skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the DEA under the authority of the Executive branch, i.e. the President?
Gonzales v. Raich seems to me like exactly that.

"Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court ruling that under the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, Congress may criminalize the production and use of homegrown cannabis even if states approve its use for medicinal purposes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
They decide law. The drug laws could be challenged, no?
> Would you mind making a pull request?

I do mind, so no thanks. I've written at length about why[1][2].

I'm not using the project, but you can consider the feedback in my last comment as a bug report if you like.

1. http://www.colbyrussell.com/2015/05/31/git-and-its-hubs.html

2. https://github.com/colbyrussell/keeping-a-low-profile-on-git...
Our company's software is very "math intensive". We never hire CS Majors. Only Math or EE majors, who have a working knowledge of the Calculus.

We rarely need to use anything that you wouldn't learn in Calc 101, other than practical application of FFT, but still, CS Majors are all stumped.
They are. You want to use iolists in Erlang. Constant time concatenation (which is useful) rather than constant time indexing into codepoints (which is not; and erlang does not have BTW).
FBI hacked a US #Darknet shopper who tried to purchase Mail Bomb
Ask HN: Recourse when a company won't pay a refund?
I bought a hotspot from Karma (yourkarma.com) in January 2016, and promptly returned it in unused condition. The company has a 45 day return policy.

The company had a lot of returns around that time after they discontinued their unlimited plan. As far as I know, no customers who made returns around that time have been refunded. When asked, they give a stock "We're working on it" response.

They've deleted their facebook page, but it used to have comment after comment from people waiting over a year for a refund. Their Better Business Bureau listing, rated F, has many similar complaints (https://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/business-reviews/internet-access-provider/karma-mobility-inc-in-new-york-ny-147415/reviews-and-complaints).

After a year and a half, it's less about the $300, and more that I can't believe they are getting away with this. They are ignoring their obligations and seem to be getting away with it.

My question for HN is: can anything be done to hold this company accountable for the refunds they owe?
I am a moderately active user of SE (~25k of flair) and I find the contrast between the regular channel (say, Stack Overflow) and the Meta one (SO Meta) horrifying.

The SO Meta community is such a bunch of bullies that I now hardly go there (even though I recently found two bugs which I did not bother to post). In contrast, the regular channels are pragmatically helpful (pragmatically because you still need to do some God offering sacrifices (called "what effort have you put in the question" and suffer some psychotic down voters). It is interesting to see that both populations are composed from the same individuals who seem to have a personality flip when switching channels.

I would be interested someday to learn about the dynamics of such groups. There are plenty of places on Internet populated by mentally deranged participants (cowards hiding behind Internet) but the SE Meta ones are, I belive, more educated / intelligent in average and, sometimes, more traceable.
Really?

I thought there is a shortage on devs these days.

The last 2 years I only worked with companies I found online on some recruiting platforms.
Because:

1. The OP describes mention of a significant other as clarifying the situation;

2. The OP states that their actions could be interpreted as hitting on the other person;

that does not appear to be the type of situations described in the question.
What is that quote from?
Since cryptocurrences are basically pyramid schemes, and sooner or later you run out of suckers, probably never. Don't interpret this as me saying that fiat currencies are much better, though! Really nothing that anyone has invented out of thin air can beat gold and silver, or paper directly exchangeable for the same.
Correct. Mises and Reason are libertarian, not republican.
It has an energy density of 1.77 kWh/L and 1.22 g/cm^3, or 1.45 kWh/kg (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00574). Compare to gasoline at 12.9 kWh/kg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density) and li-ion batteries at 0.1-0.3 kWh/kg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery).
I'm Irish and live in the UK; I understand your perspective. I don't think the BBC would work in the US, though, for cultural reasons I tried to outline. The political economy is structured such that it would be fatally lopsided.
It was more than a common prefix. More like a portal.
landattack
FF can lead paid web; until then, pls fix cookies
Cooking with natural gas is in no way equivalent to second hand smoke. A gas flame produces almost no particulates, and can't produce complex toxic organics.

It's also misdirection to suggest carbon monoxide is dangerous in the same way as smoke is.
> many Americans view government as a necessary evil that we only institute to restrain our worst vices

I'm tempted to say "Why do so many Americans hate America?" It seems like a sort of anti-national nationalism.
Arguments over studies only work when both sides believe believe "science" to be the grant arbitrator of quality. They don't work particularly well when ramifications are complex and the results viewed as good or bad depending on the lenses worn.

IMO the core issue is specific to the US so European successes are completely irrelevant. The lack of pressure for a higher minimum raise games from immigrants being willing to work less by creating sub economies with a lower cost of living.

