skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. So, essentially if you smoke too much weed and become comatose/near-comatose you will not be able to do anything other than lay on the couch. Which is how amotivational syndrom happens.. If however, you do not smoke yourself into a dysfunctional state you will avoid the perils of the amotivational syndrom.

I think there's a dosage where cannabis actually makes you more functional by making things more interesting and killing pain/anxiety.

I really think a lot of people misinterpret "weed is healthy and good" as "SMOKE AS MUCH AS YOU PHYSICALLY CAN ALL DAY EVERYDAY". And that almost always leads to dysfunction. At some point you will pass out or become paralyzed by hallucinations, so again, dosage does matter in functional vs non-functional addicts' cases.

And I should add that weed is very forgiving in this case, again, if you were to do the same "take as much as I can!" thing with Aspirin or opiates you would die. With weed, you just pass out and eat everything.

I really feel like many people do not know the basics of pharmacology or neurochemistry and try to make intelligent arguments based on hearsay and anecdotes. And it pisses me off a little bit. Omfg, seriously, there's a reason medicine is usually packaged in specific, very precise containers.

I think that's the whole reason hard drugs are illegal -- because people are mostly ignorant when it comes to drugs. It would be like giving chainsaws to 3-year old kids.
Your point hinges on POs being lumped in with all LEOs?
I've also had people negotiate themselves down.

I'm thinking 110K. He says 85K "but with some extra vacation that can be 80K".

Personally, I still offer the salary I think is right. But the lesson is: don't negotiate yourself down. Don't say "but I can lower that" immediately. Wait for them to say "that's beyond what we pay" or something.
If your product can revolutionize a market and the existing players in the market have rejected it, then by all means you should try to create a new market even if it destroys the existing market.

Life is about evolutions, and just because someone does not see the next step in the process does not mean that you are being "big evil bad guy" by doing it without them. Even if it destroys them in the process. Take for example the RIAA, they rejected all kind of early solutions to the fact that their model was changing. Rather they adopted a wait and see and then rely on legal challenges to stall the market strategy. As such they spent far more money and lost far more power, than they would have had, had they chosen to participate in better ways to conduct business.

Does this mean that companies like Napster and Apple where evil in bringing their products to market, no it just means a business man saw a better way. It like the quote about the customer wanting a better buggy when the automobile was invented. Some times people either through not wanting change or other factors don't see the advantage of a better way. But that does not mean that the automobile companies where some how evil for killing the stage coach business. It just means a business man saw a market and others did not, to their peril.
I'm not amazed at what the US has turned into, but I am surprised by the complacency demonstrated by the majority of Americans.
As long as nobody tries to take away TV and our creature comforts, to hell with the people the government is openly torturing, surely they deserve it, right?

As someone looking in from Canada, it looks to me like America is going the way of the Soviet Union, and muchly due to the same problem, exessive corruption and greed sprinkled with some good old homegrown American apathy.
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This is just an adb log. Certainly, it seems that the CIQ application is hooking every event on the phone... but that's a far cry from demonstrating that it's sending that information back to CarrierIQ - or even recording it at all.
We need to invent the following things so we can be forever truly free:

1) A secure, peer to peer DNS system with no registrars and a dynamic, heterarchical network of trust.

2) An encrypted version of TCP that we can drop in without anyone noticing.

3) A way of distributing keys for our encrypted transport layer without certificate authorities and again with a dynamic, heterarchical network of trust.

4) A secure, peer to peer, federated social network with all the features that we and the rest of the world want and need.

Then we will at least have some breathing space while we work on that whole planetwide wifi mesh thing.
Transparent iPhone 4s case by iFixit .
Would each user have to fill out a form against them or how would that work? Anyway, I don't buy this apology. Mark knew exactly what he was doing. He was even warned about doing this many times, and he didn't listen. But now that he got caught by FTC he "admits his mistake". Right.
What's the point of this article? It is basically a summary of Mark's blog post...
If you do decide to file please let us know. The entire situation sounds like a nightmare and I wonder how many others have faced this issue. On a more encouraging note I recently had to report a fake FB profile that was used to harass a family member and it was removed promptly, which surprised me.
Does anyone know how this is handled at Google with their different data centers i.e. are the sites going to be indexed in the UK version?
I always think of this when I have my laptop with me in the car. I worry that if I leave it in the car, a would be thief will walk by and see it. But, if I take my backpack out and put it in the drunk it is a huge signal that "my backpack has something very valuable in it!" to anyone who might be watching. Since you can get into the trunk by breaking a window and pushing a button, I think on net, it is safer to leave my backpack in the car.
I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

If that was true in all cases, the story we're commenting on wouldn't exist.
More anecdotal evidence!!

