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"Go fuck yourself", eh? Spoken like someone who's never had to live through a riot at street level.
> Your source for these sweeping claims?

No source. Just information that you may for all intents and purposes call hearsay. What is your source that proves your tabs had LSD on them? Why didn't you get them lab-tested? Or at the very least reagent tested?

> How exactly does that work, given that LSD is water soluble and the solution was very dilute?

Didn't you say you took the blotter out after a day? Can you prove there was nothing in the blotter?

> It seemed a standard approach which protects it from light and heat degradation, and there would be no 'changes in temperature' given that the tabs were stored in the refrigerator the entire time before being turned into a solution which itself was stored in a refrigerator the entire time.

Were the tabs stored in an airtight container before being turned to solution? How did you account for condensation when you took them out?

I'm sorry if I unfairly doubted your LSD storage-fu. Your post, however, did not give me the impression that you knew what you were doing when you were handling the substance, and I remain unconvinced even after reading your reply.

> I am amused that you think I didn't do exactly that. So, you have made these claims assuming that I did not trip or listen to music. Now that you have learned that I did, and I regard my previous opinions as still correct, are you changing any of your beliefs?

I have not changed my beliefs, and why would I? I objected to the way you conducted your experiment, not to the fact that you did not go for a psychedelic dose. Knowing that you did go for it, changes absolutely nothing.

In fact, now that you have clarified that you ran your entire experiment with mere 1(!) tab worth of LSD (let's give the tabs the benefit of doubt), I can't help but be amazed at how quick you are to arrive at conclusions.
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Yeah especially the Hough Transform isn't quite clear in my mind yet, I assume the best way to really understand it would be to implement it myself.

I had a process with feature selectaion actually, even if that isn't quite clear from the text. First I had for a long time just the amount of lines and the average length which didn't really work, I had to think a lot to come up with other features and then I got a bit lucky (but mostly I was looking at the images with the lines in them to try to figure out the differences myself) with the average angle.

And yeah, with "radius" I didn't mean the concrete spacial radius (in n dimensions) but just like you say the k nearest neighbours.
By the way, this is an awful, awful idea that you hear quite a lot. Think about what would happen. What incentive would a participant have for placing an order early in the one minute interval? If you can't cancel it, you're a sitting duck. And if you can't be executed now, why insert the order now? By doing so, you show your hand. You'd end up with a rolling one minute e-bay auction where everyone tries to insert at the last possible microsecond.
It sort of amuses me that there are HN climate change denialists, but there aren't really any HN creationists.
In a nice neighbourhood one could probably leave the door unlocked, but unfortunately internet is more like Gangland than Wonderland.

This said, I'm not blaming home users, but IT folks who failed to secure corporate data and should have known better.
This beautiful (parent) comment, in contrast to the main article, actually contains links and references to the items it refers to. Is there some compelling reason I don't understand why _so_ many magazines / websites, even high profile reputable ones, cannot manage to link or cite?
This is beyond awesome! I'd love to read about your thought process while writing it, I guess a lot of people (including myself) would learn a lot from it. How long did it take to write?
but this one seems to do what it claims to do. it's pretty scary for people who don't have decent backup system. but these same people live with the risk of losing their data due to a drive failure, so...
With emscripten, anything is possible nowadays. And it blows your mind.
But those are not any kind of axiom, because neither is a self-evident or clearly correct version of truth.

Two poor examples of an axiom are not "on the same level" as axioms.

>Either of those axioms requires an assumption, and once you make such an assumption, everything else is filtered through that lens.

What assumption does atheism make? None.

From the cosmologists' point of view, it is not clear that the cause of our observable universe need be available to our study within that observable universe. There is no assumption being made; it is simply an unanswered question, about which we are unsure we will ever have a useful answer.
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Twitter does this (automatically subscribes you to each new category of email) as well, and it infuriates me to no end.
"Is Tesla worth more than Fiat, is it worth half of GM? In its current state, with its current sales, of course not."

I'm not so sure those things follow. There is a tremendous amount of baggage/inertia in existing car companies, no where was that more apparent than seeing GM convulse when it was bought out by the US government. Could I beat Usain Bolt in the 100 yd dash? Hell No! If you tied his shoelaces together? Damn straight I could!

Tesla has no other cars, no other obligations, no other legacies, no other technical debt to pull backwards on it. One of the most interesting things I read was a car analyst comparing Tesla to Fisker. Fisker built an electric car with the best batteries they could find. Tesla didn't build an electric car until they had built batteries that met the requirements of an electric vehicle.

