skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you do. You're putting heated Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica in your body, containing cannabinoids that react with receptors in your nervous system. Despite the prohibitions, you probably have ample anecdotes that the side effects are generally increased appetite, decreased motivation, possible paranoia, and conversations that are pointless to anyone that is not high.

Even someone with multiple PhD degrees in the relevant areas of study isn't necessarily going to know the complete catalog of molecules involved, nor know which of those are biologically active in humans and which are inert, nor know which molecules agonize or antagonize which receptors, or whether they promote or inhibit uptake or reuptake of related neurotransmitters, nor know the short-term or long-term effects on any particular individual. There are only a few people that actually study the plant in enough detail to know those things.

This is, for the most part, because the federal prohibition has stifled scientific inquiry, by limiting both the availability of the plant to prospective researchers, and restricting the grant money far beyond what is normal for pharmaceutical research on other plants flagged for further investigation from traditional herb lore. Politics over science.

Most people don't know any more about it than ginseng tea, or chewed coca leaves, or even coffee. They don't have to. Eventually, we got to the point where instead of drinking boiled aspen bark tea for headaches, we started swallowing acetylsalicylic acid tablets, because that was determined to be the active analgesic ingredient. But before that, the tea still worked without anyone knowing exactly why, but with more side effects and less reliability. Using the raw plant--especially when harvested from the wild rather than cultivated under controlled conditions--caused less certainty in the dosage. The pills allowed us to take just enough to relieve our pain without causing more damage to our stomachs than was strictly necessary.

But in the case of marijuana, people tend to enjoy the side effects, and nothing in the plant seems to result in health-threatening effects, even from massive overdoses and shockingly frequent usage. So there's no rush to identify active ingredients, except by some twisted impulse to stop sick people from enjoying their treatment, or to prevent people from being able to produce their own medicines outside strict authoritarian supervision.

And different effects can be produced by selective breeding, like the strain for people who need to use a lot of medical marijuana to manage their symptoms, but don't want to be stoned or high all the time. You can't really do that with a drug that doesn't have a genome.
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the issue in play seems to be the right to paid time off, these workers say they are working 60-70 hours per week for UBER and should therefore accrue paid time off. This appears to be the crux of the matter. If they are successful the only solution for UBER will be to reduce driver hours so their accrued time off is not too much. Of course this means needing more drivers to cover the hours not being worked.
I have found memories of playing around in IDLE while reading through How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, back in 2003/4.

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/index.html
The rules of evidence are different in the UK. Be careful giving US-specific advice to a world audience.
> But we don't live in an ideal world

What a funny thing for someone to say after they just finished unironically posting

> You won't find an autistic child whose parents aren't either mentally ill or autistic themselves.
I thought that is normal salaryman culture, not the extra bad "black company"
Top Effective fitness habits at office
Do you have any references about physical withdrawal from cannabis? (serious question, I've never come across any formal evidence of this)
They worked hard for a AOT framework, and suddenly google offers you a JIT with all its drawbacks for a high performance development....
I was more surprised by the fact that ZDNet still exists than I was by the content of the article.
Yes, but you're still getting 10 mg of morphine. Other alkaloids aren't going to change how addictive 10 mg of morphine is.

In fact, pure morphine has fewer side effects than opium. Opium has alkaloids that can cause severe nausea, etc.
States make laws about import and export, and ignoring that, are the enforcement mechanism.
The legal authority under which things happen is going to be "The party".

IE If i get a federal judge to order source code access, do you think I did it, or instead that a party (IE US) just compelled access?

(Hint: The law mostly says the latter ;p. That's why i can get law enforcement to enforce it. Because it's an order of the government, not an order of me)

Now, whether it meets the other conditions for the "no compulsion" part, that depends on the circumstances.
It seems people aren't thrilled with the prospect of debris landing on people underneath. More likely we'll end up with bigger drones that grab smaller drones with a net so they won't fall at this rate, or some sort of net-gun that after wrapping the drone immediately yanks it back fast enough that it won't hit the ground/people.
Facebook is Spam free?
It's not excessive compared to how much most taxi drivers have to pay, every day, to lease their cars...
To expand on this thought - i have thought exactly the same when reading another post on HN about HomeJoy folding - most of the comments discussed how cleaning contractors were cutting out the middleman by offering a discount to the homeowner to cancel the transaction with HomeJoy and deal with the contractor directly. And back then i thought exactly the same thing - why don't they offer the service as referral subscription? Then there would be no reason for contractors to try to cut out the middleman. It seems so obvious, what am i missing?
I was surprised the ZDNet left out the MLM implications of the model until the disclosure:

> Disclosure: I joined Tsu as a user to take a look at the site before I wrote about the platform in 2014 and I still use the platform regularly.

