skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That exists, for vary degrees of "exists" anyway. all the good ones are commercial products for the most part. One of the nicer ones I've used is Webix: http://webix.com
I didn't realise this was a problem in NYC too, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

Here's a recent video from Vice on Spice use in the UK (Spice is just the brand name, it sounds like it's basically the same as K2, though the chemicals involved evolve over time so perhaps it's better to say they're in the same group of drugs):

http://youtu.be/t6pmc7Tpx4w

Before I watched this I'd heard synthetic drugs were dangerous, what surprised me was how addictive they appeared to be (people in the video compared its addictiveness to heroin).
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I can see what you're saying. But it doesn't make the reporting of it any less important, or at the very least informative. Nor does it take away the human tragedy even if it is only in microcosm.
Think on the modulo or the set of characters that you use for the representation. If you use base 9, it would be 8, for base 6 would be 5 and so on. Or look at it as placed into a revolution circle, or exponentials sequence. In quantifying the multiplicity 9 would be the previous value for 1, not 0
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Great to see so many Thinkpads.
So basically ousted from her own company...
I'm going to put the audio-book version of Seveneves on (just started listening to it for the second time this morning) and have a good browse around this.
Ah-ha! I see - apologies, I'd misunderstood.
Happy birthday Jacques. This is definitely an interesting eye opener article for a young professional like me, giving a clearer picture about how life can be for a curious technical person at 50.
This only proves to serve as a point that you can't fight economics or force people to stay sober and clean. The situation would likely be better if they just legalized marijuana proper which would likely be a preference to most, much in the way that people prefer alcohol meant to be consumed instead of what you buy for cleaning wounds.
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It is not a problem of mathematics. Most people confuse Mises's calculation problem with Hayek's knowledge problem (which is a mathematical issue). They are related but different. Hayek conceded that knowledge problem can be worked around by a supercomputer which can solve simultaneous differential equations to simulate the "artificial market". Mises never did that because that was not his main point. The ability of government to collect data (local knowledge) is not just what he calls into question. He calls into question the ability of government to reconcile individual preferences with scarcity. "The subjective use value of each is not immediately comparable as a purely individual phe- nomenon with the subjective use value of other men. It only becomes so in exchange value, which arises out of the interplay of the subjective valuations of all who take part in exchange."
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I wish I had bash history that long. Never seems to have the command I want when I look for it.
Same goes for react-bootstrap

http://react-bootstrap.github.io/
The notion that we could turn speech in to searchable text in a useful way betrays the author's knowledge of spoken communication. Very often it's not the words that are the important bit. Unless the recording medium can add in 'Person A shrugged' or 'Person B replied 'Yes' but was being sarcastic', any system will be next to useless.
I was interested myself too so had a quick search. There are a couple of implementations of the idea out there, https://code.google.com/p/advanced-shell-history/ looks the most promising of the ones I looked at. I might have to play with it later.
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Lol, googling "Anstrengungsvermeidung", leads to your post on hackernews. Any external references in English?
Sounds interesting. Googling "Anstrengungsvermeidung", leads to your post on hackernews, so this must not be a very recent or narrow term?. Any external references in English?
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Seems like a risky investment to me. A lot of customers seem to come to them to "solve their security problems". While they're cash-flow positive, it only takes one of their customers to be hacked for their reputation to vanish. I think this is mostly the reason investors don't like to invest in these type of businesses.

Will be interesting to see how this turns out in the long run. Security is definitely a problem that will only become bigger in the future.
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I'll be hitting 50 in a couple of years, and like Jacques I've noticed my tolerance for bullshit and injustice has decreased. I've tentatively put the former down to a subliminal (mostly) awareness of having less time to waste. I feel more focused.

I've also noticed that my tolerance for cynicism has decreased significantly in the last few years. I'm not totally sure why, but I suspect that I've come to see cynicism (particularly about politics and environmental issues) as the laziness that fuels injustice.

