skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they were driven out. There was a sharp increase in crime caused by the friction of disparate groups suddenly coming in close contact with each other (Devil's Night and so forth). Yugoslavia broke up due to such friction, and those ethnic groups have been in contact with each other for centuries. The Malays and Chinese of Malaysia have had plenty of scuffles, too, and they've been around each other for a long time, as well. Those are just two examples. Diversity + Proximity = War. A fortiori, integration in Detroit was going to be eventful.

Furthermore, a lot of people throughout the world like to live next to those who are like themselves. I mean, a lot. When I was younger, I was shocked by the attitudes of older members of my family towards out-groups. I'm a little older, now, and see that it's not going away. We need to build around this fact of human nature, because we can't plow it through.

If the remaining residents of Detroit were being "systematically denied ownership of their own homes" then some bank could make a killing giving them home loans. During the housing bubble, we saw what happened when banks did that. My brothers make a living picking up the pieces.

I'm not injecting race into anything because race was a part of this to begin with. Noam Chomsky, in his book Understanding Power, noted this: "Over the long term, you can expect capitalism to be anti-racist — just because it’s anti-human. And race is in fact a human characteristic — there’s no reason why it should be a negative characteristic, but it is a human characteristic."

The blank slate hypothesis of human nature has a lot of evidence going against it. If natural selection is true, then different populations of any species must have different distributions of alleles. Otherwise, there's nothing for natural selection to select. Cochran & Harpending cover this: http://the10000yearexplosion.com/

As for E. Michael Jones, he didn't start going into his theory of the Jews until after he wrote his other work.
Most of the time, performance is more a factor of system architecture and choice of algorithms/data structures - and less about the language you're using.

Unless you're doing very CPU intensive computations where every millisecond counts, the difference between most languages won't be that great in the big picture.
Anonymous Group is to Hack Facebook on 05 Nov 2011
We <3 hearing stories like that at RescueTime! I'd love to see a screenshot. Email jason at rescuetime dot com.
The problem is that I feel less smart and less motivated for 2 weeks after smoking a joint.
"SQLite was the spec" was the problem. No arbitrary version of any arbitrary vendor's software should be the core of a web-wide spec, no matter whether it's open source or popular or loved by millions.

The HTML5 authors & editors have already spent years reverse engineering and describing the behavior of existing browsers as part of that spec.

I'm sure everyone was overjoyed at the prospect of starting the same process for every quirk and bug of that specific version of SQLite, and bumping the spec every time the project released a new version. Or, alternately, living with a fork of that specific version of SQLite forever.

Seriously, that's an awesome way to write and maintain a spec. How about you do the web a solid and give it a shot? Come back when you've got something.
That's a great site, thanks very much.
CEO Raps About Startups At DreamIt Demo Day
Probably by the carload, but not by this exploit, since they aren't using 4G...
The number of tutorials has to do with the popularity of a language and the general level of competence.

The author is talking about a user interface, not how-to books, so it's hard to apply the principle to programming. (How a PL implementation is documented is a a little similar but not the same.)
> "bringing the Heritage Foundation into the discussion can only serve to muddle things."

Only if you choose to let it. Here on HN, we usually don't.

You mention in your profile that the quality of discussion here is "slightly better than most places on the web". This is not an accident; it's a result of our strong community standards. Name-calling or ad hominem is generally rewarded with downvotes. Our preference is to look deeper into data and disagree in productive ways [0], not to get upset at the mention of a politically slanted organization.

You've had a rough introduction to our community. I hope you stay a while, learn our standards, and have a productive time here.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
They're all together in the first tab. See the comments under the linked post.
Google Maps with traffic has been available on Android since this article was written (5 months ago).

That being said, I use this pretty much every day on my drive home.
The 19 Most Hated Companies in America
Nope. Groupon was started by Andrew Mason and Eric Lefkofsky (who also put up the first money). Eric Lefkofsky through his investment shells^Wcompanies took more money out than anyone else.
It's possible if they work with this group:

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/

http://news.discovery.com/space/tau-zero-project-daedalus-ic...

