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My understanding wasnt that the CIA was directly involved in the drug trade, but that their normal activities create infrastructure for their partners that are shady international organizations that operate outside local laws naturally creates drug smuggling networks.

They work with local organized crime to create covert hideouts and border crossings for CIA use, and give them funding and weapons in exchange, and things like the drug trade come out of that almost automatically.
The article states that research shows no correlation between severe drug penalties and usage levels.

There's a few people offering anecdotes to counter that, but obviously actual research wins, the difference between Portugal and Japan are therefore likely to be cultural differences outside of strict drug laws.
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from MySQL link: "They are NOT FIT FOR PRODUCTION."
...so how many women are actually commenting on this post? Raise your hands please?

Hahaha, this is a classssic hackernews discussion. "There is absolutely no discrimination. Women are held to the same standards as men. They just complain. Saying that women have it unfair is ITSELF sexist" type arguments are the best (for entertainment value).

@dang and other hackernews people:
Regardless of if you agree with them or not, you do realize that this will reflect on Ycombinator's perception/PR right? No amount of office hours for women is going to counter this RIDICULOUS volume of INSANELY UNAWARE sexism going around in these forums. I mean, for YCombinator's sake I hope you guys agree with most of the comments here, otherwise this is just deadweight on whatever your 'diversity' aims may be. Calling them lazy, complaining fools is how you put the bullseye on your backs for the time when the pitchforks come out.

Just saying. This is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be this way. Really.
Or, more accurately, most US homes do have one -- it's in the coffee maker :-)
I think that what gets down-voted is more the implication that making drugs offences capital crimes is the chief reason Singapore and Indonesia have lower drug usage rates.

I believe that more significant influencing factors are that drug usage is socially unacceptable Singapore and Indonesia, that citizens are more willing to accept government control over their private activities, that drugs are harder to acquire.

It seems more likely that those countries are able to have capital punishment for (what the West would consider to be) minor drugs offences precisely _because_ drug use is already low and drug users are more consistently vilified by society.
This was noted in another comment. A print book is about $3 more in cost (printing, distribution, returns, etc.) than an ebook. i.e. not nearly as much as most people assume.

(I note that I can order quantity one of the book I have on Amazon Createspace for $3.75 plus shipping.)
For my home, I fully believe that if things continue this way, I will need to have three networks at home. The household network and wifi for my wife and our family to use, the work network (hardwired Cat6 because that's how I like it) for my multiple work computers and NAS, and a third network with its own wifi just if IoT. IoT devices need not have access to the other two networks. It would be nice if this level of segmentation were to be built into the higher end home routers.

Personally, I enjoy setting my house up "like a data center". But that is far beyond most home owners' abilities or desires for their network.
Which is weird, seeing as the git license is GPL 2. I mean, I find it weird that one can build a product completely around a GPL project, and somehow not make it GPL. The whole point of the GPL is to restrict derivatives. Yet, somehow this has been mutated to become "links to a library," as if the technical fact that the product links to some code over an API boundary is different, legally speaking, than calling it with arguments over a process boundary.

The point of the GPL was supposed to be about derivative products, that is code that depends non-optionally on other code. Whether it depends on that code via linking, calling exec(), or sending HTTP requests, it shouldn't be legal to write a non-open-source application that depends on a GPL program to do anything useful.
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country's drug laws and its levels of drug use."

Quote from the article we're discussing.
Well, I don't consider £50 (US$70, €65) to be particularly cheap. They're certainly more expensive than some of the competition (http://www.wifiplug.co.uk/wifiplug-glass.html).

If you can find me a more expensive and/or higher quality switch - I'll gladly buy and review it.
Actually, that's not true. In Florida a year or two ago, ~58% voted to legalize medical marijuana, but the vote needed 60% because it was a ballot initiative. How come the Florida reps didn't go ahead and do it themselves since obviously a majority of their electorate voted that way? It's about a lot more than the electorate.
None of Idris, Ceylon or F# doesn't have ML-style modules:

(0) “In principle”, you could encode modules in Idris using dependent sum types, but... Good luck with that! It isn't going to be terribly usable. In general, Haskell and related languages don't consider it worth the effort to give modules proper types. I guess we can be thankful Agda's modules don't suck as badly as Haskell's - at least they can be nested.

(1) Ceylon and Scala's type systems are sophisticated enough to encode some of the use cases for modules with objects, but invariably the result is awkward. And other use cases are just impossible. For example, how should I encode an ML functor that takes as arguments two modules with shared type members? If it's possible at all, I don't even want to imagine how horrifying it will be to manually turn all the sharing by fibration into sharing by parameterization.

