skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't much conjecture or point of view necessary here on the origin and initial implementation of this moral panic.

" “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “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? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” "

- John Erlichman, on why he and his boss created The War On Drugs

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

"Around 1910, the Mexican Revolution was starting to boil over, and many Mexicans immigrated to the U.S. to escape the conflict. This Mexican population had its own uses for cannabis, and they referred to it as “marihuana.” Not only did they use it for medicinal purposes, but they smoked it recreationally, which was a new concept for white Americans. Even the term, marihuana, was unfamiliar to them, as they called it cannabis.

Southern states that were receiving the Mexican immigrants became concerned with this growing population. Newspapers ran headlines speaking of the “Mexican menace” or the “marijuana menace” and claimed Mexican men were going crazy from smoking marijuana and were killing people. El Paso, Texas became the first U.S. city to ban marijuana in 1915, and city officials started rounding up Mexicans who smoked marijuana and had them deported."

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/02/the_real_reason_marijuana_is...
This is one of the reasons I founded asimuv. You are better off founding your own project.
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Do you get something different?
It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers.

Let's do a realistic thought experiment that's actually fair:

Imagine you have a movie that you love. It's showing tonight on an over-the-air channel that inserts ads throughout it. You decide to record the show and watch it later.

Do you skip the ads?
This is anecdotal -- but it seems like companies are more or less pretty understanding if your reason is justifiable. I had a string of jobs (fulltime, then laid off, then consulting for 3 separate clients). I interviewed with over 20 companies this year and no one had a problem with the gaps in my resume. They were more interested (concerned?) about why I had worked with so many companies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12096168
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You're leaving essentially everything about this scenario underspecified, but no; it should not be illegal to say mean things about someone through technology. Do you really have to ask that question?
That's not even where the summary begins, that's where the actual content starts. So many things are like a TV show where every episode consists mostly of "previously on" :/
> First off if it were legal how would there be an increase in illegal activity? There probably would be an increase in drug use if that is what you mean.

I think the hypothetical here is that illegal activities could rise in search of money to feed drug addiction. This would come in the form of theft, robbery, etc. It's not as if no one ever stole money to buy food.
Haha, we'll work on better food line throughput next year :)
> I am struck by how much the industry would change if all drugs were legalized

The "dark web" enabled me to have my first LSD trip a year ago. This trip as a catalytic experience, combined with daily hour of mindful meditation thereafter allowed me to stop the anti-depressants I had become dependent on. Obviously, no doctor or other pharma industry representative would have ever told me about this solution. We don't question "authority" anymore.

So yes, the pharma industry would change drastically if all "drugs" [0] were made legal, which is precisely why they will be kept illegal. In the US, it's called "lobbying", in other parts of the World, it's called "corruption". Anti-depressants represent a gigantic market, fueled by ever-increasing pressure on our minds, and you sort of become dependent and it destroys things like your sex drive and therewith sabotages your relationship(s).

[0] LSD does not lead to any kind of physical or psychological dependence and is not a "drug" in that sense. It can also remain a single experience (as opposed to anti-depressants) and still have that healing effect. One "trip" costs about USD 5.--, which means it's essentially free, compared to anti-depressants.
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People don't care about the news or comprehensive journalism.

Bread and circuses.
Having a depressed immune system means you're more likely to contract things like listeria or toxo plasmosis which are commonly found in cured meats and soft cheeses. This is also the reason why pregnant women are advised against eating them.
An exposition of how Ramanujan did it: http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Diaries/Puzzles/2009-...
Please change the title. This is about integrating Auth0 into a demo React app.

FWIW, the article's actual title is 'Passwordless Authentication with React and Auth0', which accurately describes what's being done.
>There’s nothing wrong with the language itself, the problem is that barely anyone knows it — at least not in the context of mainframe programming.

What data did you use to determine that barely anyone knows mainframe COBOL? There are a significant amount of companies that still use it because it just works and they're in no need to upgrade to current technologies.
I've experienced weird behavior with GIMP on Windows. It mangled my clipboard usage with Teamviewer (wth?), tablet support is hit and miss, and other just plain odd behavior.

That's not a complaint, I've no right to complain as I've not documented and raised the bugs.[1] I've just worked around them, which I appreciate is selfish.

But it works just as well/badly on 7, 8.1u1, and 10 in my experience. And it's still my go-to image editor for anything that Irfanview can't do.

[1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRME...
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I am not ignoring the legitimate use cases - and I never said that there weren't any. I simply pointed out that if you work in DPI/filter/blocking and your company sells to those regimes, that you support the oppression of the affected users.

