skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ehrlichman quote is controversial for more than the reason you cite. Baum claims Ehrlichman said that in 1994 while he was researching for a book he published in 1996 about the drug war. He didn't include the quote in that book, but instead published it in 2012 and again in 2016, after Ehrlichman had died (in 1999).

I hate the drug war and I think it's stupid, but I don't think people should use that quote for evidence of anything. I think it was either made up or taken completely out of context, and obviously Ehrlichman isn't around to contest it. It encapsulates liberal conspiracy theories about the drug war far too perfectly, it's as if a Breitbart reporter claimd an Al Gore staffer who had died "admitted" liberals all knew global warming was a hoax and pushed it just to increase taxes and punish Republican leaning businesses with harsh regulations.

I don't know if this is a reputable site but the basic story about timeline of the quote is not disputed as far as I know:
http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/720681
Give them free drugs.

It's overall cheaper. It's safer for him and you. Reduces crime, which saves money on police.

And if drugs are cheap to most, and free to some, there's no huge profit to be made by illegally selling them. Thus, no gun fights over distribution spots on the streets.
Actually, in Signal more recently now you don't even get to confirm the new key, it just says "hey, the key changed" in the conversation text and keeps going.

I'm not exactly comfortable with this now - it seems like someone may be able to spam messages to hide the key change.
The problem is not that you can't play phone games from 2009 on your 2017 iPhone, tying 32b deprecation to a hardware revision would actually have been nice (regardless of the hardware still being able to run in 32b mode).

The latest processor doesn't support 32 bit code. All 64 bit phones can support the latest OS. Why should Apple waste time, resources, and space on the device to support 32 bit code?
Ha! You'll probably be texting like a caveman. At least you'll probably still be able to view the Animojis we send you.
I remember reading that iOS 11 also come with MAC address randoming so that you can't be tracked by wifi.
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I meant that it is said as if the iPhone X is the best phone, if you are willing to pay for it. But some people are only willing to deal with non-Plus sized phone, at most.
That's pretty bad for a number of reasons.
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True, but that will only last some days or weeks.
These academic conferences are insanely expensive (typically ~$1000 tickets) and quite poorly run, especially compared to industry conferences. Industry conferences are not only cheaper and better run, but they even have niceties like coffee (!!) and the occasional snack. The last academic conference I was invited to speak at charged me $1000 as an invited speaker – which I paid, but never will again. There was no coffee or organization at the breaks. In short, I'm quite certain academic publishers are also making a tidy profit off of their conferences.
The casio database is probably what you're looking for. They had a few different models but most deleted your list above. Luckily Casio still makes them, should be easy to find on eBay.
Right - that's a completely different topic though. That's an individual paying taxes on a gain that they've realized. Not a company paying taxes based on other people's gains.
Show HN: Eureka, simple launcher for compute tasks
The software is still in a strange transition between the old layout engine and the new OpenGL one developed by CERN. I believe the old interface is being killed, but not immediately - you can switch between them as you use Pcbnew (KiCad's board editor). I initially found the old interface to be more intuitive, coming from Eagle. I used the new one for my most recent boards (primarily due to its support for differential pair routing), and once I learned the interface I now much prefer it.

There are still a few quirks, like, for instance, if I want to delete a whole track, I find it quickest to switch to the old interface and press "Del", then switch back. The new interface only deletes segments of tracks with that key. Saying that, despite the rough edges it's pretty solid and functions effectively in the professional and research environments I've worked in. It's only going to get better, too, as the community grows and the new interface fully replaces the old one.
Looks slick. What stack are you using for Studio?
> By the time Zuckerberg began extolling the virtues of hacking, he had stripped the name of most of its original meaning and distilled it into a managerial philosophy that contains barely a hint of rebelliousness. Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was possible."

No, Zuckerberg did not somehow give the word "hacking" new meaning - those meanings have been around for a long time.

