skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot more helpful. Way better than:

"It has a real-time configured kernel and the whole system configured to obtain the smallest latency possible. Everything is configured (or at least should be) to work out-of-the-box."

... which doesn't mean anything to anybody except you.

Work on that "elevator pitch" description carefully. Get it down to 10 words, then stick it up top in 36 point font so that people stumbling across your thing can figure out what it is.
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No, read it now.
Because it features the color yellow? Inspired maybe, but they don't use any trademarkable elements on their design, and doesn't even have anything similar to DHL's website than the colors (which are not even the same really). They're not even in the same industry.
Meh, this has been going on since MDMA was put on banned substances lists across the world in the 1980's. Up until a few years ago, so-called 'smart shops' (in the Netherlands selling drug paraphernalia, 'coming down' products like vitamin pills and magic mushrooms before they were banned) would sell 2C-B which has been synthesized by Shulgin in the 1970's already, and documented along with MDMA, MDA, MDE etc. in PIHKAL.

Drug legislation that I am familiar with (all of them Western European) is designed to cope with this process. There is usually a 'drug act' which prohibits all materials on a secondary list, and this list is then to be adjust by 'the minister' or similar, which in practice means that there is a ministry that can fairly easily (within a few weeks) add substances that are banned. It's cat and mouse, true, but the 'war' (between chemists and the government) had largely calmed down by the late 1990's. I guess when new forms of drugs come into vogue, that variations pop up, but these too will be driven into the margins in a few years. (typically after a while the processes for manufacturing become so difficult or dependent on expensive/hard to get precursors that it get out of reach for amateur chemists, at which the police call it 'good enough'.)

For those interested, the Uncle Fester books (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Preisler) are readily available online and very interesting from a 'chemistry hacker' point of view (I don't know anything about chemistry but I still enjoyed reading them very much, for the 'underground glamour' aspect and the inventiveness. Don't take any of the legal advice in the books though, the guy may be a great chemist but on other things he has some strange ideas.).

As a side note, is this 'meow meow' really popular across Europe? I don't know much about it but it seems to me that it's only widely spread in the UK (then again I get all my information on 'the scene' from journal articles and government reports so I may just be lagging in information).
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More feedback (since I would actually use this if I could figure out how).

How about some instructions on how to install it? I see a download link that gives me an .iso file. And I see this:

Also as live-build (v2.0.3-1) uses squashfs v4.0 it generates an ISO that can be burn into a CD the usual way or it can be dd-ed directly into a thumb drive, which is pretty cool.

... which means nothing. Evidently, it's possible to install it. And it's cool. That doesn't help.

Look. You've spent a lot of time and effort building this thing, but then you just stopped. If you weren't on HN asking for feedback, you'd have lost me a long time ago. But I'm trying my best to actually learn about this thing and try it out, and you simply haven't given me enough information to do so.
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Or Pentadactyl, a Vimperator fork: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
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Drunk driving kills between 15 to 10 thousand people each year in the U.S. That's about 3x the lives lost from 911--every single year.
Why "except"? My point was that the workers were not slaves. Ramps are certainly the most probable aid in construction.
In theory it would energize extraverts. I get the impression this is taking Jung's idea of "psychic energy" a bit too literally, but social interaction should at least be less tiring for extraverts than introverts. Besides that, introverts brains are running too... just not in ways that are concerned with interacting with other people.

I'm inclined to agree with the account at the end of the story. Extraverts have a strong need for belonging. If everyone around them is tired, then I wouldn't be surprised if they "became" tired too to be one with the team.
I agree, but the first part of the first sentence is very very true. As a french university employee, i can confirm :/
I think Facebook will be hard to replace until something else has enough mass. The problem is the FB is continuing to gain mass.

FB has enough gravity to pull most users back in. To break free, the user will need will power to ignore all their friends trying to drag them back.
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(I'm not saying it is safe, but...) It's worth noting that all studies on the long-term effects of illegal drugs have to be done (by necessity) on people who generally, due to their lifestyle, are exposed to a myriad of products that are (potentially) harmful to their bodies, and for hardcore users, have other aspects of their lifestyle that expose them to risks (plainly put, drug users often use different kinds, drink, party and smoke a lot, and addicts are prone to being homeless and/or in prostitution, exposing them to various medical dangers). So it's very hard to isolate what effects are to be ascribed to the MDMA (or variants) and what to other factors.
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In software? What data would it run on? Software doesn't do anything without data.

