skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It would just make them have to be better."

The best weed on the market is already close to being as good as it's going to get. The real trick is going to be establishing brands with reasonably consistent quality. Right now even if you only go to the dispensaries with the highest Yelp ratings, it's still hit or miss on any given strain.

What I think you will see though is that people who smoke Philip Morris weed will start getting cancer, in the same way that smoking didn't cause cancer until PM starting making cigarettes. (Because of all the chemicals, the filters, and the fact that they're grown in radioactive soil w/ fertilizers that bind to uranium.)
Did they choose not to use open source software because it was socialist?
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How do things like this end up on the front page? The non HTML5 code in here isn't great, and when I tried in Safari the behavior was exactly the same as it was in FF, with the exception of the right corners being rounded and the select style fading in on click. There was 0 validation.
During my PhD program I regularly would go running around 10-11pm at night, come home, shower and go straight to bed. I guess I just didn't know I wasn't supposed to feel sleepy after exercise.
"We should not allow Muslims to enter the country."

Is this statement a troll, or what someone actually believes? There's enough wrong with it that I could believe it's a troll, and yet I've honestly met people who would be completely sincere in saying it. Browse around a little more, and you'll find many other statements like it. Part of me hopes it's just idiotic trolls ruining what could have been constructive dialogue, but unfortunately I know that some of these posts are completely sincere.
When I visit the site, I get this:

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A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now.
Please wait a moment and try again.
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The Man Who Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic
Anytime I find myself at a customer site with an overzealous webfilter it's time to fire up my trusty ssh tunneling for web traffic.
Yeah, noticed that too. The Palinization of the GoP continues...
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I was in the exact same situation years ago after starting a company with a longtime friend. The company was growing like crazy, but then my partner wanted to slow it down to spend more time with his family. Everyone I talked to (an investor, lawyer, friends) agreed he was holding the company back and should leave, but it wouldn't be easy. It would have been difficult and costly because he was a shareholder as well as one of the lead technicians.

Finally, someone explained it to me from a different perspective: If my partner didn't want to leave then I was the one with the problem, not him. Instead of looking at what I was missing by him being there (a fact I couldn't get around), I should look at what I could be doing on my own without him. I talked to my partner about it and we agreed I would leave and keep some of my shares instead of a buy-out which the company couldn't afford at the time.

8 years later he's still running the company the way it was after I left. I sold my shares to a new partner for a price that was many times what I would have received if I was bought out when I left. In the past years I've been able to build a company like I envisioned the first time, sold it and am now in the process of repeating that for a second time.

Looking back I've come much further than I would have if I stayed at the company. My former partner found the perfect balance between his company and his family life, and we've been closer friends for the past years than we had been before working together.
Ask HN: How do I automatically turn Internet off on mc os x?
So I'm doing an experiment[1] where I want to disable internet after 8pm and before 9am. I'm working on mac os x and I was thinking of editing /etc/hosts or something like that, but I couldn't find much info so I'm asking for help. How do I disable internet connection on mac os x via terminal or apple script? Thanks in advance.

[1] http://freestylemind.com/productivity-experiment-internet-diet
...smoking didn't cause cancer until PM starting making cigarettes...

I would be very surprised to find out this is true. Do you have a citation?
Honestly, they could have just used the Reddit software for something like this. It's open source, and it has basically all the same functionality as this site does. The only thing I can really see that would have to be change would be the user registration, the rest is just changing how things are rendered.

Also, their servers were really straining last night. It just absolutely would not load for me.
>Using this paradigm, when a conversion rate increases from 14.5% to 18.6%, you would say it increased by 4.1%

No you cannot say it increased by 4.1% and that's because you are talking about per cent. I don't know why you would ever use 4.1% in this context. It is simply wrong.

May be you can say 4.1 percentage points but I don't see a need for it when you can say (and be right) that it increased by 28%.
what do you wanted ? the iphone is a closed platform.
Eh - I expect better from Hacker News. The HTML coding of Twitter could be better. On top of that, making a whole post on something as tame as form validation is sad. Sure it may seem neat because HTML4 and HTML5 both suck, but anything looks good compared to crap.
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It’s from “Haim” and “gard”. “Haim” means basically house (and the word “Heim” for “Home” still exists in German) and “gard” means something like garden or protected area.
Another discussion here:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/live-blogging-faceb...
No. How can I ever reproduce that? It's only recently I noticed that things I knew I saved weren't there when I did a Search for them. Now I always call up my Library to confirm.
But to regard hubris as “playing God” is, first, a modern perspective, and second, a secular one.

