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I don't think the quote is advocating cutting out people who are going through a negative time, just those who are negative to YOU.

There's a difference between supporting someone through their difficulty and someone who is not supporting you, whether that means (consciously or unconsciously) belittling, undermining, or dismissing you or your ideas, or just not meshing well or productively with you.
Absolutely. However, the extent of C++ usage (and more generally "system languages") has indisputably shrunk over a wide range of domains. Startups are a great example.
Yes, I am saying that when cannabis is legal, its users are no longer going to be continuously paranoid that the mere detection of its presence is going to be enough to have them imprisoned.
As the batch size grew, it was hard for every partner to know exactly what each startup was doing. Especially since things often change fast at startups.

You could be running up against Dunbar's number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number) for the more social (as opposed to purely technical) aspects of what is going on at each startup. 66 startups with an average of a little more than 2 people per startup is hitting the upper limit (150) of what the human brain can handle socially. 84 startups with the same average exceeds it.

In my own experience, once a company or social grouping exceeds 50 to 150 people (the more tightly bound the social group, the lower the count), things change noticeably, so I'll be watching with interest what YC does to get around this.
Yes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19372456 (Quote from a researcher involved with the study: "It is such a special study that I'm fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains.")
Why do you think that you, or anyone, should have the ability to tell anyone else what they can and can't do with their body? Follow this principle through, why not try to tell everyone how to run their lives for the betterment of humanity? Listening to certain types of music, for example, is likely to be correlated to higher rates of crime and unwanted pregnancy, maybe we can ban those types of music.

History has shown us repeatedly that attempting to "legislate morality", attempting to run people's lives "for their own good" leads to far worse outcomes than simply letting the original "undesired" behavior alone. We should only use the power of the state to control people's behavior in so far as, and precisely when, it harms others. And we should use social and cultural pressure (not guns, violence, and imprisonment) to try to improve our society in regards to negative or self-destructive behaviors.
In the case of pixels hidden behind views that do not use blending, overdraw only eats a very small amount of memory bandwidth checking the depth/stencil buffer for each covered pixel. This check is highly optimized in the hardware to reject whole blocks of pixels while reading only a few bits. (Android UI does use the depth/stencil buffer, right???) However, I don't think that's what the article is talking about. "You can see that the transparent pixels of the bitmaps count against your overdraw."

In the case of visible views that do use blending, overdraw multiplies the time spent running shader computation right along side multiplying the full memory bandwidth consumption of the shader (much more than just checking the depth/stencil buffer). It's true that it's totally possible to write slow shaders that chug with only 1x overdraw. But, at 3x overdraw it will be 3x as bad because you are running the whole function 3x per pixel.
The DEA/DHS are the governments consultants on drug policy.

These agencies have a strong incentives to keep the charade going. Especially now with all of the overseas military operations ending and a ton of technology and government workers needing employment.
I don't think weed is benign, and I think more people smoking more often is a net negative for society, but as everyone on this message board is likely to tell you with varying degrees of civility, you can say the exact same things about alcohol. Alcohol is definitely a drug.
Interesting hack, definitely some potential around socially aware devices. But that is a terribly horrible title for the post, it's misleading and probably makes more people not want to click through to read more who otherwise might be interested in open hardware or using the social graph in hardware.
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The big money jobs, like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, aren't listed on shitty job websites, nor hipster forums.
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It also refreshed with no ghosting without doing the full black/full white page clear. Either e-ink has come a massive way since I bought my kindle last year or it's a mockup.
They claim to be using a plastic substrate and to be "nearly indestructible" (which makes sense, a glass substrate e-ink would last about a day the way I use a phone).

Is that really available on the market yet? As far as I can tell I can't buy a plastic substrate e-reader today, although it's been predicted to be a few months away for years.
No, it's more "OH GOD, WHAT ABOUT MURDER?! SHOULDN'T MURDER BE MADE ILLEGAL?! WHY ISN'T MURDER EVEN MORE ILLEGAL?!" type argument.
Two unrelated thoughts:

1. In the mayor's place, I'd have considered spelling it out explicitly: "drivers whose licence plates end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 will be able to buy gas or diesel only on even-numbered days of the month", etc. This is both idiot-proof and pedant-proof.

2. I believe the Pythagoreans (ancient Greek, 6th century BCE) regarded both 0 and 1 as not being numbers, and as neither odd nor even.
Your opinion is very uninformed. You can't think of anything positive that would result? What about:

- ending our massively expensive "war on drugs"

- ending massive spending on incarceration

- decreasing the U.S. incarceration rate, which is the highest in the world

- stop penalizing citizens who are using a drug which is scientifically proven to be harmless (and is also much less dangerous than alcohol)

- raise U.S. tax revenue from drug sales, instead of sending the money to Mexican drug lords

- spend some of this new tax revenue on actually rehabilitating drug users, instead of sending them to prisons, where they often come out worse than they went in.