> Facebook would never put it this way, but algorithms are meant to erode free will, to relieve humans of the burden of choosing, to nudge them in the right direction.

Again, no. The whole article is full of grandiose statements like this that are either flat-out wrong or distorted to fit the author's narrative. Maybe if "algorithms" were replaced with "their algorithms", this argument (which seems to be the thesis) would be slightly more credible. The problems described in the article are not products of algorithms or the "engineering mindset". Those things are just manifestations of the real problem: Facebook's current strategic mission.

I agree with a lot of what the article is saying, but unfortunately it comes across as blaming the use of technology and engineering. Like civil laws, those things can be helpful or detrimental to people (as most tools can), and sometimes they have unintended consequences. Ultimately, the responsibility still lies 100% with the organization creating those algorithms, not in the use of algorithms per se.
It does. You can also see that the adapter is disabled (there is a stroke through the wifi icon then). It’s just the “I’ll quickly turn off wifi/bluetooth” that has gotten harder/misleading.
Not even close to true
All hail the rise of the Single Packet Web App.
In New Jersey (and I think Oregon), you can't pump your own gas. Full service only.

Years ago (this predated energy drinks by a couple decades) I filled up at a rural station in GA that had old mechanical pumps. I went inside to pay, having not taken note of the cost. When the cashier asked me how much I'd purchased and I told him I'd have to go check, he waved me off and pulled out a pair of binoculars to read the charge off the pump.

I like to think now he foresaw the coming age of skimmers and wanted his pumps to remain immune.
> Because I don't have any liability

Where do you think the cost of losses goes? To the consumer via higher prices...
OpenVPN's iOS app automatically reconnects from sleep.
Or it can be read as "this is a made up story; the guy is full of shit."
I don't feel it was that weird a reference to make, and the reason I asked was that I didn't want to jump to conclusions about it's use.

Three parens surrounding words like "pedophile" is something that shows up a lot on Twitter, and is meant as a dogwhistle for antisemitism - just so you know and don't get caught off guard of someone assumes that's what you mean in the future.
Who's a better digital device provider than Apple for security & privacy?
Eslint and a Webpack dev server would have you covered in that regard.
It's for the camera, not the browser, and it looks like you can change back to h.264 and JPG [1]:

> If you’re currently running iOS 11 beta 1, you can verify this by switching between the High Efficiency and Most Compatible formats under iOS Settings → Camera → Formats. Under the High Efficiency format, images will be saved as HEIC and movies as an HEVC .mov file. Under Most Compatible, images will be saved as JPGs and movies as an h.264 .mov file.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/08/ios-11s-new-heifhevc-camera-f...
I'm working on a tool you can add to any website that makes the content editable for non-developers. https://component.io

So now you don't have to do the back and forth "hey can you make a few quick edits" routine, and you can use whatever technology you want to build the site.

We've been working on it a little under a year and have a couple thousand users.
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ehhh HTML parsers/DOMs are trivially easy to write. after that you need to go get a JS lib (like ducktape) and write a css and json parser.

After that all you need is a layout engine, which GUI tookits like tk and gtk+ already have for text editing.
I find it hilarious that every time Apple does anything like this, people complain and Apple still sets record sales. You're fundamentally wrong and Apple knows it. They can rip the headphone jack out. They can deprecate 32 bit apps. They can remove TouchID. They can block installing third party apps. Keep complaining; neither they nor their customers care.
Used one without zip verification the other day in Los Angeles.

Before I started pumping my gas someone walked up and offered me $25 in gas for $15 in cash.
Trump Threatens to “Totally Destroy” North Korea
The only lawyers I know with software patent experience consider the fuss absolutely rediculous.

It gives you more rights. Full stop, end of story.
Speaking of games, are there any archival initiatives for a future retro apps scene? Not that I can think of any games that would be worth it — but just for the sake of it.
Organized crime networks also like to hide behind shell companies, contractors and legitimate businesses.

