skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Rat Brains to Cancer Cells, UT Professor Improves Imaging Techniques
> The initial tax rates for pot will be much lower, but should increase steadily year-over-year. Alcohol taxes continue to rise every year.

The problem is they've got to play this game very carefully right now as the black market is still well established and providing to many people.

They need to both drop prices (which should happen once more supply spins up) and start raiding illegal dispensaries and mail order shops if they want to convince people to stay in the legal system. From what I've seen on reddit - we need to see a significant price drop and potentially quality improvement before many existing regular users will be convinced to switch.
Would argue that UI Redressing is the general problem (mostly present on the web, but can also be done on native as this paper suggests). Good BH presentation: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-14/materials/Niemietz/Asi...
Startup School had a video about it last week. By Geoff Ralston.

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/48

My tl;dr:

- be honest, don't exaggerate facts

- find a shared vision, find the right investor

- get it done and get back to work
In the era of Sundar it has become harder and harder to recommend Google as a place to work to friends. Trust me, it is quite noticeable on the inside when the company stops being run by the founders, and starts being run by an MBA with no vision.

Posted anonymously to avoid work repercussions.

-Googler of > 5.5years
Tuition fees in public universities are low in France: https://www.campusfrance.org/en/tuition-fees-France

For instance, a bachelor degree is 170 euros per year (+ 90 euros of student life and campus service fees). Housing can be expansive in some cities like Paris...

For instance, the bachelor degree of EE at Sorbonne université (former Pierre et Marie Curie university before it merged with the historical Sorbonne):
http://sciences.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/education/diplomas...

Bachelor degrees are typically taught in French though. Master degrees are sometimes taught in English.
The backpropagation algorithm is at once simple and incredible. It enables automatic parameter optimization for millions of parameters for extremely complex, nonlinear functions, all with just a basic knowledge of calculus.
This is funny because the lack of consistency in Git's user interface forces you into memorizing the shapes of specific words (commands and arguments). To spell it's language.

The UI does a remarkably good job of hiding the elegant underpinnings from you.
I think the sentiment behind #5 is right, but your wording is wrong. It's not about bullshitting. It's about storytelling and choosing which parts of your story to emphasise and how to frame them. People don't realise the extend to which raising money is simply storytelling. And with any story, you dictate where your story takes somebody. Investors want to believe in your story (especially angels / early VC) so give them the story they want to hear.

That said, it's a fine line between good storytelling and out-right lying. You should be telling a story "based on true events", not a fantasy epic that's easy to pick apart. Credibility is everything. And just like watching an implausible action movie, playing with the truth is easy to spot, and the fastest way to damage your credibility.
"Canada is leading in personal freedoms", perhaps in weed laws, not in free speech etc.
Great overview! To the note under the second figure under “VERTICAL RHYTHM”: “Unlike in print and graphic design, the baseline grid lies right in the middle of the lines.”

Actually – before DTP – designers did it like that in print as well:

https://archive.org/details/GridSystemsInGraphicDesignJosefM...
Probably because the scope is so small that you _could_ actually rewrite it yourself. And then together with all these other toy libraries, stick it in one big one that covers everything you need in terms of convenience functions.
Doesn't this already exist from other countries where it's been legal for decades?

As far as I know Canada is only the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to actually fully legalize recreational cannabis.
+1 for Diffie-Hellman... and the paint analogy.
Why not support both configuration strategies?
Exponential backoff: I don't know if this is a published algorithm.

Basically, background processes need to keep retrying an operation until it succeeds. (Make an API call to a server, upload a file, ect, ect.) If the retry interval is too small, you can DOS the remote server. (Server returns a 5xx error because there's a corner case that hits a defect.) But, if the retry interval is too large, your background process can run too slowly when it encounters transient errors. (Temporary network glitch, database under high load because of a cache flush.)

So, we pick an ideal small retry interval, and the maximum tolerable interval. (In my case, it's usually 30 seconds and 15 minutes.) Then, when errors happen, the retry interval keeps doubling until it hits the largest interval. So, the operation is retried at 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, 8 minutes, and then every 15 minutes until it succeeds.

The result is that transient errors don't cause large delays. Situations where a defect prevents a request from submitting don't DOS, because the retry interval throttles itself longer and longer.
I think they're just shared costs.

It may be worth observing that conferences aren't binary "tiny" and "big vendor conferences," the latter of which can get into the 10s of thousands.

There is a size in the 100-200 or so range that does tend to involve sponsorships and finding some sort of event space but is still relatively intimate. Fees can still be pretty modest.
Cells are a pretty fundamental structure. Sci-fi can have fun with undifferentiated masses of protoplasm like The Blob, but there's a lot of reasons to expect that cell walls are going to be pretty fundamental on one level or another. Without them, instead of isolating the task of giving permission to enter and exit the life form to one structure, everything in the life form has to be capable of doing so. It is exceedingly unlikely that this is a good trade.

