skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that attempting to roll your tongue while this occurs tends to lift the sleep paralysis. No idea why this works though.
OT: John Cazale had the most astonishing career of any actor ever. Six years, five movies, five nominees for Best Picture (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), three winners. And then he died. Just a remarkable life.
"i'd bet my life on it..."
A wise old woman in AA once told me that addicts are just like everybody else, only more so." You will find a full spectrum of introverts to extroverts in Recovery.
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I don't think a definition of addictive "personality" is used. Most addicts are using to manage extreme negative internal states. Not everyday bad moods.

I agree with the poster who mentioned Infinite Jest as capturing some of the subjective experience of the "insanity" of an addict.
This is really bad analysis, not least of all because it excludes the glaringly obvious option of simply accepting tighter margins of profit and lower executive-level pay.

If you want an intelligent, fair-minded, and properly-researched account of economics at McDonald's see here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/mcdonald-s-8-25-man...
Yeah, but the MOOC is an incredible resource and the perfect score is great validation...harder to do it and prove it without the MOOC.
Personally I didn't think the article was particularly clear, informative or well-written.

It was emotive and brought attention to a terrible situation. But on objective measures of quality journalism, I see better articles daily in tabloid newspapers.

If the article wasn't so emotionally effective (and we didn't agree with its point of view) it might be more obvious that it was full of half-truths, weasel words and confusing narration.
There's a reason houses in Detroit are so cheap.
How do you get the one time pad to the recipient?
They still poison medicines. Hydrocodone, a Schedule II substance, drops to Schedule III when sold with acetaminophen, a substance toxic to the liver.
What I don't get is the other part of this statement. Acids, by definition, contain chemical energy that can be harvested by life.

What is the basis for the assumption that any ocean acidification won't suddenly disappear, because some algae species decided it is now sufficiently widespread and easy to acquire to use it for lunch ?
If you really need this, you could download the raster data (find the URLs via the National Map Viewer [1] for example) and add whatever type of road/trail/path you want on top using OpenStreetMap data.

[1] http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/
All hackers out there! Now you know.. if youre a hacker, make sure you have power backup with an alarm... so you can delete the evidence before the feds come ;)
You forget, emotional effectiveness IS effectiveness. Not the only kind, but in this world it's probably the more important kind. Certainly the easiest to achieve.
MOOC is the future.
No, people don't directly fear it's backdoored by the NSA. There has never been any evidence that it's backdoored by the NSA. The algorithm it's documented as using (based on AES) is not the one that was backdoored by the NSA (Dual_EC_DRBG), though you would have to take a look at the chip with a scanning electron microscope in order to verify this.

The kernel developers just don't think it's a good idea to blindly trust unauditable hardware random number generators. Using it in conjunction with other sources of entropy is one thing; just using it on its own is putting a bit too much faith in it, especially because the code that uses it uses a generic wrapper for any hardware random number generation instruction, so if AMD or ARM or MIPS chips later come with random number generators, the kernel will be able to take advantage of their entropy without putting itself at risk if one of them is backdoored.

There's a difference between fearing that something is backdoored, and thinking that it's not a good policy not to blindly trust something.
That, and running the earthquake site [1]. I show that to everybody I know when they move to the Bay Area or Seattle. It induces compulsive refreshing.

[1] http://tinyurl.com/l2w75wl
If that is true, then Americans are violating eachother's human rights, and laws should be changed until that stops being a valid concern, because the US has signed the human rights treaty. It's that simple. The same goes for other concerns that stand in the way of poor people having children.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/#a16

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/#a25

And if the problem is food, then I would say the US is violating far more than just those 2 rules.
That may be the default of a t-test. Have you considered a Bayesian analysis?
Wut. That is one of the best "hacker" movies that has come out of Hollywood. Great film.
I experience sleep paralysis often after starting study of lucid dreaming. For me, though, it is rarely the terrifying experience the OP describes. In fact, since it's such an easy situation to identify, I tend to become lucid immediately. Don't let this scare you if you're looking to start lucid dreaming.

There are also tricks you can use to escape. For me, scrunching my face and wiggling my toes always worked consistently.
It engenders a larger, more complex ecosystem with greater diversity and resiliency.
Touche. It appears I have a shit attitude towards stifling expression on such an important issue.
The HTML in the project is brittle, problematic for consumers and parsers, confusing to developers and designers, and future-unfriendly. I encourage you to spend some time researching the reasoning behind HTML and markup in general, including why it's important to use id and class names that describe the content (rather than the presentation) and HTML elements other than div. They exist for a reason.