Their cultural software allows them to live comfortably in crowded conditions (lowering rent), and their supermarkets often are much cheaper and sometimes even fresher. (Cost is saved by lack of quality control. Again, the cultural software comes with knowledge and experience picking good food as well as cooking it. Chinese people for example rarely like to eat medium rare meat. Only the US has a high enough quality control culture where things are eaten raw for their natural taste instead of being hammered with strong (delicious) spices, sauces.

It may even be temporary! The conditions are put up with because they've invested heavily into their children and family. Their children are well equipped to find the best jobs with the best moats. (Software engineering nowadays) AND there is a cultural impetus to support the family!

The US locals are unwilling to accept these compromises. Reasons range from sense of superiority to fear of bad meat. This is the equivalent of buying high end headphones and then being "unable to go back" locking yourself in a higher cost of living situation.

Immigration forcefully shines a light on the world, something that the well off often prefer not to see. It shines a light on how shallow certain "necessities" are.
try that again. At first it was given at no cost to people who accepted to stop receiving the paper phonebook, then you could rent or buy depending on the specific model. During the golden age about 20% homes were equipped at peak it reached 25% (far from everybody had one).

There were no services available for free, at first there were two kinds: the service provider pays the operator or the user pays the operator (about 3€ an hour). no money for the service provider.
Then came the kiosk offer which started the golden age: the user now pays 9€ an hour with 6€ for the service and 3 for the operator.
Be Too Kind to a Woman, She’ll Feel Incompetent (2010) [pdf]
"Left" and "Liberal" are not at all the same thing.
I think that, slowly but surely, companies are realizing that IBM's technology is no better than freely (or much cheaper) available alternatives, no matter how many enterprise-y buzzwords they wrap it up in.
I don't know any canadian / european case law on speech, so you're probably right w.r.t the law.

In the US speech is one area where the courts (sometimes) enforce abstract ideals over justice over the needs of the state and the demands of law enforcement.
No, actually it seems to enchance their abilities, one recent study discussed how dolphins can click and process received information while sleeping, or can use sonar to search for fish, make decisions about echoes received, while simultaneously whistling, communicating with others. This is a level of complexity that is completely alien to humans.

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/24/3987
I know; but Americans don't, and a state owned channel would be run by Americans, viewed by Americans and judged by Americans. It would be American, ie be an instrumental tool of power.
Steve Jobs himself gave him the title "The Podfather"
And this after having determined that out of the 2000 people only 200 will actually use the thingy.

I see it as just a way (intelligent) to get talked about on newspapers.

I know that everything must start somewhere/somehow, but to implement a (I hope) complex and secure system over a national (though of course Sweden is a relatively small country by population) railline with an expected number of customers of 200 sounds hardly as something making any economical sense, the current "electronic tickets" on smartphone as similar work AFAIK just fine, besides traditional paper ones.
I sort of went the opposite direction. I used to use FreeMind [0], a great open-source mind mapping tool. I noticed that I'd translate from the mind map to my to do list by using indents to represent ownership of tree sub-nodes instead of the drawn lines... and I eventually just went with outlines in my to do list. I'll still sketch on paper with nodes and lines, but the indenting hierarchy works so well for me that I never fire up FreeMind. Of course, Python made sense to me too.

[0] http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
How the Willy Wonka Elevator Can Transform the World's Cities
Juno Spacecraft to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10
No. SCOTUS cannot legislate.

They could rule that all drug laws are illegal, but they couldn't change the schedule for marijuana.

As far as I know, no US court would seriously consider a lawsuit that would invalidate drug regulation, so SCOTUS will never see such a case.
please check the readme file https://github.com/GianlucaGuarini/icaro#performance there it's explained
Oh so _you_ are Viacheslav Sniezhkov? Nice work there. I wish you had succeeded.
At the end of the day, he was just the same old establishment president. Didn't move the needle on mass incarceration, furthered crony capitalism.
(I am not a lawyer, etc)

Gonzalez vs. Raich was not a ruling on the specific drug. It was a ruling on whether or not Congress (and, by extension, the executive) can apply the interstate commerce clause to the regulation of drugs, even if they don't cross state lines.

It's also a pretty straightforward consequence of Wickard v. Filburn, which is basically the same thing for wheat in the 1940s.
MicroPython is cool, but the incompatibility with CPython's MRO is a deal breaker for me (please correct me if it's been changed). My understanding is that ancestor methods on classes using multiple inheritance are not called in the same as in CPython. This seems like a minefield, especially in codebases using lots of mixins.
Without an expanding universe, one problem is "How does everything form, given that gravity exists?"

No expansion = everything falls together.
Doesn't matter what I say. I am a programmer, not a political pundit. But I do know that perceiving any country's leadership just based on news is a very bad idea.

