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Have you ever had an out of body experience?

I would probably dismiss it all as a dream state too, if not for the experiences I had - including really impossible stuff, like seeing future events.

You can certainly have conversations with other beings there, although I don't think there's a good way to discern the nature of those beings. They are intelligent anyway.

Some people view sexual energy as a fundamental power that can be used for a variety of spiritual purposes, so they suggest that it be sublimated or transmuted.

Maybe these things seem weird - and they are weird - but neither proves that the world experienced while "out of body" is fabricated by the brain, assuming that's what you meant by dream-type state of course.
I agree.

One of my problems with feminism is that it elevates women to a priviliged status while leaving males with low status behind, which just makes them worse off overall.

We have to stop this groupism and treat everyone properly, period. The only rights there are are human rights.
Why not charge the listener per song play and pay the artist 70% of each play?
And if you don't have time, just read the part about the Pie Fallacy :-)
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People love to complain no matter what you do... let them, they're killing themselves by doing that, not you. Just keep building the free world using the tools you have, and the rest of us will surely appreciate it.
Right. There have been increases in the price of water in Detroit. And they're angling to increase them again.
Coming late to this thread but I wanted to add something that has really helped me. I have had general anxiety peppered with OCD for the past 10+ years of my life, about basically everything. It affected my work, my health and my self confidence.

I started seeing a hypnotherapist/NLP therapist, and one of the most useful things he told me was to stop beating myself up about my anxiety. The whole time I was blaming myself for and being hard on myself about how I was feeling, which was only making things worse. Instead, he explained that I was behaving the only way my brain knew how to behave given the tools and experiences I had had.

It sounds a bit like blame passing but it's not - there's no blaming other people. It's just accepting that you're no less 'normal' and you're not a bad, weak person or letting anxiety get to you. The anxious behaviour is a product of your environment and experiences, and somewhere in your life you learnt to react that way (more than likely subconsciously). This helped me a lot as it took away the additional pressure I was putting on myself to 'push through like a normal person', and the additional anxiety it caused.

It's also worth mentioning that sometimes anxiety can be caused by something else medical, e.g. thyroid problems, so it might be worth thinking about that too.

Good luck!
I agree that people like Myers are more anti-science than not, and approach the issues much like their opponents do, looking for data that will validate their own beliefs, not interrogating reality dispassionately.

However, Brandenburg doesn't do himself any favours by saying things like "The Natural Nuclear Reactor Hypothesis had the merit that it provided a known source for a large nuclear explosion."

Natural reactors, so far as we know, have to be slow-neutron moderated, and slow-neutron reactors are not sources of nuclear explosions. Even fast reactors--which if not actually impossible are certainly much rarer in nature than slow neutron reactors--aren't sources of nuclear explosions unless things go wrong in ways that no one has yet been able to imagine. I won't say it's impossible, but it is wildly, wildly improbable.

Granted the distribution of radioactive elements on the Martian surface is anomalous (which I'm only aware of through this article, so I'm going to take with a grain of salt) the hypothesis that leaps to mind is a natural slow-neutron reactor that was close to a perfectly ordinary large meteor strike.

We know that Mars was wet in the past (a requirement for natural reactors) and we know that the early solar system was richer in fissile isotopes, and we know that there was at least one natural reactor two billion years ago on Earth, and we know that meteoric impacts were common in the early solar system and that Mars got hit hard and often enough for us to be able to identify a whole class of meteorites that come from Mars.

So a natural reactor that got hit by a large impact doesn't require anything wildly improbable, and is likely testable via detailed analysis of any impact structures and glass droplets from around the areas with high concentrations of uranium and thorium.
Instead of providing one $1k life saving surgery and $1k water bill, two $1k surgeries could save two lives. Sadly there is not a shortage of dying men, women and children who can be saved cheaply. Perhaps one day there will be... if we stop goofing around.

You're making a fallacious, reductionist argument. Looks like a misreading of Peter Singer.

I imagine you'd also criticize someone for showing a homeless family to the nearest shelter because in that time the person could have signed up for Watsi!*

* ... and this is coming from someone who donates to Watsi every month.
We should value all lives equally. Yours, mine, that mother, her children, and the children in far away places who will die today for want of heart surgery.
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Here: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2015/03/13/gr.186684.1...
I loved the music so much that I would use it as bumper music when I would dj at my school's radio station.
That part of the letter seemed unsatisfying to me. Perhaps there's some obvious backstory here I'm unaware of (I never heard of See's Candy), but all the letter says is that it had a big and strong competitive advantage, without bothering to say what that was. Brand? I can't think of many other candidates beyond some amazing one-off deal with suppliers. It's a chocolate company. How powerful can the brand really be? Why would their brand be so much better than any others? And why was it so obvious to Buffet that this brand was great yet apparently not to anyone else? This story doesn't really tell us anything about his investment strategy at all.
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If Spotify wants to send me a representative, scrubbed dump of their streams table (id, userid, trackid, artistid), we could run some interesting what-if scenarios rather than guessing.

