skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...But as you can see, Senator, there is also no evidence of the guaranteed absence of terrorist plots either. They are obviously even better hidden than we feared. Increased resources will be required to bring them to light. Our department has drafted a new budget proposal that takes this changed situation into account.
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I don't know what sort of call centers you hare talking about, but the ones I have heard of from friends in India are pretty gender balanced.

Secondly, no woman in the several most recent crop of graduates (from the US) I know has been trying to get into a call center job. The one I most hear is "I want to work in a non-profit job in DC / New York / <insert big city here>".

Thirdly, with the more or less egalitarian society for people under 30 in urban areas, social status is much more important than economic status. There isn't any society-wide mocking of people who work in call centers, but there is some of people who work in tech. Ergo, less people (and specially women) go into tech in their 20s.
Downvoter: I see you disagree - how would you define consciousness without refering to subjectve experience?
Dear gwern:

Your scientific experiment was fatally flawed on multiple counts.

A lot of (possibly most) LSD sold today (even LSD from Silkroad, and, amazingly, even LSD from vendors favorably reviewed by The Avengers (see: selective scamming)) is, in fact,a different drug altogether. Most often, an n-benzylated phenethylamine (e.g. 25I-NBOMe). The only thing these drugs have in common with LSD is that they are potent hallucinogens, but you wouldn't notice the difference anyway on a sub-treshold dose.

Even assuming that those two tabs really did contain LSD (and dosed at 100ug, at that), "extracting" LSD from blotter by submerging it in water for 24 hours is...not known to work reliably, to put it mildly. I can tell you from anecdotal experience that this method leaves a significant amount of the substance embedded in the blotter.

Finally, putting LSD dissolved in an aqueous solution in a regular fridge is a horrible way to go about storing it. LSD must be protected from light and from changes in temperature, so a fridge doesn't work very well in this regard. Plus, dissolving LSD in a solution makes it degrade much faster, if the solution comes into contact with oxygen, since the surface area where reactions with oxygen can occur expands vastly.

It may seem harsh to say that the -vvv essay, into which you clearly put a lot of effort, is useless, as far as its "scientific"", or even informational merit is concerned. But that is the unequivocally the case. We learned something about you through this essay, but we learned nothing about LSD.

And I can't resist a little addendum - you would have done much better if you simply swallowed those two tabs, sat down in a comfy chair, put some nice music on, and tried to figure out what are those extravagant claims of psychonauts about ;)
Link owner here. I love it when my posts get submitted to HN so fast that I don't even have a chance to share it. ;) Happy to answer any questions.
29 million people in slavery worldwide
For self-founded entrepreneur procrastination is the worst enemy.
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What good, I ask you, has Reuter's telegram company done for the world? Aside from getting some information to a few London banks and trading houses, we've seen no other applications made of this infrastructure, and should therefore assume none will ever exist.

-lolcraft, 1852
CS also saves keystrokes and makes code more readable by offering things such as:

Reducing boilerplate for loop code:

CS:
for el, index in arr
el.doThing(index)

JS:
for(var index=0; index < arr.length; index++) {
var el = arr[index];
el.doThing(index);
}

Better iteration over objects:

CS:
for own k, v of obj
console.log "#{k} is #{v}"

JS:
for(k in obj) {
if(!obj.hasOwnProperty(k))
continue;
console.log(k + " is " + obj[k]);
}

Default function params:

CS:
foobar = (foo = "default", bar = "shmefault") ->
# Go on...

JS:
function foobar(foo,bar) {
if(foo === null)
foo = "default"
if(bar === null)
bar = "shmefault";
// Go on...
}

String interpolation:

CS:
str = "There are #{num} #{item}s available for $#{price} each"

JS:
str = "There are " + num + " " + item + "s available for $" + price + " each";

Existential checks, soaking nulls:

CS:
if obj?.prop?.exists?
console.log "obj.prop.exists"

JS:
if(typeof obj !== "undefined" && obj != null && obj.prop != null && obj.prop.exists != null)
console.log("obj.prop.exists")
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Easy Scalability; how we do it.
Amazon's approach is very interesting, and I'm paying pretty close attention to them.

I tend to be somewhat skeptical of open-submission systems, or of voting systems, because they suffer from the same prediction problems that Hollywood's development model does. Plus, they're more prone to GIGO problems (Hollywood actually does a pretty good job filtering crap out before it goes into the system).

Amazon might be focusing on the wrong thing (development) rather than the right things (production, support, distribution exclusivity). At least in the short term. If I were them, I'd probably use my significant capital reserves, buyer power, and Hollywood's resentment of Netflix to my advantage. I'd cut exclusive deals on proven or undervalued material that's already been produced (and could be scaled up, or reinstated, or spun off).

