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I really can't understand it when people claim to be addicted to weed. From what I hear, it's not chemically addictive, so can it really be claimed so if the addiction is placebic?
> but, like half of HN, doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to radiological safety

I think you're being awfully generous to HN...

But seriously, the key takeaway from articles like this one is that marijuana acceptance is finally becoming mainstream; five or ten years ago this kind of article would have been considered quite controversial for a major news organization like CNN, and may have been quashed at the editorial level.

Thankfully, it's only a matter of time before it's legalized and we can empty our jails of people who should never have been there in the first place for possession. The sooner the better.
Being pleased about a new opinion and being cynical about its motivations are not mutually exclusive.

I think it's perfectly acceptable to question a public figure's motives when their changing outlook (regardless of stated reasons) are highly correlated with changes in public opinion.
I don't think legalized marijuana will negatively affect the alcohol or tobacco industries in the slightest. We've reached the point where if you want to smoke weed, the law is not going to stop you. Alcohol and tobacco are by no means "replacements" or "substitutes" for weed; they are often consumed together.
I generally agree with everything you're saying. But as a counterpoint, Dynamic typing doesn't necessarily have to translate to more battery consumption. Objective-C is pretty close to Python when it comes to dynamic typing (also similar in ref-counting for memory management).
Calm yourself. I haven't made out the US as "the world's worst example of tyranny". I would like to point out the hypocrisy though, of those who criticize a person for seeking refuge from the US in Russia, because he didn't instead choose "Unicornlandia" or some other similarly perfect utopian bastion of freedom and human rights.

I'm from the US, and I am proud that we ended slavery, (a little embarrassed that it took a war, but I had no control over that), but, I am not under the impression that the US is perfect, or without the potential for improvement. Critical self-reflection is an important step on the path to self-improvement. I criticize my country because it is the one that I personally have the potential and the responsibility to affect positive changes within.
aren't goblins somewhat gnomes enemy?
As Elizabeth or Leslie are common male names in the UK but female in the US.

I appreciate the authors effort, but don't see much use.
I mean the horisontal swipe when you click an item. Are you using Android? The smoothness of this site is revolutionary compared to the lag you're normally used to.
Weed is easier to get hooked onto than alcohol? Do you mean in some hypothetical universe where weed is legal and widely available? Because that's definitely not the case right now.
I'd be more concerned about its interaction with anxiety disorders, which are very common and underdiagnosed.
This reminds me of Bedrock Linux, which allows you to run multiple linux distros on a single kernel instance. It does so using good old chroot, but has an implementation that is capable of breaking out of the chroot when entering a new one. This way the different environments become more integrated in that a RHEL binary can call a Debian binary and so on, creating a sort of super distro which is itself quite small and simple.
Could you share some of these reasons? High rent, high salaries I'm sure, but I'd be interested to know what other reasons have.
I am working on share and save it for later. Not sure when it will be ready.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk here, but can you link the relevant studies?

We've had over half a century of malicious and premeditated disinformation on the topic of drugs--especially marijuana--and so forgive me if I'm skeptical of a claim which does reek somewhat of "think of the children!".
He's an extremely visible character expressing medical opinions on a regular basis to a large portion of the US population, shouldn't he have already done his research instead of being a tool? Does the past no longer exist, no such thing as "damned because he did?"
If you're interested in doing this yourself, the book associated with Python's Natural Language Toolkit has a pretty good introduction to identifying gender in the chapter on text classification [1].

[1] http://nltk.org/book/ch06.html
Since it's a background process, it really ought to be set to low priority. Doesn't really matter if it takes 15 minutes to expand the diff vs 1.
More UK births than any year since 1972
It would be refreshing if Gupta had said "I finally opened my eyes to the truth that was in front of me all along' as opposed to an opener for an expose 'shocked at what I found...', as if there was a hidden conspiracy against the plant. all in a day's work, and a book to follow I presume. overall I like the Doc and am hopeful his revelation will enable others to do likewise.
Agreed. I think most of Tesla's appeal comes from branding and the Elon Musk appeal and not merely from the fact that it is an electric vehicle.

As an example: had Ford released the Model S and sold the exact same volume with the same revenue and profit/loss, would they have added $3 billion of market cap with yesterday's earnings report? I for one doubt it.

So as much as people like to compare the Model S to the iPhone, I don't think the analogy fits. The Model S is not really a revolutionary vehicle in the way the iPhone was a revolutionary phone. Six years after its launch, every phone on the market looks like an iPhone. Even though the auto market has much longer sales cycles (several years for most cars) so one shouldn't expect to see an immediate market saturation, I don't think Tesla has a real sustainable advantage over other auto manufacturers the way Apple had over Dell/Samsung/Motorola because plenty of car companies in Tesla's price range already have the cool factor and the product is not different enough today to take over the market.

