skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of problems in the world can come down to whether you try to force people to act in an ideal fashion, or whether you try to deal with people as they are. Drug policy certainly qualifies, anyway.

From the latter perspective, your heroin addict is a massive success story. She's contributing to society instead of being a burden, and the cost is low.

From the former perspective, this is a terrible story. You're supporting drug addiction!

The former perspective rarely works, but it's extremely common, on subjects ranging from drugs to crime to tax policy to education. It is IMO a cop-out, where you simply rely on vague principles rather than actually applying thought and study.
That is fine, and what you say is closer to the official theology of the church. But church culture, folklore, and action is entirely different. When a faithful member is wealthy, they are assumed to be faithful, and are more likely to receive callings of progressively higher importance. If you could look at the wealth distribution of General Authorities, you would likely find that it is entirely different from the wealth distribution of the general church, or even that of the active members of the church. This is pretty well known (you probably recognize it yourself), even if there isn't any hard data to prove it...and it ends up being explained as blessings which come from faithfulness, which strengthens the folklore explanation.
Actually wait, yeah, that's pretty feasible. It seems that glacier pricing is free for low storage volumes. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
Like any program or protocol, there are probably dozens of attack vectors that might lead to an exploit in either the clients, or the protocol. I'm not 100% sure what it'd look like, only that Bitcoin is ultimately something written by humans that runs on computers, and both of those things have proven time and time again to be stupid.

And of course there's nothing different between a compromised computer contained BTC and a cash mattress fire. Yes, in both situations you lose all your money. You're missing the point.

And yes, of course, fiat and bitcoin share the same fundamental weirdness of faith values, the comparison was to gold and silver, not fiat. So the point you're making is moot.
You don't even need the VODs, because a replay encodes all the information about the game already in machine readable form. I wouldn't be surprised if someone somewhere is already doing large scale analysis of available SC2 replays.
To be fair, it's somewhat rare to admit that's what you're doing so explicitly. Most public figures who do this kind of thing try to pretend like it never happened.
> The SEC can't regulate you if you use an anonymous Internet connection, and never exchange for real-world cash.

The SEC can regulate you if you do that and still fall within their jurisdiction.

You may be meaning to argue that the SEC would have difficulty identifying and prosecuting illegal activity within their regulatory jurisdiction if you do that, but that's a very different argument than "cannot regulate".
I think you're right. If they'd truly wanted to build the best speced phone possible they would've used the savings to build an even better phone.

I can imagine this scenario going on: They got a bit scared to loose the project altogether. Brainstormed ways to inject some buzz into the fundraiser. A pricedrop was one of the possibilities (it also lowers the barrier to pledge). Conveniently it was also somewhat true because early indications from suppliers. They lowered their expectations from "We want to build the best fucking phone possible" to "We want to build the best phone with great hardware"

Nothing wrong with that but dropping the price is still marketing ;)
Sounds like a nice proof of concept, but I would have tried to identify the in-game variables as in [0] and identify the state of the game from there. Maybe it would take a bit longer, but in the end one could track if a player is sliding or was using an item and so on. Grabbing video frames and doing some kind of template matching on the still images sounds a bit... inconvenient.

[0]: http://orbitaldecay.com/N64/Lesson1/Lesson1.html
There are 3 main active ingredients in marijuana: THC, CBD, and CBN. The places I go get their strains and edibles/topicals/whatever lab tested so you know the %s of each. In general, higher CBD+CBN levels are better for pain relief and insomnia and will cause more grogginess/drowsiness than strains higher in THC which are more for appetite stimulation, euphoria, anxiety relief, etc.

At least in SF the legitimate dispensaries do a good job of informing you about these things and finding the strains that will accomplish what you want.
I love neocities. Kyle is my new favorite geek.
Ask HN: List of Passive Income App Ideas
Folks here seem to release useful paid software every other day.They are boring(often) but make money. Another salient feature: they do one thing right. Example:An Invoice generation app. I want to make one too, but don't know where to start. What run-of-mill apps would businesses/individuals pay small amounts of money for?
At least you have some degree of proportionality in your voting system though. It's something people have been campaigning for for decades in the UK and it hasn't happened. I fear it might never happen.
The studies have been done. Nicotine on its own is orders of magnitude safer than tobacco (and so I find this scaremongering sensationalistic NYT article deeply anger-inducing if it means that anyone decides to keep smoking rather than switch to e-cigs or if it helps ban or regulate e-cigs), which is why things like nicotine patches and gum are no longer prescription-only.
Nah, they can't get your private key if you transfer just the encrypted files. That's the whole point, really, but obviously they can get it if you mount it on the server itself (and thus disclose your passphrase).
A couple of years ago Amazon went offline for 4 days, also they have security problems. Not considering them right now. I heard the cheapest dedicated servers are from godaddy, don't know anything about their technical people working there...
Shareholders could question firing employees as it may negatively impact shareholder value a few years from now. I don't think one is more justifiable than the other.
Stating a roadmap is never easy, but hugely important for keeping the Docker team accountable. I believe that getting to a 1.0 release with the same fervor from the community will be a great indicator of future viability and success. That sets a pretty high bar.
HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page.

