skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I listed supporting arguments to the contrary.."

Yeah, and those were fine. It's like writing a great refutation and ending it with "but sure, go have tea with Hitler". The snarky "you don't support us so clearly you must support [insert evil thing]" undermines a valid point made, and verges on ad hominem.

The parallels of the ubiquitous American surveillance state certainly have shades of the Stasi or the Gestapo, but the insinuation that OP must, by virtue of his disagreement with you, support the extreme end of this institution, is unjustified. He stated his opinion with civility, the accusatory, with-us-or-with-pure-evil angle is unwarranted and cheapens the discourse.
Ok, that's kind of fun :).
Well, that's mostly with LSD -- though mushrooms can have a similar effect.

You see your reflection -- obviously. The problem (potential problem, it can also be totally fine), is that because of the visual tricks the drug plays on your, you can see it swirling, melting, bending, etc.

The other aspect is that, seeing your face can trigger self-reflection, and you can start having bad thoughts about you, how you're older, ugly, seeing aspects on your character thay you don't like, thinking shit you've done in the past, etc.

If you're not that kind of miserable person in normal life (or with hidden but known to you pains) you'll be just fine looking in the mirror.

As an aside, no you won't suddenly see a monster, snake or such BS -- you'll see what you see + visual effects like twirling, shine, kaleidoscopic lights, etc.
“Keep it simple stupid” is great advice. Here’s the best way to do it.
> That might be, shall we say, a somewhat short term
problem as the population is culled of less hardy individuals

You know what's the real problem? The culling will most likely happen in areas that people have no experience with fighting bacterias on their own i.e. the most developed parts of world, that means that a LOT of progress will be lost. Those that read this site are those most likely to be culled.

Anyway silly question. If the bacterias are so well at adapting to antibiotics, can't we create some kind of mold that can adapt to the bacteria? E.g. take bacteria A spread it to N + 1 Paetri dishes, put some mold in N dishes and select which is better. Then take the last remaining dish and create a new set of N+1 bacteria dishes.
I believe it shows the general insanity of the whole health and food-production systems.

As I understand the situation, antibiotic resistance isn't a generally useful adaptation - bacteria tend to lose it "in the wild". So prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, in non human-to-human born diseases like Staph infections, is a somewhat direct result of maintaining a long term, antibiotic filled environment.
Not really that rigorous, there are some MIT courses available on cryptography engineering you can find on the web.tv MIT internal video server I've taken that are really good, covers common mistakes, why you should never do in-browser nonsense Java crypto, side channels ect. They are all recent lectures.

There's also the implementation book on the Keccak NIST3 project website, same with their book on side channels and countermeasures.

There's also this: http://achs.cs.ucsb.edu/schedule.html which is a workshop in August on applied crypto and hardware which looks pretty amazing. University prof Patrick Schaumont always lists all upcoming applied crypto workshops https://twitter.com/pschaumont and he also has a lot of publications out: http://www.ece.vt.edu/schaum/pubs.html
This is VERY, VERY awesome.

As a web-rubyist, this forces me to think in a different way than I normally would.

Thank you for making this.
A surprisingly deep AI/sci-fi/surveillance flick from the early 70s
I do know that a lot of manufacturers use Vxworks instead of Linux for embedded systems, I'm not sure what they use for userland though
More graphically, imagine you took a game of Russian roulette before every operation.
This is just wonderful.
"some dubious issues with the Constitution as well."

Is there a President this is not true for?
Looks interesting!

A long time ago, I had wondered if Lisp would be a better introduction to programming for beginners. Now we can see some practical experiences from this attempt to use Haskell.

I looked at the code samples provided; from a cursory review, the fourth class code looks to be purely functional, although fairly simple.

The fifth second class code is more advanced code, but a lot of it is procedural. I wonder if Haskell experts might weigh in here -- is it worth doing Haskell with so much procedural code?

I am a novice in Haskell, but I have tried to embrace its functional nature entirely. I think I would advocate learning Go or Python rather than Haskell if the code is going to be procedural anyway.
It could be useful if done right.

>> "before receiving a free gift that doesn't exist"

Presumably if this was done by someone like Coca-Cola you would receive something for sharing the page. The spam problem could be improved by asking them to tweet their own content + link rather than a predefined message. e.g. Tweet your favourite thing about [brand] and get [reward]. And the tweet would be [your message] + link.

These techniques could be used in interesting ways - most people just don't bother.

>> "You want users to visit a promo page, where they're forced to retweet the content before getting access?"