That's a damn fair use of a disclosure.
Oh god, even the copywriting is awful. This is a master class in what not to do. Someone give this designer a government job already!
Original Story I saw which got no play on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519875
New Research on Wearables
> Only a quarter of scientific drug research is successfully reproduced as well.[1]

The article you are mentioning in [1] refers to the fact that a quarter of the published drug research is not successfully reproduced.

That doesn't mean that people published papers saying "Hey, we did this experiment. Its results cannot be consistently reproduced, so we think it's unconclusive/because our theory is flawed with regards to this or that/because the experiment was flawed with regards to this or that and we think it can be refined by changing this approach or that apparatus".

It means that a quarter of the published papers say "Hey, we did this experiment which offers conclusive proof of X", but it turns out that their experiments cannot be consistently reproduced, so they're proof of exactly nothing.

That is unscientific.
Now you're just being silly.

I said 'some people' - I didn't say that was my own opinion.

Personally, I don't have a problem with refined drugs in general, but I do prefer to keep things (both food and drugs) simple, when it is possible, practical and effective to do so.
I actually think that it will be the size of the cut that they take that will be a factor in determining if they are employer or not. As you say if they charged a flat daily fee (as hackney cabs (licensed taxi service in the uk) do) then they would not have this issue. But as they are taking a cut of every fare, or another way is that they pay the driver a cut of every fare, it seems much closer to employer/employee relationship, at least in UK law.
How to write efficient (J)Unit tests (Guest article  beyondjava.net)
Great. THANKS
IRS: "You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done). This applies even if you are given freedom of action. What matters is that the employer has the legal right to control the details of how the services are performed."
Ask HN: Advice – WhoIsHiring – According to my profile, would you hire me?
I've been sending cv's for multiple job offers, mostly remote offers because in my country (Colombia) the payment is very low in general. Until now I've not been successful on it. I will put my simple website in here with some data about me, but first i will summarize some things.

Actual Work :
I work at a bank in an area of databases management with multiple tools. This is a recent - well payed job in my country but is still very low for so many things that i want to do.

Previous Experience:
I worked in a software development company in the team of infrastructure and later they allow me to start in web development. I strengthened my knowledge in things like:

- Linux - Windows administration
- Databases like RethinkDb, Aerospike, OrientDb, Elasticsearch, DB2
- Python ( My favorite), Javascript ( I have more experience in Js than in Python)
- JSON
- IBM Domino Administration
- IBM Websphere Portal Administration
- Git (I learned by Myself)

My personal tastes:
At the moment i am learning and improving my knowledge with FreeCodeCamp, learning AngularJs, NodeJs and other stuff. Some of the things that i most like are:

-Python
-Javascript
-Databases
-Learn learn learn and if i can, teach.
-Help with exciting things, projects that really make me want to work.

Personal projects that i want to do or that i am doing:
- App (including mobile with Kivy, just for experience)
- A crime map for my city.
- A website to download videos, music, playlists from youtube with youtube-dl
- A vacuum with Arduino

My Website:

Theviajerock.tk

I just want some advice... Or if you have some job, well.... Here i am!. (I am improving my English, sorry for the mistakes, i try to write perfectly but i know that i have mistakes on it)

My email is victorliferock (With Gmail)
Portrait of success Java developer in 2015
Ah, relative good deed! "The other guys are even worse" value offering :) Like the mob "protection" racket.
> After some more looking around, it does seem like Slack has some built-in Compliance functions regarding preservation of data. That's useful. Regarding the 1+ million users, I wonder how many treat their Slack communications with the same level of evidentiary legality as email? As in, when a case finally comes to court, how is Slack going to be seen from then on?

I'm a member of a casual/friends slack group that has the retention policy set short (2 weeks iirc). It lets us treat Slack more like Snapchat, knowing our messages will be deleted.
"This is very intriguing. I think a platform with a business model that effectively remunerates users is what it will take to kill facebook."
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10519891&goto=item%3Fi...
I wonder if part of the reason for this is that Common Lisp dates back to a time when filesystem path structures were a lot more variable.

These days, you either have Unix-style or Windows-style paths and that's basically it

But go back 30 years and there was quite a bit more variety that would make an abstraction layer all but a requirement if you wanted to define a portable language spec.
Smartphones with fingerprint sensors
Well, patents do not stop ill intentioned people.

About the ethical dilemmas, they'll get solved when they get more formally stated (that is, when they get practical). It's not intelligence that we are lacking. Unintended side effects are much more troubling.
I thought Cisco just broadcast disconnect messages for the rogue APs? That way, the AP gets "shut down" because nobody can connect to it (they just disconnect as soon as they've connected), not due to any wizardry.

