skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is simply not true that the smell is disgusting for nonsmokers in general. I know too many nonsmokers who like the smell of a cigarette outdoors, and will try to get closer if they see someone smoking as they walk by to enjoy the smell. And I'm not a smoker, so it's not selection bias.

Some people are genuinely sensitive to the smell, and will be inevitably replused by it. This isn't that different from people who are especially sensitive to fragrances and get a headache when someone wearing perfume walks by. But I suspect that many more people have simply been conditioned to find the smell disgusting.

It's like beer. Most people don't like beer the first time they try it. Some don't find it disgusting, even at first, but no one likes beer at first taste in the way that people who like beer like beer. But imagine if you were told that beer is disgusting, that it will kill you, and imagine if you were constantly shown pictures of the organs of people dying from beer drinking. Imagine if the people you saw drinking beer were largely delinquents. It would be entirely different, and you would be much less likely to come to appreciate the flavor of beer.
Finally signed up for a yc account for this. As an American who has lived in Turkey for over half a decade, I offer you an opinion that a) it isn't currently particularly unsafe compared to any European cultural capitol (a credit, in part, to their recently depleted security and intelligence communities), b) Turkey has a multitude of viewpoints with the clearest divide (about 50/50) between conservatives and liberals (sound familiar?), c) visiting Turkey in spite of recent CNN-amplified drama, mostly rewards the people in the tourism industry who have been hurt most by the massive drop in revenue from both terrorism and political instability. Travel and form your own opinions.
When you hear:

- ..spends less than $10 per citizen per year

- Meanwhile, the U.S. has spent some $10,000 per household...

Do you think to yourself, "yeah, that sounds like about 5x"? The presentation of the data is clearly cherry-picked to make it sound as bad as possible for the US.
Sure it does,

https://github.com/graalvm/sulong

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132204
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Let's correct that and estimate it ourselves: The War on Drugs was launched in 1971, so that's 46 years it's been going on. And the average household size in the US was 2.58 in 2010 and 3.11 in 1971 according to census - let's take the higher number to get a conservative result that is generous to the US. That comes out to $10000/46/3.11 = $69.9 annually per citizen on average. It's a pity they muddled it up by comparing apples to oranges, because it's actually very favorable for Portugal if you compare apples to apples.
Would you recommend BladeRF instead then?
I'm not a lawyer either, but the estoppel doctrine should make it enforceable.
That would be VS 2010 and later. Before that, it had an actual working offline help system (which took, IIRC, more than half of those CDs that came in the box). And that help was actually pretty good.
I agree I'm pro-decriminalisation of drug use and for regulated legal distribution.
Interesting point. I hadn't considered unusual but useful mutations they accrued might come with reduced fitness in other regards.
> It far easier and more relevant to just do a Google search than waste time with these things.

Keep in mind that the Windows help system (and F1 as a shortcut for the same) dates back to when Internet was not a given - heck, TCP was not a given.

Now that I think about it, I actually wonder when F1=help became a thing. I distinctly recall a lot of DOS software already using it - e.g. Norton Commander had help on F1 since v1.0, and that shipped in 1986.
All the information was always out there not hard to find. Actual safety does not come from hiding and encrypting what you are doing. Safety comes from having support by the right people. For instance if you are really rich and cheat the tax man there is no problem if the tax office and the news papers don't think about you. Nobody will look.

If you don't believe it just check out the cases that were brought to light. You will find that they are very obvious and not super secret. You will find that someone in a similar position but different company/government actually profits from this "discovery". And you will find that not all cases get punished, just this one case. (think 2008 here, where they literally jailed a single banker and that was it)

Hidden in plain sight, ignored by people who want or need you to succeed. That's how this game works.
It's currently at AWS, where was it 42 minutes ago?
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Why didn't Facebook just choose the Apache license that has patent clause and is a standard license?
Sure, if I had to choose between maintaining a complicated tax avoidance scheme for the rest of my life and just paying taxes, I would probably just pay my taxes and sleep easy.

But it seems that a lot of people disagree. Either you and I are massively underestimating the benefits of tax avoidance, or these people have some sort of knee-jerk reaction to the very concept of taxation that makes them try to avoid taxes even if it involves a lot of hassle. The latter would not be surprising for a diehard libertarian.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is even more constrained in terms of actual, unmodified usable frequency range since it has one RX channel with one input, as opposed to the two channels with three switchable inputs each on the original LimeSDR.
I get it, be aware of what you post on facebook, but does this not rub anyone else the wrong way?