Also if the user is getting something of value I don't see the problem with asking them to do something to get it. They aren't being forced, they are being given a choice. Do this thing and get rewarded. Don't do it and life goes on.
We don't know if any laws were broken without more specifics. The FBI doesn't need a warrant to tail someone in a car, for example. If they're peering into windows with binoculars or planting GPS devices, then yes.
My wife got scammed by one of those nutraceutical "trials" once. You get some sample pills on a 14-day trial. The phone number to cancel the trial is disconnected. 14 days later, your card gets charged $80.

I've noticed a lot of them advertising on Facebook.
from http://www.southwest.com/wifi/

> Internet access will be available for $8 all day, per device and will be displayed once you launch your internet browser and connect above 10,000 feet*.

This trend will continue and expand.
"When I was on acid I would see things like beams of light, and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns." --Mitch Hedberg
>The point I'm trying to make is that this Arcadian paradise that conservatives like to call 'back in the day' is really more of a myth.

In some parts of the world yes. In others no.

But not for the reasons the progressives put forward (toil, lack of progress, etc). For political reasons: people being in command of other people.

There were villages and regions all over Europe that such was not the case, and people were free. Sure, you had to work, but that's just as it is now (minus the modern conveniences).

Actually, even in medieval Europe, agrarian societes had so many festivity days that almost half the year was off.
select, copy, paste, share, the end.
Had to implement a

if not warrior
return nil
end

in the play_turn method, to workaround a bug. But other than that, this is great!
If they're major producers of pharmaceuticals, like India, I don't see how you can. You'd have to engage in some really serious and smart economic warfare (or worse), and it would be hard to avoid stomping on other drugs. And it doesn't take all that much to produce many basic antibiotics, they are after all originally from molds. Lots are "semi-synthetic", modified from the base version to have different characteristics.

And the usual suspect would scream bloody murder ... it's a difficult question of more people dying today to prevent even more people dying tomorrow, something people are generally bad at dealing with until the 11th hour when its often too late.
If you have to learn just one programming language(2009)
There are plenty of Chevron branded gas stations.
I'm surprised "no one leaves"

the guru really doesn't seem to provide any new information. everyone knew she could see someone with blue eyes.

Nor does it seem anyone can act on the information, nor does it seem everyone's inaction be taken as new information.

If the guru said. I see someone with red eyes, then everyone would try to leave (or only the guy with red eyes would try to leave if the guru wasn't lying). That's the only circumstance I can see where someone could take action.

As much as that page insists that there is no word trickery going on, I'm inclined to think I've misunderstood the situation.
In other news, my wife showers without a drivers license.

A warrant is not required for anything you can see from public airspace.
Last time I saw something like this, threats from the Russian mafia to the selling party were involved. No kidding.
Yes, yes, yes. I'm an iPhone user, and recently on a two day trip I took my dad's S4 with me and used it as my sole device.

Oh. My. God.

The difference in user experience is astronomical. I work in the tech industry and I train users on how to use my company's software, and I could not for the life of me wrap my mind around some of the most basic aspects of the phone. Most functions, from scrolling and animations to simple things like changing the focus from a text box on the web page to the URL bar of the browser, had noticeable lag. Sometimes the lag was so atrocious that I could not be sure if my taps worked. Occasionally I would get impatient and tap again, and it would register two taps simultaneously and treat it as a double-tap! You are absolutely right that it felt like using a regular computer - and old and slow one. I couldn't deal with it.

At one point I was checking my work email and had to access a voicemail that arrived as an attachment. I clicked it, and instead of playing the voicemail right away (which the iPhone does), the S4 downloaded it as a file. Okay, fine, I get it, you want to pretend you're a computer. But where the hell did it go? Is there a separate browser area for downloaded items like in Chrome? Is there a desktop, or some kind of folder? And if you're pretending to be a computer, am I going to need special software to be able to open this file? Are you really going to make me open another tab and Google "how to find downloaded files on Android"?!? WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME THINK? WHY ARE SIMPLE THINGS NOT OBVIOUS LIKE THEY ARE ON IOS?

In my experience, people are drawn to Android don't care much about user experience and instead want larger screens and tons of features. Personally, I view my smartphone the way I view my car: I want one that is easy to drive, responsive and won't lag for ~2 seconds every time I do something.
I hope your original comment was tongue-in-cheek - the pre-antibiotic world was a pretty bad place by modern standards.
Here's a zip file for anyone who might still prefer it: http://peterjmags.com/files/xkcd-time.zip

(Scraped from http://xkcd.mscha.org/. Thanks for the link phaker!)
Ok.

I'd just like to add to that:

Very serious attacks on democratic principles have been carried out behind our backs, for a very long time, apparently.

That is why I think, in order to counter these threats to society appropriately, disruptive approaches should really be welcomed and preferred as often as possible.