I would also say that before you start drawing up crazy ideas about alternate structures that you should check your own body first; we already have a lot of variants on the theme! Blood is a liquid that has a lot of cells in it. There's a lot of other such circulatory fluids that have cells within them, but are not "cellular" in the sense that they contain nothing but cells. White blood cells do interesting things with cell walls, as does the immune system in general. Cells have structure well beyond just little cubes already, like nerve cells, etc.

Personally I find that when one tries to come up with some funny sci-fi idea for an alternate life form, either A: it's physically implausible or B: something, somewhere on Earth is already doing something very like it, and I don't see middle ground very often.
It is not legal in portugal
We’ll soon co-live in apartments in much the same way we co-work
Those are the exception, not the norm. Just about all residential neighborhoods are filled with streets that have no sidewalks, much less barriers between car and pedestrian traffic.
Interesting product with great potential. Their website doesn't seem to address my two main concerns:

1. How do they ensure high, non-spam delivery rates to the main email services like Gmail, Fastmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft?

2. How would the product work in case Helm the company/service goes away (or even just service outage)? Can the device work on its own without the need for their web service (perhaps with lower delivery rate/higher spam score)?

They claim:

>> We’ve designed your Helm to ensure as little information about you as possible is communicated back to us. That’s why the only account you create is directly with your server, not with us, and why only encrypted data passes through our servers.

But how does that work with sending emails? (Please excuse my ignorance on this matter.)
$500 dollar hammers for us, entire cities sitting empty for them. Gotta' love that government spending!
If you are interested to see what/how the products are marketed, see the SQDC website from Quebec province: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/

1g = ~CAD$5
Jupyter Notebook Debugging
What markets? Canada can only sell to itself. California has a larger population than Canada does.
Renaming the Bro Project
Do you mean "the only planet with life"? Humans aren't the only species in the universe.
"that any interaction could go south into a deadly confrontation"

Except those situations are very rare. CBP's own website lists a total of 40 deaths over the past 15 years. I looked at over half of them, and very few were actually a "deadly confronatation"

Some of the deaths:
* One intern died after collapsing during a 1.5 mile run that was part of his final exam.
* At least two died following from heart attacks
* Another two are listed as having collapsed and died with no further cause.
* Another was listed as heat related.
* At least two people died in separate incidents when their vehicles hit large animals.
* At least four people have died due to accidental drowning.
* At least three died when their aircraft crashed.
* At least one was hit by a drunk driver.
* At least two killed when their vehicle was hit by a freight train.
* At least two were killed during altercations while off duty.

Most of the rest appear to be single vehicle crashes. It appears that less than 10 were actually shot, stabbed, or otherwise killed by people, and I didn't see a single listing of one happening at a border control station.

These people want you to believe they have an incredibly dangerous job. While it's certainly more dangerous than working in IT, the truth is that law enforcement isn't even in the top 10 of dangerous jobs!
I think your subjective might be a minority view though. I'm not talking particularly about the barbican, but the worst most people could level at the glass towers in London is blandness.

To many/most the concrete monstrosities of the 60s and 70s are actively oppressive.
I don't think there are any. Not in the West, anyway. Even in the Netherlands it's only "tolerated", not legalized or even decriminalized.
I think the thing is that the one library you are forking contains 50 frivolous ones, so you’d really only be doing it twice.
That's so cool, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!
Where's the benchmark showing this?
There are quite a few good technical universities in Germany. In no particular order (although ranked roughly by prestige):

- TUM Technical University Munich:
Pros: Lots of interesting tech companies in the Munich Area (such as Intel, Siemens, BMW etc.), TUM has a good reputation, Munich is a very nice city to live in
Cons: Munich is very expensive

- KIT Karlsruhe:
Pros: Relatively cheap cost of living, lots of interesting computer science / electrical engineering professors

- TU Dresden:
Pros: Cheap cost of living, nice city, Global Foundries lab is located there, allegedly good EE department

- TU Berlin:
Pros: It's Berlin.

- TU Darmstadt:
Pros: Nice Fraunhofer institutes, but bigger focus on compsci and mechanical engineering
It certainly isn't completely harmless, very few things are.

Subjective perspective - smoking is really bad, can be dramatically improved with good vaping but its still harmful. One of the great side effects of legalization - health-conscious people have less damaging options for consumption. Eliminated by eating the material, but then effects are a bit different. There have been some rumors on lower sperm count/lowered movement, not sure if related more to smoking any material or something in cannabis causing it. For short term buzz maybe some nasal spray would be great (again, legalization can help this get done properly).

