skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! See http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1308/1308_11.htm under (f) stimulants, cathinone is there.

Technically, barring any sort of breeding modification I doubt was done, those Catha Edulis plants in the US botanical gardens are quite illegal, being a "material" that contains cathinone.

Now, in practice, of course, no one is going arrest the Architect of the Capitol for growing Schedule I plants on their property for ornamental reasons. Heck, San Pedro cactii already set a murky, not-quite-defined precedent for this (https://erowid.org/plants/cacti/cacti_law1.shtml).

Then again, despite the relative obscurity of khat, there have been a few cases where people have been arrested for cultivating the plants. Such as this case here in 1998 -- http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Prunedale-Man-Charged-in-...

Of course, in that case, the arrestee's name was Musa Ahmed Gelan, not Stephen T. Ayers. So it goes.
> given that all our eggs are in the SpaceX basket.

What do you mean here?
.. and it's back on the front page after a spell in the doghouse?!

"Inequality in tech" is a subject that's guaranteed to get flagged into invisibility.
“What machines are picking up on are not facts about the world,” [Dhruv] Batra says. “They’re facts about the dataset.”

This seems analogous to 90% of (random, unreplicable) science these days.
He was referring to the roadrunners, dude.
That one was very good and links to a nice demo http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/conv/flat.html
A little perspective is in order. The birds are not the "overlords" of the machinery.
As I said, certainly there are many websites which stand to profit from this who could contribute.

Of course, with something this small and basically one-off, given the number of open source devs building bitcoin projects I'd be surprised if no one's done something similar already.
Indeed. This is non-story.

That alternative forms of power kill wildlife is regular talking point of the entrenched fossil fuel energy giants. As if coal fired power plants and oil fields are wildlife sanctuaries. I'd be interested in who is pulling the strings on this one at the LA Times.
Suprised the 'or they could just go to other platforms' is buried at the very end of the article. To me this seems like an obvious solution.

For influencers that are truly influential enough to attract their own fanbase, the exact site that hosts their videos is irrelevant. Their presence spans more than one social network and is driven by name recognition, not by their exact youtube channel URL.
Absolutely breathtaking.

Interesting that they phrase the headline almost as if to imply uniqueness. My impression was that Saturn's hexagon was the unique situation (occurring, hypothetically, only under very specific conditions). Is it expected then that Uranus and Neptune's poles will look different still?
AKA Eternal September. The quality of an online community is inversely correlated with its popularity.
There is no financial incentive. People have their heart set on living in a super-popular city, but they won't pay extra for nicer finishing. They find all available money, then take out a loan that's 100% of their income (their income will go up over time, after all), and buy whatever is available.

You can get a nice apartment, but you're talking double or triple the price of common "the walls were last painted in 1872" apartment. There was a nice 750sq ft. apartment in Brooklyn Heights I was looking at recently. 3 million dollars. Who has this kind of money!? (The key is being married to someone that makes as much money as you do; for me, 1.5-2 million dollars would then be very conservative. Good luck if you're single or your spouse doesn't work.)

Fortunately, this is a New York-ism. If you're willing to move west (not to California of course!) then you can get a super nice home in a nice city for hardly any money at all.
Because these houses are also safe retreats in case of upheaval in their home countries, and renters are occasionally hard to evict.
Show HN: StreamBIN – Transfer Files by a Web Browser
I manually added their cross-signing cert months ago and trusted them on my BB10 devices. Works fine. Haven't added the new root yet. You'll need to download them manually to the phone then go to Settings > Security and Privacy > Certificates > Import

As an aside, I found this amusing: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/inclusion-of-isrg-root/9...
In order to do this, you'd need to put an SSL endpoint between your github page and the client. It could probably be done but it sounds like a no-no.

For instance, I'll bet that if you set it up so that your namecheap DNS A entry was pointed to your own box that had nginx/haproxy/cloudflare/whatever handling SSL decryption (and certs) and then backended to your github pages, it would work, but I'm not a fan of the idea.
Chef Spotlight: Stephanie Bell of Dinners at Your Leisure in Katy, Texas
Why would we want to? I grew up in the Chicago suburban sprawl, and it feels like a tremendous waste of land and infrastructure. I hope we one day figure out how to reduce humanity's physical footprint. Agriculture would obviously be the biggest thing, but compacting living space would help too.
This is why it should go viral. Wealthy individuals/ buying houses in droves to sit empty does not benefit anyone in the long run.

What happens when the bubble pops?
> To the point of a meeting every other hour

That seems excessive - are you sure that's typical across your company and not just unique to your team?

