skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't street dealers dealing with shoeboxes of cash, it's levels up from that. You can pay for jewelry, guns, rent, stolen precursors, grow equipment, labor, rims, etc. in cash. You can't pay for cars or houses. You can generally pay the dealers 1-2 steps up from retail in bulk cash without problems, but at the point where they need to bring product in internationally, it becomes an issue.

It used to be meth worked a lot better (since you could produce it more locally/closer to consumption), but since Diane Feinstein severely restricted effective formulations of Sudafed (pseudoephedrine) in the Methamphetamine Control Act of 1996, most of the production moved to Mexico, along with most of the (ditchweed) marijuana production, and smuggling routes for both South American cocaine and heroin (also brought in from abroad).

The pharm market is probably more cash-based, since it seems to be just as much "buying pills off people who get them for ~free from pharmacies, for cash" as "bringing in bulk pills from India/China/Israel". This might vary per medication though, but there are definitely entirely-domestic pharm dealers.

I'm not really sure what's happened with the MJ market post-MMJ; I know a lot of the grow ops in the Triangle went from being local people to being Mexican gang grows, but I think there are plenty of 100-400 plant warehouse grows now. I'm not really sure about the outdoor market in places like Missouri (which I believe is one of the bigger domestic outdoor producers). I do know there's a huge pricing differential between Oakland and the East Coast, probably due to MMJ and quantity.
A VC's proposal for greater VC transparency
This is a tech forum. We do cool new stuff, not make stuff accessible to a wide audience using ancient technology from last week.
I guess my crystal ball is a little bit brighter. People thought things were going to hell internationally and domestically in the '70's, too. Here we are 40 years later, and most (all?) of the real dire predictions failed to bear out, and there are many amazing outcomes that few were predicting, including outstanding health and economic growth including in the nations you mentioned. Also a free and unified Europe, an open, if not free, China, and an India that can mostly feed itself.

I don't want to get into the argument about whether the U.S. has regressed or is regressing, but I have a hard time seeing how we're worse off than in 1973.

The Middle East and Africa appear to be the big exceptions.
I disagree with his "First Letters from a Phrase" point. I find mnemonic passwords very useful and keeps me from having to open up KeePass every time I want to log in to a system because I can't remember the random password.

I agree that longer passwords are better, which is why I use very long phrases to generate my mnemonic passwords (typically 20-26 characters in length).
Maybe is not the simplest monad, Identity is, and I think Maybe is an excellent example of a monad.
MQTT - machine-to-machin connectivity protocol
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iOS is ancient technology now? Is that why you [or whoever] downvoted me? What the hell?
Yup. Not much has changed in a decade. Software developers have been playing nice (to hardware manufacturers and existing information-oriented institutions), developing mostly low-resource web-apps that comply with social expectations and kowtow to imaginary property. Distributed hash tables were the one of the last real disruptive practical innovations in software and they are not being applied to everything they could (DNS, NAT-traversal, IPv6 transition, mutlicast, anonymity) largely out of fear of waking the baby.
They matter, yes. But they aren't in any way specific to asm.js — it was something that was already true in generic JS.
I don't think he downvoted you.
I'm not sure you actually disagree with his method of learning monads.

He primarily advocates for avoiding the use of analogies, which you seem to agree with. He advocates using concrete monads in real code, which you also seem to agree with.

The only contentious point might be learning typeclasses and how monads fit into the Typeclassopedia. If you want to be able to trace how your monad-using code is evaluated this is a necessity. Like it or not. Also, attacking monads from both the concrete and the abstract at the same time seems to be a good approach, with satori being achieved once the understandings meet. A dynamic-programming approach?

You may possibly be disagreeing with the order in which he lists these components of learning in his 'Eightfold Path', but if the analogy to the Buddhist teachings is followed further, then the steps need not be taken in sequence.

The slides certainly include many monad examples besides maybe at any rate.

