skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did them several times in high school. Most of the time I just ended up in a very giggly, stoned feeling state. A few times I got completely messed up (in a good way). No life changing ensights, but nonestop laughter (to the point where your abdominals hurt from laughing, but you still can't stop, and then laugh even harder that you want to stop laughing but can't, and so on...).

Some random good memories, from various times:

- trees looked like they were breathing and I was sheltered under one from the snow and felt like I was communicating with it.

- my friends older brother had a goatee and was talking to us and he appeared to be a wise goat-human hybrid giving us advice, which sent me into a laughing fit.

- a really fat lady janitor at the movie theater reminded me so much of jaba the hut, it was so funny.

- it was snowing and my friends and me went tobagganning at night, I had all my snow gear on and felt like I was on another planet (too much fun to describe).

- Watching Vanilla Sky, it seemed like the craziest movie ever (have not since seen it sober - seemed absolutely magical in the theatre).

The only negatives were essentially being a little socially timid. I remember me and my friends did them at someone's house whose parents were away in the afternoon. They were throwing a party that night and I was pretty terrified at first when strange people began to pour into the house. My throat and mouth also felt sort of wierd - not neccesarily bad, but almost like there was a vacuum inside my stomach.

But most of the time, shrooms just weren't that intense. I think LSD is reputed to do more of what you describe. I hadn't thought about shrooms in ages, but I wouldn't mind doing them again. However, not being sure what your getting from a dealer is a deal breaker for me. I do not want to risk damaging my mind/body because some dealer added god-knows-what to the shrooms.
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The numbers tell a different story.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&...
Yeah, I use 'dt,' or 'dt)' all the time to move single arguments of functions around, and 'd%' to move the function calls themselves.
Granting more power through regulation just because you think "something" needs to be done about something you haven't proven to exist. That doesn't seem like a bad idea at all, does it? "Don't just do something, stand there."
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Yahoo May Sell Small Business Unit (including Yahoo Stores f/k/a Viaweb)
Creating a meaningful hierarchy out of a user’s information [video demo]
I don't think the content of the Cato's website is going to be a convincing argument to someone that thinks they are a PR firm. ;)
Sorry to hear that. Hope you recover and carry on what your best friend has left there. It is a heart-breaking period, but, you will be fine.
I felt that way, too. One could argue that many modern GUI features are more of an excuse to use the mouse, as opposed to actually taking advantage of anything that a mouse is good at.

Even text selection, which ought to be fast with a mouse, is slow; it's hard to precisely click the end points, and the target may require scrolling in order to make it clickable. When you can do something like "3dw<return>P" (move 3 words to beginning of next line) instantly, the mouse is almost never more efficient.
Ask HN: What do you do on weekend?
What do you do on weekend? (for programmers)
The $5-10 bulbs on Amazon are by no means replacements for 60W incandescents - they seem to be 1-3W LEDs, which would only be 10-20W replacements at best.
You can control a lot of things with guioptions. I would recommend doing a:

:help guioptions
curl -F"status=$BASH_COMMAND" -utq_:pass12 -HExpect: 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'
Code with less interruptions.
What RMS did invent is a clever license that allowed companies to contribute to open-source projects with no risk of their contributions being taken by their competitors.

That made the ecosystem serious.
Make sure I spend some time outside away from the computer and technology in general...
It's gotten to the point now where the first thing I say about any editor is, "That's cool and all... but does it have vim key bindings?" If it doesn't.... :q

I don't care how many built-in debuggers your IDE has; if I can't navigate it like I can vim, it's infinitely less productive for me.
I'm not sure if this demonstrates great ability for Clojure.

One of the first programs I ever wrote, when I was still in High School, was a simple simulation of planetary motion using BASIC. For this, I used a naive approximation of Newton's laws. I was disappointed to discover that because of approximation error, my planets all fell into the sun! But the program did put the death-spirals on the screen in black and whie!

