skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP is ~23 at the time and that seems like a very natural age for that experiment.

One of the most interesting things about reading Robert Anton Wilson's more autobiographical stuff (Cosmic Trigger? Prometheus Rising?) is that when he talks about doing LSD for the first time with Leary and co, all these guys were in their 30s!! I can't imagine how shocking it would be to have gotten that far in your life, believing and committing to the perceptions you've had, only to have them ripped apart by those megadoses (by today's standards) of LSD.

I think that is also why they made such good use of the experiences. Having more life experience, they might have been even more appreciative of the new insight.

http://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Rising-Robert-Anton-Wilson/...
Social Graphs In Movies
I've been on flights where inflight wifi was $$, but inflight WiFi access to Skymall was free. I don't think the growing availability of Wifi will hurt them among the type of people who buy their overpriced (and often useless) merchandise.
Just to play devil's advocate here, I can claim that our ordinary state of consciousness is the most legitimate one (the one that is closest to reality, if there is such thing as objective reality), or at the very least the most useful one - otherwise we would have evolved for the different state of consciousness. The burden of proof would be on you to justify that the altered state of consciousness is indeed more in line with reality.

Of course, this comes with the premise that consciousness is a necessity. And indeed, our needs nowadays might require a different state of consciousness, now that the very basic survival needs are generally fulfilled.
I'm using it with my eyes and it's helping my blepharitis more than steroid and antibiotics did. I don't have deep biochemistry knowledge, but I guess they already tried to find out the antibiotics properties of honey/garlic and it didn't help much in real scenarios.
Wipe your dirty mind
This is one of the things Ubuntu is doing right (too bad about Edge). If Surface RT was actual un-crippled Windows, and there is no reason a ton of Windows .NET software wouldn't "just work" on Surface RT, I might have bought one.

Ubuntu, by contrast, isn't going to artificially nerf their products for a certain architecture or to segment the market. Having the same capabilities, and a common, but adaptable UI, is going to serve Ubuntu well.
I was thinking the same thing, Wordpress might be my go. Don't want to reinvent the wheel.
My impression was that "Author Solutions" wasn't about "transitioning print-to-digital", it was about scamming people with aspirations to be authors, by charging them ridiculously large up-front fees for various "services" (often presented as independent providers, but actually usually kicking the money back to Author Solutions) and promising unrealistic results, then walking away with the money after those results fail to materialize.
Often I find something on http://flickr.com on the advanced search at the bottom I click "Creative Commons" and "Find content to use commercially".
Machine Learning – Mini Batch K-means
I’m Still Waiting for My Phone to Become My Wallet
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958627
You can focus in front if you wish, the depth is just reversed but that doesn't matter, may be easier if you zoom in the page. I got 4860 focusing behind
tikkun.org seems to be down. Here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Here's the blog post from the Google Engineer (Joseph Bonneau) about accepting the award: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2013/07/19/nsa-award-for-...
Android fans care about open source, not Google or Samsung. There's a big difference between that and Apple fanboyism.
Many years ago, I remember seeing a BBC documentary about phages that were (and are) used in Russia and former Soviet states in place of antibiotics.

What are phages? "Phages are naturally occurring viruses that kill bacteria. Once they get into bacterial cells the phages' DNA replicates until it kills the host.

Doctors in Georgia, and in other countries that were in the former USSR, have been using this therapy for 90 years. But medics and drug regulatory bodies in most places in the developed world have been reluctant to accept that it works."

From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21799534
Hey! You made ImpactJS? That's very cool, but it's really hard to commit $99 to buy an engine when I can't even try it! It looks super-rad and I'd love to give it a shot, but it's a bit high of a bar for a casual game dev.
Well, these people are wrong. Anxiety is very common on any kind of marijuana. I've had that before too, so my sympathies.

You can have a bad trip with pretty much anything. Bad trips on psilocybin are common, especially if you don't have anyone to help you redirect your mind to a better place. However, unlike pot anxiety, even the bad trips often seem valuable in retrospect.

I personally know of one person for whom the trip didn't end on schedule. She had to stay at her mom's place for a few days while she emailed dozens of poems to her friends about how much she loved them. But as far as I know she's "normal" now. You can find cases of LSD-induced depression as well, just Google it. Some apologists try to claim these cases are just "unmasking a problem that was there already", but that is cold comfort for someone who gets it. So no, it's not 100% safe.
Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished”
Whistleblowers & NSA
Here's an interview with William Binney for background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM
ES6: The Awesome Parts
> We did have to warn him about using "magic" words amongst his "muggle" friends.