I think the slides are worth another look :)
To keep the bickering to a minimum.
Using the battery tech that is so cheap you can only 10% discharge sounds.. suboptimal.
I've got access - I've e-mailed you a copy.
I quit my job about a month ago. Here is a blog post I wrote about my reasonings.

http://aaron.posthaven.com/the-entrepreneur-itch-why-i-quit-...
Climate research and public trust: HT Hacker News
I was also a synthetic organic chemist (but then dropped out of grad school and used my student loan to teach myself to program). The worst thing was you couldn't control what your lab mates were doing and releasing into the air. And you had no idea if what you were breathing in was something horrible and toxic. God I'm glad I got out of that life. Leaving chemistry for programming was the greatest decision of my life.
Sorry if it came out that way... that was not my intention. I just wanted to highlight a fairly large omission.
We provide a similar service here at Firefly: http://usefirefly.com/ Except our stuff is definitely production-grade software, works across all browsers, and supports dynamic DOM changes.

Good to see some big names taking their own spin on co-browsing.
Russia seems worse off that it was at the peak of the USSR. Argentina undeniably is worse off that at its peak (from top-10 in the world to essentially one of the basketcases of its continent, which isn't exactly a world leader either). Other South and Central American countries also seem to be regressing, and even more so if you go by population vs. counting per country -- the rich in Brazil seem to be doing quite well, but increasing inequality.

Africa (at least, sub-Saharan) is actually doing better now than in the past. The Islamic world is the big laggard. A lot of this was due to the cold war legacy, though (same in Africa), so there's some reason to be optimistic in both.

India's recent success I'd put down to ending some stupid socialist policies in the 1990s, which were also fairly tied to the cold war (and personal preferences of early leaders). And in Asia, a lot of the problems were also due to communism or weird military dictatorships propped up by communism (absent the cold war, I really hope the US would have wanted Suharto, Marcos, etc. hanging from gallows vs. giving them billions in support).

There's also some selection bias in my crystal ball in that I've spent more time in places which were objectively superior in 1975 (Iraq, Afghanistan, certain parts of N.A., etc.) to 1990-2013.
There is some thought that even an hour outside at noon can regulate your melatonin cycle. I would at least try that, coupled with less artificial light after dark.
I've used the same 6/8 char passwords (no symbols or caps) where possible for the past 20 years or so with no discernible problems. I'm not sure what to make of this post beyond relief that I don't make myself miserable trying follow such guidance.
The argument is not that we will suddenly be unable to desalinate water and so forth, it's that the price will rise to put more people into starvation.

Claiming that all that will happen is the price (for energy, food, water, soil, maintaining biodiversity, etc) will rise is exactly the problem.
Hacktivists as Gadflies
Bunches more here :D

http://pineapple.io/tags/icons

Edit: This is personal site for all development tutorials and resources. Usually 'icon sites' are just spam, this isn't one of those sites. I just happen to have icons as too.
More important etiquette: don't make such demands and complaints on maintainers. Incorporating other people's code into a project can be tedious, risky and unrewarding.
They keep a small team, just not the full battalion.

Source: visit to OFA offices in 2010. May have changed by now because there is no third term, but I doubt it.
>Do you use Python for numerical analysis, scientific computing, etc.? If so, why are you saying "why not let them be able to do that"?

1) Yes I do (occasionally).

2) Because it applies to everybody, not just me. You surely heard of the plural form of speaking before.

>If not, why are you holding forth on Python's unsuitability for these applications without knowing about the available tools?

I never said Python is "unsuitable for these applications".

On the contrary, I acknowledged that Python IS USED for these applications.

What I said is that the tools you mention (the ones that make it suitable for these applications) are written in other languages, which is kludgy. I'd rather be able to have them written (and modified etc) in Python too.

So, Python + NumPy + etc is suitable for these applications, but Python the interpreted language without external C/Fortran help is not.
With 100% grid-supplied power, changes in load are driven by slow-moving, predictable systems like sunrise/sunset, weather, and seasons.