It's an interesting trade-off: "punishing" artists with fans who only listen to a small amount of music, but who are dedicated to that artist vs. artists with fans who listen to a LOT of music.

My gut is that very few artists are getting "screwed", and those who are represent artists with very few streams (at which point the net revenues are very small and who cares about the difference between 2 cents and .7 cents). For most "edge cases" like the one in the article, there's a user on the opposite end of the spectrum who would balance them out.

That's my hypothesis, anyway.
I think I expected NASA-esq types of jobs.

While the hedge fund landing zone is very typical of the math grifted grads, I expected a higher % in PHD/professor world then were listed.
"NSWGreat described confronting Evolution’s two pseudonymous owners, Verto and Kimble, who he or she says then admitted they were closing the market and stealing its funds. “I am so sorry, but Verto and Kimble have f–ked us all."

With no chat logs, all we go by is this guy's word? What are the odds he was in on the heist?

Also, this reminds me of when Max Butler did a brute force take over of all the carders markets and then created his own "super carders forum" by hacking in and then wiping their databases and then repointing their domains to his. While this is probably not in the realm of possibilities, if this site does come back, people had better be very, very weary of who's actually running it.

Lessons learned and all that jazz I suppose.
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I don't have to like it ... it just needs to be impressive to put the person above the sea of mediocrity.
You can check yourself where the weight of his argument in his article for journalofcosmology.com is:

http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC24/Brandenburg.pdf

Pages 20 to 46 are about the "faces on Mars."

The "happy" one is interestingly not mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galle_%28Martian_crater%29
The last 3 sexual harassment cases you heard about. I'd bet real money there are many more you haven't.
IIRC it was Stanford's (I have memories of a mainly red interface)

http://www.erictimmons.com/node/18

I don't know if it qualifies for serious, I'd say challenging enough, but it was great to revisit with another university material.
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How is this affecting team morale?
This go submitted 19 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222587 and got no attention. It's now number #1 on github/trending. I believe it was not realized that this is coming directly from google.
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The term "unpaid labor" has a specific connotation akin to slavery or indentured servitude. The two are not comparable.

Is this a legal term of art or common knowledge definition? It was unknown to me so I've tried some googling and am turning up primarily volunteer work and unpaid internships under that title. I know wikipedia isn't the greatest source, but over there "unpaid work" is a class of things including both slavery and working at a family business or coop.
That the term was coined in a satirical context does not mean the concept it describes is in any way discredited by default. The semiotics behind ideas are constantly evolving in any event.
I thought the whole point of bitcoin was that it was peer-to-peer with no chargebacks or centralized middlemen?
> But since they are already brainwashed from PHP use, it prevents them from seeing the value of doing thing the proper way, and might see the process as contrived. This is the most dangerous aspect of using PHP. It blocks your learning and understanding. It pulls you down and keep it there.

After 10 years of writing PHP I took a look at Python. I was confused for about 10 minutes, until I read about lists and dictionaries and saw they were different things.

Who are these people who are just trying to write other languages without looking at the "getting started with data structures" page in the guide, or reading a single book?

And why is learning something flexible and easy before learning something more advanced a problem?

> So I request every one who is passionate about programming and wants a career in programming to keep away from the php language and community as much as possible.

I was writing PHP for a living for a decade. I did a bit of Ruby along the way because it's all the same and who cares. I was then invited to CTO at a tech startup in NY, giving me a visa and moving me from the UK.

I replaced their shittily built Rails API with a PHP one which was 3x faster, did 10x more and was actually tested properly. Very handy.

Now I work for another company, Ride.com. We're building an API in Rails and it feels just like the one I built in PHP using Laravel. Almost identical.

This comapny got me a visa known as "The Alien of Extraordinary Ability" in which my PHP code was used as the basis of my skills.

All of this leads me to think: What the fuck are you talking about.

1. Languages rarely matter.
2. PHP is just fine.
3. PHP will not fuck up your career.
4. PHP will not ruin your ability to learn new languages.
5. You are an actual idiot.

Stop preaching ignorance and get on with writing software.
Yes, though that patent turned out to be indefensible about a year ago.
This is the reason you won't buy an Ubuntu phone? Really?

Wouldn't be high on my priority list, let alone a "normal" user.
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> People should be treated with respect until they have shown they don't deserve it.

