skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

> That sums it up pretty well. It never was about fighting drug use or preventing the harm it can do. Can we now, please, get that behind us and move on? If we only spent 10% of what we now spent on prosecuting drug use on prevention and rehabilitation, that would be a much greater service to society than fourty years of "war" have been. Not to mention the benefits for privacy, the decrease in violence and so on...

I think the disturbing part is people, even now, deny this is the reason Nixon pushed for it. I just can't understand it. :/

Nixon basically shat on the results of his own commissions by members of his own party when he didn't like the results. History is littered with evidence this man had an agenda yet people act like the "Drug War" wasn't created as a political tool.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-hi...

> In June 1971, President Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants. Nixon temporarily placed marijuana in Schedule One, the most restrictive category of drugs, pending review by a commission he appointed led by Republican Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer. In 1972, the commission unanimously recommended decriminalizing the possession and distribution of marijuana for personal use. Nixon ignored the report and rejected its recommendations.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-war-on...

> On December 5, 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Stephen Hess to the position of National Chairman of the White House Conference for Children and Youth. Hess's task was to "listen well to the voices of young Americans -- in the universities, on the farms, the assembly lines, the street corners," in the hopes of uncovering their opinions on America's domestic and international affairs. After two years of intensive planning, Hess and 1,486 delegates from across the country met in Estes Park, Colorado, and, from April 18 to 22, 1971, discussed ten areas that most concerned the youth of America. These issues included, not surprisingly, the draft and the war in Vietnam, the economy and employment, education, the environment, poverty, and, most notably for Points readers, drugs.

> The task force on drugs, composed of eight youths and four adults, forcefully argued for addressing the root causes of drug abuse, advocating therapy for addicts rather than incarceration or punishment.

> ... even if the Nixon administration distorted the numbers that tied drug addiction to instances of crime. ...
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The Parse Server repo has crossed 7,500 stars and now has 53 contributors. This is a huge addition to the ecosystem, a completely open-source client and server application platform, combining the best features from all of the competition... and you can run it all on your laptop.
UK prices are crazy.

The entry price model is £359 which is $516 USD instead of $399. The 64GB one is £439 which is $631 USD instead of $499.

So in short $100+ for shipping.

http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-se/16gb-silve...
Wow, I've had an iPhone 6S for months and didn't realize this existed.

Maybe I should check the documentation, but this also highlights the discoverability problem of 3D Touch. I guess I need to get in the habit of trying to "3D Touch" all over the place to find new features?
On the serious side, it would have made an interesting alternate to the web.
A good Thinkpad... T, W or P-series... Some of the X are also okay...

Please realize that not everything named Lenovo is the good ol' thinkpad-quality... If it has onsite warranty it is probably okay....
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I used to have Comcast. It was pretty unreliable for a couple of years, then eventually firmed up and it was OK.

The customer service is definitely atrocious. I remember one incident where the modem was clearly indicating that it wasn't seeing a signal on the line. I called up, and the guy asked me to reboot my computer. I explained that this was clearly unnecessary, and he agreed and proceeded with proper troubleshooting. Then at some point he must have forgotten and reverted back, and asked me to reboot my computer again! It was bizarre.

Worse was when they had to send techs out. They give four-hour windows and then never even make them, nor do they ever communicate to tell you they're going to be late. I had one guy show up at 5PM for a 12-4 window and then act baffled at why I wasn't there. When I did manage to make contact, they often sucked. One guy did some work on my exterior wiring and then just left without cleaning up. I went outside to find open cable boxes, wiring sticking out, and bits strewn around on the ground.

Things got better when I discovered the @comcastcares account on Twitter and started telling them about the ridiculous stuff that was happening. But it shouldn't even require that.

Now I have FiOS. I've had to call for a problem exactly once. That one time, I got a person and told them that I logged into the router and it said it couldn't obtain a DHCP lease from Verizon. This tech understood exactly what that meant (I never had a front-line Comcast tech understand "DHCP") and immediately launched into appropriate troubleshooting. She had me back online in a few minutes with no bullshit.
I still have two NeXTstations (one is a Turbo!) sitting in my closet. Wonderful machines and a fantastic OS for its time. I don't have monitors for them anymore, but even so, I doubt I'll ever part with them.
This is cool but I would love to see research and investment going into making planes big enough and (more importantly) efficient enough just to comfortably sit in.
I'm 6'3 as well with a long body and don't fit in 80ish % of cars and I fit wonderfully in a Model S even with the sun roof. Heck, I could even pull off sitting in back if a 'normal' sized person was driving.

