skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that hard to function if you have legal access. Opiates are stupidly cheap. With clean equipment, no illegality, no difficulty buying -- it simply would not be that big of an issue for many people. Remember that many (millions) of people are on opiate therapy and manage to function. The heroin junky stereotype is usually for people prevented from obtaining medicine via legal channels.

Indeed, even the hygiene part could use some open innovation. Right now IV users mostly have to repurpose insulin needles (interchangeable thin needles (like 30G)) are rare. Long-term IV use is geared towards hospital use.

Removing the medical industry gatekeeping of who gets to use opiates would blow open the marketplace.
Yeh sorta....

I guess what I am thinking is a license similar to MIT but with the provision that you agree to share data collected using the ODC Open Database License.

Would this make any sense? Is it legal? Is it enforceable?
So did I...
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Learning SML isn't going to help as much with Haskell as you might think. The others, yes.
Typically when I see a "decriminalize it all" opinion espoused it's followed up with contingency that drug & safety education, exchanges, therapy, detoxification and rehabilitation are also sufficiently funded to address current issues and any other that may arise from decriminalization.
#SourGrapes

Why do 27k engineers (in Seattle alone) need to write in the same language to make a service successful? How many SAAS startups have you worked at? How does Amazon/AWS compare to this? I think you're out of touch and/or lacking context.
Still wifi only ... dammit.
I've seen mainframe users in the UK (e.g. banks) trying to hire new COBOL programmers because (as the article says) all the original ones are retiring.

Unfortunately young people might not find the world of mainframes and COBOL the most enticing career choice :)

I think it will be a huge problem over the coming years as more of the original authors of banking system retire.
So it's using the VP8 arithmetic coder - how does that stack up compared to rANS?
I found this study really surprising. It seemed obvious to me that there's a physical basis for why intervals like a perfect fifth sound good. I.e. the 3:2 ratio means the waveforms mesh nicely. (By the way, all the talk of integer ratios seems like numerology, but if you look at the waveforms and frequency spectrum then it makes sense.) But the investigated groups didn't prefer consonant chords over dissonant ones, unlike Western listeners. But they did dislike "roughness" such as a minor second (where you end up with beating), so they are capable of identifying notes that don't go together and have some preferences.

P.S. For those who didn't read the study, it has nothing to do with musical tastes and liking one type of music over another (which is obviously cultural). It's more low-level than that.
It all feels like a market signaling problem. When people are choosing majors and how far to go in school, they don't seem to have the right information. Lack of understanding of the marketability of different degrees surely harms the students/future workers, but would seem to be in the interest of certain employers who benefit from the glut of overqualified workers. Of course, oversupply in one sector is likely accompanied by undersupply in others.
> But if most new programmers prefer browsers, then that's what they are going to use...

If most new programmers prefer to edit code in browsers than in editors, then they are just wrong. I don't know why the preferences of new programmers should matter to professionals any more than the preferences of peewee football players matter to the NFL. The whole point of education is to improve people, not leave them satisfied where they are.

> Maybe they just prefer building tools on top of javascript/css (where they can create actual GUIs) rather than lisp.

Anyone who prefers JavaScript to Lisp or SmallTalk is just wrong. And, of course, one can create 'actual GUIs' in Lisp or SmallTalk just as in JavaScript. In fact, SmallTalk kinda invented the GUI IIRC.

> On a side note: Your TRAMP teleporter appears to use rsync most of the time anyway ;)

At least in my experience it's mostly SSH, not rsync.
It seems like the real bottleneck here is binary... why can we not start supporting base 10 yet? Or even base 64? a-Z+0-9?
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Right, that's the way things stand as they are today, where (afaik) only Apple's renderer actually has support for graphical emoji (and even then, it requires mipmapped bitmaps, not color vectors), and everyone else just supports emoji using what they can manage from pure OpenType specifiers.

I was more referring to a hypothetical world where text-rendering engines were slightly expanded in their purpose, becoming generalized "inline graphical glyph layout engines", and exposed an API roughly like the following:

Text.compileGlyph(Buffer) -> Text.Font.Glyph
Text.Font() -> Text.Font
Text.Font.mapLigature([Text.Codepoint], Text.Font.Glyph) -> ()
Text.Font.getUniqueName() -> String

Then the above CSS would be a shortcut for doing this Javascript:

function createImageIconClass(className, someSVGURL) {
const svg_glyph = Text.compileGlyph(someSVGURL)
const synthesized_font = new Text.Font()
synthesized_font.mapLigature(Text.Codepoint.fromString("\uE075"), svg_glyph)
const font_name = synthesized_font.getUniqueName()

const synthesized_css = document.createElement('style')
synthesized_css.type = 'text/css'
synthesized_css.innerHTML = `
.${className}:before {
font-family: ${font_name};
content: "\E075";
}
`
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(synthesized_css)
}

...where the text-rendering engine would have the full capacity to render all SVG features when rendering an SVG "glyph", but would also do all the same optimizations it does to regular OpenType/TrueType glyphs (doing its own GPU-memory mipmap-generation of used ligatures at each size, etc.)