If you are running your own solar array, though, you will vary your grid load on much shorter time scales

I'm not so sure that these latter variations are significantly less predictable than what you mention in the former paragraph. Isn't the output of a solar array dependent on the insolation? Isn't the insolation dependent on the cloud cover? Can't you predict the cloud cover in any single place simply by taking advantage of real-time meteo satellite data? A similar feedback could be established for wind power. Given enough data, I'm reasonably certain that models could be established that would allow you to predict how the solar and wind power generation distribution is going to change in the next hour(s) so that you could prepare for it.
For those are curious about how the guy found all these webcams. Here is the answer from his FAQ:

Various techniques. A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I also used Shodan (a search engine created by John Matherly) to get a large number of potential webcam feeds. If you've never heard of Shodan before, I recommend watching these videos by Dan Tentler. Whilst I'm hat-tipping people, I should also give a shout-out to the /r/controllablewebcams community on reddit who helped promote this viewer.
I mistakenly submitted the betabeat.com regurgitation of this story. The
closest I've found to an "original" source is:

http://news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca/all-posts/study-supports-the...

The site for the "Society for Personality and Social Psychology" is here:
http://www.spsp.org/

But unfortunately, it doesn't have any videos of the talks, or
links to any of the presented research papers.
"Akka" is the name of a mountain in Sweden, where the project originates.
JSON API for real-time sentiment & analytics on social finance data launched
Right. Business things, like hacking is mostly experience.

But much like hacking, I would argue, there are rockstar/ninja/superstar/10x/<insert other (deprecated?) term here> business people as well. A lot of it has to do with natural aptitude; just as how coding doesn't simply click for everyone, business things (which is mostly just dealing with people) simply doesn't either.
It's more than a tool, it's a different programming paradigm. It helps you to look at something in a different way. You can pick up a thing or two that are useful pracitices in other imperative programming languages, too.
Got questions about Bitcoin? Come to this G+ Hangout starting in ~10 minutes
Ked, the first scripting language from Cork
Justin Bieber: "Hopefully Anne Frank Would’ve Been a Belieber"
Absolutely disgusting.
Kinda... If you are smart you can set up several wallets and launder the money through them. Hard to be smart though. Tor, in person meetups to buy BTC for cash, etc.
Watch Online Evasi0n Jailbreak Team Q&A Session From HITBSecConf2013
Not necessarily for this specific paper, but in general if you want a paywall protected paper, check your local public library's website. Most offer proxy database access.
I think she/he means a hosted email replacement. At least that's what I'm hoping for.
It's even worse than that.

Python and the faster extension languages used are the same kind of tool (well, obviously, both are languages).

So, let's compare them to two hammers.

The difference is Python is made from soft plastic, and while it is light, it only works for softer nails. For harder stuff you need a metallic hammer, which is heavier.

And the sad thing is, the Python-hammer can also be almost as hard as the other hammer while remaining light, it just needs some coating (faster interpreter innards).

So nothing (except besides the man-years of work needed on the interpreter) forbids you to have a hammer both light AND strong (== dynamic and expressive as Python WHILE many times faster).
The age of entrepreneurs is rising
Your pipeline example looks more fit for simple function composition.

f = filter (\x color x == BlueColor) . select (\x color x == RedColor)
The reddit gold feature I mentioned directly addresses what your first paragraph describes. New comments since your last visit are highlighted.

And I don't understand your second paragraph; it never happens to me, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem. Could you help me understand why you find these threads unreadable? Do you make use of the "collapse thread" button?
I don't think that's clear at all. The paragraph about gold farming is brief and vague. My impression is that he's trying to convey that many Chinese are already very familiar with an analogous system. Whereas if you haven't played mmos, bitcoin mining is an entirely alien concept.