I'd be interested to know of other people's experiences.
Never used it, except for the easter egg with Chuck Norris etc.
Actually I was about to try and noticed that I can't click the button, as Google starts the search as soon as I start typing in ...
This isn't astrophysics. Personally, I had hoped the climate models would be sensitive enough to depend on 7x changes in key carbon sinks. Maybe they measure carbon absorption per acre rather than per tree and this result doesn't matter?
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Happy birthday from a 20 years away. I really enjoyed reading ideas from your perspective and I like the way you think. My only hope for the future, is that we could still read and comment other stranger's stories on the internet without violating some bullshit law and without needing to validate our identity with a DNA sample in order to express ourselves .
No, K2 is much more harmful than LSD and marijuana. And it never would have caught on if marijuana were legal.
I'm following the CO₂ emissions discussion less closely than I should, but agricluture generally (broadly scoped, including forestry) is a major contributor. Soil has considerable carbon content, and that can be and is released through human activity and disruption.

Livestock account for 18% of CO₂ emissions, agricluture 8% (75% of that from production of ag chemicals -- pesticides and fertiliser).

US EPA gives 9% of total CO₂ emissions as from agriculture:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources/agricu...
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/images/ghgemissions/sources...

Nature puts the level at ⅓ worldwide:

http://www.nature.com/news/one-third-of-our-greenhouse-gas-e...

Deforestation: 6-17% of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n3/full/nclimate13...
> Modern JS (ES6+) isn't worse than Java or C# in terms of expressiveness.

It's hard to compare. Java is horribly verbose, but C# (and F# even more) is pretty concise these days, definitely comparable to JS if you factor in the increased lines of code you need in a dynamic language to have any certainty when refactoring.
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This defamatory story probably wasn't meant to be defamatory.
Previous, huge discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274335
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> Soil has considerable carbon content, and that can be and is released through human activity and disruption.

None of your numbers suggest that carbon from soil is significant. The vast majority of carbon involved with agriculture comes burning fuel or from plants (such as when cows eat them and emit gas), and the carbon in plants comes from the air.
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I've used this before, http://http.sh/
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I believe that command-line parameters are available for all to see in the output of ps, so typing parameters on the command-line is a bad idea anyway.
I don't follow this logic. K2 seems to be cheaper and a better high so why wouldn't you take it vs regular cannabis? Legalization wouldn't really change a thing.
I've tried this. Turns out that very few QR-code readers are able to cope with QR-codes large enough to hold a decently sized RSA key.
I use zsh per directory history [0] as well as this cron job I have set to run hourly:

#!/bin/bash

cd /Users/nmjohn/.directory_history \
&& git add . \
&& git commit -m "Automatic Backup: `date`" \
&& echo "Files Modified:" \
&& git log head -1 --name-only --pretty=format:"" | grep "[^\s]" | awk '{print "\t\t"$0}' \
&& echo ""

It's not bullet-proof, but since I never manually touch the directory it's worked without hiccup for the last ~6 months. When trying to remember the syntax to a rarely used function (or even the name itself) or coming up with a gnarly awk/sed/grep command, it's been incredibly helpful to have fairly granular search capability to go back and find them weeks later.

Also ctrl+g in a terminal toggles between per directory history and global history which makes context switching easier when switching to a project not touched for a while.

[0]: https://github.com/jimhester/per-directory-history
Why wouldn't it? Weed is all but legal here in the UK but Spice remains popular for the intense and different highs.
Ok, some guy has a setup which works for him personally. Yet he decides to write a post about it titled "set up your remote office", advocating his view to others. It's like advocating sex, without sex education.

Sure, I might have pointed out that basically every one of his ideas is prone to failure. Aggressively. Or passionately. If you're planing to work remotely, you need to consider things like:

- uptime, SLA
- redundancy (network, electricity, hardware, storage)

I'm not saying oh let's throw $10k and make a home datacenter with running costs at about $500/mo, but If I did, I'd gladly advocate it over an ISP-provided AP and educational low-end hardware. There's just a middle ground which is just as feasible and effective regarding cost & your time.

And I could go on. Years of remote work, and failures which are inevitable, have made me cautious. If you wanted a good remote work environment, you'd better come to me for suggestions than to use Ivan's "bragging rights" setup. Still not sure what's there to brag about. Linux today runs just about anywhere, even trashcans.
I was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, and it has a very obvious (to UK eyes) drug problem[1]. Try walking around at 6am and you'll see plenty of narcoleptic users glassy eyed or sleeping on the streets. I assumed it was heroin or prescription opiates, but maybe it was Spice/K2 instead?