Investigators use the concept of cui bono to figure out who is ultimately responsible.

Who benefits?

Just because local distributors are doing the bribing doesn't insulate the megacorp from moral culpability for their actions.

By the way, the bribes often aren't in cash, they're free cases of Coke.
First-class source control / versioning.
chip & pin never caught on here because the liability for identity theft/fraud is on the bank rather than the individual. so consumer's dont really care
Tensorflow implementation of Facebook's TagSpace (auto tagging)
https://brave.com/publishers/ ?
Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficient (2016)
I think querySelector and querySelectorAll are simply more generic versions of the traditional approach of using getElementById and getElementsByTagName, but it's possible that the greater versatility of $ influenced the later design of querySelector, indeed. Then again, it was not a jab at jQuery, which proved to be a fantastic tool for a decade in the field of web development.
The author mischaracterizes algorithms and ridiculously attributes their importance in computer science to a desire by programmers to polish their own images. He reveals ignorance of one of the biggest motivations for the earliest computers, which was to solve differential equations in several domains. Eigenvalue estimation algorithms existed long before Page Rank.
Last time this topic came up, someone mentioned working in a cheese processing plant that used at least 4x as much water as a typical bottling factory. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that paper mills, steel mills, etc also use way more.
To be fair; HEIC and HEVC are industry standards. If browsers don't support them, that's on the browser.
What kind of extra profits do you think Coke brings in from the excess consumption from religious rituals of Spiritual Healers?

Lets say Chiapas (3.4 million people) has (10% population of Spiritual Healers) = 340,000 Spiritual Leaders.

Each spiritual leader will now purchase a 1 Liter coke for a religious ceremony EVERY DAY that they otherwise would not have. Coke costs .73 pesos per liter in Chiapas. 340,000 x .73 Pesos = 248,200 Pesos per day.

248,200 Pesos coverts to $13,992.88 USD per day.

$13,992.88 x 365 (days in a year) = $5,107,401.20 USD Total extra coke consumption.

So Coke is now possibly selling 5 million USD more dollars per year of coke with this scheme. You must subtract the cost of making coke which we do not know, and the cost of the "bribes", to find Coke's total profit here.

But as someone involved in marketing the potential downside of this scandal doesn't seem worth the extra 5 million in sales from Coke used during religious rituals in Chiapas.

It seems more likely to me that if mothers are feeding their babies Coke instead of the expensive milk, or contaminated water, that the Spiritual Healers are making the same decision as everyone else. That Coke is the safest, most cost effective and pleasant drink available.

Full Disclosure: I am drinking my morning Diet Dr. Pepper as I type this.
> Finally. I hope this will signal a turning point on this insane approach to national health in all countries.

Honestly, until the people in power start saying this stuff, nothing seems likely to happen.

We've had a parade of experts, medical groups, police commissioners (in the UK), and ex-politicians all calling for change, but the people actually in power are either too set in their ways or too scared to rock the boat and lose their seats by being seen as "pro-drug".

We still have a long, long road ahead of us before much is going to change in the UK. I am heartened that baby-steps are being taken in the USA, but that's all they are, baby-steps.
I have a couple of old (now discontinued) Tokyo Flash[1] watches. They are pretty neat and unique.

[1]https://www.tokyoflash.com/
F-Droid has done a lot of work towards reproducible builds.

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Deterministic,_Reproducible_Bu...
At this point I've done about equal amounts of programming in JavaScript and TypeScript. Yes, that's a huge difference. Without that one difference, the languages seem really similar, especially since ES2015.

I'm sure someone might chime in and say that good tests will cover that, but client-side JavaScript code can be difficult to test properly, so I'd rather just get the type checking for free.
"So be it", you say. In other words, average people will need to pay those taxes, instead of very rich people that don't even care about getting dividends. Seems fair to me.
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Modern code completion does, yes. Just as static analysis goes beyond type checking of a language. The computing resources necessary to support modern tools is beyond what older tools had.

