skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gabor Mate heals heroin addicts with two powerful psychedelic plants: Ayahuasca (DMT) and Iboga. I have been to a couple of Ayahuasca ceremonies in the past year, and I can report that - among its many awesome effects - it effectively resets your inner emotional "firmware", helping you cope with stressful situations and addictions much better (I had instantly quit smoking after the first ceremony.)

Vipassana meditation take a slower route, but some say more thorough - it transforms your self into being more reflective, more appreciative and less judging. I've yet to try it out on a 10-day retreat, but even people who practice half-hour daily buddhist meditation praise its beneficial effects on mental and physical well being.

Both Ayahuasca and Vipassana are great routes you can take to battle your addictions, not only to alcohol or tobacco but also many kinds of pain.
Every time I see the word "Webscale" I think of this animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Database guy at an academic institute (MSc qualified).

A PHDs doesn't seem to be any sign of intelligence in the last two places I have worked. Quite the opposite at times.
This site is really nice to use.

Does anyone know where it gets data on walking routes?

There is a train station near where I used to live. Google Maps correctly identifies it as being 11 mins' away by foot. The TfL site thinks it's 23 mins away by bus, so never includes it in any suggested routes, instead showing my multiple-leg journeys by bus and tube.

Is there a place to report errors or 'I found a faster route'?
Beware of Scala bots, too. They type way too much :D
Health || medical startups of Brazil; I'd like to donate one month of my time.
Here's the deal.

I'm a 30 year old Danish MD (medical doctor) with extensive experience in software development. I have developed several popular iOS app and one Android app (I did all the programming, alone), backend i Python/Django. I also have experience in hardware hacking as well as several other programming languages including assembly and functional.

In one month, I will have a one month holiday between jobs.

If you have an established startup in the health/medical area I'm interested in getting in touch with you! If we work well together, I'm able to help you out, for free, one month, on site. I have an extensive network of MDs in the European startup scene, and can also put you in touch with some very interesting people. I pay travel costs.

What's in it for me?

I have previously worked in Brazil for two months. The future is in South America. I would like to expand my network and get to know the Brazilian startup scene. Work and party with creative people, with a different background than myself.

E tambem, eu quero muito melhorar o meu Portugese.

albin.stigo@gmail.com
Well, there are three types of databases: Relational, Columnar, and finally massively distributed. They throw away different feature sets in order to handle a certain subset better.

The primary reason Relational databases are so friggin' strong is that they have a solid foundation and maturity. Most new "NoSQL" stuff is immature crap which should never be used in production for any kind of persistent data. But they are being used as such, and I do note that matures the products over time.
La vacanza romana di Barack Obama
Why Social Media Fails
Against whom? From the little I know about this case, it seems MtGox, Inc. (or whatever it's called) will be liquidated once the mess is sorted out.
Intel, who is putting the effort into open source drivers and Mesa developers, I think.

I think the increase in desktop graphics performance has to do with the updates in Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Ubuntu 13.10 has 9.1, while 14.04 has 10.1.

Though I would have thought that Intel HD 4000 would provide decent performance even with the old Mesa. I'm on GMA 4500MHD (GM45, ThinkPad X200, circa 2008) and that feels laggy sometimes (with all special effect options I could find tuned to a minimum), especially when I compare it to my brother's desktop with gaming-grade video card. Most times I put up with it, but one time I decided to try the mesa 10.2-devel, and suddenly - what a relief, my old laptop finally feels like it has no problems displaying windows, again! There are some glitches when displaying some window decorations, but I'm ok with that, as long as the smoothness of work is back (I guess, that's the artifact of -devel version).
Was it always the case that there was so much competition in Science? I graduated in 1996, and in those days it was only a few of the better people that went on to do PhD's, and there were not so many available. These days it seems relatively easy to get on to a PHD program (after doing a Masters) and the people I meet doing them do not appear to be the best and brightest.
What's "good clothing" for 40c(100f) heat + 95% humidity?
> [...] I don't think my post adds anything useful to this discussion [...]

After talking to a friend of mine about his issue and how it reminded me of my own struggles, I tweeted the following:

> "I get stuck browsing reddit and I hate myself for it". Consider that the problem may not be reddit. The problem may be you hating yourself. [0]

Procrastination is often a lightning rod. Try working on the lightning part of it instead of blaming the rod that may actually be saving your life from spiralling further into darkness.

[0] https://twitter.com/skore_de/status/425743423211962368
Apache Mahout is moving on from MapReduce
How I broke their system and hacked a Facebook account.
For anyone who does have the time and inclination to debug this there are some comprehensive docs on the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging - I've used these steps to get backtraces before so devs can get stuff fixed.
The rich vote with money and always get what they want

The middle classes vote at the polls and never get what they want

The poor vote with violence and sometimes get what they want

A brief summary of history
Can you send me a link to the journey planner results? There is no specific way to contribute improvements to the results, best way for now would be to leave feedback through the form in the title bar of the new website.