In a sense it would reduce the amount of airspace being utilised by many wireless clients (as they couldn't connect) but it can only do this by bombarding the same airspace with disconnect messages, thereby contributing to the problem it is attempting to solve (cramped airspace).
(unless (car-radio-playing?) ; probably not the owner driving
(fake-emissions))
Isn't this quite common? Most languages allow you to represent those strings as different types and parse them/to from a plain string representation.

From Ruby: String, Pathname, Url, ActiveRecord::Relation etc or from Go: strings, database/sql stmt + orm types built on top, net/url etc though file paths are just strings.
The (perfect) startup story of Wit.ai, acquired by Facebook in 21 months
DOES MY OUT-OF-CONTROL CHILD EBOOK DELIVERS TO THE PROMISES?
Analysts: AWS Cloud Business Worth $160B
Be careful with the term "Cinderella program".

My direct experience here is working with Hackbright Academy to meet more women than I was getting through the standard job application channels.

Hackbright works attracts women from all backgrounds, science but no computer science, college drop outs, and junior CS. It teaches practical programming skills in the 3 months class, then helps connect the women to companies.

The program works. Smart women can learn programming and be successful at any subsequent job in the industry with adequate time, mentorship and training.

This is of course true for people of all genders, race and college background.

There are many similar programs that cater to diverse hiring pipelines. Dev Bootcamp for first time web developers, Jopwell for black, latino, hispanic and native american candidates.

But all these still depend on a hiring manager valuing mentorship over "pre-qualified".

Of all the things in my career, I am most proud of helping engineers be successful at tasks that they weren't "qualified" to do. This has been hiring junior candidates for roles beyond their current experience (with clear discussions on both sides about how it will be challenging), and rotating and promoting engineers into new roles and responsibilities.
A Robotic Toddler Uses Deep Learning to Walk
Can I assume you're not paying $449,600 for the IBM OS and $424,320 for 3 years of software maintenance?
Canada’s Oil Sector Cautiously Optimistic About Late 2016 Recovery
You need to provide references for the "Marijuana often has physical withdrawal symptoms for chronic users" statement, because I pay attention to this type of stuff and I've never heard or or run across it in real life. Of course, opium addiction and withdrawal are well documented.
it is if you look at the UK market, in the UK most drivers own their own cars and they hire a radio from the taxi company at a daily rate. They then keep the fares themselves. As with UBER you have to provide your own vehicle, there is no radio so you have to provide your own smartphone too.

And as their pricing indicates they will take a greater cut from new drivers. That will continue to increase if they are successful in putting other taxi firms out of business. i.e once they remove the competition (or minimise the sufficiently) there will be no alternative but for drivers to pay uber a 45% fee for each ride.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
>The rights are unwaivable because the power ballance in an employee/employer relationship is almost without exception massively tilted in the favour of the employer.

Appealing to a power imbalance as invalidating any rights waiver, would likewise prove that workers shouldn't be able to transact with employers at all. As before, all transactions are going to involve giving up some rights.
Damn IBM, just cut your price in half (including those CDIMMs), and destroy these Xeon monkeys. Why are you being so coy?
> This law isn't actually as draconian as it sounds: the prosecutors must prove to a very high standard that you do actually know the key, and haven't really forgotten.

Not really, no. If the prosecution can show that the defendant EVER had or knew the key, the burden is then on the defendant to prove that they do not currently have or know the key. That's the framework set up by RIPA. Proving you do not have or know something is quite difficult. If it has been 50 years since last use and you currently have advanced Alzheimer's, you should be in good shape. Otherwise, the argument that the dog ate your homework, um I mean the encryption key, is not likely to be taken seriously.
I agree. By choosing an emulated widget set, Flutter will have all the downsides of Java Swing.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it": George Santayana
Obama sees the TPP as a key part of his legacy (along with Obamacare). I think that sentence might have been as much about self-aggrandizement as it was jingoism.

He really seems to think that the TPP is a key plank in shoring up American power in Asia.

Which, if it were a better treaty, it might.
In this instance though, the fork is the method by which you interact with the food. In GUIs, the GUI elements are the ways you interact with the underlying concepts in the program (the food).

The fork is basically a GUI element, eg. a button.

Buttons appearing to be anything but buttons is as useful as a fork being shaped like a playing card - it isn't useful at all, and I could not easily shovel food into my fat face with aplomb.