(2) F# doesn't allow any encoding of ML-style modules. Nothing. Nichts. Nada. It's the only so-called “ML dialect” where the most important feature from ML is completely missing.
Nothing so quickly emphasizes that a bag of tricks can turn into actual math more than a linear algebra course. In a math degree you can literally take the same course twice. At a first year level you will learn to perform all these tricks with matrices and get a hint of inner product spaces. In 2nd or 3rd year you'll do the reverse and justify why matrix algebra works in the first place.

But the harder a subject, the longer it feels like learning a bag of tricks. The first partial differential equations course feels like you are working on only 3 problems for 4 months.

edit: I had a prof whose first DE course was at the graduate level. At the oral exam he was asked to give an example of a differential equation and all he could do was point to phi on the blackboard.
Negative income tax + citizen dividend would be awesome. Also completely dynamic and self adjusting.
Japan and Hong Kong are culturally very different from Portugal, which makes comparison to Portugal difficult.

Something interesting to consider is alcohol use in Japan vs. elsewhere: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/167/4/388.1.full
So in these countries is the number of executions per million population higher than the deaths in the USA, say, directly attributed to drug sale/use?
Don't many wifi routers offer a "guest network" feature?
Traditional light switches have evolved to have the perfect UX (within their scope). I can tell the state of the switch from its physical position and it has a nice click when switching to give me instant and appropriate tactile feedback.

Losing this is a step backwards. For me, this device would be a downgrade even if it worked well.

I understand that the state of the switch might end up wrong, but we already have that in standard 2-way switches. Ultimately, perhaps we'll see mechanical switches that can also move themselves.

You can get both Z-Wave and Insteon switch inserts that continue using the existing physical switch but also relay the switch position to a controller. I plan to use these instead.

I like Insteon's dual bus system (RF and also encoded into the lighting circuit itself) but it doesn't have encryption. Z-Wave has encryption but I don't know how good it is. So I haven't decided between the two yet.
Its nothing they are not already doing! They are just looking for a way to use the methods more openly and then they can disclose evidence that usually stays hidden ("An anonymous tip brought him to our attention") in criminal trials and prosecutions.
China, too, have a far lower drug use rate. Not sure for Japan and Hk, but for China I think there are two main reasons. One, she was "locked in turmoil" during the 70s and the 80s, so did not get the influence from this period. Two, most young people are busy making their life, and have actually good hope to have a much better life than their parents (which is not that difficult).
Coffee, cake and cats? Are cat cafes the next big thing?
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I believe so, I believe most kids are doing it because it's taboo and feels something adventurous to experience.

Now legalizing drugs would also give standards and tests. Instead of potentially toxic you'd get something tested (you may get shitty product still but the producer will get busted and closed easily).
You of course realize that this was the same kind of social conditioning and gender role pressure that the grandparent post is downplaying?
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> I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

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MBA here, you probably don't need an MBA.

I went for it mostly to switch industries and geographies, as well as for the "learning" part, which I just find fun.

It worked really well for me, but I had clear expected outcomes. The marginal value of an MBA degree is diminishing as the knowledge is easily available anywhere, but there are a few things which still count:

- Network: unlike an usual MSc or PhD, an MBA class has 100's of people, and you spend a lot of time with them, building a very solid network

- Switching functions or industry: it gives you a very good starting point. If you're an engineer, it will be hard to switch straight into marketing, PM, finance, etc. Doing an MBA, plus a summer internship in your target function will make a huge difference.

- Switching geographies: the job marketplace for new MBA grads is global (visa issues in some countries aside), and salaries are usually similar globally, so it's a nice opportunity to chose where you to live moving forward

- You're being sponsored: just do it, seriously, don't even think about it

On the learning side, even if you can find all the stuff online, it makes a huge difference to discuss implications face to face with some brilliant professors. Here's the top stuff I learned:

* How to constantly assess your own decision biases and compensate for it

* Lot's of game theory and strategy applied to real world

* Negotiations

* You're not gonna beat the market, so don't even bother

* How power is created and traded inside organizations
Ignoring Saddam deciding he could just invade nearby countries?
Self driving cars would likely have black boxes that record everything that happened.
> This is not a conspiracy

It is absolutely a conspiracy, just one that happens to actually have occurred and probably continues to occur.
That's very true. The switches I reviewed had good "click" when pressed and used an LED to indicate state.

