skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things the article mentions is that marijuana is almost exclusively a cash business, due to federal law. As a Colorado lawyer explained it, most of that cash tends to stay in the state. Lawyers, accountants, construction, what have you--mostly local, and mostly paid in cash.
What do you do for a living, and how is it making the world a better place?
The election of 1800 springs to mind.

The only real difference these days is its idiotic in the current political climate not to polarize. You have to defend your beliefs and even defend areas you would rather compromise on because the compromise will allow you to be steamrolled. Look at the tech industry and our constant battle with DC over a lot of tech issues. We keep fighting this years legislation that was the same as last year.
> "I do find it funny that everyone here is jumping to find excuses for why it's not that big of a deal"

Nah -- just trying to figure out why your experience is so drastically different from ours. You're like "weed EVERYWHERE, it dominates EVERYTHING" and I'm confused because it hasn't impacted my day-to-day existence in the slightest. My grandpa (born in Denver in 1921) hasn't noticed it and he lives across from Kepner middle school. I guess that one stretch of globeville by the Purina plant (I-70 and York) smells terrible, but it's not worse than it always has been, just different (dog food and weed are both stinky.)

But I live in a single-family home with a yard in a low-income neighborhood, rather than an apartment building in a low-income neighborhood, so the airflow from my stoner neighbors 2 houses down is insignificant. On the other hand, my little sister lived in an apartment just south of Glendale before legalization, and she always complained about her stoner neighbors.
That would be pretty neat, but I just spent like fifteen minutes going through the photos and typing a word for each one... toothbrush, Zippo, shoes, plectrum, document... kind of fun, actually!
Smells like a puff-piece
Kitura by IBM – A Web Framework and HTTP Server for Swift
The average guy who owns a toolbox will never use 80% of the stuff in that box. He owns the tools "just in case."
For communities that prefer municipally provided services, Tool-Lending libraries are a great option:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tool-lending_libraries
First you write a disassembler, then an interpreter for 16 bit mode. At that point you can already almost run FreeDOS.

Here are some resources:

http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2014/readings/i386/toc.htm

The official intel manuals

http://sandpile.org/

http://ref.x86asm.net/geek.html

http://stanislavs.org/helppc/idx_hardware.html

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int.htm

http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
Really this advice is born out of two things:

1. Many investors argue you should build your product in a narrow vertical that has the opportunity to turn into a much larger market. Given you start in a narrow vertical, you should aim to dominate that vertical ('Crossing The Chasm' makes a very coherent argument in favour of this).
2. Investors are aiming for 10-100x returns, and it's hard to do that if you are not going to become the clear market leader.

Whether this leads to a better society is an interesting question. One might argue that it makes your company more likely to be successful, and successful startups are job/value creators which is better for society.
That seems like it would take longer than just manually labeling the things to begin with, especially with edge cases (what happens when there are 2 items in the picture? how do you handle mislabeling?).
This is true. Especially for the data we got through dbpedia, even though we tried to clean this somewhat. See our blog post on this: http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of...
You're assuming that what the terrorists want is to e.g. have the US invade Iraq. You're assuming the terrorists want anything in particular, instead of being irrational criminally insane crackpots.

Unless by "the terrorists" you mean the people who make money when governments and people overreact to terrorism. For them it seems quite effective. But presumably they aren't the ones actually carrying out the attacks, they're just the ones exploiting the loss of human life to gain filthy lucre.
It doesn't appear to be actively listed yet http://www.loopnet.com/locations/zynga-inc_/properties
Happy birthday! Best of all, since it's not my birthday you don't have to worry about reciprocation! :D
Windows ME was my most disliked OS (too buggy, even after service packs). I think the level of complexity finally hit the wall given the 9x series lack of good memory/file protections.

My favorite 9x OS is 98 SE (which was a stand-alone release, not a service pack). But 98 "first edition" did add substantial features to 95: IE 4, multi-monitor support, sfc was added (which was useful because 9x got corrupted a LOT), ACPI support, better plug and play, and better hardware support overall.

98 SE just added USB support out of the box (which was a big deal for those of us trying to use USB mice), IE 5, WebDAV, Windows Explorer improvements, ICS, improved WMP, and all of 98 "first editions" hotfixes and updates. You could make 98 "first edition" into 98 SE more or less, but 98 SE was a nice thing to "just install" and have everything work.

My 1990s/early 2000s OSs looked like this: 3.1, 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, back to 98 SE, and then 2000, XP SP1, and beyond. Skipped XP pre-SP1 as it was a pretty shoddy release compared to 2000 at the time, and ran away from ME screaming.
I haven't celebrated christmas with gifts since about the age of 12 or so. My family forces a gift or two on me each year.. and each year I return it for cash and leave the money at their house. Sometimes they notice, other times they don't. In the end, we both win.