If you take a break from thinking like a crypto-economic-engineer and look at btc mining from the pov of your average consumer, the biggest difference between btc mining and gold farming is that btc has automated the human player out of the game. From the outside, it looks a lot like farming for gold in Progress Quest.
They didn't work in fume hoods?
The majority of the 'proofs' I've seen that jQuery isn't a monad seem to either be probabalistic, or use the "Burden of Proof" argument to show that since nobody has proved that jQuery is a monad, we should assume that it isn't. I agree that jQuery probably isn't a monad, but it rubs me the wrong way that people aren't willing to say "It has yet to be determined if jQuery is a monad".

Obviously it is trivial to show that it isn't a monad by the fact that javascript permits any action in pure code, but by the same token, unsafePerformIO proves that Haskell has no monads. I think it's fair to operate under a reasonable subset of jQuery functionality when asking the question.
Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery
Box sizes: this system supported lots of different programming languages/framewoerks/pre-built OSS, and as a result, some parts ran nice and lean (python) others chewed memory with reckless abandon (magento). Another factor was supplying enough network bandwidth to some hosts, hence larger sizes.

Zones: most apps were built for 2 AZ's at the start; apps deemed "critical" and "doable" flipped to 3 near the election.

Asgard: deployments had been tested with Asgard in East, but the rapid deploy in west actually used this approach. Thanks Netflix!

Services: some which are critical but missed the chart are IAM, sns, cloudwatch (for autoscaling), and yes, a bit of cloudfront was used on images sent out on SES (transactional only!) emails.

Thanks for the good questions!
Are you going to protect your private key with a password? Or are you recommending we use password-less private keys?

Also, please let me know when you've convinced the major banks and web service providers to use public key cryptography instead of passwords.
Unless you are programming drones with missiles.
Ok, a few of the boxes were smaller, but basically yes, running staging and test took big advantage of pay only for what you use..
Personally I don't believe in natural aptitude. Most of what others tend to see as natural aptitude is in fact just attitude. If someone really enjoys something they put in the hours of practice and the effort to be awesome in that field, and they can become the "rock star".
101 ways to reward employees (without giving them cash)
There probably are thousands (tens of, hundreds of?) Elon Musks already in the world, it's just Elon Musk was one of the few to also be lucky enough to become a billionaire as well.
From their site:

It is an extended reimplementation of Scratch (a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab) that allows you to Build Your Own Blocks. It also features first class lists, first class procedures, and continuations. These added capabilities make it suitable for a serious introduction to computer science for high school or college students.
9 Key Value Stores for Big Data - Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site
On the flip side, I had to scratch my head on what "&:" is supposed to mean. Or perhaps it's "&" ":". I know, I'll Google it </yeahright>.

More seriously, "for ..." maps into "map", "foldl", "foldl'", "foldr" and perhaps other constructs. They do pretty much the same thing, but I don't necessarily see a real cognitive advantage of either style.
In total, it's nearly 200 apps!
The problem is that political parties are fueled by donations, and it's hard to get people to donate for something like that. Not to mention you'd be competing with local/state/House/Senate elections with actual candidates for that fundraising money. I've donated politically in the past and even having only given small amounts, I still get emails daily and calls monthly asking me to donate to about half a dozen groups (many of which I've never donated to). Heck, wounded firefighters and cancer-striken kids have a low conversion rate for their fundraising - "money for technical systems to help a candidate to be named later" is even worse.
Zach, your essay certainly argues, but there is no justification for your argument. It simply states that if we stop paying attention to the situation, it will get better.

That hasn't been the case with women's issues in the past. Why would it be the case now?

That hasn't been the case with people of colour in the past. Why would it be the case now?

And so on and so forth. I recall very well that people of colour were and for that matter still are divided over how to make change. You might simplify it by calling it the MLK vs. MX argument: Should we be Martin Luther King or should we be Malcolm X?