This seems true; the "God" invoked in this phrase is not the religious God but more the God represented by nature and that sense of the natural order. I think that the reason this notion has become popular in recent history is that it is only in the last hundred years or so that our technology has advanced to the point where we can really fundamentally disrupt the balance created here by four and a half billion years of evolution. I'm not sure it is fair to single out creating life as especially dangerous as, to me, there are many abilities we have that wield similar amounts of power. I think of cane toads in Australia and the oil spill in the gulf and climate change. All of these are evidence of hubris, of mistakes with long term consequences and few good solutions.

Creating and modifying life (something we have been in the business of doing for quite some time) does fit into this category. We are messing with with incredibly complex systems we don't near fully understand. It's science and it's exciting and we are advancing our knowledge but the possible consequences are indeed dire. I'm not trying to preach anti-technology or anything and I don't think that the fact that we are indeed "playing God" should stop us from pursuing this research and these ideas. But I do think that it is something to be mindful of. We only have the one earth.

EDIT: hugh3 said it better than I did: '"Playing God" to me is just a turn of phrase, shorthand (and somewhat cliched) for "messing with powers beyond your understanding or ability to control".'
I don't think the Google I/O 2010 videos have been released yet. They should be coming out in the next few days though.
you need to be running webkit (or chrome?) nightlies / latest builds
http://atmac.org/freedom-turn-off-the-internet-and-get-some-...

Freedom does this, apparently pretty well. Not CLI, though, apparently.
Heh, nice quote, I can't tell!

Edit: Yes, I took it to be a real quote.
Harsh, but not wrong. To the OP:

What you are doing is somewhat akin to sketching or doodling. It can be an important step towards creating something tangible, but as it has no deadlines and imposes no constraints, it has limited utility. Design is all about making tough choices about what to include, what to leave out, and why.

My suggestion--and I am no expert on writing programming languages or creating anything--is to borrow something from Paul Graham and recast your project as an attempt to answer a question. For example:

Probe is an attempt to answer the question "Does an operator syntax for mapping and folding functions make code easier to read?"

Good luck!
Seriously Disturbing Video Dairy Cow Abuse These Bastards Need To Be Killed
It only takes one person to do that to expose it to everyone.
Many of them do have stop-the-world GC. A well implemented stop the world GC allows higher throughput, at the cost of increased latency. This is especially the case when provably-local allocations can be put onto a thread-local heap, and you only do stop-the-thread GC on those. So, in the absolute sense, stop-the-world GC overhead is lower than incremental, low-latency GC.

But yes, we have GC that is fairly responsive these days, too, for when throughput isn't the driving concern.
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"Sez"? Really? I'd hope for a more intelligent default level of discourse at HN.

And no, this isn't the article headline.
Duby (http://github.com/technomancy/ohai-android) seems to be showing a lot of promise
This depends. Do people get into the weed industry because they want to commit crime (naturally evil), or do they get into crime because the weed industry is lucrative and crime comes with it (naturally good with lax morals).
Absolute vs. Practical Free Will
hey guys, look at the Id's DOOM classic for the iPhone.
it's GPLed by John Carmack
you can download via App Store
you can download the full code
http://www.idsoftware.com/doom-classic/
Wow, this is cool. Too bad the touch screen is resistive and not capacitive. But it's pretty neat to see Android tablet prices so low. At $137 price point, it would be great to get one by my bed, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the car... and in my golf bag.
How much of the drug-user related crime is due to the users seeking to lie, cheat and steal their way to the next 'score?' If their 'next score' is that much cheaper it reduces the need to commit crimes just to feed the habit.

We still have to account for potential taxation etc. so the price might not go right down. Secondly there will certainly be more users and possibly people using more of the drug.

With all that said I highly doubt there is a meaningful statistic for pot abusers causing crime; it's just not the profile of the drug.

You've just pointed out that people will commit crimes regardless, and if you take away one form of committing crimes for fun and profit, it will just be replaced by another.

Agreed, that's exactly what I meant. Unfortunately I've never considered that a particularly good argument on the side of pro-legalization. Simply because what's the use in pushing crime somewhere else; if the aim is to fix/reduce crime then it's a pointless exercise :)

where people get all worked up over how 'pot is destroying our society' because it's 'causing all this crime.'