If I recall correctly, Clickpass was a centralized OpenID proxy, whereas Persona is trying to bootstrap a fully decentralized protocol. We don't want to even be able to track you. :)

[Edit: Corrected YC cohort. Thanks wamatt!]
"August 7: Introduce this new architectural approach to the community, and provide a developer preview"

Where can we find this?
Thanks, but prefer service in the states.
You're misunderstanding the term "lifestyle".

What you're describing -- an activity that is so common and natural that it becomes unremarkable -- is precisely what a "lifestyle" is.

It has almost nothing to do with "style" as relates to "fashionable" or "trendy".
I can relate to this post, but I pause at the contrast between this:

"I was given work to do and I did it well. The work wasn't interesting anymore, but it was easy." - "It was just so comfortable."

And this:

"I had plenty of ideas for apps and projects, but couldn't bring myself to build them. I was drained."

I understand feeling of being drained in a job with uninteresting, but stressful or time-consuming work, but not so much in a job that sounds extremely comfortable and flexible.

This combined with the "secretly hoped something horrible would happen" bit reads to me as a sort of mid-career crisis - tunnel vision seeking for some big catalyst that will make everything better, for a while at least.

I expect the author is going to be just fine in any case, but I don't see this as a problem that really necessitates an all or nothing approach. I feel like the tales of quitting, working out of a car, betting the house and whatnot is overly romanticized in general and among startup culture in particular.
Actually, what surprised me most about this article is the percentage of people that use public transport (it's displayed in one of the tables in the article).

The UK has one of the lowest subsidies for public transport compared to other European countries. We also have the highest fares. And yet, more people in the UK travel by public transport than Germany and France - two countries with much higher rail subsidies, modern high-speed rail services and lower fares. That just doesn't seem to make sense!
Federation, as said earlier on here, is in-progress; Jessica Tallon has been laying down some foundations in a library we'll used called PyPump. She's updated our OAuth code to match what the Pump API expects and is starting on endpoints now. I don't have a clear ETA on when "federation will be ready" but things are moving along well. The stuff on the wiki is totally outdated, ignore it :)

Re: mirroring, I replied to that a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180159

Additionally, you can already host media files with an OpenStack Swift cloud files provider like Rackspace Cloud if you prefer.

I don't know anything about windows or macs personally, though people have gotten mediagoblin working just fine on macs... windows is harder. :) I don't have any clue when that packaging might happen though... if it happens, it'll be by someone else I guess; I just don't know anything about it.
It had (has?) OpenID support.
Our relatively simple Angular app was regularly consuming 100% CPU for literal minutes and ate up 600MB of RAM until we dramatically reduced not-actually-that-crazy number of API calls we made on load (from less than 100, mostly prefetching data – to less than 15, pr-fetching sacrificed). It is mostly related to Angular’s “dirty checking” and ajax management. I have met others with the same problem. (Their solution? Use Backbone!)
Under this model, you should be calling every single person in the world and telling them how much you care. Because they're individuals.
Authorize user in Rails with Exits
"One game changer would be governments mandating that publicly financed research be made publicly available. Every year the United States government provides over $60 billion in public grants for scientific research. In 2008, Congress mandated (over furious opposition from private publishers) that all research funded through the National Institute of Health, which accounts for 50% of government funding of science, be made publicly available within a year. Extending this requirement to all other research financed by the government would go a long way for OA publishing. This is true of similar efforts by the British and Canadian governments, which are in the midst of such steps."

This is the solution. As taxpayers we say the research must be open. If you research based on our grant money, it must be open. If you are a public school, it must be open. If you are on public land, it must be open. If you want non-profit status, it must be open. If you want to it be closed, then you must be a self-funded for-profit institution. (Sometimes we call these things businesses)
Do you think the landscape is completely unchanged since the Carter administration?

While this history can certainly be interesting, you're anecdotes aren't all that helpful for people looking for options now such as the person who wrote the blog post.
I don't think that's an old-school mentality. Even in 'old-school' times, I don't think anyone would have picked up a free newspaper and said "this isn't free!" if it had ads in it.