I could go on. Drug legalization was tried in Portugal, which had a massive drug problem, and it solved most of their problems. See: http://www.economist.com/node/14309861 .
Ask HN: Autonomous drones; a solution?
I initially laughed reading Assange's "the pessimistic scenario is also quite probable, and the transnational surveillance state and endless drone wars are almost upon us" thinking it too extreme a view, but had a sobering re-take realizing I was discussing it with the mother of a friend (anakata) internationally abducted and placed in solitary without charge by his own state.

Elsewhere throughout 'Cypherpunks', Assange and Applebaum indicate they believe this to be our general technological trajectory (p4,14,87,90,159), ie. state-run drones constantly (re)targeted by the emerging surveillance panopticon. The US in 2010 announced 'prompt global strike'. Popular Mechanics on the hypersonic X-51 quipped "The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour."

Framing this autonomous global militarization trajectory as a serious issue of immediate human concern, can HN readers see any potential solutions to our apparent, near term reality of living beneath a 24x7x365 global system of automated surveillance and military attack?
MongoDB is basically unusable without indexes even under the slightest load.
That will actually be an interesting test of the iPython architecture. Hopefully the team got it right with client/server, zmq and websockets.
Look at Jolla startup. They use C/C++ primarily.
This is sophomore dorm room thinking. 49-51% of Americans do not believe that marijuana should remain criminal because they've been brainwashed by the DEA.

I'm comfortable telling you what isn't the reason for criminalization (government brainwashing), but less comfortable positing reasons for it. But if I had to guess, I'd say this:

People are inherently loss-averse; it's a fundamental part of our psychology. Most people (I think correctly, but I understand that reasonable people disagree) judge that making cannabis use as widespread as alcohol and tobacco would be a net negative. They worry about that, and it clouds their judgement about the ongoing costs of enforcement, especially because most people never come into contact with the direct costs of enforcement.
For example, assuming the images are spaced with 200px between them:

convert -crop 200x200 bw-smaco.tif smaco.png

Imagemagick can do anything.
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That's all fine and dandy, but minify + gzip is usually significantly better than gzip alone (for javascript and css, at least).
Yeah I missed that, I always assume it's in the readme. Feels great to use. For some reason hitting tab is making it focus on the address bar, not sure if it's because of the code or something to do with the demo page. One other suggestion is to allow space to autocomplete like enter does, since usernames are never spaced.
Right, (barring the discussion about the differences in impairment between cannabis and alcohol...) those are the same type of people that think they can get away with drinking and driving. They're arrogant, selfish people. But I don't really buy that they're sitting at home being good law abiding citizens waiting one hour for every drink or one hour for every toke before driving to Taco Bell right now, only to abandon that once it's legal.
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Removing marijuana from the drug war still lets them continue to fight/lose vs. meth, cocaine, and opiates.

The screwed up thing is that the opiate war is actually contributing to losing in Afghanistan (i.e. a real war).
Google search doesn't seem to have this problem.
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> We just take the data and sync it

An image of the drive? Files on the drive? More data would be helpful.

Do we ask for a particular drive size and you send it?

What if I've got a 2TB drive with TrueCrypt volumes and I just dd it over to the drive you provide? Do you put the entire drive image on Amazon Glacier?

Or are you expecting a readable filesystem?
Yeah, it seems like the correct order of operations would be to minify the template itself (when compiling it), which would eliminate any overhead.
What are some indicators as to whether a startup can and will survive co-founder drama? Co-founder drama is more common than not. YC has such a profound reputation and emphasis on co-founders, maybe the application should just directly ask for examples of past experience with co-founder drama and what people would do differently for the future.
If you think about it, the fact that facebook has so many users makes it quite cool. Practically everyone I know is on facebook. Though I do see the appeal of a private university network it would eventually end because the people running it would want to make more money. Also adoption to a new more exclusive network wouldn't be as fast since we already have facebook.
Even if weed were bad for you, that doesn't mean that increased usage would be inherently bad for society.
I agree 100% , C++ was always here and never needed hype. C++ will still be here 50 years from now ( and C too ). Why ? because it does the job and the codebase is huge ! Can we say the same for other languages ? Maybe , maybe not.
No, I disagree. People think they can get away with drinking and driving because they almost overwhelmingly can get away with drinking and driving, and because the penalties for DUI conviction are routinized (they're more severe than a ticket but, barring injuries, less severe than any felony). Neither is the case for cannabis. If you're pulled over and your car reeks of weed, your car will be searched, and if cannabis turns up, everyone in the car is likely to be arrested. Your prosecution afterwards will not be routine; if you're found guilty, it is very likely to cost you your job in a way a DUI conviction isn't.
Bjarne says that C++11 is a "new language", and I asked him back in May whether there were any tutorials for learning the new idioms and styles. He said "not yet".

