skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen articles claiming that cocaine stretched with fentanyl has surfaced.
Is IQ still considered important? I've not seen it around other than people bragging online about having a high IQ, which they take to mean they are very smart (when usually they're not, more like, average).

Also I disagree partially, I do think the modern world creates smarter and/or more educated people, but that's thanks to education. Lots of education. And access to information of course.
Most likely scenario.
Negligible impact though. Most people don't have the appetite to engage in criminal activity, even once removed criminal activity. Also this is built into the pricing so we all end up paying for it.
He does do (hardcoded) captions though. But yeah, most of that is seemingly inefficient home crafts, e.g. using hand drills and saws and lots of fast-forward sharpening.
but it's fine to let pi be 3.5 https://math.stackexchange.com/a/518830 :)
How's that? Hard to refine? I did hear elsewhere that aluminium is one of the most common metals on the world, possibly even moreso than iron.
I watched all of these lectures online. It's truly insightful!

I'm too poor to be angel investor but I do like to listen angel investors and venture capitalists because they can give me insights about how to find brilliant ideas and what's common signs of prospective ideas.

I think advices from ex-entrepreneurs who turned into angel investors or venture capitalists are much more valuable than from first or one time successful entrepreneurs because they know both sides. It's hard to impossible to distinguish talent from luck based on one time success. But if someone repeatedly find unicorns over the years, it's most probably talent and I would listen that person with great attention.

One of my key takeaways from these lectures - really good idea for startup often sounds like bad idea because if idea sounded obviously good it would be most probably already executed by some big corp.

This takeaway teach me not be overly dismissive of ideas which are not obviously good and be careful with ideas which sound obviously good.

P.S. I know that soft-skills (e.g. leadership) and team are very important for success but it's not insightful information.
These are the approved verbs. Powershell function names have to be in "verb-noun" format, forcing a level of standardization on the language. It seems like an odd idea to me.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714428(v=vs.85).a...
The first two parts are great. Rip out the third one.

But Seveneves was about using the resources of the broken up moon, which is pretty much like hopping onto the bus (on the middle lane of a three-lane-highway) compared to the challenges of getting an asteroid into earth orbit
I have to say I have more than just some experience here... Quick decision times decline VERY slowly; that is to say the amount of time it takes to make the correct decision as opposed to just reacting to a situation. You are confusing the amount of strength it takes to play at the top level and still have enough in the tank to not lose focus.

FWIW I'm not talking out of my hat here, I "played" a very thought intensive sport in my younger day and was one of the top guys in the US on any given day. I still have ridiculously quick decision times and the concentration of a Monk with ADD when I drive, But there's no way my bod could compete with a my former self of 20 years ago. I'm in pretty good shape now but I'm not a World class athlete anymore.
What exactly do you mean by "visual art detection"?

Detecting copies of known images? Detecting styles? Detecting artists? Detecting whether a picture contains art at all?
It's a case of weird input language, alright. When I'm searching my phone, I'm looking for it. When I find my phone, then that's the moment I found it. When I am finding my phone, then that's a very optimistic way of phrasing that I will find it. Whereas, when I browse my phone, I am looking, or searching for something else through the use of my phone. Hence German "durchsuchen" -- search through. English can be an analytic language, so there's a difference, but you might as well say the situation could be analyzed to find the intent of the policemen at the latest when they actually started rifling through the car. At which point I wonder whether there was any protest against the examination.

As an aside, ironically, google with search being their main claim to fame could not translate this any differently.

Also, I got a punny answer when asking someone to look at my stuff, as I wanted to leave it at the bus stop while going into a shop: "Yes, it looks nice".
TL;DR: 98 people.

With 32 the chances of success drop to 0%

I thought the number would be 10-50 times larger.
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People still imagine the christian God as a old bearded man... this is so different from the God I learnt to believe. This is so misleading, especially in the US where religion is so used to polarize society and politics. Muslims are right when they refuse any image representing God.
It's right there in my last post. Ivy League universities are not a public resource. Also, a tragedy of the commons is a tragedy of the commons, and you are being really disingenuous trying to compare control on the inputs of an Ivy League university with eating a species into extinction.
Short answer : Probably no, I think.

Long answer : HN crowd mostly consists of technical people, that are able to form an opinion on technical merit, instead of pure "hype" factor and Resume-Driven Development. When a particular technology begins to get traction, it must be gauged on this technical merit. Also, popularity on HN has little to do with real-world metrics and circumstances, it can come down to simple luck.