If this was done correctly, you could actually deliver a "font" as a JSON object that would be synthesized in the browser at runtime, if you wanted. (I have no idea why you'd want that, but you could. Allowing for streaming fonts where the characters used above the fold load first, maybe?) And you could generate new text-engine objects at runtime—this could be used with graphical SVG icons to achieve an effect similar to GPU texture-atlassing for games.
At least in Colorado, you can only by pot from licensed shops where they card you when you go in and card you again when you purchase. This is a far cry from 7-Eleven.

Colorado has seen pot smoking go down for kids which is counterintuitive, right? Not really. I've got kids in high school and they tell me that pot is easy to get (I don't live in Colorado). In Colorado, the illegal trade has dried up, thus making it harder, not easier for kids to get it. There's no reason to believe it would be that different for other drugs.
Alcohol is the fourth largest cause of preventable deaths in the U.S. each year.

Given that it's chemically addicting and steeped in cultural history, I'm all for the Pandora's box approach of scratching it off as a loss and leaving it.

We don't need more dangerous, chemically-addictive substances mass introduced to the public. At some point the priority of an individual's freedom to abuse substances and harm their selves is outweighed the lives they take from those around them in society at large.

And no, Marijuana and MDMA are not chemically addictive.
Weed is not grouped in with meth. Methamphetamine is legally prescribed in the US at a federal level. You can buy it at your local grocery store[1]. Hilariously, those same stores will restrict your purchase of cold medicine, so you don't go making unauthorized meth. They'll still sell you the pharma grade stuff though.

Weed is illegal on a federal level in the US. Companies selling weed in states have a hard time operating. Companies selling methamphetamine are treated no differently than any other pharma company.

1: http://www.goodrx.com/methamphetamine?drug-name=methamphetam...
Um, what about indexes?
It should work fine.

The AVX version will be faster, but it requires a recent-ish CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPU...
Okay, but to invoke the cliche: When people confuse marginal and average tax rates, they're wrong. When people miscalculate their taxes, they're wrong.

But when you trivialize the damage of high marginal taxes because the average rate is lower, you're wronger than both of them put together.

Also, I think your NYC numbers are still wrong since they seem to leave out sales tax. I know that for SF, a typical tech worker's state/federal taxes would be about 40%, and when you throw in the 10% sales tax health mandates, it's right about 45%.
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My only issue is wishing I could just run a cable to it and get it to be more stable.

You know you have a problem when you have to put a wifi access point next to the camera to get it to stay online.
unfortunately even assuming the outsourcer can find people who really have COBOL experience there's a world of difference between knowing COBOL and being able to maintain the 30+ years of hacks that many large companies will have built up in these systems.

Unfortunately the alternative (re-write the mainframe/COBOL systems in a more modern platform) is a risky and costly process....
If you're interested in knowing how banking works between banks, Planet Money had a podcast on it few years ago. Apparently bankers met at a parking lot in New York and traded bags of paper checks back in the days.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo...
Having gaps on your resume isn't a big deal. If you're good at what you do you shouldn't have any problems. I have two 6 month gaps on my resume and it wasn't any problem getting my current job as a DevOps engineer. It can be a smart move taking your time to find the right thing. The last thing you want is to end up working somewhere just so you can have a paycheck.
So glad someone is telling Tesla like it is, that name has got to go. It can come back later but it is the one problem I have had with their systems since day one. The name has too strong of inherent abilities to be used with such a primitive system. Yes, primitive, this system cannot drive a car in other than ideal conditions which is pretty much the opposite of what most safety oriented technologies do which is assist people in the worst conditions
At some point most of the sources of funding for most research, there's some expectation of ROI at some point. This isn't true obviously for very basic research, but even then there's a hope that the process of exploring the deep unknown produces some practical output. For example, the process of building and designing the LHC produced various advances in fields as far ranging as management theory to precision machining and CAD design.

For the organizations and countries involved, this helps provide for an advanced industrial base that continues to build and drive an ecosystem that supports powerful economic engines.
People currently have heroin addiction. They also have considerable problems caused by dirty heroin - the contaminants in heroin make injecting pretty risky. Lack of access to clean needles, and lack of a clean safe space to inject make injecting pretty risky.