Does anyone know if this situation has changed? I can see his new book on Amazon is due out in March.
Not too slow for must purchases over the internet, one would think.
49-51% of Americans don't need to be brainwashed by DEA. There are some entrenched interests who actually fight for the drug war -- police, corrections officers, etc. -- out of their own self-interest and a misguided belief that it's the only way to save society. They contribute a lot of money to the "keep drugs illegal" marketing and research, which has worked for so long to keep the general public pro-prohibition.

(I think 80-90% of people have no real direct opinion on the drug war either way, except from what they're told by the prohibitionists. "It will harm our children, keep your kids away from drugs" is a powerful message. Racism was a powerful tool in getting prohibition enacted in the first place.)

This is why I think LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) is one of the most important anti-prohibition organizations out there.
Where is the net negative? In reduced productivity -- because people are high, they will be less motivated to make websites, attend classes, and contribute to open source projects?
If Google had used standard Java, this would not have been an issue... They should implement floating windows ASAP.
And they say you can't please all the people, all the time...if this service really works as described, it seems like you just made that cliche obsolete (in terms of music selection anyway..lol)
About two years ago I wrongly guessed that the iPhone 5 would have e-Ink on the back, because the iPhone 4 had glass on both sides, hinting that the back would eventually become a display, too. Glad someone is doing this, cool stuff if it works! ;)
Yes. During adolescence some significant brain changes occur, these changes will determine the brains natural level of happiness. These changes are directed by a class of neurotransmitters called monoamines. A lot of drugs influence the amount of these Monoamines in the synapse, which causes their euphoric effects. When you take drugs during adolescence it will change the level of monoamines and thus alter brain development. This is why pharmacologists are so reluctant to let children go on antidepressants, we don't yet have enough data to confidently say what the effects are.
The police aren't fighting in favor of the drug war. The police in Chicago favor drug tickets. The commissioner of state police in Indiana (ffs!) just came out against the drug war.

Corrections officers, maybe, but I dispute that ordinary Americans pay attention to the interests and positions of corrections officers the way they do police.
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>People think they can get away with drinking and driving because they almost overwhelmingly can get away with drinking and driving

The legality of cannabis does not affect the likelihood of me getting pulled over so I don't understand. Or are you saying "keeping your job and not getting a felony = getting away with it"?

I mean, how many people are you imagining are cool with a DUI conviction and not a, I don't know, whatever it is if you get pulled over with weed in the car, possession+DUI?
The collapse of the most important currency in the world is likely to be accompanied by an economic upheaval that would destroy the value of toy projects like Bitcoin.
> Facing a grizzly at four feet, alone in the middle of the Yukon, really does put everything else in perspective for the rest of your life.

That sounds incredible! I am going to sound incredibly stupid but that would be something to experience. Details?
I don't think that those are good measures of a language's actual usage patterns.

There are very different staffing dynamics when it comes to C++ projects versus projects written in Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript and languages like those.

In my experience, employee turnover is far greater when dealing with higher-level programming languages, and especially when it comes to web development. The overall skill level of these developers is generally far lower than what we see from even an entry-level C++ programmer, and it's much easier to replace them.

Those who have overcome C++'s more significant barrier to entry can often command greater salaries and more stable employment situations. They are often working on absolutely massive projects where it can take some time to get up to speed. We aren't talking about simple CRUD web apps, for instance, where an average developer can get a pretty good comprehension of the entire system within a few days.

So we see C++ being very heavily used, but with development and maintenance being performed by stable teams that will often work together for many years, if not decades in some cases. The lack of near-constant turnover really cuts down on the need to advertise for open job positions.

Furthermore, we often see many C++ hires coming via referrals from other C++ programmers or other contacts, rather than through advertisements or job boards. It's actually a relatively tight-knit community in many areas and industries.

