skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont smoke but I drink. I think alcohol is a more dangerous drug in terms of causing addiction and inciting violence. When was the last brawl you saw started when weed was the agitator? Nicotine in cigarettes are far more addictive than thc.
Thought this may be related. If you think your side projects never got enough traffic to be validated, try this out: http://www.kickoffboost.com
I am a marijuana user with no medical condition. This is awesome.
Eh, I dunno. Brand names are powerful. Standardization is powerful. If marijuana were legal I could see there being a lot of money in being the McDonald's of pot. Low price, universal availability, and lots of advertising can lift a mediocre product quite high.
The MongoDB Meta Driver
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I love this argument. It needs to become a reflexive and memetic response whenever anyone places someone in a damned-if-you-do situation for improving their position.
Is ~$5k a year to fund a roth IRA really going to crimp your style that much? Alternatively, if you can't afford to do that maybe you can't afford quite as hedonistic a lifestyle as you thought.
Wow, that's a good point that I hadn't considered when I was looking at the stats.
How do you make the "panning" so smooth?

I really want to know what was done to get this kind of smoothness and performance in a web app.
I posted a tiny project site a few weeks ago on HN that saw a bit of interest. There were a lot of great suggestions on many things that were missing, some of which I've now added.

Thanks for all the feedback so far, I hope it can save a bit of time for anyone setting up a new site for the responsive web.
A good sign. Patent attorneys are using Copyrightys to confirm copyrights.
A good sign. Patent attorneys are using Copyrightys to confirm copyrights.
Just some first impressions about your pricing. Seems steep to me for something that I can whip together fairly fast myself (and I imagine most with JS skills could). Maybe I am not your target audience though. Its a great idea nevertheless!
I've had no problem submitting iOS 7 compatibility fixes with it specifically mentioned in the releases notes and downloaded other updates that have as well (e.g., 1Password if I remember right). As far as I know you're only restricted from apps built with Xcode 5 and built against the iOS 7 SDK rather than with Xcode 4 and weak-linked to iOS 7 parts.
> I would still be curious what he means by shooting himself in the foot.

I'd guess it's something to do with the fact on a Tesla earnings call, which has nothing to do with hyperloop, someone brought it up.

He is already doing a herculean feet with the work on SpaceX and Tesla, from an investors point of view you want to make sure he isn't going to ditch Tesla for this other transport project.

In that context his comment makes sense.
Yes, but it's not like every new beta release crashes your app in 25 completely new ways. Most apps run just fine in the beta as is. The more likely case is that it's a very small number of issues that you can work around or fix once and be done with.

I still think that the bigger issue is this: if so many of your users are doing this that it's a problem, then fix the problem. If you want to complain about "lusers" in the bar later in the evening, you have my sympathy. But if this is a real problem for you, then it's an even bigger problem for your users, and just calling them unreasonable doesn't help either of you. It might be their fault, but they're still your customers and they still can't run your app. The 1-star reviews are not your biggest problem at that point.
Look very interesting, but can you please make this more clear?
I can host media files in Wordpress or Drupal - why would I use MediaGoblin?
With your federation would allow my video files to be on other servers so if mine goes down, they will host the content? How does that work? Round robin DNS or just my file is copied to other servers. Can I track, update, change, or remove my media from other servers?
If this easy to admin like Wordpress or does a user have to be a developer to understand the back-end processes of federating?
Very informative article, even if it explains things that most of us here already realize, it's very useful to point others to with less background on "open science".
In many major metro areas, you're more likely to be ticketed for cannabis than arrested.

Depending on certain attributes that in practice cause one to end up in cuffs nonetheless.
The license to prescribe drugs is largely useless as an indicator of pharmacological expertise. We let chiropractors prescribe drugs in this country (Edit: I was mistaken; we don't). The government has no idea what it's doing in its process for deciding who gets that power. I have encountered plenty of doctors who clearly had no idea what they were doing when it came to pharmacology, to the point of prescribing drugs together with dangerous interactions and not informing the patient of the risk.

As for his neurosurgery practice... what? Why would you think that would make him an expert on pharmacology? Because they both fall under the wide umbrella of "medicine"?

Not that I disagree with him on this issue, but your reasoning seems incredibly shaky here.
Business ethics is dead in America. It has been replaced by faith in the market, the belief that market outcomes are intrinsically moral.
I haven't tried the api yet, but the example on the home page says that "Lois" is a female name - when in fact, in the 1930s it was quite a popular male name with about 70 boys born each year named lois. Checkout http://www.namemeababy.com to see the full stats.
Because no one has multiple iOS devices?
Actually, it may be the closest thing to a panacea yet in medicine considering its potential to impact: pain management, obesity, diabetes, cancer treatment, psychiatry. I'm not aware of any other drug with such potentially wide-ranging applications, especially considering its risk of patient harm.
Ask HN: Which is the best secure mobile messaging app?
Which secure mobile messaging app(s) do you use?

