skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't partake in any kind of drugs outside of alcohol in social settings. I do however have an anxiety disorder that comes with a lot of panic. I always described myself in the throws of panic as feeling like I was playing a video game. It's a very surreal experience to feel like you're driving a car except your body is the car. You think right arm move and it does, but it doesn't quite feel like yourself. Very strange experience. Incidentally, it took me about 2 very long years to get a good handle on it where I'll only have an episode like that once or twice a year.
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It's not lazy to say something such as an LSD trip is ineffable. It's just how it is.

Sure a lot of the sounds, sounds and experiences may technically be describable. But it's the experience itself that is ineffable.

I've done LSD twice myself, and won't be doing it again for many years as I started suffering from panic attacks and pretty much an existential crisis as many others in this thread reported.

That said, I don't regret taking it at all. It definitely broadened my mind to how simple we take the world for granted.
Without going too far off topic into a boring argument that won't go anywhere - I should say my religion comment includes the idea of a god/faith or supernatural creator etc.
Nobody said anything about America or China. The listed uploader on the video even suggests it's from India. So quit yer trolling.

The transformers made 80 years ago were indeed dangerous. Generally they used paper insulation soaked in fire retardant chemicals.

There are a couple of observations I make about this video:

1. She's working amazingly fast and clearly with great skill. However, there's very very little time being spent inspecting the result at each stage.

2. Observe that she is holding sharp wire cutting scissors in her hand as she performs many operations on the insulating tape and wire. It would be extremely easy to accidentally nick the insulation when working at that speed. This insulation is the only barrier between your charging iPhone and the 120/240 mains voltage (or higher in a switching supply).

3. This transformer design is not the safer more modern "split bobbin" type as suggested in the original video. Instead of having a plastic barrier between two separate windings, it relies entirely on the enamel insulation of the transformer wire and a few layers of insulating tape between concentric windings. The precise number of insulating tape layers is essential to achieve the necessary safety insulation. The white tape wound along the sides is important too. Watch the video again closely. How careful is she being to count the number of layers of insulating tape? It's possible her winding machine is counting them, but this step flies by so quickly it's a bit worrying. Edit: This may be extrapolating a bit because it may be we're seeing the outer, rather than an interposing, layer of tape being wrapped in the video.

4. The transformers are piled haphazardly as they are being constructed. They are heavy and the bottom pins can have get a pretty sharp point on them. I bet some of those transformers at the bottom of those piles are getting their insulation punctured.
Wonderful. I will go find it tomorrow.
Yep!

Check this out. I'm not the owner of the site, but it's pretty indicative of the situation in Chicago and blows my mind away. I didn't see any news from this, either.
http://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-willie-wilson-fi...

FOIA's pretty interesting. You should seriously use it to look into things that interest you. I've learned more from it than any newspaper, magazine or website, and that's considering I'm not even trying to be involved that much. If you want to see what kind of things you can do with it, check these out:

The city's legally obligated to fulfill [0] after a phone call tomorrow where they're going to try to simmer down the request.. They forgot to respond initially, so they're no longer allowed to use "unduly burdensome" as a rejection reason.

[0] "Please provide any and all information, log files, log backups, documentation, code, reports and data that used for or by the City of Chicago, third parties, or any affiliates for the the use or analysis of CANVAS, its logs, log files, documentation, code, log backups, and all data since Jan 1, 2009 (excluding the data from my previous request)."

The FOIA officer I'm working with is pretty great, too:
"Great. (And I can neither confirm nor deny whether I’ll be filtering the “editorializing” from the people who were helping me understand your request.)"

Another example which resulted in a disk with 18m parking ticket records: https://github.com/red-bin/chitickets

(And sorry if I sounded too aggressive there. Grumpy day, I guess D:!)
My day job is to solve this exact type of collective action problem. Wish me luck!
And I personally believe anyone uttering the phrase "I have a phone and a pen" has no interest in compromise or how they shut out amendments when they controlled the Senate, but they get backed by the press. Our country does deserve better, and I'm a bit sick of seeing an obstructionist meme applied to the wrong party.

President Clinton understood compromise and did great things, this President doesn't.
"There is inherent overhead to simulation"

This is true of simulations in our universe. There's no way to know how external universes might work.
You're assuming that movement properties are special, and that non-movement properties don't affect the environment until they are collapsed. This is not the case -- quantum mechanics treats all quantum properties in the same way. An indeterminate spin can be detected in the same way an indeterminate position can be detected (i.e. indirectly, via diffraction and interference effects). It is true that if particle A and B are entangled so that spin A + spin B = 0, then that may help you optimize your "universe computer", but it doesn't gain you much since any gains will be offset by needing to store the fact that A and B are entangled. Not just that, but you have to take into account the fact that any number of particles can be entangled, with any arbitrary linear combination of properties.