I've actually noticed the increased alertness as well.

I've also noticed the stomach-settling effect, but less so in terms of stomach acidity, but more in terms of digestion after a big meal.

I've also noticed chewing gum can curb my appetite, but if I'm really hungry it makes it worse (probably from swallowing air).
If it's only a liberal thing, then why was the bill submitted with bipartisan support?
Yammer moving from Scala to Java
The two lines visible part is fixed, but there's still no affordance suggesting how to use the site.

The current design targets users who're familiar with other bin sites, and is less friendly to new users.
Designers care about "spec work", as the idea was originally conceived, because they were routinely getting jerked around by big companies. It had apparently become standard practice among major brands to select design vendors by running contests, and then using elements of all the contest submissions to improve the work of their preferred vendor.

Designers care about sites like 99designs because the most responsive (and, frequently, most successful) contract entrants are Southeast Asians who will turn in work indistinguishable by a layperson from professional for 1/100th what an NYC designer will charge.

The weakest argument against this practice is unfortunately the most popular: that the work product of an untrained "amateur" turning out 99designs submissions all day out of Vietnam is fundamentally inferior, in ways meaningful to business, to the work turned out by an NYC designer who can take the time to study a brand, a business vertical, conduct wireframing, &c.

This argument is uncomfortably transparent: if both kinds of work product are indistinguishable to the buyer's customers, the extra work put in by a pro designer has zero value, but is instead being bundled, and this argument attempts to promote that bundle cartel-style, by arguing that no designer should break up the bundle.

There are better arguments against sites like 99designs, but I have zero incentive to make them.
Better than the headline link which takes you to a page with an annoying floating box telling you how easy it is to join their forum and that you should join their forum because it's so easy to join.
Everyone is free to express themselves, being accused is just a side effect of expression. Hell, Arrington took a stab at jwz in his response.

jwz's advice is extremely valid, it doesn't matter if it's about VCs or vending machines. You have to work hard, but you also have to work smart and be wary that there is always someone waiting to profit off of what you built, he never said it's always the VC.
> […] but so the company who were hiring me didn't find what I was asking for too high to pay.

But you weren't.
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Where's the oversight? Where's the appeal process? Who's deciding whether or not the evidence is solid enough to de-index a site? What about outlets that got dodgy handbags from their supplier amongst legitimate merhandise?

The precedent here is terrifying. They're shutting down entire businesses on some private dick's say so.
Why can't these companies simply give a unique ID to each item they sell and allow owners to register them online, just like the DMV with cars. In this way you will know what is fake, who bought what, ownership exchange etc...
Take a picture with your earbuds
Can't they appeal this?
When someone figures this out, they should sell the reasoning to HP. I haven't wanted to buy a printer in a long time even though $99 will get me a wifi capable touch screen fax/scanner/printer/copier these days.
Just because it was easier! Our servers are setup for hosting bug videos, not Adobe Premiere-edited product videos.

Sure, we could have copied the product video onto our servers, rejiggered our video player to play it, etc., but it's not worth it, IMO. I (the product guy), didn't want to waste any dev time whatsoever on our home page video.

(P.S. - what happened to all the web-based video editing tools!? Remember JayCut? Anyone else like them around and available)
I gave a talk at the Hacker Dojo recently about starting up a hardware company. They posted a section of the talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afH8KGv0W24 Happy to chat about this kind of stuff eric AT getinpulse.com
The problem is that nobody gets a kick-ass logo from a well-known NYC designer for 10x what you paid.
> In particular, when you're done, make a list of all the primitives you needed to employ in order to do it. There's a deep insight at the end of this process. (No, I'm not going to tell you what it is.)

Having done this before (https://github.com/munificent/lark), all it meant for me was that numbers and basic integer arithmetic became primitive. The clever bit about McCarthy's original metacircular interpreter is that it didn't need any types at all beyond atoms and cons cells: no bools, no ints, no nothing.

I found it interesting, but I don't know if I reached any deep insight. Maybe that's just me, or maybe I missed something.
Three years ago the state was much worse, so I ended up writing my own ORM, which tries to address some of the issues pointed out here.

My primary need was to be able to map the same models to different schemas, including very badly designed legacy ones, so the mapper layer had to be clearly separated from the model and very hackable. Also, the query syntax had to be powerful enough to avoid SQL whenever possible, so that the same queries could be applied to different environments.

Right now it implements Units Of Work and Identity Mappers; it has deep querying and multilevel strategic loading (not limited to one level as with DataMapper); functions and aggregates; and many other features, wrapped in a familiar easy syntax.

