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The bar is much for wine/beer higher than weed in terms of quality. And whiskey/rum/voldka is not even an option. This is largely due to gains in technology due to hydroponics and decades of seed cultivation.

That plus the extend time weed has been on the black market made the information on how to grow it widely available to average consumers. No trade secrets there really.
Looking at that list, I'll have to ask again: why isn't Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill on it? I haven't been there myself, but it confirms my suspicions that while that place might be a tech hotbed, it's more of the research park bigcorp and research institution type, than of the startup variety. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's just interesting because on HN we usually associate "tech" as the former and not the latter. So other places like RTP or DFW might get overlooked.
I've been following the progress of that project over the past few months, and it's amazing to see what they've achieved in such a short time-span, given the difficulty of the task.

Personally the emulator is of no use to me, but like you said, it's all about the preservation of the generation of games. In 50 years will it even be possible to find a working Xbox 360? Probably not. That's why projects like this are needed.
> I think what I most enjoy about the possibility of the EmDrive is that it's similar to how things were often discovered during the "golden age" of science.

There were also a lot of false discoveries. Someone made a machine that does something, and after a few iterations it was discovered that it was only a bad measurement (or a scam). It happens also with theoretical ideas, the most famous are aether and flogisto. They were good ideas, they explained a lot of experiments, but after a time it became obvious that they were wrong.

> The EmDrive is one of the rare modern situations where someone has engineered a device that shouldn't work according to what we know and the scientists are having to come up with the explanation.

The obvious explanation is that they have an error in the measurement. Probably something get very hot and the thermal effect produce a tiny force, some experiments show that it need some time to build up and it continue a little after the current is off, like a thermal effect. Another possible explanation is that the high currents produce a magnetic field that produce a tiny force. They are putting a lot of electricity and energy in a small device, and they only measure a tiny force, it's very difficult to rule out experimental errors. A similar case are the faster than light neutrinos, that were the product of a bad measurement.
Thanks for the link - that comment is great.

I gotta quote one line that is just cool, though:

4. A test at 50 W of power during which an
interferometer (a modified Michelson device)
was used to measure the stretching and compressing
of spacetime within the device, which produced
initial results that were consistent with an
Alcubierre drive fluctuation.

Which is just really cool. The followup sums up my fascination with the whole thing niceley:

Test #4 was performed, essentially, on a whim
by the research team as they were bouncing ideas
off each other, and was entirely unexpected. They
are extremely hesitant to draw any conclusions based
on test #4, although they certainly found it interesting.

That right there is science in progress: a hint of something interesting, a test leading to another test leading to another, each interesting in their own right. It's still not clear if something spectacular is going on, but I think it's undeniably interesting. Careful reexamination can yeild all manner of useful insights!

(Off topic, but along the lines of closer examination, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9020065 for how some careful (and extensive!) experimentation helped illuminate sodium's reaction with water. Not just how much work was needed to tease out the details!)
> "Einstein was wrong!"-type articles

I like popular articles about dark energy. About the only thing you learn from them is "Einstein called the cosmological constant his greatest blunder!".
> Is the editorial firewall more effective at WSJ than at other News Corp properties?

Yes, it is. I know a number of liberal journalists who work at the WSJ and would never work at Fox and definitely wouldn't give a conservative tilt to their stories.
Nah, we're not really worried about those treaties, we're going to send our little, "thank you, but we will no longer be complying with Section XXXXX, in YYYY)". Decriminalizing is simply taking it off the current schedule, and removing it from existing laws.

Legalization requires a whole framework of laws to be created. You could piggyback off cigarettes of alcohol, but should you? Those are the discussions that will be heard over the next sever months.
I'm not sure about college since its different in every locale, but as for resturants I think its more that the menu and clientelle changes which pushes up the price.

In my neighborhood, some restaurants are $20 a meal. These places have been in business for over 15 years, and serve decent quality food but only staple ingredients with spices.

The newer resturants that have openned serve fresh imports from another hemisphere away, and start at $50 a plate.

So there's a choice at least here---you can get $10 sushi with tilapia, or you can go get $35 sushi with blowtorch cooked kobi beef.

