skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it amusing to see that it's so common to find contrarian research papers around marijuana / cannabis (usually because of apparently contrarian effects on different parts of the body / brain, depending on usage), despite there being so much curiosity around it.

When will this confusion end and when will we get definitive answers regarding long term / short term / frequent / seldom use? So that we can get cases on who is prone to abuse, what are the signs, etc? What frequency / reason to use is okay?

It seems due already, considering the popularity of the substance among populations world-wide despite the legality status.
Ok, how about 150 years ago? Poverty is poverty, famine is famine, illiteracy is illiteracy. For the average Swede - not the rich - life was as bad as it is in nations we considered desperately impoverished today. That's the point. There are people living well in Syria today, too. They're just a tiny sliver of elites, while ordinary people suffer.

But back to my original point. Do you think that there are nations that can't or won't be able to modernize? Are there people or places that are just incapable of achieving peace and independence? Because I don't buy that. China has done it. Iran has done it. Syria can do it, too.
Essentially it is a matter of practicality. The DEA could do it themselves but is huge but they would be stretching themselves thin to replace a whole state that said we're not doing it. And said move would be costly in cooperation.

As for forcing them? Such unfunded mandates overriding official discretion cannot be forced upon a state's police force. Stop this civil rights abuse or acting outside your mandate are valid ones without funding. Start actively looking for spies is not one unless both deputized and funded.
They could respond to any if they run across them without but it is within the leadership's discretion to say we have our hands full with the obvious criminals, not going on wild goose chases after guys who leave and take notebooks in public trashcans.
The funding available for said purpose? Has to be used for spy chasing if taken. As always they can use federal jurisdiction to establish their own. Generally they stick to interstate matters instead of setting up shop 50 times for something redundant.
There's a difference between shaming a company because they didn't give orphans free food, and failing to secure the data they opted into collect. We have a duty to treat people as ends, but no such duty applies to companies nor their paid mouthpieces (during their duties).

If the company didn't want the burden of security, then don't keep secured content. They opted in.
>> Pointing out fascism and racism doesn't turn people fascist or racist.

First of all you're slightly modifying OP's comment. He was not talking about actual fascism or racism that was pointed out, but about the abuse of those terms to silence critics regardless if they were racists or not.

If this kind of qualification is used purely a means to silence critics and it is used repeatedly without proper justification then yes, it can actually turn some people who used to have more moderate views into actual racists or fascists.
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By using form submission like in the good old Web 1.0 days.
Ad revenue is easy to measure. Long term erosion of the trust of your users isn’t.

Metric-driven decision making is not a silver bullet.
Ask HN: Java – looking for a persisten and embedded DB
Hi Guys,

i want to create a Java app and looking for a suitable DB.

The requirements are:
- user must be able to run the software offline
- user should not have to install any DB-Software (i.e. mySQL server)

so the DB should be embedded in my Java software and should create any filed to save the data.

Thank you very much in advance!
But I'm not talking about wages. I'm talking about other rigths that an employee has, for example: if you bankrupt and need to fire you employees, you'll be forced to pay a fine of 40% of the FGTS (FGTS it's like a saving account the company is obligated to pay in name of they employees).
Possible Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky
I'm not talking specifically about this professor. I'm stating that in my experience of seeing various professors plagiarizing their qualifications I inherently don't trust their word. I instead trust technical details. That is rational.

Irrational is when you trust someone's word as the holy grail.

By the way, just so you know why I have this notion. The college I graduated from the Director was exposed for plagiarizing his PhD thesis which resulted in his transfer: http://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/plagiarism-charges-a...

I have seen my fair share of such instances that warrants my apprehensions. Any rational person would ask for technical details not just me.

> I will safely ignore your frivolous replies

You can "safely" ignore my "frivolous" replies considering that you rely on conspiracy theories rather than actual facts. Like I said in the post below, I do not claim the system to be perfect but I would rather see someone come out with a technical rebuttal than sensationalise. If that part of what I said is lost on you then I can do nothing about it. There is no stronger an attack on the government than going technical which is what is lacking in all these articles. By sensationalising and spreading fake letters all you are doing is strengthen the government's position.
Driving an down some hills can regenerate 400-500 Wh, at least in my hybrid, so it would take 40 million electric cars to convert 20 MWh in this way.

On the topic of energy density, other solutions - like the house-sized lead-acid battery - have been proposed on the grounds that energy density isn't as important for stationary power stations as other factors, like the vampire effect. Losing 1% of your charge per day is a big issue when storing 20 MWh.
“If you want to grow big however, with a decent size investment team, the expenses all adds up quickly.”

