skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reason why its in my interest to not have my neighbor stockpile chlorine in his basement.

What does this have to do with drugs? Maybe some extremely fringe libertarians like the idea of no substances being regulated, but a purist attitude would have to extend even to things like weapons-grade plutonium. Nobody is proposing letting people have chemicals that have to be handled very carefully without following strict procedures.

Drugs can't explode and kill everyone within half a mile, but even with drugs I don't think anyone is advocating for complete anarchy. The most radical serious approach is one where any adult is free to buy whatever drug they want, but not in some kind of "free for all". Particularly addictive drugs, like opiates and meth, might need to be sold by the state. Other drugs could be sold privately but only by professional vendors abiding by a set of regulations.

Any solution that doesn't allow people to get the drugs they want doesn't address the argument that prohibition limits people's right to manipulate their consciousness, which is epistemologically one of the most important things someone can do. The problem of drug availability attracting more users can be solved in ways that don't keep them out of reach of people who have made a well reasoned decision to use them: cigarettes are highly available, but few Americans take up smoking today.
Ask HN: Best daily practices u've come across to design-code faster and better
More in the lines of small daily training of IDE, tools, data-structures, design, frameworks. Ranging from fingers warm-up to a drawing relevant architecture/frameworks/pattern-designs. It can vary from project to project and what stage of projects.
I wasn't trivializing the damage of high marginal tax rates.

Also ya, I left out sales tax (I don't have any precise records on my yearly sales tax expenditures. I suppose I could estimate). I also left out the employer side of FICA which is really a tax I'm paying. I also left out the % of my rent that goes to pay my landlord's property tax. I also left out corporate taxes I'm responsible for as an owner of stock in various public companies.

Truly calculating the total taxes that fall on me as an individual is probably impossible at some level. So I included the taxes that people commonly refer to when talking about "paying their taxes."
Exploring the Tesla Models S CAN Bus
> where I suspect it's walking the whole JSFiddle DOM to find out nothing has changed

No browser does this.
Seems like self-employment, not business, which gets cut from the bill the minute the next down cycle shows.
> thats not even a fourth of humanity.

And only 40% of humanity has an internet connection [0]. If we subtract the 22% from China, then yes, more than 50% of people who are able to access www.facebook.com have an account and visit it at least once a month.

These internet statistics also include all ages with access to internet, so infants and children too. You need to be 13 to have a FB account (as if that stops anyone), so that excludes an additional ~17% [1] of internet users.

[0] http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/

[1] http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/worl...

I also managed to find a site claiming that FB had 158.4 million users in the United States in 2015, but with nothing to back that number up.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-faceb...

> Do you seriously suggest that all these people should create facebook accounts, including all the privacy issues, just so they can consume news without the half screen dedicated to forcing them to create a account?
seriously?

No, I don't. I never said that and don't know why you're trying to argue this against me. Seriously? I'm not saying whether or not they should, just that they already have.
Is it worth sacrificing productivity to save a few bucks? How many dollars are you wasting? Even if an engineer is 1-5% less productive, compounded over a couple years you can more than pay for every cubicle.
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Honestly, because our SRE team has better things to do than switch off PagerDuty (although VictorOps seems pretty cool) to appease my hurt feelings.

In my opinion, this could have easily been avoided if they used a quantitative approach like "first come first serve" vs qualitative.
So Steve Wozniak has to talk to the Average Joe supporter of Trump and address his fears about jobs/healthcare/housing???

In a world of super competitiveness and your-death-id-my-life it is quite rare (and refreshing) to see so many people unite behind a common fear.

I think we should all pay attention to what they say..
They explicitly said "an ML derivative that's not OCaml". It's not a big leap from that statement to "neither OCaml nor a Caml derivative" given the similarities between the languages. I'm really not at all surprised that if they want to discount OCaml as a successor ML, they'd want to discount F# as well, given the close relationship between the two. Like @hroman, I too was rather puzzled by your initial statement.
I can't believe we're having this discussion over 40 years after the passage of Magnuson-Moss, which covered similar ground. (Okay maybe a stretch, but thematically similar.)

If we go down this road, you'll be at the behest of all manufacturers. It's injurious to the consumer and environment alike, assuming more people will simply dispose of items rather than repairing them.

Of course it could give rise to disrupters who don't use these practices and win market share over the entrenched interests.

To me the key thing is this: if we lose the right to repair virtually all manufacturers will include some IP that precludes independent repair. The first battleground would be auto makers. Prepare to pay a lot more.
"This actions result in a "politically induced" scarcity which works against wealth creation"

I agree. I do think though that even without this artificial scarcity there are physical limits to efficient housing.