Probably a good idea. I've on occasion realized that I was talking to someone about killing orphaned children in public within earshot of assorted people who are unlikely to understand the context, and having to hope that the mention of daemons and zombies in the same conversation makes it clear we're not actually planning murder.
The last time I got my hands dirty at this level was almost 20 years ago, optimizing a software renderer's texture mapping code for the original Pentium, so I don't know much about the details these days, but it sounds like the MOV would touch the data item, which might keep it from getting aged out of the cache-like thing in question (ETA: "bypass network"), so it would still be available when it was actually needed a few instructions later.

A stall can last several clock cycles, potentially quite a bit longer than a NOP.

In the code I worked on, rearranging the order of MOV instructions made the inner loop execute twice as fast, just by avoiding stalls. I think at one point I added a NOP to avoid a stall, but I don't remember if it survived into the final version of the code.
This is the polite way of saying 'repost'. Submitter: please put the year in brackets in the future. (in this case [2011])
Hacker reveals email addresses of 1,350 Council on Foreign Relations members
World's first fleet of marine drones being tested
I'm not sure where you live, but in the US, the standard commission for a registered broker selling a house is six percent of the selling price of the house, not a flat fee. But yes, they do not get to keep that six percent in perpetuity.
Full-stack JavaScript at Getable
Canceling the free trial of Google Apps now disables email service
Scoping in CoffeeScript and JavaScript
I suppose that's my issue. Dynamically searching or sorting wouldn't require converting to JSON, I'd rather work with the existing table object:

tableName.rows[rowNum].cells[cellNum]

Instead of loading all of that into a variable (a second time, it's already an object on your page), trying to keep it in sync, binding events in both directions to keep it in sync, the load of doing twice the work, the lag of redrawing the entire table every time you want to do something, etc..

I don't see why this is cleaner than working on the DOM. I've done this a number of times and only found headaches when trying to build something larger than a silly toy or a list of 30 items on a table. IIRC DataTables did something like this internally last time I looked at it, and that thing konks out and either slows down your page or crashes the browser depending on how many cells you load into it.
Are these syndicates only now possible because of the crowdfunding provisions in last year's JOBS act, or is it just that nobody thought of doing things this way before?
1 - If you've ever had alcohol, you've done a drug.

2 - marijuana is a more common first "drug" than hallucinogens, for good reason. Although temporary psychotic breaks CAN happen, they are rare, and it is an otherwise pretty innocuous drug.

3- as for hallucinogens: SET, SETTING, and DOSAGE.

Negative story: taking mushrooms with a friend when neither of us were in a good place, emotionally. [bad set] Got confused at the typical 20 minutes in when you "think nothing is happening maybe they didn't work" (this thought ALWAYS occurs) both ate more mushrooms. [bad dosage] Bad bad negative hallucinations. Head on upside down. Turned in to prehistoric bird. Friend outside on the street screaming racist epithets (not normally a racist dude) Luckily ghetto neighbors did not execute him (people can be much more tolerant than we give them credit for) police came and were astonishingly restrained, brought him to hospital. Very close call.

I still concur that hallucinogens are a great thing. But it bears repeating, respect Leary's SET, SETTING, and DOSAGE.
You're presumably being downvoted for the combination of "Be quiet" and making categorical statements without explaining your opinion.

Yes, they may be complex - my son was not really interested when he was 3 and I showed him Scratch. I'm frankly more inclined to go with pure text or my next try (he's 4 now; I started at 5; I'm not assuming he's guaranteed to show the same interest I did, but I'm certainly going to ensure he gets the opportunity).
First couple seconds was wondering where the hell the sound was coming from, rest of the seconds were in awe. Awesome job.
I hate the 1-single device idea. I will resist to the last day to adopt it.

I live in a city where cell phones are stolen at the same rate as bananas are picked by monkeys in Congo. No matter if you are poor or rich, owns a cutting edge smartphone or a $15 one you bought at a newsstand, someday you will get it stolen. My legal manager got so many phones stolen in the past years that she lost count them. Her wild guess is they were more than 20. All cheap ones, because after you loose the first couple of good ones you are forced to adapt.

As the storage capacity of those phone increase, I think we will be motivated to keep more things in it. In case you have it stolen, damage is done.

Yes, you can still sync it to some other backup desktop PC, to your media center in your living room, or even to the "cloud". But imagine effort involved to restore those GBs of data every time you lose your phone. It is not only material damage, but time/effort damage as well.

I currently use Prey on my Android, so at least I could block the phone and force the other guy to hard reset it. I'm protecting my privacy but not relieving the time/effort issue, nor the material one.