Is this an axiom (in which case further discussion is pointless, since your world view is incompatible with mine) or something you could prove.
Unless the implication is that most/many of the other team members are also Indian?

That seems to be the implication. And yes, it may be relevant to understanding the context and merit of her claims.

EDIT: Not that the replacement hire's ethnicity by itself is relevant; but it may be relevant to her claim that after she was fired, they replaced her with with someone of the dominant ethnicity within that group.
I am not sure which payment model I prefer, but I don't buy the technical reason against the OP's proposed solution.

I imagine Spotify already maintains a list of songs played by each user (to build their recommendation engine).

You could report to the artist using a histogram (bucket the listen by the percentage of user's listens they represent).

Also, Spotify could build a nice web interface that allows artists to understand their revenue stream, with various aggregated stats and graphs.
I think 'The Hacker Community' knows that others benefiting from code you freely provide is one of the extremely obvious side effects of open sourcing.

It sounds a bit like you're buying a round of beers for everyone in the bar, and then you're upset people didn't compensate you for it.
Because it's the standard terminal browser, and it works well for reading the vast majority of web content that I care about in the terminal.

No one is saying to design for Lynx; while in the minority, much more than the "incredibly small" Lynx community cares about websites degrading to better than a blank screen when Javascript is either turned off or broken.
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The question is what would ever motivate them to actually add accessible buses.
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So why haven't markets that utilize Bitcoin escrow transactions taken off yet?
I expressed my own personal concern.

This conversation will not be about equivocating one tragedy to another. That is a red herring.
> 52% of women caregivers with incomes at or below of the national median of $35k spend 20+ hours each week providing care. The largest racial demographics in this group are black and hispanic.

Are there many people, regardless of gender or race, who earn less than $35k/year and are in a position to contribute to OSS?
There's a yawning gap between the language you're throwing around -- "goofy" -- and the kernel of legitimate criticism that you have on your side. I might agree that the choice to donate money to help Detroit residents pay their water bills is questionable because it reflects a conscious decision to do less good with your resources than you might have done. But I don't think you've earned the right to call the serious philanthropic efforts of others -- which do real good in the world -- "goofing around."
A side benefit, but I wouldn't say the whole point. There are some cases where middlemen are necessary - the difference being that they're a lot more avoidable with BTC than they are in meatspace. (Credit cards, authorities who rob people carrying large amounts of cash, and so on.)
This will probably sound harsh, and I regret that, but I think it's the way things actually are, as against how we might otherwise want them to be.

When you say "We should value all lives equally," what pops into my head is the question "Of value to whom?"

In fact, if I had to choose between saving the life of a stranger, and choosing to save the life of someone I loved, I'd save the latter. This is because the person I love is a greater value to me than is the stranger.
The first known use of the term "refactoring" in the published literature was in a September, 1990 article by William Opdyke and Ralph Johnson - "Refactoring: An Aid in Designing Application Frameworks and Evolving Object-Oriented Systems". Proceedings of the Symposium on Object Oriented Programming Emphasizing Practical Applications (SOOPPA). ACM.
>unless indie fans listen to less music than mainstream music fans

That point is explicitly addressed in the post. Mainstream users listen more because mainstream users are gyms etc. that just let the top 40 run in shuffle 24/7.
Similarly, if your modules are that popular and causing enough of a support burden to result in resentment, maybe this is a signal of an opportunity?

If your code is popular, why not offer support to, or seek out sponsorship from, the companies that are using your modules/applications? A revenue-focused startup is probably a bad resource to tap for this. But getting a few companies to spread out a few hundred dollars each from their engineering/marketing budgets isn't completely unlikely.

Otherwise, you can always recite the age-old mantra to cleansing open source entitlement resentment: "Patches welcome."
It also depends on what you mean by "getting rich." If you want to make say $500k-$5M, I think that by far your best bet is to join a company that is shortly pre-IPO or shortly post-IPO that is CLEARLY valuable. Where your equity will be worth something, barring disaster.

If you want to make $10M+, then joining an already-valuable company isn't going to do it unless you can become an executive. Founding a company might do it. If you want to make $100M+, then founding a company is probably the only way you can reasonably do it (unless you're competitive for a very small number of very high end executive slots).

What is interesting to me is that I find it kind of hard to imagine many results in which it's truly worthwhile, monetarily, to be an early employee at a start-up. You are much less likely to get wildly mega-rich, like a founder -- probably at least 10x less likely -- and you're much less likely to get a medium-rich than someone who joins already-successful companies.

I say this as someone who has been an early employee at several start-ups. And really enjoyed it. But it's hard to make a financial case for it.