If someone wants to try it, I'd love to hear some feedback: it's at https://github.com/me/spider.
So... quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Perhaps the problem isn't that there's no one to watch the watchmen, but that we're over-reliant on watchmen.

You don't need the FTC to keep Facebook from sharing your private information.

I'm not saying Facebook did nothing wrong, and I'm not saying the FTC is doing nothing wrong now. I'm saying that none of it matters if you delete your own account.

You don't need to worry about who's watching the watchmen when you watch out for yourself. (Can anyone translate that to Latin?)
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Privacy/ethics issues aside, from a pure developer standpoint, isn't this just a feature? Where do we draw the line between functionality and privacy?

This is a reasonable question. Where I personally would draw the line is, "functionality" implies to me that the app would only access user info when it needs to do so for some FUNCTIONAL purpose. If the app does not need the data and is not doing anything legitimate with it, then obviously, the user's privacy should be respected and said info should not be accessed.
It ceases to be honest when you incorrectly tell users that the apps "would have access only to user information that they needed to operate".
I'm sorry the article left you confused. It did end up a bit on the long side and is probably not as well edited as it could have been.

You do not eliminate, or even reduce, the amount of logic at work by conflating looping and branching because now, apart from the normal function of these constructs, the language (or its runtime) is also making decisions about which one of these to use when given a particular piece of data.

The truth is that Mustache isn't logic-free, because it has looping and branching, and it can even call methods and functions with its lambda feature. The only template language I know of that is actually logic-free is Rife Templates: http://rifers.org/wiki/display/RIFE/GuideTemplates.html
What you discover when you use that system, is that templates without logic can't really do much, so you have to control them with logic that sits outside of the templates.

As for destructering, I considered adding a Haskell example, but that idea didn't really work with where I was going with the story on data. In the end I am the most familiar with Clojures destructuring, plus its data story was a really good match here, so I just stuck with it.
There's no question of feeling sorry for Apple: a the largest Tech company in the world brought to it's knees by "iTether"? Not likely. But, it's really easy to feel no sympathy for the iTether guys.
NO ONE was surprised they'd take it down: it's completely expected that if you violate Apple's terms you will be removed. Period.

On another note: GVoice and Opera are there. Honestly, they're crap. I'd also note to all of the conspiracy theorists, Apple doesn't care if you use Opera, and the make no $$ off of using the phone app – they let in crap, but crap that makes an effort to follow the rules.
Interesting that tethering is part of the standard plan on Telstra in Australia. What's the reasoning behind the restriction on some carriers? As long as I stay within a data cap what does it matter whether it is done on the phone or tethered?
Noscript and flashblock are a more functional approach I think. Meaning, load js and flash when and from where you choose to.
Yes I share this experience with you: when I was 18 or 20 I worked a lot of hours, but this was pure fun as I was learning to write code. This is probably a very good investment: it completely does not weight on you since you are having true fun, and of course 20 years old can do things that are impressive :) At least for me that I'm now 35.

However my father is like your father in this regard: he thought me to work long hours, and he still does even if it is 63 now. But I've the feeling that the work it does that has more to do with people, with moving from one place to the other to fix problems, and things like that, is much more "long hours compatible". The solve fact it does not sit all the day is different... In short I think that programming is exceptionally bad: too static, too focused, too stressing, too timelines, ...
I've tried that also, without really having any success. Perhaps it relates to their profile and volume of correspondence? Most of my (mostly negative) correspondence over the years has gone to my now-former Congressman (and former House Majority Leader) Tom DeLay, who I can imagine was pretty busy.
I think it would be a really interesting project to get together a way to gather statistics like this. I'm particularly interested in seeing things like average reads per doc, interval between reads, etc (like you mention).

Thanks for the research, and look forward to more coming out in the way of statistics soon!
Tornado twice as fast with PyPy 1.7 compared to Python 2.7
"All search engines and social media sites" - hehe, I can imagine the dialog:
- But your Honor, they're based in another country!
- I don't care if they're from Florida, they will remove the site or else!

But seriously, the Judge may be just as tired of it as we are, and just made a quick ruling to please Chanel, at least for another month or so...
The distinction you're making is in your first example both the man is arbitrary, as well as the day of the week.

In the second example, only the man is arbitrary.

With those assumptions what you say is correct.

However, the question is "You meet a man on the street and he says, “I have two children and one is a son born on a Tuesday.”" and not "You meet a man on the street and he tells you he has two children, that one is a son and he tells you what day of the week he was born". So the day is not arbitrary, it's specifically Tuesday.
This is great news. I really hate to see companies charging for SSL, though. Security on the web is something so essential, forcing people to pay in order to be safe is just evil, in my opinion.
So should they still comply with the order? Why or why not?