I don't really agree with the mentality of "ad-supported is not free". It's one thing if you're giving up your data (as in the case of Facebook), it's another if it's limited to glancing at an ad (in the case of a blog or newspaper). I don't know the details of where Ubuntu would fall, but if you define merely "looking at something" as payment, you should be asking for refunds from any man or woman you've ever "paid".
> My contention is that shareholders (Via the board) have the most direct influence on senior executive compensation.

Typically, institutional investors vote the bulk of the shares in a U.S. public company's election. The investment managers and governing bodies at such institutions often don't have strong feelings about things like limiting executive compensation.

Sometimes, but not always, institutional investors follow the recommendations of proxy advisory services such as ISS and Glass, Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_firm). Those services have started to pay more attention to executive compensation in recent years. But as I understand the law, SEC regulations still relegate shareholder "say on pay" votes to non-binding advisory status.
Yes, you should master JavaScript -- it's used all over the web and people will continue using it that way. But I disagree it's making all other languages irrelevant and that it's a "game changer". Devices are not going to be coded in JS any time soon (the runtime isn't robust enough and the language is not designed to be used that way). Yes, people may use asm.js more and more to convert bigger programs to run on the web, which is super cool, but asm.js isn't JavaScript.

So master JavaScript, but then learn Rust, Elixir, Go, Haskell, and Lisp, too. These are as much "game changers" as anything else.
For me, that does the trick. When I say vacation, I mean it. Go somewhere where you do not know anyone, stay away from computers, from books that are related to technology resembling work, from thinking about solutions to problems you have left behind. Go to a country where you do not speak the language.It is amazing how refreshing this is. Try it.
If you cannot afford that - I have been in that situation - take a hobby at home you have never taken before (build a table, a chair, whatever you would like to do. It also did the job for me.
>>Eventually, those discussions stopped. Shots were called in private meetings and passed down.

This is terrible, and would also make me want to quit. Because if you start as part of the decision making process, and over time stop being invited to those meetings, that means you are no longer trusted or important enough to have any say in those decisions. That would be insulting, to say the least.
I would strongly recommend reading everything on that blog and then, if you wanna go deeper, dive into marketo's blog posts as well.
"Supreme Court Justice" is up there too.
Unfortunately, due to a new job I don't have time to work on it and would like to see it have a good home.
I agree. Right now I think the biggest hurdle to BTC truly is FUD. People are nervous when it comes to money. Probably a healthy skepticism. But judgements should be based on the truth. Right now it's hard to get the proverbial fair trial when it comes to BTC and the facts.
>"I do want to mention a concern that I think about as a father. Young, developing brains are likely more susceptible to harm from marijuana than adult brains. Some recent studies suggest that regular use in teenage years leads to a permanent decrease in IQ. Other research hints at a possible heightened risk of developing psychosis."

The same is actually true of alcohol. Unfortunately, the discussion has become so black and white (legalization vs. prohibition) that no one is even pausing to consider what is actually optimal.

I wish I could get this message through clearly: the crowd on Reddit could benefit from learning the actual risks. Yes, I am in favor of legalization or decriminalization. No, young people should not use pot or alcohol often.

It's hard not to scream at kids as I pass them in a part of the city where they - some of them not even old enough to drive - are burning away up to 10 IQ points. Perhaps if their teachers and parents taught them the real risks rather than fear-mongering nonsense, we would see fewer kids throwing away precious intelligence.
It's not about what their predecessors believed. It's about what is still taught in their standard training.

Also, by no means should you take this to mean that I am giving MDs any special immunity. The only leg up they have is that I can't tell just by looking at the letters at the end of their name that their model of science in medicine has been poisoned by bullshit.
No one said they could stop it, only that they could regulate it.
> And of course there's nothing different between a compromised computer contained BTC and a cash mattress fire.

The difference is that I can use USD and mitigate the risk of a cash mattress fire by using a bank, savings-and-loan, or credit union, and mitigate the risk of using such an institution by using an FDIC-/FSLIC-/NCUA-insured institution.
Being a bit pedantic here, I'd just like to point out that development of schizophrenia is not a mild side effect. With higher THC% strains, we have no idea the extent of latent mental disorders we're stimulating.
I have no medical issues that marijuana could treat, but I still want to use it for recreational purposes without being persecuted for breaking the law. I am a functional member of society. I have a job and a college degree, and I love to get stoned as shit and play video games. The fact that medical research is increasingly supporting decriminalization is great; however, I am wary of the movement to pigeonhole the substance into the realm of prescription drugs while stopping short of full-scale legalization. I believe that society has more or less struck the right balance between structure and self-regulation on the issue of alcohol consumption, and I see no reason why marijuana cannot exist similarly - especially given that it is a considerably less harmful substance. Policy should be concerned with preventing kids from smoking it and preventing people from driving under the influence, but aside from that I think the people can figure it out for themselves.
This is a great point and I agree with you in the case of the Edge. Is it confirmed that the shopping/Amazon lens would be enabled by default on the Edge? I think this is a reasonable situation to argue for a disabled default.
If it wasn't clear, CS in my previous post meant adobe creative studio, not computer science. I just realized these acronyms clash.