Anyway, to answer your question, at VMware I spend about about two hours a week in meetings. [N.B. I'm a fairly junior engineer, more senior ones typically spend more time in meetings]
My mom's cat kills about 500 birds a year...
Tips for GHC sponsors to find top talent
/r/changemyview is a great one for this.
I don't understand this fixed bug: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26774

How could foo() had ever printed "X"?
The problem is much worse here in SV. Lots of all cash buyers from abroad. When I was house hunting last year every house we lost was won buy an all cash foreign buyer. I also know many families where this was also the case.
We've discussed as a team too, cost clock sounds like an interesting idea.

So far, we've just started filing our calendar with bogus 'private meetings' so we can get stuff done. I can't see working for 'big corp' type companies forever, and I do like the experience so far -more learning about 'big corp' world.
Which is again handled by simply washing the bacteria off of your hands and down the drain.
I'm a blockchain noob, but what about people like me that own some bitcoin, but don't touch them for a decade. I imagine my ownership of said coins would be in that part that is truncated/archived/hashed. So how would I then use them?
People dumping hundreds of millions into the market just to hide it from external forces aren't interested in being landlords.
Sure, that's why there are daily front page articles here on Edward Snowden, the 2016 election, TTIP, Google and other's involvement in the Obama administration and the pentagon, the Coup in Turkey...

You know what, let's just look at the front page right now... Kind of a slow news day. Let's take a look.

Even the Rich Are Being Priced Out of Central London - Housing and Social Safety Net

Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker - Nuclear Proliferation and Arms treaties

FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps - Federal Regulation

Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year - Renewable Energy Initiatives and Climate Change

Republic – Now everyone can invest in startups - SEC and federal banking regulation

The National Economic Implications of a Taco Truck on Every Corner - Food safety and small business

Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes - health and safety regulations
Call me a jerk, but what is the real problem here? Can someone bother to actually quantify the risk to the ecosystem? There are plenty of unfortunate ways that different critters die all the time whether natural or unnatural. However, the mere fact that it is sad to think about means nothing.
Unless you like XML and convoluted documentation, go for ES.
"Gross negligence" in handling classified material is also criminal, regardless of intent.
Not sure if you are serious, but markets don't work in the face of incomplete information, a state exacerbated by misleading advertising around antibacterial and germicidal products. Arguing that the market knows more than scientists about triclosan is...bizarre.
nottheonion: http://i.imgur.com/jb61R2B.jpg
I think this is definitely needed to keep CAs viable, but this requires cross-signing to be much easier. It should also be possible to get signed certificates by many CAs.

Without this, it would be quite difficult to ensure you can serve a customer a valid certificate. At the same time with much more cross-signing, trust would be established much better.
I believe this is to not draw attention to the property. There was a Planet Money podcast a while ago about how high-end real estate is being used by foreigners to launder money. If the FBI catches wind, they have tools to seize the property and remunerate the proceeds.

I'm guessing that renting the property means involving the IRS and potentially their foreign counterparts in the person's home country, both of which could increase the likelihood of getting caught.
I'm talking about accidentally killing someone where there is no negligence or intent. It's not a crime. It's still homicide.

Accidental -> reckless -> negligent -> intentional
How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
The coyotes in the Mojave buy their traps on Amazon instead of relying on the Acme Corporation.
But maybe they'll share it with you if you book on their training course. Only EUR 4000!
The best time I ever had walking around a city was in Los Angeles near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine and some guy was shouting "Tamale! Tamale!" and I thought I'd give it a try and I had my first Tamale and it was good.
Tim Cook to repatriate money
Where did you live in China, how was your parents social status and how old you were when you went to US?
I ask because from your comments it seems that you are seeing China through embellishing glasses that you usually wear when you are too young or "protected" to savour fully the harshness of the real world.
I don't think that China propaganda is in any way comparable to the one from foreign western countries.
At least most of these countries don't kill information freedom with a great China wall...
Transmission is one thing, but collection is another: did they really only collect 6 megabytes of data over the course of a 6 hour flyby?

Off topic, ish: does anyone know how large a solar panel array would have to be to supply all of our current energy use, if the array orbited the Sun at the same distance Mercury does?
Is there a factory on jupiter?
Why do you think they're crappy?

I'm not sure what the price range under discussion is, but here are a few from Mayfair.

£11M, seems fancy: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/40591729

This one seems to be in a new building, £32M: https://www.onthemarket.com/details/2192886/ (home automation, panic room, aquarium etc; would suit criminal mastermind...)