To understand and perceive the reality, you have to live in India for few months (say 6 months but even 2 years may feel less). And try to live as a commoner here, get some job (not volunteer/NGO work), travel-to-work, travel to different cities/villages, go to festivals, talk to people and allow typical intrusive social behavior.
RPCS3 Has Moved to Qt
The point of the post still stands with control mostly being in the hands of a few corporations, but it is really outdated. The article does mention AOL isn't owned by Time Warner anymore and Comcast owns NBC Universal along with GE never owning Comcast.

Here are the corrections I can point out. I'm not trying to be pedantic or douche. Just in case someone wants to know up to date info and a bit more info on the control of media. Here we go:

Infographic saying "read watch or listen" is incorrect as what we read is more diversified.

Time has spun off from Time Warner. News Corp split. Fox should be the name up there. News Corp is still big in its own right with its newspaper, books, and other assets.

If you want to say the above splits still have the same shareholders, then Viacom and CBS should be featured as one. National Amusements/Sumner family owns both.

The key company missing is Sony. And no mention of the big 3 in music - Sony, Time Warner, NBC Universal. Sony is also one of the big 6 in film.

Netflix should probably be included at this point. Hulu is owned by Time Warner, Disney, Fox, Comcast.

The part saying Time Warner's 178 million users read news each month is out of date now with the spinoff. Reddit alone gets more users per month now with over 200M per month.

Going along with that, magazines are more diverse. Condé Nast (also controlling stake in Reddit), Time, Hearst, and about 3-4 other companies control most of that industry. But not 90%.

Newspapers are much more diverse in ownership and control, but the infographic doesn't mention that too much so leave that.

Clear Channel went through a few things and is now iHeartMedia. You could also mention Sirius XM for radio. They took a stake in Pandora and will probably completely buy them out. Sirius XM themselves are controlled by Liberty Media/John Malone.

Could potentially mention other tidbits of companies like Vice and Vox having minority stakes owned by the big 7 media companies. It's also unknown how Oath owning AOL and Yahoo will fair under Verizon control. Lots of users and readers there.

I think that's all I got. Again not trying to be pedantic or douchey. Just pointing info out. If I got anything wrong, let me know.
Anything in geostationary orbit must orbit at exactly the same speed (at least on average) to stay perfectly aligned with a spot on the equator. When that _doesn't _ hold, collisions are exceedingly likely, since it's a 1-d path with more than 400 satellites [1].

It sounds like positional tolerances are about 1/10th of a degree in either direction, which leads to the back-of-the-envelope estimate of a 1800 satellite capacity at geostationary [2].

My mind is blown that a circle with a circumference of 2.65e5 km can only hold 1800 objects, safely, but that's what 1-dimensionality dictates. That number could be increased linearly with narrower positional tolerances.

But there is also, presumably, the potential for a lot more room in geosynchronous orbit, since satellite paths can spread into another dimension. Does anyone know if this actually works?

[1]: http://www.satsig.net/sslist.htm

[2]: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I think it was a great PR move. I don't know the depth of the situation but if he simply said "idk if I should hire you or hit on you", then I think most people are going to read the apology coming away with the belief he is a victim losing his company for a trifle. I did at least. If this was the extent, and he didn't touch her or send lewd photos, frankly I'm angry for him. A society that requires this level of mea culpa for telling a mutual acquintance that was potentially interested in a job over drinks that you were interested in seeing them socially is fucking baffling.

Conversely, (again based on my less than complete knowledge of situation) it seems equally rediculous to say that she made unwanted advances to 500 Startups. They were in a social setting and it isn't clear they were hiring for something she qualified for. Should she apologize for leveraging her relationship with his acquintance to use a social situation professionally? Of course not! Dave did a borderline unethical thing in that scenario and based on the NYT article which is scant with details, I'd at most email her an apology for misreading the situation and being unprofessional
A shortage at the price companies are willing to pay, typically growing slower than inflation.
I am paid less than one of my peers who has a masters from a prestigious university. I am cool with this: they have more debt and a larger skill set than me. However, I am thankful that other people in the organization do not see the difference in our salaries, because I would certainly be treated differently by people outside the team. Salary gets used as a proxy for competence: why do you think people stupidly expensive luxury cars as daily drivers?
> That tells me that the entire concept of peer review is not immune to degenerating. And if it can happen in one field, it can happen in another, especially one that's harshly politicized (which psychology isn't, at least not anywhere near the same insane degree).

Politization occurs almost only in the US.

Are you accusing the scientists of being politized?

Do you have any argument for your claims of not reprodicibility in climate science?

Do you have any argument for doubting the data that has been used for more than 40 years?

Do you have any argument apart of your political views?
Erlang's strings might be widely considered awful, but probably not by people who actually have a clue – the numbers thing is ugly, but overall it's a very nice design and has very nice features that are pretty much unique to Erlang.

