skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm certain this doesn't qualitatively compare to a thumbprint of LSD, I have had the most INTENSE experiences with pure DMT. So much so I'm very hesitant to ever consider doing anything within that class again.

Just like Strassman described in his research studies (http://www.rickstrassman.com/index.php?option=com_content...), the "entity" / "alien" contact that people report is utterly inexplicable and real to those experiencing it, myself included, and consistent. Spaceships, abduction tables, 3000000-million-years-in-the-future technology, telepathic communication, and so on. Its beyond words, and it's terrifyingly real.

Honestly, I hesitate to even call DMT a psychedelic; its more like a time machine or teleportation device. Having done the whole gamut of psychedelics, I can, with complete certainly, say that this is something else entirely, and it needs to be further explored.
The point of patents (at least in the US) is to benefit society. The question is if granting a monopoly on ideas is actually benefiting society. Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe ... seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, ... incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."[1]

He then goes on to point out that patents "may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody".

Given the abuse of the patent system and little evidence of it benefiting society, it's hardly an "extreme position" to be against patents.

1: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....
It's patents, so the terminology has to be confusing!

The "First to" is speaking about what happens in an interference proceeding between two patent applicants. What counts as prior art is largely unchanged— it's arguably even strengthened a bit (as a dishonest player could previously get away with more backdating of his lab notebooks).

Third party— that is, not derived from the applicant's work— public practice (which is pretty broad, including publication and use in a product available to the public) is an absolute bar to patentablity. After one year the "not derived" part goes away and even the applicants own publication (and work derived from it) constitute prior art.
(this was all also the case before, though the details a somewhat subtly different)

To quote the statute:

(a) NOVELTY; PRIOR ART.—A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—

(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention; or

[...]

(b) EXCEPTIONS.—

(1) DISCLOSURES MADE 1 YEAR OR LESS BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE FILING DATE OF THE CLAIMED INVENTION.—A disclosure made 1 year or less before the effective filing date of a claimed invention shall not be prior art to the claimed invention under subsection (a)(1) if—

(A) the disclosure was made by the inventor or joint inventor or by another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor; or

(B) the subject matter disclosed had, before such disclosure, been publicly disclosed by the inventor or a joint inventor or another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor.
This project from @metaskills is worth a close look, particularly to see the choices Ken's made in assembling a development stack. It's a great example of using a starter app as beginning point for a discussion about best practices. Carbon Five's RayGun is another. Compare the two and you'll learn a lot about high-powered Rails development and where it's going.
The titlebar of the program says Sublime Text 2
Pssst. All of Gargoyles is online now. http://video.disney.com/shows/gargoyles-4ba34a5545c1259e961b...
I have heard people still there arguing that the transition of the brand from hardcore gamers to casual users and tv-uses was an intentional and crafted success. It was not. It was an accident

Oh common man, YES it was intentional. MS worked its ass off on transitioning to casual users. Changing the ENTIRE UI, the addition of Avatars (MS's version of Nintendo's Miis), the advertising and marketing.
Google Search to generate $5 billion in tablet revenue
Why would a business owner agree to an earn-out? That's like handing someone your equity and trying to earn it back from them over three years. I assume this is for acquisitions of unprofitable companies, otherwise traditional valuation methods could be used to determine the price. Buyer beware is a lot better system.
I will not deny that it's unpleasant but it is a necessity, which is why subpoenas and warrants exist.

Unfortunately, law enforcement organizations are harrumphing and ruffling feathers so they're getting what they want -- ability to bypass the requirement for subpoenas and court-ordered warrants.
My thoughts exactly...
http://cmx.io/#4942668
My roommate's weekend project: Dribbble Unfollow
I believe the Maquiladora principle is that Mexico doesn't charge import taxes if the finished product is for export. So components come in from Asia, get put together, and pushed out as a finished TV.
The other feature that should be worth touting is that you don't need to install anything special on the source repository.

I think it has potential. The problem space is complex enough that many different solutions can exist. For example, at my current job we ended up creating our own backup system that would let us easily sneakernet old copies of the data to our offsite location.

For what it's worth, some other open source backup tools that are similar are rdiff-backup and obnam. I've been meaning to make a page like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_ser... but for open source solutions.
>>You don't actually understand how bankruptcy works, do you? Not all debts are dischargeable.

Read about it and the debts that are not actually dischargeable are student loans (USA). Are there any more? Could you cite an example? In this specific case, would her debt not be dischargeable?
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Graybeards and their command-line interfaces ...
On the topic of _distinct_ frames... I've made a simple tool [1] that specifically generates a sequence of highly distinct frames, which can be useful to do various tests on LCD/CRT monitors.