This is much cheaper, £2.6M: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/41018778

If there's an out-of-date interior, it will be no trouble at all for the buyer to spend 1% of their purchase price on getting it redone.
Cats are usually a predator introduced by humans though, so they aren't exactly natural either.
Because for a good chunk of the "web developer" or "web programmer" community, Node.js leverages the HTML/CSS/JS skillset they already have honed writing WordPress plugins and themes.

It's easier to get adoption of your platform when it's a syntax one-trick-pony mom and pop "website design" companies understand, because now with some tutorials they can say that they, too, can write server side code.
I was sort of hoping they'd have a video...
I use it to host my personal site, and I'm currently hosting a Django project on NFS as well. Paying less than $1/mo for both.
Sadly this was the case for me until Dinosaur BBQ made their way into the local scene.

Now I smoke my own pork shoulders, ribs and chicken. And its much cheaper this way :)
That's a really nice overview of this archaeological find. Inspiring to think about what it would have been like to dine with Nero on this structure. Are there any other such structures? Perhaps even modern ones?
Crew Dragon Test Abort Speed Compared to Falcon 9 Fireball
Ask HN: Why does this app cost $92M to build and $93M/year to maintain?
I think his point is that if commutes were quicker then regular people could move away from the city but still work there. Billionaires could still sell real estate to each other then without hurting lower incomes.
Can't we solve this problem with virtualization? Build houses in the middle of nowhere, but assign a central London address.
There is however a human behind the screen, however distant or difficult to see.

> Why would I seek advice or opinion from a person I never met?

Asking your peers and parents may be used against you forever. People you won't meet unless you really want to won't, so you can be more honest there.
Not unusual for managers to have that many meetings—but yeah, really bad for an engineer.
I don't think that I or anyone else has suggested that DANE is in any respect whatsoever a replacement for HPKP. DANE could partially replace or augment the CA system.

IMO we would ideally use DANE and HPKP with CA roots kept around for legacy clients.
>The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique.

Hold on -- how much do we know about the poles of gas giants in other solar systems? I'm guessing we can't get a good look or anything...

Edit: added quote to clarify what I was responding to.
Take meaning where you find it: HBO’s Girls versus life in startups (2012)
You're a founder of a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit science research organization. I think it's safe to say it's the groups you run in. By contrast, my parents and family in the Midwest have no clue about it. Antibacterial means cleaner, right?
That people have depended on a meaningless package, presumably unintentionally.
Yeah, I don't consider moderation censorship. There are plenty of places to go for unmoderated conversations, but they are rarely civil. On Metafilter, abuse and insults aren't tolerated.
As a systems engineer at Eventbrite, I'm in 1 to 3 hours a week depending on what is going on. It's usually on the lower end. That includes my weekly one-on-one with my manager.
Samsung to Recall Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Over Reports of Fires
The politicians they own also shameless love talking about those birds as well. And yes, fossil fuels kill several orders of magnitude more birds per year than renewables. Still, PV is a better source anyway.
I have a desktop machine, originally intended for games which I discovered shortly after building it that I no longer especially cared to play. I don't know that I'm going to bother with another one; the only reason I can think of that I might want to do so is because I can fit more monitors on it than I can on a laptop.
That is not correct. When you return the ticket, they make you check a box on the form indicating your plea, either "guilty, here's my money" or "not guilty, give me a trial."
I work for a small corp working on re-writing an existing codebase and migrating all historical data.

This was a heavy week, I have 14.5 hours of scheduled of meetings (out of 40 worked, so ~36%). Some meetings went over, so I estimate I can easily add between 1 and 2 extra hours. I ended up having an emergency so I lost an additional 3 hours, but that's extraordinary circumstance.

Last week was lighter, at 5 hours.

If you don't count stand-ups, take 3 hours away from each week.
Thanks, excessive was my first thought too.

I let that happen exactly once before bringing it up to my supervisor. According to him, seems like it's at least across our dept (IT/software dev).

The history sounds like it didn't use to be an issue until they moved into a giant 'open office' with very few walls/rooms. What normally would've been a quick conversation in someone's office turns into booking a meeting room, and the mentality turns into, "Might as well invite XYZ too because now it's a meeting."

EDIT: typos and clarity
Let's put scale into perspective here. One plant = 6000. millions of buildings = millions of birds.