I stopped accepting / asking for gifts after I overheard them stressing about a credit card bill. It didn't make sense that they should stress so I could have something I didn't want or need.

I have a small soap company on the side. I started bringing soap as a hostess gift instead of wine. It felt weird at first, but I find that most people are grateful to have a useful gift over some two-bit beach wine.
About 6'6" for the Americans here (myself included).
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So how does EMET prevent me from setting up the registers and directly calling NT kernel by executing SYSENTER/SYSCALL instruction, completely bypassing ntdll.dll and other (native) libraries?

I'm sure there's some sort of mitigation, curious to learn what. Otherwise EMET would be pretty useless, right?

"x86 Instruction Set Reference, SYSENTER, Fast System Call":

http://x86.renejeschke.de/html/file_module_x86_id_313.html
why?
it's the ideal state in capitalism for the single market player. it's just the extreme version of unfair market adv and most will anyhow not succeed getting there

(btw no political notion to this - it just is fact from my pov)
World's deepest lab targets neutrinos
That sounds reasonable.

There could be informal conspiracy, take the 2008 financial crisis. Everyone was working in their own self-interest, and there were thousands of them doing it. From the outside it could look like they were working together to some nefarious ends.
Just have the kids, and don't let them catch you throwing out their old artwork from school.
This is awe-inspiring. I don't know what to say -- except that, if it was faster, I'd try to run Windows 98 in the browser of Windows 98 in the browser.
Women are being stingy, and it’s killing our professional networks
I really like the Holocene Calendar. It adds ten thousand to any given anno domini, and thus moves the start of the calendar to 12016 years ago from today. For anything that happened before that, we're nearly guaranteed to not have very certain dates, so it's very uncommon to need to use BHE (before holocene era) with the holocene calendar. 4 B.C.E is 9997 HE, 753 B.C.E. is 9248 HE (Holocene era). For AD add 10.000, for BC subtract from 10.001, as it has a year zero. And even the dates for the construction of Gobeklitepe can be expressed in positive years.
I use Google's offering and it's probably pretty solid with YouTube Red, but I'm guessing at this point they're third behind Spotify and Apple?
The same building used to be the headquarters of Sega of America back during their heyday. (the level design of Sonic Adventure 2 was heavily influenced by San Francisco / Bay Area)
It would have taken 10 seconds to add a box over the username while he was adding those arrows, given the context of the article, it seems outright irresponsible.
Zynga puts its San Francisco headquarters up for sale
Show HN: A web scraper to obtain lists of anonymous proxies for web scraping
It concerns a 2001 proposal to 'support the scrollbar-(blah)-color properties implemented in IE5.5'. More specifically, this comment comes from someone who is one of several who really want that ability.
> dug up eight saguaros from federal land in daylight, then sold them for $2,000 apiece, two of them he shipped to Austria.

Saguaros are amazingly heavy (people have been killed by the "arms" landing on them) - I'm sort of impressed that the buyers could afford to ship something that large and awkward.
He has another interesting article in which he speculates how spacetime might emerge from connected nodes (graphs).

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-rea...
I am really impressed by this.

I am sure you put a lot of labor into this project.

You also seeded lots of ideas...

Thank you.
Billionaire Wants $30M from California to Give Beach Access
I don't think it's plausible that Tesla is responsable for it, but we can raise some questions surrounding the event.

Apparently there's still no scientific consensus (is that even possible?) on the Tunguska explosion and NASA seems to acknowledges that.

Taken from:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30...

"A century later some still debate the cause and come up with different scenarios that could have caused the explosion," said Yeomans"

No remains of the asteroid, no impact crater and the claims from Tesla together is what is fascinating to me.
"But maybe we need completely different approach to get out of local optima technology seems to be right now."

So your problem is not that a Rust rewrite would be too much of a change. It's that it would be too little? ;)

If there is any popular low-level language that is a "completely different approach", I'd say that language is Rust.
(I could be wrong about this, I haven't thought about it in great detail)

I think invoking the Anthropic principle only makes sense if we can demonstrate that there are a number of other "places" with varying "conditions". For such a selection bias to occur there needs to be a population to actually select from. For example, the Anthropic principle makes sense regarding the composition of the earth because we know that there are a large number of planets with a distribution of orbits and masses around a distribution of stars. Of course we will be on a planet that supports life as we know it.

To invoke the anthropic principle regarding a constant would imply — to me, at least — that there would need to be a number of universes with different constants. Or different regions of this universe where the constant would vary.

If there truly is only a single universe, and the constant is not changing in time or space, then it would seem we did actually just happen to get lucky.