Wouldn’t this be true for any startup looking to “grow big”?
So the argument is: if we lower taxes on ownership of capital that can produce "rents" (i.e. stocks, real estate, etc), the value of that capital flies upwards so high that people are discouraged from buying in due to inflated asset prices. So then we can have a relatively smaller more entrenched group of people who controls all the productive assets.

Sounds wonderful. Long live the king.
I don't recall this being on my list. Remind me?
From my window (if there wasn't a house in the way) I could see an Amazon Locker. THAT is why Amazon is winning - for me at least.

They've solved a problem that makes up for the increased prices. The fact that I don't have to take a day off work to pick up a package. Or worry that my dodgy neighbours are going to steal it. That single feature has changed online shopping for me forever.
Well, thank you! No more annoying kernel restarts, that really bugged me a long a time.
Indeed. This is part of the whole "bullshit jobs" line of inquiry; also "emotional labour".

> trapped by the system and I can do nothing about the issues I have with this job

You've been given just enough autonomy to take psychological responsibility for how the thing turns out, but not enough autonomy to actually make it happen. A common route to misery and self-blame.
Scientists don't really understand the brain and draw far-reaching conclusions.

in the sixties : "yeah alright, let's make a lobotomy you'll be fine lol then we will electroshock you and you will see angels and shit, you'll be a much happier and intelligent man"

Bunch of usual nonsense u know
>Software is infrastructure, plain and simple. You don't maintain it, people die. You don't make it safe, people die. It doesn't matter whether you personally see it causing problems for yourself. This "morally righteous fury", as you put it, is absolutely justified.

Not all software infrastructure is critical infrastructure. It's like the difference between a company that makes bottom dollar kitchen sink sprayers and washing machine hoses that always leaking and mine railings making a town's water supply undrinkable. Both are water problems. Only one is a big enough problem that people not affected by the problem should care about the problem.

You have to take both likelihood of harm and severity of harm into account. Just because someone somewhere might get hurt using a bottom dollar washing machine hose to transfer dangerous chemicals doesn't mean we should regulate all things related to water the way we regulate waste disposal near rivers and wetlands.
You make a few unrealistic assumptions, and you're ignoring opportunity cost. Small funds charge more like 1 and 10-15%, your example assumes 0 and 20%. You ignore expenses; besides the normal costs of any business, like legal and accounting services, hedge funds usually have a Bloomberg Terminal ($24k/year) and usually other expensive research, as well as expensive compliance and fund administration services. $50mm is a lot of money to raise unless you know a lot of rich people and have an established track record as a good investor. Someone like that can make a very good salary as an employee of an established fund, and not have to deal with the extra hassle of running a business. The flip side is they probably also have a high net worth, and are keeping 100% of the gains from whatever they personally invested. But on balance running a $50mm hedge fund isn't as much of a slam dunk as you might think. The regulatory and investment environment is pushing things to a winner take all situation, where there are fewer, larger hedge funds.
Having a 100 or so skins for each major section could go a long way without costing Amazon that much. They already do some customization for example showing different sizes for clothing.

The problem is they don't face much direct head to head competition. Where online can you buy a digital movie to watch right now, lawn ornaments, an out of print book from 1970, etc without ordering from several websites.
Medicare was introduced in the US in 1966.
caiocaiocaio, it does the same to me. I think it's because I'm introspective by nature and it just intensifies that affect.

But no worries, there's always booze!
I've noticed lately that Amazon's search also returns products if the query matches customer Q&A questions.

So if you are wanting to purchase, say, a 10ga extension cord, and UL listing is important to you, searching for '10 Gauge Extension Cord UL' will return many non-UL listed cords with customers asking 'Is this UL Listed?'. It makes for a very frustrating shopping experience.
First, be safe and take good care of yourself. I'm quite concerned about the last question you asked, but I'm proud of you for coming here and having the courage to say that. That courage will serve you well.

Second, have you expanded your search outside of typical technology companies? Lots of organizations need your exact skill set. They aren't the typical technology companies, but the conditions are amazing and you would fit in well with your background.

Third, be safe. I know it's hard to consider professional help, but seriously, please be safe.
>I guess its because, without that spending, America would be a third-world country by now.

Care to explain how this is true?
Penrose'paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740
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Opps for franchise cos which grant more local control over menu perhaps?
>Dynamic typing makes it hard to avoid errors at runtime, requiring lots of testing.

