skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's simply not true.

I don't have any stats for crack cocaine, but look up the effectiveness of diacetylmorphine maintenance programs in Switzerland and the UK - these are government-run programs in which heroin users are given access to pure, unadulterated heroin so that they can have steady day jobs.

Spoiler: These programs have been proven time and again to be effective in reducing crime.

Crack cocaine is biochemically identical to powder cocaine (the main difference is the means of ingestion, not the chemical compound). And I can assure you that many cocaine users hold very steady, very high-paying jobs (in certain industries more than others).
Show HN: My project : Load and display multiple wind-speed forecasts on one page
In the spirit of "shipping it", I wanted to share this quick project that I made for myself and my friends: http://derefnull.org/wx

As an avid skydiver, I regularly check wind forecasts for multiple drop zones to determine which location is most suitable for the day of jumping. I was tired of manually entering each location each time I checked the weather forecast, so I created this app to simplify the process.

This web app will render multiple wind-speed forecasts on a single page for comparison. Once locations are entered in, the user can return to the page and refresh the forecast with a single click.

The app is nearly all client side, which is a new paradigm for me. The only server side component is a proxy script I made to get around a browser-side issue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)

The locations are validated with the Google Geocode API, stored in a client-side cookie (jquery.cookie), and rendered with Raphael JS. Weather forecasts are provided by weather.gov. Additional UI goodies use twitter bootstrap and some custom scripting as glue.

Note: this was written a modern browser (tested with apple safari, and google chrome, IE 10)

Next iteration : client side app-building is fun, but I think I can improve response time by moving much of the weather.gov queries server-side. This will also allow me to add a slick "share these locations" feature to the app.
The only iPhone that really show scratches is the black iPhone 5. That said, I agree that hard polycarbonate plastic also has a good quality feel. Unfortunately, most phones made with plastic don't use hard polycarbonate, but soft plastic with sqeaking, bending battery covers etc.
Certainly no less emotionally awful, but less economically consequential to the family. Incentives matter.
Direct link to article:

http://www.slashgear.com/google-nexus-4-8gb-model-wont-be-re...
You could come up with many examples of failed companies with devices based on Android. This may just mean that they did something wrong (bad devices, advertising, etc). However, the companies that were successful (e.g Samsung) prove him right.
The Raspberry Pi copes with XBMC even on the 256MB model, 512 should be fine if the GPU is at least roughly equivalent. Video acceleration I gather is the usual issue, I've no idea what the software support is like on this.
It seems down unfortunately.
Neat! Thanks for the history lesson.
If offered at the time of purchase I'm inclined to use this for gifts. I personally want the ebook version, but if this enables me to get a print copy for only slightly more I'll pick it up and worry about who to gift it to later.
"I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Ya I've actually dropped Android support moving forward. Here's some more data on the stark differences in revenue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6193605
This is a pretty good way of doing things, although I'd give older versions of IE the server-refresh version and get rid of jQuery, or at least use a cut-down build of jQuery 2.

If you're gzipping your responses (and you should if they're over a couple of k) the overhead compared to JSON is minimal.
The incredible take-away from that article is that the deal was struck 24 hours after a cold-call to Nestle's marketing switchboard.
OK. Fair enough. I wasn't trying to be negative, but was genuinely wondering why so many HN clones are made. As a learning experience, it makes sense. Anyway, definitely do the About page because otherwise it won't be obvious that it's meant to be a "non-censored news source."
Looks nice.
Can't for Emotiv Insight head set (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tanttle/emotiv-insight-o...) to control the direction based on my head movement.
The jump from "The War on Drugs is worse than PRISM" to "PRISM really isn't a big deal" is rather large...

"If the government should have the power to do these types of investigations..." See, they obviously shouldn't. Justifying PRISM because the DEA is doing something that they shouldn't is silly. Both deserve criticism, and we should not curtail criticism of PRISM just because the War on Drugs isn't getting nearly the criticism it deserves.

David Simon's complaint is just "hipster outrage" bullshit: "I was upset at something before it was cool!" It is just the flipside of the people who get frustrated with recent attention to surveillance because "Of course this is going on, haven't you heard of Room 641A? I've been talking about this for years! Grrr, I am upset that I am no longer unique for my suspicions."
Crack is unusually addictive but many people maintain casual cocaine habits for years on end. Both of these drugs have the same classification, and the same penalties in most of the world.

