skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pragmatism. People ingest cannabis as well as countless other substances due to a wide array of drives and motivations. They will continue to do so (as well as turn to other, more hazardous options) despite legal status.

One could argue that if the demand can't be removed, then the most sensible course of action would be to keep the entire market/economy for such things out of the criminal realm where it can be tied up in all sorts of other unsavory things (turf wars, tax evasion, money laundering, etc).

Likewise, there's the well-worn concept of the "cure" being worse than the "disease". Even assuming some negative health impact of the ingestion of cannabis or other intoxicating substances, is that negative impact worse than that of criminal penalties or prison?

A good comparison would be alcohol. Lots of people drink too much alcohol for their own good health. A subset of these could be classified as alcoholics. Either way, you're talking about adverse effects. Would outcomes be generally better or worse if every wino and drunk got charged with a criminal violation or put in prison for their unhealthy alcohol use? What about those who just get a bit drunk a few times per year at a cookout, the company Xmas party, and New Year's Eve? Because that's essentially how cannabis is treated when criminalized.
I was there a few days ago and it wasn't hard to find the coffeshops, but it's was often really hard to find available seating.

Thankfully quite a lot of pubs that sell alcohol (but not weed) allow/encourage people to bring and smoke their own joints (as long as they don't contain tobacco, which is banned).
Well, my point is that they still have moles and foreign agents that slip through.

There is no 100% test.
It's not patchwork, it's federated.
Not really. If something goes wrong, 99.9% of the time, the solution is to slam on the brakes, and maybe swerve a little to avoid an immediate obstacle. If a self driving car only does this, it will be a way better driver than a human.

Talking about weird edge cases misses the point. Edge case = slam on the brakes.
I don't think it'll actually help, but I don't think it'd hurt, either. Thanks for that; I'll give it a whirl.

The problem, though, is that I often lack the motivation to do even little things. Sounds like that's the case for folks with depression, too.
So... are you down voting my comment because you don't consider it a quality comment, or do you just not like what I have to say?
It's OK to be wrong on HN, and even OK to be militantly wrong, but you can't be uncivil. The people you're talking to are very familiar with the literature --- seemingly more familiar than you are, although I'm holding onto hope that this is just a really bad miscommunication --- and don't deserve invective.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844960

> Perhaps until it's dead, up-votes are expected to be used.

If they manage to find it :))
> Four-way lights suck and if the cars can talk to each other and are fully autonomous why can’t we get rid of lights. This may sound very chaotic at first but hey, aren’t internet packets moving the same way?

"Sorry, your car has been dropped due to congestion. Please retransmit."
Weed has always smelled to me of skunk spray. By potheads it's been described to me as "gods vagina" smell, which doesn't seem much better. If one had sensitivity to scent, a cityscape reeking of weed would be fairly unpleasant.
Number of commits != overall impact on the language/community. I think he will serve this role just fine.
Nah, the VR race is just getting started. Vive won this round, in my opinion, because it exclusively had controllers for nearly a year and has a better tracking solution. But the real test is going to be who develops an inside-out tracked, fully self-contained headset. That's the device that will really break through the mainstream.

In that respect, Oculus has shown off the Santa Cruz prototype and Intel showed of their self-contained headset at CES, while HTC hasn't shown anything in that space.
> Obama is personally tolerant of it.

While I understand the spirit of this argument it is not entirely true. Obama has legal levers to pull but not without serious consequences to himself. For example Trump is very vocal about hurting all the "sanctuary cities" and I personally think he will be able to do zilch about it.

The problem with centralized control is that super inefficient. President can jump before a rally and claim he is leading it but the moment he decides to actually control the rally the shit will hit the fan.
It's unlikely in this case, but it has happened in some other areas. The Brunt Ice Shelf (where the British Halley VI station is located) is largely made of reconstituted icebergs like you describe.

Of course, that shelf is also having some crack problems: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/07/british-antarc...
WhatsApp, Facebook and Google face tough new privacy rules under EC proposal
I don't disagree that more testing/research/evaluation needs to be done, but AFAIU, things seem to going well enough to push this out for now.

EDIT: I'd be interested to hear studies of things not going well since legalization.
In engineering and in governance, the "right" (optimal) solution can border on the impossible. Legalizing and regulating prostitution in the US in 2017 seems like one of those situations.

If you personally don't want to be the one to lead the culture war to make prostitution legal in all 50 states, could you explain why somebody else would find that an appealing job?

Keep in mind that leading a culture war means regular in-person harassment - in public, at home, when traveling domestically promoting your cause - until you die.
Depression is a chemical or structural issue in the brain. Having existential thoughts did not change the structure of your brain or alter its chemistry.

