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New comment by thornofmight in "A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail of Western Americana’"

thornofmight — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:03:54 +0000

Yeah that's the one thing I was hoping the article would explain.

New comment by thornofmight in "Reddit Is Working on a New Front Page Algorithm"

thornofmight — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:38:19 +0000

It's also a Vice article.

New comment by thornofmight in "Daniel Thompson, Whose Bagel Machine Altered the American Diet, Dies at 94"

thornofmight — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:08:53 +0000

I can see your blue eye peering through a bagel's hole into the heart of modern times.

New comment by thornofmight in "Is alcohol actually bad for you?"

thornofmight — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:04:30 +0000

Yeah, the hangovers move way down deeper, like into your soul.

New comment by thornofmight in "Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan"

thornofmight — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:07:16 +0000

> one of the last true bad lands of the internet

Absolutely true, and a great way of putting it.

New comment by thornofmight in "Cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice"

thornofmight — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:01:55 +0000

Thank you for sharing.

I was reading through your posts and saw this: "The second is this: when Shakti pierces the 4th chakra and/or the hrit padma (below it) ... you'll gain a kind of "compass". From there on out, you'll always have a way of checking which path to go. It might mean staying with kundalini yoga, it might not be. The journey getting to the center involves piercing through the 2nd ganthri, learning to surrender. It will be like peeling an onion. You'll cry. A lot. And you'll know it is worth it."

This is related to kundalini yoga? Any recommendations on how to get started there?

New comment by thornofmight in "Cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice"

thornofmight — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:51:47 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by thornofmight in "Cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice"

thornofmight — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:44:19 +0000

How often were you meditating and how long on average was each session?

New comment by thornofmight in "The lost tunnels of Liverpool"

thornofmight — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:36:34 +0000

This sounds fascinating. If you or anybody else can find the article please post it!

New comment by thornofmight in "Steinway's 600,000th piano, the Fibonacci"

thornofmight — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:38:35 +0000

The following sentence explains it. "The way in which [the fibonacci spiral] continues to grow but stay true to its form is very much like Steinway & Sons over these many years."

New comment by thornofmight in "Show HN: Ear training using midi.js"

thornofmight — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:23:24 +0000

In the example he listed each note goes either up or down one note to the next chord.

New comment by thornofmight in "Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison"

thornofmight — Fri, 29 May 2015 20:53:32 +0000

The person Ross hired as a hitman was an undercover agent who had been befriending Ross online for over a year.

New comment by thornofmight in "Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?"

thornofmight — Tue, 19 May 2015 14:52:39 +0000

Hang out on the freenode freelancing channels.

I work in Magento. I hung out in #magento, and #magento-jobs, and a few other more general PHP/HTML freelance channels (#startups can help you find channel names for freelancing). I answered questions in #magento for a month or so, got a little bit of rep, then started responding to requests for work. Eventually I got work. Some of it turned into reoccurring work.

New comment by thornofmight in "Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship"

thornofmight — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:07:44 +0000

Why do you want to intern? Seems like with your skills you could just work (and get paid for) a real job.

New comment by thornofmight in "Show HN: Opinionated Dress Color Simulation"

thornofmight — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:07:38 +0000

Nice job getting this together so fast.

I wonder if the reason this dress color thing has been spreading around so fast is because of the different devices everyone is using to view it. When I first saw the dress on my Macbook Pro screen (non-retina) the dress looked white and gold. Then I checked on my iPhone 6 in the dark later on and it looked blue and black.

I've been seeing articles about how the reason people are seeing different colors is because of different types of eyes, psychology, etc...maybe the answer is much simpler.

New comment by thornofmight in "The drug revolution that no one can stop"

thornofmight — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:11:20 +0000

Are there any opiate based research chemicals? It seems like I mostly see psychedelics, or an occasional amphetamine or benzo-like chemical.

New comment by thornofmight in "Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study"

thornofmight — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:03:50 +0000

"We can determine the “metric salience” of each event in a rhythmic pattern by“recursively breaking down a musical pattern (with an initially speciﬁed length)into subpatterns of equal length.” The more subdivisions it takes to reach a given event, the lower its metrical salience. In 4/4 time, the downbeat is themost salient position, followed by beat three. It would seem natural to clap onthe strongest, most salient beat."

Anybody know what this quote is trying to say? What is a "given event"?

New comment by thornofmight in "Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich"

thornofmight — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:42:37 +0000

Does anyone know how they justify this type of violent entrance for a non-violent offender?

New comment by thornofmight in "Reading the Silk Road configuration"

thornofmight — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:11:57 +0000

I know for a fact that there was a source disclosure MySQL injection bug on many of the pages in SR.

There was also other MySQL Injection bugs. You could even look through the SR forum archive and find people talking about how the search field at one point was exploitable by the standard "' or 'a'='a" and was disclosing customer's names and addresses.

New comment by thornofmight in "The NSA and Me"

thornofmight — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:33:20 +0000

Do you have examples of backdoored encryption from ancient times? I'm curious what you mean.