skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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 :)

My point was that a number of people point to crime as the reason to keep it illegal. "If it's causing all this crime now, then making it more easily accessible to larger amounts of people would cause even more crime." Crime is the symptom, but <insert illegal drug here> is not the disease.

> Just like there are some people who say "alcohol is destroying our society"

To a lesser extent though. People like to attack drugs that are illegal much more just because:

- They have been illegal. (i.e. the government says it's bad so therefore it must really be bad)

- They have been demonized for very long time. (i.e. "I grew up hearing about how bad <drug> is; therefore that is 'the way things are.'")

- They are an unknown. (i.e. "I've never taken the drug, and I don't know anyone that has taken the drug so therefore it's very easy for me to just believe all the demonizing stories I hear and blame drug users for all the ills of the world.") This is very similar to the attitudes that a lot of people have (or have had) towards homosexuals. Some of the ideas that people have about how 'all' homosexuals are, are completely outrageous, but they hold these ideas very easily because they've never met/known someone that isn't heterosexual. (I'm not really saying that 'drug users' are just persecuted like gays are/were. There are plenty of people have have wild fantasies about what the reality of drug use really is, and I'm using the wild fantasies that people have about what homosexuals are really like as a parallel.)
Don't you get it? Reddit is pro-Obama, so obviously they couldn't use this communist rubbish.

True patriotic capitalists use proper respectable Microsoft software for everything.

(note for the humor-impaired: I'm poking fun at both the typical Tea Partyer, and the the pointy-haired types (see Dilbert) that get to decide what software to use.)
I would not trust any politician who says “I have no idea what policies I should be proposing once I get elected, so I want to hear your ideas.” Such a politician is either an idiot or a liar.

A politician with intelligence and integrity would say something like “If I’m elected, I will try to get the government to do X, Y, and Z. If you have any particular ideas about how to accomplish these goals, or if you want to try and convince me I’m wrong, I welcome your feedback.”
> True, and grapes are 2.99 a pound at the local grocery store.

Yes, and by the pound is how bulk MJ is bought and sold at a wholesale level.

> Doesn't seem to explain why a good dinner table wine can be upwards of $100 a bottle.

This has been post-processed, aged, and blended by masters whose work is more art than science. I'm not sure there is a good analogue in MJ world except perhaps hashish or hash oil. Hashish is relatively easy to produce and may be aged. It is certainly refined to a greater potency than bulk MJ.

So it will cost more per weight unit than bulk MJ.
turn the router off, or get one of those timer switches for $5
or put this in /etc/crontab

It checks every minute so you still have a window :)

*/1 0 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 1 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 2 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 3 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 4 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 5 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 6 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 7 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 8 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 9 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 10 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 11 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 12 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 13 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 14 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 15 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 16 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 17 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 18 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 19 * * * root ifconfig en0 up
*/1 20 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 21 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 22 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
*/1 23 * * * root ifconfig en0 down
Can you somehow triangulate an exact position by using the 3 readers? It's not enough to know a student is merely in range.
Ask HN: Finding a job across the country?
I recently read the post about moving across the country ( http://paulstamatiou.com/atlanta-to-san-francisco-moving-cross-country )and was wondering, how do you go about getting a job that far away? I've been thinking of moving lately, but it seems like a lot of companies prefer to hire locally. And why not? There must be qualified applicants in their vicinity. What are your experiences with finding a job in a completely different area than where you are now? Do you move first and look for a job once you're there?

Thanks.
Could you perhaps state your criticism a little more clearly? I'd hate to ridicule it without more certainty that I understand it.
> (...) we want to resolve this situation as amicably as possible.

Have they emailed the author to request that the app be pulled? That seems like the most obvious and efficient way to obtain the goal of getting the app out of the App Store.
Ok, but if you want to sell in Apple's store, well, it's their store. Drafting behind a brand comes with some caveats that are up to the guy driving.
It reveals dependencies. People might be concerned if, e.g., 90% of government spending was valid if and only if the commerce clause had a particular interpretation.

Companies disclose if a single customer represents even 10% of their revenues, because it's a risk factor.
FAQs on Privacy at Facebook
Nice comment. Just to make sure we're on the same page here, my comment about the insecurity was aimed at people who are insulted when programming is compared to tradesman like work.

Based on your civility and overall personality if I was to meet you with no prior knowledge of your educational history I would assume you had a bachelors if not a graduate degree.
>Jesus, if you account for the fact that they promised 1 year hosted service, and 1 year phone support for anyone who donated more than $350, these guys are already underwater.