Maybe the answer is just that being an early employee is financially non-optimal, but some people for a variety of reasons can't or don't want to be founders, and some people for a variety of reasons can't or don't want to get a job at an already-successful company.
Thanks for the information. I'm definitely going to try this.
I'm sure that Cisco doesn't really think this would stop a targeted attack (as others have said, they've doubtless got insiders who can point these things out), but then they've got to try and do something to reduce the inevitable consequence of the Snowden Disclosures, which is that any organisation who has reasons to not want "Five Eyes" agencies to have easy access to their systems will have a strong incentive not to use hardware and software which could be intercepted and backdoored in this way...
> "One interesting thing Brandenburg did say was that when he came to believe himself that Mars had been nuked, possibly in act of "biosphere genocide," the realization that this might have actually happened plunged him into a bit of a metaphysical crisis. He immediately thought of the Fermi Paradox, and that maybe the reason we're not hearing/seeing anything is because there are big nasty genocidal intelligences out there that 'cull' anything interesting from the universe. He said he actually got very depressed, and got deeper into religious/mystical stuff as part of this.

> That doesn't sound crazy to me, just human."

I linked to a reasonable article by him to establish that he wasn't just a nut, but we'll have to agree to disagree on his metaphysical crisis, because the speculation that anomalous levels of radiation in parts of Mars is due to "big nasty genocidal intelligences," that sounds Dianetics-level bonkers to me.

I think he's drawn attention to some very interesting data, but that's where I get off the bus.

Update: I actually watched the video he did with Supreme Master TV, give it a look and judge it for yourself: http://youtu.be/NBuN3uHnjYY
You would expect him to be buried together with Rocinante, but I don't see any bone of equine proportions in the photos. That could rather be the remains of Sancho Panza.
Let me first point out that pretty much every single programmer I have met in person has been pretty easy to get along with, and that I try myself to be as accomodating and friendly to other people as I can. (My day job as a sysadmin includes what is essentially helpdesk work, so this attitude comes in rather handy.)

But it seems there is a kind of tradition among hackers of people that are exceedingly smart but also jerks.

They get away with it if they are sufficiently smart, because many hackers tend to value a certain kind of cleverness above most other things. And honestly, I would rather deal with a smart jerk, as long as he/she was not trying to feed me bullshit than a friendly but ignorant buzzword-slinger.

Having said that, let me repeat that I would prefer a friendly smart guy over both of these extremes, and so far, I have been lucky.
For anyone not familiar, this photo was snapped by the NASA Mars rover Curiosity: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00184/mcam/0184...

Zoom in all the way, scroll up and to the right as far as possible, then scroll down just a tiny bit and look at the rock. That rock has a face on it? Definitely a WTF from me.

I am so tired of seeing visual evidence dismissed by people who refuse to even consider it if it's not endorsed by some large "respectable" institution. You mean to say this rock is just a naturally occuring anomaly? Really?
Incredibly well done.
I also read today there is a bitcoin wallet floating out there with something like 400K bitcoins in it that people think might be the stolen Evolution funds.
> will there one day also be one male nurse for every female nurse? one male elementary school teacher for one female elementary school teacher? or one male social worker for every female one? receptionist? hair stylist?

Sexists say this every time the subject comes up on HN. There are programmes in each of those industries to reduce the gender imbalance.
FWIW there is a prime time television show about unnecessary and failed public projects in Germany. Germany has worse Internet infrastructure than many, if not most, of its European neighbours. Merkel once famously said "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland" (The internet is new ground for all of us) and finally outed the government as antiquated. The achievements Germany made in industralization are fading away. Even basic infrastructures like streets are steadily rotting which was definitely not the case 10-20 years ago.
I still mourn Westwood and Pandemic.
God damn it how could they.
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Don Quixote is based on fictional characters. This is the grave of Cervantes, the writer of the novel.
As much as I'd like to entertain this idea, we have a pretty clear evolutionary history on Earth. It seems unlikely that humans have any direct Martian origin. It is very possible that aliens once lived on and destroyed Mars, though we have no evidence to support that theory. Over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, obvious traces of them would have disappeared. Who knows - maybe we will find something under the surface.
I used to work for Yahoo M&A (hence the throwaway account). When we did the acquisitions under Marissa we valued the engineers at around $1M each. Most acquihires ended up getting $1M+ vested over 3-4 years. I'm no longer there.
Listened on youtube, bought on Bandcamp. You're right, they are good.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Hardware designs require prototyping for any significant amount of complexity. Prototyping requires a back and forth costing many thousands of dollars. Obviously RMS didn't read this: http://www.mauve.plus.com/opensourcehw.txt
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