I think USA is going to do it alone.
How many people use mobile payment services?
Security Flaws in Feds’ Radios Make for Easy Eavesdropping
This is not poverty ... this is the cult of victimhood
Good catch. Here's the post: http://blog.knolcano.com/5-ways-i-justify-my-ipad-investment
wrong strain?
Hold on, not abstract enough yet.
What ever it is, it's always a white one. ("Yeaaaaah")

I was looking at [a list of hats](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat) recently, by the way.
Going Solo.
My office is cooler than yours
The title & subtitle of this is rather condescending to non-programmers. "Mere mortals"? "How to count"?
Cool. Seems like adding Disqus might be useful.
San Francisco Fulltime OR Contract Onsite - Lead Rails Engineer
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Oh, and by the way: Microsoft was opposed to WebSQL, too. It wasn't all Mozilla.
Then don't smoke a joint. The standard sized joints that NIDA hands out for research are 0.7 grams. The amount needed to get this anti-inflammatory effect is roughly .02 grams, in other words 1 / 35th of a joint. There are also two different ways that you can get the same health benefits without any psychoactive side effects. First, you can get high-CBD weed. CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid that basically cancels out the effects of THC. Second, if you juice raw cannabis it is basically non-psychoactive, because without heating or drying it the THCA never gets decarboxylated into THC. Here are a couple articles about this:

http://cannabisinternational.org/info/hightimes.pdf

http://cannabisinternational.org/info/treatingyourself.pdf
Possibly laughing all the way to the bank, it could end up that Google was a much better deal.
/r/politics is thatta way for the extremist Chomsky acolytes out there.
Unfortunately this is also going to mean that a lot of the impatient money that has been chasing a quick buck in housing and clever financial derivatives is going to pour into tech startups and make it hard to distinguish the good ideas from the bad.
You are starting too early - you have to wait until you're old first.
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Apple is spending $10 million to make its 5th Avenue cube more "seamless."
I think you should definitely expound a little bit upon why it would be interesting for a casual user to make a prediction--that is, why should I bother? Will there be a reward of some kind?

You should also explain what makes this interesting. This should be something easy to digest and difficult to miss. You could also include a page which explains how the algorithm works in a little more detail for those who are interested.
It's unclear if these political pundits are dumb, or if playing dumb just gets better ratings. Anyone work at any of these shows that could shed some light?
$10 Million Glass Technology Is Behind Apple's 5th Ave Store Cube Replacement
This Can't Be Happening
One of the best ways to justify an iPad purchase is knowing that you can easily sell it for 50-80 cents on the dollar.
Windows Phone needs to be more than a phone
Cannabis as a treatment for Alzheimer's would be rather ironic, given its current reputation.
These stories always make me wonder about the people who work at the patent office. What are they like? What do they think? Are they mostly young people, old people, tech people, clerical people, Wisconsinites, suburbanites, Mad Men or Squidbillies? What do they know? What were they told? Where do they sit? Do they surf the Internet all day?

A lot of patents that get approved are seemingly obvious but clearly, to someone, it wasn't. And that makes me wonder what their life and interests and milieu is like. I suspect that until we're asking that question, the patent system will continue to suck.
I usually use the help function, instead of reading __docs__ directly.
It's interesting that Twitter seems to be getting a similar backlash to what Facebook did when they launched the News Feed, and look how that turned out. Some people loved it, some people hated it (a lot), but I can't imagine Facebook without it today.

This is going to change how people interact with Twitter, moving from one single place to consume to two, I'm curious how that will work out. I don't think I'd look at it all that often, it just feels like another place they will eventually cover with ads.
Max Levchin's lessons learned as a young entrepreneur
There's also always the Orion drive - basically dropping nuclear bombs out of the back of a ship and riding on the blast. Do you know how it and the Bussard Ramjet (which I think is what you meant) compare in terms of mass needed to run? Of course, a Ramjet would probably be much better for long missions, since it gives you a source of power as well as not requiring carrying reaction mass, which avoids running out of fuel.
Using burrito?
I consolidated from a Kindle and iPad to just the iPad for travelling but I miss the Kindle. It's smaller and more comfortable to read and I prefer it for everything but books with a lot of equation or diagrams.
Ideas for ad-blockers that improve incentives for web advertisers
They'd probably be linearly faster.
ZeroCater can promise good restaurants consistent volume and negotiate better pricing than a single business on its own. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to provide the service for cheaper than a PA could, not even counting his/her salary. They may not be doing this currently, but at scale it could be interesting.
One of the greatest oxymorons of the English language is 'simple OAuth'.
a) We're a customer. Congratulations!

b) One major problem that this solves is the randomness factor. We don't have to decide what we want, and if we don't like what we get on a particular day, we can just ask not to have that anymore. It's awesome.
If it's a receptor thing, it wouldn't only apply to phytocannibanoids, right? I'm given to understand there are a number of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists with much higher affinity and/or selectivity than the phytocannabinoids. Are you aware of any research into the potential differences?