My impression is that while mathematical formulas generally aren't that hard to interpolate into any programming language, the art of such interpolation is making sure that arithmetic error and such don't pile up to spoil things.

Given this, Chaos Theory graphics would be great fodder for seeming like you've done something amazing since you don't have to simulate anything correctly, you only have to create a swirl which looks intriguing. Oddly enough, planets orbiting a sun are better since you've got to create a useful simulation with the properties of the original system.
Hyper-Sensitive Nanotube Sensors Could Detect Toxins Inexpensively
Just a note, but ':help' doesn't always go to what you want. For example the option 'smartindent' (set with ':set smartindent') can be abbreviated as ':set si', but ':help si' takes you to the help for the ':sim[alt]' command.

It's useful to note that when searching through help you type something like:

:help 'si'

To get help on a variable and:

:help :si

To get help on a command. The first form would take you to the help entry for 'smartindent' and the second would take you to the entry for :simalt. If you just use:

:help si

It will just find the first match for 'si', which in this case is the tag :si and not the tag 'si'.

Other possible confusions with :help are:

:help tab

Will take to the help for <Tab> (the tab key/tab character), whereas the help page for all the things related to Vim tabs is:

:help tabpage

(though :help tabs will take you to the :tabs command which is part of the tabpage help doc)
Exactly the same as during the week. As I work for myself weekends are normal days like any other. I just take random days off with no regard for what name they have.

My wife has always worked weird shifts (and is now off for a year on maternity leave) so it works family-wise.. and we don't have to wrestle with the horrible weekend crowds at places. The only real benefit of the weekend is less e-mail to deal with :)
Why not a simple "Tell them how to find you" field, and let the user type in their own quick criteria.

"Ask the person behind the counter for me, they know me", "sitting in the comfy armchair by the door with my laptop and xyz headphones on"

seems like it would stay pretty simple that way.
Another alternative would be for Google to simply offer those apps for downloaded as they do for their software on any other platform. I wonder if there is some Google authentication glue that they have not yet modularized enough to allow this to happen.

(That's not to say that there shouldn't be free alternatives developed.)
This feels to me like OpenID finally coming of age - the OpenID+OAuth hybrid protocol means you can one-click sign in to a site and simultaneously grant it access to an OAuth protected resource such as your address book. From what I've heard it usability tests extremely well too.
You're looking for:

http://thomas.loc.gov/
Upgrade to Vista. It displays fine for me with version 3.5.3 of Firefox, default install on Windows Vista. ^_^
OpenID needs to hurry up and die so efforts will not continue to be wasted either pushing for OpenID or trying to support it. That way, work can begin in earnest on the next standard protocol that will replace it.
That's a really interesting article about the guys who created Spacewar. I hadn't realized, for example, that there were six of them. Anyway, you should post it in its own right.
I created this bash alias cause I was typing it so much at the the command line.

alias :e=vim
Read and fiddle with code by day. Hang out and imbibe with friends by night. I've been doing a lot of tea tasting around Seattle lately too.
Jump to the information you want right from the search snippets
HN Please Help, Google is ruining my business
Over the course of nine years I bootstrapped and built a company that resulted in 90 terrific employees, >$12M in revenues and tens of thousands of clients happily served.

However, two clients that did not leave happy have made it almost impossible for me to continue. Why? Because they posted their experience (80% untrue), on blogs and now whenever somebody google's my name these terrible comments are in the 1 and 2 spot.

I am an MBA not a technologist, please tell me is there anything I can do to fight this and re-claim my good name?
Ditto. Code my own projects with little to no interruptions.
It's tricky, right? We blog a lot for a company our size --- multiple books worth of technical writing on the blog --- and we still feel like we have to be ultra-careful about promoting ourselves to keep people from feeling like we're just trying to sell something. For instance, I'm not sure we've ever worked in a call to action for our consulting services in a post.

