skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am so tired of the US lagging behind the rest of the world"

Can you give a list of countries that are "ahead" of the US in regards to marijuana decriminalization?

Lets see, there is North Korea, the Netherlands, and Uraguagy might decriminalize this year.

I am so tired of the "the US lagging behind the rest of the world" trope. It's the same thing with same sex marriage. The US has been and is ahead of curve when it come to sex marriage rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-cannabis-laws.png
For people interested in other tools, there is a command line gender verification tool and database:

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/20260-gender-verificat...

and a Ruby gam that is built on the above data:

https://github.com/bmuller/sexmachine
Handy for ads.
This data point is over a decade old, but still:

"the proportion of state prison inmates who were
sentenced for marijuana-only offenses rose from 2.6% in 1990 to 3.6% in 2000"

http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/BeckettandHerbert.pdf

The DOJ reported that there were 1,236,476 state inmates in 2000 (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p00.pdf). So 3.6% of that would be 44,513 state inmates who were imprisoned for marijuana only in 2000.
It's less harmful than cigarettes - nicotine is a vasoconstrictor and bronchioconstrictor. Weed is neither, and actually also has expectorant qualities, so you tend to cough most of the tar back up.

That said, smoking anything is not good for you, but IMHO it's up to the individual what risk they take with their body.
Politics is unworthy of discussion yet an article like this is acceptable? If Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant why does the world have Coffeescript, Clojurescript, and so on and so forth?
Patent Troll Tracking
Come read about what's going on in the world of patent trolls.
A funny video demonstrating that Beebo isn't, in fact, growing up at all.

+1 for "possibly the largest collection of cock and balls"
Idiot teacher. I get not wanting to have students use laptops in the front of the class, but as long as you don't copy from others how you produce your college assignments shouldn't be the teachers decision.

Anyway if he ever saw my handwriting he would change is policy - it actively scares people.
courgette is cool, but the deassembly and reassembly process is disasterous if your machine is busy. I have significant fps drop while fullscreen gaming and chrome updating the same time. It hogs 99% of cpu and disk io
I am a medical marijuana user. I have fibromyalgia (a catch all label for constant pain), and it helps some with neuropathic pain. My doctor is kept informed about how much I am using, and I have to get my card renewed each year. MJ works, but at best it dulls the pain, and also helps to make the pain less 'front and center' and instead kind of makes it more something that is in the background.

I was never a stoner, and did not use it until I was 38 years old. I am happy it exists, because I was being treated with Vicodin for pain and was on a schedule of 6 pills a day. Enough that liver damage and addiction started to be a concern. I am allergic to pills in the Percoset family (hives and skin lesions) and I consume about 5 joints a day worth of weed. I don't even get high anymore, but it does help with the pain. It is costing me about $100 per week, compared to the $3 per month the Vicodin cost on my medical insurance. I could buy a new car with the weed money, but couldn't buy a coffee at Starbucks with the Vicodin money.

I hope the government gets around to reclassifying the drug soon. In the current situation, Child Protective Services would take my kids away if I was to consume the drug in front of them. A reclassification would enable more research, more research would lead to easier ways to ingest it. I find food products make me stomach sick, vaporizing doesn't work as well as smoking, and smoking is unappealing and difficult to do with any discretion.

I am fortunate that I can afford it, and can fit it into my schedule (I own my business). Many people need something like MMJ and can neither afford it, nor can they keep their employment with it because of widespread drug testing. While the state I live in says that card holders can't be fired for holding a card, it is a state that has 'right-to-work' laws and you can fire someone for no specified reason at all. (source- I employ ten people).
There's a PECL extension for PHP that claims to provide this too: http://php.net/gender

Not tested it on too many challenging tasks but it seems to work well too.
Firefox figured it out alright for me; it's probably a browser-specific issue.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4071117/uri-starting-with...
If you're in a similar position and this resonates with you, do yourself a favor and just quit. Seriously. Stop waiting for things to get interesting. They won't. It's so easy to get stuck.

If you're good at what you do, you'll find a job you love immediately (if that's what you're looking for). As developers, we're fortunate to be in extremely high demand. Life is too short to be bored. Work on interesting things.
I am not that surprised. Dog biting man is not an interesting news. Man biting a dog - that's something. So, anti-cannabies doctor is a common creature, the opposite - that's catching subject.
Succeeding With Organic SEO Search Results
Link-bait title. Is interesting the Musk said on twitter that a particular design was "the closest he had seen", but didn't say it hit the bullseye.
"if they also learn writing code, something has to give"

Disagree. This is a false limit, and a false criticism rooted in ignorance and lack of experience. I don't know what else to say other than as a designer with a CS degree, I actually take offense to this statement. I know how much greater value I offer and would like other designers and programmers I work with to reach similar levels of integrated skill.