Imagine you break into your friend's car, and rewrire the stereo system so the left speaker doesn't work. Then, you say, "yo, I broke into your car and rewired things. The locks on this car are faulty, better let the car manufacturer know. I should contact them myself and collect my bug bounty." And when your friend, a decent chap, thinks you're joking, and finds out you're not kidding, is his response supposed to be, "Oh shit, you're right. You could have just [rewired my speaker system]. This is crazy." or instead, would he no longer be your friend, and probably report you to the police?
Mostly great article. There’s probably a lot of economic history that applies to cryptocurrency.

The fiat part of the title is just FUD. With the same argument, gold bullion would be fiat because a majority of humans could decide they don’t like its shine. Silly Economist.
I am not a US resident, so I can't really help you. But maybe nobody is responding because there are not good solutions.

Sorry, XD
> I've often thought that substance access needs to be completely deregulated, for drugs of abuse as well as other medications.*.

Now paracetamol (depon) in Greece costs 0.75 EUR. In Greece the market is regulated. In the UK where the market is not regulated and you have pharmacies selling burgers to survive while the same drug costs more than 5 EUR.

How is that possible? :-)

The monopoly you speak of in distribution (pharmacies) happens when you deregulate the market because few big players end up owning what was distributed among thousands.

I agree that more steps need to be taken, but I don't think deregulation has ever worked the way you'd think it did, for the health industry.

Ultimately many decisions stem from your personal belief on the topic:

- Do you think that drugs ought to be social goods and regulated? (social welfare)
- Do you think that drugs ought to be public goods and not regulated? (private welfare)

Also note that drug research costs, a lot. Especially if done correctly. It is a fair for some firms to retain the patent for a few years (say 5?).
In DOS, these combos were used by Borland's Turbo Vision GUI toolkit (and they didn't offer Ctrl+C/V/X as alternatives). So everything written using that - and there was quite a bit, especially once you count LOB apps - had those shortcuts. In particular, all of Borland's own IDEs did, so those of us who learned to code C or Pascal on DOS in that era still got those shortcuts memorized.
If you decompose all stories to the point where they are all one-point stories, then yes — you can get rid of story points in favor of story counts, because they are one and the same thing.

But not all stories can be broken down like that.

Having just two stories in a sprint looks seriously imbalanced, unless you know that they are monster stories that you haven’t been able to further decompose.

Using just story counts is fine in the grander scheme of things and for longer term planning.

However, unless you are rigorous and extremely persistent in always breaking down your stories to the smallest possible units, then I don’t see how you can do efficient tactical sprint planning without using story points.
I wonder if bitcoin with AI will give embed AI with survival function?
It's not very useful as a medium of exchange right now since it requires 197 KWh of energy to confirm a single transaction!

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Why is it easier to call an Uber than to call the police or fire department?
Why should one nation have the power to set a single global standard for anything?
Total misunderstanding imo. A company doesn't default, when it can't uphold its promises. In fact most companies can't uphold their promises most of the time. If that would be true 99% of the companies you know would be dead.

A company defaults when a creditor decides to force the company into default, or a company defaults as punishment to a creditor who really needed the fulfillment of what they are owed but somehow screwed with the company owner.

And companies aren't there to keep it honest. They are there to keep it dishonest. In fact it's not myCorp making a promise to yourCorp. It's me making a promise to you. But piping it through our corps means you can't harm me for not fulfilling the promise. You can only harm my corp. It's taking the punishment part out of deal making. I can promise you anything you want to hear. You can promise me anything I want to hear. And then let's see when our own goals force us to actually deliver on something.
None of these existed before the Kickstarter though and I've tried about 10 different ones in Hong Kong and they where all complete shit. (most "work" but don't fit properly and the magnets are too loose or too strong)
statistical distance measures? is that like tSNE and similar?
I don't think this is relevant in that case. I am not an epidemiologist but I worked with people who were studying HIV. My understanding is that while the HIV mutates fast, it does not create new strains during the treatments.

A given strain can have some variability but will share general traits.

HIV strains are named and numbered:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtypes_of_HIV

An efficient treatment against a specific strain would save millions of lives. An efficient treatment against the 99% of them that are the most prevalent would basically solve the epidemics.

The problem is that people often end up with more than one strain. This is why doctors tell HIV+ people to continue protect themselves and were worried about the appearance of "free-sex parties" for HIV+ individuals. Most people do not differentiate between strains but if you got HIV from a partner, you may have had only a part of their strains, you should not have unprotected sex if you want to maximize your chances.
Look, this is what the Fed is:

A private bank. It prints a dollar and either: (1)buys a T-Bill with it through the FOMC, or (2) lends it out through the discount window (only to big banks, not to Americans directlt), or since 2008, buys "toxic assets" with it.

