skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study you pointed to for point number two are ten years old and predate pot being legal in any states at the recreational level.

Additionally those stats are often considered to be enormously skewed as one of the primary ways you can avoid a drug charge in some places is to "voluntarily" enter rehab for it. So while it looks like pot addiction is up, it is really that pot arrests are up.

This would also explain why in the study minorities seem to have a higher rate of "addiction", as they're more than twice as likely to be arrested for minor drug charges and thus more likely to be put in this situation.
What Donald Trump Needs to Know About Bob Mueller and Jim Comey
AFAIK Telegram is banned in a number of countries for the reason of being secure and not letting authorities monitor what people are messaging about.
>Use Signal or WhatsApp instead.

I might if either of those had proper desktop clients (they don't). I spend most of my day sitting in front of a computer, so chat apps that offer only wonky web app "phone bridges" for desktop users don't make much sense for me.

The best part of iMessage and Telegram is that their desktop clients are as capable as their mobile clients, and they're real independent clients. Until WhatsApp and Signal offer that, I have little interest in them. Maybe the majority of the internet connected world conducts their communication primarily through a smartphone, but that's not me.
If people hate a language, my rule of thumb is, the more viciously they hate it, the more interested I get. Even if it's just to find out why people hate it, and maybe I'll find something interesting.

(And even if I find it as bad as everbody says it is, I can still pour some condescension over it and feel good about myself - Either way, I win!)
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I went through a similar period of soul-searching as the OP (or so I would imagine) back in November, and this is the conclusion I ultimately came to.

Even if you're willing to take e.g. a 50% paycut to write code at a nonprofit, you're likely doing more good taking the obscenely high-paying industry job and donating that half of your salary, as unsexy as that is.

Which isn't to say there aren't meaningful social problems that technology can solve, but rather that the cost/reward curve is often suboptimal if you're optimizing for impact.
I'm on a few email lists from these crowd funding sites and the prospects that get emailed to me are less than stellar.
> unlikely to guide you into learning about quantum mechanics

True, but that depends on assuming the person teaching is really only interested/aware of an answer that deals with refraction, and that the median mental model most people have isn't close to understanding the mechanics of refraction. I've noticed that the levels of abstractions we employ are all affected by these sorts of questions, perhaps the same question a year later would afford one the chance to unravel a particular layer assuming the layers above it are sufficiently saturated in understanding :D
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> The result has not been the sudden reversal of opioid addiction that you had hoped for.

I didn't say "sudden". I think it would take time.

Addiction doesn't happen overnight. I am open minded and I am not going to ignore research if the research doesn't support my view. But my hunch is, it is too soon or too much damage has already been done and we need to take other steps to reduce usage not just legalization.

Incidentally I thought I saw some research that showed the opposite effect but I can't find the link right now... I'll take a look for it later and see if I can find it.
Some of us have families. Some of us know addicts. Between these sets, there are enough humans willing to take responsibility and help the addict. Your problem?
It is? It looks more like the past... "MPP is an example of a federated protocol that advertises itself as a "living standard." Despite its capacity for protocol "extensions," however, it's undeniable that XMPP still largely resembles a synchronous protocol with limited support for rich media, which can't realistically be deployed on mobile devices. If XMPP is so extensible, why haven't those extensions quickly brought it up to speed with the modern world?". See https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ and disagree, deny or be sad if you want.

Personally, I'm sad.
> But never forget, kids: there is no replacement for displacement.

Said no one who has ever compared this generation's Porsche Cayman/Boxster to the previous generation.

trjordan's right, the engineering of the small-displacement turbocharged motors has become completely amazing. You could scale up (ooooh... put AWD in too, for some reason!) but the cars are already overpowered.
How does a declining labor force participation explain stagnant wages?

As participation (supply) goes down, wages should start to go up (to entice people back into the labor force).

What we have is declining participation AND stagnant wages.
Some perspective: a beautiful 1964 V8 Mustang goes from 0-60 in 7.8 seconds. I'd say both these cars are pretty fast and that you're nitpicking.

http://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/1964/829160/ford_musta...
And yet the alternative, large corporate interests with no bounds or regulations, is so, so much worse.

The government is chosen by the people. This is not Saudi Arabia. If people do not want May, if they care about being free, they will vote against her. If you care, you will organize people against her to stop this. If you work at an Internet company, you will push them to lobby against her in the coming election; destruction of the Internet will be bad for everyone. Wikipedia should block the UK and show a black page that tells them what is about to happen, then links them to register to vote. You can change the government instead of whining on the internet about dystopia.