I suppose you could have something like the PC revolution, where the industry was still based around manipulating data, but the data lives on your personal property. But that ship has sailed: personal computers have been available for 35 years, so pretty much all applications that rely on one person's data being manipulated in isolation by themselves have already been discovered. The interesting work now is when you collect patterns of data among many users, and that requires that many users be willing to give you their data.
That's not the thoughts the article was talking about. Those were written down on paper, with hand-drawn mind-maps for navigation, stored in binders.
As an Indian, I can tell you some fundamental differences between India and Pakistan:

- India is usually very open to debate, on just about anything.
- Radicalism, though exists in India in pockets and in different forms, is not a chronic national disease.
- People understand the language of development now (to a large extent)
- Knowledge and Education is very deeply valued. Its a part of how most Indians think.
- Corruption is rampant, but media is becoming extremely vigilant. We have a Right to Information, which has been used to great effect recently to curb corruption and malpractices.
- Lastly, we are a democracy in the true sense of the work. 80% of Indians are proud of it.

We are chaotic and corrupt and crippled with hundreds of problems, but at the same time, we're enterprising, hard-working, mostly ambitious, and mostly open-minded.
Two things:

a) there's a lot of supposition in the whole "Apple is going to lock the Mac down" line of thought.

Personally I think it's unlikely they will simply because I think it would be a bad decision commercially. I can see an OS that is more restricted by default but software developers, designers and corporates simply won't accept heavy restrictions and will look elsewhere if the changes impact them.

Regardless though, it seems odd to me how worked up people are getting about something which is, at best, a prediction about something which might happen two or three years (at the earliest) down the line.

b) I love the idea that you might not allow a more locked down Mac into the house despite the implication that your family would enjoy and benefit from it.

Surely you judge each device on it's merits? Personally I'll accept the restrictions of the iPad because I have no need for it to be more open than it is but I won't accept those same restrictions on a computer.

You shouldn't impose your needs for a compute on your family and more than it would be reasonable for a professional chef to insist that their son or daughter had a professional standard cooker or knives when they're completely excessive for what they do?
I will test and try Fedora 14 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_on_EC2 :D. My first cloud experience. Thanks HN for the reminder.
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So is this an argument for legalizing heroin or for bringing back prohibition?
Facebook already lets you choose to ignore some people and view more of others. I personally don't use it, but my more serious Facebook-using friends do.
4gb worth of text? That sounds impossible. How many words/pages is that!? What are you going to do with all that? What's your plan? What types of creative ideas have you written down? How do you define creativity - "constructive original" thoughts, or "original" thoughts in general?
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I agree with Dave. Facebook is like your public social network, and you don't want to post private things on your wall. The question is can Facebook address this or is Facebook just fundamentally too public?
Wow. Can't believe no one's mentioned Bucky Fuller yet. He documented his life every 15 minutes from 1920 to 1983.. It's archived at Stanford. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_Chronofile

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/fuller/about.html
Reviews on his TVs are a mixed bag though, from "not bad for a cheap tv" through to "terrible, don't buy"

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The MVP is pretty simple, the app has three views. The first one, a welcome views with some punctual info about how your bussiness/personal accounts is/are going. The second one, a monthly view with the detailed information about each income/expense. The last one, a view with some charts which displays the information in a useful way.

Nothing fancy, but my idea is to have this app as a "base" and start growing with new features on the go.

What I like about my app is that it's really simple, you don't need to configure nothing and you have a useful app in a few minutes.
They probably moved to different cities, and your argument could be made for any of the technologies that held friends together before Facebook. If they were really friends they would have stayed friends without the crutch of the telephone, letters, smoke signals or other communication technologies. Are pen pals not really friends because they use a certain messaging technology to stay together?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_in_the_United_Sta... says "In the United States the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 17,941 people died in 2006 in "alcohol-related" collisions..."
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It took me a long time to understand why Facebook limits your friends to 5000, but I get it now. Facebook is very explicitly not like Twitter, in that you want to connect to as many people as possible.

Facebook is a direct map of your real-life social circle, to the internet. It's just a way of taking your friends in real life and interacting with them more easily (much easier than emailing everyone, for example.) Of course, lots of people don't really use Facebook that way, but that's the behavior that is encouraged, and most people more-or-less follow that pattern.

In that case, I don't think having 500 friends is that big a problem. Sure, for most people, 300 of those friends will be people you aren't very close with, but so what? Other than the news feed, it shouldn't matter to you who these people are, except in terms of privacy. And you know what? With matters of privacy, I think the world is moving towards Robert Scoble's view - just assume everything is public anyway.
How about: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/TSF2004.PDF

"Specifically, alcohol-related fatalities declined significantly in 2004, to 16,694, the second consecutive year in which alcohol-related fatalities declined."
I haven't followed it, but he seems to be trying to open up the debate.

Prohibition didn't work out too well, but anti-smoking campaigns in many countries seem to be somewhat effective. So a gentler approach just may work, if you're willing to accept that it probably takes a century before you can ban the substance.
That doesn't resolve the context problem. Your close friends from school aren't your close friends from work. The two are not necessarily going to intersect. Starring is to one-dimensional, hence groups. But groups are a pain to manage. Pick your poison...
Event if this idea catches on, there will be years before each and every source code editor properly supports it.

For example, I work now on a Java code base which was originally developed on French keyboards, with accents and other diacritical marks typical of the French language in comments and sometimes in constant values.