Specialization is for the industrial revolution—the technological age requires expert polymaths.
Students do not have anything close to enough money to cover the actual cost of their education before earning it.

The value of an education I can pay for by mowing lawns is going to be lower because that necessitates zero research, extremely poor student:faculty ratios, etc.

The solution, to me, is to drastically increase government's share of the burden. But try introducing that in Congress.
Should we count calories?
Fedora keeps sendmail — for now
Maybe some people feel insulted after having been maligned for so many years. Gupta, as a member of the establishment that advocated against medical use of marijuana deserves some ire for his part in that. He faithfully preached the party line uncritically, and in absence of credible evidence, he now admits. Maybe you can forgive those who may remain skeptical of Gupta's motives (since none of us can know what they are anyway). I'm glad he's changed his stance. I think it is great. But, I understand why some people are annoyed at a subject-matter expert who admits that he had based his professional opinion on government propaganda.
The Hardware Tsunami Is Here. What It Takes To Build A Great Hardware Company.
Still a bit steep for a phone that doesn't exist, yet.
Electrification of mobility & GOING TO MARS > Tube transportation
Can you expand on that thought? How do you "flip the switch"?
Can I have a font of EWD's handwriting instead of my own?
It works for me now. Thinking more about it my ff has been acting up lately... it was probably my browser.
It works fine as a desktop app actually. The sidebar is just one part of the app, and if you click on a post, you get the full article / comments on the right side.

Looks like no framework was used to build this (except for Zepto, I guess). Total size for JS is 55kb, for comparison Angular 1.0.7 minified is 78kb. CSS adds another 30kb, including the ico font that's base64 encoded in style.css. 115kb for the whole page on a fresh load, on subsequent loads it's only something like 4-5kb. Very nice!
http://www.clear-uk.org/gw-pharmaceuticals-and-the-uk-home-o...

They won't necessarily call it cannabis, it will be a "cannabis product" flying under some other name. Also, does the history of generic meds policy not tell you something? These companies are fiercely anti-competitive. Another case study in a separate market is how alcohol distillation, for instance, is kept illegal.
Paying Employees More Will Make the Economy Grow
How many sprites can SF2 possibly have? :)
Tesla owns key energy management system patents.

Disclaimer: I'm super-long TSLA.
>We don't need a mediocre surgeon to tell us weed is OK.

We don't. The US government does. Who do you think they listen to more: the people or the rich and famous? I've certainly never been asked into Congress to testify for anything.
"Much in the same way I wouldn't let my own children drink alcohol, I wouldn't permit marijuana until they are adults. If they are adamant about trying marijuana, I will urge them to wait until they're in their mid-20s when their brains are fully developed."

Good luck with that.
I see the same thing on an iPad (iOS 5.1), where a screenful of items show but everything after the scroll is invisible... until you hit the spot where the comment link should be and a few more items become visible.
Aspirin. Bayer. People used to chew willow.

That said they did isolate it, so it's not parity, but at least peripheral.
How many people want to be the sysadmin for all the apps on their phone? Remember, phones are now running Unix.

It's possible to make installing this stuff easier.
I was much happier before I found out today that ridiculous piece was ever widely published. Ugh.
That's a brilliant promotional video that shows humility and humour on the part of Bebo's founders. Great stuff.
I'm a craftsman
Crash Chrome With Emoji
A selection of 26 or more emoji characters, followed by a right click will crash Chrome almost instantly.

👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎💼 (Select, right click, induce crash!)
http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/34398/Dijks...

Though I don't get why you would want to, I have seen far more beautiful handwritting elsewhere (it is certainly prettier than mine, but that isn't saying something).
You know that those languages produce Javascript in the end correct? If anything wouldn't that just support this argument?
I see strong parallels between UX designer and game designer. It was not until more recently that it has become generally accepted that everything from time killing mobile games to enterprise software demands good UX. Decades ago game designers figured out that a good UX meant a larger player base and ultimately more sales -- rather than contracts and inescapable legacy lock ins.

UX is about creating a clear, intuitive experience for the user (the front and back end work that makes that possible.) This is done through consistency of patterns, both unique to the application and drawn on existing and historical work (also makes for a good argument against software patents, but that is another issue.) At the very least, this requires some one or a group of people to create an agreed upon design document from the start.

Steve Jobs view of the liberal arts goes a long way in explaining UX. Everything matters. That hardly means every single team member should be an omniscient visionary with hundreds of niche interests.
Interesting that you don't get high any more. I wondered whether MMJ would fall into the category of "do not drive or operate machinery" whilst using.
I am wondering why British employers are testing employees for drugs usage.

Is this justified? Are cannabies, etc. really affecting badly people? If yes, then it makes sense for the employer to spend its money on tests. If no, it means that employers in UK are victims of some kind of paranoia against cannabies.
JavaScript, Objective-C, Java. Basically anything related to the platform.