Edit: You also might get some mileage out of setting your walking speed to "Fast" and selecting "Routes with fewest changes"
Hmm... ok I see how this looks like "I'm objectifying women." Perhaps this was carelessly worded - although I will say you're imposing a double standard if you think women don't objectify or use men for the reasons you mention.

I mean 'sex life' to mean the sex, the intimacy, and the companionship. There's no misleading of intentions. They are awesome relationships that improve both participants. If you're just 'chasing pussy', as you interpreted it, you're clearly not going to be fulfilled.
Launching a blog before you have a product
13.10 has absolutely not been worth it for me, neither. Right now I can't even start (or restart) Unity at boot up. This might not be because of Ubuntu, but Windows 8 doesn't have any problems with starting (dual boot).
The practical difference disappears when your operating margin is 0. When you have money left over after paying your essential expenses, though, you can do stuff. Like, if you're Microsoft and you have 60 billion in cash, you can have a big R&D department that sometimes engages in blue-sky research.
apt-get install nvidia-319-updates

That's where they are. The drivers crash on suspend/resume, so you need the ctrl-alt-backspace combo to kill X but otherwise it's OK. Newer versions are better, but they're not included in the official repo yet.
A Review of Her by Ray Kurzweil
What improvements in touch device and HiDPI support have made it to 14.04?

I'm going to use Ubuntu on Microsoft Surface Pro 2, because even though full convergence for Ubuntu is delayed, I think of all Linux distros it is in the best position to run on such devices. Some enthusiasts have made 13.10 work on Surface Pro 2, surely it can only get better from there? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2183946
Data-stealing Snoopy drone unveiled at Black Hat
In addition to raising prices, please implement recurring payments as soon as reasonably practical.

This is what happens when one's pre-paid Tarsnap balance goes to zero:

You will be sent an email when your account balance falls below 7 days worth of storage costs warning you that you should probably add more money to your account soon. If your account balance falls below zero, you will lose access to Tarsnap, an email will be sent to inform you of this, and a 7 day countdown will start; if your account balance is still below zero after 7 days, it will be deleted along with the data you have stored.

I was N days from hitting a the 7 day warning, so 14+N days away from hitting "Lose all my business' backups for the last several years." It is possible that I would have gotten really lucky and seen those emails (which I was, by definition, not particularly expecting) rather than, oh, being on a business trip in April and finding about them after the fact.

I cannot put enough underlines under I Would Consider Losing All My Backups A Failure Mode.
Smartphones, the Disappointing Miracle
Secret History Of Silicon Valley
CBDD brings behaviour driven development to C language
I don't know about now, but historically I've found TfL uses a slower walking speed than Google Maps.
I'm not an alcoholic, but it's great to see support like this. Cheers.
What's awful about where in live in Poland is that people don't care that they don't have a place to park. They second they buy a car, they feel they are entitled to get a parking space. Illegal parking is a massive problem here and the only place I've seen it worse was in Rome.
col·lude (kə-lo̅o̅d′)
intr.v. col·lud·ed, col·lud·ing, col·ludes
To act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose; conspire.
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Seems like colluding to me. Just like in the Google/Apple/Adobe case. It doesn't matter if it's done out of friendship or fear of upsetting almighty Steve Jobs.
Out-Tridging Tridge
I think it's great of her to detail her experience, which must be a difficult process.

She has made the choice that academia is not for her, yes, but that was not for any academic reason: if we have any interest in improving academia, we should look at those reasons and see if we can't be more supportive to human beings in academia.
Well, if the quantity of carbon injected is commensurable with the oil extracted, it could provide CO2-neutral oil.
Awesome, after almost two years of owning my computer the newest feature is that it still crashses on suspend/resume.

Use Linux they said, your computer will stop crashing they said...

I'm not touching any Nvidia driver until shit starts working. But thanks for update! Appreciated a lot.
alt+tab. Used to work perfectly. Now broken. I've returned to debian stable, which comes with a gnome-2 legacy option that works out of the box just as well as it did a decade ago.
As one of the people who uses Facebook only for Groups, I like having them constantly available in a sidebar. I'd wager that I know many people who use groups more than they use the news feed.
Motorbikes are too deadly for my taste. But perhaps computers will make them acceptable in the future (self-driving motorcycles).
I agree... It is a chicken-egg kind of problem.

Fortunately there are concrete steps men can take to improve their sex lives, and sometimes just taking basic steps is enough to get you on your way.
Found an interesting article that discusses the tight-rope add/adhd'ers walk when medicating.

http://www.thefix.com/content/adderall-addicts

I honestly must say I've never read into Atomoxetine, and it looks interesting.