The difference there is profound. Prior to Tesla there were no batteries in the world that could be bought which would let you build a Model S. Car companies weren't telling battery makers how to make batteries, and battery makers weren't telling car makers how to make cars. But Tesla sat down as a company and designed an electric car from whole cloth, from the AC induction motors to the battery chemistry. That is an insanely stupid thing to do, it has huge risk. But they pulled it off.

From a thinking perspective, Tesla should be bigger than GM and Fiat combined. Compare the Volt or the EV-1 (which is unfair since technology has advanced so far since then) to the original Tesla Roadster. One company is thinking, one company is designing. I think thinking wins in this case.
Well, the first thing I'd try would be to argue that, given the difference in platform and target audience, there's no significant likelihood of confusion. Assuming unreasonability on the part of the B2B developer, I'd then find out whether they have a trademark on the name; if not, they likely have no recourse, while if so, it's worth both parties' time to consider whether an infringement case is worth the time and effort to mount (for the dev) or defend (for you).
I can't even count the number of places I've interviewed and the number of entrepreneurs and startup engineers I know who work insane hours. I took a stand last year and said I'd stop working >40 hours a week -- full stop. It was the best decision I ever made. Sure, I got laid off from a small startup, but they had their priorities all wrong and weren't doing much right anyways. Now I'm at a place where the office is deserted at 6pm and I've never seen as much success and high quality innovation. I wish more folks in the startup scene would stop with the pissing contest of hours. It's seriously dumb. We're about disruption, right? Well how about disrupting silly norms like the 40 hour workweek?
Same old story, primitive stop-the-world GC ;)
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I also think the linked article was somewhat strange. Or maybe just linkbaity. The title can be paraphrased as "To an alarming degree, science is not self-correcting." However, the article actually describes the way science is supposed to work, which is self-correcting.

The main criticism in the article seems to be that, in much of current scientific practice, the self-correction doesn't happen immediately. Well, it would be helpful to know: (1) how does current state of self-correction compare to different times in the past, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago?, (2) what happens over the long term to papers that aren't refuted immediately but which later turn out to be obviously wrong? do they hang around and have a negative impact on progress of science? I'm sure there are more questions.

Another strangeness in the article: The article begins by touting a concern over a 1998 "priming" study. In the third paragraph, the article states that there have been nine (9!) subsequent studies that have failed to replicate the 1998 study's result. Is that not an example of the scientific self-correction working quite well? The article complains, "Either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry." Yes, something is awry. But it's hard to see how it's the scientific method/process itself, which seems to be doing exactly what it's supposed to: calling the 1998 paper into question. (Is the main concern here just that more bad or questionable science is being published than in the past? I'm sure that's true, but there are also many more studies being published in this era and it seems not surprising that overall quality would decline.)

Like some others at HN, I get concerned when I see pieces like this that the science-haters will latch on to and use to discredit the scientific method itself. The article itself _should not_ be taken that way, by anyone who understands science. But there are many who don't understand science, who are anti-science, etc.
In the UK they'd need to show that your app would cause confusion for consumers detrimental to them, and that'd be almost impossible if one's a kids book and the other is a dev app on another platform. It all depends on where they're threatening to litigate.
I wonder if sleepwalkers have this cleanup system working normally just and the part that supposed to shut off the muscles is not working properly.
True, but it's a trade off. I've run big svn repos before where we couldn't have used git because it would have taken up too much space on the client machines.

In terms of editing the history it's generally just considered something that you don't need to do.

My point was not so much that git isn't better. It was more that the desire for the new tech makes people forget what the old tech could do. It happened when svn took over from cvs. It'll happen when the next tech comes along to replace it. That's life.
This is something I've wondered at: shopping malls/big box retailers on Black Friday are perfect targets for terrorists. The economic damage you could do to the US for comparatively little investment is pretty high if properly timed. And you'd inculcate significant fear of public spaces for years to come.

It's not as cinematic as 9/11, but if you're looking to hurt the US, it's a pretty good choice.
Saw a group pitch a product that was like RapGenius for code documentation, don't think it went anywhere? Both writers and users could add their commentary in a layer that was separate from code, seemed like a clever way to address documentation?
Indeed. A number of Ubisoft titles including all of the AC games that I'm aware of have such a disclaimer before the title screen.
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Really pretty! Looks like it was inspired by Medium.
It will be open-source. I don't know how to deal with licensing yet.
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Here are couple of details to add some color:
Cove 2 is one of the most popular dive sites in Puget Sound. It is right in the middle of Seattle, with a stunning view on downtown. It has shower onsite for scuba divers, it has food nearby and parking is reasonably ok for Seattle. It is also benign site which is not current sensitive, meaning you can dive it pretty much anytime (no need to wait for slack or high tide etc.)
This is a default place for a lot of people to take some of their classes. All the locations where octos usually hide are pretty well known to divers here.