It's definitely one of the things I'm most impressed about with 37s and Fog Creek, that they've managed to extract so much business value out of their blogs.

Reading Spolsky back in '03-'04 was what made me want to become a product manager, which I was pretty quickly able to do, which experience taught me what little I know now about the software business (you know, besides actually writing and shipping code, and, uh, getting funding, neither of which appear to have any correlation with success in the business ;] ).

I actually think Spolsky's weakest on the hard tech content, and strongest on the product marketing side.
Is this only what I do programming wise, or for all programmers? Cause I:

* mow the lawn

* exercise

* clean the house

* watch some TV with my wife

And then programming-wise, I work on my side projects and work on building my own software company.
The linked PDF 404's, but Wayback has it.
Very successfully in your case!
We've been using it for trendly.com and yes, it seems very usable. I didn't know about the popup option, though, I'll have to try that.
Once WebFinger is widely supported (that is, using an email address as an OpenID instead of a URL), the OpenStack will be ready for the masses.
For me the main point is to make the learning curve less steep. One can use The Editor without cheat sheet or studying manual.

Selecting text using keyboard: while moving cursor use the Shift key Luke. And maybe a little Control key.

Using mouse? You can, but don't have to.
mentors arent allowed in the final sessions for logistical reasons, the line has to be drawn somewhere as to who can participate and the fund investors seems like an obvious line.

Firstly, I don’t see why mentors are invited at all.

Most to all of the mentors have a vested interest in the startup community thriving, lawyers, marketers, investors and angels who were not part of the main fund but still get direct access to the startup, a phone call isnt going to help until you figure out who you are calling, thats where seedcamp and such events help
Ants vs. worms: New computer security mimics nature
What's a weekend?
yeah, let's kill the CPM, and smoke dope. What is your proposal, dude?
Not sure Google (or any search engine) can help you much in this. If your clients are lying, its best to talk to a lawyer.
Thanks for giving me the name of that phenomenon. I knew about it - wasn't pretending that it was some supernatural occurance - just that even if you know about it, it still feels a bit strange when it happens.
Its exactly my way.
That's the absolutist argument. You want "proof" before you will do anything at all. Read up the thread, it's exactly what I'm arguing against -- that logic just plain doesn't work. If you're not looking at risks and costs, you're not looking seriously at the problem.
gotcha

Sorry for the confusion:)
I like that, does make it easier than a specific like shirt color
Make your other clients happy enough that they freely and enthusiastically detail their positive experiences on the web.
I'm not a lawyer; but it's possible to charge someone for defamation. This may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
Wasted labor seems to me to fall under that goal (not that I am offering a a fully burnished economic theory here). If your need is illumination, say, a lantern or even a candle is considerably less wasteful than a fire, both in terms of externalities and the effort required to operate it - obtaining oil or a candle that lasts a week, vs armfuls of wood that last for one night which cost time and effort to gather and which are not easily portable once set on fire.
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I agree that there should be no "technical difficulty" in that it's already a solved problem. But so are bridges, and those only get built when people recognize a bridge is necessary, and someone is willing to pay for the time and materials to engineer it.

I get the impression the author sees some malice behind how Congress publishes their information. I don't see malice, I just think no one with the power to start such a project even recognizes it's a possibility. That it's worthwhile would come second.
Saturday is my sleep-in day, Sunday is Erin's. I'm on the hook for dinner Saturday night; I try to do something interesting. Sunday night I tend to watch TV.

In between, I get some super-unproductive computer time in and hang out with the kids. Recently, it's been Mindstorms. Last weekend we picked apples. This weekend is my sister's wedding. Next weekend I owe my son his belated promised Dim Sum birthday lunch.

A couple weekends from now, I'm doing a class in Chicago for cryptography for security testers. If that works out well, I'll probably try to do some kind of class every other month. A class occupies two weekends, one for the class (and dinner afterwards) and one before that to rehearse.