Edit: of course, at this point we can't say definitely either way about our universe. We don't know if ours is one among many, or if its the solitary universe in existence. We also, clearly, have uncertainty about how constant this constant actually is.
Cities and the Creative Class [pdf]
THats the thing. You don't 'need' all these things. Yes if you want to do some competitive baking you're gonna want all the specialized tools but to it's not a necessity.

Personally I try to think of my tools as investment, if I don't use it professionally I don't spend too much on it.
You're right to be concerned- while responsible adults won't smoke around kids, plenty of irresponsible ones will. And there have been instances of kids bring consumables to school. And there's also a vibe here that weed is somehow 'medicine' and 'beneficial' caused by the years of medical MJ being used as backdoor legalization, which confuses the issue of how it affects developing brains.
They already tried:

Initially, Godot was designed to support multiple scripting languages (this ability still exists today). However, only GDScript is in use right now. There is a little history behind this.

In the early days, the engine used the Lua scripting language. Lua is fast, but creating bindings to an object oriented system (by using fallbacks) was complex and slow and took an enormous amount of code. After some experiments with Python, it also proved difficult to embed.

The last third party scripting language that was used for shipped games was Squirrel, but it was dropped as well. At that point, it became evident that Godot would work more optimally by using a built-in scripting language...

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/reference/gdscript.htm...
> World fertility rate is still somewhat above replacement,

World fertility is only above replacement because of a few hot spots that have high fertility. As those cultures are converted to something more western-looking, fertility plummets.

You're postulating that, somehow, this will reverse and those places will convert the west to something not-so-western-looking, or that they'll fail to convert.

Both of these seem very unlikely.

Do you see any trends or evidence that either of those will come to pass?

> Low fertility doesn't lead to extinction in a few hundred years. Let's say the average is one child per woman (even places like Japan are above this), then it still takes 23 generations to reduce the global population to a thousand people, and a further ten generations to reduce to one.

It's a compounding effect. When there are only one thousand people, you still expect those who grew up in such an environment will still somehow manage a fertility rate of 1.0?

What will allow you to hit 1.0 and plateau at that for 33 generations?

> Nobody really understands why fertility rates drop with wealth,

That's easy to understand. As individuals can be mentally ill, so can large groups of people be so collectively. And collectively, the world is neurotic.

> so it's not weird to think that further changes could

Yes, miracles will happen.
Thanks! There is indeed some noise and messy data as well as some questionable categorisations, all taken from wikipedia/dbpedia/wikidata. See this blogpost ( http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of... ) for a full description of how we got the data.
> I find it interesting, and disconcerting, that articulating a defensible competitive advantage is no longer sufficient advice. Now it's, "can you be a monopoly? no? go home".

A "defensible competitive advantage" is precisely a "monopoly" as that term is used in economics; that is, a defensible competitive advantage meansyou have something that assures that no other notionally "competing" product or combination of products is a perfect substitute for at least some subset of your products use cases; within that subset of use cases, you therefore have some range of pricing power, which defines a monopoly.
Licensing Code Fragments in Your Blog – It Really Does Matter
It's not a service as I would think of it. You download and install it on-premise as far as I understand.

I know they call it "CaaS", but I guess they are comparing it to using other PaaS's that can be installed on-premise, such as Cloud Foundry. Personally I find the term confusing, as I'm not sure who the consumer of the service is meant to be (developers creating containers? ops who get a platform for running them?)
Question for people in the know: as I read more about Erlang and Elixir, I'm starting to wonder how it holds up in such an architecture. Would it have similar performance characteristics?

Would something like spark/storm/etc be simpler to implement on top of Elixir? Possibly more performant? Or make better use of CPU cores?
I've tried the new Orion drivers on my Leap at home. It's a very big improvement. Still not rock-solid. But, quite impressive for a software update.
I think this is a combination of two things. Firstly the common business definitions of monopoly are weaker than the common economic definitions of monopoly. In some cases the Michael Porter's of the world are happy to call something a monopoly casually if it has any unique selling point. Secondly, the standards for companies that raise venture capital are higher than for most normal businesses.
i find it downright scary. that such insane scale is a prerequisite for success leads to companies taking greater and greater risks. to achieve monopoly scale requires it. ignoring local laws and regulations becomes rational in this environment, as we have seen.
What is this $10 wine you speak of :)
> A fellow human being is someone who doesn't hate/fear women.

Listen to yourself. You are literally dehumanizing Hasidic Jews here. I don't agree with this guy's religion, but responding to insensitivity with outright bigotry is not making things better.

I never said anyone is obligated to comply — I might not either in these people's shoes. But accusing him of forcing his religion on others or being subhuman or hating women or what-have-you is toxic to conversation and not helpful.
It's stuff like this that makes me wish I had unlimited side project time. I think this could be fun to work on but my assembly/C level programming skills would need some serious ramp-up. Great work though!
I don't disagree :-)

It would be hilarious for it to take over LibreOffice or FireFox.
Any suggestions on how to upload software?