Suggesting you can "lead yourself" to depression by simply thinking is just as wrong as suggesting those with real depression can just "snap out of it."
Strangulation: Risk Mitigating, ROI-Maximizing When Rewriting Legacy Systems
Buses are lacking privacy/familiar feel of your own van (considering you want to use one car for a larger amount of people). And it's harder to plan a route the more people in the vehicle.

Now you have a point about kids safety. The car could still pick up and move things while you're busy, this means less time on the road when you are aka rush hours.
I think you're confusing not having empathy / caring with not sharing your political views.
How Nextdoor made a 10x improvement in release times with Docker and Amazon ECS
Working with large amounts of persistent data is hard. Limiting the architecture to a single database system (MySQL in this case) generally makes managing and scaling much easier, versus having to know/learn how to scale multiple systems independently.

Even if Redis was a better fit for some of their use cases, it just makes it much easier to not have the additional persistent database system to manage.
> I followed the development of the rift pre-Oculus, and none of what Zenimax are saying seems to be grounded in reality.

I was following Palmer's progress on the MTBS3D forums long before he even thought about the Rift. He'd been modding HMDs and recombining old 90's hardware in very interesting ways - as someone who was very into homebrew VR back in the mid-1990s, by 2012 it had become something of a "once-upon-a-time" fad (VR winter, maybe?) - nobody sold any kind of real HMD, nobody was really doing anything - it fascinated me.

At the time, I was collecting up what little detritus of the 90s VR craze existed (I managed to get a complete collection of PCVR magazine before it was impossible to do so, plus numerous HMDs, Powergloves, Ascension FOBs trackers, etc). When I saw what Palmer was doing, he was like one of a handful of people I knew of who was playing with this stuff. It was really in left-field at the time! I had stopped really playing with it myself, pursuing other things - but when I saw what he was doing, I knew at that time that if VR was to ever make a comeback, Palmer would be at the front.

Which is what led me to back his KS when he announced it.

> As I remember, Carmack's real innovation was to create a full screen effect that compensated for the cheap optics that palmer's design used

He may have coded up one of the first shaders for this, but the idea of doing a software-based barrel warp transform has been around since the early-1990s or further, when LEEP was selling their optics system:

http://www.leepvr.com/

It was insanely expensive. I have no doubt that Palmer knew of them, since he was playing with old-school VR parts. His drive indicated to me that he probably has read all of the old-school books/magazines on VR and such, which all talked about the LEEP system.

The patent on the optics ran out sometime in the early-2000s, IIRC (?) - and I think Palmer jumped on it, especially when low-cost, high-res phone displays became available for experimenters.
I owned the last 17" MacBook, and I loved it. I was sad when they discontinued it.

However, time away has made me realize that I never want a laptop that large ever again. It's overkill, inconvenient, and sells poorly.
Pot smoke is routinely described as stinky. Lots & lots of people, including me do not like the smell.

That said I'm not sure the smell would be a reason to criminalize it.
The article thinks it knows the difference (by trying to distinguish depression from ordinary "sadness"), but then seems to fail its own test.
I fix the problem with twitter name. From now your name will be correct.
If you want to change name in your previous posts, give me your twitter name and post titles and I fix it.
It isn't so simple when the voting public wants to see laws enforced. A lot of people consider it a betrayal of public trust to selectively enforce laws, or to outright ignore them.

A lot of Americans are hoping that the next federal government will crack down on states flouting federal laws regarding marijuana, for example. (No, prostitution isn't a federal crime. I know that. It's an example.)
That's a nice memory profiler, have good success with it. I've also used DebugDiag, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=499...
and plain ol' perfmon and its performance counters, to help track down GC-related issues.
Are you rejecting epigenetics entirely then?
BTW, there's a well regarded new book on autonomous cars that looks like fun: 'Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead' by Lipson and Kurman. Lipson is a professor of robotics at Columbia.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262035227/ref=oh_aui_deta...
That feels like you're intentionally misinterpreting the suggestion. The implied solution is that a car would preferentially stop off to the side of the road, rather than the middle.
Tech and Business Sources you should be Paying Attention to in 2017
The reason people make apps for iOS/macOS despite the small market share is because those users spend a disproportionate amount of money. As long as Apple keeps them there it doesn't matter.

But, if the people who are spending money are using Apple products because they enjoy the integration across the entire product line and they become disillusioned, the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. Alternatively, if people evangelizing Apple fall in this camp and stop recommending them, that could also have adverse affects. I don't know if this will happen, but it's a risk for them for sure.