Lastly, a NY Times article, should be more unattached and trustworthy than just "someone that has a crypto blog".
Oh yes, and those are just 2 examples (there are less nefarious shit being put into it as well). The Dutch TV program Spuiten & Slikken (about sex & drugs, for youth) covered this in their series. They bought cocaine from the streets and had it analysed in a lab. The outcome wasn't well, purity-wise, although the sample size was IIRC 3.

In general, I recommend users of recreational drugs to test their drugs (especially easy with e.g. XTC/MDMA just buy one extra pill; see below). Here's an example of such a service in The Netherlands (in Dutch) [1]. English webpage (different info but about the same subject) here [2]. The latter is very useful for e.g. tourists in Amsterdam.

EDIT: Would like to add the following from [3]: "In order to test your drug, you need to bring at least one whole pill (logo clearly visible), 100mg of powder, 1 blotter or 2mililitre of fluid"

EDIT: Here's more info available as well [4]

EDIT: And I'd also like to add that contaminated XTC/MDMA has been found; e.g. with PM(M)A or mCPP. When that happens en masse you usually hear about it in the Dutch media.

[1] https://www.jellinek.nl/informatie-over-alcohol-drugs/drugs-...

[2] https://www.jellinek.nl/english/tourists/#drugpotency

[3] https://www.jellinek.nl/vraag-antwoord/why-do-they-test-drug...

[4] https://www.unity.nl/en/themas/testservice/
Because the timeliness of paternity/maternity leave is determined by the childbirth's date, not by anything else.
Burning organic matter and then consuming it to get a little bit of high. Doesn’t that remind you cigarettes?

Sure, you drink it so a bit less harm, but it is sort of obvious it just can’t be good for you.
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Shooting anywhere can kill. They aim for center of mass because they are less likely to miss.
Yikes. I'd probably say that was laced, rather than stretched - stretching kind of implies dilution with inert material.

Fetanyl is scary stuff
Look up Plink Art. It was created by a couple of guys at my uni, and eventually acquired by Google a few years ago. They may have a white paper or two kicking around outlining their methodology.
Anyone can weigh in how much can they possibly get?
My partner works at a small startup of ~12 people. They employ some 8 ladies
all but one of whom became pregnant in recent years, while working at the
company. The company kept going without any damage to its business. At some
point, they had a bad turn and had to downsize so they fired most of the
working mothers, who tended to hold the most expendable positions, I guess.
Eventually, the company's fortunes turned again, at which point they re-hired
all the people they had laid off (or offered to- some had moved on). They seem
to be doing fine now, in any case they have plenty of business.

I'm just saying: pregnancy does exactly zero harm to a company's bottom line
or a woman's ability to hold down a job and perform at her role. And even if
it did, we're talking about a tiny startup of a dozen people. If it can handle
most of its staff being pregnant or with kids, then a big corp like Walmart or
Merck has no excuse not to. No excuse at all.
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Heard of fixed income?
How has that worked for petroleum?
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Is this it?
https://youtu.be/Sg4U4r_AgJU
Point is that the messages still have to go over the public networks, so if three letter agencies have you under surveillance, you should assume they're gonna get everything you're saying. You should NOT just say, "well, I'm using encryption so I'm golden."
I did, several years ago.

My soft skills are not top-notch, but they are not bad either, and my qualifications are good enough to get hired at good places ... not just where I currently live. Mostly a big adversarial blob of "cultural matters" ... let's not dig onto that, but shortly put, locals feel uneasy around me.

Mind you, if I had tried hard enough, I could have gotten a dead-end-job with low pay and no promotions. Or I could have moved and looked for greener pastures. I decided instead to take my lemons and make lemonade, so to speak, and I opened a business.

The cultural problems didn't go away, to this day some of our customers prefer to talk to my sales guy, even when they know they would solve their problem faster by just sending me an email directly. But I don't mind having more time for the the ever growing technical team and technical customer-related work.

For brown guys in the north, jobs are overrated.
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Yes and we will have to see how they currate that network effect while drawing corporate value.
Actually it reminds me of cooking, not cigaretttes.
Ask HN: Cloud Firestore or Firebase for a new chat project?
A simple open source project for creating a basic chat like intercom.
> That's in print.

In olden times there'd be an address you could write to for a copy of the code on tape. It's an old problem without an obvious solution.
Kotlin seems pretty nice. Been using it a lot lately. It's not perfect since you can still get into trouble but it forces you to opt in to that. You need to add a question mark to the type to indicate it is nullable and dereferencing without a null check is a compile error. You use two exclamation marks to bypass this to opt out of this. Of course if you are then wrong you may get npes.