IMO the biggest reason to think the universe isn't a computer is just how darn non-computable quantum mechanics is. The complexity grows at an absurd rate. Even for just the position of two particles you have a 6-dimensional wavefunction with (as far as we know) an infinity of possible values for every (infinitesimal) point in that 6-dimensional state space.
once you name them you can never get rid of them
Time Warner Cable's DNS server went down at roughly the same time (in Austin). I'm hoping that's just a coincidence.
Why did WeChat succeed in China where other apps failed?
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Chat.center and Facebook Messenger .. continued
Docker Cloud still requires BYO cloud, however.
> so that you absolutely could not take them to court.

Did he miss an opportunity or an opportunity cost?
Beautiful collection! I'd love to convince you to reject from the collection any smarmbot emails -- http://blog.beeminder.com/smarmbot -- which I define as emails that pretend to be sent personally ("I noticed that you recently...").

I realize a lot of hackers (I've argued with @patio11 about this) don't see the problem with those. Maybe because it's inconceivable to us nerds how anyone could be deceived by them. But some people are and I think the best of both worlds can be achieved by either saying "we" instead of "I" -- as in "all of us, including the program that sends these emails!" -- or just appending something like "This email is obviously automated but you can reply to it and it will go straight to me personally!".
Minds, Brains, and Programs (1980)
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Well, problems with the default mode network seem to be linked to depression, Alzheimer's, attentional disorders, anxiety, and on and on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network#Pathophys...

My comment was meant about the positive effect that meditation has on DMN function through structural changes. My contention is that these changes are likely more permanent and longer lasting than the behavioral changes triggered by psychedelics. I am going to go out on a limb and say most people think it's better to experience lowered anxiety, depression and increased attentional capacity, which is what I meant.
Google almost shut down the site to integrate exclusively in Googlemaps.

A lot of people responded, including the founders, and Google decided to keep for some time the service. Maybe you should check the Panoramio communities to see what they miss about.

I used Panoramio a lot when I was backpacking. Are you from Brazil too?
Otherwise known as an eye for an eye, making the whole world blind.
Did you look at your page?

An extremely brief glance at your source shows that you're loading 3rd party javascript from two different hosts, one being Google.

Are you sure you know what you're doing?
Advertisers aren't funding content to help the middle class. They're funding content to take the middle class's money. You might think advertising doesn't make people spend more, but there's a pretty big industry that disagrees with you.

I don't care if it's hard to build a business on subscriptions. The alternative—building a business on addiction and manipulation—is immoral. I will happily watch it die.
> Are you willing to pay?

Yes, because it doesn't have to be a direct exchange of money.

For example I feed live data to Wunderground, Flightradar24 and several other smaller sites and in exchange they give me ongoing advertisement-free subscriptions to their services.

That costs me a few pence per day in electricity, on top of initial equipment acquisition, but neither of those costs is tied to one particular service. I could change from Flightradar to Planefinder or Flightaware, for example, and receive the same benefits.
99.95% is correct, but the Compute Engine SLA is actually here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla

Today's incident did not impact App Engine at all.

(Disclaimer: I work in Google Cloud Support.)
Seems kinda misleading from Google to claim repeatedly that they are hosted just on the same infrastructure of GCP, and not go down with it.

EDIT: Switched from "dishonest" to "misleading"; while it's abundantly clear that Google doesn't run on GCP, GCP feels like a second-class citizen to Google because you just cannot get Google uptime with it.
Even with prep writing a speech that good isn't easy. Easier sure, but that's like the difference between a high wire act and a high wire act with bears waiting to eat your corpse.
Only a few though.
> while they pay out royalties on a per-song-played basis

I believe this is inaccurate. They pay out royalties on a share-of-all-plays basis, don't they?[0] So an outage wouldn't reduce the payout amount, it would just slightly alter the balance of payments for individual rightsholders.

