skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the reason cannabis is more expensive is the legal situation.

And as for 'better'.... Is Thunderbird train 'better' than beer? To the guy on under the bridge, maybe I guess.
HMRC third party tax software and application programming interface API strategy
What are the requirements?
So much of this rings true for me, and I'm a few years away from 40.

As an expat living in the Netherlands who has never really believed in "formal speech", it really takes some getting used to when people (usually a lot younger than me) call me "u". I always think "wow, this kid is so polite, how bizarre!". I still haven't really gotten the hang of when I should use the formal you, and constantly call strangers "je". I've only ever had one Dutch person actually state explicitly that I should call him "u". It is maybe not a coincidence that he was a bit of a jerk in general.

At least living in the Netherlands, our creaking knees will always be able to bicycle where we want to! No big annoying hills like there seems to be everywhere back in the UK, or in other countries. ;)

Gefeliciteerd. :)
Aren't there any windows?
Acreage doesn't tell you how much biomass there is. Imagine a 1m tall shrub with big leaves and not much underneath vs. a dense rainforest where the top canopy extends tens of metres up and there's massive undergrowth.

So I guess the answer it depends what you're trying to measure.
Here's something interesting - We collected bash history of around 15000 users and listed frequented used commands for fun :) http://www.webminal.org/fulc/
Oh wow, all of these make me really not want tot rust this service on any level. I mean how stupid can you be to not make a list of usernames to filter/block when designing this sort of system?
The only people I've heard that claims K2/other synthetic cannabis provides "a better high" are self-destructive stereotypical drug abusers (like in this article) who want to escape from life.

Regular people often have horrible experiences with it, ranging from just really uncomfortable experiences to full psychotic episodes. It's not benign and relatively harmless like cannabis usually is.
I would like to see all state income tax converted over to a lottery based tax. That way you would see a few winners instead of nothing
If only we could plug these new numbers into the climate models and press "recompute".
Grown forests are carbon stores, not carbon sinks: the carbon is locked into trees and released when the trees die (some of it might get sunk into the soil but IIRC it's a very small fraction). When the forest does not grow, its day-to-day carbon impact is pretty much neutral, growing trees are balanced by decaying dead trees.

There's limited "missed future CO2 absorption" to deforestation, but there's a huge "immediate" released of stored carbon.
Same background here, same frustration with Javascript frontend in general. I've been through projects that started in pure Jquery, went to Backbonejs, have a bit of Ember sprinkled at some pages, AngularJs for the most part and are not adopting React. The Javascript ecosystem is just insane...
I usually can't stand the tone of wikipedia entries or the 'exquisite corps' style of writing that is wordy and difficult to comprehend at times. I'm glad to hear of Google's new seo that will bring more used and trusted content to the fore than the obligatory wikipedia at the top.

I used to give them money (just a little) but I ceased when I felt that they might as well have ads and the content would, to me, be no different.

I still use wikipedia but mainly for information concerning pop culture which it's very good at.
By the way, Jacques, I'm really curious about that story about not working for Eckart Wintzen. He died just when I started getting into the software industry at all, but his writings are very inspiring and he's been a force of positive change around me even after his death. Did you write that up anywhere?
corpse
- sorry.
I have a friend that is 53 that still does triathlons with people half his age.
Commercial aviation industry aimed at an annual improvement in fleet efficiency of 1.5% from 2010 to 2020. The estimated cost was $1.3 trillion.
Welcome to "this side" - the secret is that there are no sides, you might become a day more experienced today than you were yesterday. I don't feel (or act) my age and since I don't celebrate my birthday (or even let others know it's occurred), their guess as to my age is always way low.

In any case, you may not consider yourself employable, but there's almost always a bias for the "gets things done" person. If your blogging and comments here on HN are any indication, I don't think you'd have an issue with someone that's truly looking for the right person. Many institutions are looking for the politically correct person and like you, I don't have time for them.

Fijne verjaardag :-)
So maybe I'm out of the loop, but this article never really seems to explain why K2 is so bad and why it specifically is to blame for the issues in the article. I tried it about 8 years ago, and it was kind of like being stoned on pot but not nearly as fun. I cant imagine the same thing happening when people smoke pot, so I'm wondering why K2 is to blame here. But I'm not sure, cause there's little information in the article.

Maybe I'm cynical but this feels like a drummed up press release for the woman mentioned in the article's campaign to ban this thing.