An iOS developer who can design and knows how to blend colours and make smaller icons will basically outdo every UI/UX/YADAYADA designer everywhere.

Not to be confused with a graphic designer. That shit is actually difficult.
> It's an article of faith that cannabis is a major contributor to US incarceration, but I think that's a belief worth questioning. I looked into this briefly for a thread a year ago and in the states I researched, domestic violence was far and away the leading cause of incarceration.

Its been a while since I saw figures, but last I did domestic violence was at the top of the reasons people were sentenced to incarceration (that is, if you did a ticker at the door, it would be the most common reason) but narcotics were the most common reason people were incarcerated (that is, if you did a count of the currently incarcerated population, drugs would be the most common reason.)

The difference, of course, is length of sentence.

I don't think marijuana is all that high a share of those incarcerated for drugs, but if you are using the prominence of the reason people get incarcerated rather than the prominence of the reason people are incarcerated as your standard, you aren't looking at the right issue.
For reasonable comparison: I know a guy who lost ~25 lbs when he QUIT smoking pot. So, this stuff is really complex. MJ is not a panacea.
Elon Musk: $35,000 200-Mile Tesla in a few years
The reason for the (false) stereotype is that programmers so often have one-track specialized minds, due to many factors. But it's false: with a little effort and an education that doesn't mould people into code monkeys, programmers can branch out.

As well they should: the greatest value programmers can offer is if they use their programming skill to improve other areas of their company or solve problems in a domain outside programming itself. It is an exponential sort of value increase. We need more programmer generalists, and we need to encourage and embrace them.
Is it supposed to say "Sing In" when you press the "Add Dog" button?
Smoking it cannot be much better for you than smoking cigarettes

That's what common sense would have us believe, but cigarette smoke is indeed much worse for you than marijuana smoke.

http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201212-...

from the abstract:

>In summary, the accumulated weight of evidence implies far lower risks for pulmonary complications of even regular heavy use of marijuana compared with the grave pulmonary consequences of tobacco.
Well. Two things. I ate largely due to anxiety. Weed makes me not anxious. Therefore I ate less.

Secondly, you can decide to morph that "hungry" feeling into a "full" feeling. Not quite sure how to put it, but you can convince yourself - a bit like when you're holding an ice cube, and convince yourself that it's heat you can feel.
Some retail companies (let's say barnes&noble) already have mobile apps. All it takes is to add beacon-related features, and their customers won't have to do anything.
I do like it.
Density is huge. Just look at the Bay Area. I suspect there is more biking in hillier, but denser, San Francisco, than the very flat, but spread out, Silicon Valley.
Ask.fm advertisers to quit site in cyber bullying row
Woah, amazing stuff.
K&R braces in all things. Because that is the One True Way to do it.
And in more cases than people seem to think, you really don't need it.
The schools should lend students their education. They are in the best position to underwrite such loans, and such a system would eliminate the current perverse incentives the schools face.
First two tries:

~ % curl "http://api.genderize.io?name=pat"
{"pat":null}%

Shouldn't that be "unisex"?

~ % curl "http://api.genderize.io?name=patricia"
{"patricia":null}%

Hm...
Given the context of the report I would imagine he's been fielding concerns from Tesla investors regarding burn-out or lack of focus. He's the very public driver (no pun intended) of the company so some might see talk of the Hyperloop as akin to Steve Jobs starting talking about a new found enthusiasm for swimming during a product launch.
> Wow. Ownership of a mistake. Rare to see on a 24 hour news network.

Renouncing a position that was formerly nearly universally held in favor of one that seems to be the new trend isn't actually that rare.
Please don't defend the Amazon shopping lens. It is indefensibly awful. Ubuntu should drop it, and it is the primary thing that makes people distrust Canonical now. Go ahead and promote all the other benefits of Ubuntu all you like, they are real.
It seems to be broken, everything is returning male (or null)

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=joe
{"joe":"male"}

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=jo
{"jo":"male"}

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=jamie
{"jamie":"male"}

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=jaime
{"jaime":"male"}

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=joan
{"joan":"male"}

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=kelly
{"kelly":"male"}

curl http://api.genderize.io?name=lucy
{"lucy":null}
Solving the Puzzle of Scalable Log Processing
>Maybe your grand iOS 7 redesign is going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you can likely bodge a fix together in the meantime.

A large part of the point of Apple releasing betas early to developers is to give them a buffer time to get their apps ready. It's unreasonable to demand developers "bodge a fix together" for immediate use as soon as a beta lands, it defeats a large part of the purpose of having these betas.
Poked around the site a bit - love the word theater and the overall presentation! Beautiful work!
The thing I really don't understand is the persistent meme that companies have some obligation to their shareholders above and beyond their obligation to their employees, common ethics or the spirit of the law.