C++ may not be as immediately visible as Java, Ruby, JavaScript and other languages, but it's still extremely, extremely important, and still very widely used.
Open source EMP bombs?
The whole idea some people have of meeting a cofounder a few times (especially in an artificial environment like a hackathon) and then making an all-of-nothing decision is flawed, IMO. The best process is to spend a LOT of time with the person, and work with him on progressively larger projects. Yes, how they interact with people is an important factor, but I'd try to spend many months (or years) on the process, not a few meals.
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Google are facing a giant backlash about this with their personalized search results. Google can provide universally-relevant results to all of us easily, but they were (rightly?) afraid of being out-competed in the "niche-of-1" market. For now, their personalized results are stuck in the uncanny valley, just like advertisements are.
> If you're not writing a device driver, or your own compression library, then you should not do this

Or a cutting edge game, or a high frequency trading system, or a high performance server, or an operating system, or implementing a language, or a database, or a numerical library, or a crypto library, or a VM...
The description "one per line" for the input does not reflect how it is displayed afterwards. It rather seems to be separated by any whitespace.
It's very very very easy to acquire marijuana.

Just because you don't know how you'd acquire an 8th, doesn't mean that it isn't easy to acquire.

If you're the type of person to smoke, then you'd know where to go to get it. Or you can just ask someone and they'd tell you.
Twig has the spaceless tag to remove whitespace from its templates, using that and its caching option might be basically what you're describing.
Oh, please no. Why would you want floating windows on a tablet? Can you really envision yourself dragging several windows at a time on a small 10" screen, or even smaller than that? Not to mention the kind of battery and CPU drain that would be.

If the perception that "Android is a battery hog" because of widgets and having a more "real" multi-tasking system, hasn't negatively impacted Android yet, this certainly will. At most Android tablets just need a split-screen view.
Their number sounds like it was based on the partners' personal feelings of being able to be of service and value to their startups, their portfolio. It seems that the aspect of YC the partners are trying to preserve is their ability to be personally involved to some degree rather than just straight selectivity.
I was part of the YC batch at 66 and felt all the partners knew a lot about our start-up and could speak to us really easily, asked for updates, etc. Felt like a small group even though it was large.
Potentiation of latent mental illness.
Yeah, I like to minify the HTML as well ... most template engines have an "omit whitespace" option or flag which lets you do this.

Every now and then whitespace turns out to be significant though ... so you need to be slightly intelligent about how you handle it.

It is probably less relevant in HTML5 times where you are most likely just using a small bit of HTML to act as a "loader" for your Javascript, which then takes over. The JS and CSS files are, in this case, way bigger than the HTML.
I would work more on the value proposition; Why would I send the drive back if I can just put it somewhere in my home? I don't think bandwidth and processor power are huge constraints these days?
When looking at the literature as a whole I feel that it would be better to say "risky for under 22 year olds", as evidence suggests that there is still significant brain development occurring after the age of 18
The namespace mechanism was only added a few months ago and we're still working out some of the kinks with how it works. The plan going forward is to slice Base into an organized hierarchy but still have everything available by default without too many imports. The "using" keyword works rather similarly to the same keyword in C++ and now in Ruby 2.0 [1], and aims to give the best of both the "single huge namespace" (C, PHP, Matlab) and many small namespaces approaches (Python, Java).

[1] http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html
Facebook gets a lot of criticism, and while there are issues, overall I think the folks there have done quite well. Changes bother me for a bit, just like they do everyone, but over the years I've found that I've had to think less and less about what I want to see.

In fact, now I can just go to Facebook, scroll down and skim a few hundred stories in a few seconds. Facebook isn't mean to be fun - it's meant to be a tool to enhance our daily lives; I think it's done just that.
I'm a fan of Jekyll wrapped in rack so I can host it on Heroku (and do all the misc redirects I needed to convert it from my old WordPress setup and keep links the same, without any htaccess).

For those interested I wrote a guide on WordPress to Jekyll migration: http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-wordpress-to-jekyll
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It wasn't a crazy idea at the time. couchsurfing.com had been a thing for years. "couchsurfing with a better UI" doesn't sound like a billion dollar idea, but it doesn't sound crazy either.
First offense DUI in most states isn't even a felony. It doesn't matter if your employer is "cool" about it; they're unlikely to discover it.

Stipulate a fixed likelihood of being pulled over at all. You're pulled over for making the kind of mistake anyone could make, or pulled over because a traffic cop is bored or has a quota. But once you're pulled over, the likelihood of an officer detecting marijuana anywhere in the car including its passengers is far higher than the likelihood of an officer detecting alcohol intoxication in the driver.

These observations are so straightforward that I feel like we might be getting argumentative just for the sake of it. For what it's worth, I'm in favor of decriminalization.