With regards to privacy (encryption) and security,

- Which one is the best?

- What are its pros & cons?

So far, I know of:

1 - https://threema.ch/en/

2 - http://www.myenigma.com/

3 - https://heml.is/
Very broken. Many common male names are returning null as well:

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=sean
{"sean":null}
> If you're going to get a bike for 20-50 EUR don't expect it to be some kind of fancy machine.

If you're getting a bike for as little as 20 EUR, except it to be stolen, if it is not obviously a "frankenbike" made from spare parts of discarded half-bikes. I have no respect for people that buy stolen bikes (yet many people do).

The bikes I've owned (they do get stolen a lot ...) were usually about 100-150 EUR for a sturdy no-frills "grandma bike". I might be able to get one cheaper second-hand if I looked harder, but when I'm without a bike, I really do need a new one quickly because it's my main means of getting around in the city, cars are inefficient (in the city) and public transport quickly adds up the costs you might as well have spent on that new (or second-hand) bike.

Amsterdam might not be a good example though, I've heard from my friends that live there it's annoying to get around in the touristic city centre, because of the tourists. Not even so much because the foreign tourists aren't used to bikes, but (from my own experience) tourists generally walk around in groups and Amsterdam's sidewalks are small, so they just sort of spill everywhere.

BTW I have never seen a "cars are guests" sign, anyone know what cities have those?

Here's a funny video of an American tourist reacting to the car-free city centre of Groningen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7gi2RxM1Qg (I'm aware it's not really representative of the typical American tourist, don't worry, but it's quite amusing still :) also for accuracy: the centre is not completely car-free; taxis, buses, police, ambulances etc are allowed, and there's a sort of maze of one-way streets that cars can take if they really need to be somewhere, except for the roads directly next to the very central city square)
It does. In Washington state, where it is legal, the initiative that made it so made a provision to amend DWI laws to include THC thresholds.
> Until recently(?) the primary JIT back-end for PyPy was, in fact, still the JVM.

This sounds false. The PyPy Features page does mention that PyPy will run on the JVM, but that it is incomplete there, and in particular they don't have their JIT ported to it yet. Do you have any source on that?
Really neat article and demonstrates a great way to introduce your startup's new product.
I know for a fact that not all Germans feel that way.
Everyone else in detroit and japan are trying to catch up on the bandwagon of electric cars. That is revolutionary for the industry atleast. In the long run, weather he is able to revolutionize mobility is yet to be seen.
No it doesn't. 7b says "The right time to bring people in is rarely at the very beginning, all at once." It also says that whether or not (or to what degree) stealth mode makes sense depends on the environment.
Should note (I may have missed it in the article) the website with all of their results is http://kartlytics.com/
Have you tried Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/)? I use it for backups and think it's great. You can even backup directly to Amazon S3.
I've actually started moving further out and establishing my area on the road, and it has helped, but I'll often have to slow down and move in. Without typecasting it's often people in 4x4's (Range Rovers, X5s etc), I don't believe it's always down to the person driving it being, well, an asshat but due to the size of the vehicle changing your perspective.

Thankfully a lot of my commute is on cycle paths, but the quality level of road surfaces is some what variable.
Sydney, Australia is ridiculusly hilly (as I could tell from my few week trip there a few years ago)
"Without 9/11 or something like it, there never would have been enough support for an invasion of Iraq to actually carry it out."

Why not? It happened before, how could it not happen again? Actually, seen from outside of U.S., the Iraq events that followed the reinstatement of the Bush family appear very naturally, those were like... family policy!
You can submit compatibility fixes. You just can't use new APIs (as they're not present in the non-beta SDK you have to build with).
Federation is planned but not implemented yet.
I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice.

The underlying assumption in retirement planning is that your investment mix is supposed to change as you get closer to retirement. If you invest 60/40 at age 30 and you're still in that same 60/40 mix at age 60 you're taking a huge risk. The closer to retirement you get the more you shift out of risky equities and into safer, lower-returning investments.

Risk at age 20-something is not the same as risk at age 60-something.
You may be a craftsman, but here's a hard truth:

Nobody cares.

The day of the programmer craftsman (especially in games) is over; people only care about shipped product. Just because you've got a great codebase with brilliant architecture and test coverage doesn't mean anybody will play your game--if, indeed, you ever manage to ship.

Fuck craftsmanship--build something people want when they want it, and do so as efficiently as possible.