Hyperbole: it's impossible to house 7 billion people with a nice balcony facing NY's Central Park.

Economically it wasn't much a smart decision to shy away from suburbia.
From my point of view, I do think that it's very possible that many if not most drugs that we are talking about still would be illegal today irregardless of the moral panic. So in a way, you are right about the "will of the people".

However, what the moral panic (and its often racist / political dogma as mapt pointed out) created was drug policies that were overly punitive, and even from the user angle often treat rug addiction itself as a criminal problem, not a medical one. Unfortunately, too many "leaders" are too willing to exploit certain sentiments (ranging from outright racism to a mere desire to protect their kids from harm) and create reactive prohibitions that often do more harm then good.

Ironically, one of the biggest and most lethal drug addiction epidemics right now in America concerns prescription opioids (such as Oxycontin or fentanyl). Because it is a legally prescribed substance, I find media on this much more sober than the moral panic hysteria articles I remember from 1980s and 1990s media on most illegal drugs.

The "emotional bias" for illegal drugs definitely is still around though, and it unfortunately is not entirely rational. One fun example from the other angle: a few years ago, somebody created an overpriced brownie, added melatonin (the same melatonin you can buy at the herbal medicine isle for sleep, that has no LD50 that anyone has figured out yet), and marketed it with "head shop" type graphics for the "head shops" crowd. Cue moral panic here and elsewhere: http://www.nbc12.com/story/14168427/cg-3-linedangers-of-lazy...
The ability to subscribe to other companies' status pages has saved me so much time and headache. StatusPage has done something awesome here, for all the people that rely on various services moreso than the service providers themselves. Congrats to the team!
Really interesting! Thank you both.

I would love to know what a 'typical day' and the general working environment are like. (A vague question, I know, but sort-of on purpose.)
Here's a similar example that writes LaTeX code: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
It is the job of the flight instructor to keep you safe as you learn to fly. Multi tasking on the right things, and making those things as natural as driving a car, is the goal of flight instruction. Once you achieve this, your instructor might allow you to take the final exams.

Learning to fly is like riding a motorcycle while controlling a sailboat. At first everyone is overwhelmed. But with practice it becomes second nature.

Instrument flying is a significant step up in difficulty with respect to multi-tasking and attention division.
The dichotomy I usually use is between science and engineering. Science is about breaking systems down into components. Engineering is about composing components into systems. This project is very much on the science side of that. It doesn't propose any courses of action or anything. And yes, most of the concepts are pretty standard. The purpose of the project is to put them all out in the open so they can themselves be studied, and also so we can have a shared langauge about this sort of stuff.
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I like the optimist's drought map! It's like "the drought is half full.

It would be interesting to track the effects of the drought, specifically in California. I feel like a map like that would light up the entire US.
In college a few years ago I had to work with a system written in FORTRAN 77 in the early 90s that has been hacked new features and bug fixes on and off for almost 20 years, one single file with more than 20k lines of code, it worked all right, but understanding it was troublesome.

I lost the count of how many times I thought about rewriting the entire beast in C or even a more recent iteration of FORTRAN.

In the end, it wasn't something that I would use for much longer and I just mapped what all functions that i needed did on a spreadsheet and added a couple of hacks for the next unfortunate person to handle.

Maintaining old codebases full of hacks and without good documentation that can fail without big consequences is boring, but code that handles the kind of data that banks have is something straight from hell.
I also imagine they are fault-tolerant in ways we no longer consider today.
> A beginner player would not appreciate the difference between a $200 guitar and a $2000 guitar. Someone struggling to find the finger positions for a simple chord isn't going to notice the action, fret shape, fingerboard radius, tonewoods etc.

This is a common thing to say, but it's untrue. A cheap and nasty instrument will have bad features that are noticeable even to beginners. Things like poor quality finishing, hardware that rattles, sharp edges on the edge of the fretboard where the frets haven't been smoothed off properly, etc, etc, and it's really uninspiring if your guitar isn't enjoyable to hold. Even more "advanced" things like having the right action or a comfortable neck radius are noticeable early on. Tuning heads are another big one, cheap tuning heads are awful (the difference between good and bad ones is like night and day), and if your guitar is constantly going out of tune due to that or something else, and if you're not completely tone deaf, you will notice and it will annoy you.
There are probably several entire nation-states that you could buy with $100 billion, if you thought it would be a worthy investment.
Ask HN: What are your favorite books?
I'm looking for interesting books about new ideas and concepts. Share your favorite books here.

