skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first change you're already seeing, and will see more of, is that people won't actually smoke it. Smoking joints especially, is the product of prohibition. It used to be that cannabis was mostly taken in extracts orally, at least in the developed world in modern times. Even when smoked, it was typically some form of hand-rolled hashish like 'Charas'.

Now you have various methods of extracting the desirable substances from the plant, and then either eat them, take them sublingually, volatilize ("vaporize") them. I don't really see much of a long-term future in smoking anything.

I can't guess as to the cultural impacts beyond that, although I suspect that it will be a boon for people struggling with various forms of pain and addiction. In the latter case especially, when you see someone kick pills and use cannabis to stay off them... it's an obvious "less harmful" choice.

I'd guess that Rx sleep aids will die off for most as well.
Ask HN: How can a business get benefit from bots technology?
I have a software development business under which I'm planning to provide bots development services. In short, how do I convince businesses that they should invest in bots? (just like they invest in websites and apps), so that I get business...
Source on that last paragraph? Uber in Sweden is like any other taxi company with taximeters and yellow registration plates.
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Does anyone have a good linux-based swift workflow? I'm starting to experiment with integrating the language in cross-platform projects and I'd love to be less reliant on Xcode.
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As other call out, from the whois information for square.com:

Registrant Organization: Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
this is a deeply pernicious argument, in my opinion. who gets to be the judge of when a person is "brilliant" enough to grant immortality to? what if a "brilliant" person decides they don't want to perform their brilliance for you anymore? Would you permit immortal Newton to take up painting or golfing at the expense of time he could be spending on his brilliant mathematics?
His content has always been on the "R rating" side and is not intended for children. If showing some people holding up a silly side is the first thing that offended your sensibilities, you haven't been paying attention.
And that's how a big corporation (USA Today) dropped a niche and someone had the vision and the guts to take the gauntlet.

Local news are (probably) the last niche for journalism.
People care about what's happening nearby - and unless you have a local newspaper, you'll miss that news or they can pass as fake ones.

The only problem I see is printing is cash-flow intensive compared to full digital. I mean, for paper you have a daily/weekly expense with a proper credit line/funded account with the printer. In digital "printing" cost is not zero, but scales better with higher audiences - which is not the case for local news unless you have "local" news from a big population cluster (which is probably served by bigCo's like Hearst, Knight Ridder, Berkshire Hathaway, etc..)
I'm not convinced by their card reader at all...

It would be trivial for people to intercept the PIN number when it is entered on the seller's phone. That's why competitor devices (iZettle, PayPal) all have a keypad and screen on the card reader itself, it lowers the possibility of interception of the PIN number.

In fact, I am fairly sure that I read in the past that the credit card companies wouldn't allow this type of implementation.

I would certainly feel very uncomfortable entering my PIN number into someone's phone.

--

EDIT:

So, from what I can tell the design of the PIN entry keypad for EMV is governed by ISO 9564[1], which states:

"The PIN entry device shall be physically secured so that it is not feasible to modify its operation or extract PINs or encryption keys from it."

I don't believe that entering a PIN into a phone based keypad is compliant with that.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9564
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I mean... opiates, alcohol and benzos are pretty popular you know?
My small city is going through a minor scandal right now with the city council accused of giving preferential treatment to a developer while the neighbors around the proposed development are strongly against the work being done. Pretty common small city stuff, NIMBY, yadda yadda. We do have a local newspaper, and at every city council meeting the pro and con factions go to war either for or against the paper. The paper prints basic facts, which either side interprets as they will, and one side claiming the paper is biased towards the other side. Now half the city doesn't trust our newspaper.

Even one common source of facts can be skewed by personal opinion. The only thing the newspaper changes about the discussion is whose side of the argument the editor is on.
So, is it really a unikernel, or is it a linkable pid1?
become transgender, get hormone therapy. your hair will grow back.
Only the tech elite even know who that person is. Everyone I know loves Uber and we use it everywhere we go, especially when on vacation in other countries as it's easy and reliable with no need to spend an hour researching and setting up local apps and services.
So they have to change their behavior, and sacrifice their seating preference to accommodate someone's drug habit?

Maybe the other guy could change his? Or not bother people in a public setting?

> The odour issue isn't any worse than cigarettes (it's arguably much more pleasant smell).

What if someone disagrees with your subjective opinion on this?
There are implanted hearing aids, they currently require more complicated surgery than just an injection though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant
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My idea was more that everyone would notice, that all can have much more wealth, if we don't bomb it away every now and then.
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Why it matters that the FDA just approved the first 3D-printed drug (2015)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/1...