I am very pessimistic I will fit into a Model 3 though, especially with a car seat in back. My hope is to find a used S in a couple years.
What are the odds that VC's funneling cash into Boom would build dedicated airports for these? :)
Such a contract would likely be ruled unconscionable (invalid) if anyone challenged it. I don't think there's a judge in the country that could be convinced that any piece of code is good enough consideration for random tangible property.
I have a Lenovo t450s and love it, but I bought it for the 14.5hr battery life and often it lasts longer then that.

I also use the keyboard track dot for my navigation, and love it.

The T460s is the current model. It's worth a look.
Ask HN:

I have been looking at ways to manage some private npm packages while also having the freedom and ease to publish npm packages to github.

jspm is good - but it covers your code with ugly systemJS.

is there a workaround ? is it possible for me to use code kept in bitbucket, github, private github repos, etc.

best wishes - I tried sinopia - but its not maintained well :( I would love to make my own npm but not sure where to start !
I fail to see why a normal person would want the extra things in an iPad Pro. Sure for some professionals it has some good features but a normal content consumer/light content creator (edit pictures, write some documents) it is just overkill with TrueTone display, etc.

Yes the CPU power is on the same level as an Atom/i3 from what I have read which is interesting but what does it really offer that the Air doesn't offer to an average user? I guess it is similar to how some of those average consumers also buy a MacBook Pro when they don't need any of the extra power over an Air (although lack of retina display on the Air is a valid reason thinking about it).

The biggest complaint I have with the iPad Pro is that it runs iOS. If it ran a touch-friendly ARM-version of OS X that would be awesome.
David O'Toole's twitter account is a good one to follow for updates. https://twitter.com/dtotoole
Have you tested this on mobile safari? It jumped around a lot before sort of displaying ok, but then the jumping issues returned. I query it because your page makes a point of mentioning the fully responsive layout - but personally if I visited a page which displayed the behaviour on mobile like yours did, I would immediately leave and not come back.
Ah, perhaps. However that raises new questions. What do you limit the input to? On par with the best players? Do you just average their APM and minimap navigation abilities? It could work, but I think it would be more interesting to let the AI take advantage of its enhanced ability to scour the map.
phantomjscloud.com, there's a html-to-pdf example on the front page.

disclaimer: i wrote it
Count me as one of the people who needs to pay for software to do taxes every year...it's only something I do once a year, so not frequently enough that personal automation would be worthwhile (even as a weekend project)...and...the tax code to me is probably like what software installation is to the people who pay fees to Geek Squad :p

But this from the author sounds promising:

> By re-presenting the tax calculation as a tree, we have the ability to trace back what led to any surprises on the tax form, aggregate multiple users, and otherwise process the information in a manner that would be difficult or incoherent using only the form view. If your financial situation gives you the freedom to act on what-if scenarios, or if you are a tax researcher considering the situations of diverse taxpayers, the structures here are hopefully more amenable to your needs.

I mean, I guess that's the normal pattern of software innovation...take something very specific, abstract it a bit, and now you have something that opens new ways of thinking and exploring. I wasn't aware that there was XML metadata that could be interpreted...though in retrospect...obviously there would have to be for tax software to stay up to date, though I pictured in my head that Turbotax and its peers just bring in hundreds of data entry persons to pore over reams of tax code paper documents to fix up the app every year.
This comment strikes hard for me given that I am also reading Sen. Elizabeth Warren's book A Fighting Chance. It is remarkable how much greed pervades these "stodgy old banks".
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Gin uses HttpRouter (https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter) which is heavily optimized for performance, as can seen here: https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark. As the author has noted on the page that "a comparison with other frameworks is coming soon" personally I would play safe and stick with HttpRouter for now and if it makes sense rewrite routing and switch to Lion once the performance characteristics are available.

(Or maybe the author, also the OP, could join and tell how Lion compares to HttpRouter)
Wow, it works! You'd think Amazon, of all companies, would understand that they should guide customers to what's available instead of just saying "no, guess again."

Edit: it works a little too well. Selecting "no term" gives me options even for an address where Comcast is not available. Great job, Amazon.
The Shadow Project is an open source project aiming to be the core of privacy
I disagree. I work in a law office. Almost everyone is issued a laptop, desktop, and, if they want, an iPad. iPad is fine for reading documents or e-mail, but awful for actually creating anything. Our office has found the keyboard is terrible, cut and paste is a pain, and people prefer a real filesystem. Nobody in our office does any real work (i.e. writing) with the iPad except reviewing documents while sitting in court or an airplane seat. Everybody I know just treats it like a giant phone.
Would love to put all these "no, THIS is how you hire properly" people in a (virtual) room together to hash things out. Someone is the most correct and the others are all more wrong than that person. We could go really slowly and break down all arguments etc. and see where things fall apart or when things contradict other arguments. And actually get somewhere
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Sorry for the lack of a more credible source, but for what it's worth:

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/02/congress_oks_medical_ma...
Naming things. Also off-by-one errors.
I think PATH should only contain folders, not the full path to your binary. But now I'm not sure if even that would help. It would be the best if you could join #lispgames or #lisp on freenode so we can debug it in realtime. We might even find someone there who has more experience with cffi.
> And no profile was liked (or disliked) by more than 80% of companies.

