skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing the impacts of recreational marijuana laws on opioid deaths seems tricky to me. While there may be correlations I'm not sure there is enough to infer causation.

I'd say they'd want to focus more on the effects of the arrest rates going down. I think that is where you are going to see the biggest positive changes.

That said I think we still need to see marijuanna as a health danger. Much like smoking tobacco, long term irritation of your lungs is not a good thing. I hear a lot of people calling marijuanna a cure all and remember my grandmother telling me how she was told to start smoking as a cure to her anxiety. Not the same, but this was something she told me as I was watching her die slowly from a lifetime of smoking.
Since you already know what you are going to build (the existing business is the model) I would spend a fair amount of effort thinking about how you are going to take it to market. Assume you already built it - what are you going to do tomorrow morning to get it out there? If the answer to that question is not clear - spend a lot of time until it is.

Posting to HN and Product Hunt most likely won’t cut it, especially if a clone.

Cloning an existing business seems a lot more interesting if you have some unique method or access to penetrate the market where the current business is falling short.
Yo have the perceived choice not to work, but that doesn’t mean you’ll survive. A hallmark of capitalism is smoke and mirrors.
I think it's safe to say that lighting stuff on fire and inhaling the smoke is bad for you, regardless of the substance.

Note, I do smoke pot and cigars. I'm pretty sure both are bad for me.
That adds a fascinating wrinkle to it, what happens if the EU makes it illegal to share the data, and the US requires it? A company could find themselves in between a rock and a hard place, forced to violate the dictates of at least one powerful governmental force.
Real estate, oh wait.
Isn't the NSA already doing this the best they can? Kind of an irrelevant thing for the SC to worry about.
Absolutely true, it is tough to be self-employed in Canada and focus only on your own projects. In addition to the tax issue, there are so many other obstacles that are pressuring people to work on their own, especially the unaffordable housing in the big cities...
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For me, it was brand-name socks. They just last so much longer than off-brand.
No, I made it about religion. And religion <> politics. Except to the bloody Midieval Christians, anyway. Which is a key aspect of the argument.

But anyway, de gustibus non disputandum est :)
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The most readable copy I have.

http://tarangshah.com/to-read/MungerMisjudgement.html
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I suspect you're right, but I believe (not a user myself) most users consume many fewer joints than cigarettes. I've known many "2 packs a day" tobacco users, but never someone who smokes so much weed. I'd guess that average marijuana users have similar lung issues to 'light' smokers.
I wonder how that heroin stat will compare over a longer term. From what I understand, a common suggestion is that overprescription of opiods leads to abuse. Then removal of the prescription, tolerance gains, or financial considerations push the user to heroin. And once a user is hooked on that, I think introducing marijuana as an alternative is not going to have as much impact. But if reducing number of opiod prescriptions leads to fewer heroin users, I would expect there to be a measurable impact at some point over a longer term, at least in comparison to national trend.
It is an interesting situation, since it's basically putting companies in a situation where it's impossible not to break the law. The hosting country demands that data be kept private while the country's home country demands that data be given up.

What imagine will happen eventually (be it in the next couple years or next couple decades) is that agreements along the same lines as free trade agreements and extradition agreements will be made between countries. In exchange for the ability to get data from other countries under certain conditions, the US grants the ability for other countries to do the same. Probably these agreements would be made with other liberal democracies; I don't expect China or Russia to hand over data to the US nor vice versa.
Any plans for an API to make it possible to upload and send a fax from a web app? This looks exactly like what we've been looking for for a while.

Also, how does your pricing vary by country, if at all? I know some providers (e.g. HelloFax) charge WAY more for our target country (Japan).
No thanks, people like their abuse systematic and shiny. When everybody becomes more pathological, nobody becomes more pathological.
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Aren't there hundreds of small form factor PCs available now? Just get them. It's a commodity market. Apple is unwilling/incapable of competing on such low margin boxes.
Normal is cycles of bull and bear markets. They all come to an end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

I’m not sure if every bull has to end with a crash. Perhaps it just peters out?
Or just be careful on Amazon. I avoid third-party retailers for this reason because you never know what they’ll do for returns.
I'm not entirely sure that's true. I have no evidence, I just don't think any company would have a blog post "We had staffing problems, now we're buggered". Instead it's "We had staffing problems, we fixed them, now everything is amazing".