As I've gotten older, I trend more towards the Kobi beef place myself... and I think that's how it is with most of the middle class. Cheaper choices do exist, but we consider them 'below our standards for a night out' especially considering that age+experience leads to better home cooking.
For anyone curious: The third-party tool was Karelia's Watson, which was a tool that let you search websites, with the ability to add support for new websites through plug-ins. In OS X 10.2, Apple added the same functionality to their "find file" tool Sherlock (and IMO made the program worse than either Sherlock or Watson were on their own).
ELIZA: example of primitive natural language processing
"The top 1% own 48% of global wealth, but even they aren’t happy. A survey by Boston College of people with an average net worth of $78m found that they too were assailed by anxiety, dissatisfaction and loneliness. Many of them reported feeling financially insecure: to reach safe ground, they believed, they would need, on average, about 25% more money. (And if they got it? They’d doubtless need another 25%). One respondent said he wouldn’t get there until he had $1bn in the bank." [0]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-...
That really doesn't seem like a lot of time for them to respond. Especially given that for 10 or so of those hours, people are probably at home, asleep, or with their families.
I got curious and found this:

https://www.apple.com/vn/environment/pdf/products/appletv/Ap...

Looks like about 0.2-0.3 watts in standby, a bit under 2.5 for content streaming. The power supply is spec'd at 11 watts.
Yes, you can either use C++ plus the C++/CX extension, which although look like C++/CLI are actually native.

Making Visual C++ GUI developer experience finally comparable to what C++ Builder was offering in the mid-90's.

Or if C++/CX extensions is something one hates, there is the Windows Runtime Library, a template based library similar to ATL.

Finally Kenny Kerr has created a C++ projection based in pure modern C++ ans has been eventually hired by Microsoft to carry on his work.

https://kennykerr.ca/2015/10/02/microsoft/

iOS comes second in terms of C++ support in mobile OS, where Objective-C++ plays the same role as C++/CX on WP.

Just Android forces developers to enjoy the wonders of JNI, with APIs like Skia only exposed through it.

I know that there are a few other mobile OSes that do support C++, but their market share coupled together is even worse than WP.
>designing user-friendly instant messaging systems and then layering cryptography on top, has been pretty much an unmitigated disaster.

Hang on, what about iMessage or OTR-over-anything.
Moved to the Peninsula from Chicago a couple years ago after becoming increasingly fed up with and depressed by winter (despite trying to "medicate" with a full-spectrum lamp).

Everyone I knew commented on how much happier I seemed. Sure some of that may have been job-related, but it is amazing how much I notice it every day, even a couple years later now.

The most noticeable thing for me in my day-to-day is that I no longer feel guilty during nice days when I just want to chill inside and play a computer game or something. In Chicago, since there were only a handful of truly gorgeous days per year, I'd have immense guilt. The flip side is that I need to motivate myself more to go outdoors, but because I can garden pretty much year round, I have an enjoyable hobby that keeps me outside.

Sure, some days I get a bit tired of the sun (particularly when we have heat waves), but the lack of humidity means I can usually hide in the shade and be fine, which can't be said of Chicago in it's 100% humidity summers.

I'm not sure if I'll ever get to a point where I take it for granted because it energizes me. However I do appreciate and look forward to a good rainy day which we rarely get. I even sat outside on my deck in the rain at one point because it felt so nice.

Honestly--I don't miss winter. If I want snow I'll drive to Tahoe. We get a gorgeous extended fall, and those three are enough seasons for me.

I'm fortunate to commute on 280 (vs. 101) and driving home in the evening I get to watch the hills go from a peaceful lush green in the winter/spring to a glowing gold in the summer and fall as the sunset lights them up. It really is something to watch the landscape change like that, and I certainly don't miss the ugly stage of black slush and dangerous white out conditions I lived through in Chicago.
That was my main issue with the article. It conflates "tech sector" with "startup ecosystem". Seattle would not be landing so many engineering outposts if it were really flagging.
While potentially dooming billions - is anyone seriously suggesting that? Especially if you can target only a handful of the 3500 species.

> They introduce many diseases, much of which we developed immunities to and continue to successfully ward off naturally to this day

What diseases are you referring to here?

There are ~200 million cases of malaria a year and about ~500k of those are fatal. It's a debilitating disease and if it happens to the breadwinners it can ruin the entire family. Hardly a "handful" of people
Are you sure about that tax situation? I'm not a UK taxpayer any more, but my understanding is that you shouldn't pay 40% on increased valuation of your home for selling it.

1) asset appreciation will be taxed at capital gains rates, not marginal income rates. That tops out at 28%, not 40%
2) with some exceptions, primary dwellings aren't subject to capital gains tax when sold.
That's an implementation detail that doesn't get at the root of why they are snuggling up to AWS. Their customers aren't just using virtual servers + S3. That is the important tidbit to grasp.