More than you wanted to know, but hey, thanks for giving me the chance to straighten my schedule out in my head.
Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity
The Last Days of the Polymath
I know very little about OpenID and, lacking knowledge, I've been avoiding it as a user.

I've tried reading up on it but the sites/tutorials I looked at were excessively vague, wordy and I got an impression that I don't want to use OpenID for myself. HN audience, however, seems quite favourable to the standard though, so I'm willing to accept that my initial reaction was a wrong one.

Can you recommend a good reading on the current state of OpenID, with emphasis on security please?

Thanks.
> Except for the fact that global temperature is falling, not rising - dependent on how (and where) you measure it.

Cite please. I'm not doubting your sincerity at all but this is not something I've heard presented as fact elsewhere.
So you've got a clue now?

Sorry, yes, I used the wrong words ...

Now about this "strongly implied the opposite" the area encompassed included at least China and India as subregions and didn't appear to have a disclaimer - if any region was implied then it would have to be Asia, but I assumed the whole world. Which words "implied the opposite"?

I think in Europe the situation is that endemic populations are breeding below replacement rates (good IMO) but that immigrant populations are cancelling out any benefit and themselves breeding way ahead of the endemic rate. At the same time the countries they are emigrating from are exploding in population and the emigration is not sufficient to level off the population - ie that Worldwide population growth rates are positive but as you note but that the native populations of certain regions are not contributing to the procession towards untenable over-population.
My condolences. I hope that, one day, when the pain has receded, your memories of Greg will make you smile.
Why is the language insecure in all of this? What is it, in the ECMAScript Spec, which makes the language insecure? Programmers who do not know how to write secure code will leave security holes when programming in any language.

I find JavaScript to be wonderfully expressive, allowing me a great amount of power.
I think there is two problems with this:

The first is that SICP is one of the most influential, well-written and essential textbooks written for computer science. This is especially true now, as most undergraduate students do not know what functional programming is or what it is good for.

The second is that I think the major appeal most people have to python is that it feels very 'natural' to program in, after years of slugging it out in the other languages. But going with the best-case scenario is dishonest and not always best way to approach teaching.

As an aside, when Lisp was introduced in my first year introduction course, it was described as slow, old and unused. There was no mention of modern Lisp dialects or any other functional language for that matter.
The 2 days you allocate to every week to keep yourself from burning out in 3 years and then spending 7 months doing nothing but following links on Reddit.
Don't wait, contact the lawyer.

This is not original but true.
You want SEO (search engine optimization). Basically, it's getting your website to rank highly on Google. I don't have any experience there, so I can't give you names of who to talk to.

Basically, I'd recommend a few things:
1. Get a website (yourcompanyname.com). You can't rank higher than they do if you have no site.
2. Make it useful. This will encourage people to link to your site. The more links you have, the higher you'll rank.
The same things I do any other time.
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Is "go realtime!" the new "go social!"? ;)

>> "preserving the moment when everyone was tweeting enthusiastically about the band they were watching."

Do people seriously sit there watching a band whilst tweeting about it? Man I feel old.

Also it seems like twitter could really do with some allowance for meta-info with tweets. For example if you could send a tweet and add a meta-location attached to that tweet. There's only so many hashtags you can fit in 140 chars... And that info would be better taken out as meta-info rather than text in a tweet.

{tweet:"Wow he's on fire tonight!", location:"o2arena", event:"Billy Joel concert"}

Might be worth songkick doing their own "twitter for concerts" later on where you can just choose the concert you're at and comment on it? Seems like a good strategy to attack twitter with a niche usage by doing it better than twitter.

Cool update though :) WD songkick :D
Sorry for that late reply, IMO, that title was fine, it did it's job well. My rant, etc, was about the stats section in the article itself. It still uses a flat time model, on the scale of N things/day instead of a more representative N things/day (X things/(smaller than day time unit) at peak).
killing CPM will pretty much kill the content providers. People are more or less ignoring ads at this point, so the CTRs and CPAs are tanking.