I also don't think things would have gotten this bad if the original dev team could have picked up more of the slack, but I don't have experience in dysfunctional workplaces. Still, the "We had one guy with all the domain experience, then we fired him and all our other devs magically became amazing" thing doesn't sit right with me.
I've done a simple test with my Macbook Air, using the app "Is It Snappy", as mentioned in the comments. I used the keyboard on my macbook, which is a chiclet style mechanism. The tests were all done in triplicate except for TextEdit, (only twice)

TextEdit: ~81 ms from key depression to when LCD pixels begin to shift. For Sublime Text: ~86 ms. Both of these text editors are pretty well matched.

However, if you boot into Recovery Mode in macOS, you gain access to a GUI without a V-synced/tripled framebuffer. Terminal in Recovery Mode: ~57 ms

Finally, the kicker. macOS users have always had access to a terminal interface upon boot called single-user mode:

Single User Mode: 37.5ms (all three measurements were the same)

If you want to experience what the latency on old computers felt like while typing, simply reboot your mac, and while it's starting up, hold 'Command + S'!
I seem to remember back in the 70s and early 80s, cigarette butts being everywhere was a problem, then for awhile, they disappeared, like smokers got trained not to throw them on the ground. But lately, they seem to be back, like new smokers came up without remembering what it was like in the 70s and 80s, and they just throw them on the ground again.
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My (undergraduate) understanding of the precession of the orbit of Mercury is that the longitude of the periapsis in Sun coordinates changes over time. The shape of the orbit stays the same, unless maybe it's changed a bit by perturbations from the outer planets.

Classically, you would expect the shape and position/rotation of the orbit to be constant. In reality, its rotation in the orbital plane changes due to GR.
August, when it is hotter. Not October closer to winter..
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Not an expert but I'm sure inhaling any kind of smoke is not good for the lungs but you don't smoke 20 Marijuana cigarettes a day like you would tobacco. It's not consumed in the same quantities. The biggest difference between the two are that the Tobacco companies add a lot of chemicals to their product that can cause cancer. I would think that Marijuana is organic.
CORS is strictly browser-side enforced, so yes - any app can make this query and scrape the response.
Wouldn't it be better to run node_exporter (with only the fs metrics enabled) in a sidecar container in the pod that mounts the volume? That way, you can get the metrics scraped with the right pod labels. If you do it by node, you will only get the node name as a label.
There's no single reason that can explain the march up, but it's worth noting the meteoric rise of index funds, which now account for over $4T under management [1]. There's just a massive amount of money looking for returns that exceed the almost 0% interest rates that exist today.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/index-fund-assets-under-manag...
I would say, mostly content producers and creators that have build up a significant audience. YouTube and Instagram could be considered the main platforms for influencers, but again those were occupations that did not exisit at all 10 years ago.
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That is indeed very odd! Thank you for sharing. Hackney, through another library, is used in a telegram api wrapper that I wrote up. Though my stuff usually runs on a $5 vps, nothing with multiple cores.
I think the biggest change is that as long as I follow a set of best practices, I never have to worry about performance. It's always good enough. I can spin up 5 docker containers with a copy of my program running in each, on my 4 year old laptop, and performance is still not an issue.
it's pretty hard to argue that Christian Western Europe isn't a particularly large part of the Greco-Roman world.

The argument was that it wasn't particularly large or important.

It's pretty easy to make this argument: In terms of the known world during Greco-Roman times, most of the known world was to the South and East. Persia and Carthage were major empires, and writings from those parts and beyond were known in Rome. Compare that to Western Europe: The Romans barely knew that Britain existed before Julius, and it was so unimportant that they abandoned it. Gaul was geographically a large part of the empire, true, but wasn't particularly important. Note that land grants to legionaries were given in Romania, because Rome wanted to control that area rather than in Gaul.

Counter-factual histories are endless of course, but it can be worthwhile thinking about them occasionally. We live in a world where the Mongols stopped before Vienna (at least partly because they didn't see anything rich enough in Europe to bother with). If they hadn't stopped, or if they hadn't destroyed the Islamic world and inland trading empires like they did it is entirely possible that Western Europe would still be considered a backwater.
HN is a diverse community with many views.
There's multiple reported cases of the medicinal value of cannabis. Regardless of that, the harm reduction of allowing people to "self-medicate" with it vs. alcohol or opiates is worthwhile.

Your LSD theory is, um, odd.

Just because these drugs have overly enthusiastic users doesn't diminish the fact that they do have some real value.
I don't know, that's leaving out a lot of expenses, like the TV and computer to consume the media, the phone and internet, a means to transport yourself to and back from work, food which is generally almost equal in cost to rent, clothes and shoes, medical expenses, etc.

This also assumes 30k per member of a household. And don't forget a good 3k to 5k going to tax depending on your state.

