skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was very intense. It lasted 12-14 hours.

I did 5 tabs my first time without realizing how strong acid was. I had no reference, no preparation, no warning. I was just thrown into the deep end. It was so intense that I didn't even remember entering the trip, I wasn't sure if I just died or how I got there. It took, what I would have perceived as lifetimes for me to ground myself and realize what was going on.

I say the "perceived lifetimes" because there was literally times where I'd experience trips that absolutely took hours in perceived time, but they would always be interrupted by my friend's snore in the next room. His snore was the trigger for a loop to reset.

One in particularly was when I was "arguing" with myself about how of course my mental reality was less accurate than real reality, and my brain was telling me that it actually doesn't know the difference and that the only reality is what it knows. Then after me arguing that it's mental models were inferior, the next thing I know I'm walking down a sidewalk,
feeling the heat of the sun and everything. I'm talking with my friend, explaining the trip to him and how happy I am that it's over. But he just keeps smiling at me strangely and asks "you don't get it yet?", to which I respond, "what are you talking about." To which he says "nothing, never mind," and we keep walking. Then I hear a snore, that shakes the whole entire space. I look at my friend, he smiles. I realize that the whole thing was conjured up. He looks at me and says "That's what it's all about." and then the trip collapses back to a more abstract meta-mind space. That walk was for at least 20 minutes. But it all happened between two snores. Absolutely wild.
That's essentially the point; free speech protects the rights of unpopular minorities. Why would a gay Jewish, Muslim, woman want straight white men to enact limitations on their speech?
> A chain of convenience stores is useful to Amazon. They'll all get Amazon Lockers, of course. You'll be able to get everything Amazon sells at those stores, if you just order ahead.

I don't know how much it costs Amazon but this is already the case. I always get my Amazon products from the Carrefour next door.
A good question, but unfortunately no answers.

The statement - "Nobody becomes a software engineer because they love writing code" - is definitely wrong and it's a bit sad that the author isn't enjoying the magical act of crafting complex machinery out of nothing.

A lot of people enjoy exactly that, and don't really care for the end-product, although I have to say that really good programmers enjoy coding as much as they are interested in the goal.
(I've never seriously used Haskell) I wonder if the strong static typing has something to do with that. That eliminates many if the common bugs found in Python programs.
It depends where it is from and what did you learn during getting it.
I visited two faculties and one was totally worth the time and effort I spent,
and the other was just enough to put the foot in the door of a programmer's
profession -- nice to go through if one didn't have any experience in
programming whatsoever, but otherwise next to useless.
But it is scaleable. On scuttlebot you follow people just like you have friends in real life. I also don't need to ask the government permission to talk to that person. That is DEcentralized for you right there.
For a couple of reasons:

- Because these centralized walled gardens were DOA; people just didn't realized it yet. Personally, I never saw any of the currently popular social network platforms as offering anything significant over the AOL of yesteryear.

- Now that its been shown Facebook and Google actively monitor and restrict content that doesn't align with their narratives, folks are becoming wary of centralization.
Spacex Big Rocket will go down in history like DC-3 and Caravel sailing ships
> This is the never-before-told story of the world’s most comprehensive mapping endeavour

Is it? Arguably, the mapping efforts of Google and others have reached further and collected more and more accurate data (street view, lidar, etc.).
Delhaize is a major player on the US market via its "food lion" brand (off the top of my head about 2k stores).

Ahold Delhaize merger is rumored to be a failure. There is an on going war between Dutch and Belgian executives. Recently a Dutch has been appointed ceo of the belgian entity, which was not very well received at all.

Ahold Delhaize is a competitor to Carrefour not only in Belgium but also in eastern Europe (but these are still relatively small markets).

Afaik they have no shops in Latin America nor China, where Carrefour has strong positions.
As a software engineer, Software is not math! its a clever arrangement of mechanisms to adapt a problem to a set already existing very generic physical processes (CPU/GPU/etc). sure at the end of day as Max tegmark argues everything in universe is math but its a really wrong level of abstraction. its like saying all biology is just complex physics.
switching is not optimal if you give Monty the option to not propose a switch. In this case you must consider the possibility that Monty is only offering me a switch because I have currently picked the winning door.
You're not blinking enough. I doubt many (if any) contact is going to make up for that. Try setting up a pomodoro timer to remind you to blink.
This $0.20 Cryptocurrency Is Set to Soar by December 2018
No official support for Mac yet... Interesting anyways, thanks
"Certainly, anecdotally I kicked a very strong 20 year coffee and sugar habit after doing a 3-day retreat in Latin America this past winter. Just happened naturally, oh, I don't need this daily coffee and sugar fix anymore."