I am not trying to make this an "us versus them." To the contrary, I'm trying to point out both toolsets have many of the same advantages.

I will even concede that static languages do seem to have the better IDEs today. I assert that is as much a by product of money spent on development. Not a foregone conclusion of language design.
Haha, I managed to crack a couple programs by following the +ORC cracking tutorials and a (cracked, of course) copy of SoftICE. In fact, that's how I got interested in assembly. Then I learned C and started using Linux as my operating system, so I didn't have a need for either thing anymore :/
It's wireless to a pedant. The interface isn't a wire going physically into the phone, but the phone has to be physically connected to the pad. In some ways it's even less convenient than wired charging. Try reading and charging in bed.

The term "wireless" clearly invokes imagery of a kind of ambient charging. Marketeers know this, and the term is used in bad faith.
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Wow. Had no idea that there would be that much competition in this space. I'd love to learn more about your overall solution - is it essentially an "e-commerce" site for pet boarders so pet owners can book their appointments and pay online?
This is exactly what my wife and I do, we both have our primary spending cards (her Discover It, my Capital One QuickSilver) that get used for everyday purchases - but I've also got a very basic Wells Fargo Platinum card that gets used for recurring payments (car insurance, unlimited car wash pass, internet bill, utility bill, etc).

We don't touch the debit card attached to our checking account unless there's no choice, however - which is usually just WinCo when we can't get what we want (or get what we want for a reasonable price) at Fred Meyer or Albertson's. All of our credit cards have $0 liability, and worst case if someone skims them and maxes our limits we have to temporarily switch to a backup card while the charges are reversed and a new card is mailed - someone draining my checking account leaves me with the inability to pay rent, electricity and gas and Wells Fargo is happy to drag their ass on reversing unauthorized debit card payments.
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For anyone interested in this stuff who hasn't already done it, I'd highly recommend a tour of a museum submarine. I recently did the USS Growler in NYC and it was really neat. Highly obsolete, of course, but the general idea of being cramped and using every bit of space is timeless.

It was hard to imagine living in there for months at a time. One person in my tour group almost started freaking out just in the ten minutes we were inside.
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> why does it have to about who we 'blame'?

Because if politicians are not held accountable for their actions, it removes the incentive to be genuine and honest on their part.
They paid income tax on the profits generated in the USA, but not those generated eg in the EU.
> My take is that if you want to “educate” users on how best to use a feature you must leave them the freedom to do it wrong

This is diametrically opposed to Apple's tradition, about which they have been clear and consistent.
The free space here mostly refers to 32-bit system libraries.
Quotes can have multiple meanings, some of which oppose each other.

Generally one is expected to use context clues to disseminate which meaning is most relevant to a given sample of text.

In this case they were to indicate a somewhat mocking tone in my paraphrasing.

The exact quote actually managed to be more condescending than that:

>
Commentors with novelty usernames should not expect responses.

On a totally unrelated note, you sound like a wonderfully pleasant person to interact with. I am deeply saddened those of us with "novelty usernames" might miss out on that.
Guile has multiple dispatch as part of GOOPS. [0]

(define-method (+ (x <string>) (y <string)) ...)
(define-method (+ (x <matrix>) (y <matrix>)) ...)
(define-method (+ (f <fish>) (b <bicycle>)) ...)
(define-method (+ (a <foo>) (b <bar>) (c <baz>)) ...)

> R7RS small is too small and for anything else there are multiple libraries with overlapping functionality.

The point of r7rs-large is to eliminate overlap. As to *-small being... Too small... R5RS is still quite popular, and quite small, whilst still being quite capable.

However, Guile does not implement the whole of R7RS, yet. Instead they've implemented both R5RS and R6RS, for backwards compatibility, which is where you're seeing the overlap. When R7RS is a fully fleshed out spec, Guile intends to implement it, as well.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Methods-...
Not on commercial scales. According to the wiki, California's Central valley produces 99% of the commercial crop and the US is the largest exporter and second largest producer.