I can help with some real world examples. One is Blue Coat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems#Controversy
Who said 'hate'? Now you'r just making stuff up.

By 'point' I mean what it has to do with the context of the thread: A comparison of mentalities between NI and ROI.

I'll respond as I like TYVM.
The statements about batch processing are interesting. For example, when you transfer money to someone at a different bank, one way is for the banks to have correspondent accounts with each other, so the transfer is just within accounts at one bank. When one of the correspondent accounts is out of money, they have to do a real inter-bank transfer, probably via the fed or some larger bank.

Bottom line is that there is parked money in these accounts. The banks should have every incentive in the world to minimize this parked money (either to get access to their own money or to avoid paying interest on someone else's). So there should be pressure to make the systems as real-time as possible, not batched.
Where is the interview? I want the interview!
Your argument reads to me as "people kill people not guns".

Yea I know, morale is a difficult topic these days.
I was taught functional programming through SML in university two years ago. I have never had my brain twisted with so many interesting and clever concepts - it was one of the most valuable semesters I had, and my favourite class.

Go learn functional programming if you haven't, it will force you to look at problem with a new set of eyes!
Never underestimate greed. In plain sight:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/10/11/as...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/c...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
About the IMS to DB2 migration, intuitively I would try to write a translation layer between the two databases. Do you know if this was already attempted or deemed undoable (or silly) from the beginning ?
To what extend it is society's job to protect people from themselves?

So let's assume that we legalize 'drugs' for everyone: can I now buy pot and meth and acid and heroine and what not complete with shooting accessories from 7-Eleven? Are we seriously proposing that people in masses would be able to responsibly consume these newly available substances. If there is doubt, maybe we add, similar to obtaining a drivers license, a class of responsible substance use for kids to their high school curriculum. A 12-step program from mild to mind blowing experience that runs from elementary to the high school graduation. Which begs the question, do we make them free for all ages, subject to parents discretion, or maybe no drugs for minors? Or high schoolers? But then again, that would make it all less-free.

These blanket statements about legalizing drugs made by arm chair i-dont-know-what equate to trolling, victim of which I feel I just fell ;-)
Depends on what you like. I ride a Cannondale Supersix for sport and love it. I used to race and still enjoy training hard, so my priorities are lightness, rigidity, and handling. A carbon frame beats steel in all of those.

I think the reputation for harshness is undeserved. I rode an aluminum frame (the gold standard of harsh and rigid) for a long time and IMO the difference between frame materials is way smaller than say 23 vs 25mm tires.

That said, I also have a 70s era steel frame as my commuter. It's a fun, springy ride that is respectably quick, and I enjoy riding it to work. I would not want to do thousands of feet of climbing on it though.
The only objection to OCaml is "the crufty syntax," which I think F# has taken steps to improve upon.
Are you serious? Photographers have been manipulating pictures in the dark room since forever!
Yeah, please do! Here's some questions I would ask:

1. How/when did you decide you wanted to be a programmer?

2. What were the challenges you've faced as a female programmer that started in the 90's?

3. You've been working for the same entity and possibly the same code base for more than 20 years. Does it ever gets old?

4. How scary is it to write code for a bank?

I'm certain I would have 100's more questions to ask, but I'll be satisfied with at least these :-)
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New pet peeve: I wish people would identify which specific aspect of "neoliberalism" is responsible for whatever problems they blame on it. For instance, I've seen it used to refer to both free market policies and rent-seeking by dominant industries. Even though both policies conceivably benefit wealthy elites at the expense of others, they're not really ideologically consistent with each other. It'd be helpful to define our terms here. Otherwise, it's hard to distinguish from general angst about "the system" and "the man".
Interesting… So the asteroid set off all the built up underground oil, and that's what actually killed the dinosaurs?

So in theory by burning off all the oil we might actually be saving ourselves from death by asteroid?
There are other options. For example, I used to be a poor college student who had no money. I listened to NPR sometimes, but didn't pay. Now I have a good job, and I pay to listen. I don't mind at all that I'm supporting people who can't pay. Some of them will pay eventually, some will continue to get it for free. It's not an either/or proposition.
All that is true, but it misses out a key point: Lepton is risk-free.

I could re-encode all of my JPEG photos with a better codec, but the problem is that then they have gone through a lossy compression scheme twice: once with JPEG, and once with the new codec. This could ruin the image quality on some photos, giving them nasty artefacts.