Isn't three days about how long it takes to get over caffeine withdrawal symptoms, regardless of whether one has retreated to Latin America and taken psychedelic drugs?
Why the War on Drugs Matters in Mass Incarceration, Part 1: Who Goes to Prison
Do you think that's easier, harder, or about the same as Make, Maven, Rake, etc.?
YouTube startup
The book The Dream Machine [1] touches on the controversy and patent litigation around the "von Neumann" machine.

IIRC a colleague of von Neumann circulated a technical report by him, where he was summarizing the work of others along with his own, with regard to the stored program architecture. But his name was the only one on it, and the inventors of other machines got pissed off.

There was a rush to patent the idea, and patent litigation. But the idea was never patented, I think because of prior art.

It's interesting to think about what would happen if the idea was patented... I mean it is a significant idea and probably deserves a patent under the law. But would that have set computing history back by a decade or two?

The Dream Machine also goes into some other "inside baseball"... e.g. the relationship between Turing and Church, etc.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co...
pipenv --python python34
I didn't find a description of what it does. Does it show on a map where visitors are coming from? Maybe it would be worth adding a fourth bullet point on the homepage.
Oh wow that sounds amazing. I was sadly in a dark house locked in a room with a bathroom. Environment wise it can't get much worse.

My second time I only did 1 tab and it was much more sane and I was intact with reality. The amazing thing about that experience was that when watching the sky and trees, I saw pinks and purples that don't exist as typical colors and they would move between dark and light shades following very intricate patterns. This would also cause my do shift from happy to sad and back. Eventually, after a long time, I realized what I was seeing was the pattern of the wind flowing through everything. Was amazing because I'm pretty sure it's something we don't typically consciously think about. :)
Unless someone big can make a case that it would be building some kind of monopoly, I doubt french people can do anything about it.

Since the competition is fierce in retailing, it would not fly anyway.

If amazon manage to negotiate the acquisition, I don't think it can be easily stopped. Even if my country forbid it for obscure reasons, Europe would probably override the decision.

It's funny reading the reactions from my french co-citizens, like they are talking about selling the Eiffel Tower.
> I keep reporting accounts that call black people "nic gurr" to avoid being caught dropping actual N bombs and they are almost never banned.

This is a war you'll never win, though. People will keep inventing new combinations of characters as you ban the previously used ones.
Breaking into Product
As long as you let the people know in advance, before the contract is written, that you are willing to do so.

As the Cloudflare CEO explained, that is not the case in this instance.
There's an Aldi literally right next door to a Walmart about 5 minutes from me in the US. Anecdotally, there never seem to many cars in the Aldi parking lot while Walmart is usually pretty busy. Personally, I stuck my nose in the Aldi once and pretty much decided after a couple of minutes there wasn't anything in there I'd go to a separate store to buy.
Nice, please also add NPTEL: http://www.nptelvideos.in/

Many useful technical courses on there of high quality.
Rosa Park incident was not random find. She was activist who sit down with intention to cause what followed. The point was not to find nice judge, but to demonstrate unfairness. This struck with me after I read in depth article about the event, because the story made much more sense afterwards.
Digital is a notorious pain point for Carrefour. Their CDO has been replaced last week by a long time coworker of Alexandre Bompart (newly appointed CEO of Groupe Carrefour).
>they were able to gain power and influence due to the ambivalence and apathy of (and tolerance by) the masses.

Yes, this is the only example I could really think of, but it isn't a good, concrete example by the simple facts that Hitler was never elected as chancellor and the Nazi party never held a majority in the Reichstag. In other words, tolerance didn't give them power, the took power. They also did a lot of things other than propose ideas to get into power.

I don't want the idea of allowing people to present and hold distasteful thoughts confused with being allowed commit crimes (including but not limited to assault, murder, carrying an illegal firearm, inciting a riot, etc).
pipenv --python python34
Error: no such option: --python

Is that recent ?
Walmart Labs also has a campus in Carlsbad, California. I've seen the Walmart crew in some JS and React meetups.
It's not just hubris or marketing.

Apple fans like to see apple UI guidelines followed on Apple devices, and Android fans like to see Android design guidelines followed on Android, but the normal non-technical users who don't really care expect facebook to work the same way on their android phone and their iPad and their work computer. People don't want to have to re-learn how to use the wal-mart app after their grandson convinces them to give up their old Galaxy S3 and buy the new iPhone. Expecting all apps to obey the platform guidelines is just as much hubris as ignoring the platform guidelines is.
5 tabs is a good amount of tabs.

