skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They take that into account and have even done randomized trials. DARE unequivocally increases drug use. The primary reason (although there are many) is thought to be that because the information is unreliable and sensationalized, kids learn that anti-drug information is wrong and therefore see little danger with using drugs and may even misunderstand key drug concepts like addiction. This is true with a lot of the commercials, too. But those often aren't really funded with any real intention of affecting drug use, it just makes politicians look like they're doing something constructive.
Just sign up for the free account:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...
I never understood the purpose of programs like this as a child. All that effort, money, time, etc. pumped into it and somehow the only ones that ever seemed to have any effect at all were like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLHKtNOcS8 that is essentially a very good advert for meth.
Your example made me smile. Unmoderated peer pressure is more effective than DARE. Should you be getting all that grant money? We can only dream.
> pot makes you feel fine with being bored

The problem with that is that it's also super not backed up by data.
I'm not seeing any validation for empty email form submission responses. I clicked a button and got a success page redirect.
My take-away from this is basically that the level-browsing interface sucks so much that popularity is immensely skewed in favor of levels that are:

1) old

2) promoted on popular YouTube/Twitch/etc. channels
A lot of biology is dedicated to these taxonomic categorization debates that don't actually mean anything.
Sad but true. The most starred levels are those that are least fun, at least measured against what makes Mario successful.
Anyway, "Luft Bauser": 05B9 0000 0085 7B65
tries to be fun.
Apparently the "Above the Influence" campaign has been fairly effective.
One policy innovation here is being tried in LA. With a $15 minimum wage you can drive away the jobs of the people who would be unable to pay their fare share for motorway space.

Those jobs that can't pay $15 will simply relocate to small towns, the South, and rural areas far from LA. Those that can pay better will see workers paid more. Either way, the motorways clear up and motorists can afford to pay tolls that will cover externalities and eliminate gridlock.

Every big city should be looking at a minimum wage at $15 or even $20. It makes life better for everyone.
I think you're looking for Pascal's Triangle.

let P = probability of 2 heads given 4 coins
let omega = (x + y)^n # probability space
let x = 50% # P(heads)
let y = 50% # P(tails)
let (n, k) = (4, 2) # 4 coins, 2 heads

P = (n, k)(x )^2(y )^2
(4, 2)(50%)^2(50%)^2
(6 )(25%) (25%) # (4, 2) = 6; see link
(6 )(6.25%)
(37.5%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_triangle
Fair enough. My thinking was that you'd use probabilistic methods and run many trials to see where the failures are, but I guess that's likely to fail if the real-world patterns are too cross-correlated, which they undoubtedly are (rush hour, etc.).
What's yield on green? Isn't that a regular green light (you can't turn left unless nobody is coming at you)?

That's how the vast majority of green lights work here in Canada...
Recently, I noticed a juvenile crow that had been hit by a car in San Francisco, it was limping and unable to fly.

There were two crows near by that kept an eye on it. When I grabbed the injured crow and took it to my car [1] to deliver to a wildlife hospital [2], the two crows followed me to my car and called out. It was really intense. I felt bad for taking the crow away, but had hoped that I would be able to help it.

Ultimately the crows injuries were too bad to care for and the wildlife center [1] had to put it to sleep :(

It was pretty amazing to see the crows' behavior. They really seemed upset/concerned when I collected the injured juvenile, it seemed like sincere empathy which is something that's amazing to observe in non-humans. Heck, it's amazing to observe in humans :P

If you're in the bay area and find injured wildlife, please get in touch with the Lindsay.

[1] https://instagram.com/p/3O6ymkm5-9/

[2] http://lindsaywildlife.org/
> well, that is your fault, I'd never set up auto pay for a service

That's actually good advice. Faithfully un-checking the autopay box every month came in handy for me when Verizon tried to play "customer retention" hardball. As long as you have to explicitly sign every month, you have a bit of control.
it worked great... taught me what drugs looked like and how to use them.

oh, you assumed they weren't lying and extorting the public contradictory to their claims? that's cute.

even your precious combinatorings are mostly corrupt.
One time a raven of all things fell down my chimney and was perched on a ledge interior to the chimney above the fireplace. I got a call about it early in the day asking me to come home and deal with it, but I couldn't get away, so I said I'd deal with it when I got home.

It spent the next several hours trying fruitlessly to fly back up the chimney. Its wings were too large to spread, so it only got about half way up before slowly sliding back down. When it wasn't trying to escape, it was making scary pissed-off raven noises.

I ended up having to lay down face up in the fireplace and reach up with gloves (and my arms wrapped in towels) to grab the bird, get up, and walk it outside. It was mortified and tried to fly away before I got to the door, but was disoriented and flew into a wall instead. I think it was too stunned to resist at that point, and so I picked it up and brought it outside. After a few moments it flew up into the Japanese maple in my front yard.