A corporation, on the other hand, behaves exactly as you have described, and you will never have any recourse, because the people who own it own it.
The only question that remains is if you're just a scummy marxist or a full blown communist. #itwasjustbadlyimplemented #castrowasachampionofsocialjustice
You're drawing conclusions from unintended behaviour, which has now changed (and a release has been issued).
Less so though, as USA was from the onset a nation of hodgepodge nationalities from everywhere -- and without a much older local culture (except of the Indians, which were genocided away).

It was the constitution/law that held US together as a nation instead of a shared history/culture (well, except WASP culture, which is on the wane).
Indeed. Any AST in binary format is going to give version control some trouble since those seem best suited for text formats.
I believe it. I also know that Realtors aren't too fond of For Sale By Owner houses. I suspect this comes down to a similar effect.
You can use telegram without a phone. If you want to use WhatsApp on the PC, your mobile phone must be online.

Last year I lost access to my WhatsApp profile simply because I changed country and reset my phone without transferring the number to a local number first. Support couldn't help.

This kind of situation wouldn't happen with telegram. Just login with username / password online.
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My Dad used to work for the British Army when I was a kid. Some of the stuff in the UK ration packs wasn't bad - the chocolate, and the dried apple were my favourites.
I want to agree with you, and I think I mostly do.

Unfortunately your comment also reminds me how enormous the barriers remain toward people recognizing alcoholism and having the will to treat it. There's an enormous amount of shame, stigma, and denial toward alcoholism, to the point that most who suffer from it still choose to hide that reality as much as they possibly can.

Even worse, the legality of it promotes a culture of celebration (advertising, fancy and elaborate liquor branding, snazzy bars, nightlife culture, bottle service, etc. etc) that is in so many ways uniquely destructive in its own right. Like everyone should be able to find joy in drinking, and those who struggle have something horribly wrong in them that carries the risk of denying them the good life, friends, social opportunities, cultural connection, and so on (suddenly mundane invitations to bars, cocktail parties, weddings, shows, dinner at a friend's home, drinks with co-workers, etc. become awkward and potentially dangerous).

There's a whole culture built around it: mainstream culture. And someone facing their problems with this particular drug face the prospect of losing access to the culture of their entire society. That's just daunting.

I don't think making alcohol illegal would help. But it's no walk in the park even legal. And poses some of its own unique challenges.
You could make $300,000-$400,000 per year putting that in CDs.

In the top 1 or 2% of households by income for pretty much doing nothing. Maybe not a literally obscene income though.
Yes: https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/youneedtohearthisthis-...
Great points, thanks.
>>why are you for it?
Because there is no other solution. None.

The drug war has been a complete and utter failure from the viewpoint of society (those who have profited may disagree, but I hope we can agree their views can be ignored). IT has ruined lives, brought misery and suffering to many, all but destroyed some countries, helped wars continue long after they would have otherwise, unfairly targeted minorities.

And for what gains? None, absolutely nothing. Drugs are cheaper, purer and more available than ever. That is all the billions if not trillions of $ has achieved.
Kotlin was not required. Android developers keep losing focus on what's more important and what's less; with the dance of variations of MVP patterns, RxJava, 10 ways to do the same shit. Now even Google has to focus on 2 things, providing support for 2 languages. Java 9 is on the verge of being released and we are just getting parts of Java 8. Yes, we do not need all features, but what we actually need is FOCUS.
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Not since World War II did the US have that much goodwill and they managed to squander all that and then some in a very few years.

You could very well argue that Bin Laden won, especially because I highly doubt a guy like Trump would be able to win the presidency if 9/11 never happened and Trump is doing more damage to the United States' interests at home and abroad than the last 6 presidents combined.

All that's still missing is a war.
Gentilkiwi/wanakiwi: Automated wanadecrypt with key recovery if lucky
What? "Ruling class" is not about how much you currently have, but how you got what you have and what are your means of obtaining more in the future. Winning a lottery is a one time happening, and we can write it off as a balance for the random chance of getting hit by a car.
I disagree. As eeks points out, fully automatic transmissions are kind of awful at making decisions.

I have a case when I was driving into work this morning. I got stuck behind a funeral procession going 35 MPH on a 65 MPH interstate highway (Uggghhhhh)

I look to my left-mirror, and I see a spot I can feasibly make, I just gotta time it right to get "into" the flow of traffic. So what do I do?

I drop to 2nd gear (The Gear ratios on the Ford Focus are kinda "weak"). My engine roars but its cool, because my engine's top-Torque is in the 4000RPM to 6000RPM band. When the "spot" opens up, I floor the acceleration pedal and get in just fine.