Doesn't Elixir also have this problem?
> A fair few potential founders would be able to find a few tens of millions from friends and family,

Rich kids
Can you explain why you think $1.5 trillion in defense spending stopped the US from being a third world country? With the state of infrastructure & healthcare in this country, and the absolute lack of over-site in military spending because of a blind 'support the troops/cops' mindset that leads to trillion dollar F-35s and small regional police departments having the capital to buy road-destroying APCs, I honestly can't fathom how spending $1.5 trillion to drop white phosphorus on random Yemenis is anything close to justifiable.
GAFA is also a fairly well-known acronym for the big empty bit in the middle of Australia, so FAANG or FANAG is less conflicting
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It is a large enough amount of money that a person cannot really fathom it without some serious thought. I expect many people read that and think "well, yeah, it's expensive."
Sounds like how a grandfather clock works.
I don't necessarily agree with the bits about 2-day shipping. TBH, I've had positive and negative experiences with that for years and don't really see a trend one way or the other. When it works well, it can be amazing (next day on a weekend!) and when it fails can seem really weird.

But I'll still mostly agree with your list and add another. A lot of clothing items now only have a reasonable return policy when bought as part of a Prime Wardrobe. What if I just want a pair of shoes and am worried about them not fitting? Some offer free returns for this and others don't. Ugh.
Just because you have a family doesn't mean that you should thrash your startup ideas. It takes more planning, a deeper commitment to focus on core business building activities and a more selective criteria on what you will work on.

I see it as a plus to have a family to take away the stresses of building a business. It's kept me motivated to hone it on what things I should and should not be doing. I have found that I have done more than I could ever have done had I been single.

We're now in a position to start beta testing with customers with a potential to raising initial funding to identify the right business model.
It depends. If you actually made 10% a year, every year for 20 years, and never lost money:

A) You are either Jim Simons or Bernie Madoff.

B) Investors would be tripping over themselves to pay 20% fees.
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Open Listings is now a part of the Opendoor family
PPPoE drives me crazy because it's all on your ISP. Would it have been impossible to bump the MTU of the cable/DSL/fiber to 1508? The ISP owns all of that equipment, it seems like something that should be easy, and yet instead there are networks all over the place with a 1492 MTU instead.

MTU issues can be pernicious too, since a lot of stuff will still work but other stuff will fail mysteriously. The webpage loads, but only some of the images for example. Or the unsecure page loads fine, but the secure one times out (cert exchange sends out a full size packet). Or you can SSH until you cat a file and suddenly it freezes. Network nerds will know exactly what the problem is, but regular people the problems are mystifying.

Also, if your security guys ever tell you that they need to disable all ICMP network wide for security reasons, tell them that it will have unintended consequences.
uBlock Origin appears to remove a lot of the sponsored results. Some sections like "our brands" or "expertly reviewed" may still appear above organic results.
1) Some universities are good, but most of our public universities are not. UFMG, USP, Unicamp, UFRJ and some others are exceptions, not the rule.

2) I agree completely that the tax rate is not bad, it's around 30%, less than Germany and other countries. The problem is the number of taxes and how complicated is our tax system.
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>but I wouldn’t trust 99% of programmers to be judicious with these things

The evil elitist in me wants to qualify that as "99.99999999% of JS programmers".
Looks like the total cost, including new domestic programs as well as treating veterans is $5.6 trillion.

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/11/costssummary
Like Moths to a Flame: Students Hacking Their Schools
I appreciate the intensity and urgency of this attempt, but surely there is a way to frame the work without resorting to militaristic metaphors. Surely there are other forms of expressing an effort than “the war on ...”?
I can see strong parallels between this and the fall of the Roman Empire:

"Maintaining an army to defend the border of the Empire from barbarian attacks was a constant drain on the government. Military spending left few resources for other vital activities, such as providing public housing and maintaining quality roads and aqueducts. Frustrated Romans lost their desire to defend the Empire. The empire had to begin hiring soldiers recruited from the unemployed city mobs or worse from foreign counties. Such an army was not only unreliable, but very expensive. The emperors were forced to raise taxes frequently which in turn led again to increased inflation." Source: https://www.rome.info/history/empire/fall/
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This reminds me of the fiasco regarding Virgin Media over Twitter:
https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/595135419152474112

I think companies need to mandate some kind of improved protocol for responding to these sort of tweet storms. It always seems to be people who are technically inclined talking to a social media representative with little to no knowledge of standard security practices, which leads to attempts to calm the masses, but ultimately backfires.
These domesticated foxes were 60 years in the making
You don't need JavaScript for that.
Would it be possible to average the colors in swatches and display a solid color version somewhere? And also show the hex-color for it?
Don’t Force Google to Export Other Countries’ Laws
Bugs can happen.

One of the first scenarios that comes to mind - some implementation queries API for every key press. Suddenly you are sending your password out.

I guess time will tell, but human-generated passwords have proven their ineffectiveness anyway.
Right. Over a chat before a professional event, a friend here said these days he'd want $200mm and compliance people and in 'the good old days' 100mm was plenty.