In the end a killer iPhone can probably solve everything, but Mac users leaving is definitely a drag.
Someone with psychiatric history bigger than bible I say it's not a bad advice. People are nowadays oversensitive, you don't need ta apologize front and backwards for anyone who might feel offended.

But your advice works if people have support network, it's tough alone.

And when you realize doctors diagnose everyone out of their ass, you get more depressed. After 10 minutes she claims you lack serotonin. On what bases? I even don't know what to say, life is bullshit but stop with being so sensitive, even if you're wrong, dsm and all your doctors use as much as real science than your average hn commenter.
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>> Consumer Reports had Safari Developer Mode enabled

I always have it enabled and get 8+ hours from my previous model Pro.
Didn't that argument fall completely on its face in court?
> Probably there's two distinct things we're calling depression.

If you haven't been formally diagnosed, please for the love of god stop talking about "depression". You have no idea what it actually is.
So, I reject the premise of your question & the groupthink, namely that the best product "is no longer available." Just like every other Revision A  product, people are considering the tradeoffs vs whether they still want to be on the platform ("If you don't like the iPhone 4..." ). Cupertino also likely needs to fix some bugs.

Since that's a normal part of life I'd fully agree if this were the first time, but this is the 15th take or so on the tbMBP since it came out. Simply going by my history, people seem to like the XPS 13 Developer edition, machines from System76, the Thinkpad T460, as well as mentioning the Surface Book and/or Studio in every article as incontrovertible proof that Apple is doomed. Full disclaimer that YMMV, as ultimately, buying a machine is a subjective decision that will always have tradeoffs (this stunningly controversial take was flagged last time).

Perhaps, just maybe, people who chime in "I find this article useful" could do the rest of the community who doesn't think Apple is dying on a daily basis a favor and do a search when they're in the market for a new laptop. But now we're just degrading into basic forum etiquette, a tale as old as time...
Very nice. I hope the outcome is as the artist intends! Thank you for pointing to this link.
There is something very Douglas Adams about your response and I absolutely love it.
> Many of you have asked for more control over your data, a greater understanding of how data is collected, and the benefits this brings for a more personalized experience.

IMO, and a bit more general, just the fact that this is a necessity, a constant complain made by users, shows that certain things need to be changed. We should be having a discussion on "how much control over my data does software X has" and not "how much control I have over my data which software X has".

In any case, just being able to see what some software/service/company knows about me is a step towards a good direction, no matter in which camp you belong (companies are the devil vs who cares what they know, I am not doing anything wrong).

PS:
> Third, we’ve further reduced the data collected at the Basic level. This includes data that is vital to the operation of Windows.

Vital? Vital is a strong word. I would like to see what they mean by vital.
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"One argument is that commute times will take longer because we will become indifferent to how long the commute will take. As we approach the state where all cars are fully autonomous, there are no traffic lights and there are no accidents, we should be able to do anything we want during the commute. Heck, we can even sleep during the commute like we do on trains or plains. Commute will definitely transform from something painful to a much nicer activity. But also this will free up so much space (parking spots, auto repair shops) that people will live much closer to the work and won’t have to commute as much as today."

Ahahahah!

At least in SF, those parking lots will not be transformed into apartments. If they are, then the rents will be just as insane.

Also, does the author think that a self-driving car will not need repairs just as much as a regular car? If you add more stuff to a design, generally, you then have more things that can break and need repair. Yes, they may be gas-electric engines or just full batteries, but the sensors and whatnot will have to be repaired too. I think it's safe to say that the part-count on a self-driving car will be higher than the part counts on cars today. In addition to that, since the commute will not matter as much since you are asleep for most of it (the author thinks (also, why not just make you car a Winnebago and forgo the costs of rent?)) then you will be more comfortable living further away from your job. That means your car will spend more time and distance on the road humming along which then leads to more wear and tear, and therefore an increased need for repair (regardless of gas or battery power). If fact, you will need more square feet for auto-repair shops as the cars will wear out more quickly, but maybe not near population centers, as the car can go drive itself to a shop while you are at lunch.
I heard a facetious comment that shutting down backpage was just a way to encourage sex workers to develop better computer skills.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that it creates communities that are interstitially embedded in "real life" communities and there is an opportunity friction between the mores of the two. Makes it challenging to have "community driven laws".
This seems like a much saner social network.