Dylan lives somewhere pretty far from that dive site and there are a lot of other places where he could have harvested an octo. Instead of doing so, he chose a most popular dive site around, place well known for people coming to look at octopuses, came there during the day and killed one of the creatures. When somewhat exasperated divers ask him "Dude, WTF?" he told them that he was in his right and suggested to mind their own business.

Imagine a park somewhere, where it is well known that deer come and interact with people. There is a family playing with a nice baby deer here and then a hunter shows up, walks right to the deer, who is not afraid of people and cuts bambi's throat, right in front of the family. Yes, he is within his right to do it, but he behaved like a dick.

That's what started a shitstorm, not a desire to stop harvest of Octos. There is a lot of them in Puget Sound and they are not in any danger and divers know this. Just don't be a jackass and butcher a Bambi in a petting zoo.
I guess we'll never know if Apple engineers were "inspired" by Zram and Zswap Linux development. I don't think anything like this is available in Freebsd yet.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2012-...
This is incredible! At this point, it's definitely JS magic, because I'm struggling to fathom how this even exists.
To add: trademarks aren't universal, they apply on categories of goods.
I know it is oversimplification, but in essence, isn't writing an emulator just mundane following and reading specs? a lot of specs...
Can someone please explain me, who gave the company behind the PCI "licensing business model" the right to enforce their power? Heck they even do it internationally, no? How is that possible? How can I do the same, for say "alcohol safety", just as an example?

I have worked in a few occasions where companies failed to provide PCI compliance and still got licensed. In one company I helped to circumvent the need for compliance by outsourcing the payment processing.
Since the Bitcoin blockchain is public, couldn't you follow the money? Make a list of all wallets that accepted these funds initially, and then do graph analysis, either to see where the money went or provide others with a tool to avoid transactions with those wallets?
We'd need some chemical that can cross blood brain barrier, get into the cells and refactor most harmful subtances that build up there. Not an easy task.
This looks good!

Jekyll theming is an area that I wish would take off a little more. I've looked for custom themes on several occasions and it really seems like there are about a dozen total, and that's it.
You should un-minify and open-source this.
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You know they are already doing this right? American intels are collecting individuals profile here and outside of US. This is the whole PRISM project.

And this is what people oppose too. Now we are suggesting abandon TSA and instead favor massive profiling? You will return to karma 0 if that's the route you take. Hahaha
Ah, good point. Yeah, in theory, I think that's true, you could get away with only one worker on rubinius or jruby.

I'm mostly sticking with MRI, so I mostly think about the other side -- on MRI you need multiple workers, yeah, but _even_ on MRI, you get a boost by using multi-threads _on each worker_. This is the thing lots of people are neglecting!
HFT is on Treasuries - primarily arbing venues (brokertec/espeed/Tradeweb vs CME)

Also on FX

If there is an API normally there is programmatic trading.
This is what Venti (of the Plan 9 fame) is for!
Yes that'd be awesome!
Exactly. This "code is the documentation" mentality is simply laziness or an excuse for poor engineering.

How about "the bridge is the documentation" for civil engineers? Or "the house is the documentation" who needs building plans?

Documentation also has to cover larger scale interactions, that is how objects interact with each other and how they fit into the design.

All that said, in a large software project you need to pick your battles. Maintaining the same level of documentation across the board and throughout the life of the software is very difficult. Make sure though that your core is well documented and you keep that documentation up to date. Libraries and APIs used externally also need to be well documented.
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This makes sense, since vying for cross-platform tends to result in awkward experiences like the windows Treo.

Using MVC, it's more straightforward what components are specialized per OS and which ones are common.

Not only that, having native apps would make the app UX "feel" better too.
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One thing I find terrorists pretty stupid is that they can literally do anything any average individual could do to harm hundreds of people but they choose to organize in the hardest fashion. I just don't understand their stupid mind!

Glad I don't - otherwise I would be a terrorist :( HOLY SHIT
What do you guys think about this way of networking?
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Absolutely! I had success doing just that.
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That was my understanding of both sleep walking and sleep paralysis. The parts of your brain that activate during REM dreaming would cause you hurt yourself if GABA and glycine didn't shut off your muscles, thus putting your body into the bio-equivalent of park.
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Have you tried the new polyphasic garbage collector?
Yes, following the specs will give you a correct emulator.