By "hosting" they mean 1 year of a Diaspora account on their server. So essentially that's 30/month for unlimited photo and text uploads to a walled garden site. I'm pretty sure they're fine.
"but the Second Age isn't just about code. It's also the marketing efforts"

Part of those efforts seem to be daily HN reminders that Perl isn't dead.
> I can write Lua, Python or Ruby code that does little allocation and would perform well (in a relative sense) on Dalvik. Those are all dynamic.

You MISS the point ... because everything can change, the semantics are different. A class can change ... first it needs to be garbage-collectible, with one way to do it being for every class to be loaded by a different class loader. Then the methods themselves can change, so in JRuby every method on a class has a corresponding method handler (another class at the VM level).

Even if you write code that doesn't do much, you're programming in Python, not RPython, or in Ruby, not in Duby. You may use a subset of the language, but the interpreter has to be prepared for everything.

I have been following the developments in the JRuby project, and I sincerely doubt that you can write efficient Ruby code on top of Dalvik ;)

> A language being dynamic does not have much to do with its allocation profile.

Again you miss the point ... it does have to do with its allocation profile if you're doing shit that doesn't match the JVM type system. And yeah ... Haskell and Ocaml both have type-systems much more different than those of Ruby/Python.

> Scala allocates most things on the heap and is probably unsuitable for use on Dalvik

So do JRuby or Jython ... AFAIK they don't do tracing compiling, and the JVM doesn't do custom stack-allocated values ... again, hard to match the JVM type system.

On the other hand, Scala uses Java's call semantics, so the generated bytecode is efficient because for runtime-dispatch it follows Java's rules. In a language like Ruby or Python with its own rules about what to call, you need techniques like call-site caching implemented by the language author ... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching ... one issue meant to be solved by InvokeDynamic (whenever Java7 ships).

> What is your complain about Scala as a language?

Too many features thrown in there, some non-orthogonal, just to please the JVM ... and I'm tired of languages with a complex syntax that don't provide a way for library authors to hook in the compiler's pipeline ... you get the worst of both worlds (unreadable code / not capable enough).

I just want a syntax tree from some expression, which would enable me to work/use something like LINQ, or adding to it new syntax when you need it (have a look at Perl's MooseX to see what that can do).

Is that so hard, especially for a language that comes with tons of other features, some of them improperly implemented? (IMHO, type-erased generics in a runtime-dispatch language are totally useless / thrown in there only to have local type inference ... and those manifests are just an ugly hack).

But I already said, it's my opinion ;)
While a lot of people will complain about the $11 price, I use and like Locale + Airplane Mode plugin.

The other major items are a slider keyboard (liking SlideIT at the moment) and NewsRob for going through the RSS feeds.
IIRC Nasa seriously investigated building a vehicle like this, but found that SSMEs were way too expensive for use in a disposable rocket. There are other engines that will do the job and are much cheaper.
O'Reilly is catching up, and fixing order discounts too:

_____________________

I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. I checked your account and you now have access. You can download your ebook here:

https://members.oreilly.com/account/emedia

There were issues with our servers on Friday due to high loads, and we've been working to make sure everyone received the content they purchased.

We have refunded you the amount that you would have saved if the discount code was applied to one of your orders. Please allow 5-7 business days for the credit to appear on your statement.

Thank you again for your orders and for your understanding. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.

Best Regards,
O'Reilly Media Customer Service

_____________________

Thanks, O'Reilly.
I somewhat agree. I have a stronger postulate: current proof assistants are worse for writing proofs than machine language.

There is a reason not to panic: it can only get better, not worse...
The article concludes “It does not matter how much exercise” you actually complete “as long as it make you feel good and feel fit.”

So it boils down to finding a way to relax and release any tension you may have before you sleep. Ummm, I know of certain 'exercises' that could be done on the bed that would help you sleep.
As a vegan I've often banged on about how I prefer meat eaters to milk drinkers.

Murder over torture
It doesn't claim that it would be fast, only that being fast is a priority.
On several occasions, I have seen and heard of RFPs written so specifically as to rule out all but one bidder. The receiver of one of the contracts admitted as much to me; the request was written for him, because the civil servant in control of the dollars knew who he wanted before any proposals were in.