Personally, I think the smartest thing Amazon is doing is tying Amazon Prime to free VOD streaming. A la carte content purchases are probably going away in the long run, and Prime is a great transition vehicle into more subscription-based services to compete with, say, Netflix.
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The hard truth: You're not going to get into YC. You're not going to get an interview and your application isn't going to be read in full by anyone who doesn't love you.

But it doesn't matter.

Buckle down, find people that you can rely on, work.
So there's an interesting topic hidden in your comment. What is truth? I don't mean to ask that in a flippant way. I mean to ask it in a way that has an answer - or at least a reliable set of answers. Of course this is a philosophical debate of long standing, but it has a lot of relevance for today.

What do you mean by truth? How do you attain to truth?

Is truth what is objectively perceived? If so, how do you determine what is the shared subjective perception of the exterior world? Is truth possible to attain to? Should we instead focus on finding and sharing working(up to tolerance) models of the reality we encounter?

This is sort of a big debate in philosophy of science circles. You can see traces of it in Popper, Feyerabend, and a few others you can rummage up on Wikipedia. These are the questions that frame how you do research, how you present research, and the expectations of reliability of research.
No, but then I actually really enjoy getting my hair cut, so I'm probably not the kind of person from who should be answering this :)

In answer to how do you cut your own hair, not sure if this product is available in the US, but it looks pretty good - http://www.amazon.co.uk/BaByliss-For-Men-7435U-Clipper/dp/B0...
But couldn't it be argued that the use of body-scanners functions as a form of strong deterrent for potential plots? If a potential terrorist understands that they will eventually be caught or that the stakes to beat the system are too high, they will look at alternative forms of terrorism simply because the investment to beat airport security is too high.
The world "Real" in portuguese means both royal, real (truth) and the currencry, and "reais" is the plural for all three.

The currency name derives from "royal" and it's a very old name back from the Monarchy days. _However_, during the Monarchy the plural for the old real-the-currency was "réis". Nowadays the plural for the modern real-the-currency (in use since 1994) is reais, like the other standard uses of "real" of the language.
Free cavity searches for all. Taxpayer dollars at work right there.
Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
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I was searching something similar toady and it is here. Great.
I know I'm throwing my karma down the toilet here but domestic-sourced airline terrorism has happened before. The TSA (edit: OK, whoever it was that scanned our bags and ran us through the metal detector, if it was not "the TSA") was unaware of 9/11 as well. Argue all you want that we should just tolerate the occasional 9/11-style (edit: or the random pipe bomb blowing out the side of the plane, cockpit doors can't protect against that) event as the price of freedom, but if there were no airline security, you can be sure events will occur.
Especially since, Senator, the new facility to be built and staffed for the purpose of identifying these better-hidden terrorists, will be built in your district!
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Love this feedback :) Thanks so much for sharing. We try hard not to promote the product on our blog, having said that I think a simple 1 liner in the bio about the app would do well.

Thanks again,
Alex
> TypeScript is a tool to sell Visual Studio, nothing more.

I'll have you know I paid for my WebStorm license because of its TypeScript support =)
Yes, Eto.Forms supports any .NET language. (;
They're in the Himalayas looking for the bear hybrid.
Zero new features is not true. AVX support for newer processors is one new feature. But more importantly Win7 RTM support ended April 2013.
Charlie's just upset that some of his bridge partners aren't scalping what they used to with their floor-based market making businesses.
So that they can later justify draconian piracy laws.

"It took us seven years to get this one site down, a site that caused us over 110 million dollars in piracy, and we couldn't even collect any of it.
Within hours of a court order, the site was back up with a new name.

<Thus, you should require ISP's to filter their traffic, or whatever> "
From my horizon the entire security debacle have never been about actually keeping the populations safe - it's there to keep them worried about "the enemy" and keep them compliant with both funding requests and authorities in general.

As of today neither USA or countries in western Europe can be considered police states.

But if we keep on travelling in the same direction we are going now, that's where we'll end up.
You could see this in the Autos window in earlier versions, too. Although maybe only immediately after shift-F11'ing out of a function, and not of multiple levels of function calls like the linked article shows.
Iterating to an Ugly UI
I didn't want it to get too political.
As an admin, I don't find the menu useful. Especially when I hop on various Server 2012 servers that have a slightly different version of the menu than my 8.1 VM.

To me, win+r is all that is needed. If I can't remember the name of an msc winkey + start typing still works ok.

The fact that the metro start screen exists on the server OS is deplorable.
Yes, SWT, but it's Java-only.
> The tea party has a high re-election rate.

If you read my other comments on this thread, you'll see I agree that incumbents are too advantaged, but the incumbents that were defeated by the tea party also had high re-election rates.

Invectives aside, I was noting that tea party republicans are actually a point against the advantage of incumbency.
> "couldn't it be argued..."