Designer have lots of skills, so much that even they have to specialize often along additional axises that might not even be obvious to us (motion or color design as a specialization of visual). We are happy to just get one who has promising design skills, and most of the designer+programmers I've interviewed just don't even come close, sorry.

How many programmers can draw? Is it a hiring requirement?
I love the ambiguity in the headline.
The amount the government contributes in tax relief depends on your income tax level. For a higher rate tax payer (that includes me) it's 40%. I was sort of sneaky with quoting that figure, as the average person does only receive the 20% but I figure the audience here is mainly well paid professionals so for the average HNer it's going to be 40%.

Also yes absolutely, trying to beat the cost of debt with savings isn't going to work for most people, perhaps I should have clarified my position a bit better: I think that if pensions and retirement were taught in school it would be a part of proper financial education, financial education would teach people how to properly manage money and so most people would be considering setting up a pension before they had any debt and if they did enter into debt it would be smart debt (mortgages, business loans and the like) not bad debt (to pay for a holiday or new gadget).

Although ISAs are good for saving (over not saving) the returns are negligible compared to a pension, with a pension the tax relief and potential employer contributions would greatly exceed any potential returns from an ISA. If we round up and say the limit on an ISA is £12,000 per year and the interest rate you could get on £12,000 was 3% and you're a 20% tax payer then you'd need to earn £15,000 to get £12,000 cash (after 20% income tax), then if that £12,000 sat in a 3% ISA for a year you'd earn £360 (tax free interest) making your total £££: £12,360.

If you earned £15,000 and paid it into a pension that £15,000 would never be income so it would never be subject to any tax, so already you're £3000 ahead. The tax relief on £15,000 for a 20% tax payer would be £3,000 meaning the contribution to your pension (assuming 0 employer contributions) is £18,000, 50% more than if you took the cash and put it into an ISA, after only a year! Pensions aren't ever taxed, it's only the income that is taxed once you take it at retirement, if your pension payments remained below the income tax limit (at present that's just over £10,000 for a retiree) you'd never pay a penny. ISAs and pensions are completely different in terms of what/why/when to use them but a pension is absolutely the more financially sound long term investment.

What happened to your father sucks a lot and it's definitely the case that some people did get the short end of the stick in years gone by (and it's shameful that it was allowed to happen) but fortunately pensions are now much more regulated and it's very unlikely for this sort of thing to happen again. If someone is confident that they can make better use of their money to secure their long term financial future by not paying into a pension then so be it, but for most people (in my experience at least) it's not "pension or ISA?", "pension or property investment?" it's "pension or an extra night out every week".

Pensions security information can be found here: http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/security-of-pensio...
We're using Vinz Clortho in production right now (try to log in as callahad@mozilla.com and you'll be prompted for my LDAP password).

It's not super generalizable, but if you're interested in rolling it out on your end, ping our mailing list (https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity) and we're happy to support you while you get that going.

A generic Google Apps bridge is somewhat tricky, but we're really interested in prototyping it over the next few months.
Even if what you are saying is correct, what exactly is the harm in that?

There is obvious harm in preventing people from having access to a drug which mitigates their symptoms. There is obvious harm when you imprison someone for a drug related crime. There is obvious harm when you prevent a business from legally existing and profiting from the sale of the substance.

Where is the obvious harm when a user recreationally uses a substance, whether they got it under the false pretext of migraines, or not?
had. was dropped a while back :'(
You misunderstand that sentence.

They are referring to the number of updates they can deliver per unit of Google outbound bandwidth, not the amount of time it takes to run that update. The sentence that you elide with ellipses makes this clear:

We want smaller updates because it narrows the window of vulnerability. If the update is a tenth of the size, we can push ten times as many per unit of bandwidth. We have enough users that this means more users will be protected earlier.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll probably open source it at some point. Right now, the components are somewhat tightly coupled.
There's one answer to most of your points: Amsterdam is not the Netherlands in the same way New York City is not the U.S.

Especially the cycling culture in Amsterdam is very, very different from that of most other places in NL.