How many dollars are printed is decided by unelected technocrats with no public transparency, oversight or accountability.

What the Fed also does is insure the banks because they are for some ungodly reason allowed to lend out over 10x more money than they have (to increase the money supply, econ textbooks say).

There are a lot of people who have said something between 'the Fed is a welfare system for the rich that steals from the poor' to 'it should be ended,' including Bernie Sanders, Milton Friedman, Aaron Schwartz.

In fact during the Civil War Lincoln actually ignored the banks who were all betting against him. He used the a constitutional right to print money through congress and it worked.

In academia, the groupthink around the Fed is strong. Think stronger than Challenger Disaster groupthink. And they're almost all in favor of it.
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I can't help thinking Women in London might feel safer now uber will no longer be able to operate there. I wondered if any female uber passengers might have at some point felt in any way threatened by any male co-passengers that might have seen where she had been dropped off, or might live. I can't help thinking some women might not feel too comfortable about this.
When has this ever happened?
An acquaintance of mine runs a rehab center for addicts. I really like his view on addiction. It's that addicts often had traumatic experiences, eg during childhood, and that drug abuse is a way of "self medication" to cope with them.
Unless the Zuckerberg took his code or design this is false claim.We used to have a network for exchanging books in the university in 2001, it didnt go viral nor stolen by facebook.
Seeing good idea and making a great global product out of it is more then being the founder.
You allways care about competion, scale and market advantage or risk being copied .
And this is also why I almost never give my real birth date when registering on websites (except on financial websites or websites where I'm legally obligated to) and I never ever give real answers to the security question..

My typical answer for a security question is something like "39arsrc uyrsrsaulsr8832r" and that's saved in a password manager

Security questions weakens the security of an account, they are easily found information that people can just guess.
Is raising money from the companies willing to buy you an option? Instead if taking the $12M, you could take the $2M you need and dilute accordingly.
I've seen many installations and games that have physical interactivity.
What is special in this game? Is the system that they are using? Any link with more info?
When I did a Kickstarter for a client they didn't allow renderings, yet a week after a bigger brand did exactly that, used only renderings. The "rules" are very loose on KS and the projects that I've backed that failed (7 of them totalling 2000$) where all recommended by KS staff.
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A little late to the party on this one, but does anyone have experience using Godot to build a multiplayer game? I'm thinking more along the lines of 4 player coop, not MMO.

I've been playing with a few different libs, mainly trying to stay in the JS space, and as far as I can tell the only real way this is achievable is via websockets. I have no illusion of this game ever making even beer money, it's really just for fun and to see if I can, but I'd still rather not blow a bunch of time running down the wrong roads.

I was just about to start playing with Love2D, since they have some UDP socket libs, but I'd be starting completely new in Lua, so if Godot had similar capabilities and people have seen success there I'd be open to that instead.
Maybe because it's incompatible with the GPLv2.
> Now that we have a concrete example of how picking tooling with bad licensing can bite people in the butt

What are you referring to? Who has been bitten exactly?
I haven't worked with it so I honestly can't say.
Once you mentioned "bare minimum of concepts and tooling from which you can build everything" I immediately thought of js module-for-everything situation. We might be getting even more of them written in webassembly.
do the barcodes in the authors examples, which they did not bother to fuzz and anonymize, do they also convey the details they did anonymize? I'm curious
"Your mother's maiden name has numbers in it?" (bank teller, DMV person, etc.)

"You .. give real answers for your security questions? Seriously?"

I do the same thing, real birthday if it's financial or employee related, but for everything else, I'm a few years older on another date. I often pick a security question that I don't have a real legit answer to as well.
And there are huge energy costs in performing a transaction... 197 KWh @ $0.10 per KWh = nearly $20 of electricity for 1 transaction.
I've known quite a few addicts (> 10, this is a direct consequence of living in Amsterdam and the attraction the city has on drug users and the fact that pushers would hand drugs to school children when I was in high school, though fortunately it seems - to me at least - as if the Heroin epidemic is past its peak). Not a single one of them would fit that category. Most of them were perfectly ordinary people before sliding into addiction. It was a series of smaller steps or thrill seeking behavior in all of those cases. Some of the addicts were actually amongst the smartest people I knew before they got addicted. I'm sure there are those who use drugs as an escape route from some miserable experience early on in life but I've yet to meet them.

The life expectancy of addicts is such that I only know of two people that managed to effectively beat their addiction, both are family members and even though they got out of it they never fully recovered from their encounter with hard drugs. Ugly stuff.
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It doesn’t.