[1] And I should say I'm not talking about the legal drugs - alcohol, tobacco, cannabis - but there's a problem with at least one of those too.
The problem with deforestation isn't just the CO2 emission, but, most importantly, the missed future CO2 absorption. At least, that what I was thinking about.
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For instance this is robbery sentence guidelines in UK [1] and CA [2]. As you can see, penalties are very comparable. Robbery in CA is 2, 3, or 5 years or 3-9 years, depending on the degree, while in UK it's 2-7 years or 7 - 12 years, also depending on the degree. The first level of robbery in UK is more attune to Petty or Grand Theft in CA. In CA there is also a GBH enhancement, that will bump you up to the 12 years, just like in the UK.

Obviously, I have not done the comparison for all the crimes, but I think if done, we would find that EU and US both have very similar penalties for all the person crimes, like theft, robbery, rape, murder, etc. Where there is a big difference is probably in the crimes that have to do with national obsessions. For US it's drugs, guns, terrorism. For EU it's WW2 and holocaust, and also terrorism nowadays. But checking drug penalties in UK I also found them to be very similar to Federal statutes in US. [3] Though, if I had to guess, I would think the UK is far less likely to apply it's possession only laws. So, that's a valid criticism.

US does have an insane incarceration rate, but it's again due to our obsession with drugs. Take that out of the equation, and we are about even. Not that that makes it all ok, but I think we are on a path to changing that.

[1]http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_manual/robbery...
[2]http://www.shouselaw.com/robbery.html
[3]https://www.gov.uk/penalties-drug-possession-dealing
And when your phone breaks...?
Any idea who Reflux plays with a non-javascript backend such as Rails or Django?
Source for "linux runs on trashcans": https://twitter.com/bennunney/status/320473828545421312
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Not just seems: it was witten by the chief speechwriter for the leader of Canada's Liberal Party (= the opposition).
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Everything about dental in Turkey
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It's worth pointing out that the scripts of many widely spoken languages do not have a word divider (e.g. the space character in English). Mandarin, Japanese, and Khmer are some examples.

I'm aware of some studies that try to determine whether or not this slows down reading, but in my own experience it doesn't get in the way much.
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Interestingly according to this some of the species farthest from the line of best fit (in both directions) are bats.

Pteropus Giganteus (Indian Flying Fox) appears to have an extraordinatorily slow metabolic rate per kg, scoring 0.044, yet Rousettus Aegyptiacus (Egyptian Fruit Bat) scores 5.508.
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It's not as if it's found it's way in to .ts files, only to .tsx files.

As someone who's organisation has spent a lot of time making our front end in ReactJS this is going to be very useful for us, and the 'corruption' that is the cast operator becoming 'as' will be manageable as it's only in .tsx files.
Do note that aspnet just released their beta7 yesterday and the *nix port of .NET is coming along nicely.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/09/02/announcing...
Just speculation, but at least in the US it is/was marketed as "legal weed". Nearly everyone that I knew trying it did so because their weed connect dried up.

Is the weed situation much more lax in the UK than in the US?
>> Weed is all but legal here in the UK

Weed is a class B drug, some people get tested for it some don't know where to get it. There is probably a very small market for synthetics in the UK, were weed legal, but I doubt it would amount to much.

I say this as someone mildly involved in the UK RC scene who knows a few users. Most of them would switch to the real thing in a heartbeat were it legalised.
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I tried react-bootstrap and it was great. Except when you get to the point where one of those components lacks a feature you need, like say searching on the table component (I'd just like to specify that as a prop value), or there is a component you need but is missing. Now you either have to build your own, or go google for "react bootstrap XYZ component" and hope it does what you need to.

Do we really need a R/A/E/*-bootstrap everytime a new framework comes out or can we build something more generic like this (R/A/E)-[general_component_library]-(Bootstrap/Material Design/Current Button Style Trend)?
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I hit 51 next month, and that's ... well.

These decadal anniversaries seem to get more onerous each time. 20? No problem, it just means you're not a teenager any more! 30? Okay, you're officially a grownup, but you can still party! 40 was pause for concern, but it isn't what it used to be, the threshold of middle age: that's 50. Oops ...

Well, as Terry Pratchett observed, inside every old man there's an eight year old wondering what just happened. I don't feel emotionally middle-aged. But my knees creak in the morning, I've survived medical conditions that would have killed me if I'd lived a century earlier, I can remember events -- as an adult -- that happened 30 years ago, and I don't have the physical stamina, mental agility, or energy of a 30 year old any more. (Mind you, what they say about experience trumping youth and enthusiasm? It's not exactly true, but the experience factor makes up for a lot of the gradual cognitive decline that comes with age.)