It's almost like satire at this point. "Hey, this fake weed that showed up because real weed is illegal is causing all sorts of problems. I bet if we make it illegal, all of these problems will go away. And I'll get re-elected."
I'm in a similar place to the OP. I turn 50 in a week. I get told often I look in my 30s. The majority of my friends are in their 30s. Hung out for 6 months with 28yr olds forming a startup last year, they asked me to join them. With few exceptions I don't fit with people my age.

What I find frustrating is the society at large won't let me ignore my age. You get categorized all the time. Some meetup or dating event is 30-45. Some form has age categories. Visas to visit countries have age limits (as in we let students in but you're clearly too old to be a student). Articles all the time tell you who you should be, behave, for your age. Others tell you if you're XX age you can't do that anymore. Whatever it is. Can't go back to school. Can't learn a new language. Can't join a start up. Bla bla bla.

Sure, most people's first reaction is "ignore that" but it's oppressive. It's a viral meme that eats at your thoughts

Big life decisions are also harder because you start to realize each choice cuts off others so which choice to make?
The bit about not feeling your age is so true. I am a little bit younger, but I really don't feel that different to when I was 20 - maybe just a little less angry about the world.
Wow, my inbox just overflowed with people mailing me happy birthday, now I get it :)

Thanks to all!
Proficiat Jacques, appearently I'll turn 40 next week, it's just another arbitrary number. For example, you're 42 in base-12 (a much beter base). We're all in the same boat... you're old enough te remember Bobby McFerrin (now 65) don't you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
This is a purely classical (pre-keynesian) story - demand goes down in many individual markets, and the market adjusts by reducing prices and quantity supplied. It has no output gap, no involuntary unemployment (read: wages at a price $P, but people willing to work at $P and unable to find a job), etc.

You've just shown that classical economics explains the Greek situation perfectly, contradicting Varoufakis.
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- Must have experience in either node or python
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Look at it this way: even an old cat jumps into a tree like it was a young kitten. It simply doesn't know it is old. So why should we behave any differently?
Hey, hang in there, it's only two more years till you hit your hexadecimal twenties, which is where the real party is!
Keep in mind that this kind of news (such that government aided IS) are produced/propagated by a group in Turkey who's sole aim is to overthrow the current government because of an evident power struggle. Just take it with a large grain of salt.
How is the high like? Seems interesting.
It's so amusing that is almost sad - I know such people around me, they get constantly abused by their peers, don't have the necessary means to deliver great results and get systematically bashed for that. So their situation is not so much for their skills as for their weakness (of character).
> You can get Z-ordering by using pixel[interleave(x,y)] where the function interleave(x,y) interleaves the bits of the two parameters.

That is pretty cool (also the raytracing application), but most surprising to me, is I remember the interleave operator from reading the INTERCAL[0] docs ... I never even considered the function could actually be applied to something useful :-)

[0] one of the early esoteric programming languages, designed to be "most unlike any other language". It also features a "COME FROM" statement (because GOTO is considered harmful), which iirc also actually has a parallel in some modern programming paradigm.
> Musk insists on a success story that fails to acknowledge the importance of support from the government.

His top SpaceX customer is the government. Electric cars are subsidized. Solar energy too. I don't think there's any point in elaborating on how much Musk is dependent on government(s). Still, his companies kicked more ass than any other in markets he picked.
Show HN: Origin story of the invention of the chewing gum
Amazon Workers the Happiest in Analysis of Over 1M Tech Engineers' Tweets
37 here, and that is exactly how I feel. I'm hardly an optimist about how a lot of things in the world are going, but world-weary cynicism (the world is shit, it'll never change, everyone is corrupt, etc) grates on me as cloying and juvenile. I always end up thinking it says more about the person than the world itself.

These days, I usually find myself starting to argue and push back against that, and occasionally I do end up coming down to "So the world is shit, you're not even going to try to do anything about it, what in life do you have to be proud of about yourself at this point?"

I feel better for not putting up with it, but it has led to some tense arguments with extended family, friends, hairdressers (haha, seriously).
And in some other languages like Arabic, Persian, Urdu the absence of word divider is compensated with multiple forms of every alphabet.

So at most every alphabet can have 4 forms, depending upon its position in the word: start, middle, end and standalone (but there are caveats)

Also in these languages usual punctuation marks are inverted like question mark, comma is drawn the other way round

After a while one gets used to it.
Yeah, I have this as well:

export HISTSIZE=65535 # why not?
export HISTFILESIZE=65535
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

but now I'm wondering if I should unset `HISTFILESIZE` insteead.
Ask HN: What do the letters on the coffee cup lid signify?
What do the letters on the coffee cup lid signify in the following picture ? W, M, L , C, B
http://imgur.com/rJ5gCVi
The 3 ways advertising is probably the most harmful thing in the western world.

