates the lifetime earnings, there is no strong relationship between the two caps.

OTOH, you could uncap both annual contributions and benefits and you'd still improve the health of the trust fund, just not quite as much as you would if you uncapped only annual contributions, so if that's the only objection, go ahead and uncap both, with or without adding a third bend point.
Best advice I was ever given is that if the trip is going badly you should move your body to a different setting. It provides a nice reset should you have placed your mind somewhere that "you" do not feel comfortable with.

I can't say I think that people should be recommending psychedelics because the experience is so extreme and so personal, it can be life altering. As with anything this "far out", the outcome could be extraordinarily positive or also extraordinarily damaging. I don't believe it's merely about setting; it's the person doing the trips' responsibility to look after themselves. And don't be tired because you aren't sleeping for the next 14 hours.

If you want a new perspective on the world sure, go try LSD but if you want a better perspective I'd recommend Magnesium [1], Vitamin D [2] and some meditation first.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Health_effects_of_su...
Weird post.
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Steve Jobs famously commented on Gates, "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."

Psychedelics aren't for me, personally, due to anxiety, but they are fascinating.

Jobs also rated LSD as "one of the two or three most important experiences of my life." His experimentation with drugs is well-documented in his SF-86 (USG security clearance form), since he knew no matter what he said they had to clear him.

The whole document is kind of hilarious. Imagine Steve Jobs sitting across from Federal agents explaining a traffic arrest for his driving antics, and talking to them about acid blotters.
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I thought tablets would replace a bigger chunk of the desktop market, but I also assumed that at some point they would get proper mouse/keyboard support and better multi-tasking, so you can actually get things done. Nope.
>There's just no way to comply with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights

It seems that the more likely route would involve pressuring the EU's judicial systems to interpret that charter more favorably.
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Parlor trick is something that looks interesting only as long as you make incorrect assumptions about how it's being done. For example, a card that seems to appear out of nowhere while in reality it is held behind the hand between little and index finger. Or a program that seems to engage in planning when in reality it simply iterates over all possible solutions.
Ocsigen = isomorphic ocaml web framework with batteries included
Netflix deals at Sundance don’t make economic sense, they don’t have to
"Dab dab dab listen to my first world problems"
why is this not getting more attention than meteor, clojure+om, etc?

what am I missing?

why is ocaml not getting more attention vs haskell erlang clojure etc?
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This is good advice. However, realistically you will have to rely on their kindness in the end.

No matter how much equity you will negotiate right now, in the next 5-6 years there are ten of thousands things that will dilute/ make it obsolete. You should ask for your equity right now. But take note that if the negotiation doesn't go well, whatever you got might not be of any value, act accordingly.
On the plus side, you can readily start on one cloud now, pretty much drag-n-drop to another cloud later if prices jump, and bring it home to your living room whenever you want. The ability to click "download backup" and get a zip that has 100% of your app state, ready for one-click restore to a functional install, is ammaaaazing.
Get to befriend someone who seems to do?
Nokia had a clunky version of a smartphone on the market for years before Apple launched the iPhone. Apple iterated on the idea, but they didn't create it. Similarly, Blackberry was already there. Didn't have touch screens but they had most of the major functions of a "smartphone" like email, messaging, etc. The category already existed in many ways, Apple fantastically riffed on it.
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You think we'll have more wealth if only we made things more equal. But that's not true, because we, software engineers (assuming you're one), are in the 1%. Making a better work environment for most people by making things more equal will likely make a worse work environment for software engineers.

Yes, it's a worthy goal, but don't pursue it for the sake of a better work environment for yourself. Be prepared to lose a lot of good things in life. It's only when you're willing to sacrifice your own living standard for the sake of a better environment for most people, you can sincerely tell yourself, you're different to the 0.01%. It's the mindset "We can make our lives better by taking things from some other people not related to us" that's dangerous.
And yet that's exactly what people do allegedly. Well, it helps to not ask openly around until you trust the other person somewhat (which even means getting to know them for a while).
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Since I lost password to above account, I am using a new account to reply.

First if you think my reply which merely pointed out that your remarks were meaningless or that you were unqualified (as you yourself pointed out) was "Abusive". You ought to re-read the article which is an open political attack, along with a photoshopped image mocking a researcher.

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So when you say it would be major progress if this discovery led to the development of a drug that helped 20% of sufferers, I say sure, but wouldn't it be more revolutionary if we could understand precisely why these genetic predispositions express in some people and not in others, then use this knowledge to develop techniques to resolve or prevent the illness in 100% of people?
"""

The issue with such statements/questions E.g. "But wouldn't it be great if we could prevent cancer instead of curing it?" or "But it will be more awesome if achieve true AI instead of just some game benchmark" or "Wouldn't it be great if achieved faster than light space travel". Is that at best they are meaningless from point of view of scientific inquiry. They offer no benchmark, or even a reasonable plan of action. At worst they are often used to mislead from real scientific achievements.