Why not issue an injunction to US-based ISP's or even IXP's to filter the IP addresses these domains point to, or even whole address blocks? Do you think they would comply?
Definitely - thanks for putting in the issue, and we'll get it in as soon as possible
You should then put a user-agent test so that you start the download only on Windows computers. I have no use for a .exe either.
In fairness, if they add stuff to their basket, the affiliate tag sticks with the item for 90 days, if I remember correctly. I certainly often add stuff to my basket and wait with the purchase for a few days or weeks, so it works for that use case.
> simply draw attention to the fact that the driver is a nervous tool owner.

Or rather, nervous about break-ins, which are damaging whether or not there are tools or other valuables in the van. A broken window costs money to replace; a jimmied door costs money to fix.
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And memory stable!

And three times faster on template rendering!
We've already got Namecoin and Diaspora, but neither appear to be catching on.
Reasoning? Surely you jest.

"We can make more money this way" covers pretty much everything when it comes to telcos.
The syntax highlighting will be constantly improving given changes to highlight.js (another OSS project), and a possible move to pylons. Thanks for the feedback, and I'll take a look at the Java highlighter and see what I can do to make it better. Any obvious things you'd like to see in the highlighting?
Would A Startup Visa Bring Jobs To The United States?
IANAL, but isn't this outside the court's scope of authority, as many (most?) aren't parties to the case? As I understand the role of judicial review and precedent, I don't see how a party not associated with a case can be compelled to do anything without a due process opportunity.
Duh, I should have thought of that. Thank you.
It does mean that you are potentially keeping around masses of data when you only care about one or two elements. Normally not an issue, but normally internal pointers ("displaced arrays") aren't a central organizational concept in a language.
What if they had regulations limiting the judges oversight? What if there was a regulation that restricted evidence accepted from corporations? What if there was a regulation that allowed for some kind of process of appeal in these situations?

You appear to be forcing your black and white political ideals onto something that is a little more complex that "Regulation Bad! Market Good!"
the tech/science community is the most able body of people in the country. I'm sure if there coordinated effort was made, it could put technologists in every office in the country.
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it's not like this stuff even works...most of these counterfeiters make their cash by spamming people
Not everybody wants to host his/her video at a centralized point in the internet.
Safari 5.1.2 released to the public
I think he more meant "vote for that congressman's strongest opponent." The party doesn't particularly matter so much as showing that his handling of this specific situation caused someone to support his biggest rival.
nitpick: both spellings are accepted
I was hoping for unnoticeable cameras built in to the ear buds...
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There is no difference between US political parties as far as being in favor of regulating areas of society and life is concerned.
But then you'd still be subject to existing laws - it's not like they're going away. With the same amount of effort, you could get the governments to stop making stupid decisions/laws or at least consult someone before they do.

But then again, they have tech consultants who never get a say because ruling in favor of those with money is better for the lawmakers' careers or pockets.

I do believe that most people are pretty comfortable with the current situation... when it'll start affecting more individuals, then the "anti-" movements will ramp up - it's always been that way...
Node.js firebird driver 0.0.8 released with support Windows
Just out of curiosity, were Google to simply not comply with this ridiculous abortion of justice, what would be the result? Could Google appeal any sanctions imposed as a result of their non-compliance?

What a mess.
I'm no lawyer, but to be held in contempt of a court order, don't you actually have to be specifically named in the court order and notified of it?
While you have a point about being responsible about what information you share with Facebook, it's not that users don't like their privacy policy - it's that the FTC has found that the privacy policy Facebook has published is a lie.
The ideal solution would be to seize the domains/servers/property of counterfeiters where legally allowable (i.e., in the U.S.). Where the U.S. has no jurisdiction (China, where the bags are likely made) they can follow the procedures of China. Unfortunately for Chanel, China doesn't seem to give 2 shits about people making similar-looking bags.
> But there are hundreds (?) of carriers worldwide, all of which support the iPhone. AT&T is just one of many.

On the carriers which do not have a TOS forbidding free usage of the data plan for tethering, iOS's built-in tethering is already enabled, and this app violates the rule forbidding apps from duplicating built-in iOS functionality.
"We've made a bunch of mistakes." And you haven't had to pay for any of them, congratulations.
They knowingly lied to their customers, if these allegations are true.
How Europe is giving the U.S. a lesson in Internet due process
Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will
If there is, I haven't found it.

I believe the invitation system is precisely why the Deck ads are of the quality they are. Removing that puts you back in the realm of DoubleClick and AdWords.