On the other hand, I have seen (and worked on) contracts taken away from companies with high overhead and shifted to a more nimble, but significantly smaller, competitor. In such cases it appears the contracting officers are taking steps toward less waste, but it is not always possible to know all of the factors that result in shifting a contract from one company to another.

And there is the hidden cost of doubling the size of the smaller company over night. How do they handle that growth? They say, of course, in the proposal that they can handle it, "Piece o' cake!" However, reality tends to intervene. But I digress...
I tried adding my zombie game Dead By Zombie to Wikipedia in a list of, oh, zombie games, but it was deleted for not being notable. I thought that many of the games that were listed were, well, not notable and insignificant. I also dug around and learned that the person who single-handedly rejected my game was a teenager. From that experience and reading about other folks experiences I concluded that it was futile unless I wanted to game their system.
The problem is that his metrics are not applicable to creating successful products.

He is testing on users not on actual customers, there is a world of difference.

You are welcome to show any study that proves that usability testing in general equals better products (i.e. more successful products)

So downvote me all you want. It is a dying field.

If you want a longer answer you I wrote one here http://000fff.org/getting-to-the-customer-why-everything-you....
Thanks... this definitely works well enough for me. I definitely didn't expect the feature to be this accessible based on the menu settings.
IF their product is such that an end user needs hosted service and phone support in the first place, they are worse than underwater.
Just trying to keep things polite here
Dropping 1m onto a hard floor is a lot worse than being slowly hoisted from horizontal to vertical.

If you disagree, I'll ride on the hoist and you can fall 1m headfirst onto concrete.
I don't think your logic makes sense.

First, it takes ~3 lbs of grapes to make a bottle of wine (and the grapes aren't likely the same as the ones you buy in a store). So that would be ~$9/bottle based on the 2.99/lb you mentioned, which is probably a lot more common than $100/bottle. Trader Joe's wine is what, $3?

Even so, you haven't accounted for the winemaking process, which I imagine is significantly more complicated and time consuming than the marijuana-making process (does it involving anything more than drying the leaves?).

Surely there would be craft/luxury brands that are more expensive, but I think for mass-producers, selling a cheaper (as in not cost prohibitive) product would be significantly more profitable.
Never try to teach a salesman how to sell. This will not end well. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHRLN66Q2E
Not really. I am a UX designer I find nothing in Nielsen and his study that by any metrics make one a better designer.
I wonder if it would be legal to create a futures market in weed prices. This would allow producers to hedge. They would just settle by looking at average prices (per some agreed-upon source) rather than physical delivery.

Futures markets in heroin and cocaine could be used to predict political instability in Afghanistan and Colombia, respectively.
That's quite the metaphor you've got going on there...

Not at all: what I'm saying is that it would be better if it had a more diverse, representative audience contributing to it. That just makes sense. Why wouldn't you want older, more experienced people contributing to an encyclopedia? Or women!??

I agree that given the current complexities of the system, a wider audience would currently not be able to easily improve the quality - there would be plenty of mistakes. But this is the fundamental problem, and some would say responsibility, that Wikipedia now faces.
I have long wondered what the impact would be on other illegal drug prices if MJ is legalized and undergoes a massive price drop. Many happy accidents from unintended consequences seem possible. If this removes ~20% of the revenue going to cartels and organized crime, will prices of other drugs go up or down? Will this lead to an up tick or down tick in inter-gang violence? Will local gangs in our communities lose enough revenue to put them out of business?
Will there be fewer thugs on the streets committing crimes in general, all because you can buy a pound of MJ for $100 instead of $10,000.

It's time to stop the War on Some Drugs (as Robert Anton Wilson so eloquently put it). I'm glad to see that it sounds like we're getting closer, with California leading the way. The amount of abuse, crime and fraud in the legal drug industry dwarfs the illegal drug industry combined, so by taking the spot light off this silly war on drugs, we can achieve many bigger policy goals in the pharmaceutical industry.

Another plus will be we can finally help to strengthen Mexico. Anything about Mexico is politicized due to the current economic issues with immigration and drugs, so you see very few people calling a duck a duck, and saying the US indirectly caused spill-over failure in Mexico by having the war on drugs at all. Anyone who wants to fix immigration and stop all the rampant crime on the border, well, you need to also be on board with stopping the War on Some Drugs. If Mexico was as stable as Canada there wouldn't be as many immigrants, and if Mexico wasn't run by ultra-violent drug lords making billions off of US consumers, then not as many Mexicans would even want to leave their own country.