Then there are mental effects - people are mentally incapacitated, usually even day after is felt, short term memory negatively impaired. Long term frequent usage leads to mild dependence, which can be given up much easier compared to ie cigarettes. Can trigger dormant mental illnesses, and amplify them with long term usage (I guess paranoia is the most common one, schizophrenics would be also bad - same can be achieved with any other drug including alcohol, or big shock like car crash).

Side effects of behavior can be quite destructive too - 'munchies' cravings for unhealthy food (sweet, fried etc) - long term disastrous for health just like any other overeating.

I can't think of anything else right now, but for sure there is something else. Overall relatively low harm, especially when things like alcohol and tobacco roam civilization almost freely
He's an alchemist. The original version of the illustration says salve/coagulate rather than eval/apply.
The thing i've noticed with people like that though, is of they weren't smoking weed to ruin their life, they'd be addicted to video games, or alcoholicss or they get tummy aches, or have so much anxiety they can't go outside or interact with people, or just have some other debilitating addiction or excuse that stops them from getting on with life.

Some people just don't function in life...weed or not.
> It might be one of those things where knockoffs came along of lesser quality or perhaps I just like the work of certain architects.

The worst examples seem to have come from the biggest names in the movement, at least in the UK.
My first thought is this should call into question the method(s) we are using to measure and observe planets in other solar systems.

Think on this, the one solar system we can empirically confirm with multiple observation techniques, i.e. we've sent satellites to other planets in, is way different than solar systems we are observing by measuring light differences from light years away.
The Beer Store is owned by two foreign-owned multinationals (the Belgian AB InBev and the American MolsonCoors). Not government run, but like many Ontario monopolies is has government in its pocket.
PgAUT: MySQL on update current_timestamp for PostgreSQL
> it absolutely does not apply any restrictions to using the licensed software. What it does is codify the responsibilities of someone who runs the software as a service.

Potato / potatoe. The imposition of that responsibility is a restriction.
No, the problem is exclusive to autoplay (in fact, I recall youtube adding some click through pause into videos, but I don't see them now).
I'm no advertiser, but simply introducing autoplay into the mix is kinda fraud imo.

With hindsight advertisers must be aware of fake likes and such too.
The real song Spot the robot wants to dance to
Comparison of the Top Cloud APIs for Computer Vision
Discovery of the Huffman Code
I think after 5 years of military service as an officer and a military academy EE degree you could easily obtain very lucrative military contractor work, but of course this is generally going to be in the weapons/electronic warfare sphere which may or may not be ethically compatible to some folks.
[disclosure I am a sanic contributor] aiohttp is a great project, very similar to sanic, I'd say the big thing is sanic is slightly more flask like than aiohttp in ergonomics (which is something aiohttp has been working on[1]).

Sanic also makes performance a key development goal so you can feel comfortable the project will scale gracefully. But I will stress I don't have current benchmarks to compare against aiohttp

[1]https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#id1
Thanks for sharing this, will make sure to use PNG8 in the future!
decentralized oracles can prevent manipulation of data unless the point of origin is corrupted.. see Chain Link.
I don't understand your "teach you to think before talking" remark. I said your comment was orthogonal because it didn't address anything I had said in my other comment. Of course someone wanting to the enter the country will weigh their options, I'm just laying out the potential consequences, for someone that apparently had not heard of them (the other commenter, not you).
Fascinating stuff. ..and all deduced from the slightest dimming of starlight hundreds of light years away. Badass.
As a former totalitarian monopolist with lots of empathy towards totalitarian systems Microsoft would like you to reconsider your opinion.
That's a misconception. The open source part is limited to GPL and some other trivial components that are already available in source.

Things like the evil services in the article are not open source at all.
One major thing that comes to mind is that cannabis is still technically illegal in the Netherlands. Instead there is a distinction of "soft drugs" and "hard drugs" and authorities follow a policy of non-enforcement in many (but not all) cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands...

In Canada cannabis has become legal in a manner similar to alcohol, making the difference.
>I'm not the one that is expressing bitterness about this reality.

Proposing a solution (a crowdsourced public platform for investigating crimes for/with law enforcement) is not bitter. Your response of shitting on the idea and saying civil courts already exist...is seemly bitter about your own experience.

I noticed you didn’t answer my question about your own cases, which makes me think you didn’t follow your own legal advice and pursue anything in civil court. That’s very telling.

>Because, where criminal prosecution already serves the public interest

This is where you begin to sound like a troll...I know you’re not for the record...but what you are doing in this thread is telling victims of crimes, that persecuting these cases doesn’t serve the public interest. Who are you to make that determination?