Could I use kermit, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem through com 1?
they are in a position of luxury, for sure. if a serious contender starts cutting into Docker Corp's pie, they'll have to ramp up the other departments.
It can help if it turns an illiquid real estate investment with a liquid software company attached to it into a software company with a lot of cash. There's not much they can do to unlock the real estate value other than borrow against it which is risky.

I suspect that once they have the cash in the banks, activists will push them to "enhance shareholder value" with it, which is more likely share buybacks than anything else. It could still lead to an acquisition.

Unlocking the cash is nominally better than holding onto the building from a buyout perspective in that it saves the buyer the dirty work. If the buyer wants to do an LBO, they can use the cash to finance it. (Strange how that works!)
Does it come with the cardboard standups of animals that have the founder's haircut?
From what I've been reading on Reddit, the Leap Motion finally works.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leapmotion

Until this software release, everyone had pretty much given up on it
This is the correct path forward to move society into a digital era. It follows the well established principle that the state uses force in legally proscribed ways to maintain security. Known as the “monopoly of the legitimate use of force”, this is a core concept of modern law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence). This concept carries over cleanly from the past into the digital era. In this case govt security forces are committing digital violence in the same way that criminals do. Same thing as when the SWAT team breaks down a door, just a digital version.

The alternative is that the government co-opts manufacturers so that government agencies can carry out security tasks without using digital violence. That’s what the FBI is seeking in the Apple case and it is a much worse direction for society because it challenges the existence of strong security in our increasingly digital society.

Note that the legitimate use of force is done according to law. As stated in the article, “In order to use the malware, government officials will have to get a court order, allowing authorities to hack into a citizen's system.”. If your objection to this is “they say that it’s done according to law but we know there will also be instances of them using it inappropriately” then you are also arguing that strong encryption (and pretty much any interesting technology) should not be allowed for public use because we know there will also be instances of it being used to achieve bad ends.

I understand that the reality of police, military, etc are not as nice as the theory but I have not seen people here explicitly rejecting the use of force by the state. If you oppose the German government employing spyware, you should consider whether you also oppose it arresting people in general. I suspect most people here have no alternative to suggest in place of the centuries of legal tradition that western societies are built on.
I do want stuff but ... about 30 months ago I got rid of everything and started traveling. I've been living out of a large suitcase and backpack for that entire time, staying at hotels or renting AirBnBs a month at a time.

Because I'm living out of my suitcase I can't buy anything without throwing something away. I have 2 pairs of shoes, dress and non-dress. When I've gone to some place tropical I've had to buy sandals and then throw them away when I get on the next plane because there's no room in my suitcase.

It also means I can't really go shopping. Some of you might think that's a good thing but many people enjoy shopping while traveling. I'm in a cold place now. A couple of days ago I spilt something on my one heavy jacket. While it's in the cleaners I had to buy another which I'll have to discard one way or another before I get on the next plane.

For me personally yea, I miss having a TV to chill at. I miss video games and PC games (carrying a mac which few games run on and can't have a console). Wish I had a desktop PC for higher end graphics. Wish I could play with VR but can't carry that equipment. (well except for a Google Cardboard)

I'm ready to go back to living somewhere though being un-rooted I'm finding it extremely hard to decide where I should plant roots again.
how??
Ah. They can!

Initially, Godot was designed to support multiple scripting languages (this ability still exists today). However, only GDScript is in use right now. There is a little history behind this.
> Sure, I can find exactly the place I want to live - as long as I'm willing to pony up the cash.

So—it's not really Denver, it's cheap housing complexes in Denver. Furthermore, I know for a fact that there's plenty of affordable housing over in e.g. Lowry with family living (read: no centralized air, outside entrances, reliable utility costs), so I can't imagine this is your only option.

> This is a weird argument to me. I'm making statements about how other people using affects me, and this is talking about how my using affects me.

I'm not trying to address your needs, I'm simply pointing out that on the list of all the unhealthy things about denver, weed smoke has got to be behind social attitudes toward drinking, smoking, the high altitude, the high density of cars/people, and high rent on the public transit lines. Realistically, you could easily avoid weed smoke if you wanted to, and I frankly don't buy that it would be more expensive. There's a reason the non-smoking clauses are in all the leases—it's a liability and depreciates your property.
Hmm I would expect the results to be based on the data structure holding the values you're flattening. An in-order depth first traversal if the data structure you're applying it to has an inherent order (e.g a List) and in an undefined order if it's something unordered like a Set.

List(List(1,2), List(3,4), List(5,6)).flatten -> List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Set(Set(1,2), Set(3,4), Set(5,6)).flatten -> Set(5, 1, 6, 2, 3, 4)
Once you go into fullscreen mode it seems it work fine, but it took me a while to figure this out...