Its also ignoring any savings, so your old age will be deplorable, and any accident or sudden loss of work will also be extremely rough.
When I wrote Atari 800 Donkey Kong, I used 16-bit precision arithmetic for the motion, with pretty good results. All the jumping was done with a horizontal velocity, a vertical velocity and a vertical acceleration. A jump is just setting Mario's vertical velocity to some value, and you need to do floor collisions (but you want those anyway, so other objects can interact with floors).

There was a funky "bounce" at the edge of the screen in the arcade version that I captured pretty well by reversing X and Y velocity on a wall collision; this could not have been done well with a lookup table. It wasn't that much code, and the simple parameter space made playability tuning really easy.
Because markets are rigged.

Money is being printed by banks and it is being moved around the world so no one notices in national audits.

China is printing money, US banks are printing money.

World debt is bigger than world economies, the US owes more than it produces, banks are free to simply borrow and speculate more and more.

Only the average citizens keep adding and subtracting money. Banks do not worry about money, they can print as much as they need, either by borrowing or by moving vapor money around the world to mask the true origin.

The world financial system is rigged. Money does not matter higher up, they are simply inventing value out of ether. 99,99% of the world works day in and out to support this rigged system.
I didn't realize Medium had content behind an "account wall". I'd love to read the article (will probably sign up tomorrow) but kinda sad that this article is behind the wall, and will thus have more limited exposure.
My understanding is that in general under current law a US citizen cannot be held in contempt or put in prison indefinitely for failing to disclose a password. The 5th ammendment protection there is not entirely void, but it can be void under certain specific circumstances (such as the "foregone conclusion doctrine", where LE can prove that specific illicit content both exists, and can be decrypted, by the accused).
I probably missed something but:

> It’s possible to get down to the 50ms range in well optimized games with a fancy gaming setup, and there’s one particularly impressive consumer device that can easily get below that.

Is the device in question mentioned anywhere?
We'll see more strategies like voting against the company's interest in order to benefit one's other portfolio holdings. You just need enough to tip a split vote (which at least means a large number probably don't believe it is against the company's interest; but if the voter has inside info there wouldn't be much stopping them as it isn't an inside trade..).
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If markets are rigged, why do they crash?
Why not? It's like someone opening a grocery store a few blocks away from a Walmart. Let the customers decide.

They already have a head start in terms of both loyalty and grabbing the easy market, so it's not immoral.

I would actually look for much less time. Maybe about 3 months to clone. If you can't go that fast, you could try resegmenting that market and focusing on something smaller.
what does non plus ultra mean? i looked it up but couldn't find a clear definition

contextually it seems like it means "peak"?
http://zfeldman.com/projects anything here I suppose.
I was suspicious that there might be some artifacts of terminal updating that are amplifying the effect in that test, so I whipped up a little graphical test:

https://jsfiddle.net/zs8bncxj/1/

I can still get it right pretty much 100% of the time, but the difference does feel a lot more subtle than what I was seeing in iTerm.

(If you change the delay, you need to hit randomize to make it take.)

Edit: Also we should keep in mind that we're not testing the latency we set in either test. We're testing that delay plus the delay from I/O. So 100ms might be indistinguishable. But by the time we pile everything on, we're getting closer to 200.

The result is the same as far as UI design is concerned; don't assume that you can get away with 100ms; most of that leeway has already been wasted by the OS and hardware.
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You're speaking to the "how" that means how it responds to stimuli, but the article is speaking to the "how" as in why. The greatest level of knowing is not having rules for inputs and corresponding outputs, but the algorithm that controls it.

In this case it sounds like we've derived an algorithm that relates to the inputs and outputs, but the inputs that cause the formula itself are unknown.

My understanding is that if you go far enough back a lot of physics is like this, but it sounds like we can't even go very far back here.
I think we have pretty clearly established that some animals have right. We may have established that most animals have rights, I'm not sure.

Try setting fire to a horse and see the legal results. Try making a species go extinct, even pests. So, there are some rights - and arguments for even stronger rights.
It has many uses really. It's a nice resource for learning assembly, especially 6502 assembly; it's a good reference for creating NES games, whether those are original titles or simply romhacks; it's also a great reference for building an emulator for the platform or a level editor for the game. And of course, disassembling a game and documenting the source code is a great hacking challenge that will leave you confident that you know asm. So, all the reasons that you listed, I suppose.
Higher average temperature partially manifests as hotter hottest days and those are definitely noticeable.
They crash at the convenience of banks.

Everyone except banks hurt in 2008. Banks then went in buying everything cheap. The people could not buy at all, since everyone was robbed. But banks were bailed out, so they had the money to buy cheap stocks around the world after the crisis they themselves created.