Edit: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial found that atomoxetine is an efficacious weight loss medication

Never mind..
>poor people use Facebook on a computer.

low end Android and Nokia handsets cost less than the cheapest PCs and Laptops.
Interesting to note that they minified the generated html. Other than that , well done just on face value
Patients, Doctors, and Companies Funding Healthcare Innovation
I'm using 12.04 LTS quite extensively. For folk in a similar situation, how long are you thinking of waiting before switching to 14.04 LTS?
Rat Park Experiments
Appreciate the namecheck, idlemind. Great team on the project.

(I'm part of we are experience)
Honest question. Why do people write posts like these?
Perhaps the English link of the Dutch good-example site provides a better understanding: http://9292.nl/en# The Sweden site looks like it was made in 1990...
For me Gnome (2 especially) always felt more natural and productive to use than Unity. Besides, you could easily customize your Gnome to look and behave exactly like Unity but you can't replicate the same with Unity.
Slow rollout is a great tool for suppressing dissent (and discontent).

You likely remember that people were upset en masse with design changes of Facebook. However, if you get a new style change and none of your friends have it, your venting comment either gets lost or you won't write one at all, seeing as nobody else complains. Then a second person gets the style change and again, seeing no complaints himself, he is much more likely not to complain.

I'm surprised this topic (complaint control through trickery) isn't addresssed as often.
lol point taken.
She complains a bit about supervisors /PI's /consultants not graduating female students, without actually specifying how many females had the potential to graduate with the supervisor. To me this just comes off as some feminist whining, until you have actually shown that there is some sort of bias. If no females ever applied to work there, how could he / she graduate any females? I am guessing that (like CS) chemistry is a fairly male dominated subject.

I am not saying that the sexism doesn't exist, but please demonstrate it exists properly before complaining about it.
Come on. Who is using paint nowadays?
"What we see here might be a begin of the phenomenon known from various app stores: The race to the bottom, where the app developers try to undercut each other, and prices for the apps drop"

What you see here is what's called "A healthy market" its an attribute of capitalism, and its great for customers, and its great for their customers customer. Another "phenomenon" that comes out of a "healthy market" is innovation. People come up with better features, when price alone is not enough to stand out, people will search for something new.

We're either going to see A. Bankruptsy from a bunch of old engines or B. Some really great new features that make the product stand out in a unique way.
If you want to talk to a recovering alcoholic, get in touch. I've been dry for 9 years.
Nah, even blind drunk, I've been able to write bulletproof, complicated code. Stuff that checks out the next day as perfectly fine - furthermore, stuff that I can remember the entire thought process behind. It differs from person to person; some people simply can't think or remember clearly at all when drunk, some other people have a "Ballmer Peak" https://xkcd.com/323/ - I'm not sure why, but I think it might have to do with mild amounts of alcohol relaxing their mental processes and helping them get over certain mental hangups that trip them up, normally. Other people have a Ballmer Plateau, where the alcohol allows them to enter a meditative state of complete and utter mental focus, allowing them to be fully lost in their work, and to work at 100% capacity as long as the buzz lasts. Sort of a working "trance", if you will, freeing them from all procrastination.

I suspect this is a large part of the allure for many ADHD-types; the freedom from procrastination is something they're afraid they can't otherwise achieve.

I know this sort of thing is the case in a lot of fields which require similar "non-procrastinative focus for hours on end". Writers, artists, animators, musicians - all of these have tons of people who struggle to knuckle down and put in long hours without a buzz going. Stephen King talked about this a lot in his autobiography - I could quote a lot of other anecdotes from other people, but his really had a personal effect on me.

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I struggled with this myself (I drank for maybe 6 years in/after college, and I drank pretty hard for a few of them). It sucks because I can't recommend anything to help anyone; what worked for me was not "actionable".

What cracked it for me was when the enjoyment lost its edge; over time it just got harder and harder to hit that 'sweet spot' of the perfect alcohol buzz, and the hangovers got crummier and crummier. Finally just ... deep down, subconsciously, I was gut-reacting to the prospect of a drink with more anxiety than anticipation. That was the end; I just lost the will to try, from too much associative-emotions of pain and fatigue investing themselves in the idea of drinking. Just like that. I didn't even have to go cold-turkey; I have a drink every few months, and even just a couple drinks leaves me feeling just "crummy" enough the next day that this emotional association won't go away, and it seems to have quieted (almost) all the urges to drink I used to have. I have no fear, whatsoever, of falling off the wagon because when I do drink, I no longer feel that unstoppable compulsion to take my buzz even higher - that alone was the element that made me an alcoholic, and it's gone.