So then it becomes "crack is destroying our society" - there will always be people saying these things. Just like there are some people who say "alcohol is destroying our society". I guess pot is more widely lambasted due to being illegal (and possibly due to the fact it tends to inhibit abusers interactions in a much more noticable way)

In this situation I would probably support legalization; if you look at the drugs profile in the area most of the production is from small/medium gangs and individuals. The legal trade has changed that profile even more.

The major stumbling blocks I feel exist generally for legalization of pot is that in other areas larger, more dangerous drugs gangs exist and I a) don't think we should give into them and b) don't imagine they will let us take a lucrative industry from them without a fight.
I appreciate the effort on spreading the word about HTML5 and CSS3, but there are things in these articles that bother me a lot.

Overuse of CSS3 animations brings back the 'skip intro' flash experience of the 90s, and I'm terrified that since it's a new toy, there'll be a tendency to overuse it.

In this specific example, the speed of the animations (too slow) hinders usability and becomes distractive.
>After reading some of the comments on their website I have hard time distinguishing trolls from republican talking points.

That's indeed the most interesting aspect of the whole story.
I think all this decentralized social networking is unnecessary. All we really need is an easy way to switch social networks. Something like a list of UUIDs as your friends list which can be imported into your social network of choice, and exported when you want to leave.

Even email is centralized.

The only problem would be getting the current industry leader, facebook, to willing adopt such a thing. They probably won't so this would be more of a consideration for the next generation of social networks.
Honestly, this kind of depresses me. I'd love to see an honest dialogue between government and citizens with well thought out ideas and respect from both sides. However, that's just not happening here. Between the massive influx of immature trolls and the Poe's Law style comments, it seems doomed from the start. The server creaking under the massive weight of traffic certainly isn't helping either. I think a system like this could work with some better moderation, and perhaps a better start to it, but this one doesn't appear to have a future, unfortunately.

Edit: I'd also like to add that this article is terrible. The seem to be taking glee in the fact that trolls deliberately poisoned the site, rather than thinking about how this could have been useful. I put the blame as much (if not moreso) on the people trolling the site as I do the nutjobs adding sincere comments.
I don't think the distinction matters; surely both profiles will move to other drugs (the first because they want to commit crime, the second because the illegal drugs market is probably more lucrative)
The launch vehicles themselves may not be that fragile, but payloads often are. Multimillion-dollar satellites can be damaged or completely non-functional from effects as small as being dropped 1 meter (see http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/2230 , for example).
"True, and grapes are 2.99 a pound at the local grocery store. Doesn't seem to explain why a good dinner table wine can be upwards of $100 a bottle."

While there is an element of perceived value built into the price of a bottle of wine, much more goes into pricing a bottle of wine than the price of grapes.

Different grape varietals can be more or less easy to grow depending on skin thickness, adaptability to different climates, and disease resistance. The pinot noir grape, a notoriously finicky varietal, really only shines in cooler regions and its thin skin makes it highly susceptible to disease. Other grape varietals, like Chardonnay, are highly adaptable to a number of different regions and soil types.

Once harvested, grapes are typically sorted according to quality. The best grapes are used for the best wines. The excess, low-quality harvest is usually used for blending into massive batches of lower quality wine or grape juice or it's thrown into compost to fertilize the next year's crop.

Once the juice from the grapes is pressed and fermented, the wine, depending on type, will either be aged in oak barrels or steel tanks. American Oak Barrels can range in price from $500-$1000 and French Oak Barrels can be double that. If aged in oak, which is typical of many reds and a few whites, the aging can typically take anywhere from a few months to many years.

Once aged, the winemaker will typically select small samples from different barrels and experiment with different blends to get the optimal blend for balance and aging.

All this being said, here's what I learned from working at a smaller winery in Virginia for a year: As a rule of thumb, most of our wines cost about $5-6 per bottle to produce. In the winery, we would sell at retail between $10-30 depending on the type of wine. We would sell at wholesale to restaurants and stores at $8-12/bottle. Stores would typically mark the bottles up to match what we sold the wine at at retail in the winery. Restaurants on the other hand will typically mark up a wine 3-5x what they purchased the wine at to account for corked wine, uncorking fees, storage costs, and of course to make a profit.