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A fully automatic vehicle wouldn't "know" that I wanted to "prepare" for the sudden acceleration. It only knows after you push the pedal.

A manual driver however, can tell the car to "prepare" for acceleration, so that when you push the accelerator you are 100% ready to go.

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Semi-automatic vehicles (including some "sport" CVT engines I've test-driven) would work. The important bit is to be able to change gears way ahead of time BEFORE you push the accelerator.
Most value investors you've heard of aren't really value investors, they're activist hedge fund managers who try to "catalyze the unclaimed inherent value" in a company by bullying them (through board seats) to course-correct the company...or they're a fund that's trying to match the market rather than beat it (most mutual funds), because they're so risk-averse or have such a poor strategy that they don't have faith it will work.
"Isgren is allowed to ask Assange to clarify his answers, but not to put additional questions, and will receive a written transcript of the exchanges from Ecuador after the interview has concluded." - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/14/julian-assange...

This is problematic.
> the sudden reversal of opioid addiction

I don't think anyone (even the parent commentor) thinks that would happen. At best, I think we can only hope for prevention, and even that will require a lengthy period reeducation and destigmatization. Speaking from experience, it's nearly impossible to truly reverse opioid addiction. Preventing that addiction in the first place by utilizing other non-or-less-addictive pain control methods, such as marijuana, is our only hope.
It's the bounce you see if you try to scroll past the end of some content. See this image for an example http://blog.christoffer.me/content/images/2015/12/2_touch_ad...
The ruling class is much greedier than they were in the 90s.
On every front except user numbers
Some have argued that this is why CRL and (especially) OCSP are useless pieces of security theater: they don't actually protect against a crafted attack because they fail-open in the very situations that a determined adversary can trigger, so they only "protect" in situations where no real threat exists. It's simply feel-good bookkeeping.

Adam Langley, working on Google Chrome [1][2][3], has been very vocal about OCSP's faults, and Chrome began using its own auto-update to ship an aggregate of revocations of high-value certs directly to browsers out-of-band. Despite this being another famous instance of Chrome going against the grain of other browser vendors, I believe this was the correct solution: offering better protection for a curated subset of sites vs. pretending to -- but not actually -- protecting all sites.

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crlsets.html
[2] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/19/revchecking.html
[3] http://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-does-certificate-revocat...
Creating that value destroys the earth.
The spec says the base 64 should be URL encoded, so why aren't the slashes turned into "%2F"?
But this is the case for face-to-face conversations as well.
Cars are far more reliable than every before. The median age of cars on the road has been steadily creeping up for years.

Turbocharging does not make an engine less reliable: every big rig on the road is turbocharged and designed to go hundreds of thousands of miles while seeing engine loads unheard of for passenger cars..

I'm not sure why people have the perception a 10 speed auto is less reliable than a 4 speed auto. Planetary automatics, by design, add gears exponentially. Almost all 5+ speed automatic uses a Lepelletier gearset, which is basically a traditional four-speed with another planetary gearset in front of it. It's not that different from how big-rigs turn a four-speed manual into a 12-speed, or a 6-speed into an 18.

Fact is, as gear ratios grow in autos, they get more robust. ZF builds 8-speed automatics capable of 1000ft.lbs of torque which is way more than the gold standard of four-speeds (the GM 4L60e) could handle in it's highest output applications (380ft.lbs).
What about the fact that the average infiltration of technology for a company to utilize is higher than the 90s, so low to average skill, and even some high skill jobs are being exported to the billions of people willing to do the job for a fraction of the price.

Maybe just as many or more people are being employed just not in the U.S., and the pays of the people working overseas are lower relative to U.S. wages, but higher relative to the wages offered in the location of that persons job?

I feel like people are looking at the U.S. exclusively but in reality since the 90s we have to consider the other countries on this planet, as an average to normal way of utilizing job allocation resourcing as opposed to it just being large corporations that do this like in the 90s.

I'm not saying this method is overall good or stating opinions or whether i think its "right" or "wrong" as opposed to economics and how things have always worked , but it is a fact thats happening. Theres 400,000 people in China who have Engineering degrees or otherwise niche technical skill that are unemployed, and another 400k in the pipeline in Asia that are 12 yrs old taking Calculus and becoming trilingual.

I always wonder why we don't wonder why the average highschool student in the average city in the U.S. is less valuable than the average highschool student in the average city in Asia or India, instead of assuming the only reason we don't have the jobs we feel entitled to is because rich people are taking it away from us, when in reality theres really qualified hardworking people all around the world who would benefit from a fraction of the pay provided by jobs we had previous relative to the current living conditions.