Like Jacques, I'm less inclined to put up with fools -- but I'm also less inclined to get worked up over things. And I'm probably unemployable these days. (15 consecutive years of self-employment will do that to anyone.)

But the biggest thing I've noticed? What look like big opportunities, vanishing in the rear-view mirror of age. When you're 30 you can think in terms of going back to university or forming a new start-up. You've got time to plan a new career or nurture a business ahead of you. But by the time you've hit 50, the future is looking cloudy. You don't want to train for a new career to see you through the next 30 years because who the hell wants to be working to pay off student loans when they're 80? So you get locked into whatever track you set yourself running down twenty years earlier. Changing is hard because you have less of a future ahead of you to change for.

If you're under 35, my advice would be to think about that. Do you really want to be locked into doing more or less what you're doing now when you're in your sixties? If not, now is the time to change. The later you leave it, the harder it will be.
"they were going to pay a lawyer to rubber-stamp things in the future" carries the implication that they hadn't asked a lawyer this time. Asking a "legal team" is asking a lawyer.

They decided to ask even more lawyers, at least one who is outside and a former judge, they didn't decide to ask one lawyer as opposed to zero before.

I'm also not so sure you can draw broad conclusions about the company from this particular policy; "we will only search an email for someone else after a court order, and we may search ourselves if we believe there's enough evidence for a court order (we being lawyers)." I don't see much difference between the old and new policies; the main thing is that someone outside is asked.
So basically we have no way of counting trees from pictures? I mean it shouldn't be that hard, right? You have green pixels and brown ones. We have software that can discern car license plates in urban environments where you have a gazillion of different colors in the picture.

I guess the need never arise for an automated tree counting algorithm.
In Iceland during WW2 we were occupied by the British first, and then the Americans. Aside from some strongly worded objections, we just kind of rolled over and took it.
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Cannabis has been reclassified from class C to class B.

Other drugs in class B are: Amphetamines, barbiturates, cannabis, codeine, ketamine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic cathinones (eg mephedrone, methoxetamine)

Theoretical sentence for possession is Up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both

And theoretical sentence for distribution is Up to 14 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both

This specialist solicitor has some case reports of mostly large quantity: http://www.mjreedsolicitors.co.uk/news/cannabis-cases/cannab...

So we're nothing like the US (where simple possession could get you a life sentence) but it's wrong to say that possession of small amounts of cannabis is ignored in England.

EDIT: spice is popular because it wasn't being tested for in prisons, while cannabis was; and because it was legal.
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If anyone is interested in reading more about Alexander's military accomplishments, I found this book http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Earliest-Detailed-Campaigns-... extremely interesting.
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Sounds obvious, but was that billion-dollar disaster graph adjusted for inflation?
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Ironically, the vast majority of the sites look exactly the same (just like mobile and desktop apps - although these tend to have visual guidelines to stick to)...
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Yup. Just turned out 30; feel depressed as sh*t.
It would make cannabis cheaper, and I don't think most people are saying k2 type drugs are better(I wouldn't know). Just that it's more addictive. On top of that these drugs only exist because of drug laws.
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You'll have green pixels in areas covered by shrubs as well as in areas covered by 40m+ trees intertwined with massive undergrowth.

I'm sure we can count trees from pictures reasonably well, but we can't count tree mass that's entirely obscured by other objects.

To count trees accurately from pictures would require a vast quantity of footage taken from under the canopy.
An even more trivial example is a singly-linked list with a sentinel node (the last node points back to it).

But that's not really the question here. Any linked list is not an algorithm, it's a data structure.

The question is what operations can you do using circular references cannot be done without. I think otabdeveloper1 is right, because you can use a garbage collection type process to 'run' any other algorithm on a graph with cycles in it, using temporary lists and stacks to do whatever the algorithm would use circular references for.
> When I’m in a group of people my own age I feel as though I’m around old people, I can’t help it.

This one really rings with me. Unfortunately, many old people act like old people. I once worked at a software agency where even the more ambitious young people acted like old people.

Age is just a number, but the only one who decides to fully favour the comforts of the known to the appeal of the new and risky is you. I know 80-year olds who prefer ipads and I know 25-year olds who prefer IBM ClearCase.