Think about this: I can see from the linked page that you understand how adding type="password" to an input makes some consumers, like various web browsers, treat that field differently. There's a lot of stuff like that in HTML.

If you want a short intro that also explains some of the "why" behind various aspects of HTML5, read this: http://www.abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers

The HTML5 spec also has a lot of info ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-div-ele... ). For example:

> Authors are strongly encouraged to view the div element as an element of last resort, for when no other element is suitable. Use of more appropriate elements instead of the div element leads to better accessibility for readers and easier maintainability for authors.
Whether or not an activity is science does not affect the need to take action.
Advantage? Tell that to screenreader users.
Ask HN: How do radio stations quantify their listenership?
Measuring number of visitors on a website is easy due to visitor pinging the server. Measuring TV viewership is explained here: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question433.htm. But how does a radio station track how many users are listening in, or which show is most popular?
There's actually more to the story.

She's not actually Hawaiian, but she married a native Hawaiian and took his name. He passed away and she wants to keep the name to remember him by.

In Hawaii right now there seem to be two prevailing schools of thought.

1) It's the state's responsibility to respect everyone's name.

2) She shouldn't have to change her name, but they don't have to put the whole thing on her ID
Just slightly more than wishful thinking. Some legal thinkers have posited that it's not that far-fetched of an idea, given that epidemiologists can track down a patient zero.[1,2]

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

[2]http://www.naturalhealth365.com/vaccine_dangers/lawsuits.htm...
This is just wrong.

First, you are implying that Tor has an official Tor e-mail service, which it does not. Tormail is/was just a basic e-mail service someone not associated with the Tor project was hosting on the deep web. For all anyone knows, Tormail itself could have been run by the FBI or NSA or whatever all along. Anyone who thought Tormail guaranteed them anonymity was a fool, much like anyone who kept Javascript enabled while browsing the deep web was a fool.

Second, Tormail wasn't itself targeted. What was targeted was the hosting provider that was hosting 95% of child pornography in the deep web, and that hosting provider also happened to host Tormail and a bunch of other non child pornography websites.

Conspiracy theories will abound, of course, but keep in mind that the NSA's MO is not to disrupt communication but to intercept it. If the government's real concern here was with Tormail, they would have simply kept it around and tapped it, since they had clearly compromised the hosting provider's boxes and could have done so. They wouldn't have shut it down and just sent people fleeing to the dozens of other supposedly anonymous and secure e-mail services out there, including ones that perhaps they haven't yet compromised.
Though I should not be surprised, you misrepresent me. There's nothing wrong with covering the issue. It's just not helpful at best, and actively harmful at worst, to try to inject the issue into every possible place. We are intelligent adults; we are more than capable of thinking about more than just one issue.

It isn't like there are many people left who haven't heard about it, and even if there were, the front page of HN has consistently contained several articles covering the NSA specifically for a number of weeks now.
It's also a great San Francisco movie.
It was months ago and I never heard about a bill. Ran into him earlier today, actually, after I'd made the post, but didn't think to ask.
The moral arguments against it are profound: put simply human liberty and constant mass surveillance are mutually incompatible.

There is a deep and rich body of literature, philosophy, research, and direct human experience to back this up. I am truly sorry that you appear to be completely unfamiliar with any of it. If you have a sincere interest in the subject, you can start with the most widely recognized point of reference: George Orwell's "1984".

Also, regarding celebrities and their suffering at the hands of paparazzi. This is something of a special case, and hardly a situation that reflects the broad sweep of common law. But even here, there's recognition that something really awful and abusive is going on. California has already taken steps to curb the worst of it in ways that conform with existing laws and constitutional protections for the press. Meanwhile, celebrities themselves have taken to hiring PI's, who document the frequently-illegal abuses they're subjected to, and turning over their findings to the police.
We didn't have to pay for content before the ads came along. Why should we have to pay for content now?
Make love to Grandparents with SnapChat? WTF (would you work there)
I dunno- thought it was kool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_measurement
I use INI for configs most of the time, too, but if I ever need multiple-nesting or lists, I don't really have any choice but YAML. It's not common that I need that, but it can be useful for really big applications.

I always try to use the right tool for the job.
As somebody else mentioned elsewhere in the thread, get involved with 350.org, or alternatively Greenpeace. AFAIK, these are the largest and most effective organisations in the climate change area.