The current living conditions being 400k unemployed Engineers and tech/manufactoring workers in Asia.

outside of simply being American, why are we entitled to jobs more than them, if theres a limited amount of jobs, and they are willing to do it for less because its better than Having a Masters Degree in Engineering and being homeless?
I've had this on my mind in various forms for almost a decade. It's only recently been crystallized from something abstract into much more concrete thanks largely in part to Bret Victor's talks. If you haven't already seen them, I highly recommend "Stop Drawing Dead Fish"[0] and "The Future of Programming"[1] as starting videos. Then just watch all the rest of his talks. :)

[0] https://vimeo.com/64895205

[1] https://vimeo.com/71278954
I recommend to at least wrap all the containers in a VM between the docker containers and your server-side orchestration code.

SELinux also helps, from what I've read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245428
I'm in a similar situation, but don't think of this as an unsolvable problem:

1. Find people who are great at it and be interested in how they do it. I think of this as learning to read good design before you write it. They may be interested in how you do what you do as well.
2. For me, one of the most productive steps was learning the basic mechanics of the bootstrap CSS framework. It did not make me better at designing beautiful web pages, but it did help me make something minimally usable (i.e. not repulsive) that lets me get my ideas roughed out. With a few days of learning, you may be surprised by what you can do.
3. If the best you can do is a cookie cutter design that lets you get started, congratulations! You can get started! What I mean is, I have felt what you are feeling, and there are ways around the problem. Good luck!
Instagram 'worst for young mental health'
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I can see it getting a lot of use in physical therapy before making it to consumers.
When you scroll past the very top or very bottom of a page and it bounces and springs back.
Heroin, LSD, etc. use really doesn't affect me. I don't care if people use it, and don't want the government to waste money fighting it or whatever they do. I don't care if people manufacture it, as long as they follow all the usual regulations for dangerous chemical plants (like, don't have one in an apartment building). Anyone should be able to grow weed wherever they'd grow lettuce or whatever, no danger there. I also don't care if they sell it, as long as they collect sales tax and pay income tax, so that we can pay for welfare and healthcare and such.

Let's have a war on smoking instead. I live in New York, and people think it's perfectly acceptable to light a cigarette while walking down the sidewalk and spew their fumes all over everyone walking behind them. Let's punish that like we'd punish them for punching random people on the sidewalk. Hey, if someone hits me and they're not a trained boxer, I'll probably feel fine a few minutes later, but that cancer smoke builds up over time.

Then we can move on to exhaust-producing vehicles, and so on...
> Btw, ever wonder how much fentanyl it takes to kill you vs the amount of heroin? https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/fentanyl-heroin-photo-fa.... That's what's driving the huge number of deaths from "heroin".

Fentanyl is definitely a problem, but you can't point just to potency and say "this is why". Fentanyl is much more potent than most other painkillers, but it's also more expensive.

5 patches of 12 hour release 25mcg/hr fentanyl will cost $145 on prescription, before any street markup. That's about half what you see in that vial there (assuming your recovery method is 100% effective, no-one cuts it, etc, etc).
That's still nothing to be angry about. That's like being pissed off that more people are suddenly talking about your favorite author after he wins a Pulitzer. Being adopted as a fully supported language by the platform maintainer is about the biggest milestone it could achieve, of course more people are going to take notice.
Shorter = better in my world. The government could have that too if they did budgets differently.
> I prefer it, I get more done, it cuts out the commute time (which includes a lot more than actual time in the car), it lets me work on things at night when I want to...

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with you. I don't prefer it but I understand where you are coming from and I think you should be allowed to do so if you find it's better for your productivity.

I find I prefer working from home when writing design docs rather than doing dev work, for design docs I like simply sitting on my couch with my chromebook and be "lazy", whereas if I am developing I prefer a more customized setup with multiple screens and stuff so I have that better at work than at home. Also more coworker interaction.

Whenever I need to write design docs, I simply tell my team I'll be working from home that day and nobody so far has complained.

>Working from home has no real impact on either of those.

Yes and no. I agree with you that it doesn't have a significant impact especially since we usually have people from the other side of the world dialing in the meeting so it's not a huge difference, but I personally think that if everybody is participating in the meeting remotely, it gets harder to talk because there's more chances for talking over each other and the audio/video quality is always impacted by the connection or by the headset quality. So many people have terrible headsets/microphones that really it gets confusing if everyone does so.

But all these are problems that can be simply fixed by providing your employees with the appropriate hardware for it, obviously.
In much of the Bay area, a stone's throw from Berkley, one of the original ARPANET nodes, your only choice is comcast 100 USD for 50mbits down/ 10 up. DSL operates as slowly as 3mbits on some older wires.