Treating opiate addiction as a public health, not criminal justice, issue requires some of the tens of billions spent on the war on drugs to be diverted to health and social care.
I started something like this long ago but didn't get very far with it. This was before "deep learning" and I was groping in the dark, but I think the concept is sound up to a point.

The idea was to train a neural net and build up a database of features (maybe on the order of 1-10 GB, or whatever is just small enough to ship) to estimate the missing details from downscaled and extremely over-compressed JPEGs. If it worked, I think it would also improve the quality of all the 10-20 year old images out there where the uncompressed source is long gone. Sort of a Blade Runner-style "enhance" tool, but of course it would only be filling in aesthetically plausible details.
"the $big-number years to read" is a rather silly way to put it; 68Gb of compressed text on the other hand...
If anyone was curious, $150 for a single straight cubicle wall, up to $1,500 for an "Office Space" style fully surrounded cubicle (inc. desk), and $5,100 for four cubicles (inc. desks and shared walls).

These are all generic grey looking ones, nothing fancy like tempered glass.
No need for an independent island. That would be messy and require a political revolution, after all. Instead, just build a really, really, really big ship. Use solar arrays / wind turbines to generate electricity. Sensitive data resides on the ship, which then floats hither and thither through international waters.

But maybe there's some Law of the Sea thing that makes that infeasible. (Not to mention the technical ridiculousness.)
"If the government did not actively fight this, successful or not, would it cause the markets and illegal drug users to proliferate?"

No. We have decades of experience on this from places like Portugal, The Netherlands, California, Washington State, etc. In fact, the opposite happens. The problem is that no one bothers to ever check facts before making assumptions about what will happen that fly in the face of the evidence, especially when writing laws.
Would someone be kind enough to explain how one could store the compressed .lep files, serve them, and then have the browser render them, without using a JavaScript library?
You can already buy meth at grocery stores[1]. So that doesn't really debunk the argument.

Alcohol is far worse yet advertised liberally and treated near-mandatory in some social situations.

There's no issue restricting things based on age. That's already done for many things. So I think you're straw-manning here.

1: http://www.goodrx.com/methamphetamine?drug-name=methamphetam...
No just ebooks they can't track
My last job was at a COBOL shop that used Ordat ti2sql (an emulation layer) to run its HP mainframe code on top of Solaris and DB2. I'm sure similar products exist for other mainframe architectures.

http://www.ordat.com/en/solutions/tisql/
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Because many of the people in the developed world who used to be doing that manufacturing are now out of work. Unfortunately, at least here in the US, we've been pretty bad at retraining and helping those who get laid off because factories moved overseas.
Even working for a company that had mainframes, getting access to do any kind of learning was very difficult.

They rarely have dedicated training systems given the cost of running them, and trying to find information from IBM was an excercise in frustration.

Personally I think that is where IBM made a huge mistake. Lack of low cost training systems has starved their ecosystem of new coders.
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Well I actually watched a PewDiePie video of it. He just played the game which he would have probably done anyways. There wasn't even a review just fun game, which it was to the vast majority of people.
The attitude of going into industry is more prevalent in physics? Or did I get that backward?
The Mail has actually been quite good on ISIS reporting.
I wouldn't take an apple.

If a website put up an "ad-wall" (click to view!), I would not try to bypass it. Instead, they want the experience to be friction-less, subtle, (or, alternatively, overwhelming and surprising) so I don't quite notice the ad is there, or can't click away fast enough to avoid being influenced by it.

That is malicious by any reasonable definition. They are trying to impose something on me without making it explicit. Shielding myself from such a thing is ethical. With your pennies and apples example, they are not imposing anything on me, they're not performing a bait and switch. We can both engage within the rules established on the sign.
Not that I disagree with you, but what would you say to "Joe Middle America" and all like Joe who are seeing their middle class lifestyle evaporate alongside this reduction in poverty? Welcome to being upper-lower class?
I was involved in this for a couple of years in the mid-90s working for a COBOL vendor helping people migrate from mainframes and minicomputers to what was known as the “open systems” (mostly Unix, with Windows NT rising) world, saving a somewhat jaw-dropping amount of cash in annual licensing and support costs.

Even back then, one of the major complaints was that companies refused to pay for training, hoping they'd find someone who already knew everything they needed. I heard multiple stories about people who told their employer that they were planning to retire, left on schedule after not finding anyone qualified to train, and returned later as a consultant at a significantly higher rate.
Banks already do some of that locally and internationally.