But it works well enough that you can write code pretty easily that simply cannot produce npes. Excluding that as source of bugs is nice and should be built into any new language.
This wikipedia article is a lot more biased than the french version. Here, it’s clearly anti-protectionism by defending the age-old myth of "comparative advantage".
People do want this. If you asked me what I want, in terms of software, a great cloud IDE is near the top of my list.

I didn’t want this before I had kids, though. But now that I do, I greatly value being able to stop work suddenly, even in the middle of a line of code, and then resume what I was doing sometime in the future, somewhere else and on a different device.

So: different people want different things, and the things people want change over time, too.

You might not want a cloud IDE, but based on the many projects and companies in this space, and the many millions of dollars being spent on it, I’m quite sure I am not alone in wanting to be able to code in the cloud.

Years ago, it was equally implausible to do your word-processing and spreadsheets in the cloud. Now it’s routine.
I hate password restrictions. They are dumb and make people use more easily guessable passwords, because otherwise the user themselves is unable to remember. It's like, okay, I need uppercase, a symbol, a number, oh well, I'll just use my password, camelCased, with an underscore and my favorite number appended.

Especially for some bullshit service that I have no real interest in having an account for in the first place. Love it or hate it, at least OAuth with Google or Facebook or Microsoft cuts down on that nonsense a little bit.
Most of these are already in place and they already have your information about your family. Insurance providers, the IRS, and so on. Women already have absolutely no choice in people knowing they are expecting a child. For health reasons - both theirs and the baby's - they already need to take time off. It isn't like women can claim a back injury when they are pregnant. A few bad employers already put their hands in whether or not health insurance covers birth control. If this stuff is dystopian to you, you are already living in one.

Birth records are already there. Most employers won't look unless law, and I agree this isn't the best way to do it. However, if some time off is mandatory, it'd be reasonable for the state to inform the father he's required to take time off after the baby. Following the law would be his responsibility: The employer would only be forced to comply if they knew.

There are already regulations (either through law or company policies) about adding a child onto your health insurance. Most times, folks have to upgrade their health insurance to a family plan if it is their first child. For other children, they already have to report that to health insurance so the child is covered. A reminder from the insurance that the law requires parental leave as well as maternal leave would be prudent. These folks already are handling your information now.

FMLA is already in place. These folks already handle health records, and as mentioned, the reason can stay hidden from employers to an extent.
I can empathize with your problem. Was just talking to a friend an hour ago about this.

I am wondering whether you have considered companies that don't white board.[1]

[1]https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
From my limited understanding of the subject, unless we build something like orbital elevators, it will not make financial sense to bring the mined raw materials back to earth. However, as the linked article states, there are plenty of uses for water and hydrogen and oxygen in space.

In the very long term, I could imagine automated processing of metals on asteroids leading to 3D printing of giant space station parts. Then one could attach an ion thruster and send the parts to the their destination for final construction.
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You could institute some kind of a draft. And I imagine fewer people would break the law if they had to enforce it for two years.
Firebase platform is very solid for real-time backends. I have had pleasant experience with it, and the free tier is generous.
By not flooding the market. Sell at a rate which still turns a profit. Only issue is if there's so much mineral that it exceeds demand. But if that's the case, back to my initial point: refuse to sell at a loss; sell slower
It is possible, but I am absolutely not an expert.

When you chew the leaves, you get a lower dose, over a period of time. With cocaine, you get a super concentrated hit, all at once.

To me (again, not an expert) that seems to be the biggest difference.
Cool! You never know - AFAIK Kotlin first started as an individual project as well. I'll keep an eye on you ;-)
Not to mention the networks of towers transmitting the latest gossip by electro magnetic radiation (ie. light) or sound. Or the tourist agencies offering voyages to festivals. Or the high speed train network ... wait a second, that doesn't sound right.
I think it always makes sense to go looking for a job when you don't have one and you wish to be an independent adult and support yourself through employment.

But, obviously, we're not talking the same kind of "makes sense" here, are we?
"Is anyone out there that evil?"

Well, not with cocaine, but the US Government has intentionally poisoned alcohol:

"Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered
the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare
people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000
people."[1]

[1] - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
> Even speeding tickets or anything most normal people would find a burden are nothing to super rich.