I suppose it wouldn't make much difference, since as you say it only takes a tiny amount of cannabis despite THC being only a partial agonist.
Paywalls for scientific research are evil.

Here's the full paper: http://209.20.67.195/misc/littleexercise.pdf

(See profile for why I do what I do.)
Actually the cool thing about it is that not only does it prevent neuroinflammation, but it also promotes neurogenesis. There was a recent study that tracked IQs before and after using cannabis, and what they found was that those who took up smoking cannabis actually gained almost six IQ points. (For less than 3.5 grams per week.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis#M...
Whether or not it was meant as a viral marketing campaign for Starbucks, that's what it's turned out to be. The road to hell, and all that...
Black Hat USA 2011: Interview with Dan Kaminsky
I've never liked CSS resets, but I went through every line of normalize.css and have sinced used it on several websites, and love it. It is an incredibly well-researched and thought out stylesheet, but more importantly, every decision is justified and cited in the comments, so you can make up your own mind quite easily.
On why you might not want to mix your markup with the templating logic (copied from a blog post I wrote a while back [1]):

- Designers and developers will have a hard time working on the same file, especially the designers who don’t necessarily understand the templating rules language, and can easily break the whole thing when trying to modify the file.

- Also, when provided with a new version of the template text (say, a new version of the HTML from the designers), it’ll be hard to incorporate the modifications into the original template with all the template rules scattered inside it.

Regarding how to generate dynamic markup and not mixing the markup with templating logic, I'll cite approaches like Apache Wicket [2] (although you still need to add a couple of attributes to the markup) and server-side jQuery like select and transform templating, such as what is done in Enlive [3] and Moulder [4] (a pet project of mine)

[1] http://jawher.net/2011/01/06/on-templating-and-a-shameless-p...

[2] http://wicket.apache.org/learn/examples/helloworld.html

[3] https://github.com/cgrand/enlive/wiki

[4] http://jawher.net/2011/03/03/moulder-in-action/
Ask HN: Ok... I just dev'd & shipped my web app. Now what?
It's there. It feels great to have shipped. It's my own creation on my own time. It's mine. I'm proud. But, now what? How do I get people to use it? I've implemented all the best practices for viral growth via social sharing. How do I get the initial 100 users? 1000 users? How do I get it written about in the big blogs, publications, etc.? Bonus question: If the answer is different for mobile apps, what about for those?

* I left out the url on purpose. I want to spur a discussion on best practices after releasing.
I think what PG meant was many people go to grad school to wait out the bad economy while it's hard to find good jobs. Is that your case, or you always wanted to go to grad school?

The other poster said it right, consider your reasons for attending in the first place.

The final point that PG makes is investing in your own startup. If you have a solid team and execution skills, then by giving up on grad school and investing your youth and energy into your startup could yield better returns relative to "investing" later when the market is hot.
I seriously doubt a government sponsored project can remain coherent for 100 years.
Six Python Web frameworks compared
I'm sufficiently creeped out now to let you have the last word. Jiminy.
I was excited when this was announced, but I'm not sure what it's actually doing in practice. On my Android 2.3 phone with up-to-date Maps app, it always picks the first of three alternate routes, even if the others have shorter estimated times and no lengths of red.
Surprise! You have been using buffers all this time. A "buffer" is just "a file in memory"; if you have 1 split on your screen, with a different file in each split, then you are viewing 2 buffers.

The two things which will probably give you the biggest bang for your buck are:

:ls

Which lists all buffers currently in memory, and:

:b

Which supports tab completion, allowing you to instantly jump to any file with just a few keystrokes. You'll also probably enjoy Ctrl + 6 / Ctrl + ^, which swaps between two buffers.