It would appear you are using a self fulfilling definition...that is if your case isn’t prosecuted then there either aren’t resources or it’s not in the public interest. But that’s not true. First you don’t know what happened factually so you have no idea if it’s in the public interest, and second you have no idea whether there are resources for this crime in this jurisdiction.

And you keep bringing up restitution...that’s the least of my concerns. Can you even set forth a standard for what cases are in the public interest? And can you distinguish why my case isn’t in the public interest? Why weren’t your cases in the public interest?
Consider people who live in the Netherlands, or Czechia, or Portugal.

It's not technically legal in any of those countries.
10 years but the 4 years of studying there are included in the 10 years. Most continue with a PhD (at least 3 years in France).
And then it is allowed to do research abroad, not for the French governement, for instance in an US university. Working for a private company entails to have to give back just part of the money.

And there are 4 ENS (écoles normales supérieures) in France so even more opportunities!
Your timeframe of 10,000 years ago as "multicellular life" and "early humans and all" is WAY off. There have been human-like animals for 2 million years, there have been multicellular life forms for probably a few billion.
Just buy a phone you can always root?
One thing not mentioned that I like is having 2FA be non-enforced for a set period of time after enabling it. So you still have to enter it the next N days, but if you set it up wrong or did something stupid you can disable the 2FA without authenticating with it within that period. The only place I can think of where I've seen this is facebook.

That also prevents scenarios like the one given about the user never writing down their 2FA details. (Though the recovery codes should not work for enabling 2FA in the first place.)

Thinking about it, it might make sense to have it non-enforced for the next N logins rather than basing it on time. Or perhaps make it non-enforced for the first login that happens 24 hours after 2FA setup. I haven't seen it implemented this way anywhere yet.
If your goal is to be employed and anywhere will do this might be true but if you’re seeking a specific job, like research scientist, then you’ll have trouble (not impossible but very difficult) finding that job without a degree.
There's a difference between stretching the truth and outright lying.

Outright lying always bites you in the end.
This is fantastic, and also the trend I seem to be going towards. Lazy as possible with the most results. Makes sense for techies, eh. Thanks for the post!
I don't know what you mean by "the performance question". A web component uses the same DOM APIs that React/etc. uses so it can have performance as good or better depending on how it is written.
i read it as the psychedelic version of Faust. (it turns out that Bulgakov was addicted to morphine)

(However I never liked this motive of 'Ich bin ein Teil von jener Kraft, Die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft' - never got that.)
>> Unsold inventory is the curse of retail.

Absolutely. I run a small retail pet-farm store location. This is such a curse, that I often wonder why it isn't talked more about among small retailers. Certainly the salespeople from the different suppliers never ever talk about about it for obvious reasons. The problems with not talking about it to me is that I may go out of business if I don't understand this principle/curse.
Traders have all finances monitored. In some hedge funds monitoring is a lot more invasive. So I don’t agree, but my point is, monitoring isn’t done to protect employees, it’s done to protect the company.
A few will, however: For most folks, it is like being drunk. Sure, you'll drink to the point of not functioning, but that's occasional, on weekends, after work, and so on. It is more likely that you run into people all the freaking time that are doing their jobs while being stoned. They do this pretty happily, and so long as folks are able to do their jobs safely, I don't see an issue. A cashier has no real reason not to be a little stoned at work, for example. This is because of the way tolerance builds with it, and the fact most folks aren't that stoned when they go to work.

I'll add that the only people I've known that had actual trouble quitting pot had other mental issues as well. The other cases are more rare. (Folks often must test this to take work-related drug tests). If someone is going to have an addiction, this is one of the better ones to have (outside of caffeine, perhaps). And we can better research actual methods of helping folks.
I don't know if it can be considered an algorithm, but i found bezier curves generation super useful and simple
I think they are also popular in Canada. You can get various versions of the Huawei P20 through carriers here. I don't regard them as spy devices. I think it's mostly a US thing.
Also in the Netherlands is "tolerated" not "legal", they have directives gedoogbeleid that make some cases of selling and possessing, besides self-growing, of limited amounts of cannabis not prosecuted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands
I'm not grasping the significance of this. To my ear, it sounds like the pianos are both playing basically an echo of the chord that he's sending from the controller keyboard. Doesn't seem that much different (though I will concede, much more aesthetically pleasing) from the auto-accompany features that have been available on keyboards since at least the 1990s.

The MIDI interfaces on the pianos aren't at all novel, either: any piano can be retrofitted with a PianoDisc system. Just about every pipe organ nowadays also has MIDI capabilities.
See Quebec province online store for pot: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ which launched this morning.
All AI initiatives have an underlying data (sob) story