There were some crows in this same tree that observed the whole escapade and decided to start caw-caw-cawing at me. And then for the next month they kept doing it. Turns out that yelling at them that I had saved one of them and that it was my tree anyway didn't actually succeed in shutting them up.
I find the way that SmartOS does it is pretty nice. Each container gets its own private, virtual NIC, which sits on top of one of the physical NIC or an overlay network, and has its own networking stack. You can even enable layer 2 or layer 3 spoofing protection if you're in a multi-tenant situation, or just want to be more secure.
I worked as a Unix systems administrator 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago.

20 years ago, in 1995, a tech startup would usually have the programmers do the systems administration, until about four programmers or so had been hired - by then the code would be in shape to put on the Java application server, traffic was picking up, and they needed someone to deal with it full-time, who knew what they were doing. The servers would often be on-site, on the company's T-1 line, or sometimes would be at a colocation facility.

Nowadays, how many people are hired at a tech startup before they hire someone to deal with installing Red Hat on HP rack servers? It can be a while - nowadays if you need 500 servers quickly, and have the money, you can spin them up (and down) on EC2 in a few minutes. Plus there's Linode, Rackspace, Ramnode - I have a personal VPS on each of them. Why not? It's only $10-$20 a month each. It's hard to justify the cost of hiring a sysadmin, a backup person to the sysadmin, pay for colo space, leasing a server etc., when you can get a pretty nice Linode VPS for $10 a month.
Your description of a sysadmin sounds much more like the role of an architect.

btw, in my 23 years of being a help desk tech, sysadmin, architect, consultant, manager, and finally owner of my own business, nothing has ever just worked.
Relevant:

"The ECJ ruled* Thursday that if a company operates a service in the native language of a country, and has representatives in that country, then it can be held accountable by the country’s national data protection agency despite not being headquartered in the country."

*http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessioni...

I think this is great news.
you mean 'elan vital'?
My point is neither should be banned, not the other way around.
I want to say something in my defense but I think it'll just make it worse. Hook, line and sinker.
Oh yeah.

I once watched a murder of crows chase down a falcon. I never knew they could fly so aerobatically. They were flying faster than I'd ever seen a crow fly, and maneuvering in ways that I didn't think possible.

Now, when ever I hear crows going absolutely mad, I assume a bird of prey is near by, and almost aways, if you go out and look, you'll see the predator nearby.

Falcons and hawks tend to get out of Dodge really fast when 3-4 crows set their sights on them. They are out for an easy meal, and when confronted with opposition, they do their best to find a new location.

I really love crows.
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I think that what you may be experiencing is a heightened sense of concentration toward a passion of yours that you were passionate about before you smoked pot.

However, think about children who smoke pot from an early age and don't develop the kind of curiosity that I'm sure proceeded the pot smoking you're talking about. Did you first discover your passions while you were young, impressionable, and smoking pot? Or did that come afterward, after all the initial experimentation and learning about yourself had already occurred?

I think the following quote from a NYC high school teacher better explains what I'm trying to get at:

“I hate pot. I hate it even more than hard drugs. I’ve taught high school for 25 years and I hate what marijuana does to my students. It goes beyond missing homework assignments. My students become less curious when they start smoking pot. I’ve seen it time and time again. People say pot makes you more creative, but from what I’ve seen, it narrows my students’ minds until they only reference the world in relation to the drug. They’ll say things like: “I went to the beach and got so high,” or “I went to a concert and got so high.” They start choosing their friends based on the drug. I hate when people say that it’s just experimenting. Because from what I’ve seen, it’s when my students stop experimenting.”[0]

[0] http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/129574836736/i-hate-pot-...
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Yes, I meant if not, or without. Once my brain has thought it, it takes no more responsibility.
There's a lot to like about IT, but I found plenty to be frustrated about as well.

I spent four years with an IT consultancy piecing together 40 hours working for clients who didn't need a full time IT department. Not having enough hours to transform their operations, running around the city putting out fires, and dealing with old hardware was a bit miserable. Looking around the job market showed a lot more of the same, along with a few high-stress and non-specialized positions working for financial or legal companies. Maybe that's just the scene in New York, I don't know, but the dream of being a company neckbeard did not pan out.

Reading slashdot in the 90s made IT sound amazing, but I've found that geek dream much easier to fulfill in the software industry.
I don't know about compiler optimization but there's a bit more to it than inlining a fold.
Philosophy can change what categories count as 'life'. Science can show us surprising category shifts, life forms that aren't what we thought. Both are needed. There's a lot of weird mechanisms out there.
Wow, only a 10% loss? That hardly seems worth cheating... then again, I don't run a car company, so I guess it's the kind of thing they think they need to do. bummer.
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> "... the cybercriminals had unauthorized access ... for a period of several months between late 2013 and early 2014."

