skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good news and bad news. The funding for schools will be a boon to education in the state, and that's certainly not bad. However, I expect will almost certainly lead to decreased education funding from other revenue sources, and ultimately place education footing on less solid ground for years to come.

It was brilliant PR move to earmark the tax revenue for education, there's no doubt about that. It's very hard to argue with such things, and many other states have opted to dedicate certain "sin taxes" to select public works. For example, earmarking some funds for veterans affairs out of state lottery tickets as my state (Iowa) does, or education as many more states do.

On the surface, this seems like a brilliant way to justify revenue collection for what many citizens would consider unseemly or undignified. It is an effective sales pitch to say to a voter, "You may disagree with marijuana legalization, but it will bring in $50 million dollars to state schools."

The problem is that budgets will adjust to incorporate this earmark for future years. That is, education budgets are likely to reflect this revenue for future years. That's precisely what has happened in so many states where state lottery revenues have been earmarked for education and other noble causes. John Oliver's Last Week Tonight had an excellent take on a similar topic: the "sin tax" of state lottery tickets. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA

It is wonderful that marijuana taxes are going to a good cause. It is dangerous to make education funding dependent on a volatile tax source, and the evidence suggests that is exactly what will happen.
Reports say that his family is does pretty well for itself.

He's also been invited to the White House afaik. That should be a confidence booster :)
Legally distributed drugs can and are still competitive with black market equivalents because legal vendors don't need to build stolen shipments, bribes, and gang war into their pricing.
If you use threads, green or otherwise, you don't have to "implement" special code for composing things together, you get the full set of tools for composing code together, which includes, in passing, state machines, among all the other things it includes. This basically implements an Inner Platform Effect of an internal data-based language for concurrency that the language interprets, which will A: forever be weaker than the exterior language (such is the nature of the Inner Platform Effect) and B: require a lot of work that is essentially duplicating program control flow and all sorts of other things the exterior language already has.

There are some programming languages that have sufficiently impoverished semantics that this is their best effort that they can make towards concurrency.

But this is Rust. It's the language that fixes all the reasons to be afraid of threading in the first place. What's actually wrong with threads here? This isn't Java. And having written network servers with pretty much every abstraction so much as mentioned in the article, green threads are a dream for writing network servers. You can hardly believe how much accidental complexity you're fighting with every day in non-threaded solutions until you try something like Erlang or Go. Rust could be something that I mention in the same breath for network servers. But not with this approach.

There's plenty to debate in this post and I don't expect to go unchallenged. But I would remind repliers that we are explicitly in a Rust context. We must talk about Rust here, not 1998-C++. What's so wrong with Rust threads, excepting perhaps them being heavyweight? (Far better to solve that problem directly.)
Is it weird that I understood this as just trying to reach out to Blacks and Hispanics/encouragement and not hand holding? Call me crazy but as a minority, this thought of not getting in say Tech by minorities for example is taking to the extreme. Has anyone ever considered perhaps, their background just didn't qualify them for a particular role? What about attitude? Mindset? Alot goes into getting what you want. You just have to work hard at it and prove doubters wrong.. :)
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Is it? The numbers earlier suggested Colorado only brought in half the tax for alcohol it did for weed. My bet is alcohol costs the state far more in police and social services than weed does. Weed smokers don't usually get in car wrecks or end up in fights that lead them to the ER.
Google has been around for 17 years and employees roughly 10,000+ software developers. I think it's reasonable to assume that the 2B LOC metric is accurate...
> Think about all the things the school district could have spent an extra ~$7MM+ on...

That's assuming they didn't use computers. Your calculation assumes that the computer uses a full 350+ watts of electricity. If it had a 350 watt PSU and was drawing that full load - it would shutdown (I've had this happen). Even then the CPU doesn't require 350 watts of power [1]. The only device that I know of that will use and designed to use a full load is a bitcoin miner.

Taking in consideration that these computers might have been left on already. I would argue that he used MAYBE an extra 50 watts of electricity [2]. So assuming $0.10/kw/hr (which is the cost of where I live) - he wasted a whopping $0.12/day or ~$50/year.

You have to take into account if the computers were already on. He didn't waste electricity because someone left their computer on - his "waste" would be electricity use that is above that of an "idle computer". It should also be pointed out that if the computer has Mcafee or some other crappy AV the CPU usage would be 100% anyways due to poor programming of the AV software (I have personally seen this many times and you don't know how many times people complain about their slow computer because the AV is using 100% of the CPU).