1) Distorting economic choices away from genuine preferences. Would we have such an obesity epidemic without Cola?

2) Distorting economic incentives away from genuine needs, most people working in advertising are actually generating negative work (they work to make others work against their interests and needs). All those producing advertising sustained products are also working perhaps at right angles to consumers genuine needs. Every billboard that is made, every campaign launched, every shill lying signifies in the final sense a theft...

3) Advertising funded businesses, ignoring direct influence via advertising spend (HSBC and the telegraph). The advert based funding model drives a 'buzzfeedization' where information services work for maximum distraction rather than providing information people want fast. Google wants you to be online more, not so you can get more done but so you can see more adverts. Will they tailor their search results so be slightly worse than ideal to keep you there longer? It would make economic sense to do so.

Businesses should be regulated very harshly to force them to compete on price, innovation and service delivery. No capitalist wants to compete in an efficient market, they must be forced.
The middle left part of the station is where the Cupola module is. There are some windows there. Click Node 3 on the map to see it.
Recipe to Pitch to Investors and Get Funded
Anything between "a bit like weed" and "overwhelming, scary, nightmarish".

People who use this stuff regularly who also hold down jobs tend to use the tiniest pinch. Most of what's on sale is so massively over-strength that it's extremely unpleasant if you're not very careful.

Until you get used to it that is. The people in the article are used to it.
Would you have any reference regarding the performance of java/c++ with respect to manipulation of arrays of doubles? Just curious to know where that 20% comes from.
Go to 'node 3 - tranquility'. There's some windows and a mechanical arm outside.
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No, but I can write it up here and now.

I got to know Eckart because we both invested in the same company ( http://www.infocaster.net/ ) and one day after a shareholder meeting we decided to have a follow up with just him, my business partner Joyce and myself.

Eckart outlined his vision about the things he wanted to do now that he had a 'full toolbox' and lots of time and we saw eye to eye on so many subjects that it got me thinking.

After leaving with Joyce we went for dinner near Zeist where he had his offices and I told her that I was totally stunned by how our ideas dovetailed, only that Eckart actually had the tools to realize his vision.

It's very hard to translate the kind of feeling Eckart radiated but think of it as total focus on improving the world. This very much shows in his various investments, for instance Greenwheels, several medical start-ups, a school and so on, as well as the people that he surrounded himself with (average < half his age).

One thing led to another, we had a brief phone call where I told him I'd be happy to shut down my own stuff and work for him even if it meant a significant reduction in income on my side, he said let's talk in two weeks (after he had gone to France and returned). The next time I saw him it was wadded up in burlap bags (ecologically sound) for his funeral... :(

I'm meeting with Sander (the guy who runs infocaster) later today, not a March passes that we don't think about it. My birthday is the 20th, Sanders is on the 21st and I'm quite sure that in both cases we're thinking more about what could have been than our birthdays.

It's a real pity, genuinely nice people are few and far between, I think Eckart was special in many ways and compared to your average winner takes-all entrepreneur he was a proverbial (and physical) giant.

All this will sound like fawning adoration to those that haven't actually met the man, to those that did it will sound like I'm probably not giving him enough credit.
I was impressed that Stephen Wolfram has been recording his own keystrokes since 2002: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
New MIPS64-based Loongson processors break performance barrier
"you can encapsulate small and beautiful programs into classes, and connect objects at runtime to solve more complex problems"

Then in order to ease the integration between those classes you start reshaping them a little bit (adding things that "would not be essential") and thus they are gaining in this regard something very similar to the same features that we were talking about.
I don't see this replacing JavaScript. In fact, I believe it'll do the opposite - it'll make JavaScript more prevalent. If a company can deploy it's code to as browser-native blob it'd make a great deal of sense for developers and designers to be able to code things on top of it. JS is the obvious choice for doing that. And as a consequence, more developers from traditional desktop environments will need to get to grips with
how to use JS in a browser-WASM-as-a-sandbox situation.
> you're old enough te remember Bobby McFerrin (now 65) don't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeW0UcuQKps
Me and another commenter, already posted all the sources. It's you that are trying to see if they disappear.

Here they are again in case your blindness allows you to see the facts against your incoherent opinions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom#Sh...

http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article108659406/Tuer...