And then, of course, it's not an either/or question. Both should be promoted alongside, as lots of different people have lots of different needs/requirements.
(Personally, I use both RetroShare and encrypted email, and migrate as many people as possible over to total encryption as soon as possible.)
I found LSD more of a mind blowing experience, same with DMT. I did shrooms about 10x in highschool then once in University but felt like puking everytime. Maybe it's just me
I see that as the only valuable part of this service, and I can instead use it statically via mailcheck JavaScript: https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck
Twitter 'report abuse' button calls after rape threats
Or snipers people from tall buildings all the time.
The sad part of that being, of course, the fact that while Lincoln had half of the country in rebellion and offensive war to deal with, Obama has something that is less deadly than bathtubs to deal with. It is almost farcical.
I've always hated tetris, but I've always been good at seeing stereograms, including animated ones, so I thought I'd give this a go.

Can't lock on, and gives me eye-ache within minutes.

So if you're having trouble, you're not the only one. It might be wonderful, but despite finding auto-stereograms easy, I can't see this at all.
German Protests Against U.S. Spying Draw Thousands
How on Earth can this happen? Doesn't Vietnam have trained doctors? This practice is ridiculously dangerous? Why?
No, meaning they know the headspace of the trip. Experienced psychedelic users understand how to get through the anxiety and fear should it arise and incorporate it back into the trip as opposed to fighting it, and know how to communicate that to others.

Bad trips happen, but studies have concluded that given the right set and setting --meaning, feeling secure in your environment-- the risk of such is greatly lowered.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of people have good experiences as long as they come prepared.
I'd suggest listening to this interview with the the CEO of Xhibit for even a few minutes to get a sense of the kind of "value" their team is bringing to the table.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfA165MFcBI
Great idea and I like the minimalist design.

A live demo would make wonders to your conversion rates (or did I miss the link to it?). e.g. I would not pay before I hear the quality of the TTS.

Also the "(We'll bill every $5 in usage)" is confusing, and made hesitate before clicking the Get Started button. Put a pricing page, not under your call for action, it's needless excessive information that just will lower your click through rates IMHO.

Solid idea, but you can improve the landing page significantly in my opinion.
Another reason (which I wish I had known) to treat antibiotics as a last resort is Clostridium difficile (C. diff). In addition to killing the bad bacteria in your body, antibiotics will also kill the good bacteria in your gut. This in combination with exposure to C. Diff (rampant in US hospitals) is a very bad thing.

When the good bacteria in your gut is killed, it frees up real estate giving any present C. diff an opportunity to overgrow and wreak havoc. If this happens, the road to recovery can be very long. And to add insult injury it takes bleach to kill any C. Diff you happen to spread to surfaces in your home and this often results in patients re-infecting themselves repeatedly.
Have you ever crafted a sign-up form for a paid app though? Requiring users go and check their email before they can proceed is going to kill conversions. Mail providers (I use mandrill) also deliberately throttle outgoing email - I've seen them delayed by several minutes.
Actually it is—it might behave perfectly right now, but the intent is that it is mobile-first and responsive like nearly every other component. If you're running into problems, let us know though via issues. <3
The Ubuntu OS does not require you to do that. It is an additional option you have, for example with their current "Ubuntu Edge" project.
Ah, so many memories.

How Text Adventures Work! http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-12/1980_12_BYTE...

What is FORTH? http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-08/1980_08_BYTE...

The Coinless Arcade! http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE...
Check out these subreddits

http://www.reddit.com/r/codetogether
http://www.reddit.com/r/CollaborateCode
It's a simple extension of a very old principle: you don't have an expectation on areas viewable from public property.
Writing is very different from reading. Generating correct English is a lot easier than proofreading "under pressure".

Also, apparently I can proofread English under pressure.
leap needs more of a delay between geatures. there is a property on the NSGesture object to adjust how long a gesture is performed before firing an event. switching between scrolling and zooming randomly is just poor programming, not the accuracy of the device.
I've heard this advice myself; and have disregarded it. It's possible to see oneself age, to be disgusted with one's own face, to see someone else's face looking back at you, or be faced with other unpleasant sights or thoughts.

In retrospect, this kind of pat, simplistic advice has the ring of either inexperience or lack of self-knowledge. A person who is in touch with himself and his own subconscious will not avoid looking in the mirror (either literally or figuratively).

One of the most important things one can learn on psychedelics is how to deal with unpleasant aspects of yourself, others, and the world around you. One often learns much more from "bad" trips than good ones.