3D printing of tablets containing multiple drugs with defined release profiles (2015)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517315...

I can Google. You should Google before making a false blanket statement.
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Just a Young Dancer Chasing my Dream i go by the name of David Wek, i'm 18 years old, i have taught myself to dance at home when i was 7 and then i began street dance classes with Qjam when i was 9. My passion for dance is what has kept me striving to be the best at what i do, which is the reason why i practice every single day. My dance styles vary from locking, popping, hip hop, jerking, krumping to BBOY-ing, and lyrical. "Keep your dream alive"
You don't.

This is part of the bootstraping process of a programming language.

Usually such special types are built manually in the compiler data structures, or make use of special primitives, like native methods on Java's case.
java.lang.Object is just part of the VM. Same thing with native methods.
Bank transfers maybe, but Card processors are rarely that quick - merchant account's are rarely same day into bank, at least from what I've seen.
> And this despite that practically every taxi here is a high-end Mercedes (and priced accordingly).

A Mercedes used as a taxi in Denmark is significantly cheaper than one for personal use. We have a very high tax on cars for personal use in Denmark (~170%), which does not apply to vehicles for commercial/industrial use, like taxis. So for the taxi companies, buying a taxi Mercedes costs roughly what a Toyota costs for personal use.

http://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oid=2244599&vid=0&lang=us
Cool. I know Microsoft has an email address classifier they use for things like product beta signups. See these examples:

https://flow.microsoft.com/providers/Internal.User/users/joe...

https://flow.microsoft.com/providers/Internal.User/users/joe...

It classifies things like gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail as "Consumer" addresses.

So, there might be some additional markets for you if you can identify "consumer" emails vs "business". Also, some niche areas like isEduEmail(), for things like student discounts (fyi, not as simple as it seems at first glance).
Jewel/Albertsons also tried portable hand-scanners to speed up the checkout process. That quickly was pulled as well.
Am I right in thinking that these are completely separate to the Instagram stories?
"We don't know yet" is the whole point of science, and of research. Over the past 30-40 years progress in our understanding of this field has been rapid, and there's no reason to think that won't continue.
Even if it is interference, why should that be banned?

If I live in a reliably blue or red state, it doesn't much matter what I do at election time. I'll go and play my role and cast my vote but as an individual, I can't change the outcome of my state. I can pool my money with others to buy campaign advertising in a swing state that might legitimately change the outcome. If the Senators and Representatives are going to the nation's capital and passing laws that effect everyone, in every state, we should have a way to influence results outside of our own state of residence.
"Terminator 4: uncontrolled statistical inference"
WSJ definitely has the power to ruin your reputation overnight, even if you don't deserve it. You could not do the same to them.
This is a well known problem in the field of decompilers and disassemblers. It figures that the pseudo-code it outputs for generic compilers is pretty good, but when encountered with a man-made assembly or byte-code, they go places.
As a resident of a neighboring town to Montclair, I couldn't be more excited to see a new local newspaper trying to keep the residents more informed. Needless to say, I spent the $12 to subscribe. If this goes well, I hope to see more papers of this nature popping up in my town and others in the area!
>All it takes is 5 minutes of web search to figure that out. It's probably a good idea to prepare a bit before entering a country you're foreign to regardless, transportation would be the first thing I'd search for.

This is why I use Uber. I don't have to do any of that. No stress. Just land in a country and get an Uber to my hotel. Walk out of a museum and get an Uber to my restaurant. It's easy. No thinking. THAT is why Uber is successful and those local apps can't replace that.
I think you just pointed out the difference between technocratic thinking and political/social thinking. Which is interesting as well. Humans search for more purpose than just scientific purpose. Going to the moon is one of mankinds oldest dreams. It wouldn't be possible to go for an endeavor of the same magnitude for some purely theoretical reason or a game.
Wrong. This is completely normal in America, and it's entirely fair to blame all unions for it. The catch is, it's an American phenomenon; it doesn't apply to unions in other, better-run countries like Germany.
Yeah, I won't try to defend the "machine learning" moniker, except to point out that it's not nearly as dorky as "deep learning."
Kill 'em with kindness.

On a more serious note, I don't see Trump's mentions in the article to be unwarranted at all. On the contrary, they're very appropriate given his divisive rhetoric about the news media, and I believe that the author was very measured and reserved with his reporting.

It is not like he went out of his way to take a jab at him. The references were all on topic and informative.