Also, the comics at the end of the page are great, the drawings, the narrative, everything.
2016 - I feel sad. There's a constant litany in the back of my head saying, "Maybe I should just die. If I was dead I wouldn't have to go to work. Can I just go back to sleep? Sleeping is nice. Man, what if got hit by a car? Then I'd be dead but it wouldn't be my fault. Then no one would be disappointed in me that I failed at life and killed myself. Oh I'm driving over a bridge, what would happen if I just yanked the wheel to the right really hard? I'm depressed, my meds aren't working as well as they worked earlier in the year. I need to see my doctor. That means making an appointment. I can't even get out of the bed though. Maybe I'll manage to call tomorrow. Maybe I'll die in my sleep."
> except the battle hasn't heated up enough yet to see whether this is actually true

In what way is it not decided? The US Supreme Court ruled in 1996 that the federal government can indeed criminalize marijuana. This isn't something that they left kind of unclear. A 6 to 3 decision affirmed that the congress can completely outlaw marijuana nationwide.
> We changed up how writing to and reading from Redis keys worked for [the organization] timeline before even thinking about MySQL ... This resulted in a dramatic 65% reduction of the write operations in for this feature.

Interesting. Is there a comparison of overall performance between the intermediate design (w/ Redis) and what they ended up with?
How did that work for the silk road? I remember the same arguments told about it but never followed on it.
Are you so confident in knowing what her objectives were that you can make that statement? For all we know the board wanted to maximize value on the way down.
I saw some footage on the BBC over the weekend showing the are around the Larsen Ice Shelf and I was stuck by how perfectly sheered many of the ice bergs in the area were. They looked like precision cuts, perfectly flat, they looked like blocks. I have not seen this before. Is there an explanation to this phenomenon of near perfect cleaving?

Also are there implications for the glacier(s) that feed this ice shelf after this part of the shelf breaks off?
I'm the same, I've had domains for years that I've never gotten round to using, and others that I've eventually let lapse.

In all the time I've had a bunch of domains there's only been interest in one of them `spare.io`, for which I've had multiple unsolicated offers.

(That despite the fact I have two forename-based domains.)
The "Thinking in React" doc on the main React page, and their tutorial, were greatly helpful, and it was about 80% of my reference docs. I didn't bother with trying to interface with existing Backbone models, but your app may be too huge to rewrite (it still took me several months to rewrite from scratch, but it's a side project so it probably would have been a few weeks if full time).

That "js stack from scratch" repo is also very helpful in setting up the whole build.
You know my point, you just don't like it. It's far from a stretch of the imagination to see a future where the government essentially has a kill-switch for most roads.
You clearly know what you're talking about! Yep, that all reads right to me.

Prostitutes can consent. They aren't /obligated/ to have sex with you just because you have $400 in hand. If they are, they're being coerced/trafficked and that is very clearly morally not OK.

Questioning the difference is another justification for the "I'm not really a prostitute" self-deception. Anyone that can't tell the difference between a sugar and normal relationship either has never /had/ a real relationship or is deeply materialistic to their core.
correct, it is a federally funded study. NIDA specifically is chartered with funding studies that support a prohibition agenda.
Wirecutter is one of the best affiliate executions I have ever seen. I've used it to buy multiple things. It was only recently bought by the NYT.
Today, more and more, cars are slowed down and delayed in traffic due to their owner's inattention to traffic and to focus on their phones. It is as these drivers are passed out drunk and relying on all other drivers to take care of traffic.
Apple removes 'time remaining' battery estimate from macOS
gdb's pretty printing API is documented in the texinfo manual, most usefully this page: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Writing-a-P.... I use it a lot, and love it, but I haven't used VS's XML thing to compare. For looking up API documentation I usually drop into `python-interactive` from within gdb and do e.g. `help(gdb.printing)`.

Though, you're still limited to string representations that way. If I want to examine a really complex datatype, I'll sometimes write a gdb command to dump some kind of GraphViz output and run it through dot. Or come up with a json representation and explore it using jq or ad-hoc python filters.

Looking at your ideal tool checklist - I think it would be possible to build this on top of gdb. I wrote a prototype a while ago that would launch a HTTP server from the gdb prompt, and then you could control it via websockets. Never took it past recreating the prompt with an <input> tag, but someone who was better at front-end work could conceivably do all sorts of nifty data visualizations with it.
This is awesome, but one request: can you please extend it into a real (ie, AST based) diffing tool? Current diffing tools all compare the text (which is basically an input format) rather than the AST, and hence end up focusing on formatting rather than actual changes.
Just a time issue. I don't believe the learning curve is that big, most of it would be in how you deal with strings and the `print` statement, which isn't that heavily used in web apps.
Taking your math example, if the people who are currently at the forefront were constantly worried about where they ranked along with everyone else, they never would be where they are now. There are a few exceptions of course but they're the exceptions.

I could give a damn if I'm #5 in the world or number #5,000,000,000 in the world for x. I just want to be as good at x as I can be. I get a little bit of joy every time I get a little better at it.