[1]: https://github.com/shurcooL/RefreshRateMultitool / http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1423433

Btw, is it okay to plug your stuff? It's my first submission to HN so I'm not yet an expert on how things work here. I just thought it was relevant, so I wanted to share...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5205378 was the post I was thinking of. Not exactly specific, you're right.
And Talespin. That was my favorite. The storylines were awesome, the whole series had panache.
All you need to know to get started:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "some message"
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/project
git push -u origin master (the first time)
git push
Elon Musk Ironically Using the Same Tactics as the Climate-Deniers on Tesla
This assumes that without patents no one else would invent this tech, that you wouldn't approach companies with rough outlines and sell the designs for a one-time payment, that you wouldn't work for such a company and invent the technology during your employment, etc.

Without patents, if the tech is invented, it gets distributed quicker/faster/cheaper - that's a benefit to society, even though it's not nice for you.

So the real question is: Are there enough folks like you actually bringing real inventions that need patents as an incentive to outweigh the damage done by the patent system? I don't know, but it seems like cases like yours are not so common. I've only read anti-patent studies, so I lack information to know if cases like yours are actually providing a net positive.
> Plus being publicly traded, I believe the SEC might have words on the subject.

The SEC would only get involved in the event of an IPO, an insider-trading scandal, or some other market-related event, not a dispute about accurate media reporting.
I think that rather than viewing it as condescending and pretentious it may help you to use the following analogy:

"If you were to start hacking on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler's internals it will be a profound experience but I must warn you, if you are not fortunate enough to be surrounded by highly experienced older people who have been working with the codebase for many years and have offered to assist you, then you are going to have a very bad time."
I wonder why I even check out hbr links anymore
that was a very abrasive introduction considering your gross misinterpretation of the post you were responding to.

your idea, and the one you are replying to, are not mutually exclusive. reread it's thesis: "Psychedelics give an empirical experience that is undeniable but most people don't have the cognitive constructs to interpret that experience in a logically consistent way."

put simply, LSD does not magically infuse cognitive constructs that allow you to explain or understand the actual experience that is occurring while you are tripping.

consequently, the God/Death analogy becomes easy to dismiss if you forget that they are merely a best effort articulation, not unlikely drawn from previous experiences or beliefs.
Are we actually going to have data for iteration #5,678,922 of this debate, or will we just play Anecdote Poker again?
PCaaSS: Primary Care as a Subscription Service
It still sounds like pretty good advice given the context.

There are lots of non-F500 companies that make their revenues developing and consulting on non-patented technology, so it doesn't necessarily follow that their revenues were solely due to patents.
Ask HN: How to build a user configurable rules based alerting application
Hi,

I am looking towards developing a generic application in which the user can configure multiple rules and get alerted on it.

I am looking at using Drools, but the user can dynamically configure rules and then I would have to restart Drools engine.

I would like to ask HN for its suggestions.

Thanks
Sure, while yes, these people don't actually seem "offended" as "butt hurt" would somewhat crudely imply, your need to assert such a pedantic issue is the very essence of my original point.
When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?
Neeced surgey? Really?
As slippery slope said.
Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause
>As for security, it seems a little unfair to criticize them for stuff that a different, unrelated framework did.

True, but as a first impression it's not positive, for me at least. I don't have the bandwidth to evaluate more deeply, so unfortunately signaling like this carries more weight than it probably should.

>As for J2EE, it's solid, but Java's security reputation may have been tarnished by the latest web-client exploits.

Not to those of us only interested in server-side Java. The recent vulnerability not only does not affect server-side Java, it also does not even affect client-side standalone Java apps. Just Java applets running in the browser. Those of us paying attention know that and aren't overly concerned by it.

>The other thing about both .NET and J2EE is that they don't strike me as terribly productive languages for programmers. This may ignite a flamewar, but I don't think anything can claim to replace rails unless it also replicates the productivity of rails. You may find that hard to do if you use a pointy-hair-approved solution.

One of the biggest cognitive mistakes people make that leads to misjudgments is not thinking in terms of expected value. For example, Rails may be more productive than J2EE up front, but if you lose significant developer time or worse, money, to breeches and exploits, then its total productivity could end up worse than J2EE.

I'm only saying this hypothetically b/c I don't have any data on that, but I see this sentiment over and over, that Rails is the most productive framework out there. But the question to ask is what is the real expected value of Rails productivity vs other frameworks.

Having said that, I personally hate Java and J2EE, love the JVM, and use Scala whenever possible now for that reason. Lift really hits the sweet spot of productivity, strong security, and maturity.
Maybe there's always a bottleneck to the wealth you receive, but there's no such bottleneck to the wealth you create. You're not limited in in your creation just because some other startup is doing well.