100 years from now everyone will look back at the decades of the war on drugs and consider our entire culture as being cruel and barbarous. As a society, we punished millions of people and ruined countless lives because we chose to collectively treat drug use and chemical addiction as a criminal issue, instead of a health issue. To be fair, we simply didn't have the technology to frame it as a public health issue, treat it medically, and thereby take it out of the hands of law enforcement and the courts. But we could have at least not ruined millions of innocent people's lives.
yeah, i was all proud of myself for hosting a new engine in my car last weekend and getting everything lined up and bolted together. Thought it was an impressive feat. Now, not so much.
Along with the disassembly of your point made by others, I'd observe that your argument falls flat even before we get to the question of wine. Bulk MJ is much more like oregano in the processing and creation than a wine process; its mind altering-ness hardly factors into costs of production at all.

I think you may be making a critical, but easy, economic error, which is considering only one side of the supply/demand dynamic. Yes, demand may be sky high, but that only implies high prices if supply is scarce. Things with sky-high demand and a corresponding sky-high supply are still frequently very, very cheap. And legal MJ's supply would be sky high; as others have pointed out, it's called "weed" for a reason. It is not hard to grow, it is not hard to process, it is not hard to move, it doesn't take specialized equipment beyond what already exists off the shelf. The only two ways for the price to end up even remotely high is for the government to tax the hell out of it, or for a cartel to form. And it's very difficult to see how a cartel could form under those circumstances, too; how would you form a dandelion cartel?
Fair play to Facebook, they've done exactly what they said they would, and to the same timeline.

I don't like the long preamble trying to justify themselves, but now that I can turn off Facebook Platform entirely, it's a small price to pay.
I really hope so. I guess there's no SLA so they're not obligated to provide any particular level of service.

Anyway, I believe the phone support is a much more serious liability.
This Is Not Content
Do-it-yourself Dependency Injection
People like to attack drugs that are illegal much more just because:

Yeh, sorry that was my point. I was trying to say; it's not an ideal argument because there will always be people who say these things.

In a small part they are right (because heavy pot smokers are generally low-achieving/non-functioning due to the drug). But then the same applies to heavy alcohol abusers.

Basically; it's possible to simply ignore those who blame pot/alcohol/broccoli etc. because they will always moan about something regardless of what happens :P
I was advised once to have the company take out big insurance policies on both of us then encourage him to get a crotch rocket or start free soloing rock climbing.
..."the upstream developers for this port are also violating the GPL, and we are discussing this with them too."
then (Yes || no) == true
It works for me. I usually wake up at around 8:30. If I have an early morning meeting, I'll go running the night before, pass out when I get home, and wake up at 6.
The Outsourcing Epidemic or not, US is #1 outsourcing destination in the world
I wonder if anyone who deleted their profiles now want them back?
IBM market cap passed Google as well at a point earlier today.
Surprising that Webrick is faster than Thin and Mongrel. How can this be?
Video slap bracelets. That is all.
"After reading some of the comments on their website I have hard time distinguishing trolls from republican talking points."

Look, can't we come together under the banner of mutual brotherhood and fraternity and agree that Internet trolls can't be held against any political view? Can't we all come together and agree that whatever our differences, at least we can look down our noses at that lot?

Do you really think it would be that different if the Democrats had put up the same site? Or Libertarians, or Labour?

The stupidity of raw internet conversation transcends political boundaries.
This kind of thing is common in the United States too. Almost no one considers how funds get from the Feds to the street, which is via some combination of direct grants, state pass-throughs, and tax breaks. The former is among the most amusing: http://blog.seliger.com/2009/02/16/stimulus-bill-passes-time... , since there is no way for the government to expand or contract rapidly.

Fast forward to the last couple of months, and you'll find that a lot of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) that are normally issued around this time by various federal agencies haven't been issued: http://blog.seliger.com/2010/02/28/where-have-all-the-rfps-g... . Presumably, the problem is that those agencies are still digesting stimulus-related funds, which in turn is making them less able to do the stuff they're regularly supposed to be doing.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a lot that can be done. If you have very few regulations or guidance, you'll get people inflating bids and embezzling the old-fashioned way. If you make the process sufficiently arduous, you have companies whose job it is to game the system and who end up taking a cut of whatever the contract is and then pass it down. One way or another, you'll get posts like the parent's and newspaper articles that describe some form or another of corruption.