Let's say you have 500,000 users, and each gets 10 ad impressions a month. Let's be honest, 500,000 users is a LOT, that's more people coming to see your site, than most local broadcast stations, yet they really don't make you that much money.

That's 5,000,000 views, at CPM of $2, that's $10,000 a month.

If we used that same 5,000,000 and switched to CPC, we'd get a CTR of about .1%. So that 5,000,000 views would net us 5,000 clicks. Let's be generous, and say each click is worth 50 cents. Bam, you only made $2,500. So your income has just been cut in 4. And that $2,500 will twindle since ads don't really change, so a user will only click them once.

If we used the same 5,000,000 views as CPA, the result will be even worse. People just don't like pulling out a credit card(at least not without checking other sites for a better deal). If your CPA is 1 action per 25,000 views, and you get $10 for each transaction, that's $2,000 worth of revenue. Bam your original $10K has been cut in 5. And remember, you'll need to find brand new offers every month, since the ads will get stale.

With an income of $10K/mo, you can focus entirely on your content, but with only $2,000-$2,500 you have to go pick up a 2nd job.

This proposal is probably a good idea for big sites like CNET, since that would kill all the smaller content providers and drive them out of business.
Hmm, "Easy Start For New Vim Users"???

As someone who has generally thought of Vim as the most pathological creation of computer-land ever, there isn't anything in this site that seems aimed to change that impression or even communicate what vi/vim is.

Moreover, I suspect the majority of computer users feel a similar an antagonism to vi/vim and so anyone who's talking about an introduction to vim ought to, uh, explain it.

Moreover, I am a full-time Linux user and I have actually used vi to accomplish small tasks. I can't imagine someone in the know getting anything from this site.
5) Profit.

You left me no choice.
Re your last sentance. Can somebody email the developers at Joomla about that please.
Normally, the only effective legal remedy for this precise problem is to file a lawsuit for libel and seek injunctive relief, asking a court to order that the items be taken down.

This is usually a tough case, and expensive to pursue. If the items are clearly defamatory, however, then either (1) any injunctive order you might get or (2) any fear of a large money judgment you might instill in the persons propagating the lies might get you the relief you seek.

A strong demand letter from an attorney might also shake them up and get some action.

There is also a measure of gamesmanship that claimants sometimes use in such matters. For example, a well-known "patent troll" sued an in-house lawyer from Cisco in a recent much-publicized libel case for blog postings to the effect that the troll had conspired with court clerks to alter the filing date of a complaint where such filing date was critical to the outcome of a case. Owing to liberal jurisdictional rules, the parties involved (including Cisco) were forced to defend the case in a remote forum (in
Texas) where sympathies were strong in favor of the claimant.

All this turns on the specific facts. If the statements have a color of truth about them and constitute a customer's exercise of free speech rights, you may have an uphill fight in getting formal legal relief.

Of course, there may well be steps you can take here besides the purely legal but I assume you will consider these as well.
Technology + Design = Apple ?
Nearly that entire note is in the passive voice.
Get out of the house for my family's sake. (With them of course.) We also sleep or watch a movie in the afternoon if my son is tired and needs a nap.

At night I try to be productive and hack, or I do some research/reading since my mind is not fatigued.
>What I hadn’t seemed to realise (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), is that this fourth day is where angel funds and VC’s pay upwards of £50,000 to attend (no kidding!)

£50,000!? Can anyone else confirm this?
Are you sure you want OpenID to get more exposure? It already failed once due to hideously poor execution and terrible usability problems. Attaching oauth doesn't seem to solve any of the big problems. It just masks them behind a protocol that works decently on it's own.

The OpenID promise sounds good in a geeky, technical sense, but judging from their past work, I do not trust the OpenID group to build anything remotely viable.
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Some times I even meet with friends on weekends.