If I'm a customer that is using RDS, ElastiCache, S3, and who knows what else, I'm not just going to switch to Hetzner because I take on responsibility that I had previously delegated to AWS.
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It's hard to be sure that that's what Amazon is doing with AWS, but Simon Wardley has done some detailed and compelling analysis to suggest that they are and why.

One of Wardley's central theses is that it would make little sense for Amazon to do AWS if not to act as a sensing engine:

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2014/03/understanding-ecosystems...
Ah yes Chindogu, I remember them! Thanks!
I don't want summaries in the discussion. I want actual discussion.
I have been inspired to change my company logo to a 64x63px transparent png.

The 64 pixel height represents technology.

The 63 pixel width demonstrates that there's always one more pixel to go.

Transparent because said company does not actually exist, except as bits on a computer.
This is awesome. I love it. Are you planning for an Android version?
We have plenty of human biting mosquitos in the UK, I'm quite allergic to some of them.
Perhaps it's now time to look at investing in some of the existing Canadian medicinal cannabis producers. Like cannabis or not, it's here to stay and becoming more legitimized with each passing day. The question is, who's going to supply it? It's going to be regulated and knowing Canada, it will be regulated thoroughly.
Internet forums aren't social?
The point is, that every manufacturer in the USA has a recycling program, as required by law. Why does Apple's press release get published as news?
Yes, and it's totally the year of the Linux desktop....not.

Look, I love Linux as much as the next guy - and I plodded along with Slackware, then Ubuntu, then Arch as my main machine for many years. Heck, I even used Gentoo as my main box for a while.

But let's be completely honest - Linux on the desktop compared to say OSX, or Windows, or even ChromeOS - doesn't even hold a candle, in terms of cohesive UX design, user experience, general polish etc.

So whilst the OSS community seems great at some things, UX design and the user experience for the non-technical user hasn't been one of them.
I was hoping for something like mssql's "EXECUTE AS... NO REVERT" where reverting back to the previous role can be prevented.
In Australia "the Victorian government, is introducing laws in December to allow families access to medicinal cannabis in exceptional circumstances. "

You have to be genuinely, deeply sick in Australia to be allowed to puff a joint. It's like living in the 1950's. So strange that Australia follows the world so quickly towards becoming more conservative and is so incredibly slow to become less conservative, even when our cultural leader, the U.S.A. is headed that way.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victorian-children-with-ep...
Pretending that things come close to the richness of features in GMaps is ridiculous. Topographical maps for cyclists, amazing transit maps with descriptions of stops, reliable use internationally (google maps is still amazing in places like Indonesia) and a generally good list of hours, restaurants, queries like 'near me'... I think that other products are far and away worse every time that I am linked to them.

Even people on HN who mention trying to use other search engines talk about having to frequently come back to google to find the result that they need. Whether that's us 'learning to Google' or Google being a superior product is up for debate.
I like his spin on it. The internet has become a ton of noise and walled gardens. I initially dropped off the social media platforms, but then I re-joined under anonymous names.

During my off-grid time, I found I was more productive in terms of thinking and getting my side projects done.

I was able to read more paper books as well as just enjoy life and nature.
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AmazonBasics provides a nice counter-balance to all the garbage that's currently being sold on Amazon and propped up by fake reviews. They're offering a solid no-frills product at a good price.
Any outlet providing citations, sources, verifiable data is a good start.
A large part of theoretical physics is getting to grips with the terminology -- not that you should imply that I'm in any way an expert. I think I'd go with the wording "it seems more like a change in the way we understand the speed of light". From that, it implies that, yes, its definition would change, but it's something much bigger!

So yes, this seems like a huge discovery. Pretty much all of our understanding of relativity is based on the fact that c is, well, immutable. Changing the way we understand c means that we'll need to completely change the way we grok the last century of theoretical physics.
Maybe you simply make better flats in France. I lived much of my young adult life in rented flats, and they were horrible.

One had such a damp problem that the main bedroom was uninhabitable, but it took months to figure out who was responsible for fixing it and get the required permissions. In reality, I moved out as soon as I could at the end of the initial tenancy period so I never saw that work done.

One was flooded from an upstairs flat where the plumbing failed. We literally had two large police officers trying to break its door down for several minutes to gain access for the emergency plumber before we discovered that the neighbour had been in all along and somehow slept through everything.

In the next one, you couldn’t walk around or talk normally late at night for fear of the downstairs neighbours getting irate at the noise. Don’t even think about turning up the TV, playing a musical instrument, or running a washing machine after 8pm!