I'm not sure how it works in your country but in the UK too many speeding tickets and you will loose your license. The exact number depends on the severity of each offence, but we get max of 12 points over 3 years [1] so they stick with you - repeat offenders are given even stricter rules after getting their license back.

I get a sinister smile when observing rich people in those big shiny 4x4s on some stretches of motorway I know are littered with speed traps... It's a funny equaliser - I do the limit, but those types of people always gota be in front of someone with a shitter car - but the regret is apparent in their latent brake lights after the flash.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/driving-disqualifications

It's a shame this type of law that equalises wealth isn't more common, for instance in a related matter - I've heard plenty of stories about rich people basically using parking fines as parking tickets, there doesn't seem to be a limit or anything beyond a monetary disincentive. It's also more common to see expensive cars parked in places they shouldn't be, and i'm convinced this is the reason.
Easily solved by just keeping some state:

/^=====/ { inentry = !inentry; next }
inentry

Possibly without 'next' if you want the marker lines too.
No, it's legacy behavior and the community took the opportunity to fix it in Python 3, where it raises a SyntaxError.

Python 2 has _many_ quirks like this one. Python 3 was not just "it's unicode".
If the plaque concerned asbestos (which is alone responsible for the majority of cases of mesothelioma), it is likely there as a warning to tradespeople called in to perform work on the building. This means the correct precautions can be taken if bonded asbestos might be damaged by the maintenance or construction work carried out.
> Offline-capable Web apps are essentially a solved problem.

That may be true in theory. In practice "essentially" is an awfully long way from "absolutely", with offline support in many apps being either choppy or non-existent. Even the venerable Google Docs is something of a ####show when used offline, to the point where I gave up and went back to Office 365.
Good, she was initially given a pussy pass for massive fraud.
They don't have to be public, they have to be shared.

I thought you had some interesting economic point to make about these kinds of situations. So instead let me make one of my own. Economics isn't physics, it's broadly applicable to any kind of situation you think to apply it to. Any time you have a situation where you'd want to say, "this is why we can't have nice things," you're looking at a tragedy of the commons.
I know a lot of people don't like n-gate and webshit weekly, but I think their slice on this was particularly relevant:

> Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

> A near-monopoly closed-source software company, fed up with trying to seem like a good corporate citizen by releasing source code of their worst programs, is acquired by Microsoft.

When you combine that with the concerns from the article:

> They fear that the site will become﻿ less open

(it's not currently "open" in any significant way now, bar that there are free public accounts. They don't even have a public f-ing bug tracker for site issues)

> Open Science is not compatible with one corporation owning the platform used to collaborate on code

(It was already owned by one corporation, the Github corporation. Now it's owned by a different one. It's not like GH was some kind of open source alliance distributed project or anything)
Another example was pepper spraying a man who just had a stroke: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/va-resigns-taser-peppe...
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The fact that a philosopher claims to be an academic reference regarding hard science is sad.

It is already difficult for philosophy to avoid being grouped with dance, music and volleyball - academically speaking, and then someone makes it even more difficult by being silly.

Disclamer: as a physicist I classify philosophy together with the subjects mentioned earlier and I play volleyball a lot.
The level of hypocrisy is beyond measure. If "Open Science" was a real thing already, nobody would care about Nature, Elsevier, et al. If there has ever been a danger to open access to scientific research, it's publishing conglomerates that provide little to no value — the exact opposite of what GitHub has been doing the past few years.

Before complaining about others, clean up your own act, Nature.
I'm sure I can provide those for a price :)
Yes, sales is important, but don't forget about marketing, which comes first. I have lost my job in the 2008 crisis and couldn't get employed back. I decided to start my own business with other folks who were laid off as well. Marketing was key for us to open doors and put us in front of the prospective customers. We ran the business for 5 years until we decided to get back to regular jobs, have kids etc.

So if you are thinking on starting your own business, reserve some time to discuss marketing fundamentals: what your product/service is; pricing options and negotiation guidelines, target markets, customer profiles, niches; advertising (which I think grew exponentially complex these days).

Sales will tend to flow well once you have marketing sorted out. It will be the cherry on the top, the Showtime.
The billions number has always been in dispute, but I’m not suggesting he couldn’t pay some hypothetical person. I’m suggesting his roladex doesn’t have a specific person to call to do this & without this how do you get it done?

I disagree with the assertion that reading gets the job done. He was using signal. He read something about encrypted messaging.

When the feds came calling it wasn’t enough. You need highly specialized skills.