Nothing really to complain about here.
Major banks have small print, but I can assure you that Square is way more expensive than banks for credit card processing.
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As someone with average -13 diopter correction, I've been told by my trusted ophthalmologist that I'm a bad candidate for LASIK, due to the fact that my eyes being so long will just push the correction back out over time.

Sounds like your parent comment's doc may not have been 100% accurate with their candidacy, or—the more cynical answer—wasn't 100% honest.
That's a tough one.

Here: http://www.includeos.org/
Every card in the UK issued in the last few years can be used for contactless payments, and every sandwich shop has a chip-and-pin handset which can process them.

I added the one card which doesn't support contactless to my iPhone wallet but being able to use my debit card is much easier (plus I don't have to worry about draining its battery).
Have a look at https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/ to get a detailed comparison chart of many different providers.

Personally, I can recommend IVPN.
It does, because that's a requirement for managing those seamlessly, through the existing contacts/calendar apps. Anyhow, it's open source and all the networking code is very self contained (so it'd be easy to review) so it's easy to verify the security.

I think we were striving for a similar result, but have different requirements, for example you with the permissions, and me with the app being open source.

As for EteSync: desktop support is planned.
Marijuana is a relatively safe drug to legalize. Not physically addictive, no real harmful OD potential, etc. A good test case.

For the rest, there has been some "experiments" that provide perhaps some data on what would happen if legalized:

A) Oxycodone was a professionally manufactured, predictable dose pill. The way it was distributed in abuse mode was "not very legal" (abuse of the prescription / controlled substance system). But it still caused huge amounts of problems. In fact, in some areas, you could say it was more of a problem than illegal compounds at one point. Uncontrolled legalization would only invite more shady players into this game; I would say any legalization with opioids needs strong caution.

(Interestingly enough, Adderall, effectively prescription amphetamine, has had a similar "grey market prescription abuse" thing akin to oxycodone. There doesn't seem to be nearly that much news on that compound (other than the occasional news article on it being a "study drug"). First impression is that you could be much looser with that compound compared to opioids...)

B) "Grey market" analogs of recreational drugs have been around in psychonaut markets for a while, but there was a period (early 2010s) where it seemed prominent in many countries even beyond Internet forum areas, eg they were sold in "head shops" and the like. During this period you could buy questionably made cannabinoid agonists (eg "spice" in the US) and you could buy questionably made stimulants of various natures (eg "bath salts" in the US, mephedrone was big in the UK for a while as I understand it, etc.) in various shops.

This did cause some problems, particularly for certain analogs more than others. I would argue, however, that there was some moral panic exaggeration, and a very poor understanding of the science in the press. On the flip side, using people as guinea pigs as that market did probably isn't the best way to approach recreational markets.

Personally, I think it would be great if we could legalize certain compounds, in a controlled manner, using scientific data to determine the dangers and guide appropriate actions. Both of the above examples IMHO show that a good legalization scheme would needs regulations, some compounds more than others.

I do believe our current punitive-oriented approach is ridiculously ineffective.
It seems like this is simply a disassembler error (albeit an understandable one). Am I missing something?

Edit: Based on the responses below, I guess the point is that the disassembler can't generate Java code that will "naively" (wrong word, but I can't think of a better one) generate the same output. Notable (I assume) in that name munging would be problematic outside the current compilation unit.
What if the call site does not use the returned value?
Fugazi is one of my favorites bands, and interviews with Ian are always very interesting. Not as well known as Rollins, but just as full of though-provoking ideas, IMO.
I think Americans are going to realize exactly what "run the government like a Trump-branded business" really means. The anti-climate change and pro-business attitude the GOP has doesn't suddenly mean jobs and wealth for all. It means rolling back protections like these. We just saw our browsing data privacy taken from us and now this is probably going to happen. Not sure what Trump voters were expecting, but this is it. I hope they're happy with it.
Tags used to be 60 cents. Now 5 cents. If they got used for masses of things e.g. groceries, they'd go down to a negligible cost. Folks like WalMart can actually drive this themselves.
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Also, this did only accomplish it for the bigger wars. Which is a good achievement, but now we have a bunch of smaller wars.
This is Hacker News. I feel like you should at least know that taxi meters are not reliable and the systems that Uber etc use simply are. Using GPS and navigation to ensure fair driving fees is one of the key parts that makes Uber/Lyft literally better than Taxis.
That does seem to be implied by the article.
> variable cost which is quite opaque

I'm not a user but I see that iZettle has an up-front calculator to tell you what your % fee will be. It reaches 1.75% at £6200 which I believe means it's cheaper for most shops.
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The network going down should not affect the fare. It's not like the city map changes by the minute, and the last known price per mile is a good approximation.
> Okay, in your own words please rephrase

I have, several times. I think I've explained this well enough in the past, and I'm not sure rephrasing it will do any good, so this is my last attempt:

The selective laptop ban makes no sense
and is not statistically likely to decrease
the chances of an airplane being bombed.