And they only found out because law enforcement told them!?

Wow, I am really glad I'm not one of their customers. I would have absolutely no confidence in them whatsoever.
Has anyone actually said that?

Investors like founder CEOs. If you listen to his story, Jack has been passionate about coordinating communication for a long time. Passion is a good thing for a company. Simple as that.

meta: This is one of the worst discussions I've ever seen on HN.
Keep your diet in check and eat your TDEE or less in calories to maintain weight or lose a few pounds. That's 90% of it.
Sign up for a gym and workout 3 times a week aiming to improve strength if you want some muscle definition. That's the other 10% if you want to get fit.
Based on their previous behavior in the marketplace, Apple and Google aren't above refusing to sell something they once sold if it's not in their own best interests to continue selling it.
Won't they also add crap to your credit report that you may have to dispute?
Though dated (2009) that was an extraordinarily generous read. If were an ebook I would have paid for it.
Or, just do drugs. I mean, LSD is great, and people should try it. Smoking pot is also nice, I've done some great writing while stoned. Heck, Paul Erdos did amphetamines his whole life. Why are we trying to convince everyone not to do drugs again?
Everyone reacts differently to different substances, etc etc, but perhaps what you're describing is a little different from chronic, every-day smoking? Smoking pot occasionally can make anything more fun, but over time it seems like it would desensitize you to novelty.

Your mileage may vary of course. I've met some brilliant and highly successful people who smoke every day to no ill effect.
$85 a day is about $1,700 per month, which is typical for a major American city for an infant.
What's the use of having a free and open market in the EU if you'll have to deal with the same legislation headaches across countries anyway? That and the fact that many countries want to reform the Schengen open immigration agreements tells me that protectionism is making a come back inside of the EU. Very sad. And of course, it's being used to harass foreign companies. Instead of making the Union more business friendly for tech companies to compete against SV, they do this, plus the VAT thing hell they voted last year, not to forget the ridiculous cookies thingy and the "right to be forgotten". The EU is on a roll.
This test seems very poor. They didn't measure the NOx emissions so we don't know if it really entered "cheater mode". According to a comment there, it was probably trying to compensate for what it detected as the rear wheels spinning and they need to turn off DSP. It doesn't sound like they really knew what they were doing so I'm not sure I trust it.
That's why I prefer the stuff fans made before Nintendo made Mario Maker. For example, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRQjaOhwGM
And for me, every time I smoke pot I become absolutely useless. Anything more difficult than watching whatever the hell happens to be on TV is nigh on impossible for me. And I don't normally watch TV! Anecdotes are fun.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/about/

Their 'get involved' form has a checkbox to tell their campaign that you want to volunteer. I couldn't seem to find a better way for you. I can only presume that Mr. Trump has a war chest which negates his need for charitable work contributions.
I think a lot of people miss the point of this posting -- it doesn't matter if it's real or if it's fake, but rather it's an evolution of artistic expression. Someone is using Craigslist as an entirely new medium for writing a bit of poetry or short story. The potential for this type of work to reach people is huge, and that to me is the most exciting part of it all.
Who needs help redesigning and restructuring their Pitch Deck?
I'm a designer and have helped structure designed pitch decks that raised money. Obviously a nice looking pitch deck alone wont help you. Product and team are key. However. A good pitch deck makes thing a lot easier. Setting up a service to help startups redesign their deck. Interested? Let me know.
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The real question is how it converts to mpg. A whole bunch of manufacturers have gotten in trouble for exaggerating fuel economy, and I for one certainly consider it when comparing cars (to an irrational degree, in fact). If it's the difference between 38mpg and 34mpg then that might be worth lying about.
I'm from the US, but my mother read to me from the day I was born, and got me reading before I turned 3, and reading full books for kids by the time I was 4 or 5. Unsurprisingly, I tested as "on a college age reading level" from the 3rd grade onward.

She also did basic arithmetic with me as well, and I ended up pretty good at math and logical thinking.

I think a huge part of the education problem today is lack of engaged parents. They don't concentrate on teaching their kids before they send them to school, and once they're in school, they leave the teaching up to the teacher and do not assist really.
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Where the heck did you get $350/month? In the midwest I was paying nearly $1000/month per child for a good daycare, that is pretty darn common.
That's very touching. Wonder if it would lead to anything at all.
It isn't possible...this person is way off.
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> Still, it's a bit sad that so many Super Mario Maker players apparently like watching the game play itself at least as much as taking an active part in the level.