There is no way he wasted $7m - and even if he did and no one noticed that is part of a larger problem. Besides they only claim he wasted $1.2m - $1.6m [3] - with no evidence of how they came up with that number. That is saying he managed to waste over $100k/year (over 9 years) in equipment purchases, electricity etc - and NO ONE noticed this? I find it hard to believe that the people managing the budget were like "$100k unaccounted for this year? no big deal...". And even if it was accounted for and signed off - there should be 2 people fired - his and the guy who approved the purchase.

Even from the article:

> would find that in a middle of a lesson, the SMART Board had turned off.

This has happened to me personally on my own laptop. Not because I was mining bitcoins or running seti@home. In fact I've seen them installed and they are such POS that no instructor I know actually uses it as a SMART board.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...

[2] http://i.stack.imgur.com/4HQPY.png

[3] http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/11/30/20091130se...
From section 3.7.2 of the IPFS paper [1], on IPNS ("Human Friendly Names"):

While IPNS is indeed a way of assigning and reassigning names, it is not very user friendly, as it exposes long
hash values as names, which are notoriously hard to remember. These work for URLs, but not for many kinds of offline transmission. Thus, IPFS increases the user-friendliness of IPNS with the following techniques.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-...
> The solution to the excessive API change problem is to force whoever changes the API to fix all the consumers himself before the change is accepted.

Having people unaware of a project's purpose making changes to its code sounds like a nightmare to me.
> It becomes the new normal, which means that if anybody wants to reverse course, the burden is on them to find alternative sources for $50-100MM in tax revenue.

That "alternative source" is invariably tax increases. Politicians aren't terribly clever about these sorts of things.

> And a major chunk of the tax revenue is explicitly earmarked for public education

That's not at all an iron-clad guarantee of how the money is spent, you may want to look up e.g., the North Carolina Education Lottery.
Colorado collects $11 billion in taxes so $75 million is just a drop in the bucket and doesn't make much of a difference.
Do we really have to spin everything into a race issue these days? I never got the sense that race had anything to do with Ahmed's story.
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He hasn't been charged; police attended and arrested then pretty swiftly released him.

Teachers & school deserve opprobrium; not sure the police do in this instance.
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The number will grow beyond the $70 million, likely by quite a bit given how early it is.

There's no chance other states will put a dent in the $70m figure unless you're calculating Colorado losing population. The majority of tax revenue is coming from counties other than Denver and Boulder. Pot tourists are a small fraction of the base. Texas legalizing pot isn't going to slam the tax revenue for eg Summit Colorado.
I too tried Keto for a long while. I experienced the "mental benefits" in the form of a huge rush of energy after I'd eat a pound of bacon... but other than that I never got any.

Nowadays I just eat "normally." (i.e. I pretty much make my decisions about food unconsciously).

People love demonizing things and thinking in black and white. But the world is just shades of gray.

This guy is experiencing huge benefits from the placebo effect, because the placebo effect works. But his theory doesn't.
I really hope it's more than just "your text is now hosted images instead!".
I agree. Too often sweeping viewpoints are made without data. The crazy part is this is not some grand hidden conspiracy, the data is out there to explore and use to support arguments for and against the fed. [1][2]

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/
[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
I don't see any inherent problem in having the sum of all deposits far exceed the actual amount of cash in existence. I do find it odd that the Fed and Congress permit the banks to exert strong control over the total money supply by adjusting how much cash they hold in reserve rather than having the Fed itself control the money supply.
With sweep accounts, the reserve ratio is far, far worse than 10%. This is why we are screwed: we've been expanding the fractional ratio for 60 years and it's finally starting to matter as the U.S. economy slows and stops growing fast enough to paper it over.

There is no exit. The Fed cannot raise rates.
Unions and monopoly is bad. Competition is good. Except for lending and money creation. Banks must have monopoly on that, because.. shut up and go to work.
Well, and, as the parent said, even with this you still can’t use the same version of the library even for a few months. That’s the worst out of both worlds.
arrow keys seem to work for movement also
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(end marketing pitch)

still a side project, using Python PyKE as the rules engine is anyone is familiar with that??, and socket.io, node and mongodb for the "real-time" stuff.
This is dumb on so many levels.

This kid didn't show up with a homemade alarm clock at a Confederate Flag rally.

He showed up at a school

You know, those places where you go to learn? Where you have these people called "teachers" who are supposed to have a college degree and promote learning?

Context matters. If you can't trust educated teachers in a school to know the difference between an alarm clock and a bomb, who else can you trust?
You tweeted it. I submitted it. :)
The need to elastically control money supply is one of the reasons the Fed exists.