One of my favorites is How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenbreg (https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/0143127535)
> But if your job is to design things, and there is no such thing as beauty, then there is no way to get better at your job

Sounds like nonsense to me. Design, to my mind, is less about "beauty" than it is about communication. Achieving beauty is the goal of the artist, but the designer is trying to achieve something much more concrete : helping the user understand your product.

Thus, it follows that design can to a degree be assessed & measured. If your users understand your product and how to use it, then it's probably competently designed. If they have no idea WTF is going on, then probably not.
That's a good story. Personally I always figured Slash could play an Epi as well as a Gibson. But my modest abilities probably need a more expensive guitar as a talisman. This is good news for the makers of expensive guitars.
COBOL development had (has?) a completely different development and deployment experience. Sure, you keyed your code directly into the mainframe, but your code and your session were isolated - you, the developer, had limited privileges. Only once your code took the prescribed input and produce the prescribed output was it allowed near "production" data.

That said, the language itself was (is?) so limited in scope and ability that stability was nearly guaranteed. You READ and PRINT using tape or disk and printers, but the programmer didn't worry about what devices were available - some system admin pointed these devices at a job, and READ came from that tape and PRINT went to that printer. The setup and management of the jobs that ran your code was a very manual process. No pointers, no memory management ... nothing low-level at all. Just high-level abstraction.

Then there's hardware reliability. As an example: you can walk inside the mainframe, pull a CPU, and the thing keeps working. Replace that CPU, and the system makes use of it. None of the system's users ever know that it happened.
Interesting: "Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits cytokine production".

Cytokines are "any of a number of substances...that are secreted by certain cells of the immune system"

Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammation of the joints causing pain. Inflammation is caused by your immune system to heal a problem, like a cut or an infection. This vagus nerve technique works by suppressing your immune system.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but maybe a better path to a cure is to stop the underlying cause of the inflammation?

"Doctors don’t know exactly what causes RA. It may be a combination of genes and environment" - WebMD. The body is attacking itself, finding out why sounds important to me.
Krita is not malware...
If it makes an interesting read, then yes :)
Tunnel vision is a scary thing.

On the other hand, some of the other anecdotes are, I think, completely coincidental. With such a large adoption rate, some people are inevitably going to have bad things happen to them while they're playing Pokemon Go.
Switched to remote work because of this.
As many others here have already pointed out, component internal state as a general concept is not by any means considered "harmful" and can often be quite useful. I was part of an open source component library project at my company where we used internal state for a number of those components to handle state that was likely to be unimportant to any consuming application.

For example, our component equivalent of a drop-down menu has internal state to deal with whether or not the menu is expanded or not. This is not likely to be state that a consumer cares about -- all anyone really wants to do with this is pass in which menu item, if any, has been selected and to know when someone selects one of those options.
To me, it seems like a lot of the interesting research is being done in industry.

In CS/programming, there's very little interesting research done in private industry, and mostly its purpose is to mislead the user-story grunts into thinking they have a shot at working on a real project. Google didn't fund AlphaGo to be a good citizen, but to keep the proles motivated.

Private-sector research seems to be as thin on the ground as academic jobs, because even though there are smart people in these companies, cost-cutting morons end up getting power in the end and anything that can't be justified in terms of short-term profit gets cut whenever the political temperature gets high enough.
That's a great idea, but at many schools it wouldn't actually raise much money. It's not as though the idiot boosters will be just as happy to see their money going toward lab equipment as toward e.g. barbells.
>sticker I drew for him

That's pretty neat, but I haven't seen that; how do you do your own stickers? I don't think anyone would argue against being able to send free-form drawings. The stickers in Skype and Telegram, otoh, seem to be mostly "meme junk". Random clips of TV, or (IMO terrible) cartoony drawings.

My daughters use them sometimes, same with strings of emoji. But I find it expresses far less than words would do. It's like they're just hunting around for a cute image, with little thought beyond that.
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StatusPage is well known and has many customers, so I think this is more about buying the business than merely the product.
>Sure, it's closed source, expensive, and can be clunky

And slow. Don't forget slow. Closed-source, expensive, clunky, difficult to read, and slow.

(The first time I took machine-learning in grad-school, our assignments were in Matlab, and testing them required me to stay up until 04:00 in the morning at least once a month. A validation run just would not take anything less than five to six hours. The second time I took the class, I took it in the computer-science faculty, and the professor gave the assignments in scipy/numpy. Validating and debugging that was easy.)