That's also true of working at a larger company, except that larger companies usually have their wealth (product, service, whatever it may be) created and are trying to get more money out of it. Working at one is generally going to involve less raw wealth generation than working at a startup, which I think is part of what the author is trying to say.
If you enjoyed Gargoyles and you're still inclined to watch animated shows, please check out two of Greg Weisman's other creations: The Spectacular Spider-Man (not to be confused with the currently airing Ultimate Spider-Man [1]) and Young Justice (currently in its final season).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacular_Spider-Man_(TV_seri...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Justice_(TV_series)#Recep...

[1] emphatically not.
"No one ever treated them differently that I saw." This is a common and understandable reaction, but it's important to remember how hard it is to be an accurate observer in these situations. For instance, I have almost never witnessed evidence of racism in my workplaces, and yet I know for a fact that in those places racism was real, common, and huge problem for racial minorities. There are 500 incidents you don't see or maybe notice for every one you do. This is why I didn't really try to answer the last question here: http://femalesoftwareeng.tumblr.com/answers

Another issue is that some places are far more enlightened than others. Gaming companies, for example, tend to be much worse for female developers. So it's very possible you've never worked somewhere that was very bad. Or maybe your coworkers just never spoke up about it for fear of ridicule/backlash.
> Indeed, if that location data's GPS, it can get pretty distorted in the city. Especially if there's a lot of thick cloud coverage.

No, city GPS readings tend to be either plausible or nonexistent. Most receivers are able to detect absurd apparent positions created by building reflections (they do it by comparing different combinations of satellites and accepting the majority result).

Wet forest and country road, yes -- big problem for GPS. City driving, no, no really. And cloud cover doesn't significantly affect GPS performance:

http://gpsinformation.net/gpsclouds.htm
It should be easier to mark a question as duplicate or incorrectly tagged with version of language or framework, but aside from that, I don't agree. Without that site, I'd be lost.
I've programmed large projects in 6 or 7 different languages now and I simply don't believe your statement "I'm dozens of times faster working in Scala than I ever would be in php." That's like saying "I would write that essay dozens of times faster in Spanish than I would in English."

The tough problems that take most of the time are the design and theoretical understanding of the problem. The actual tools used to implement the solution, while not trivial in their differences, are never as important as fully understanding the problem and having a good architectural design.

Or put differently, if you found me the fastest, most knowledgable person in the world with PHP web development, and then found the same guy for Scala, my assumption is they would both build a particular project in the same amount of time, all other things equal. And I could guarantee that one of the two wouldn't be "dozens of times faster" than the other.
> The Tesla dash runs Android, doesn't it? I wonder if it can use wifi & cellular data to help correct GPS like most mobile devices can.

Unless the car is under a wet forest canopy, the GPS position will be more accurate than the other ways of determining position.
The last line:

it’s surprising to look back at it today and realize just how thoroughly it was shaped by the world that required it, a space on the TV schedule that simply doesn’t exist anymore.

... makes me wonder. Looking at what channels like HBO, AMC, and Fx have done with adult programming, you'd think there would be a market for a channel that focuses on well-done animated series.

I have three kids 10, 16, and 18. In the late 90's I'd watch cartoons with the older two, and many of the shows weren't half bad (I still wish Samurai Jack had continued). Luckily, though, my youngest prefers watching sports over cartoons because I don't think I could tolerate watching most of the stuff that's on today.
Three of your points are wrong, the 4th is shared with every other currency.

I don't understand why this unreflected bullshit sits at the top of the thread (and I'm not even involved or affiliated with bitcoin).
How to build a static site with Ember.js
Linux kernel locking validator brought to user space
For how popular github is, it does have a surprisingly frictional client set up process, for Windows users at least (although this is partly due to git itself). I can talk a non-technical person through setting up an SVN repo using Tortoise no problem. With git it's something I just have to do for them.

I think it speaks to how amazing a service github is that the more complicated set up process doesn't put anyone off.
Curious: have you used Microsoft's web Excel in Skydrive? It has enough functions for my basic use, but then, so does Google Docs...
Double your valuation
John-Daniel Trask, co-founder of Mindscape (makers of Raygun) here. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer them here :-)
I abandoned LibreOffice's spreadsheet in favor of Gnumeric.
Actually, I've hardly ever seen a new computer come with a full licensed copy of Office. A trial of Office, yes, but not a full-featured edition.