Erlang has 3 types of strings:

1. the list of integers thing, which you should mostly avoid

2. binary strings (like python2 str or go)

3. iolists: a list or element of either of 1, 2 or 3. This is the nice part – it basically means erlang has ropes. And all the "egress" functions (sending udp or tcp packets or writing to stdout or files or sockets etc.) take iolists. So you can avoid a lot of pointless copying and write text or binary data very efficiently; I know of no other (non-BEAM) language that has similarly good support for this, do you?

See http://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doo... for more details.
That's never going to happen. Currencies are enforced and controlled by central, powerful authorities (the state). Institutions like central banks (or the FED) try to control inflation and/or deflation. In a time of prospering, the obvious goal for a central banker should be to have a mildly deflationary currency. That is because central bankers want consumers to spend their money today and not wait for tomorrow (hoarding).

Now bitcoin has built-in a hard limit. Which makes the currency, inherently inflationary. I have no evidence, but I believe that this was a strategic choice by Satoshi. Why would you buy a currency made out of cpu cycles, with no backing if not for it's future value? Without being a state (e.g. selling trust) or having huge amounts of gold to back up a new currency, the only reason someone would wanna buy it, is indeed, the future value that could hold. Hence, Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency can work as an asset but not as a currency given the current design.

Y. Varoufakis, spoke of a centralised digital currency in his solution for the Greek crisis. That could be a digital currency, that anyone can use. But was a fully controlled digital currency issued in the form of IOUs by the state.

NOTE: Talking about adoption of a decentralised currency a-la bitcoin, by a state or group of states to replace entities like the FED or the ECB shows a poor understanding of the most basic principles of the financial systems.
All of your comment applies to you and possibly the company you work for. From my perspective the notion of "career-minded" is especially something that is rapidly altering. The trend toward shorter engagements as a full-time engineer is a lagging indicator of the broader industry trend toward commoditizing development. Companies foster career development less and less, and employees recognize this more and more.

Also this industry is actually much larger than you suggest, and I think your "2-3 degrees" claim is a bit extraordinary. There is far more software development going on outside the tech hubs than I think people in these hubs appreciate, and in many ways under the radar of the like who frequent HN.
Perhaps it has been downvoted because the OP doesn't have any argument.

When some of the ones talking about the irreproducibility can give any proof that climate science has the same problem, perhaps we can start to talk.
Very odd. I've seen nothing of the sort, so I wonder if it's regional. Here in upstate NY I get things when promised, and Amazon explicitly states "get it by today+2" when ordering.
For the Japanese service, did anything prevent users from putting an address that received mail, but wasn't theirs?
I think one nevertheless should warn people not to use R for things it's not suited for. Building a reliable app or library is one of those things. R provides excellent means to call into C, C++, Java etc. People should use one of these instead for such things.
Microchip implants are one of those things that invokes a visceral and immediate rejection and fear from the conservative, apocalypse-believing American Christians I’ve known in my life. It’s considered to be the fabled mark of the beast that biblical literalists will avoid at all costs. Some I know also staunchly avoid RFID chips in cards and other objects they carry on themselves (though, notably, not smartphones).

As a non-believer, I’ve always felt torn between wanting to poke fun at such a funny (to me) belief, and encouraging the drive to resist such implants because they offer far too much ability to be creatively abused by entities with—or seeking—power. When our political leaders cannot avoid helping themselves to all sorts of data and dubious practices to gerrymander districts, subvert democratic participation, target misleading messaging for power gains, and actively perpetuate starving the republic of a well-informed and reasonable polity, the ability to more efficiently and specifically target individuals for any purpose seems worth resisting, whatever the underlying reasoning may be.
While he might not have cared for a slide from a technical presentation, he would not have "happily gotten on stage in front of this slide".

This is all contexture of course, but even if he didn't know the nuances of minus vs dash etc, he wouldn't have left the extra space on the "e" and the misaligned equals signs to slip by.
Several of the tweets link to the post, and the title shows up in Twitter's preview box (although not in the tweet proper). If Twitter search "worked" it should have found those, via some magic string munging or whatever.

My definition of "works" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM, others are free to disagree.
Would the next president really have the motivation to revert it? Aside from pharma lobbying I don't see why they would.

I also have a very skewed concept of how the American public as a whole views marijuana but I can't imagine it is overwhelmingly negative
It's flawed, but why should an area with diverse communities have to settle for one representative when a representative per community could be chosen instead? Isn't it marginalizing to have electoral districts which are divided politically? Districts should be aligned to the wishes of the residents there in, correct?
How is this worse? What is bad in it?
Do, you don't accept the science because you think that perhaps in the furute it will be proven wrong.

Good thing, isn't?
Personally, I would be reluctant to go to a face-to-face interview that hasn't been preceded by a phone interview and (ideally) a technical test.

By the time I step into the employer's office, I am 90% sure I would like to work for them. Anything else would be inefficient use of time, both mine and the employer's.