I got myself into that mess a few times with the whole “we got ripped off let’s take it all just in case” just to realize I didn’t get ripped off and the first thing I always think when it kicks in is “I got ripped off”

Now as a grown up(ish) it’s turned into “I got ripped off, oh never mind I’m high this is fine”
Tons of Meetups and conferences in Atlanta - https://twitter.com/ATL_TechEvents
In my experience, type errors in Python get discovered during testing. So, I doubt that's the reason.

Perhaps the nature of Haskell discourages changes, making the community more stable.
And yet no rant on the 6 other companies with larger US sales revenue https://stores.org/stores-top-retailers-2017/. I like that subtle inferred redefinition of "monopoly" as well. Maybe we can just use "decapoly" though. Or how about "rmsnotlikopoly"?
Copyright can't protect ideas, only specific expressions of them. If my code contains a brilliant and truly novel idea for efficient data storage, you're free to write your own code implementing that idea without violating my coyright.
I think this is a fairly recent add —

https://docs.pipenv.org/basics.html#specifying-versions-of-p...
Good thing you lol-d at least.
Now the lawsuit isn't it because they chose what to keep in their network ad what to boot? In other words, they editorialized.

he's not the government.
I know, I guess he can legally ban the, say, the Democratic point of view out of his network. But it a wise move?
Most acid trips feel like a run on sentence. It’s the perfect medium for describing one :D
My brother went on an Ayahuasca retreat but ended up deeply disappointed that it didn't change his life and his problems got much worse as a result.

Of course, that can happen with any treatments as well. However, professional support could maybe mitigate that a bit. Plus actual data may give a better idea of likely outcomes.

He then came home and took LSD that caused an episode of psychosis that lasted a couple weeks and landed him on the hospital plus in trouble with the law.

I don't disagree that these drugs can be beneficial for many people and should be studied but there is dangers as well and the dangers are often downplayed as "just anti drug FUD."
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. That argument leads nowhere new and therefore nowhere interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: whoops I misread that one and broke the site rules in the process. Sorry and carry on!
neat! thanks
Are they cheating, or are they using the EU as it is intended to be? I mean sure, they may not be paying any taxes though Ireland doesn't seem to get much of them either.. perhaps its time to change the EU somehow, to prevent this?
Sweet. Then I take it back, I'm glad Kenneth finally listened to reason. Cause he sure politely told me to fuck off the first time I asked for it.
The "python hides the hurt" example isn't great. First, he's missing the imports on the python side (which can be just as verbose as java imports). Second, he's talking 10 lines of code in java (plus closing braces) vs 6 in python, but with a little bit of tweaking you could easily drop 2 of those lines in Java. Third, if you were to import guava or some other library that makes handling files more streamlined, you could get to an equivalent number of lines in the Java example.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373055

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371111

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371102
I embedded the sentiment analyzer from Stanford core nlp into a web crawler I wrote, with the idea of instructing the crawler to follow links surrounded by only positive or negative text. Didn't seem all that useful at the time, but now I wonder if it's worth digging up?
More so to keep track of my own gains/losses if I sold it for another currency, not to buy a tricked out armored 4 wheeler from a man dressed like a steam punk named Mr Pain-x.

Edit: Fuck I hope google sheets is still up when the time comes. I should probably print them.
Haha. I tried to dig up a change note for it but couldn’t find one quickly on mobile. I think at least it only hit the Debian stable repos within the past month or two.
Dubai, day 4, at the 2:30 mark, left hand side. I'm pretty sure they're just painted on the bottom of the pool, not actual sharks.
> Eh.. Game studios aren't generally still in the dark ages, are they? Physical disks went the way of the dodo.

I wish! Turns out enough of the world still has terrible enough internet for sneakernet to still have it's advantages. It's not the game studios that are in the dark ages ;)

> Every game now basically requires updates on first use, right?

Sadly. It's a pretty terrible experience. Ideally it's a small optional patch, or maybe only required for online play - but your ability to do that depends in part on how bad the bugs are without it. The ability to do day one patches doesn't translate into a rubber stamp either - it's easier to get a waiver on a few heisenbugs than a truckload. And this is in the "okay okay, we'll backpedal on requiring our console to be always online" world of console dev - I imagine mandatory day 1 patches are even worse on handhelds.