In South Africa we have BankServ, which is a local interchange and clearing house. Transactions are still in batches, but the settlement between banks happens nett between the local banks.

Internationally, MasterCard, VISA, Amex etc. manage the clearing. Banks then have to pay within 2 days via Swift to either other banks or their designated international settling bank.

Going back to your suggestion, it could work because the banks could just pay each other when they run out of funds. The challenge becomes fraud and other legal issues, which often mandate settling houses.

The real-time problem is a legacy hardware problem as well as the settling issue.
On your last point, money is normally parked at the Central Banks, mostly as a legal requirement. From my experience, banks in healthy financial economies like mine don't keep a lot more than the minimum cash reserve with the Central Bank.
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DB2 is a relational database and IMS is not.

The programs that use IMS probably do lots of things that are just not done in relational databases for good reason, so if you just translate it you will either get errors in relational constraint or you will configure DB2 to stop enforcing relations, losing most of the advantages DB2 has in the first place.
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you'd think that wouldn't you , instead they've sued them in the past http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/04/ibm-br...
Linux Airlines.

Although there is a choice of 74 different types of fork for the in-flight meal, the pilot has an alarming tendency to crash into the side of mountains. When you point this out to fans of the airline you are told either;

1: The pilot is a volunteer. What do you expect?

2: At least with Linux Airlines you get to choose which type of fork you're holding, when you crash into a mountain!

3: If you don't like the way the pilot keeps crashing into mountains, why don't you fly the plane yourself?
The reason guests is in quotes is because it's a silly term used by people in the "sharing" economy... sharing being another misnomer. They're not a guest, they're a customer of a (generally) illegally sold service... note the fact that it is "sold" not "shared". The same way Airbnb disingenuously airs ads in NYC about families "sharing" a room in their apartment and cooking meals for "guests" occasionally as a way to make ends meet when, in actually, most of Airbnb's revenue in NYC is made from illegal whole apartment rentals.

Entire classes of people who illegally operate unlicensed hotels and put additional upward pressure on rental prices in the surrounding market in addition to inconveniencing and affecting the safety and quality of life of neighbors should absolutely have "their economic rights" limited.
Depends on who you're talking about.
And everyone who communicates with people in Taiwan.

Sticker sets are shockingly popular with the 40+ crowd.
Nearly everything in the EU or Germany is commercially driven.
I've didn't seen a new law that didn't screwed the people and didn't helped some businesses.
I'm not familiar with that term. Are you referring to the Ogallala Aquifer?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
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Lets be serious here ... how often to people cut the power to the house?
It takes sustained periods of constant or binge drinking to first enter withdrawal territory with alcohol. I know people who binge on the weekends, are definitely psychologically addicted to alcohol, but experience no withdrawal symptoms.

First time you do heroin, dose once everyday for 3-7 days and you've got yourself a very painful withdrawal ahead of you. Once you're no longer heroin naive, it could take only 2 doses in a week's time to send you back into withdrawals.
thanks for the follow-up, it must be hard also because of say areas where the real estate is skyrocketing due to investment money coming in from abroad, but where rents aren't moving nearly as much (because local salaries aren't moving really), which makes compensation indexed on real estate skew very high, but compensation indexed on rents skew very low if one wants to be able to afford buying a house at some point
Firstly I suspect the basic assertion of the post itself (where are the numbers?.. Or is this just an opinion based on anecdotal experience)

Secondly, even if this is true, isn't it maybe because a lot of traditionally proprietary software companies /developers are now contributing to open source?

When it started, people writing FOSS were doing it for different reasons than today.

If there was no other benefit beyond freedom for the creation in an open manner (as a thought experiment let's say one could perfectly test software for bugs and security issues, and that adding functionality didn't necessitate access to source code), do you believe Foss would be as popular as it is today?

The beautiful thing about sharing your code is there are more than one 'right' reason to do it.
Have they played Zelda: Skyward Sword? It's not as good as TP or OoT, but it's still really good.
Hm, my mom programmed on a mainframe with the pre-Fortran "Michigan Analog Decoder", is that interview-worthy?
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Official blog post here:

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It's a big world. India and Syria can exist simultaneously.
* No Wires.

Dammit.
What's interesting here is that c9 + lambda would make your normal deployment pipeline much less than 20 seconds
Yes. All current "direct transfer" solutions, more or less requires that you keep a rather large sum of money in a common pool (at the 3rd party) to cover for the event that you run out of money and have to close the bank, to guarantee that all (or at least most of) the money is actually available when the debts are settled, typically a few times a day.

I don't think real time settlements involving the central banks will happen any time soon, but maybe more frequent batches.
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