Is it really "sad"? Some of the most fun I've had has been watching my friends play through various games. The sheer popularity of Let's Play and Twitch seems to back that up too: It seems that a lot of people prefer the spectacle to the challenge, and there's nothing wrong with that!
Good idea. Next time, say you will move to China where there are state telecom companies only.
Especially if you're trying to meet US CAFE standards. Curious if VW is going to need to buy a bunch of ZEV credits now in CA (with Tesla being the primary beneficiary).
I'm curious what you were doing to achieve that!
Is your home town ready for those who would have to seek new employment? If so, what type of jobs would be available to them? If not, in what (as specific as possible) ways do you imagine your home town to adapt to the change of sudden unemployment so that these people can have adequate jobs to still support their families?
Quite Murakami-esque. Touching.
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Anecdote, data, yadda yadda. This is precisely why pot has a very infrequent place in my life. In my misspent youth, I came to the same realization: when I was smoking weed frequently, I had no problem just doing nothing with my life.

Edit: on the flip side, I have come up with some really cool solutions to problems after having a bit. But it'll never be a frequent thing for me again, precisely because of the probability of just getting back to the "OK with not doing anything" state.
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It is very stupid to scare youth with health consequences. For young people, the world "health" means nothing. It's very blank.

It means a lot for senior demographics, and so they happily push measures involving scaring young people with health problems. Which then won't work.
We're not; it's just one drug cartel trying to push out the competition. Whenever you hear drug use described as "self-medicating", you're hearing the notion that drugs like Zoloft and Ritalin are ok but drugs like marijuana and MDMA aren't.
Probably the most famous ROM hack technique in Super Mario World is the Kaizo Trap: https://youtu.be/Ua6pbz3ROvQ?t=7m18s

However, that technique, along with other SMW physics glitches, aren't possible in Mario Maker to my knowledge.
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Software is cheating the world
Interesting article. But it didn't go into any details of why DARE is ineffective compared to other programs. It didn't specify what the other programs did differently. It barely mentioned the other programs, or their effectiveness, until the very end. I'm afraid a lot of readers might walk away with the impression that all anti-drug programs are ineffective.

Lastly it says that this reform started in the 2000's. That was 15 years ago. So people who went through the program in the 2000's like me might not have gotten the ineffective version. Assuming they actually made decent reforms, which the article suggests.
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There's a 3.5" floppy disk on the tray of cookies on the right!
You are comparing Canada which is like 95% of European decent to the U.S......come on be real? While it isn't just race it is also poverty, the U.S. has a lot of ghettos.

You comparison is disingenuous.
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If it were just about keeping exact measurements of time, there would be no need to regularly resynchronize the standard timekeeping system with the rotation of the Earth. The only thing that makes it important to tie clock noon to solar noon (which is the entire purpose of leap seconds) is to maintain human beings' perception of what "noon" is supposed to mean (over the very long term).
Also, winning by doing nothing can be hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PxRwgjzZw
I love watching the videos by the fine folks at http://tasvideos.org/

I agree with you--there's nothing 'sad' about it.
Or git diff
A glorious find, if my tired mind groks the summary (it's a long article). Objectively confirms the adage "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise", no? and establishes another strong argument against Daylight Saving Time? 12:40am, time for bed.
Part of the reason is that they're hateo so much is because they know they're hated and flat-out don't care.
I'd interpret this a bit differently - levels with good design are likely to be few and far between, since good level design is a skill. Moreover, you can't really communicate "has good design" well in a title or with stats (and to the extent you can, no one can trust it), so it's actually pretty impressive that these levels can compete at all with levels that can easily market themselves through gimmicks, references, or ridiculous difficulty.
"Code nights and weekends"
"Compensation will be in the form of equity"

Sorry. That's just exploitation.
You're not quite right. Everything that touches the GPL code has to become GPL, period. GPL compatibility only exists in one direction. A license is compatible if it is relicensable as GPL, the GPL itself isn't compatible with anything.

Rant: I really want to like the GPL, but this requirement is downright hostile towards other open source licenses. And in my opinion it's not even necessary for the GPL's mission. Surely, it would be enough to require that all other parts of the combined work must also be distributed under open source licenses, not necessarily the entire GPL. Some parts of the GPL, like the installation instruction requirement and the anti-tivoization clause, should apply anyway if only some parts are GPL'd, and the reduced protection would easily be outweighed by a strengthened open source community.
Thanks, Google (first result for "docker airflow"):

https://github.com/puckel/docker-airflow
Nah, it's the camera makers that are holding things back by sticking to proprietary formats and in some cases obfuscating them. There's OpenEXR, HDR, and DNG (the last of which is a true RAW format). The big issue with creating a true interchange format is that RAW files don't have proper color information for all pixels (they instead have red, green, or blue data for any given pixel, sometimes deliberately blurred, etc.) and interpolating the values to produce reasonably nice faux color for each pixel is actually very hard and the algorithms the different companies use is presumably protected by patents.