What I REALLY would like to see on a new "built-from-bottom-to-top" device is a "brick token", a string of characters I could dictate to the carrier agent on the phone 1 minute after my phone was stolen and that alone would turn the device into a brick for good. Something at the lowest architectural level... like spilling acid on top of the main board. That would really change robbers crime lives, and bring tranquility to us consumers. Until something like this is in place, I'll be glad to have my PC and phone being two different things.
The History of the Apple Command Key "Pretzel"
> GWT

Emscripten - C++ -> JS, that's exciting, compared to Java -> JS

> Solr

Who cares about technology behind Solr? You didn't even mention Lucene
Have you thought about sending the HTML of that data back instead of computing the JSON encoding? Your server side could actually parse the DOM and possibly preserve things like fonts/styles when loading into excel (I know how giddy managers get when their auto-generated reports have styles).
It would be great if either `print` or `puts` worked.
This is what we call Unity Next, the One & responsive UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gXaf08GTI
Pot is not harmless. My advice is, if it makes you feel anxious, don't do it. There are plenty of other options out there.
A large portion of the population would kindly disagree :-)
To be clear, I'm not advocating egalitarianism, or contending that it's the highest value. The goal is to align policy with our most defensible values and ideals (hard work, fairness, merit, etc.).

If the wealthy truly believe we live in a meritocracy, in which the hardest working and most competent end up the most well off, then taxing wealth should be preferred to taxing capital gains. Any hard working and competent wealthy person should have little trouble earning returns on their personal capital that far exceed a ~1.5% annual wealth tax (over a multi-year time horizon). Only those who choose to do little with their wealth, or cannot manage it competently, end up worse off. But this accords well with "survival of the fittest", yet another value often espoused by the world's wealthiest.

In other words, the goal here isn't socialism, it's rationality.
> Stackoverflow runs off of a mirrored pair of sql server instances. You have to wonder how much servers they would need and how much extra development it would have cost to handle the same load on an eventually consistent alternative

Considering they really don't need ACID and the amount of complexity their cache layers add, it would probably be much simpler to develop, maintain and operate. Seriously, their model is the textbook example for non-relational datastores.
> There are some things to consider though

To add to your list, there is of course that old chestnut of "it doesn't support the full tables spec" (which in all fairness is quite complex).
This kind of philosophy just muddies the waters. This article is recommending using drugs for entrepreneurs. Most human beings spend >99% of the time in their normal state of consciousness rather than a mushroom state of consciousness. So from a practical perspective, the question whether the insights actually produced something tangible in the real world is perfectly legitimate. At least to me, the (obvious) question of whether perhaps in some altered state of consciousness we would evaluate the results of the high differently is quite theoretical and uninteresting, since I do not want to spend my life on a high.

A couple of years ago I went a few days without sleeping, and I had hallucinations and I felt like my mind was ultra-sharp. Just like the author of this article with his 9 mile walk, certain things had happened that I had no memory of. Later when I'd gotten some sleep, it turned out that the sleep deprived state of mind wasn't so sharp after all, it was just an illusion. This is why I'm always a bit skeptical of these kind of claims.
I was about to make the same point, that the list of things that have existed for 65 or fewer years includes a number of things I couldn't live without (e.g. my own existence, for one).

I agree that the NSA needs to stop wholesale data gathering and needs public transparency, but the age of the NSA is not a useful argument that we can live without it, since we can't live without other things that are younger.
Install & Setup - Nginx + supervisor + uwsgi + Python Flask - Part I
Does 485th richest person in Britain need to crowdfund mobile phone?
Nobody reads Software License Agreements. Barely anyone reads (and is able to fully understand) the GPL (no matter which version). That's real life. Suck it up, Stallman.
Here's an interview with William Binney for background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM

It would be great to hear some HN voices tonight. We need to raise the level of dialogue and help the larger populace understand the real issues.
Google might be slightly better as a gatekeeper, but to me they seem completely untrustworthy at this point. Between their "spring cleanings" and "open handset alliance versus android variants" debacles, I don't think we should root for google. I'd rather see somebody like Mozilla win.
Or you know, try and enact some change by loudly complaining?
Entirely unconvincing argument. Uniqueness of design isn't necessarily as important as you make it out to be. Most customers would not even notice.
There are figures on page 6 that answer the OP's question directly. And there's also this money quote: "Building an accurate model for modern processors is virtually impossible."
He may not of but apparently a lot do per the article and 10-K )
"I can claim that our ordinary state of consciousness is the most legitimate one (the one that is closest to reality, if there is such thing as objective reality), or at the very least the most useful one - otherwise we would have evolved for the different state of consciousness."

Is your view that that we have evolved for the ordinary state of consciousness a view that was made and evaluated in an ordinary state of consciousness? Should its worth be evaluated in an ordinary state of consciousness? How should we decide if it's valid? Why should something that is considered "most useful" be more valid than something that is considered "less useful"?