Is it not obvious? The crashes and the pumps are architected by banks. The people who lost homes got hurt, but banks didn't. Banks made trillions of $ from the 2008 crisis.
In physics (and in many other areas) it is unsatisfying to wave your hands and say "it is so because our measurements prove it". A theoretical model that explains why the measurements come out the way they do is far more valuable because it leads to other insights.

We can predict the behavior of a gyro but there is still a fundamental question of what a gyro is relative to since GR tells us there is no universal reference frame. Are gyroscopes entirely local or does the gravity of distant galaxies present a sort of universal reference frame? Or is it something else entirely?
Hmmm... why wouldn't it be a good way to make decisions, assuming that the Republic of Ireland's weather people are competent, and their own people were unavailable (for whatever reason)?

Some things are independent of politics, and tomorrow's weather is pretty high on that list. :-)
it did take several centuries to create a framework for economic cooperation that works for large geographic areas and that was not based on the classical Greek regime of slavery (that might work as a summary).

For an individual of low birth serfdom seems preferable to slavery, however it must be more difficult to organise a 'big' economy on top of that

The western Roman empire needed grain from North Africa and the Middle East - it needed ships to transport all that and would pay with silver from Spanish mines - you need a slave regime to maintain all that. A system with more independent actors that achieves the same level of trade / cultural exchange
is inherently more complex (needs more complex system of laws, finances, everything) , but is in turn more scalable.

I think Europe 'won' because it was a distributed system. A country/ruler can go bad, but as a whole connected by trade and cultural ties it kept going further (each ruler had to keep up if not to be swallowed by the neighbours) . However big unified realms like China or Russia all rise and fall as one entity - and it takes longer to recover from a big crisis.
I don't smoke or drink but what is your opinion about Alcohol drinkers are they all drunks? What about Opiate users are they all pill poppers?

Marijuana has been used for millennia as medicine why all the hate? Let it help the sick people and let the others enjoy it's other aspects. No one will force a joint into your mouth. You will be safe...
It's rigged but for the time being it works. So is it really that bad?
so based on disagreement with a treaty, people are altering their brain state to be opposed to anything associated with protecting the environment?

I dislike broccoli therefore people saying we should eat fruit and veg are liars?
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Considering that most programming is done in Javascript, Python, Java, etc these days, CPUs clearly don't affect majority of programmers at all.
I made a free account and read it. I'm glad it is behind a paywall because that means the writer will get compensated for it. No one deserves to get paid for hard work with exposure alone.
If we admit the weather is changing, we admit that we have climate change. If we admit climate change, a lot of people stand to lose a lot of money from carbon regulations.
And it's done in full view of the public, but the public (or the media for that matter) doesn't really understand the mechanisms.
One interesting statement from the article: Muscat announced later in parliament that FBI officers were on their way to Malta to assist with the investigation, following his request for outside help from the US government.

It's interesting that the prime minister of Malta has asked the US FBI for help. The EU is a "federation" of sorts and could (perhaps already does?) have their own EU-wide equivalent of our USA-wide FBI?

The FBI is quite often useful in US cases like this. It can act as an independent agency that can and does investigate local corruption. But it seems inappropriate to have them investigate a murder in Malta? Isn't there a lot of "local knowledge" that the FBI wouldn't have?

There are other nuances involved in the USA. Local murders aren't, without other circumstances, "federal" crimes. So the FBI doesn't generally get involved. But there are other laws available here for situations like this. E.g. it is a US federal offense to violate someone's "civil rights".
For Vanguard Group Inc., whose trillions of dollars in low-cost and index-tracking funds are both credited and blamed for the current market mood—because so many retail investors have decided just to buy a diversified fund and forget about it—the new mindset is a sign of a job well done.

I had wondered if they would bring this up. It's my understanding that an unprecedented percent of the market is plain old passive index funds.
Presuming the above is true, crashes serve to depreciate the prices assets. Those that cannot ride out the crash sell for pennies on the dollar.

In the city of Detroit, whole swaths of neighborhoods could be purchased for the price of a 2 bedroom SF condo
>“Is the risk priced into the market appropriate to what the real risk is?” says Winer, the firm’s director of equities. “To me, it isn’t. People have grown more complacent and certainly more speculative, and it’s a little bit frightening.”

I think this is it. We're collectively ignoring a lot of risk (remember "No one defaults on their mortgage!") and it's going to bite us eventually.
NYTimes made an awesome interactive chart on global cities and their historical temperatures : https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/world/how-muc...