We're well past the point where changing individual behaviour will be enough (and also, this strategy has been promoted over the last 30 years and largely failed - emissions are still rising). We need protests and actions that will lead to policy changes around the world and the shutdown of the fossil fuel industry.
Likewise, one should also remember, that no single entity is singular cohesive; that there are people working from within, even from within the "controversial" agencies, trying to make the places they work better for the country.
There are a fair number of sites that simply don't work properly with adblock on. I load the page and I get a big grey blankness. I just shrug and move on - there's plenty more where whatever it was came from. It's well worth not having to look at ads.
It's not the NSA doing this intimidation, though they may well be facilitating it. I do agree that journalism is under siege in the US, however. I feel like the Obama administration would really like to put a stop to even the possibility of another major leak by stopping it before it starts. I thought this was a much bigger deal than Greenwald's SO being detained:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-re...
Wanted Apps: Simple IRC
Personally.
But it does not say about radio. The concentration is more on viewership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter

Edit: This is the link inside that article, which leads to http://www.colemaninsights.com/sites/colemaninsights.com/fil...

So I think they select random people to carry their device, which listens to radio stations tuned in by the user. Radio stations are identified by the embedded sub-audible codes. The device then phones home conveying the metadata. Interesting. Thanks.
Wim Wenders 'The End of Violence' (1997) belongs in the category of tastefully executed cryto-thrillers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Violence
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The question I always ask is... why? You can come up with all kinds of crazy ways to program. You can probably even come up with all kinds of crazy rationalizations about "purity" or "math" or "logical" or "simple" or whatever other difficult to measure metric.

When it comes down to it, however, programming languages are neither for "simple expression of ideas" nor "execution by computers". They are for humans to write, read, and reason about the actions of computers. The biggest challenge most programmers face is not "how do I express this in an elegant, pure way that shows how smart I am?" but "how the heck does this giant existing code base work exactly?" and "how can I modify it in such a way that does not make it harder for other developers?"

A key goal of a language should be ease of reasoning. The conjecture that removing variable does this for most people is wholly unproven.
Plone 4.3.2 adds support for zrs/zodb replication
> This doesn't take the Population Paradox into account.

Because it's bullshit. The core of it is this statement:

> Insensitive, unintelligent, uncompassionate listeners don't -- they will have the usual number of children.

It entirely ignores the fact that having children and rearing them is WORK, EFFORT. People in poor countries do the work for a single reason: They NEED their kids to care for them in old age. As you remove this need, even dumb people will want to avoid having kids, because it's less work.

There's a reason the US fertility rate has stabilized to 2 childs per woman, and an overpopulated country like china is even below it, and it is that the complex real world pressures cause an equilibrium on their own.

In short: Don't just write massive posts, also ask "why?" a LOT more.
The "sportification" of America [2010]
I did not find your comments, but I did a quick google search.
Here is one refutation that I found:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201...

It says just about what I would have guessed too. :)
This is good stuff. Even better would be small cameras that can be worn around the body so the incidents can be recorded.

Yelp has already demonstrated why crowdsourcing is so important. The public often rails against the government, but most of the bad stuff is done by everyday people and they need to be held accountable.
As I'm not surprised you condescend me by insulting my ability to interpret your post, I guess.

My point is: why inhibit it no matter the context? Perhaps this is a new user who isn't privy to the daily dealings of hn? Maybe they aren't aware that their effort might be better spent on a less-informed forum? Why immediately dismiss and discourage their input?
> My point in bringing up something like the difference in character count (not counting characters in the dependencies) is that just calling the function is already more work than basic html.

To nitpick, to get your HTML, the OJ example could actually be:

> BulletList('They','create','themselves')

So no, it's not more work (41 characters).
What would you demonstrate to a kid to get him or her excited about programming?
I'm going to be spending a bunch of time with my best friend and his 8 y/o, and since I'm already talked about as the "computer guy" (I'm a software guy really), I think it'd be fun to sit down and show the kid how awesome programming can be. An alternate way of phrasing this could be - what gets you super excited about programming, or that you think is just plain cool, that kids might also find fascinating?
Note that he didn't say what software he's running on the new air-gapped computer. The difference between locking down one air-gapped PC running only software required for encryption and locking down the entire network of PCs running the wide variety of software required to do everything everyone needs to do on the SIPRnet is huge.
You can't be a successful businessman without 1) having or making something that people value (which requires skill, capital, or some of both) and 2) taking risks with your time and money instead of earning low but guaranteed income. If you don't have skills, capital, or the cash to survive when your gamble doesn't pay off (just like it usually doesn't pay off in Silicon Valley), you don't get to be a businessman. Teaching a child from a low-income family how to run a business is stupid unless you are also prepared to make a brain-dead investment in a kid with a shitty high school diploma and zero professional experience outside of a Walmart.