If one goes in to these experiences with a sincere determination to learn from whatever one may encounter, to use one's time constructively, and with a great deal of honesty and humility, then half the battle is won. Then looking in the mirror can be seen as an opportunity for self-discovery, not as a potential unpleasantness to be feared or avoided.
If /lib/ld.so is hosed and you cannot run any dynamically linked program, then you might be able to start programs in /altroot by running something similar to...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/altroot/lib:/altroot/usr/lib /altroot/lib/ld.so /altroot/bin/sh

...so that you run the dynamic linker directly, as a wrapper program.
Email encryption is going to be effective against 99% of relevant attacks, and if the NSA wants to know what you're doing, they'll put a bug in your laptop and, no, you won't notice.

Remember, even with lofty "serious attacks on democratic principles" going on, you're still infinity times more likely to have your bank account information stolen by drive-by script kiddies with a 0-day than be a target of government persecution on the back of illicitly obtained intelligence. Even then, it's highly unlikely that even the NSA has the capacity to decrypt internet traffic at scale.
Yet another Torrent tracker is shutting down: Torrent-damage.net
And this time, it's for real.

Torrent-Damage has received a Cease and Desist notice from FACT (Federation against Copyright Theft), and while FACT are UK based (and none of us are), the operators of this site will stick to their gentleman's agreement and comply with any such request - for the safety of the staff members and its user base.

It is with much sadness to announce that Torrent-Damage will be closing its doors on the 5th of August, 2013. Effective immediately, the tracker will be shut down and all torrents removed (thus complying with the cease and desist order).

We wish all of our members Godspeed for the future, and hope that our community was of a great benefit to you while it was here.

With much sadness, a fond farewell

Staff of Torrent-Damage

Torrent-Damage: 5th nov 2005 - 5th aug 2013. Age: 8yr, 9 mo.

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You should consider putting up a screenshot.
New Startup Name: SWAY ---- Your Opinion?
Hey, we are building a new Startup called "Sway" and would love to hear your opinion on this name.

What kind of startup do you imagine to be behind this name?

Thanks
I think this a neat idea as well; IMHO it has a lot of potential as a marketing tool. Who doesn't want to help his/her favorite product/service/band/event/cause keep the page alive by giving it attention (sharing the link).

That you can mirror the content is maybe not even that important from a psychological point of view.
Depends how much you take. Mild LSD experience your face bends/warps or you look incredibly dirty and covered in filth (you probably are lol), medium LSD experience you might not see any reflection and think you're invisible, large LSD experience your reflection may be a monster with bugs coming out of it's face, or a cyclops, or somebody who's dead that talks to you and continues to scream at you as you walk out of the room. I never had that experience but other people I knew did, I don't believe in bad trips it's only how you interpret them. Nothing on heavy doses of LSD ever freaked me out the whole experience was always awesome especially the flying/falling sensation you get. No matter how stoned I got I always knew in the back of my mind this is just hallucinations so enjoy it.
http://www.istockphoto.com/
I'm prone to absolute fits of laughter as opposed to anything resembling focus. Might have something to do with quantity. Or what happened before (pot) or after (lots of beer -- mushrooms made me very thirsty). Anyway ... not the same experience, but fun nonetheless. The key is a happy environ. One tip -- instead of tea, eat them with chocolate ice cream.
High heat will kill the psylocibin - boiling may have weakend them.
I think they become more profound with age. I remember some highschool trips that were basically just very goofy exercises and not much more. Now, later, every trip seems to be utterly mindblowing.
iPhone may be better than Android in this regard, but it is far from perfect. Many core apps in the iPhone (4S was the one I tried) have been unresponsive and had choppy animations when I toyed a bit. The perfect smoothness of the iPhone is a myth.

Scrolling web pages was noticeably nicer and less laggy than in my Nexus, but still imperfect.
This is Core 2, so it still has the P6's micro architectural limitation that it can only read two (or three?) values from the register files each cycle. But it's a 4-way processor, so it can potentially need up to 8 operands. If the other operands are on the bypass networks, it's fine. If not, then the CPU stalls. My guess would be that the MOV has the effect of keeping an operand on the bypass network long enough to avoid a stall. Totally guessing, though, but that might explain why it's so sensitive to instruction ordering.
Some of the early versions used libgeoip, but the database has changed many times over time; it started with MaxMind data, then switched to ipinfodb.com, then ip2location.com came into the mix, and currently is back to using MaxMind again with a few tweaks. The idea is to be free to change to whatever is more suitable whenever is necessary... Redis was initially used in the Python version (twisted+cyclone) to share usage quotas between multiple instances (one per cpu), and ended up in the Go version just because; actually, it could use a map or something, but I'd have to implement the ttl part... In other words, it's mostly for historical reasons.
It's unfortunate, because I've owned the HTC 8x, and now the HTC One Google Play Edition. These are both some of the nicest phones I've used/seen.
The brainless, scared and entitled ones that is...
There's definitely room for improvement there, thanks for pointing that out.
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Gotta spend some time on that...