I'm happy to say I'm cured forever ... but goddamn I wish I could give that to other people.
As far as I know, websql is deprecated. No work has been done on the standard since 2010. Firefox, Chrome and IE supports IndexedDB. There exists a shim that uses websql or indexeddb, depending on what's available.
Sure, so am I...privately. But all my serious work stuff is in Python 2, and no one is going to pay me to update it, so I cant't. Now I guess, if in a year or so Python 3 will have gained back a few more features of Python 2, porting my stuff will finally be easy enough.

I have to add though that maybe my use case is a bit unusual. I'm not a "professional developer", but a scientist. In our case the developers of our programs are the users, and everybody has to be able to edit them. So there is a lot of inertia to change. Also we do a lot of "crazy" things, like custom C modules, mixing Python/C(++), using Python as a description language for batch jobs, and so on. Previous updates were not trivial, but possible. But somehow we never managed to make the jump to Version 3 of anything. Hell, we just started to switch from SVN to git...

What I'm trying to say is, it's kind of sad that there are all these cool "new" technologies and paradigms and we seem to be unable to pass the threshold to them. I see people around me alienated by Windows 8, Gnome, and so on, so instead of updating they stick with their old setup or switch to Mac, not because it is superior, but because it is the most conservative option. For the same reason we stick with old versions of Python, GCC, Red Hat, and so on. The only machines I can currently do my work on are my work PC with like 5 year old CentOS on it, or my Hackintosh at home, because stuff won't run on newer (non-OSX) systems.

I guess I'm just a bit angry that I always suffer from these "Break the world, do the right thing, let's be bold" kind of upgrades. It's great for people living on the edge, who can pick themselves what they want to use. Other people have to wait for the goodness to trickle down, and that has been taking way to long in case of Python 3 for me.
First of all, it's great that you are sharing this publicly. It's a big first step to recovery. I can't tell you much as I'm only 31 and I enjoy alcohol, sometimes in larger doses but it's part of my culture and local way of life.

I can only tell you that beating the thing called "alcoholism" is to decide to stop drinking. That's it. My father after many years did it, one day, just like that. No one belived him. He's over 60 now and enjoys alcohol in very normal way. My friend, also 31, quit drinking completely 3-4 years ago and he was a person who drunk unbelievable amounts, even to me, just crazy. Now because of health problems he's 100% sober and he's fine! He's happy and can enjoy everything he was doing before.

So. People will tell you that it is a disease, that you are sick and you won't be able to quit on your own.. Wrong. It's only about you, your decision, your life. Take care and ask yourself some hard questions. Self-awareness and self-acceptance is the key.
I hate when people say things like this, "prices for the apps drop, so far that even 90% of the developers can't live anymore from their apps".

90% of developers are releasing shitty or niche games with no sense on how to market or monetize to the audience. It's the #1 problem of the indie game developer right now- they're building games that they themselves want to play, instead of the games that actually work for the market.

It's the difference between a professional and a hobbyist. If you want to make money, stop being a hobbyist and turn into a professional.

For professionals, none of these engines are cheap by any means. Unity is $4500 per developer once you add Pro, iOS, and Android. Unreal / Cryengine are potentially going to cost you a whole lot more than that given the 5% gross revenue share.

For hobbyists, yes, the price is low and probably not sustainable, but for professionals I think it's priced perfectly.
This is my very personal opinion on the matter:

It really pisses me off always I read from somebody how he got burned by a rip-off. If you do it right 2048 will make YOU famous and all future products of you will automatically get more attention, even if you don't make any money on Threes (which is a way worse name than 2048 in the eyes of hackers, btw). Talk to blogs, Youtube reviewers and to us HN users and show us how awesome your product is and if it is really better than 2048 then you will automatically win the crowd. Think about how much attention (and money) PSY now gets for everything he does, although he didn't get as much money directly from Gangnam Style as he could have gotten.

Just complaining and hoping that people will support you because it would be fair is cheap, sad, and it won't happen anyway.
Some lazy corporations :)
> The logical extension of this software is to replace the phrase 'earthquake report'.

You're asking for a principled, rather than arbitrary, place to insert human writers into the mix? I'd say a human writer might be needed when the story involes human agency; or when there's continuing human interest in the story.

There's no value-add for involving a human in the initial notification of a small earthquake; no human angle, no human perspective. If geologists issue a press release saying this presages Los Angeles falling into the ocean, then you need to involve a human.

Robots can't yet parse human political language (neither can most humans), so there's a possible value-add for interpretation of a presidential press release by an expert human.

Leaks and declarations of war involve human agency, and are assured of continuing human interest. Get a human to interpret them.
>It's two very different communities, and it's fun to see the two worlds collide.

...except sometimes, the collision is a horrible trainwreck like the recent Occulus controversy, which suddenly makes a whole lot more sense in the context of your post.
Found the academic! Your post comes off as highly judgmental, right from the start.

Her lack of experience does not mean she cannot have an opinion, and cannot point out that she's being abused.

If such a line of reasoning is common place in academia, then I'm extremely happy I didn't pursue further study.