There's a great piece by NPR a few years ago on the topic where they explain the process:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/08/26/129451895/how-t...
Which is a double whammy considering all of the other ways schools crush enthusiasm and willingness to explore. Because grades are a measure of "achievement" that discourages people from exploring new subjects or taking challenging courses outside their comfort zone, since that could lower their GPA. And because all course work factors into your grade, not just your ultimate competency in the material, that creates even more incentives to not try anything new. Struggling with new material for even a week or two could irreparably harm your GPA.
> tens of thousands of dollars difference

I still don't believe that - unless this was 10k computers+. I'll bet that if you used watts up on an idle computer, then used it on a computer running seti@home I'll bet the difference would only be 100 watt difference at the max (probably more like 50 depending on what is running on the computer).
I was able to get CWEB working on my mac as follows:

wget http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs/sat0.w
brew install cweb
cweave sat0.w
tex sat0.tex
dvips sat0.dvi

"tex" and "dvips" were already on my system and I don't remember how I installed them.
Yep. Same.

Did a brief survey off people around me, results were inconclusive:

1x Upper Left

1x Upper Middle

1x Upper Right
Having an event for black and hispanic folks doesn't preclude them from having an event for asian folks. Not every event has to be pan-inclusive.
Creating money out of thin air ends up devaluing the currency that is currently in circulation.

My understanding is weak and I'm still not clear whether the Zeitgeist Movement's position on the matter is correct, but I'd recommend watching the second of the Zeitgeist Movement's video on the matter to enrich your opinion.
A giant repo works for Google, and works for Facebook, and Microsoft, but it's bad for the development community at large.

If you start centralizing your development you’re killing any type of collaboration with the outside world and discouraging such collaboration between your own teams.

http://code.dblock.org/2014/04/28/why-one-giant-source-contr...
I wonder how this compares to FoundationDB's architecture, which also had an SQL layer on top of a K/V store, and was reportedly slow at SQL queries.
> Why not simply give the moral hazard to the user by default?

I agree, but in this case the German law has very clearly decided that this is not the default. And so this new law is seeking to address that.
Yes, running 5000 computers on 100% CPU instead of idle is a lot of money and a lot of electricity spent:

If these were typical desktop computers, the CPU working at 100% can use some 50 W more than the one staying idle. 5000 computers at 100 % CPU produce then the load of 250 KW, resulting in 6 MWh per day which at 10 cents per KWh costs 600 USD per day, or 220000 USD per year. Finally, 9 years that he did it make almost 2 million dollars (!) for electricity that he managed to spend.
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Thank you for your reply, you should add this information somewhere because right now there is now way to know you're working on it.
> Public anonymity is useful for one thing, though: providing plausible deniability for the distribution of pirated content and child pornography.

Yes that is the only reason for any of this lisper, if that is indeed your real name. What are you hiding?
I think so, yes. IPNS can bootstrap of DNS if you want. By adding a DNS TXT record of the form "dnslink=/ipfs/longhorriblehashhere", you can have paths like /ipns/example.com/2015/09/15/hosting-a-website-on-ipfs/.

For example, the ipfs.io site is hosted on ipfs/ipns, and available through the gateway at https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io/
The difference is, because of its prohibition, marijuana has a thriving black market. They need to stamp out the black market before they can get taxation to that level.
You're both right. There's a tax-free day to slow down the amount of tax brought in, but state law does require returning unexpected tax windfalls that exceed inflation and population growth. Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Bill_of_Rights
DOSemu was really joy to use for gaming even on Linux+486 + 10 Megs of ram. Oh those were the days :>
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would this be an example of the Nirvana fallacy? actual good work is being done, and you're saying that it's bad because it's not better? but then again, your suggestion is not really better. you can't fight racism by pretending there is no race, and if you acknowledge there's an unfair asymmetry in society, then the response must also be asymmetric.

if a person is ill, you don't go around giving medicine to everybody so that the healthy wouldn't feel excluded.
Don't we think transportation is big enough that both Uber and Lyft can coexist "peacefully"?

Especially with Uber experimenting into non-ride services on top of their infrastructure, like food delivery, etc.

Maybe I haven't followed closely enough, but my understanding is that Lyft is still really focused on just making a good, friendly, affordable ride option.
A 14-year old was interrogated without notifying his parents.

You don't think that's a gross violation of civil rights?
they didn't take venture capital and instead self funded. even if you aren't generating revenue, you can bootstrap
Wait are you saying that race does matter in America?
My daughter is about to work on a IoT-ish wearable using conductive thread, a LilyPad Arduino board and battery pack. As a school project.

I'll report back if she ends up in prison. It's not Texas, but Indiana isn't much brighter unfortunately.

(Thankfully the school is more hippy than dippy, and the teachers are aware and excited about the project).
I say take the beer and chill man. No need for the -ve vibe. Cheers
The ban means little because the punishment is nothing. If I want to bring something bad on board, there are two outcomes: I succeed, or I don't, and maybe I have to endure a brief scolding. The difference now is that if I fail, I know my mixture will be stuck in the middle of a huge crowd of people for who knows how long, probably giving me time to go far away.