So sure, marketing and perception play a big part establishing a market price for wine. (Thus a huge jump in Pinot sales the year after Sideways came out, and a corresponding drop in Merlot sales). But it's also naive to compare the mass-produced Concord or Niagra grapes you're getting at a grocery store to the bottle of wine you're getting at a restaurant.
He's got a branding problem as well. 'Socknet'? And foolishmortal.net looks like pre-beta HN.

Geeks sometimes don't seem to understand the power and value of word choice, or design. Smart word choice and updated design is not sufficient, but in a Web 2.0+ world, it's necessary.
See, I'm actually the other way, I'm really glad that testing is such a huge part of Ruby's culture. In a language that gives you so much freedom, you need something to make sure you're not doing terrible things.

Also, writing tests is a skill. After knowing how, you still can actually get better at writing tests. It's not as easy as 'just teach me RSpec,' it's more like 'teach me functional programming' or something. It's much bigger than just switching languages.
Apple Passes Microsoft in Market Capitalization
It helps me.
Thanks for you comment, but I don't see the need for the straw manning you pulled.

I'd at least be able to understand the apparent contempt in your comment if it looked like there were a decent amount of comments in this thread that weren't doing exactly what I did by writing the obvious.

On a side note - cheer up man, life is too short for negativity on a personal level.
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You would be shocked at how accesable people are. Just ask, and often you shall receive.
Does anyone know if Microsoft still holds its investment in Apple (originally $150 million)?
My point is if you get high and are impaired for 8 hours then after 8 hours you should be able to drive. If you must wait 2 weeks after smoking to drive then it's not exactly legal for most people.

Well, the tests are not that precise (yet), but it's the same with alcohol. You may very well be tested positive if you had been drunk the day before.

Imho that's just fair. If I want to smoke then leaving the keys at home for a few days seems reasonable. If I want to be a regular pot smoker then I shouldn't be driving anyways, as my reflexes are permanently reduced.

I can attest to the latter from experience, as I used to smoke quite a bit for a while. The longterm effect on concentration and memory have been fairly small, but definitely noticeable.
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ok fair enough, -1 for me not reading closely.

point remains
Did yesterdays departures from Microsoft have the effect of lower expectations for the future?
All the individual issue magazines are $5, whether Wired or Pop Sci or whoever.
I have had my eye on HTML5 for Designers. I am no designer, but this book looks interesting to read:

http://books.alistapart.com/
> they should have a registration-based website with registration tied to actual party membership

So if I'm in an area that is represented by a member of another party, then my voice deserves less weight than the voice of someone that is a member of that party?
"Growing a plant or plants healthy and robust enough for a decent harvest is far from easy ..."

You can cover up a multitude of sins using solvent extraction + chromatographic separation + blending. If legalization takes off, I suspect we will see the rise of blending conglomerates that assemble products for various tastes and purposes, like we see with whisky.
Facebook reveals 'simplified' privacy changes
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So whats the solution?
Actually, that's actually a real example I found in the National Defense section. So far, that seems to be the worst minefield for "troll vs true".
No need to be sorry. It was my screw up. I fixed on my post but I am not able (that I know of) to fix the Hacker News Submit. /Nit Pick away as it is my bad! Thanks.
It's true that wikipedia is imperfect. One of the ways in which wikipedia is imperfect is inconsistent treatment of subjects whose notability is borderline. Luckily this doesn't impact too badly on the usability of the encyclopaedia for most people since the borderline-notable articles are the ones that are least read.

The article suggests that this should be fixed by making wikipedia easier to edit, allowing people who can't quite grok the complexities of the existing interface or difficult guidelines like "Verifiability" to make their own entries. I am extremely unconvinced that this would raise the overall quality of wikipedia.

Overall I think there are two schools of thought about wikipedia. I join the school of thought which thinks it's like a dog walking on its hind legs: instead of complaining that it's doesn't work perfectly we should be amazed that it's done at all. This guy seems to be in the school of thought that thinks the dog might walk a lot further if we gave it shoes.
I'm sure there are better sources, but here is the first one I could find from Wikipedia:

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/64/1/4

Also, about the uranium, the typical smoker gets the equivalent of 300 chest x-rays per year from smoking American cigarettes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/opinion/01proctor.html

Which probably explains why even today smokers in countries that don't use American cigarettes don't have anywhere near the same increase in lung cancer risk.