Umm.. in the first column, 2 reds, 26 greens (rest whites, ignored), thats more than 90%.. but I think they included whites as reds.

Overall, it looks like YC companies are just like all the other companies.. no standard template to pass each ones' interviews.
I programmed for BeOS a little (mostly before I really understood programming, though), and what I remember is just the shear number of threads. Each window (maybe even subregions of windows, don't remember) would spawn two, I think. You'd have to lock to do the simplest things. A lot of rote, manual management of shared mutable state.
There is --- I used opentaxsolver for a number of years. It's definitely un-sexy but it does the job with no fuss.
Most people won't touch .NET because the only deployment option outside of Windows is Mono, which depending on your use cases (for server software) ranges from "barely works" at best to "not even compiling your code using mcs" at worst.

Unless you start with Mono and port to .NET, you may as well forget it, and even though the runtime has the _potential_ to be nicer because of proper generics and value types and many other things, outside of Windows this is just not the case right now. Core CLR (or whatever it is called today) may fix this in future, but if you need to ship now or in the next year it is a poor bet.
The camera hump is annoying as it means the iPad Pro can't lie flat on a table any more.
I'm in your same boat, and my response to both of us (I guess??) is that the iPad air is now $399 out-the-door, which is a damn steal for a device that'll last for many years.
Naming things and off-by-one errors.
Apple/NeXT fought it. To the point of GPL violation in their GCC fork.
6 billion out of a global population of 7.125 billion is just over 84%, so not that unbelievable, particularly considering how quickly a usable phone becomes worth approximately zero in the first world.
Looks good, but horrible in the hand. Cargo culting Braun basically. They need to revive the iPhone 3 form factor.
Seriously. Wtf. I place my tablet down flat on my counter tops 24/7.

I dont even use my tablet camera!! How could they justify making the device uneven for a camera few people use, and for a camera where the old one worked perfectly fine for its purpose.

Seriously wtf move by apple. The camera bump a game-ruiner. I'm irrationally pretty upset by this.
It's complicated and unclear, unfortunately. We'll have to see how things unfold when the airplanes are flying.
Ditto. I've had up to 150mbit from comcast in the past, and amazon only has 75mbit available in my area either term or no term.

HOWEVER, the one advantage is that the amazon cable store offers me no-tv packages cheaper than comcast does directly. Usually when I call in, they 'upsell' me into being a cable tv subscriber because they give me one step up in internet speed AND $5 cheaper/mo, all to inflate their subscriber numbers.

The TV they give me is 'basic' which used to be called 'lifeline' and is so worthless that I just have the cable box up in my attic; my antenna works far better. Though they do throw in HBO which means I can use HBO go to watch silicon valley/john oliver/etc.
That would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath; the existing code will probably assume one window. We've brought up being told that singletons are bad and should never be used, and then go and build programs like this!
"There are two hard things in computer science, cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors."

cache invalidation: distributed resource synchronization

naming things: all things abstraction

off by one: we always fuck it up somehow
Shadow is a truly unique project, spawned from Bitcoin, over 6+ months of development has transformed the pseudonymous Bitcoin into the first true anonymous decentralized cryptocurrency – Shadowcash. In traditional financial terms, other cryptocurrencies represent the trackable check or card option, while Shadow is cash. ShadowSend‘s unique zero-knowledge, dual-key stealth address and ring signature protocol enables near-instant, untraceable, unlinkable and trustless transactions.

Urls:

https://shadowproject.io

https://doc.shadowproject.io

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=745352.0

Media:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/why-criminals-cant-hi...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-race-for-the-first-dece...
All Apple products are significantly overpriced, how their consumers do not realize the are being taken advantage of is beyond me.
It's not. You need great ears and even greater hardware to distinguish it from uncompressed in AB testing (on recent enough LAME encoder).

But if you must, go 192k/256k, which is pretty much guaranteed to be indistinguishable for almost all wetware/hardware combination in the world and would still get you about 12h in a gigabyte.
The article itself is somewhat misleading - cash, i.e. currency, does depend on the issuing institution's integrity and the willingness of people to accept it.