> I don't have to just live with the fact that there is probably at least 1 cannibal in the world (out of 7 billion people), today, who would probably love to cook and eat me (or eat me raw).

I mean, you do. There are absolutely cannibals in the world, certainly more than one, and they would absolutely not turn up their nose at the idea of eating you.

So how do you live with it?

The answer is, by realizing that there are safeguards in place already to largely prevent this from happening.

There is no need to ban passengers boarding at Jacksons International Airport from bringing plastic cutlery and napkins along with them, despite the fact that they could conceivably use them to eat you. Such a ban would be at best a complete waste of time, money and manpower, and would be pretty racist at worst.
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Oh, true enough. I've only seen the user-side of the transactions.
the appendix and gallbladder are non-vital organs but they still perform useful functions.

unchecked population growth is indeed a problem, what impact do you suppose it will have on the population when people keep living longer and longer, and a few of them are essentially undying?

in your comment, are you meaning to speak metaphorically or am I reading into it too much. the symbolic reading of your words suggests that certain people might have the status of a gallbladder. did you mean to imply that?
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It sounds like you are privileged with the ability to ignore the policies that far-away politicians enact because they don't affect you. Not everyone is as lucky as you are.
>The fact that a relatively low income individual has access to a large number of goods and services which were once considered exclusive to the wealthy is a clear indication that technological progress has continued at a steady pace.

No, it's just a clear indication of market efficiencies and/or better engineering.

It doesn't say anything about what the grandparent asked for: the rate and magnitude of new scientific/technologic discoveries.
This is why I never understood the "run the government like a business" concept. Business and governments do very different things. You wouldn't run a business like a government and running a government like a business is no better.
I used to think this way too. And actually I would get a little depressed, as a software engineer, because I worried that I wasn't doing much useful work only creating software all day.

But then one day I had a profound insight: For nearly all of human history, the ONLY agent of change has been software. That is, our bodies have remained exactly the same for the last 80,000 years and the only thing that's changed is our culture, knowledge, languages, etc. We've used those changes in software and information to create new physical tools but the only thing that's taken us from the beginning to today is slow, steady improvements in software and "information processing".

I actually think that it is a high leverage phenomenon that most of our innovation is now focused much more significantly on pure information. It's hard to understand how this can't be causing acceleration in change.
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It varies widely on the rep. They each have their own office culture. Some are amazing on the phone; others are awful.

I had a congressman (Maurice Hinchey) who, when I was Chair of my Student Senate, would actually come to the phone and talk to me if he was around. And he really listened and either voted the way I asked or got back to me telling me why it wasn't going to happen.

Not too many left like that I don't think, though. Maurice is long since retired. Some are still good on the phone, though.
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They are trying to kill Snapchat by coping it repeatedly in all their products. Pretty interesting strategy and I suspect it may work. Sort of feels like Google's desparate G+ attempt to clone Facebook.

It does feel a bit hacked onto the main Facebook experience though.
Is VisualRust still active?
It seems dead or moving very slowly.
I know there's some commits going into the project, but their last release was over a year ago.
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"The legislation would enable companies to coerce employees into participating in wellness programs that could require them to undergo genetic testing and provide genetic information about themselves and their families."

This is the price. There will be other prices.

So-called "red state morons" who "vote against their own economic interests" often tout a hazy, poorly thought out rationale of "freedom" as the driving force behind their choices.

There is, however, a decent heuristic at work here. They know that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Just because they have no idea how they'll be made to pay for it doesn't mean they're wrong.
I don't understand your point at all. Python has been around since the early 90s, and it's purpose was to make development faster. That has a tangible benefit to consumers: Applications get developed significantly faster. C is powerful, it's also incredibly slow to prototype with.

> Hey wouldn't it be a great idea to have a server that runs JavaScript!

Who cares?

> So much stupid and unnecessary complication. I wish I'd just learnt C.

Oh the irony...
why not use .getDeclaredMethods()?
Copyright is just about the rights to copy, reproduce, or publish something. You need the technology to physically copy faces in the first place before even talking about things like copyrightable faces.
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