I am not saying that custom GUI controls/widgets shouldn't be invented where needed, just that the basics being reinvented just for the sake of reinvention is unnecessary, and confusing.
And there is no movement to make alcohol illegal due to the same argument. It's just nuts.
Legalization with regulation tends to make it harder to obtain the product illegally. It's easier for kids in most of the US to get cannabis than it is for them to get alcohol, for example, because the legal, regulated market for alcohol makes selling it illegally largely unprofitable and therefore a much less attractive practice to engage in. This despite the far greater general availability of alcohol.
I only wish react-native and this supported Windows Phone. It's such an awesome OS but no one will ever use it because of the lack of apps :(

What do you consider awesome in Windows Phone comparing to Android and iOS?
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You don't, you need access to great if those are the emissions when the engine is running as it normally would under regular driving conditions.

It's like weighing someone, you don't need to see their feet, but if you can't then you can't tell if they have both feet on the scale.
Regarding this aside about bias (which, truly, is merely an aside and by far not the most important point of ANY of the posts I've made in this thread):

1. Just because X (here, income distribution) creates a bias that we have to correct for doesn't mean that the bias created by Y (here, self-selection for lottery participation) isn't also problematic form a statistical perspective.

2. There are a lot of reasons to believe that, in the case where we compare charters to publics, that the volunteer selection bias is more problematic than the income distribution bias in public schools. Namely, we pretty much already know how to statistically control for the latter, but it's a lot more difficult to statistically control for the former.

So, you're wrong. Period. Voluntary selection bias exists. This is just a scientific fact. You have to correct for it in statistical studies. Period. End of story. Do other biases exist? Yes. Are they more important? No, because that's a stupid question. Any sort of selection bias is a threat to validity, and the entire point of a bias is that it's hard to know exactly the effect it's having until you correct for that.

But, and I stress this because you seem to be ignoring it, the important portion of all of my posts has NOTHING to do with selection bias!

In many states we don't even have a meaningful statistic upon which to make a comparison between chaters and non-charters because charters aren't taking the same standardized tests. So even after perfectly correcting for bias, we still have zero hope of actually comparing charters to publics.

Fundamental take-away: any school taking taxpayer money should be required to take the same standardized tests as public schools. Otherwise, any and all comparisons between them are bunk.
Your explanation strikes a nerve and certainly makes me "hate Uber".
Intelligent Design did kill millions of people native to the Americas.

Also, this: http://imgur.com/hQ9Lyey
Agreed. I can't think of the last time they were relevant.
No, it looks shorter in the other direction (doesn't extend as far over the body). So the string lengths are the same, I think. You just can't finger as high.
This is true, but honestly no one is really interested in playing with the POWER ISA, which for most purposes is Just Another 90's RISC Box. The thing drawing clicks here is the question of whether or not the specific POWER8 architecture can beat contemporary Intel (which means Haswell right now, as Broadwell doesn't have a high performance Xeon variant) architecture in some regimes. And... it kinda doesn't.
> There's still a bunch of build system issues to be solved before any Rust code can be included in Firefox. You can follow along at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135640.

It seems unfortunate to be maintaining two BMP decoders because of transient build system issues. Especially if we're going to have to rewrite Piston's, making us maintain three for a time. I understand if there was some pressing need to ship it now, of course, but other than that I think I would have preferred this be written in Rust as well.

I guess it's not a big deal for 1,000 lines of code, though. We could probably do a line for line translation without much effort.
If I was thinking about working for them, I would only consider my own income. As some London drivers are saying that they make less than minimum wage after costs, they may be better off in a different job. I think it may even be a genuine choice here as there are lots of service sector jobs with variable hours. I'm not, however, saying that it is nice to be in a position of choosing between a rock and a hard place.
> In many instances outliers can be just invalid measurements and you should ignore them.

signal[i] = value[i] + noise[i].

If you know that value[i] == NaN, then by all means throw out signal[i]. If value[i] != NaN, then you're better off modeling error[i], and using that model to give you information about value[i] as yummyfajitas suggests.

This is trivial to see if noise[i] == 0, but for some reason becomes progressively harder for people as noise[i] increases.
I see drivers doing this all the time, and here's a guide for drivers to doing it: http://therideshareguy.com/how-to-drive-for-uber-and-lyft-at...

"Once that is complete, you will be back online with Uber. Switch to the Lyft app to go back online with Lyft."
> I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain

If everyone would agree, we'd all be using https://app.net/.
The tech diversity blind spot
This guy is crazy
Why shouldn't Twitter have a feature common to other social media sites-like FB and G+ to allow selective followers to see each specific Tweet? Seems like a standard feature that wouldn't be too hard to implement.
I don't think IBM wants customers that would buy Power 8 were it not for the price premium over roughly equivalent Xeons. The customers they want will be writing much, much larger checks for services and support.
Are you going to be the next billionaire angel investor? Probably not