Such statements are feel good equivalent of "World Peace!" or "End Hunger!" or "All you need is loveee!". While most users on this site would be able to quickly figure out the futility of "World Peace now" they don't recognize it when the similar statements are formulated in medical / healthcare domain.

To conclude this, what the researchers found regarding schizophrenia is awesome, they published in Nature, and as other comment points out most of the scientific community thinks its amazing if not revolutionary. There is no reason to dismiss it by quoting a politically motivated attack by some blogger and citing impossible to achieve goals without any feasible roadmap.
> Yet, the more I look at the financial figures for the total population, the more I realize how lucky we really are. I can't conscionablely oppose paying more in taxes. I just wish the system of expenditure was more rational.

We agree on this.
> In particular, it was hard to figure out how to let it learn the stride of the convolution, but perhaps we could have done without it.

Yeah, it seems impossible because changing the stride changes the size of the output tensor completely.
> those who have the ability or opportunity to know something, but choose not to.

That's "intentional ignorance"
Why do we need to agree? That's how this works. You compromise a bit, and they don't budge. Then you compromise again. Repeat the process until all liberties are gone.

Also, why is this framed as "going dark"? That's the ignorant people's wording. Why doesn't the author call it what it is: key escrow, or back-dooring? Use the terms of the industry you are talking about.
An article from the psychedelic frontier talking about a paper published in low impact journal (Impact Factor of slightly more than three) does not seem like an unbiased source.

To be fair, I'm hardly an unbiased source, as a good friend of mine jumped out a window an hour or so after taking a rather large dose of LSD.
Ah yes, to fight with inequality and racism companies now use quotas - a system where they hire based on gender and race.
Clinical studies at the population level will not provide substantial evidence for or against any purported effects of individual overuse. Anecdotally, acid brain sure seems real to me. Whether it is a physiological change or merely the ideological ramification of repeatedly obliterating fundamental notions like permanence or selfness, I don't know.
"More control" though might be missing the point.
A good place to start is MDN (Mozilla Developer Network): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

MDN Javascript resources: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

Before starting the tutorials, take some time to learn what's available in the Firefox developer tools. You won't need most of them at first, but knowing what's available will help as you gain experience.

The two developer tools you'll probably use most when leaning are the Scratchpad (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Scratchpad) and Console (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console)

https://jsfiddle.net/ & http://jshint.com/ will also be very useful while learning JS

I haven't taken any but Udacity has some javascript courses (https://www.udacity.com/courses/all), just tick the "Javascript" checkbox under "Technology" in the left menu

Some additional resources:

https://developer.chrome.com/devtools

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bg182326(v=vs.85)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1et7k7c(v=vs.94).a...

http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/index.html

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

https://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/b...

Dated but still worth watching:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4

edit: added addl. resources
Yet Nature regularly publishes studies which are not properly statistically powered or with wrong p-values conclusions.
I don't think that's the true core value - more a statement about the way that Yahoo's current business model (if you can call it that) has a big net negative value.

Currently Y! is literally less than the sum of its parts.

There are a lot of reasons for that, but the absence of a "Where is this company going to be five years from now?" plan has to be a big element.

Investors barely have confidence in the present, never mind the future - mostly because Mayer has completely failed to reassure them.
OK, now I see what you are saying. It would certainly be true for a spin lock, but it seems to me that, for std::mutex, the kernel transition required to arbitrate contention would dominate even on the coherency traffic, right?
> You are being down-voted because the US has near universal basic income for older folks

No, it doesn't. The US has a broadly-applicable mostly-mandatory contribution-weighted public pension program, which is almost entirely unlike a basic income.
> The debate mostly centers on regulating the products and services companies can provide to facilitate such communications.

You're calling them products but the relevant thing they want to regulate is still more speech.

If you want to communicate with your friends in code then you first have to communicate the code itself. In this context the code is code, but code is speech.
Nix as an Alternative to Docker
> Leaving version control up to the user isn't the worst, but it does mean that it won't be straightforward to put an "undo" in the GUI (if the GUI already has undo somehow I'd like to hear how they do it).

The GUI does have an Undo, and it works exactly as you expect: it reverts changes made in the GUI app. If you have a note open and you make an external change, the app will at some point notice the change and ask you if you want to reload; if you say yes, it reloads from disk and throws away the undo history. I was able to get it to reload content without realizing it changed (by editing the note, then closing it in Quiver before it detected the change and reopening) and this didn't throw away the undo history, which seems like just a fairly simple bug.