Also, those trees aren't locking water anywhere. They are probably releasing the same amount per tree to evaporation.
> It is also not controversial to claim that programming time is slowed down, because of the need to think of types.

I'd dispute that. I think the types provide me a notation to think about something that I'd already want to think about, so I can actually program faster with them than without.

(Very much agree with your overall point: what matters is not how many bugs we have but how much business value we deliver overall)
Estonia takes an interesting approach - profits are only taxed when they are taken out as dividends. There is thus essentially no corporate tax, as companies can accumulate profit and not have it taxed until it is distributed to shareholders.
It sure would be in Jib Inc, the company that will launch about 5 minutes after no corporate taxes and will handle all of my personal finances. :)

I'd pay myself a very basic salary, and if I needed emergency cash I could always borrow against my holdings in Jib Inc until I could adjust my salary appropriately.

That would let me defer paying tax indefinitely on anything that I don't need for day to day living, and I would be able to play the margins on a number of major expenses as well, with very little overhead work, since I dont need to worry about taxes for corporate income anymore.
Those 20-30 minutes matter when you travel, which is when the iPhone's undersized battery is already a liability.

After about a year of wear and tear, a day trip to Manhattan requires an external battery or finding an outlet somewhere. Ditto on killing or removing abusive/"too big to fail" apps like Facebook and Facebook Messenger.
Traffic on major Bay Area freeways has grown 80 percent since 2010
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Good idea and good luck. The reporting from Mailgun leaves much to be desired.
Hmm, I figured this was an iOS 11 beta bug? It certainly didn't reconnect reliably after a minute, but would do so maybe once an hour.
Ray Dalio Calls Bitcoin a Bubble and a Highly Speculative Market
To me the wild ride showed a pretty solid wall of support at $3k
>> I don't understand - why would cheap/free drugs prevent gun battles

No profit to fight over

>> car break ins

No need to find hundreds of dollars a day to support the habit

>> or OD'ing?

Known quantities of known substances can help people avoid OD from either the wrong thing (fentanyl lately) or unexpected purity.

>> As far as I'm aware, junkies still need money to eat/sleep/drink and very few have a reliable source of income.

You only need a few bucks a day to eat/sleep/drink, you need potentially hundreds for your habit at present. Given an easy, cheap supply many will be able to hold down a regular job.

>> All gun battles aren't over drugs, and would still occur.

But the ones over drug money would stop, drugs are a major source of gang funding.

>> And not all overdoses are caused by tainted drugs.

No, but a hell of a lot are.
SLIME wasn't released until 2003.

As an active promoter of live programming, I'm totally enthusiastic about code completion using dynamic type information. It just didn't happen before static types. Code completion on dynamic execution context is a bit challenging because you need to surface execution context somehow (which is a problem live programming focuses on).
i have lived in dc and NYC since 2007 and not owned a car
Even if this is true, it seems it's still better than not drinking coffee.

And I agree with you, at least anecdotally, that this happens.
Commercial desalination is quite expensive. Natural desalination is quite slow and mostly inconvenient.
The rant is about how to charge the iPhone or any device with "wireless" charging is that you still need the wire to be touching the phone or device.

There is still a wire involved and they're calling it "wireless".
Depends on what you're spending on. If you're spending on capital equipment, it's depreciated and spread over many years. But if it's discounting your sales so that you have razor-thin profit margins, then you're just cutting your income which directly cuts your current-year taxes.
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The iPhone 5C won't update past iOS 10 so Apple will keep the signed version of that around and you can find 5C's for cheap. I mean if you really want to keep using 2009 apps. (I am not claiming that this is at all a reasonable work-around, just that there is a work-around.)
re: "only LE client".

https://github.com/icing/mod_md

this is being folded into the official Apache httpd repo.