Office 2007/2010's 3-seat family editions, though, did get a ton more normal users buying Office than anyone could have predicted.
Beacause it takes risk away from the purchaser, making it (hypothetically) an easier sale and worth more money. Mergers are extremely susceptible in the first 12-24 months and can actually take down the parent company if mishandled.
Best in the sense of my personal work. I am absolutely not saying my best wok is better than anybody else's.
Clojure development with LightTable 0.2.x
Si Facebook luciese asi, tal vez lo usaria más
> The point of patents (at least in the US) is to benefit society. The question is if granting a monopoly on ideas is actually benefiting society.

Yes.

> And having it ripped off within the first year of commercially using it because it wasn't patented.

"Ripped off" is kind of a biased way of phrasing it.
"At some point, they start attributing all interesting or creative thoughts they have to the use of drugs".

i have never met anyone like this. i've also never heard of someone taking it to this extreme. i'm inclined to call it a straw man.

what Steve Jobs for instance, actually said, is that LSD is "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".

rather than responding to a generalized anecdotal scenario, it might suit your response better to respond to Steve's quote directly.

the question is, "could Steve Jobs have become Steve Jobs without LSD?"

now, i don't think Steve's quote is enough information for us to answer conclusively. i'm sure Steve himself doesn't even know. but when you compare Steve's feelings to the question your parent prompted, "Honestly?" seems like an awfully short sighted response.
What's the relation between Git and Markdown on the one hand and Windows on the other? SSH, yes, but the others? And there's nothing about Unix that limits its use to extraordinary people — I use it, as well as Git, Markdown, ssh, and even Emacs.
Why people don't use Microsoft Access when they need more complicated logic?
Usually this is after the patent has been issued which is very difficult to unravel.

Plus even if there is prior art, the entity applying for the patent could assert their "invention" came prior to the prior art.
"What would Steve Jobs do?"

try to treat his pancreatic cancer first with a juice/vegan diet rather than conventional medicine, possibly shortening his lifespan by years?
I don't think there's any truth to this theory. As far as poker, they're mostly all poorly designed and have no traffic. Maybe a straight-up casino site would be better where you don't need people to play against and you don't care about user interface. But I think the whole "drugs, gambling, hookers" element of BTC is just FUD.

However, I think a ton of people are gambling on bitcoin itself. I've read that many investors say they've tried their hand at bitcoin. It makes sense. The market dynamics can't be much different than forex and are probably a fun experiment. But for serious traders I doubt they could wage big enough bets on BTC without driving up or down prices on themselves.
Also works in Safari for all I can tell...
I have to respectfully disagree although I hear your what you are saying. If you are a lone coder you have the potential to create something pretty valuable but small with not too many constraints. The game changes when you start to have to utilize "resources" whether that is hiring other people or raising money. Right now for example in the so-called series A crunch many startups are definitely dying because another startup fighting for the same funding is doing better. Same with hiring, if you need other engineers to increase the value of your business and you cant hire the right ones because they are taking other offers it can severely limit your potential.
That sounds fine for intra-school comparisons, but as far as I know, the teacher comparisons are inter-school, which is a whole lot less random in student assignments.
I was a Duck Tales junkie but my love of good cartoons goes before that. I was raised on Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry, before they were censored and rehashed multiple times. I remember religiously watching Danger Mouse, Bananaman, and Count Duckula on Nickelodeon in its infancy. Most people remember the original Thundercats, but I was more into Silverhawks which was around at the same time as Duck Tales.

I always came home from school to cartoons, whether it was Looney Tunes, something from Hanna-Barbera, Transformers, G.I. Joe, old anime like Speed Racer and Robotech (Macross), TMNT, or the various Disney and Warner Bros.-inspired cartoons mentioned in the article. I still watch cartoons, and always will.
On MBP i5 works in Firefox but shows white screen with no console errors in Chrome.
I've used VPS on dreamhost and glesys for a couple of years now and I don't see when you really need support.

One time I had to reset a VPS but in the end it was due to a mistake I made as root.

Generally I treat VPS like any other co-location hosting operated by a 3rd party. I make sure to have redundancy and backups managed seperately.

The only other situation I can imagine is site-wide issues, which you can do nothing to help with anyways so just sit back and wait for them to get their stuff together.

In other words, if you know your way around the shell and your server OS, the need for support becomes very insignificant.
Mexico is not only about manufacturing, even if this is one of our strongholds.
We are starting to generate a vibrant startup ecosystem. A few months back, there was an interesting overview in TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/03/mexico-is-happening-at-tech...
Small comment: I dunno about wheeled animals having mobility superior to that of legged animals. How much naturally-occurring flat terrain is out there? How well can wheels drive over rough terrain?