The trick is in writing a fast and accurate one.
github link?
A "toxin" is something which is toxic to a system. But our knowledge of the brain is so primitive that we can't reasonably claim to know which chemicals are toxic at tiny, long-term dosage levels, unless it leads to death. There is no evidence that it's possible to die directly from sleep deprivation. Therefore this seems a dubious headline.
Some things would do badly at that speed. But serving basic web queries would be fine, and give you a better feel for what is slow when milliseconds spent processing turn into actual seconds.
If your a single person who lives with roomates although, you can have rent just be $1200 vs $800 and capture the ~%15 extra income for your own savings.
Looks really great. I think that this is the type of theme that any company could utilize and save themselves a load of resources early on when time/money/people are in short supply.
There has to be some kind of coordination as they did the same thing with recent updates to Skype. iOS and Android first then Windows Phone OS a month or so later.

Seems like bad messaging from Microsoft about the Windows Phone platform, an official RDP client isn't a make or break type app, there is no (apparent) compelling business reason not to hold back on iOS and Android so that the WP version could be released simultaneously. If Microsoft won't hold app releases until the WP version is ready to along with iOS and Android how can they expect anyone else to either?
I have no better knowledge, just parsing the reports:
The cleanup is more effective during sleep because the channels that transport waste from the brain expand 60% in volume, and the brain cells themselves shrink by a similar amount to make room.

I suppose that the brain cells can't shrink that much while retaining their full function.
This is the most soul-crushing category of bug, the kind which keeps me up all night, drinking.

Build a skyscraper, and lock the keys inside for the ribbon cutting. Sorry pal you lost your funding

Land on Mars, see an alien, but your camera is out of batteries and everybody back on Earth thinks you're a quack.

Successfully perform open-heart surgery on a desert island, but muck up the stitches and cause a scar. Your patient will hold it against you the rest of his life (which you saved).
I got bit by being really productive in VC6 like 10 years ago. Had a script to clone a template dsw/dsp file, which make a new one, so I have about 400 projects like that, for little experiments, little projects.

Upgrading each of these projects to the 2010/2012/2013 IDE requires about 5 minutes of manual steps - per project!

I still keep a VC6 on my machine (even though it barely works on Win7) because of all that.

What got me stuck on VC6: I benchmarked OutputDebugString in the 2002/2003 versions, and noticed that they were ~10x slower.

The new compilers are a lot better, for sure.
I was under the impression that models are thrown out in a paradigm shift

But they aren't always thrown out in a paradigm shift; that's the point. Newtonian physics was not thrown out in the paradigm shift to relativity. Our understanding of why Newtonian physics works as well as it does within its domain of validity changed; but the fact that it does work within its domain of validity did not change.

Kuhn picks a number of examples where that was not the case--where the old model did get thrown out (for example, the paradigm shift from Aristotelian physics to Galilean/Newtonian physics, and the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican model of the Solar System). But he tried to apply particular features of those examples to all paradigm shifts, which doesn't work.

Ideally, the new model resulting from a paradigm shift supercedes the old model while modeling the edge cases that the older model was unable to account for.

In the case of relativity, it did account for edge cases that Newtonian physics couldn't; but it didn't supersede Newtonian physics, as I noted above. We still use Newtonian physics where its predictions are accurate enough for our purposes, which is most of the time. It's only in particular domains (such as GPS, to pick an example ordinary people are familiar with) that we need relativity to get accurate enough results.
Anyone know what format the floppies are expecting? It won't accept a DOS 6.22 install disk from MSDN, maybe it doesn't like DMF?

Also, swapping disks during the install might be an issue, I don't see a button...
I have a sneaking suspicion that would be like pumping oxygen directly into the blood and then trying to hold your breath - even though you technically don't need to breathe, millions of years of evolutionary tricks will make sure you do. Try telling your brain that it does not need to sleep after 72 hours just because you have cleared up the toxins
Solved this problem at my startup Nuevo Cloud.. the filesystem is copy-on-write, including deletions.. In the settings you can control how long to keep the copy-on-write log, and then you can jump to any second within the log.

So even if this virus encrypted your backup on Nuevo Cloud, you can just pull up the snapshot from a second before the infection, and restore your files.
Dude, this is Grade-A stuff.
The article mentions that there is a $100 variant floating around.

Makes me wonder whether they use the $100 variant in markets that $300 would be too much to pay.

If, is as reported, this virus is pulling in around ~$5million / annum, then that is a great basis for setting up a professional organisation to run the virus and extract maximum value from it.
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Didn't realize I had to click "View Demo" at first.