It's practically an article of faith in the business community that you deserve an 'attaboy' for laying a bunch of people off if it increases profit. But stiff the shareholders? Oh, the humanity! We're developing morals all of a sudden!

If all's fair in business, why don't we treat the shareholders as suckers, too? If enough of them get together, they can vote to fire you, but short of that, why do they deserve additional respect?
I suspect this is more for data analysis than it is for user-facing features.

I hope.
FWIW they are all over the place in Chicago, and presumably the other major metros.
Interesting PHP rant[1] included in the roundup of articles, which is worth reading just for this gem:

What this means is that if you are a PHP developer and not
part of the problem, you are basically stuck in a world
where you will struggle to find any decent reusable software
that you can trust, or any decent developers to incorporate
in your team. Sure, there are crappy programmers making use
of other languages as well, but you can easily find good
programmers for those, whereas in PHP the really good ones
are like drops in an ocean of sulphuric acid - and like
anyone in an ocean of sulphuric acid, they usually prefer to
be somewhere else.

[1]: http://www.borfast.com/blog/i-hate-php
For anyone who asked my phone number i always used 555-1212 which was the 'universal' number for directory assistance for a long time. If people questioned it I said, call that number, ask for me, they will tell you the number to call :-)
A "command line gender verification tool"? So it'll verify my gender based from the command line? :P
I think people are forgetting his target audience, which is probably older. I doubt many young people watch CNN. Even the title "Why I Changed My Mind On Weed" sounds like it was written for the Readers Digest, which I used to read as a kid because my grandmother would give me her copies.
Missions orient you much more towards multi-level marketing sales, where you're pushing a one-size-fits-all solution onto everyone you meet using any tactic that could possibly work. This is a big part of the reason why MLM companies flourish in Provo. While some of this "tenacity" may work for some types of startups, I rather think that in a startup you'd want to tailor your solution to fit people's problems rather than vice versa.
Because the country is flat? How hard is it to guess?
Ashton Kutcher talks about Steve Jobs on the Colbert Report
Definitely would fall into the impairs motor skills category. You can develop a tolerance for almost all drugs, even alcohol and yet many still fall within that category so wouldnt expect ganja to be any different.
I always liked this procedurally generated nighttime cityscape by Shamus Young: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-d2-P...

He wrote a whole article series walking you through it, plus source, etc, starting here: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940
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. That said, this article is about physiology. Gupta is a medical doctor licensed in three states, a member of the faculty of Emory Medical School, etc, so I think this one is within his domain of expertise.
A very interesting talk between 2 thought leaders. Worth checking out if you've missed it live.
I wasn't suggesting that there'd be anything conscious about the branding, but that it'd be subconscious, so you wouldn't be likely to hear feedback. It's a minor nit, really.

Glad to hear about theming. Flickr/500px/other sites chose to let users opt-in to black backgrounds, I think that is a nice approach - some media is better highlighted by a dark background, but not all. All the best to your project.
As long as it's good enough, it could help pave the way for future phones that are better.
I am on 5.1 as well (5.1.1)
Cool. Can we have a dispassionate review of Performance Enhancing Drugs now? I'd be interested to see how harmful they are compared to alcohol, tobacco, MJ etc.
I just updated Responsive Web CSS
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.
Mo' people Mo' problems
Gamers to pay for key Xbox One features
Wow, do you really live here?

I had a bike impounded twice for parking it in a wrong place around the Zuid station. But it was only 15 euros to get it (they keep them on a parking lot in the direction of Halfweg

It could well be that Dutch people like cheap bikes because they are cheap (the bikes not the people! Although, ...) But even when they buy a new one they prefer the "oldtimers" - new bikes that look like they are from the 20s.

It's true that there are probably people who sweat, but there are very few people who take a shower at work

I agree that cyclists don't really respect red lights or right of way, but the article is correct that drivers are more sympathetic to cyclists than everywhere else
Coincidentally, the executives making the decisions are shareholders, too.
I'm confused. Their navigation in their header seems to not function properly, so I can't read their FAQ. Why would I pay $100 - $500 monthly for reminders when there is an endless number of apps to pick from that will do exactly this. Everything from the Reminders app on the iPhone, to Google Calendar to various web applications.

I have to be missing something?
The US is not lagging behind. When it comes to marijuana liberalisation, it is definitely leading the way. With the exception of Netherlands, attitudes to marijuana is pretty strict in Europe. The US has the most pot smokers/capita by a long shot.

Also, Hollywood movies seem to portray it as some cool party drug, that hippies and pseudo-intellectuals use. The drug is present in most American Pie-style movies, many sitcoms and animated series like Family Guy.

Personally I believe marijuana going mainstream is an engineered phenomena. Hollywood is able to create perceptions and demands where none was before. Older generations weren't miserable all the time because they couldn't smoke pot. New generations found out about it by the marketing.