Each of us can choose for ourself. History shows that both approaches helped to make change. I'm not sure that I'd be where I am if either man had stepped down.
Because you can hire for those languages, but good luck hiring for CL.
I cannot agree with this. Smaller ad networks currently have some advantages:

- Google takes a huge (also: normally not published/known - it was 69% the last time I saw a number, but they can adjust it as they like) chunk of the ad revenue, so advertising on the Google network will be very expensive in comparison

- Google has no/terrible customer service (e.g. you can get banned for their apparent misinterpretation of EMEA trademark laws, by using "iphone" in your ads that point to your page where iPhones are sold - good luck getting unbanned again)

The biggest problem is currently the market share of alternatives (including Bing e.g. in Europe) - and the fact that DDG does not have any ads.
This is sized during the last few days; prior to that definitely smaller scale (same groups, fewer nodes)
Pray For The Bear
Thanks for the comment! I don't want us to ignore the situation but it seems like the laser focus we are currently putting on the subject could be a bad thing for women in general.
How Is A CPU Made (Video)
This will show the amazing process that goes on to make a CPU , and the big role light plays to finish the process in making a Central processing unit.
Here's the deal. You don't have to agree with the community that this is proper for this community. However, you also don't have to participate. You could just as easily not read the article and move on. Or upon discovering you don't think it's a good article, stop reading in the middle and move on. The time spent on complaining could be put to better use, like advancing the state of text mining systems and creating yourself an automatic curator that finds you only articles you like.

I for one like that these articles get through. This particular one won't get me into chemistry, but it was a fun read, and now I know something I didn't know before. But there are other articles that have been "tangential" that opened new doors for me. Sometimes I don't know there is something out there, and others tell me about it, e.g. through this site. That is useful to me. Pure pull is not the way to expand my knowledge.

And if you're doubtful about how tangential information can be door opening... here is a story about this week: I am currently ramping up on a research project about clock synchronization and security for it. A lot of synchronization systems rely on GPS and this is shown to be spoofable, so we're examining security for those clocks, particularly in geographically dispersed systems. Some guy I was chatting with at happy hour does research in remote sensing in the ionosphere, and was telling me about certain characteristics that the ionosphere imparts to signals from satellites. I had no idea of this, but together we worked out an interesting collaboration on a "tangential" bit of work - using the electron density on the transmission path to help authenticate signals. Probably it's good that I did curiosity and learning about off-topic stuff, rather than say "ooh, cool, I'm do some security stuff" and move on.
I use PS/2 era model M's on all three of my desktop computers. I used to pick them up for $1/per at various swap meets. I ruined a couple of them after cleaning the switch deck in warm water, after several successful experiences with the others. To date, I haven't found anything I like better, though I haven't tried any of the modern mechanicals.
Looks like it uses WebRTC, at least for audio and avatars. The state of the DOM as it changes is handled elsewhere. Is this FF / Chrome only at the moment?
What is Litecoin?
The only problem with that is that in most jurisdictions the only way to release something into the public domain is to have died seventy years ago.
There are probably millions of people who generate huge surpluses to society (not just economic wealth; plenty of non-economic wealth. A great artist, a really good teacher, a scientist who discovers basic information, etc. But also most successful entrepreneurs and business operators, engineers, etc.)

And plenty of people who got rich (not usually billionaires, but certainly local warlords, etc.) who were purely extractive and lowered quality of life for humanity as a whole. Patent trolls. Dudes running jihadi operations in Zabul. Corrupt politicians. etc.

There are probably some people who could be a lot more productive than they are (the "Einstein in a rural Chinese rice paddy" example), but that's decreasingly likely thanks to the Internet and more open political/economic systems.
TURN OFF THE MUSIC DAMNIT
Wonder if there's any good joke and sacrasm detector app on AppStore.
New stable version TeXworks 0.4.5 released
Right, what are these rules?
Right. But you still go to jail for the murder.
They did, but fume hoods never contain everything. Also, people are quite often transferring stuff from hoods to rotary evaporators, etc.
That's me at the podium!
Printing colour at the optical diffraction limit