You'll need to do

:set hidden

before switching between buffers in a single window. Don't worry, though; if you try to quit without saving a modified buffer, or use :bd to delete a buffer without saving it, vim will yell at you.
Note that it also yields 10 kg of feed, which sounds more appealing to me than locusts. Unless these locust nuggets turn out to be the best tasting thing ever, I think I'll have my feed with a side of chicken, and leave the locusts to the more adventurous.
FCC contest stimulates development of apps to help keep ISPs honest
The quote was "they would be exponentially faster and easier to develop and maintain".
Surefire Type Detection In JavaScript
I echo the congrats. However, the 'wave of food' was gluttonous and off-putting to me personally. It also features fried food and carbs, which seems to run counter to the healthier trends I've seen. But I'm way on the outside, so maybe i'm missing something.
Should a prison sentence cut off access to social media?
The funding has long been moving away from space exploration and more towards information technology, robotics, and medical/biological research. The picture in my mind of interstellar travel in a century looks much more like sending an unmanned craft at high acceleration with frozen, fertilized embryos and robotic caretakers, than attempting to shuffle soft pudgy mammals across the galaxy.
And how would you rank it with Yahoo not selling to Microsoft?
It is totally non-obvious that somebody else than normally would send tracking information.

Sorry for the snark.
what are some good frameworks to build html5 apps currently?
As much as I like that book it's pretty dated now and doesn't cover a lot of the techniques that are used in modern data mining, etc.
What's new in Linux 3.0
"-considers something "robust" if it doesn't break old code, when the rest of us hate it because we have to live with register_globals and other horrors"

Agreed - as a PHP programmer (mainly in Zend Framework), who is now learning Python... I hate register_globals. With a fiery passion.

More importantly, as someone who hosts several photographer websites, I have a bone to pick with http://bludomain.com/ - congrats on your eighth birthday. Have you updated your code since you were born? It's a travesty that involves turning on almost every deprecated option in a php.ini. :\
When an post is only a few sentences of commentary and thousands of words of block quote, it's easy to mistake it for original content.

Good article, thanks.
"Are you aware of any research into the potential differences?"

Not off the top of my head, but here are some links to 'databases' of hundreds or thousands of research articles on cannabinoids:

http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/GrannysList-Jan2011.pdf

http://www.cannabis-med.org/studies/study.php

http://www.cannabis-med.org/index.php?lng=en

In general though I think cannabis is a good example of why plant-based medicine is often more safe and effective than using synthetics. That is, when one molecule in a plant acts as a poison, then generally there will be some other molecule in the plant to counteract that poison. That's exactly what we see here, with the anti-psychotic effects of the CBD balancing out the psychotomimetic effects of the THC. And most patients seem to find the plant-based medicine to be both more tolerable and also more effective. Obviously there are many many cases where plant-based medicine is an inferior choice, as with aspirin, but in this case it seems to be winning at least so far.

Also, there is some suggestion that with plant-based medicine the body actually has the ability to pick and choose which compounds to use depending on what it's current needs are:

"Medicinal plants contain a wide array of chemical compounds. At first, this looks like chaos, but more investigation reveals a distinct order. Natural selection pressures push a plant to "try out" variations on molecules to enhance the plant's odds of surviving stressful environments. So, often, one molecule is present in the greatest amount and has the most dramatic effect in a human body -- but along with it are variations of that molecule in the same plant.

For example, for several years, I did ethnobotanical study in South America, researching native uses for coca leaf, which most of us know only as the source of the isolated, problematic, addictive drug cocaine. For Andean Indians, whole coca leaf is the number one medicinal plant. They use it to treat gastrointestinal disturbances; specifically, for both diarrhea and constipation. From the perspective of Western pharmacology, this makes no sense. Cocaine stimulates the gut, it increases bowel activity, so obviously it would be a good treatment for constipation, but what could it do for diarrhea except make it worse?
However, if you look carefully at the coca leaf's molecular array, you find 14 bioactive alkaloids, with cocaine in the greatest amount. While cocaine acts as a gut stimulant, other coca alkaloids can have precisely the opposite action, they inhibit gut activity.

This means that when you take the whole mixture into the body, the potential is there for the action to go in either direction. What decides it? The state of the body, which is a function of which receptors in the gut's tissues are available for binding. During my time in Andean Indian communities, I collected many reports about whole coca's paradoxical, normalizing effect on bowel function, and experienced it firsthand, as well."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/why-plants-are-...