It would take a degree of desperation I have never been unlucky enough to experience for me to ever live in a flat again, or a level of build quality and isolation far beyond anything I have ever experienced in any flat I have lived in or visited.
You're confusing the two. Decriminalization needs nothing more than to be removed from the controlled substances list, and being removed from the criminal code. It's easy peasy, and could be done easily within a week. You don't need anything because it's no longer criminal, you just stop prosecuting them. Quick announcement to the feeds on the streets, and you're running.

Legalization on the other hand, which is what the current gov is going for, is legalization. And that requires all those special departments, policies, procedures, laws, etc...
A house provides shelter to an economically productive household. Through its location it might provide access to amenities such as schools or transport links. It has value because people want to live in it and they are willing to give up some of the economic gain they believe they will get through living in that house in order to get those benefits.
I like the easy way of bumping the version attached to review. That mitigates it to some extent.
I showed only few examples. While we may discuss individual points, I believe the whole imbalance has been clearly shown.

By arguing that the level of abuse by man and woman is roughly the same you are actually enforcing the point, not making is weaker. And if we are looking at the whole picture, presenting totals makes complete sense. We don't need detailed statistics to point the imbalance. There's no question that the type of abuse differs among men and women.
Sure, use a language that has access to some kind of shared global variable. For example %_SHARED in plperl:

Something like:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION set_foo(name text) returns void as $$
my $name = shift;
die "set_foo() has already been called" if ($_SHARED{'set_foo'});
$_SHARED{'set_foo'} = $name;
$$
LANGUAGE plperl;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_foo() returns text as $$
my $name = shift;
return $_SHARED{'set_foo'} || 'nobody';
$$

It would be fairly trivial to extend that to support calling set_foo() once per transaction by checking against txid_current(). But if users can create plperl functions and the worry is sql injection-- It should be easy to write the same thing in C.
I was assuming Python because big data analysts generally use one of two languages: Python and R.
As I understand it, the sloppiness of "old media" sources is due (at least in part) to the need to compete with "new media" sources. When people started turning to blogs and twitter and such sources because they were quicker to break stories and/or more entertaining, the "old media" sources had to try to break stories quicker than their processes currently did in order to catch up, which in general means less verification and proofreading and such than they used to do.

So now you get things like this where Vice corrects a CNN story. This is exactly the type of correction that the old media places would do to the new media stories, and then new media (and those who looked to them for news) would just call them sore losers.

Please don't mistake this one instance (or even the few instances that are probably already jumping to mind) as being indicative that CNN and its ilk are less reliable than Vice and its ilk. I'd be willing to wager that on average, the old media places are still quite a bit more reliable than the new media places. Things may indeed be changing, but I don't think we're there yet.

Edit: I just wanted to say: All that said, I still don't think CNN is necessarily a good source of news. It was a lower rung even before any changes due to new media's rise.
Man, I'm so sorry.
Summary:

Article tries to analyse why NYC is jumping spots on the top ten US startup cities list (Up to 2nd from 5th) and also what went wrong for seattle.

Article concludes that while its conventional wisdom that successful IPO's and exits help the ecosystem, in the case of NYC the opposite is true.

Failure of big startups like Fab put people back into the ecosystem who then built new companies and helped scale other growing startups. People who were previously at Fab have gone on to build some of NYC’s hottest startups from theSkimm to General Assembly to ClassPass.

Employees from FourSquare and Gilt are now in senior roles at NYC breakouts Buzzfeed, InVision, Betterment, and DigitalOcean.

While in Seattle risk averseness of tech talent, lack of capital compared to SV/NYC and unsupportive investor base are leading to it falling down places.

Original aritcle: 1950 words (10 minute read)
Summary: 140 words (less than a minute)

Summary does a good job of covering the main points of the article but there are more issues that the author goes into. Reading reccomended if you are intrigued.

If you'd like such summaries for all articles before you invest your time to read them check out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535695
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"The person reading it will like it!" is an age-old justification for spammy advertisements for products that cannot market on intrinsic merit. It does not automatically make it not-spammy or non-baity.
How does this relate to the spinning black/white thing?
> Plans start at $1,800 a month, with the introductory plan including a total of 48 GB of memory for your database (one primary node and two compute nodes, each with 16 GB of RAM and two cores).

You may need something that's a little more cost accessible before it's widely useful ;)
Ultimately, it might give them the edge now that they are going all open source-y. You don't really need to think very hard and see the Xbox ONE as a hub for home IoT devices.

And Nintendo. It pains me to see such the company that brought me so many wonderful memories (still does) get turned into a minor console player. Thanks Zeus they have the DS.