An ant's view of the a human city may be very useful to it in terms of its own survival and that of its colony, but few would argue that it understands a human city on as profound and deep a level as a human would. Now, which of these views are "right" or "valid"?

As for what's "in line with reality", would you consider a Picasso painting to be worthless compared to a photograph because the former is not very realistic compared to the latter? What about a song? Is the "in line with reality" standard applicable to a joke? (Sure, there are some jokes with are "funny because they're true", but that standard does not really apply to puns or jokes that rely on surprise for their effect. Are they worthless?) What about poetry? What about the value of a kiss?

Finally, speaking of evolution, Terrence McKenna conjectured that human intelligence and evolution may have been influenced by an encouter with psychedelic mushrooms, whose spores were hardy enough to survive a long interstellar journey to earth, and whose consumption gave human ancestors an enormous amount of novel information.
CAUTION THIS IS PROBABLY A SPOILER:

Well, the simplest explanation is that the proof involves thinking about hypothetical worlds and each agent modelling everybody's behaviour in each hypothetical world, including what hypothetical-hypothetical worlds can arise, and hypothetical³ and so on. The Guru's statement exist in every world, no matter how hypothetical it is, while the subjective observation that there are blue-eyed people disappears in some of them.
Sorry for the off topic discussion, but I would like to give some attention to FreePascal. In my opinion, it is a great piece of software, and is so underrated. If you find C/C++ too error-prone or hard to learn, Object Pascal is a very good alternative. FreePascal is a multi-platform, Delphi compatibe Object Pascal compiler, can generates pretty optimized native code for multiple architectures (including ARM) and has plenty of libraries. If you already hadn't, please give Lazarus[1] a try, it's a nice RAD IDE (very similar to Borland Delphi 7) shipped with the FreePascal compiler.

[1] - http://lazarus.freepascal.org
Why not use a residual sum of squares here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_sum_of_squares
(Haven't used this account in a while, not sure if it's shadowbanned. Hope you can see this.)

No matter what you think of Apple, or Google, and their respective ecosystems, I'm curious what people think of Samsungs popularity. They're a massive South Korean company that until recently was well known mostly for ripping off other companies products and out-marketing them (I'm not making this up, these accusations go back decades now covering a variety of consumer products, go ahead and Google it). Some people, myself included, don't really believe this practice ever ended. Say something were to happen to Apple and Samsung truly pulled away as the technology leader in the future. Are you as a consumer happy putting your eggs in that basket, so to speak? Do you think Samsung is going to embrace a culture of innovation, vision and design? I honestly don't see it. As a designer, I've stayed clear of Samsung products because they just come off as cheap (or expensive) imitations. As a market leader, you have the privilege to introduce consumers to exciting new technologies, UI innovations and ideas. Samsung isn't built for that. Their idea of great design is hiring 1,000 good designers and taking a little bit from each one. That's not how design works. You have to have a unified vision with a great idea behind it. Consistency is so important. I don't care if Apple is the leader for the next decade but I'd rather a more creative company took the reins.
I believe the term they use is "Eulerian magnification": http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
How is this at all relevant? The GPL is always available to read (and usually included in full text in the project.) This is about having to agree to terms you don't have access to even if you want them.
>Hth! ^_^ gl with your reading comprehension goals in 2013

It isn't constructive to add this kind of barb to the end of your comment. From the top of the HN commenting guidlines:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Start with Yeoman with the Angular.js generator. Extremely robust and fun to use.
Mushrooms can cause bad trips. Keep that in mind. It might not be as frequent as with other substances, but it is possible. I know people who had bad trips from mushrooms. So be careful. A really bad trip can be nightmare.
The point is, you're not actually replicating it if you don't follow all the stages of the experiment. You are (probably) just stealing cars.
How to make your child a maths genius in minutes
> I guess they already tried to find out the antibiotics properties of honey/garlic and it didn't help much in real scenarios.

Speaking more generally, there is limited interest from big pharma in the use of natural or herbal products because they will have to spend a ton of money on clinical trials to prove effectiveness, but they won't get the patent protection necessary to recoup the cost of R&D, like they would with synthetic drugs.
Iftop: a little visibility on remote transfers
A wealth tax discourages all investment and savings. There is no trade-off here. The rate of return (and hence the incentive to save) is lowered on all investments.

Your analogy to inflation is nonsensical. Inflating away the value of cash does not reduce the incentive to invest in shares of GOOG or a pizza shop. Regardless of the inflation rate, the pizza shop will still produce the same # of pizzas one year from now.
>The product that skymall is selling is entertainment.

Their advantage over amazon may be the entertainment value, but it seems improper to say they're "selling entertainment" when realistically they're selling ads. I don't see the connection to porno magazines since they're completely different business models.