The newer codecs might even be hindered further by the fact that they are being asked to compress an image that's been JPEG'd. I don't think any of the codecs you mentioned are tuned to work their best with image data that already has been butchered by JPEG. They expect to be given the 'pure' original image. This may well cause the codec to perform worse than expected.

Using Lepton gives none of these risks, since jpeg<->lepton is lossless. I could throw away all the JPEGs afterwards, safe in the knowledge that if I want to go back, I can.

Also, it's not really true that JPEG has been left to rot. There are lots of programs available that greatly improve upon the basic JPEG compression, while still outputting a JPEG file that any compliant decoder can read. And there's an even simpler way to shrink your photo file sizes - just drop the JPEG quality level slightly. Most cameras and programs default to a very high quality value. Dropping the default by even a tiny amount can produce remarkably smaller files, and you'll probably never notice the miniscule image quality loss.

I suspect that JPEG is so popular because it is 'good enough'. Most people and programs don't care so much about squeezing out smaller files, so they'll keep using JPEG regardless.
the paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/06/08/scien...
Absolutely competitors. If you're building something relatively sophisticated, they can gain a competitive advantage over you by using portions of the code you've developed with your time/money.
I think you're mischaracterizing people here. I think everyone would agree drug addiction is a problem that requries some government intervention. But clearly the policy we have right now is not great. The argument is that legalization + prevention + treatment would be, overall, better than prohibition. Not perfect, but better.
Some really cool maps in here, definitely recommend checking out!
Why have you never tried heroin? I am struck by how often the response to that question is not "because it is illegal".
FYI, withdrawal from alcohol is among the worst of any drug. It is one of the few drugs where withdrawal can actually be lethal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens
Every so often I do some research to see if the lack of talent is going to be reflected in salaries but COBOL jobs always seem to pay less than web development
Jonathan Stark on The Freelancers Show podcast has been harping on the answer to this issue for multiple episodes. He figures out the intended result of the project and makes a fixed price bid, paid in advance. If the client wants to change something, they have to answer "How does this increase the conversions that is the desired result of the project?", or whatever. And if they really want it changed, then project 1 is put on ice, and an entirely new project 2 is spun up with a new fixed price bid, paid in advance. Of course, Stark refuses to work with many clients where he can't get a sufficient level of trust before project start. These ideas are spread over many episodes, but here is a recent one with relevant show notes:

https://devchat.tv/freelancers/191-fs-establishing-trust-wit...
It's one of those things I tracked down after seeing one to many people say it as if it was a settled fact (never mind of course that there isn't really reason to assume people wouldn't prefer an entire can of the sweeter cola)
I seriously doubt the Philippines is the meth capital of the world, I'm sure there are other countries where meth is far more profitable.
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That it works and that "barely anyone knows it" are not contradictory.

Fortran (particularly in the context of embedded systems developed in the 70s and 80s) is another "barely known" language that's quite widely used (particularly in historical and maintenance contexts, if not in widespread current development outside certain engineering and scientific domains).
How is that proof of conspiracy?

Civil asset forfeiture laws could fall subject to the same "status quo" problem as drug laws. Even then there are states who are taking steps to change them (e.g. CA SB 443 revote in Aug 2016), which could also be said about marijuana decriminalization.
so if alcohol weren't so easy to make, like say it had to be imported from the Golden Triangle, it would have never been smuggled (in massive quantities) past the border ?
Swift is open-source now, so it's not really Apple-dependent. Using the Swift Playgrounds doesn't mean your kid will be locked into the Apple ecosystem.
Do you think the income stagnation is due to housing costs rather than globalization?

You're right that with increasing utbanization the costs of housing was rising dramatically (as currently people prefer the dense urban areas of a city to its cheaper suburbia).

But that would mean that 70% of western workers now live in the dense city parts, which can't be established I think.
It's not trolling, there are people (like me) who actually agree with what that post says.

As to your points, alcohol is already legal. Which one of your points applies to other drugs but not alcohol?
> but I've found that what I get from a community/workplace/neighborhood/family has a lot to do with what I put into it.

Huh? The comment I am criticizing in this thread is not directed at me, and has nothing to do with me. Seems a bit of a stretch to think that I caused it by my attitude, etc. It's a general characteristic of the HN community, not caused or sparked at all by my criticism or engagement.
I was thinking the same. Not only that, if you would add multiple networks that, for example, weigh the possibility that a full line is "good" code, and another that evaluates a whole block (like google deep mind did with AlphaGo) so it looks like dense and complex code this could be a nice program trolling with pull requests on github :-D
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I moved from Rails to Laravel (PHP).