The decision to throw all liquids into a bin has created a danger that would not have existed otherwise, which means the confiscations have lowered security.

And collectively, unnecessary "security" measures slow down security lines, increasing the probability that more people will be in them and increasing the temptation to target security lines at all. The real goal should be to move people through so efficiently that there is barely a "line" to target in the first place, much less a massive crowd.
Are sin taxes really that volatile? I don't have good data, but many people suggest marijuana (as well as alcohol) is counter-cyclical and demand is relatively inelastic.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amid-the-stock-market-volat...

edit: This study suggests alcohol is actually pro-cyclical (in Scandanavia).
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> as long as they secure the network properly

How do I prove it? This right here is so abmahnung trolls can keep on threatening

> and get users to agree not to act illegally

Yet another useless popup, cookie popup is not enough

> ”digital agenda” aimed at blanketing the country with high-speed Internet by 2018

A yeah, "VDSL for all". Where do I buy VDSL modem in 2018? I will have to break into Technisches Museum and steal one (no, I don't want your "free" fritzbox)
dev here; yea, we're using EAN for sourcing the hotels that people initially book - but we have many more other OTAs integrated for tracking prices
the way you could look at it is that we try and capture peoples traveling intent with an API which is relatively easy and fast-performing, then we try in our own time to find something better
You've answered your own question: because you get to remember where/when you got it, you get to search for it in a store, you get to carry it home, you get to physically feel/remove/examine/play it, you get to see the 12x12 art (not some 300x300 png), you might even get a cool colored record. There's way more to record buying and collecting than just vintage
That seems like an unlikely meaning to me when Windows RT is effectively discontinued as far as I can tell. There is no Windows RT equivalent of Windows 10 and no Windows RT version of the Surface 3.

There are plenty of Windows tablets at all sorts of price points, but most seem to be using x86 instead of ARM.
I'm white. I was once 14. I used to bring in all kinds of hacked together computer things to my high school all the time. I'd even bring in a soldering iron and solder at lunch. I was never arrested or questioned or considered a threat.

Ahmed Mohammed was considered a threat. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34266389
The article said the father is outspoken against (presumably imaginary) anti-Islamic policies.

You may not know this, but Sudan is ruled by its Muslim, Arab north and is often quite happy to enslave or murder the black Christians in its south. Hardly a model of an anti-Islamist republic.
http://www.governing.com/columns/public-money/FICA-free-lunc...
Just got to work also. I also noticed that some code no longer compiles, at least the older programs.

On my GNU/Linux box:

> dependencies:

wget ftp://ftp.cs.stanford.edu/pub/sgb/sgb.tar.gz
tar -xzf sgb.tar.gz

> documentation:

cweave back-pdi.w
pdftex back-pdi.tex
okular back-pdi.pdf &

> code:

ctangle back-pdi.w
gcc -o back-pdi back-pdi.c
back-pdi 2 1

(I'll be damned if I'll ever get fluent in HN thread formatting)
Tax revenue is capped in Colorado. Their version of proposition-13, called TABOR, limits revenue increases to population increase plus inflation. Colorado is having a one-day marijuana tax holiday Sept 16. They are arguing about how to refund the rest of the over-taxation required next year. Its been done several times before, either with small rebates or tiny decreases in the income tax rate.
I think the thing that people have the most trouble with is assessing the "objectivity" of the arbiter that controls the money supply ("the fed) and at least the "perception" that fed actions benefit those that haven't done anything to gain such preferential treatment.
That’s a really thoughtful point. Definitely agree that the simplicity is only half of the problem.

What we think we’re seeing is a trend of more powerful networks becoming available as platforms. For developers and companies to use through things like APIs. And if that is the case, we were interested in experimenting with a simple interface to those platforms.

Swiftcall, for example, is built on top of Tropo, which is a cloud communications API that has features like multi-party conferences and add advanced features including recording and SIP.

We’re definitely keeping track of feedback about the quality of the calls and network performance, though. Because if that is poor, that’s a much more impactful and memorable bad user experience then the scheduling of the call in the first place. Agree with you there.

Thanks for taking the time to check the project out and for your thoughts!
tags + notebooks + cross platform + rich text + search + clipping + images + shortcuts. I don't know of a offering that rivals it. Google keep is for kids, not for real work.

good reminder to back things up.
there's some pretty interesting statistics to do with price changes - chances of finding something better are biggest when you book somewhat further in advance (say, 60 days) & travel to big cities - then we do find better prices in about 50% of the cases
what makes me happiest is crazy stuff, like a $600 better rate for a $1300 hotels somewhere on the strip in LA (happened a few weeks ago)
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