About as effectively as arguing a tiger-repellant rock is strong deterrent.
The inkscape project hasn't put out a Mac OS release in years; from the little I know it seems to be related to the UI toolkit / XQuartz. Maybe they should consider a move like this also.
[previously-deleted comment]: I wonder what it's like to live in a country where you don't have to give a second thought to statements based on potentially massive differences in beliefs about the age of the universe.
Exactly. This is why I continue to pay for cloud insurance as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tgp5VZD1Ak
It says something that LinkedIn has come to this. I've fiddled with the email settings on almost 10 separate occasions. Those controls do pretty much nothing though, either accidentally or intentionally.
And to sort of extend my point. We always laugh at CEOs/CTOs when they fail to provision money/resources for security software and security measures in organizations. That, instead of paying for security up-front, they wait until after a disaster to respond with security measures.

In this case, by criticizing the spending of scanners as a deterrent to potential plots, are we not playing the part of CEO who complains about a small security expense as opposed to waiting until after a disaster to respond?
What is everybody using for piracy these days?
I don't think the question is about how much we can store in our brains, but rather how much we can cram in there within a lifetime. I think we'll always reach death before we fill our brains. Of course, if we ever reach a true singularity, transfer our consciousnesses into robots, and live forever, the one question becomes the other.
Source? I don't recall jumping through any hoops to post on Bugzilla or mozilla.dev.platform, and I definitely have no relationship with Mozilla.
> but if there were no airline security, you can be sure events will occur.

Eh, concert ticket queues, malls, the line for the actual TSA.

Plenty of opportunities outside of airline related things, and I don't see anything about your local mall foodcourt getting hit. My person wasn't fondled the last time I got some Panda Express.
I'm a huge critic of the TSA and would be thrilled to see it dismantled, but I always find these kinds of arguments a little intellectually dishonest. It could be that “terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports” because we have scanners in place that deter that kind of threat.

Now, I don't believe this is the case, as plenty of research has shown that the scanners don't increase security, but the "no active threat" argument by itself doesn't get us very far. By that logic, we should remove security at Fort Knox because it never gets robbed.
This article re-hashes much of the content of Ben Goldacre's book 'Bad Pharma', however it does not propose any solutions (Ben Goldacre does). There is plenty that can be done with legislation, as a customer of healthcare and in clinical trials. If all trials - good results or bad - were published then we would be half way there.

http://www.badscience.net/2013/10/why-and-how-i-wrote-bad-ph...

The article mentions the company 'Amgen' and how they were not able to reproduce some earlier trial results. Alarm bells went off for me right there at the word 'Amgen'. They were the company that had the wonder drug EPO, as in of Lance Armstrong fame. That story is truly fascinating and best pieced together from the book 'Blood Medicine':

http://www.bloodmedicine.info/

...and from the cycling scandal books that have came out recently, e.g. Tyler Hamilton's.
How I understood it:

$ sword &
$ wget localhost:1111/path/to/style.css
You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
The big difference is that in the years before the Snowden revelations there were a lot of signs of things going on (e.g. when Washington Post revealed that 800,000 people worked in US intelligence and had a high security clearance [1] ). Signs as big as that have not been present for the EU, even when you count in Echelon.

1) http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...
"Now, you can still do some of those tricks, but not as extensively." The language in this blog post make it pretty clear that this isn't a company you want to work for. Stop trying to nickel and dime your employees. Provide good affordable health care for everyone from the CEO down to the cleaner. Be a socially responsible entity. Make that one of the pillars of your business. Success without it isn't success at all.
gamedev and CG will merge with gamedev winning out as compute bandwidth increases. The bottom end always eats the top.
My thought exactly. If there is a crisis of innovation I think it hardly stems from a lack of skills or desire. I am constantly amazed by the level of technical expertise on display in every even remotely technical community I am part of. If a crisis exists I think it stems primarily from the current economic climate and risks associated to that as well as how hard it is to rebound after failure.
I'm in the same camp. It makes porting difficult, indeed; but frankly, I'd use QThis and QThat over STL any day.
"let's not judge Star Trek TNG on its first season. Yikes!"

"The Naked Now" still makes for excellent comedy viewing every now and then. Let's be honest. It's sort of like The Room of TNG episodes.
You know what the answer is to 9/11-style events? Locking cockpit doors. And that's what they did after 9/11. Passengers now know what's at stake too. So, while bad things can happen, another 9/11 can't happen again (and as such, the TSA does nothing to prevent it anyway).
No, just use uppercaps letters for hintkeys :) That way, you can still type to narrow down the links, and then press shift and select whatever link you want with homerow.
I don't buy it, and he starts off eloquently on the tired argument that a privatized company could never handle the burden of maintaining roads.

Ah yes, big government. We would never had the ingenious ability to tar and pave roads without your bloated schemes to pocket large percentages for politicians.