All that said, I love what Elon Musk is doing and plenty of companies have been built on brand alone so I'm certainly not writing off Tesla. I'm just arguing that people should check their expectations. I think the company is severely overvalued at current stock prices.
I'm surprised to see Forking Recipes listed for sale on there. It seems like it was only a few months ago when it launched.
iScroll is the industry standard for this. I've seen it used on a lot of web apps and it works pretty well.

http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
PyPy has had experimental backends for JVM, CLI and LLVM, but AFAIK, none of them have ever been the primary backend.
"By reducing the chance of sharing the jackpot you can effectively increase the size of the prize, pushing the odds towards your favor."

In theory, sure, but in praxis, whatever edge you gain on expected value by doing this is still infinitesimal. Furthermore, it's highly unlikely that you could choose an unlikely-to-be-duplicated number combination any better than random chance could. I'm not convinced a randomly generated string of numbers is any more likely to be duplicated by someone else's pick than an intentionally chosen sequence. Probably less likely, in fact. I would guess there's someone else out there picking 1,2,3,4,5,6 (for example) more often than there's someone else out there whose random number generated matches your random number generated.
Portugal is also ahead of us - they have decriminalized all drugs. Their attitude towards drug abuse is that it needs to be treated instead of punished. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d...
On the last point, that's something that comes up occasionally when helmet laws are discussed in Denmark: is there evidence that wearing a helmet on bike is more helpful than wearing a helmet as a pedestrian? If not, shouldn't a mandatory helmet law also mandate it for pedestrians?

There is also evidence that wearing a helmet in a car can reduce head injuries in some kinds of accidents, especially at highway speeds. Therefore one might wonder if a mandatory-helmet law should actually include all forms of transportation, including cars, bicycles, and walking. Or perhaps a subset, such as required for bicycles only when on major streets, and for cars only when on highways.
Vim novice tutorial videos
Or group reviews by class.

That way someone who is saying it's crap on an iPhone5 running iOS7 won't influence the vote of someone who is on an iPhone4 running 6. Same way someone on a 3S won't be able to post "It's too slow" to put off 5 users.
What does his audience have to do with him being unprincipled and self-promoting?
Can you give some examples of how that is the case? I don't know of any App Engine Services available on Java not available on Python (or vice-versa). They seem to be equally supported.

It's Go & PHP that are in "Experimental" mode. (per https://developers.google.com/appengine/)
The only thing you need to link to is the client library, as talking to the database over a socket is not linking. I believe there are non GPL client libraries now for many languages.
+1 for «it's not actually as much work as people think to hook together a WSGI application that uses the libraries you already know you want»

Also stop with the saying it's rambly please.
Agreed that it is an interesting concept. I wish I had the time and knowledge (hopefully with time) to do something like that myself!
"but as a free OS..."

There's a missing apostrophe there. It's "free" in that it doesn't come with a price-tag. It's being paid for, just in other ways. It might seem nit-picky, but to me, at least, it's an important distinction. Facebook is "free" also, but you're paying for it by looking at ads. Google search/email is "free", but you pay for it with ads.

I personally hate the idea that something is "free" but you pay for it with your time/eyeballs. In some regards (like this) I am old-school. I like the simple model of I pay $X for Y product, done.
With your downtime, I'd highly advise reading michaelochurch's Gervais/McLeod series. His articles are too long and he uses weird analogies, but he's onto something in terms of modern startup culture.
Space Travel (even after we have gone to mars) is relatively small industry / impact to the world and humans compared to replacing fossil fuel burning automobiles.
MSG reacts badly with the majority of the population? Source?
Lol. He was right. The comparison was idiotic.
There is also the article, wherein he describes four pages worth of research he did, and in medical school they teach you a good bit about how to read scientific papers, because doctors have to do that sort of thing (eg. GSK releases lamotrigine, do you give it to your patients?).

So, unless he's intentionally and maliciously lying (unlikely), he presents plenty of good and valuable information, and as a media correspondent is probably better than most at conveying that to people.
Check out my new web app for news feeds, Den. Would love your feedback.
I've been using the FastGlacier GUI client and paying $0.01/GB/mo. Of course Glacier pricing increases for retrieval, early deletion, etc. But there is only one middle-man (Amazon).
On OSX, Arq looks like the best client.
This is the novice tutorial page, but the table of contents http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/ also links to intermediate and advanced tutorials, and plugin showcase videos.
Hey, you should definitely post this to the Firefox OS marketplace! this is what we are missing.
Don't forget that anyone who payed higher at any given point will be refunded the difference to the next lowest price. :)
>Interesting that you don't get high any more.