Was a bit surprised to see The Guardian echo certain viewpoints heretofore only heard from preppers.
It's pretty rough and volatile but I have my own somewhat unique game engine for Guile Scheme. https://dthompson.us/pages/software/sly.html
The link seems to be broken for me, ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
If you competed for cash playing video games would you prefer.. Head to Head match ups : Quick but lower payout
Tournament : Longer but higher payout.
Exact same depth and weight with the old Air 2?! Not bad at all...
I think they were just torn between doubling down on their own RISC processors or moving with the times and going Intel. They ended up trying to do both, and that's never going to work.
Yes the sentiment is the same, but it takes little historical understanding to see how tearing down is always easier and more exciting than building up.

What works at a startup often can't work at a big company. Or a university. Or a government. You have to work with the system you have. For those that leave angellist without a second thought, what are your alternatives? LinkedIn?
Anyone have experience with the artistic capabilities of the Pro, e.g the Pencil? Maybe I've been paying less attention to Apple news/chatter over the years (and perhaps excitement over the iPad, overall, is much less than when it first came out)...but I haven't come across many articles/blog posts in the wild about the real impact/benefit of Pencil to digital artists. It sounds very promising but I'm not willing to pay that much for an accessory if it's just a novelty.
Or, to put it another way: the iPad Pro is a device that takes the productivity apps already written for iOS, and enhances them by giving them more of what they need (screen real-estate, fine 2D input control, GPU power, etc.)

The Surface series, meanwhile, creates a new platform; new apps (or at least new major versions of apps) have to be written to truly take advantage of it.
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Please don't spew bile, and please don't depict people you disagree with in the worst possible light ("faking passion", "nothing but publicity stunts"). It degrades the community, regardless of how right you are.
Force Touch is perhaps the one thing I truly dislike about the Watch.

Force Touch is just a menu button. Only it's a menu button that's extremely fussy and difficult to use.

I actually struggle to save my workouts on the Watch because after a workout when I'm sweaty and breathing heavily, it's damn near impossible to bring up the menu and save the workout.

The Watch would be a better device if it had a hardware menu button instead of Force Touch.

Same goes for the iPhone. Force Touch is only useful for bringing up the app shortcut menu, and for positioning the cursor in a text field. Those are important but utterly mundane features. You don't need a sophisticated force-sensitive screen to bring up a menu for move a cursor, and those features would be easier to use if they were not implemented using Force Touch.
Legalize it all and replace the DEA with a for-profit drug distribution business.
It's automatic here in Sweden too. They send out a document basically saying "this is what we know about your finances and this is the resulting tax effect" and if everything checks out then you just digitally sign it and you're good to go.

And if you have any modifications you need to do, you can do those digitally as well. No mess, easy-peasy.
Just tell them you're moving out of the country. Zero attempts to upsell or retain. Worked 5/5 times for me.
I see a problem with that "License is MIT". That's not how software is licensed and if the author wants this to be used, the legal part must be flawless.

Who's the copyright holder? How can I contact that person? What's the copyright year? Licensing software with MIT licence is trivial: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/

Depending on the project, if I really care about the legal status of the code I use, I may contact the author to clarify this kind of thing, but sometimes it is too much hassle. Just look at it as a critical bug in your software, and fix it.

On a more personal note I started to dislike the "* for humans", it's been overused.
"Progress occurs one obituary at a time".

Religious beliefs by age group: http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/re...

Millennials have overtaken Baby Boomers: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/01/16/this-year-mi...

Shifting Marijuana Beliefs: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/14/6-facts-abou...

Changing attitudes on same sex marriage: http://www.pewforum.org/2015/07/29/graphics-slideshow-changi...

The decline of marriage (somewhat attributable to economic causes IMHO): http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/09/24/record-share-of-am...
I recently purchased a Asus Zenbook NX500JK-XH72T from Newegg for $1000. Great specs, lightweight, and the keyboard & trackpad are quite nice & display is beautiful.

Elementary OS installed was a bit tricky at first, but running great now!
Nextbit Robin Android phone does exactly that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31SHvxSxrj4
Has anyone in your office tried using an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard? In my experience, it's far less painful. There's a reason Apple Stores carry these[1]: it's just one more (light) bit of padded plastic to drop in your bag, and then you can work on the plane and so on. (If you're at home, I'd recommend using an actual Magic Keyboard if you've got one, but those aren't quite as convenient in portability terms.)

[1] http://support.logitech.com/en_ca/product/keys-to-go-ipad
>I still don't understand how people can spend so much money on a small device like this

I don't think the size is really relevant, but yeah, that's an insane amount of money. If you need it for work, and generally use your phone a lot, it can make sense to pay a premium for a better device, but for the average person, I can't see it being justified. The marked penetration of the iPhone is way to high compared to the price, suggesting to me that to many people are spending their money recklessly.
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