And if you don't want that day 1 patch to introduce more bugs than it fixes (souring your launch, reviews, and ultimately sales) - or a release delay messing up your marketing plans (to potentially similar effect and/or extra costs) - you still need as stable a build as you can get by some hard cutoff X, so you're back to having a release branch, freezing master, or some combination thereof.
You are right, it doesn't say that. It does imply it, at least in my opinion. See, free expression should be a social ideal. Free speech should be something we strive to allow, even to facilitate.

And yes, yes that includes speech from hateful Nazis.

Please keep in mind that Nazis would absolutely harm me, if given the chance to do so. I'm quite distinctly not white.

But, the goal should be allowing even the deplorable to make use of their basic human rights. The Constitution says what the government cannot do. It should also serve as a baseline as to how we should model our society.

We should facilitate free speech, freedom of and from religion, security of our papers, innocence as the assumption, etc... Well, we should if we care about fostering a society where people can enjoy their liberties. Rights shouldn't just be allowed for those we approve of. If they are not allowed for everyone, they are privileges and not rights.
No moderator touched that submission, or even saw it before I randomly ran across this one. Users flagged it.

It seems to be some kind of hard-wiring that makes people assume that (a) if they see X on HN, that means we did X; and (b) that means we're Y (racist, etc.). It has to, right? What other explanation could there be?

For someone who has posted 6000 stories it might be a good idea to reread the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They specifically ask you not to post moderation questions (let alone rants) to HN, but instead to email us at hn@ycombinator.com, where your question will actually be seen instead of most likely lost in the flood.
A lot of bridges everywhere are marked with their capacity. I don't think it's necessarily for the purpose of tanks.
Why wouldn’t we, as Europeans, want the ability to buy groceries from an American company? If they offer better service we gain from that and, if they don’t, we can just ignore them and go about our business as usual.
It's odd to read an outsider's view of what scientists are like. The author wrote: "It’s hard to imagine a scientist interested in playing music, but Feynman was."

When I was in grad school in science, it seemed about 1/4th of the department played an instrument. Of the various roommates I had during that time, one played piano, another violin, and a third flamenco guitar.

FWIW, Einstein's violin playing was even more famous than Feynman's drumming. Quoting http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/the_musical_mind_of_alber... : At the height of Albert Einstein’s popularity, the public knew him not only as the world’s foremost theoretical physicist, but also as an enthusiastic sometime violinist. As a publication for the 2005 “World Year of Physics” puts it: “to the press of his time… Einstein was two parts renowned scientist, one jigger pacifist and Zionist fundraiser, and a dash amateur musician.” While this description may get at the public perception of his composition, Einstein himself seems to have favored the musician over all of his other "parts." “Life without playing music is inconceivable for me,” he once said, “I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in life out of music.”
Yup! A portion of Electrode is being used inside of the Walmart.com app.
Looming Issues and Tradeoffs for EUV
Actually I also have problem with people dragging conversations on needlessly. okay so you have interrupted me and I answered your questions but now as adults we should learn visual cues that somebody wants to end conversation without being rude or discouraging to misc conversations in general. taking a hint is a subtle art often missed by engineers.
Totally agree. This strikes me as a reckless strategy. The transportation authorities are quite literally training people to ignore their eyes when they see obstacles.

You could argue that drivers should treat a crosswalk the same as a real obstacle insofar as they should slow down and carefully assess the situation before continuing to drive, but that sounds like every other idealistic, prescriptive (rather than descriptive) attempt at policy-making. The people who will treat crosswalks with care and attention were probably doing so already, and I suspect that the people who were not previously paying attention to crosswalks will quickly return to their old behavior.

The failure modes also strike me as worse. If someone is already not paying attention, and they suddenly notice what looks like an object right in their path, they might reflexively veer away from it and into a pedestrian. I can think of other such scenarios.

I just don't understand how this idea wasn't immediately and definitively struck down as soon as it was proposed.
That's pretty much how I ended up taking 5 tabs. I definitely learned my lesson, but am very grateful I did it. My second trip with 1 tab was not even remotely comparable nor as enlightening. I actually haven't done it since (definitely open to), but have noticed that now I can reach a similar state through mediation. I noticed something else odd as well though, now if I do marijuana edibles (sativa), I can actually revisit the psychedelic state, not as intense, but enough for me to question if I ever left the psychedelic state to begin with.
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Carrefour brings retail merchant-experience, Google brings experience in software. Retail merchant-experience + software experience = Amazon.
Levi’s high tech Jacket – Levi Commuter smart jacket
Damn, I feel stupid! I kept trying things like 23456789 (the same sequence but missing 2^0)