(Just this year, I actually went and rewrote a probabilistic program in Haskell from a probprog package based on Python. Interpreted languages are fucking slow for numerical jobs.)
As the OP, what I meant by "Non Destructive Editing' is the ability to go back and adjust mask/filters etc independently of each other and without permanently altering the original image. Photoshop does this with 'Adjustment Layers' which sit on top of the original image and apply things such as masks, colour adjustments, filters, etc to it.

Over-cooked one of your previous tweaks? Just open the corresponding adjustment layer and change the settings.

Wish you hadn't applied that filter 10 operations ago? Just switch off or delete that adjustment layer

Removed a bit of someone's ear while deleting the background? Just paint it back in on the mask layer

And if you really want to start over again, just delete all the adjustment layers and you're back to square one. The original image is untouched.

Someone disdainfully said I'd picked an "arbitrary feature" to complain about. For a professional designer [which I am] NDE is not just a "nice to have" feature, it's an essential one. Hence why Gimp will never be taken seriously by design professionals —no matter how many pointless icon themes it comes with.
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Hmm, have to try it in WMS/TMS tile storage for web cartography. It uses JPEG files also but with fixed sizes like 256x256. May be it needs to tune predictor for that, because aerial imagery is a bit different from smartphone photos.
> I must say their economic track record is exemplary compared to the socialists. Venezuelan food riots, anyone?

Socialism != Democratic Socialism. Venezuela is not the model Bernie Sanders and his supporters wants to emulate. The Nordic countries, and to some extent Germany, are good examples of Democratic Socialism.

Stronger social safety nets, free / nearly free health care and higher education, high minimum wage. Paid for by taxing corporations and the wealthy.

We also see that increased incomes from the wealthy and corporations are not flowing back into the economy. The wealthy are saving their money, not spending it. Corporations are doing stock buybacks and paying out dividends, not expanding their workforce or increasing wages. This is the failure of neoliberalism. It worked great in the past, but now it isn't. It's time for a change.
You're right that a lot of those cases are tricky or ambiguous. It makes some calculations all but impossible.

Why would you think sales tax is one such case? Is it really that difficult to back out how you don't have that 8-10% to spend? Does it really justify confidently telling someone they don't know their tax rate because they included it?

(FWIW, the "employer's" side should be included too but can be misleading in conventional contexts because you'd have to restate your pretax income to include that as well, when it is generally not understood to. But it's fairly characterized as part of your burden.)
It was my understanding that Gavin and Wladimir were part of the MIT Media Lab payroll.

> you never even care to ask about that

Honestly, I don't know where that would be public information to know to ask about it.

> to own not much (to zero) Bitcoins;

That is not the case. Most people who have been very vocal pushing for larger blocks have significant Bitcoin investments.

> segwit which roughly doubles block transaction capacity

This only happens if all wallets adopt it, which makes them write/fix their wallet software upstream. That takes time. It's not a quick enough solution for an urgent problem.

Last, if you're taking money from someone there is a conflict of interest there.

"It's hard to get a man to understand something if his job depends on him not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

Large investors usually want something back for their investments. Maybe you don't know what that is right now, but it's legitimate for regular users to be weary of it.
I just started reading the Art of Learning
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Learning-Journey-Optimal-Performa...

I finished Linchpin a few weeks back and that was an amazing book
https://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin...

Will It Fly is a great book I learning a lot of great marketing tricks from
https://www.amazon.com/Will-Test-Business-Waste-Money/dp/099...
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Trump is what the US needs (or deserves if you think he'll be bad). [EDIT] I am for more concerned about what these people want for society. I see several from facebook, twitter, and one from reddit. [EDIT2] What more is that many of these company names read like venture capitalists and hedge funds.
Darknet buying is the same as Amazon. Exactly the same.

There's the sellers with suspiciously low prices and good ratings; which are always fake just like Amazon.
I think the modern substitute for old fashioned R&D is the modern tech startup. The siren call of these ridiculously inflated "valuations" is simply too much for investment managers and it locks up more and more money that could go towards other investments. There's more parallels there as well, R&D and Startup investment is a high-failure game. But the outcome of successful startups is likely to be much larger than the outcome of a successful R&D venture (which still has very long tails of IP capture, product development, marketing, etc.)

That's how it's marketed... but instead of having a research advisor in the old (admittedly, creaky) guild culture, you manage up into investors... many of whom (obviously, not all) are MBA man-children.

Then again, if academics had the capacity to manage their own affairs, they wouldn't have lost their culture and ended up in this situation to begin with. This is a self-caused calamity. Unfortunately, the people who fucked it up still have tenure and it's the rising generation that gets screwed.