This is BSD/MIT is consider a _bad_ license if you want to convert patent concerns.
Well, I quit using these kind of tools, since they didn't stop telemarketers from calling. I still get 2-3 calls each day from them until now. I think we should fight them back with legal action, like what I read at http://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-robo....
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Dart is an Aussie term, you probably wouldn't hear your standard upper class snob say it. We have a variety of words for cigarettes. I would very rarely use the term cigarette, too many syllables.
I had to laugh - I'm using Ubuntu, and every time I want to listen to music (or watch a video, or play a game) I have to pulseaudio -k, because for some reason it boots up with some horrid 8-bit 22khz distortion over it all.
"In the US you have roughly 60 days after a statement is received to escalate fraudulent transfers out of your account."

You have 30 days from receipt of your bank statement. It's in the audio interview of which this article is an exerpt.
And if you're just using rsync under the hood, you're making money off a fancy GUI with pretty minimal actual effort as well.
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Yeah I think I've gotta give myself some time away from darts first before trying cigars, I reckon I'm still stuck in "inhale mode". And yeah too right, I get the same feeling, I've cut down my drinking substantially since quitting. Not a bad thing.
So true... In Italy (or I guess most of Europe) you just go to the doctor and get it for free, if he thinks it's beneficial to your health.
Ayn Rand had lots to say on many subjects but hardly any of it was useful or constructive. Though that doesn't stop a whole pile of people from worshiping her every word because it plays into their own wishes for how they'd like the world to work.
New ones would appear more or less overnight. The economic incentive is simply too large and there are always people who already are criminals who see an angle and will move into the space. Cartels are a result, not a root cause so removing them will have zero effect.
I think this comment is misleading; in many situation i believe you can upgrade to upstream if you want, simply you lose RH tech support.

In steam case they are not the one taking the blame when a game crashes (they take a image damage if they have too many unplayable games and they are getting criticism for it as of now for various reason) but the developer is expected to produce a game working on all platform it support as-is
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Just to affirm what this guy said, these reasons are pretty much why LTC should be on your radar. The heretic in me actually things that LTC could potentially have more value than BTC these days just because they seem to have their shit together development-wise.
There's nothing quite as jarring as having a pleasant piece of music turned up, only to have some off-key and out-of-time bell ding because an email arrived. Want to let me know there's a new email? Put a little envelope on the task bar so I can see it. Don't invade my music!
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Even poorer countries..? South Africa is not exactly was I was referring to. More like Congo, Senegal, etc.
Fun alternative: create a honeypot website that looks semi-legit and publish QR codes to social networks to analyze the traffic to those.

For big-name corps, do the same to catch IPs of script kiddos who don't know/bother to mask those.
Gotta weaken security for everyone because you want your embedded QR codes? Most likely the only person on FB who has done this.
Let me rephrase this for you:
It's great that some Chinese private entrepreneurs (connected with the intelligence services or not) are doing the fiat. That by itself is reason enough.
> But there are countries in Africa who can already do better by simply leapfrogging to bitcoin and ditching their national currencies.

I doubt this would do any good for them.

* Their currency would be totally exposed to 3rd parties.

* They would loose the control over the rates, which are an important tool to attract investments, if are stable and controlled well.

* AFAIK some Chinese private companies control large part of the mining network. Basically the central bank would be in private, and foreign hands.

* The slow transactions would make it totally infeasable for use in everyday life, especially as people there have limited access to necessary technologies (stable network connections all round the countries, stable electric power everywhere), so daily transactions of the ordinary people would either fall back to barters, or use some fiat paper money, eg. USDs.

I totally don't get how could you reach tis conclusion, your whole post is a SV bubble wishful thinking with some trendy bullshit, eg. software eating the FED, fed is replaced by code. Bitcoin does better than centralbanks. If some currency looses 30% of its value a single day, that is not a sign of health, and this happended the very week with bitcoin. Actually Bitcoin does its job worse than an african dictatorship's currency, if its job is being a fiat currency, which is useful for the people in daily life.

I doubt its job is that, so it may do its job well, but for this task it is unsuitable.
A nice feature would be for them to decode and display the barcode info when you're uploading.

Something like “This image contains the following info: <Sensitive info you didn't mean to share>. Would you like us to blur that out? (Y/n)”
What if he has a stake in companies that he believes are getting it right, and that's why he would make sure they would be the ones getting the job?

He's doing it to win a Nobel prize, not for money.
And doubt they are okay with using it now.
And also lower budget - due to "cheap" actors, even the most high-budget TV shows don't come close to a single Hollywood blockbuster which makes them a significantly less risky investment. Hence you see more innovation and tryouts - similar to indie/AA gaming market vs. AAA gaming blockbusters.