I have a laptop and I've had the luxury of time to learn to program. If I invest 1,000 hours in a web startup that fails, I still get to eat food from a grocery store and sleep on a bed.

As a young adult in a family living paycheck-to-paycheck (because they are paid barely enough to survive) you are not likely to have free time to develop skills - you need to be working to cover the cost of your meals, taking care of young children, etc. You don't stand a chance.

But let's say you had some free time, and you went to the (evil socialist government waste-of-taxpayer-money) public library and taught yourself some Rails and spent enough time on the Internet to get an idea of something people wanted. Already we're talking pretty implausible, but let's go with it. High school ends, and you want to dive into building this thing. But guess what? You need to eat. So you take a shitty minimum wage job and come home exhausted every day; your body physically will not let you concentrate no matter how hard you try. Game over.

You have a shitty education and no GitHub portfolio. There is absolutely no reason for a venture capitalist to believe in you, you're just another delusional starry-eyed kid who has no idea how much he doesn't know. But let's say your parents have faith, and they're willing to continue eating the cost of your room and board in their apartment because they just know you're going to make it big like Mark Zuckerberg and will be able to take care of them. You work 100 hours a week on your idea for 6 months, but it fails. It was a good idea but it turned out there wasn't a market for it, or you screwed up because you've never done this before, or you got eaten alive by competition staffed with Stanford comp sci graduates. Not only is the game over, but you've betrayed your parents, you're getting evicted, your siblings are being placed in foster care, and you're homeless.

It was pretty irresponsible of your parents to let you do that. Which is probably why "keep your head down, work hard, take what you get, and recognize ambition as sinful" makes sense to people as a religious value.

Taking risks with your time is a luxury which you absolutely do not have when you're living on the edge of not making rent. Capitalism does not allow for everyone to be an owner - the whole point is that the ability to make money resides in the hands of people with money as opposed to the collective.
Would you make the similar protest if they complained about their tax dollars going to wars and spying?
> You mean changing the number of "2048" to "4096"?

No, certainly not. I agree with you; the change from 2048 to 4096 isn't interesting.

The interesting part is that he 1) generated a new key (okay, not actually interesting in itself), 2) is using it in an isolated install, 3) this isolate install is on entirely separate hardware, not just a VM, 4) this separate hardware is new hardware that has never been networked.

Tinfoil Hat Linux was never really about using large PGP keys, you could use large PGP keys on a co-located RHEL box just as well as you could on an old crusty THL box covered with shoes and bluejeans in your closet. Rather, Tinfoil Hat Linux was about cautious (really, hyper-paranoid for the hell of it) treatment of private keys and plaintext. Extremely cautious treatment of plaintext and private keys is what he is currently going out of his way to do.

Is going to such an extreme (new hardware that has never been networked?) really necessary? I don't have the expertise to say. What I can say is that is nearing the sort of baseline paranoid treatment of private keys and plaintext that THL is known for. He's not blinking out leaked documents in morse code yet, he isn't worried about white vans down the street reconstructing the images on his monitor or RF leakage from his CPU giving them bits of his private key, but we are at the point where that is the next logical step.

(And no, aliens never landed at Roswell (or anywhere else), JFK was shot from the Book Depository (and only the Book Depository), and Stanley Kubrick did not film the moon landings (that was done with television cameras mounted on tripods, the LEM lander legs, and the astronauts' chests))
That ruling did not consider whether a warrant is required, only that the attachment of the device constituted a "search" because the government was trespassing when they installed it (http://lippmannwouldroll.com/2012/01/28/what-the-supreme-cou...).
Independent of any semantic-or-not discussion, the UI looks great.
Completely agree. I definitely feel MOOC's provided this opportunity but it's useless without awareness and access. The principal allowed that.
International law.
That's very much a special case, and one that effects a microscopic portion of the population. Were that level of harassment to become part of daily life as lived by millions, the presently tentative efforts to rein them legally in would become very serious, very quickly.