(For the record, I spent several years down the path the author is mentioning. My team and I had really good code, really thorough tests, and not a single fuck was given by anyone--including, eventually, even ourselves--because we didn't do anything with it.)
I'm writing from Oulu in Finland and we are considered to be a cycling town. The reason why it is so popular is simple. Walking paths double as cycle paths and this works because they are as wide as a car lane. The other reason is because Oulu is designed in such a way where most of the residents live in apartment blocks -- all within cycling distance to the town centre. Most workplaces are also located around town.
First time I've ever seen a lag free web app on my Galaxy S3 (stock browser).
No worries. Thanks for the info!
You are obviously doing something wrong. http://i.imgur.com/UxG5Vsa.png
That best thing about DSLs is that you don't have to use the current domain.
Make Dalvik/JVM a compile target for Go? There is at least one project working on this.
Great idea.

Any reason you don't appear to have registered cat-finder.org? I see that pet-finder.org is taken but unused.

At least one quick win to be had methinks.
The "fair" phone
They're not quite "in the business of lying", but they certainly will hold back the truth

Lying by omission is still lying.

I'm not really sure what your, "more cynical than thou," is supposed to accomplish, though.
Twitter Partners With Datalogix To Track When Tweets Lead To Offline Sales
Yes that is a know issue and I don't know the best way to solve that.
This isn't a debate I think is worth having. I'm just saying that there's practically no reason to believe Gupta was an appropriate choice for CNN as an expert in radiological hazards, but there is some reason to believe he should know what he's talking about re medicine.
You are probably sitting on the world's greatest resource for creating captcha images.
I have. Unfortunately, due to the way it encrypts files (it basically turns everything into one big, encrypted tarball) it needs to redo the whole thing from time to time, as diffs stack and it gets unwieldy.

Combined with a slow home connection, it basically never managed to upload all my files, and it could never resume. That's why I want to go the EncFS route, I don't care if file sizes and numbers are visible if it makes uploading resumable, sane and easier.
This seems really cool. I wish I could say I was a fan of the name... hope this is just a personal quirk and it does not limit adoption of the product... but I cannot imagine mainstream users connecting with that name.
>but then it should not turn around and expect employees to stick by it during tough times either.

Only they (companies) do expect it, and even get it. Because the employees are dependent on them, and not vice versa.

Those that say: just quit and get another job (mostly white, upper-middle class), have never been in the situation of having to keep a job to feed a family and/or mortage while not being someone coveted by recruiters.
This is a concrete example of a lambda architecture [1]. You don't even have to use Scoop or Hive. A great set of tools exist for Java, Scala and Clojure over at the Cascading camp [2]. The benefit of the Cascading tools is that you don't need the expensive (from a resource and deployment perspective) Hadoop ecosystem. Everything can be done with a unified approach that needs little more than a lightweight JVM.

1 http://jameskinley.tumblr.com/post/37398560534/the-lambda-ar...
2 http://www.cascading.org
I have no problem with that approach, but the cost-benefit analysis needs to take into account the likelihood that some huge percentage of your user-base can't run the app.

If 50% of my users get a crash at start-up, I'm going to try to make that go away. If no one is really having the problem, then it's silly to ask for Apple to block potentially legitimate feedback. If loads of people are having the problem, then the cost-benefit analysis ought to look very different.
Do you mean the vertical swiping? If so, it's smooth because there's nothing special going on. It's just the page being swiped up and down, i.e. native behavior.
>I think you might be evaluating the referent of the word "we" incorrectly.

I'll go out on a limb and say that every single person that participates in this forum falls under at least one of those "we".
This is true, NL is a small country and we really have to be conservative with our space. I was amazed to see, when I was in the US, how widely spaced out everything is, especially the suburbs. Those distances do add up quickly and perhaps make for less interesting bike rides. I'd probably still get one if I lived there, just because it's easier to get around for small distances, but I've heard for some people the nearest supermarket is a few miles away, then yeah, going by car makes a lot of sense.

You can't easily change such geographic/cityplanning type of differences either, I think.
Yeah, I'm a pretty terrible copywriter. Let me see if I can make it more clear on the site. Thanks for the input.
The argument is "You must master javascript". If other languages compile to javascript - then you needn't master javascript, you can master those other languages.

So no, this does not just support this argument. There are other languages to learn.
[I'm not talking about most parts of the US, where weed is harder to obtain; I'm talking about most poor countries, where it is readily available]

I've seen many of my friends waste years of their college lives running around like stoned hippies, overeating junk food, and watching absolute trash with loud sounds and bright colors. To make things worse, it's considered a great "social activity", much like going to a bar to get sloshed with friends. Only weed is _much_ easier to get hooked onto, because it's much cheaper than alcohol, and you don't need much more than rolling paper (as opposed to refrigerator, soft drinks etc).

That said, many of them have had very eye-opening experiences where they learn a lot more about the world and themselves. They have formed strong social bonds on the basis of meaningful experiences, and have learnt moderation. They've also found it to be an extremely good analgesic and laxative. Ofcourse, there are sections of society that need it more than anything: chemotherapy patients take it for increased appetite, and people with chronic headaches take it to reduce occurrences (although LSD has been shown to work with an even more extreme form: cluster headaches).