If they are moving to Laravel it's a great framework, go for it. Some parts you will like even better than Rails. Hopefully it's Laravel, it's by far the best php framework. (my opinion).

Pay for Laravel projects and jobs are approaching rails work so I wouldn't worry too much about pay or opportunities.

If anything you'll be more valuable because you know both.

I would keep at least one personal rails project going so you keep up with updates, whats new and can roll in to a new rails job in the future if needed.

Keep your Rails skills sharp and you can keep Rails prominently on your resume.

Good luck.
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Thanks, good to hear you like it. But this is quite an involved project. So we want to do Automatic parallelization of tests first https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3819

And it will need a client integrations and a way to make this 'hidden' repository and/or commit.
>You can't differentiate your product if you are the product.

This is it, totally agree with that.
'Tango with Django' is by far the best tutorial on Django that I've found (http://www.tangowithdjango.com/). It is well written and goes much deeper than other tutorials. It's depth is similar to the Rails Tutorial in RoR world.
I don't see how you could do any high-level programming without understanding the difference between defining a function and calling it.

I think you misunderstood collyw's original comment (or maybe I did?) - it's not pedantic to understand the conceptual difference, it's pedantic to worry about the terminology. (Except if you're writing a compiler, I guess, which most programmers are not.)
An oldie but a goodie:

Q: What's An IBM Man-year?
A: 730 People Trying To Get A Project Done Before Noon. (EOM!)
But the whole point is that an objective function where you measure success only in terms of infant mortality, number of addicts etc. is absurd.

Prohibition ruins people's lives, when they are sent to jail, marked as felons and excluded from the job market. We spend billions and billions of dollars enforcing these laws. And believe it or not, many people just enjoy drinking, and do it without any negative consequences to themselves or others. You can't ignore all of that and say prohibition is justified just because it (arguably) improves things on a single dimension.
There's also the upside of attracting other talented developers to come work at Dropbox if Lepton is representative of the kind of project they might be working on.
A GUI over CLI is an advantage for many developers, age aside.
if they charge $1 dollar a year and they have 1 billion users that is $1 billion a year in revenue. Suppose all 1 billion was profit and if you use cost of capital of 10%, you get a valuation of 10 billion.

FB paid 19 billion for it. If they charged for it people might just move to FB messanger or Viber or some free app.
Laravel comes with tinker (`$ php artisan tinker`) which is a pretty great REPL.
You can start by disbanding the football teams.
Her opponent at the time of that quote was Bernie Sanders (I haven't checked, but I would assume that he does not mince his words in moral condemnation of torture), so that doesn't really hold up.
180 kilometers (110 miles) in diameter and 20 km (12 mi) in depth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater#Effects

World wide wildfires, followed by years of minimal sunlight. That would quickly kill most plant life, and 99+% of everything larger than a badger in the first year. Ocean life would be somewhat insulated from the effect and predators can survive on prey or other predators for a while. But, this is not something that got better in the first year.

PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_crater is another contender, but it's almost to large.
The "hub and spoke" model that Cal Newport suggests in Deep Work.
These are fairly standard concepts for architects. Engineers deconstruct problems into implementations. Architects abstract problems into the rules that govern them. Both arrive in similar places, but usually for different reasons.
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Are you suggesting that using a web IDE is a constraint that makes it impossible to build mission critical applications?
Maybe telling IBM about your interest would lead to them licence it free to emulators. They wouldn't like their platform to die because nobody knows how to use it.
The JPEG file format is pretty detailed, there are lots of places in the file where you could indicate that the image has been compressed with a different algorithm. But it wouldn't really help, because older decompressors will still not be able to interpret the new codec. They would be able to parse the file and read the metadata in it - like image width and height, timestamps, camera details, and so on, but there's no way it can decompress the data.
You mean undergrad courses don't teach the same thing they taught 50 years ago? When did that change?
that's my point. you don't get rid of the tools you use incorrectly, you learn to use them correctly.
The US debt-to-GDP ratio is 104%, which is high by historic standards, but no cause for alarm. Japan is at 226%, the UK is at 88%, Germany is at 75%, and China is at 41%.

Last year, interest payments on the national debt were 6% of our budget and only 1.3% of GDP -- a near record low.

And the US only has to pay interest of 2.2% a year on 30-year bonds. If average inflation over the next 30 years is greater than 2.2%, then the US will actual gain money in real terms for every dollar it borrows.

As you stated, the US has ample ability to service its debt; the 2011 S&P debt downgrade was due to questions on Congress' willingness to pay it.