[0]http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#royalties-i...: "That 70% is split amongst the rights holders in accordance with the popularity of their music on the service. The label or publisher then divides these royalties and accounts to each artist depending on their individual deals... Spotify does not calculate royalties based upon a fixed “per play” rate."
Apply HN: Natch – Localized Farmers and Artisans Marketplace
An online farmer's market where individuals can buy and sell the things they produce to people in their local marketplace. Each locality will have its own local marketplace, and within it, anybody is able to open up a virtual local shop and sell any goods ranging from homegrown fruits and vegetables, to artisanal cheeses and jams, to craft drinks and snacks. As a shopper on the app, I would be able to purchase any of the available goods that were being sold by the independent producers in my local marketplace.

Within each locality, Natch will have a fulfillment center, where it will receive, organize and ship out orders - enabling anybody to do all their shopping from the app, and receive all the goods from the different producers in one shipment.

Why I wanted to make this idea is because I’m somebody who prefers buying goods from independent, local and artisan brands and producers. However, it has been difficult to access and consistently support these brands, because farmer’s markets are infrequent and far from me, and buying products individually from many different online stores can be expensive and inconvenient. There was no common place for any startup food brand to try and sell to me whatever new artisan product they had made. So the idea behind Natch was to create a localized marketplace so that any independent and local producer had an open market where they could sell their goods, and where shoppers could more easily find and support them.

Live Local :)
There has to be a certain level of karma/schadenfreude of this happening in the week where they are pushing their SRE book...did they handle it well? It seems so, but a lot of their book is an ounce of prevention over a pound of on-call pagers going off.
They should remove the official reddit app then
That's fair, but I'm willing to bet that anyone who has a chance of receiving an award is well-prepared to give a speech. Executing the speech is difficult whether you are ready or not, and Carmack not only spoke well/fluently, but had a great message that was meaningful because it came from him and also, because it can resonate with anyone really.
That looks pretty interesting; I might apply.

One question about the non-optional meetings: when are they? If I am in PST, will I have to skip sleep or work to attend?
Thanks for your comment and questions!

Like you said, one of our use cases is helping people find the right neighbourhood to stay in. Whether it's because they find it safe, close to things they'd like to see, or has the vibe and lifestyle they want to experience.

Your suggestions are interesting and we've had similar thoughts. Hope we'll be able to implement them soon.

Regarding your concerns:

We want Lucal to be a community project so we don't see ourselves paying freelancers directly.

You're right, covering off-the-path locations is definitely a challenge as public media sources for these are limited. We indeed need to incentivise locals to contribute to the platform. One such incentive is publicity for their area and small businesses within it. We hope to work with local businesses and get them to contribute media for their areas, providing content for us and getting their names out at the same time. Partnerships with local tourism boards could help us with this as well.

For more popular destinations it's easier to seed the media so we plan to do some of it ourselves at the start. We can attract users with these initially. Once we have a large enough user base we can start social media campaigns for lesser-known places to get the community to contribute to those.
I've taken to writing swears in personal project code comments or variable names instead of TODOs or hacky workarounds. It's easy to grep the codebase for them and I'm constantly just a little worried someone will pull me up on it.
Leaving sarcastic comments aside, I think the valid point is made - the rise of commodity, garbage-quality hardware overmanufactured in China and subsequent rise of "commodity-proud" software empowered by penny-wise / dollar-stupid business processes are overdue for correction.

Instead of putting 20 rusty bicycles together and claim to be a revolutionary fuel- and cost efficient rocket ship, why don't we build a rocket ship from the beginning that actually flies quite well?

Hardware and chips optimized for DB engines, queries and huge amount of streaming data will be welcomed.
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ASCII weather
AWS Netflix consumes enough resources that if they spike 40-50% everyone is screwed. The software required to run the cloud like AWS is orders of magnitude more complex then what avg project would need and results in major screwups. Both major AWS outages were due control plane issues second case was result of massive Netflix migration that triggered throttles for everyone in affected AZs. The throttles in the first place were put in due to the major outage that lasted for many hours.
No, because it's not real.

He felt a connection between himself and the snail. There is no actual connection, but he felt it. If he believes that connection to be real he will act on it, but those actions will not be the right ones because their basis is false.

The problem is that it's actually possible to have a real connection, even between a person and a snail, but instead of a real connection you have the feeling of a connection, without the actuality of it.

> with a renewed sense of meaning or purpose

You are saying something different from what he said. I don't argue with what you said, because you are right, how a person experiences things is all internal.

But I feel like the drug is giving a fake experience, when the real one is possible. That's where the problem lies - you are fooling yourself, pretending you have something, when you don't.
Bultmann and Robinson? Do they operate the Tor node on a Bultcave or something?
Interpreting, Enforcing and Changing the GNU GPL, as Applied to Linux and ZFS
> Capital One wanted to become a software company just like Ford says, the difference, Capital One already had great leaders. Is Ford full of great leaders?