I did look at Z-Wave switches, but it seems they also need a neutral wire.

Perhaps I'll just hire a servant to turn things on and off for me. Uber for electrical switches...
> One the flip side - what was that database that apple bought then closed sourced without warning?

FoundationDB. And as far as I know some important bits of it were proprietary even before Apple bought them, it's just Apple removed everything related, stuff that was previously available like packages and docs.
Google has the rapid transit lines in many cities, see for example London. In some of the Bay Area, they hint bus lines as well, but it's a bit of a mess (https://goo.gl/maps/rVPgGSBRD7G2). These maps are auto-generated it seems, so there are some issues - check out LA Union station (https://goo.gl/maps/GeW28w9MPpQ2).

Where the underlying transit data does not contain the exact shapes of routes, they interpolate the data with something that looks like Splines. You can see that in London, especially for the Docklands Light Railway (https://goo.gl/maps/uGmyBZZwDhy).

Apple maps makes much prettier transit maps, although I hear rumors they create them by hand.
When I was quite a bit younger and did a semester abroad (from the US) I became friends with several Dutch students in our dorm/hostel. I remember, being the naive 19-year-old that I was, asking how cool it was that weed was legal there and stuff like that. They mostly looked at me with a tolerant but exhausted expression and said that it was more of a tourist thing. The impression I got was that it was treated by everyone the way I now look at teens who constantly talk about smoking cannabis or getting drunk as if it was the coolest thing ever. Basically it was like "yeah, sure, it's legal but come on, only dipshits make it out to be something more than a minor vice or guilty pleasure to be indulged infrequently".
Worth noting that the government in the NL is working quite hard to make it less tolerated, e.g. shuttering coffeeshops through legitimate grievances such as selling to minors or through "neighborhood improvement" or "too near a school" reasons and by criminalizing the aiding of production (taken to absurd levels such that innocent garden supply shops can be criminally liable). Production has already been and remains illegal, and the government has rejected calls by various cities to experiment with sanctioned growing.

It's quite an absurd situation, honestly.
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enterprise only?
Something isn't well thought-out here. The pricing? The usage?

$49 per month for one million records, one million calls over the API and only 20(!) sessions. I don't think there's a consumer or business app that I could build that would stay under the session and call limits.
I think you have changed the subject, though. Interrupting somebody in a group discussion may or may not be rude at times, but it is hardly the same kind of rude as brushing off somebody who invites you to a date. Taking a woman's ideas and pretending they are your own is completely unrelated.

Edit: more specifically, your links are about non-rude actions by women being considered rude, whereas the discussion is about rude actions by men not being considered rude. For example, from one of your links, I don't think anybody thought Kanye West was not rude for grabbing the microphone from Taylor Swift.
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It's not unreasonable to suggest that HFCS is in fact more toxic and more dangerous than any whole-plant drug.

(and I mean traditional plant medicines here, not, obviously, hemlock and the like :-)
Legal derivative works under copyright law of a particular computer program are not the same thing as programs which functionally interact with them -- functional interaction doesn't make a work derivative.
Mozilla is a clear example of a software that isn't the product being sold.

The product being sold is the service to access online web sites, sell search data to engines and online advertising.
This is the usual definition, assuming NN, because it's a conveniently general model with a well-understood training method. However, to me, deep learning is a more general concept: several layers to learn features, with a final classification or regression layer; where "layer" is some statistical learning process. The key idea is that features can be learned in a hierarchical way, not so much that they are NN layers, which is an implementation detail.

For example, several layers of high-dimensional k-means unsupervised learning followed by a simple linear classification stage can perform very well.
I am shocked that A SaaS survey would ever need 100 people never mind having 100 it was able to let go.
Hi, LaTeX copyeditor and typesetter here. The bane of my existence are authors who know just enough LaTeX to be dangerous. First, almost all of their formatting work is the first thing to be thrown out. Second, authors are strongly incentivized to learn the bare minimum of LaTeX to do what they need, and to copy-paste furiously whatever stuff they find on the net. You have to remember that (La)TeX is both a markup and a programming language. Can you imagine spending your time reading code written by a copy-paste monkey? I can, and don't wish you the pleasure.
This is interesting, one thing that does concern me though is the fingerprint of the traffic, is this "impossible to shut down" presuming ISPs don't analyze their own users traffic and don't apply restrictions to such in certain circumstances. For example ip traffic unless to a dst of 80/443 with proto tcp (or 53/udp dns) could be classified as potential-P2P and throttled. Or if residential ISPs don't let end users run servers possibly by something as primitive as a router ACL on ports <1024, and then throttle P2P where src port and dst port both > 1024 then how will this survive?