Politicians ladies and gentleman are the big problem in Washington. They are expensive, and if you look at their net incomes year over year astoundingly they continue to make absurd profits regardless of the functioning American economy or not.

If politicians were willing to volunteer their "Services" then I would agree with the sentiments. However, as long as they are able to be bought relatively easily, it allows more corruption and extortion to take place. There is a libertarian solution to everything, and in every instance a free market perspective should be applied to government officials who can't seem to cut the fat out of their vicious diet.
> The TSA was unaware of 9/11 as well.

Of course not- it wasn't formed until after the attacks.
It could be that my mother isn't dead because I avoided stepping on a crack yesterday. I'd appreciate some evidence, though.
That also means, in FPTP, maximizing dissatisfaction with the outcome.

Ah. Now I get your meaning.

I don't see why supporting PR for what representative offices exists should conflict with a preference for direct democracy.

Having done some lobbying in the USA, I wonder how effective lobbying would be where PR is used.
No, because the first time they try and are successful they expect to die so they don't care what will happen if they 'eventually' get caught there will be no second try for them.
You won't get much at 300bps.
I'm excited. Tweetbot is one of my favorite apps (in fact it's got a prized seat on my dock). I still use it with iOS 7 because I'm used to it. There are tons of other Twitter clients that feel more "iOS 7"-ish, but Tweetbot just has a level of usability that I love. Plus, the synced browsing with the Mac app is really wonderful.

Keep doing awesome work guys. Looking forward to the release (paid or not).
Ask HN: what is your favorite travel planning website?
The number of trip planning sites have increased drastically and almost all follow the same approach:

1) Give a you list of predefined activities for x location spread over n days - almost everyone building their own wikitravel

2) Get suggestions based on your social feed

I find this extremely boring and generalist as these sites churn out similar touristy itineraries for everyone.

So having set the context, would love to know what sites the community uses to plan their holiday travel. I am looking for destination planning and not hotel/flight booking sites.
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LOL
This article was not about having no airline security. It was about how ridiculous the TSA body scanners/nude search/patdowns are. There is a difference.
No, I said that as if I'm capable of a dissenting opinion. When men grow boobs to nurse babies and men can naturally incubate babies, I'll start looking deeper into the issue.

Hell, I'm willing to even look past those two. You just let me know when everyone suddenly turns bi-sexual. Until then, the differences are right in front, naturally occurring.
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Fair question. Tangental to districting, where public financing is used, elected representatives are far more diverse along the political spectrum.
Perhaps what the actually conclusion one should take from this memo is not that terrorists don't exist, clearly they do, but rather that those terrorists are now focusing on softer targets, because aviation is seen as too difficult. I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, because let's face it the TSA searches are demeaning and some might argue an invasion of privacy. But it seems like a non sequitur to say that because terrorists aren't focusing on aviation that they don't exist. Maybe aviation is hard to hit, and they want to focus on easier targets like shooting up malls.

Perhaps what's happenng here is that terrorists would like to target aviation, but TSA is doing just a good enough job to dissuade them. I know, blasphemy. The government can't do anything right.
This is a very strange sentence:

"Homo is the genus of great apes that emerged around 2.4m years ago and includes modern humans."

That is not a normal way to describe the ancestry of humans. In between apes and humans were the Australopithecus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus

The genus homo is usually said to have started with homo habilis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis

Normally one doesn't refer to one genus as being part of another genus.

Also the date "2.4m years ago" is controversial. If homo habilis is reclassified as australopithecus, then the genus homo emerges much more recently than 2.4 million years ago.
Actually since Gmail now has three tabs and the linkedin emails end up in the 'social' folder, it is less of a bother. Once in a while you go in and mass delete.
The TSA did not exist prior to 9/11/2001.

Elements of various intelligence community agencies were aware of a 9/11-style plot and were aware of the hijackers' existence within the United States. If these existing agencies had worked together and done their job, 9/11 might never have happened.

All without anyone removing their belts, frisking grandma, or having to stand like a perp in a county lock-up.
Interesting angle.
From what I can tell (having not used one properly myself), they fit the components within the push rim, so there's no real issues with doors or turning. Just done some research for you, and looks like they can actually support camber, too!
> brown snakes ... they will kill you ten times over if they decide to.

You had me concerned there for a moment until I figured out that you weren't talking about the "brown snakes" that are in North America.
Turn that question around - "I wonder what it's like to live in a country where you don't have to give a second thought to statements derived from scientific investigation rather than religious dogma then move to the US?'

I can answer that one for you. It's shocking. I had no idea, nor do I believe that most Europeans have any idea, just what a strong hold primitive interpretations of religion still holds over a huge percentage of a developed first world society.
Well, it sure worked for Amazon [1][2].

[1] http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/01/early-amazon-door-desks....

[2] http://glog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_the...