Chrysler and GM both went bankrupt during the financial crisis. Ford didn't. It's by far the best run car company in North America.
Yeah, my first guess would be that the genetic solver is degenerating to basically a brute force search here (which is feasible in this weak instance). Will have to take a look to confirm...
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Ugh, this is not how you do crypto. Crypto algorithms have to be understood with regards to what guarantees they provide and in what context. Your approach here is basically ZOMG COLLISIONS ARE BAD when in fact collision-resistance was never a property of this hash function and a collision doesn't provide an attacker with any power they didn't already have.

If an attacker has the power to create a non-CP file that has the same hash as a CP file and plant it without detection, they have the power to plant a CP file without detection. Why would they go to the effort to create a collision with a non-CP file? It's wasted effort.
I do wish you luck. Can you give more detail about your day job?
Google and GCP run on the same infrastructure, but this was a GCP problem, not a problem with that common infrastructure.
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In reality they provide remarkably little with a lot of strings attached :). Let's take such basic service as transport care to compare the cost ?
Tech co-founder myth
Rather, as they don't have SLA to end-users, they get credits from Google, so they still earn money.
"Sony Hackers Have Over 100 Terabytes Of Documents."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach#cite_ref-17
Interesting that the author chose the books they liked the most, rather than choosing books where print gave the greatest advantage over ebooks (say books with large photographs or illustrations, textbooks where being able to see a lot of text at once is useful).
Very, very true.
Awesome demo. I've seen a few others with Python but I'm looking forward to using R with this.
This is one of the big things that was taught at UC Davis undergrad program, at least in the past. In order to assure portability, students have access to many nix platforms (SGI, Arch Linux, Solaris, etc.) and their homedirs mount as you'd expected at login to any of the boxes in the pool. I think they have FreeBSD boxes now, but I could be wrong. (EDIT: nope, what a shame. The trio of BSDs.)

PS: I nearly got thrown out for running John The Ripper on everyone's password hashes, which were conveniently served up over NIS. I did inform a prof that his password was super, super insecure because I mailed it to him. :)) Then, I nearly got thrown out again for mirroring some Oracle DBMS docs because they were stupidly IP restricted, and I didn't want physically go to CSIF cluster. Finally graduated though, I think they were just glad to get rid of yours truly. :)
Third-Party Reddit Apps Pulled from App Store for NSFW Content
Okay, I'm going to try to articulate the experience? Again, words are insufficient, but here are more of them.[1]

So here goes:

In the day-to-day life you experience a boundary between that which we consider 'self' and that which we consider 'other'. That boundary gives the environment shape, defined by what you know to be you. To say the same thing another way, the boundary is the difference between seeing the color blue, and describing it. Or the difference between listening to music, and describing vibrations in the air. Alan Watts has some lectures which might help you understand what this boundary is, if you don't "get it" yet.

That boundary is illusory. It is a way of thinking, a way of separating out the ego's experience from the environment. It is a pattern of thought and thought patterns can be changed. Psychedelics (I'm told), meditation (I know), and other techniques (sensory deprivation? sleep deprivation? haven't tried) are ways of changing your thinking to remove or blur this boundary. Some ways are more permanent than others; having such an experience often leaves you questioning what permanent is in the first place.

And again, as many in this thread have said, I've described it, or tried to, but it is necessary to experience it to actually understand the full detail of the situation.

[1] Commentary: I would argue that any form of expressing experience to another person is by construction imprecise; to truly have the same experience you must be the same person, and then you wouldn't need words. http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer
Regulations are the only reasons that makes chinese app what they are today.
Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven may be partly stolen, judge says
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11476679
Why do you need a reason to love yourself?
The fact that Ford didn't need the bailouts that GM and Chrysler got (though I'm aware they still had the line line of credit available) suggests that their leadership is at least strong within the American car making industry, for whatever that's worth. On the side of whether they're developing/integrating tech effectively: on the one hand, that Microsoft system they farmed out for info/music is abysmal and everyone knows it; on the other hand, the Focus RS they've just released shows some impressive work put into even a lower-end car (particularly I'm thinking of the way they handle power delivery to the rear wheels in tight corners.)

At least in what I've seen, Ford is one of the few mass-production car makers doing some pretty interesting stuff.
More big-name sites hit by rash of malicious ads that attack end users
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring back-end engineers to build the future of online trust
What's an "actual connection"? What is the "real" experience?