Every substance in the world has a potential for abuse: there are plenty of "sugar junkies" who will live horrible lives and die a painful death, for instance. All in all, the issue is that of education: we need to legalize all these substances, and objectively explain how people can practice moderation. In general, enforcing hard-abstinence is a very poor solution; only repressive regimes should practice them.
The underlying dictionary for this, gender/nam_dict by Jorg Michael, is an awesome piece of work: it has entries for each name, its gender (or genders), and how popular that name is in each country where it's used (especially useful for names which are female in one country but male in another country, but where they're much more popular in the former than the latter).

It's a bit of an odd file format but it's fairly straight forward to build something which will read it into the language of your choice.

http://www.autohotkey.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=22000
-webkit-transform: translate3d(). Hardware accelerated.
For better or worse, the shareholders are the ones who set the pay of the CEO. Much of that pay is in shares.

The way to fight this is twofold:

1) Make it easier for people to start new companies and competitors. This serves both employees and customers. As a customer I get the best price when I have multiple people competing for my business. As an employee, I'm best treated and paid when there are multiple people bidding for my service.

2) Increase the penalty for legal violations, and make examples of people who violate the spirit of the law as well as the letter. Don't invite CEOs of companies who dodge taxes "To the letter but not spirit" of the law to the White House.
I was interested in learning more about this but my googling couldn't turn up anything from NPR.

The piece couldn't be sold because it features a stuffed bald eagle (of which sale and even ownership of is prohibited by the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act).

I did dig up these:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/arts/design/a-catch-22-of-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/07/22/the-irs-a...

http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/dont_mess_with_taxes/20...

The outcome was that they donated to the MoMa, but weren't allowed to claim a tax deduction for the donation. So yeah... kind of screwed.
The Thatcher government was indeed very big on roads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_for_Prosperity
Virtually non-existent chance the 175 tickets to Hispanic-named drivers happened by chance alone: http://statisticalideas.blogspot.com/2013/08/profiling-ather....
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This seems to me that you're saying that they shouldn't be responsible for their failure. This leads to the discussion of whether or not people who start or back failed/failing businesses have made a net contribution to society or are simply leaching off the contributions/momentum of others.

Obviously, there is a balance to these things. You're both contributing and leeching with a failed business. Monopolies are the same as well. Each one can be abused or used to create a contribution or to coopt value. What really matters is when you're all said in done, is everyone, including the employees, better off?
You can submit fixes for iOS 7 if you check at runtime for the presence of the methods, which is the standard pattern for supporting multiple iOS versions. You just won't necessarily have the constants and such that are new to the SDK since you're not building against that SDK and may have to work around that.
This is why you should buy a nice car and wear nice clothes... it signals that you're a better person. {wink, wink, nod}
Completely worthless without a national/ethnic hint.

E.g. "Jean" will be male if the first name of a French person, while likely female in the US.
TheColorless.net: Private messaging/Chat is down.
http://thecolorless.net/

..is experiencing PM (Private messaging) problems and chat is also down at the moment. Chat is usually fixed as soon as a few hours after it breaks, but this could also be due to the correcting of the PM system, and may take longer.
If you're looking for Lightroom integration, mosaic (http://mosaicarchive.com) provides an almost identical service and already has a plugin.
The biggest safety problem with MJ is (as the original article hinted) the tendency in some people (especially teenagers) to increase the probability of them developing psychosis. This is why it is so apples to oranges. Yes, there are carcinogenic problems as well but the main problem is the increased risk of psychosis.
Everyone has wanted this for years now. I wouldn't hold my breath.
Children’s Advocacy Group Faults Learning Apps for Babies
In a conversation with Sal Khan he says (in regards to Hyperloop) he is "kind of strung out" with all he is doing now. So I'm guessing he does not want to initiate the project yet because he is a very busy boy. He also has kids.
That would be equivalent to saying "assembly is making all other languages irrelevant"

Which, of course, is complete nonsense.
Sure! I think I just wrote poorly in the previous comment. I definitely think we shouldn't have cannabis prohibition.

I just don't think it necessarily follows that cannabis is safer in all situations than alcohol or tobacco. Legal or not, it's still not OK with me if my kids are using it.
Speaking of their error page, they have a typo on there. "...to many requests" instead of "...too many".
I did started working on it, but found so many issues and gave it.
It tells me that my daughter's name, Avery, is male, yet it is the 13th most popular name for baby girls right now. Someone needs an updated data set.
There's a hangout with Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson going on now; the host asked Elon about Hyperloop, and he spent nice 5 minutes avoiding to answer it :(. He only confirmed that it's a tube (but not evacuated), with little friction, and that you'll have to go a little bit faster than sound. He also said that details will be posted on-line.
As an agency developer, I agree wholeheartedly.