It sounds like this solves the discover-ability issue, but weather it can be crippled vs shutdown Im not so sure.

Also does this have anything to do with popcorn time, looks very similar, movie time :)
Yeah, if it saves me time/work I'll gladly pay $70.
We own a kettle here in California, for tea and press coffee. In the morning, they are quick and work well. Only problems are arguments over too little or too much water.

Despite a nice gas stove, the electric kettle is quicker to use. It also has some "brains" in that it shuts down after awhile if not turned off (say 3-5 minutes at desired temp).

I don't know how many times I've had things cooking on the stove and forgot about them due to work, etc.
"...LED to indicate state."

This will not do when I'm trying to sleep in a darkened room.
Where I live it's illegal for tobacco companies to market their product. In any way. Anywhere. They are hidden in the shops and if one wants to buy it one needs to specifically ask for it.
> Most of them know only how to deal drugs, know only crime, they will need to find new way to make money and probably it will not be a legal one.

This entire sentence is constructed of wild, unsubstantiated assumptions, strung together one after the other.

There's no part of this that resonates with my experience of the world, nor with the apparent fact pattern of the end of prohibition in places where prohibition has been materially ended.
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I tried doing this - but there are two complications.

Firstly, how do you get your phone/server to talk to the IoT network? Some devices - like the Lifx - expect you to be in the same IP range in order to work properly.

Secondly, some IoT devices are wired into the network - specifically smart plugs which use powerline networking, and some HVAC stuff like Tado.

It's not an insurmountable problem, but requires careful configuration and accepting some loss of functionality.
Huh. I would have thought that the woman in question is assertive and putting an asshole in his place, but now that you've told me society at large thinks of her as a bitch, I'll make sure to fall in line.
Just from January - for some reason it was unable to call home, temperatures plummeted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/fashion/nest-thermostat-gl...
So heroin isn't clinically addictive and one can't overdose on it?
"Inexpensive" and "cheap" are not synonymous. I've experienced plenty of cheap things with a high price, and it produces the perception that the entire industry is terrible.
Most Americans don't use either kind of kettle.
Many countries award a lot more immigration "points" to a masters than say a bachelors (regardless of field). So in general if you're planning to move you need an M
I would love to see some real innovation in this area, because i think there is so much that can be done to retrofit every single switch in a current house with something.

I've currently given up because my house has 4 3 or 4-way circuits and there are really only 2 pretty poor choices for 3-way switches, and none that i can find so far for 4-way that don't require you to fully rewire the circuit and then have the controller to fake the 4-way-ness of the circuit.
Software is an inconsistent thing, it takes years of effort to make it right. With IoT we are, literally, spreading inconsistency all over the place.

I usually see industry tendencies (such as "big data" or "machine learning") skeptically, but this one I'm just plain pessimistic. I hope I'm wrong.
Remember the good old days when software was designed from the assumption that Internet wouldn't be available, and then if it happened to be, it would do some other interesting things? I get that these are connected "smart" devices, but is it that difficult to tell the NEST thermostat that when the service is unavailable to simply keep running whatever settings were last used and just wait for it to come back? I cannot imagine sitting through a features meeting where we decided if our support smart thermostat has no internet connection, it just shuts everything the hell off.

My beefs with smart devices are numerous, but I think their most offensive component is software that seems to have been all designed by the same kind of moron.
I worked for a short stint at a product development company that was getting into IoT. I came to the realization that IoT products are going to be just like the WWW in the early days - we are going to have a lot of dumb ideas before we have some really smart ideas.

We will have to endure the Internet of Stupid Things first, sigh.
Actually, I think on that specific switch it was the other way round. Personally I'd have preferred your scenario - because it means I can always find the switch.
they are the entry to the old boys network. i've got an uncle who had one of these. he really is not that smart but he's been to Nyenrode. so he just gets jobs from old pals, fails at them. repeat ad infinitum. still brings in a lot of cash. if i had decent netwroking skills i'd apply there too.
I think he means the CLI.
Which, for someone who can establish a good relationship with a good publisher, is a perfectly reasonable position to take. Publishers are like any other service. If they provide good value, authors should use use them and otherwise not use them.
All my friends from Whatsapp show as Facebook suggestion just occasionally.
I don't know what a heatlink is, but if I have to be physically present, that's a non-starter for vacation homes.