This code base, developed on Eclipse on Windows boxes which defaulted to CP-1252 encoding, was kept in CVS on Linux boxes, then migrated to Subversion on Linux boxes, and now is edited on Eclipse on Linux boxes which default to ISO-8859-1 encoding (when the developer has not fat-fingered the Eclipse configuration). None of the original diacritical marks has been preserved and the comments in particular are a mess. You can however choose to make an effort to interpret the meaning of the comment and to replace any funny looking sign with a similar-looking ASCII character.

None of this would have happened if the editor had accepted only ASCII characters: it would have been simpler and because of that much more robust.
Thanks for this! I actually read the book, I should really have remembered this...
Just a heads up: there is a bit of politics with this story. The author was the head of the government advisory board that suggested changing the ratings (and thus penalties) of some drugs, but the subject was too dangerous to tackle politically. He criticised the government and got fired. A year later he publishes this report.

The Guardian's coverage ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/01/alcohol-more-h... ) knows that this report is likely to be attacked politically (regardless of merit) so it's no surprise they are using adjectives to cut off this attack. Note their use of words like "authoritative" and "respected" early in the article.
right, i mean 500 million users all making a constant investment in their profiles, connections, photo uploads, etc. the seemingly endless chain of privacy concerns (and i've learned recently through first hand experience there are many) aren't dissuading users from spending much of their precious time on the site...and since all your friends are on it, or connections you want to keep, how are you ever supposed to leave? and when you try, you get what amounts to a guilt trip that your most bestest friends will miss your increasingly valueless contributions to the site.

of course, that's because all your pithiness is going into 140 characters or less to what amounts to almost total strangers.

facebook, where did your allure go? after the last round of privacy banter, i've kept my facebook material almost completely personality free.
Neither - he just says that the way society deals with drugs should be proportionate to the harm that they do
PDF of Nutt's previous 2007 Lancet review here: http://science.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/pdfs/safety/Nutt%20R...

The chart with the ranking is on the 4th page.

I can't find the most recent Lancet article mentioned in the article.

My concern with these rankings is that they don't seem to control for the number of people using the drug. Alcohol kills more people and has higher social costs largely because it's used by more people. However, for an individual user, crack or heroin is far more harmful than alcohol. So saying "alcohol is more harmful than heroin" might confuse some people. Also, if those drugs were legalized, their use might go up, thereby moving them higher up according to Nutt's rubric.

I would like to see a ranking that compares the damage these drugs do to an individual person. For instance, is it worse for your health to get intoxicated on a weekly basis with alcohol, or marijuana?
I'm a little surprised at the number of "no remote" in this thread. I've done some great work remotely, and with the right tools I think a team can "gel" and really work well together. Any comments?
Here's some background. Nutt initially released this scale in 2009 and was sacked by the government over it:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article68947...

Several other members of the drugs advisory board resigned in protest. It's a typical case of the government asking scientists to come up with evidence and then refusing to see the evidence when it is presented. "You got us the wrong evidence! Get us another truth!"

At the bottom of this article, you can find the suggested classifcation by harm:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6474053.stm

Of course, the point is not to ban alcohol, but to have a more mature debate about drugs (and possibly to unban relatively harmless drugs such as LSD, Ecstasy, Cannabis...)
Large companies still seem to prefer Perl. I know both Perl and Python but for larger programs I tend to prefer Python. I had a tough time convincing the management that it we should use Python for a project (I expect it to be 20-30KLOC in Python). Perl is the default scripting language in my organization. Default not as in policy but its what programmers reach out for as thats what they know. I think this might be the case in most large companies. Most programmers just know that Python exists but not much more.

Even where Perl is concerned, I don't think most developers in my organization care about writing good code. I spent a lot of time dealing with a large code base last week that uses a hash with hundreds of keys as a means of passing data between functions. No one even bothers with cpan much.
Obviously there is a lot of distress over the scans. Worse yet is the sense of powerlessness.

What if a permanent record was made of everyone's objection to the process - even as they acquiesce?

Sure, this is a little juvenile, but how about the "Hawaiian good luck sign" - as used by the POWs of the USS Pueblo?:

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-seizing-of-the-pueblo (third photo down the page)
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Is a "litigation lawyer" kind of like a "balancing tightrope walker?"
Facebook already knows the likelyhood that Friend_A is closer to you socially than Friend_B based on the number of shared friends you have. Combine that with the frequency you "like" the posts and links of friends in that category, which signifies you pay attention to them, and you have an impressive dataset to dissect. I'm not saying it would be an easy task, but they already have enough data to build a reasonably accurate friend-group graph, at least for people that use it personally instead of an extension of business (marketers and lead generation).

It could be just enough for people to use the service and have to clean up a dozen or less of their 300 friends which have been mis-categorized, instead of individually placing the 300 friends in a group.
The westernization of China still looks pretty inevitable to me. What's changed?
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