At 5 joints a day OP probably has built up a pretty high resistance to THC. Speak to enough every-day smokers and you'll find they go on breaks every once in a while to address this.

>I wondered whether MMJ would fall into the category of "do not drive or operate machinery" whilst using.

Depends on the strain, if you're smoking Indicas then yes you should not operate machinery.
Not every drug test covers pot. It's much more expensive to test for marijuana than alcohol, meth, heroin, etc., so they usually just cover those.
There has been a perl module that does this for a while
http://search.cpan.org/~edaly/Text-GenderFromName-0.32/Gende...
I see you can add names to its "dictionary" and it give a probability.
The Washington Post almost bought reddit in 2006
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Yes, the canals and touristic city centre in Amsterdam aren't a great example of bike-friendliness (which indeed also affects the pedestrians). Compare to Utrecht, which also has canals, things seem to be laid out a bit more sensibly.

(btw if anyone visiting NL and you have the time, do yourself a favour and don't just stick to Amsterdam, it's a 20 minute cheap train ride to Utrecht, which is just as pretty, but with less tourists swarming everywhere and therefore also less tourist-traps)
The Computer That Writes Sexist Jokes
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Guido was working at Google and he (I understand) try to "fix" the problem. He was told to back off and when asked about it during one of the PyCons the reply was "it was political" not technical.

Moreover it wasn't just that he answered but also how he answered. One could tell he was upset by it, you could hear it in his voice.
It saddens me that so much human effort and dedication would be wasted trying to convince more people to become Mormons. I'm glad it at least has a positive outcome of teaching people dedication. I know a few Evangelical missionaries, but it seems like a majority of their efforts are in improving peoples' lives, like building houses, teaching language, etc. I certainly hope Mormon missionaries do the same. Not saying they don't, it just seems like the emphasis is on conversion.
Janrain is now leading development of the Haskell Riak client
It's illegal in most places, but it's quite widely available in many poor countries; not everyone lives in the US.
People probably are not actually chemically addicted to weed, but rather habitually inclined to keep doing an activity that gives them pleasure or has positive benefits in their life. Not too much different from what happens with "runner's high" and eating potato chips :)
I was floored that they let such an ignorant comment into the first paragraph:

> This is somewhat controversial in Windows, due to its weak file protections, but that's the way things are.

I read this as: we haven't bothered to look into the APIs for this... The Windows file permission model is a lot more granular than the "uid/gid/other" that most people are familiar with from Unix. Maybe this is a problem if you install to FAT32, which Windows disallowed since 2006.

Edit:

Apparently the text used to be:

> This is somewhat controversial in Windows, especially Windows 98 due to its weak file protections, but that's the way things are.

A user MarkDoliner then wrote:

> We no longer support Windows 98, so don't mention it.

But somehow in his editing neglected to make it a true statement.
I'm all for Apple doing this.

But it seems a pretty good reason might simply be that this would require another conditional be built into the software. And if you talk to my programmer, he doesn't like adding weird exceptions to the code. Even if it makes things "easier" for product people. :)
"None of these were considered open."
I would say they are now, because of this:

"Before Apple's app store most software was distributed directly to customers."

Most discussions I see on the net these days are about free markets vs privately regulated markets. Windows and Android and Mac OS X belong to the former, while iOS and the XBox to the latter.

Should people provide products and services to other people, maybe with some government regulation? Or should a few private companies control and regulate the distribution? Would the world be a better or worse place when Microsoft had the power to prevent the distribution of Web Browsers?
> Highly educated people, especially medical doctors, love to opine on topics outside their field of expertise. So I'm willing to give Gupta a pass on the gamma radiation bit--it's just how surgeons are.

Programmers are that way as well, even if they are not highly educated.
Elizabeth isn't used as a male name anywhere...
Perhaps you are venting your outrage about U.S. based armchair experts in lieu of tackling your own homegrown quacks and associations promoting quackery in your country, because moronic English scofflaws forbid you from so much as expressing your frustration, much less dishing out a sound shellacking.

The British Chiropractic Association has sued science writer Simon Singh for a piece written in the Guardian's comment pages criticizing the association for defending chiropractors who use treatments on children with conditions such as colic and asthma, when there is little evidence such treatments work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Singh#Chiropractic_lawsui...

"English libel law is so intimidating, so expensive, so hostile to serious journalists that it has a chilling effect on all areas of debate, silencing scientists, journalists, bloggers, human rights activists and everyone else who dares to tackle serious matters of public interest.