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...
That's why they're called financial "advisors" and aren't just an index card with a couple numbers stapled up on a wall.
On the contrary, I’m on my early forties and my physical condition is way better than it was twenty years ago. I exercise a lot, eat much healthier food because now I know whilst on my twenties I’d eat any crap that came my way, I have a steady sleeping pattern trying to wake up early each morning so I can make the most of the day and generally speaking I feel like I have at least another twenty energetic years ahead of me.

As for tolerance the funny thing is that while younger I would confront head on anyone that I’d think was bullshitting me. Nowadays I just ignore them. I’ve learned to not give a fuck.

The only thing I find harder as I grow up is to fall in love. It’s not that it doesn’t happen, it just doesn’t happen with the frequency and the easiness it did twenty years ago. But then again that might be a good thing, not to fall in love with every gorgeous woman that crosses your path.
My recollection from school years is that the fraction that goes to the soil is significant, but I don't know about more recent data...
You're saying the news is fake or that simply spreading it is the real propaganda? What's this group name, by the way?
The submission title really should include a dollar to indicate which currency is meant.

Also, for non-corporate customers in Europe, VAT should be added.

The VAT-inclusive price is €3.59 (for 4 ARM cores, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSB disk, and one IP with 200 Mbps unmetered bandwidth). This is the VAT-inclusive number from the site, which is using French VAT (20%). Here in Sweden it'd be 25%, it seems. :|
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I wonder if I could buy a couple of those servers for my own. I work on cloud and data-center automation tools and having real metal to test ideas and software would be amazing. I've been toying with the idea of hooking up a couple Edisons or Galileos (x86 makes everything easier on my side) but they have complete running hardware and that easily beats developing my own.
I think parent's point was a play on "said the pot to the kettle". Neither business would be healthy if suddenly their ad revenue disappeared.
Programming contests are very, very remote proxy for assessing how good
programmers are. You make Poland look petty by bragging about contests instead
of something of substance. Doesn't Poland have anything more significant in
the field?
Unfortunately, I only started saving my history somewhat recently.

$ cat ~/var/history/bash.d/* | wc -l
464291

$ for year in 201{2..5} ; do
echo -n "${year}: "
cat ~/var/history/bash.d/${year}* | wc -l
done
2012: 116285
2013: 175525
2014: 117928
2015: 54553

It's not a complete history, as I filter several commands with HISTIGNORE.
haha (semi-serious laugh)
As a recent Waterloo grad, I can't help but feel that the tech industry in Canada has been losing a lot of talent to the US, even from our own top schools. Just about everyone I know who's good enough to have offers from US companies have taken the offers and left.

And it's not hard to imagine why: the average "highly competitive" salary in Canada is pathetic compared to what you could be making in the US for a similar position.

I think Blackberry has been a prime example of a company hit by this. Even with the advantage of being literally next door to the Waterloo campus, most students I know treated it as nothing more than a "safety" in their co-op and grad job search. So in the end, the only students Blackberry ever had access to were the ones who weren't good enough for the US companies, and the few good ones that didn't want to go to the US for what ever reason.

I can't see this trend slowing any time soon, unless Canadian companies start offering salaries competitive with companies across the border, rather than just with their other Canadian neighbors.
So, where's the JVM to WebAssembly compiler ? I googled for it and couldn't find any ?
> Uncontended atomic operations are ~2-3x slower than their nonatomic analogs, which is still very fast.

More like up to 20x slower; atomic reference counting has to hit the L3 cache at least. A quick benchmark seems to confirm that. Also, there are still some nasty corner cases with pointers that are shared between threads (because reading/writing a pointer and updating its associated reference count are not a single atomic operation).

> Also I'd expect that GCs should experience a slowdown in the contention scenario, due to write barriers; is it so?

Write barriers only come into play when pointers on the heap or in static memory are being modified. Reference counting means that you need to update the reference count whenever you assign references, even from one local variable to another (much of the work that Apple's done is to use compiler optimizations to get rid of those that are provably unnecessary). For example, having multiple threads traversing a tree in parallel can generate a lot of contention in the RC case, but none for a GC with a write barrier.

Deferred reference counting is closer in performance to GC, but then you have to write most of the machinery of a tracing GC, too.
But what about bandwidth? That's still shared among all the users, right?

And given that they are even advertising 'Seedboxes' and VPN servers [0] hosted in the same network, it makes me doubt the quality of network even more.

[0] https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/09/02/we-are-slashing-the-c1-...