Or to put it more generally, Undo works in Quiver pretty much the same way you'd expect it to work in any editor that can reload files that change on disk; the undo history simply doesn't concern itself with undoing changes made outside of the app, and in most cases reloading the file from disk throws away undo history.
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Through clipboard it certainly can be integrated with any normal text-editing process.

To integrate it directly one probably need to use structurise.com SDK which is non-free and Windows-only.
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What is the emacs for? I'm so confused.
They can advertise, but ad just above the first message drives miss-clicks. Its tricky way to drive CTR up.
> It's mostly not about banning encryption though. The debate mostly centers on regulating the products and services companies can provide to facilitate such communications.

Banning effective encryption, or banning commercial encryption, is still effectively banning encryption, or forcing it underground and casting suspicion on it.

> It's not the "government" versus "the people." It's a small group of people who strongly support surveillance, a small group who strongly oppose it, and a mushy middle that tends to lean towards whatever makes them feel safe. People in each group are represented within government, though for obvious reason people in the first group tend to gravitate toward positions involving national security or defense.

The people within government who oppose backdoors have yet to be very vocal, or effective. I'd certainly love to see a large outpouring of support from government, to counter the level of support for the pro-backdoor position.
The App Store as an Economy
If you're visiting a website that runs PageSpeed and you want to see the original markup, add ?PageSpeed=off to the url.

For example, compare http://www.jefftk.com/index to http://www.jefftk.com/index?PageSpeed=off
I've never done psychedelics, although I was a trip sitter a few times back in college.

It was generally nice. We went out to outrageously gorgeous outdoor parks, and I kept people from wandering off cliffs.

One time, somebody was having a terrible trip (which I hear is the equivalent of an actual vacation in hell), and he stopped it with his Clonazepam prescription, which is essentially a longer lasting drug in the same class as Xanax.
I agree with you. I was surprised to read she could afford to pay $25 for a meal! In her broke situation, she should be mastering the art of cooking! Then these $25 would last her for a week or longer, not for 3 meals.
Maybe I do sound judgmental, but I grew up in USSR right before it got collapsed, and I remember how our family tried to survive :-|
> Once we got to the point of the Intel Core Duo (06-08) the modern processor was fast enough for the majority of the PC fleet

Core 2 era was definitely the change-over point for me - before that I was upgrading pretty much on a yearly basis. I then built a Core 2 Quad machine in mid-2008, and stayed with the same hardware until mid-2013. TBH, that upgrade (to a i7-4770K) wasn't really necessary - I only did it because I started doing a fair amount of HD video encoding/editing. The Q6600 was handling everything else fine.
I often wonder whether this is, in fact, a 2nd amendment issue. Consider: until very recently encryption technologies were considered a banned export ( armaments ).

Further reading:

[1] http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=478

[2] http://law.stackexchange.com/questions/3696/is-the-right-to-...
These are the kind of comments I'll usually spend time scouring Stackoverflow in hopes of finding some realistic review or use case in a business setting. Your writeup hits on points that I was worried about, and know I can't trust this magical module to fix. I appreciate the long post!
Well one of them killed himself after hallucinating people coming through the walls to get him so it would be tricky in that case. Here are some famous acid casualties http://www.wow247.co.uk/2015/07/17/bad-trip-brian-wilson-aci...

I don't think there's much in the way of peer reviewed papers because no ones going to deliberately dose one group on LSD for a long term study and most recreational users take other drugs and don't document and publish things but there are definitely issues.
so agree
she would benefit much more from learning how to save money than from having more money
> IIRC, vitriol started to be directed at Ellen Pao only once she was cross-examined in court

It certainly increased after the court case began, but certainly some, uh, strong opinions from the start:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008796
The translation by Jonathan Star to me to be pretty good.
Cisco ruling could lead to ban on Arista tech imports
Awesome exit for them but, darn it, there goes another great app. Destined to become a shadow of its former self.
Ugh. Am I the only one who appreciates cheap things for what they are? Over-engineering something is a bad thing, just as under-engineering it is too. It makes things more expensive than they have to be.

There's an art to designing something to last for no longer than it has to, and to use not a single part that isn't necessary. How much worse would our lives be if we had to pay industrial/commercial prices for all of our goods?
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1. yes. linking with liblkl or ld_preload.

but network stack is not all about open(2)/close(2): bunch of configuration tools are needed to do the job, which is what we want to have in a future.

2. yes and no.