I don't know what to think.
Does anyone know why they can't climb back out? The fourth picture shows them crawling on the walls and ceiling around the pipe. The third picture shows that the pipe isn't smooth inside, so they could conceivably climb it. Zooming in on the fourth picture doesn't seem to show a gap between the ceiling and the pipe, but that is the only reason I can think of as to why they couldn't climb back out.
Barely.
Someone more familiar with this than me feel free to correct me here, but this is my basic understanding:

If you think of your bitcoins as following a path from address to address, the pruning process would retain the final node or two on that path but discard any previous nodes. So your 10 year old bitcoins at address X are still the most recent node on that chain and are kept around. However, once they are finally sent to another address the bits recording your current address can be forgotten.
i know right?!

i clicked onto the "video" they had and it was a glorified slide show...
> That's the part banks do not care about so I think it's largely irrelevant in the context of this article.

I have no idea where you got that idea, but it's not true. Which is why any deal that happens between institutions (and sometimes intra-institution) has an army of middle men who are responsible for verifying, monitoring, reporting, etc etc.
We're agile too, and don't count stand-ups or sprint reviews. I wonder if this is more related to agile/scrum vs waterfall?

Thanks, I'll add that to the original post.
Those "basic signals of the web" are useless to the user. They carry no meaningful information for them.

You don't need to learn about the Dewey decimal system when reading books, either. For the same reason - it's helpful for finding things, it allows you to classify books, and it doesn't matter at all since there are better ways to find books now.
Startups as investments are very risky with long payoff horizons. With their limited funds, this is a poor investment for the average investor. I can't help but feel like this will hurt more people then it will help.
I work for a 'big corp' and had an excessive meeting culture on my old team.

One day a week, half our day was spent in scheduled meetings regardless of whether or not there was a set agenda in advance. Additionally, daily standups would last ~15-30 minutes depending on who was rambling for the day on a team of five.

I would be invited into meetings to discuss speculative things without a set agenda all the time. After a while, I began to decline meetings in which I would have no direct impact or could get a good summary of via email.

One "prospective invite" I indirectly received was when a small project I was working on changed stakeholders, and a new person I hadn't been introduced to was looped in via email. The project was for an internal tool that less than five people in the entire company would ever interact with. This new person who was looped in said something along the lines of:

"_____ (new stakeholder), are you thinking of discussing this in our meeting next week? If so, should we extend that meeting to cover it? Let's invite ______ (me, OP) so we can talk about it."

I ended up blocking off my entire day with appointments on my calendar that were just for me working so I wouldn't get invited to as many.
In the strictest sense, as a volunteer who gets paid nothing for participating in this, my responsibility is "nothing". In a sense related to my personal sense of commitment, I think it goes without saying that we want to ship secure software, all the time, every time and to fix security holes as soon they appear. But what we want and what we have the resources to do aren't always the same thing.

In terms of the various security issues that have cropped up, I'd say that if we reach a point where we simply cannot ship a fix AND it's a serious vulnerability, then we have an obligation to inform users of the situation so they can make up their own minds what level of risk they are comfortable with.
Everyone should learn to code
You are right, unfortunately. An ordinary citizen would have been punished for this. The FBI director has said as much. This is an excerpt from the director's statement to the press:

In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.

To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-b...
Absolutely true, and if the resume indicated they were moving companies as contracts moved[1], that was fine. It was the short timeframe hopping from unrelated contracts that was a sure sign of incompetence.

1 - We saw some resumes that were grouped by contract or government agency rather than by actual employer for just this reason.
Yes. This is often, perhaps willfully given the incentives, overlooked by computer scientists (and people trained in that discipline). For a complete, cogent argument see:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
For local elections, I make a point of always voting against the incumbent.
I like living in the city. I would prefer to live in one. Denver housing isn't so crazy yet that I can't afford to live here, but it's pretty close. I make a pretty damn good salary and would struggle finding a house that doesn't require significant rennovation in the city. Yes, I could move to suburbia - I could commute slightly further, etc, etc. I would prefer not to. I would prefer that my neighbors are people and not empty apartments used as safety-deposit boxes. (this is not the case in Denver, but sounds to be the case in London and other large cities).

Edit: As an example - in my neighborhood there are $300k houses in pretty sorry shape that are purchased just for the land. They are destroyed and then a $500k new house is built on that land. This is what I'm facing. I could perhaps afford $300k (although I'm gunshy to purchase in such a volatile market), but it would require IMHO another $50k in renovation to make it "livable". I'm not talking about granite counter tops and high-end designer furniture, I'm talking about roof, insulation, water heater, bathroom fixtures, yard work, etc.
There is. It's full.

(Most of the towns in the southeast of England are dominated by commuters to London)