I don't know that there is any one regulation that makes this so.
>If someone's boarding pass isn't correct or there's some other issue, there gets to be a big backlog while they get sorted out.

And that's still going to be the case with facial recognition.

The only time saved is scanning a ticket vs scanning a face. And people are pretty much guaranteed not to lose their faces.
Can confirm, both sponsered links for "iphone charger" score an F on fakespot. Disappointing, considering I was hoping this could be a way to filter through knockoff products.
Still not resolved.

September 11, 2018
14:48 Central European Summer TimeWe are investigating a small portion of our users unable to access the site.
13:20 Central European Summer TimeWe are investigating reports of elevated error rates.
12:09 Central European Summer TimeEverything operating normally.
11:47 Central European Summer TimeWe are investigating reports of elevated error rates.
It is one thing to share a movie and possibly be fined with XXX$ because of "piracy". Its quite another thing to risk your respectability, career and future research funding -- all hanging in the balance when a federal felony charge is thrust upon you.
Not naive at all. The issue is typically framed as States Rights and it's wrapped around the 10th amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

This has been an issue since the 1780s, so it will take more than a couple of sentences to give the whole rundown but it's like this. A few states are saying "we have explicitly made marijuana legal for adult consumption, and since the Federal Constitution doesn't forbid this, it's legal," and the federal government is saying, "um, I don't think so. Cannabis is a schedule 1 drug that is regulated by the DEA, and it can't be made legal. And we intend to enforce this with the DEA."

So every once in a while, the DEA come in and shake up a cannabis operation (they raid the grow house or the dispensary or sometimes [rarely now] raid patients' homes) that is legal at the state level but federally illegal and there's a whole jurisdictional issue. The local police used to cooperate with the DEA in decades past, but have since told them to get bent. Now there aren't enough federal agents to deal with this, and a lot of local police forces have realized that cannabis is really not a big deal, so sometimes these things get enforced and sometimes they don't.

So we're in a gray area right now, where you can purchase cannabis legally or medically in quite a few states, but it's still illegal at the federal level. Apart from selective enforcement of this being scary, this opens up weird issues for seemingly law-abiding citizens: Since cannabis is a schedule 1 drug, using it precludes you from purchasing a gun legally at the federal level. So a law abiding citizen can easily unknowingly put themselves into a situation where they're breaking federal law even though they're abiding state laws.

If you want to see how ridiculous DEA drug scheduling is, check out this page: https://www.dea.gov/drug-scheduling
I found this interesting both the perspective of the raw coverage of the terror attacks, but also from a technology point of view.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, most of the links on that page are now dead. But some interesting ones remain live, like the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_15370...) and CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/worldtrade.crash/index.html). And there are some others including the images that are hosted on that site including a screenshot of the NYT (http://scripting.com/images/nyTimesHomeBombing7AM2.gif) and a screenshot of the Empire State Building webcam (http://scripting.com/images/wtcBurningFromEsb.gif).
That averages to 330 billion annually...
Law suits seem to be the standard tactic for dealing with other types of corporate negligence (for better or worse). Why aren't they employed more for these types of obvious security vulnerabilities if you can demonstrate harm?
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Surprisingly there's no discussion of food quality as a factor. In the race to keep portions huge and prices low the quality of food served at most chain restaurants has declined to the point that it's unpalatable for many. But for whatever reason businesses refuse to acknowledge this fact.
The graph showing restaurant cost inflation trumping grocery cost inflation over the last couple years is surprising to me. There's a big difference. Labor costs are a huge factor, I would guess.
Parallelizing PNG, part 5: choosing Rust for mtpng
The second article on the front page right now with war in the title, why can’t this be an analysis instead?
When “science” gets creepy and weird
Really cool that you've built this simple service. How did you reach out to your initial customers initially?

Also, assuming it's just a storage service at the moment? :) I'm in need of storing docker containers on behalf of customers.
I have compassion for these people who made these ludicrous comments -- they clearly aren't cryptographers or digital security experts. Let's separate the people making these comments from the corporations they represent.

Public shaming of a person is never the right response, in my opinion -- live and let live.

Public shaming of a corporation, on the other hand, may be the only way to get the attention of the decision-makers.

Let's be kind and compassionate to individuals.
Its not justifiable, thats the point. But those folks who assembled the white phosphorous bombs that were dropped on innocent people, and who live in Americas 'heartland' in safety, surety and comfort, sure did need to get paid that day.

Does that help you understand the situation?
If it wasn’t spent overseas it’d be spent somewhere else. This country’s foundation is defense and war. There’s a reason why engineering schools have plenty of resources.
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