In the area of medicine alone, fear of libel means that good research is not always published because those with vested interests might sue, and bad research that should be withdrawn is not pulled because the authors might sue the journal, and in both cases it is the public that loses out because the truth is never exposed. My victory does not mean that our libel laws are OK, because I won despite the libel laws. We still have the most notoriously anti-free speech libel laws in the free world."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/apr/15/simon-singh-l...

So next time around, practice what you preach, perhaps.
I share the same fear about legalization: Phillip Morris will swoop in and start mass-producing packs of joints or find crafty ways to put small grow-ops out of business.

I think the "medical" route is the best way to go. Yes, it is a bit of hassle to go and get a green card, but I hope it will help slow the corporate industrialization of marijuana.

Furthermore, I think that marijuana's proper position in society should be that of a medicine, not as a general intoxicant.
Another DB: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/gender/trunk/data/nam_dict.tx...
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I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it.

After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app.

Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN.

Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
I understand this was in jest, but this comes up on HN often.

Slavery was introduced in America ~two centuries before the founding fathers had influence.

They were focused on the threat of authoritarianism/british rule, and failed to properly address their own complicit authoritarianism.

Very much like many people today who are all of a sudden concerned about the abuses of the "police state" aggressively targeting protesters and activists, when black communities have been harassed and targeted for decades (see the only domestic aerial bombing in US history targeting black activists in the 1980s [1] or recently "stop and frisk") with little public protest from white communities.

...or the difference in legal sentencing for crack cocaine vs powdered cocaine.

Racial hypocrisy is hardly a thing of the past in public discourse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
But once you accept the small chance of winning, you may as well set it up so that if this unlikely result came out you'd maximize your winnings. Its a tiny edge because it'll happen so infrequently, but if it did it would make a huge difference in the result.
> "We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that."

It takes a large soul to admit, in public, that you've been wrong about something that has to do with your profession.

And he's right, Americans have been misled about hemp and its products:

http://cannabis.neocities.org/
Considering that IGG could be making 1M+$, they will do anything asked!
Now I think they should allow to extend the campaign to 60 days in a week and a half... :)
Apparently I'm "null". I'll assume that's not an attempt to be deliberately offensive. :-)
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How can Copy give 10x the space of Dropbox and still make money?
Because it's so flat and tiny.
I ran it...

....I....I.... just want to be alone for a bit.
Yes. Don't attempt to infer gender from names.

Mostly, you don't need it. You'll often get it wrong. You may end up pissing off transgender people. Unless you are running a dating site (in which case, you should actually get people to specify which gender(s) they are—and, yes, people will want options beyond male and female) there is no need for it.

If you want to know my gender, ask. Don't infer.
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This sort of thing sounds like something Facebook would be very good at doing using Open Graph.
I'm from the same place as the artagnon. Anti-weed laws are almost never enforced, and weed is incredibly cheap (you'll get enough weed to get 10 people stoned out of their minds for the price of a bottle of beer). And the ease of storage means you can easily maintain a huge stash.
Love your sites! They are very well done. I'm curious as to how you are creating the fonts. Did you use a programming library or did you dig into the font format specifications yourself?

Also, this is just a minor suggestion, but I would love to be able to map a non-standard character (such as the copyright symbol) to my signature.
>He wrote that he's "shocked, shocked" at what he found as a device to get more people to read the piece.

I felt a strong impression that he had written this article for the same reason as he wrote the exact opposite 4 years ago, i.e. self-serving commercial interest.
Ding, ding, ding. The people calling the shots are more invested in the share price than in some public perception of the company, that is until the bad PR affects the share price.
I've thought about this before, you also should be able to get a somewhat accurate estimate of the median age of a group of attendees to an event based on the first names alone. See Baby Name Wizard Voyager tool for visualizations of first name occurences since 1900s: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
Apache and nginx both have an array of good LB algos. I've never seen IP-based LB or hot-spots really. Most app servers support session replication/backup to other node(s). This is really standard stuff in JBoss for instance (my world). Problems that have been solved for years and used at massive scale.
In my opinion, alcohol is very much easier to get hooked on to. Why? Because it's legal. Want a beer? Sure, grab a pack when you get back from work. Buy a bottle of wine while you are at it too!
After half a century of designing cities around the demands of motorists, that seems to be a pretty sensible plan, yes.
>Absolutely, but none of us can go back in time and undo the bad things that America has done

We could work a little bit harder at not continuing to cheat Native Americans as soon as tomorrow. http://www.buffalopost.net/?tag=minerals-management-service

>But if one's argument against the USA will inevitably come back to what a bunch

That's not the argument. The argument is that governance is an imperfect tool, will always be imperfect, and that none of our governments are beyond reproach.