Crack is also particularly bad for your health outside of just being extremely addictive. If it wasn't a Class A drug people would rapidly end up in treatment for it anyway.

Ultimately there's hardly any actual science involved in the War on Drugs, just as there wasn't during prohibition.
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Hacker News stories are often scooped up by other news outlets. Within a day, Fox Business asked me to be on their show, Huffington Post France wrote an article about it, and I was featured briefly on Yahoo’s homepage. Here’s the video from Fox.

Congrats, though I'd say your experience happens 1 out of maybe 1000 times?
Oops. I mistook the genitive listing in Whitaker for a plural.
I thought the same, but they already discussed that in the comments [1] as the first serious contender, only to ultimately dismiss it as something else entirely.

[1] http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/a-most-bi...
10/10 on awesome!
1/10 on usability (the one point is for auto-complete).
>A photo sensor in a digital camera is an analog device. The "digital" camera requires an ADC (Analog to digital Converter).

Correct!

>Camera film records information digitally, the light sensitive film (silver halide) either lets light through, or it doesn't. Basically the silver halide crystal is either "on" or "off".

Uh, no. There is a continuous range of the amount of light that is blocked by the film negative (for each layer). What you're describing would be something like 1bit color depth RGB.
I think a total boycott of ATT would be a good start, since it appears ATT actually was out in front of Verizon and T-Mobile and Sprint on this. I'd probably trust T-Mobile and Sprint more than either ATT or Sprint based on corporate history, too. Still totally untrustworthy, but there probably is a difference.

It's getting to the point where a good alternative to how cellphones work might be worthwhile, to keep location data more confidential. A broadcast "ping", and then some form of tunneled return connection, rather than routine registration with location.

Doing it all in a way which doesn't touch PSTN and thus doesn't call under a sane interpretation of CALEA, plus a provider willing to challenge the constitutionality of CALEA and at minimum require full warrants for all cooperation, probably would be a good deal better, too.
An hour with FAKEGRIMLOCK
Evidence Found for Planet-Cooling Asteroid 12,900 Years Ago
When Android gets to 'T', they have to choose TicTac.
I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf
Google Self Driving Cars: Technology, Capabilities... - Embedded Linux Conf 2K13
The most quoted man in news
Yeah, it always feels like what you're looking at is out of date and/or abandoned.

The actual couchdb site looks nice though: http://couchdb.apache.org/
I'm pretty sure that the name "Kindle" and all of the following fire-related names are intentionally referencing book-burning.
Node.js async in practice: When to use what?
The modality sounds like Pine.
I think shitty is a bit strong. Unusual, but there's a big '?' to click on that tells you how to use it. Once you've read that it's possible && easy to use without ever moving you hands to the mouse again.
This looks really useful.

However, it would be nice to give a link to the homepage of each option, especially when the user searched for something vague like "cafe" rather than a specific chain and so might want additional information before deciding which to visit.
Would it make sense to have the normal Amazon price for Kindles books as they are now but then have an optional button to donate more that goes directly into the author's pocket and nobody else's? Of course only a small percentage would donate anything extra, but it's better than not having the option, and this can reduce a bit of the friction because it's two extra clicks at checkout.

I know this has worked in some cases such as for self-published ebooks or indie games, so this could potentially work if the most hardcore fans want to directly support the author. I know for authors or musicians I really love I would want to pay more if the money went directly into their pockets.
The value proposition of a physical book is that is a physical artifact with concrete ownership; you can sell it, lend it, put it on a shelf for guests to see, forget it and rediscover it a decade later, or have your grandchildren find it in your attic in 80 years.

This. I have a bookcase filled with "me". Those books constitute what molded me, and (if unread) what I hoped would. My longevity being in some doubt, my kids being very young, and my ability to tell them what's in my head limited, in large part I keep that bookcase filled and arranged in hopes that someday they will discover it, read the contents, and so absorb much of what their father is (or, at that future date, was).

E-books, while convenient, can be lost en masse in an instant. Heck, a bunch vanished last week from my tablet when I upgraded the operating system (most were recovered, but not all). My wife may be irritated at the space occupied by my paper books, yet therein is the point: they're not going away any time soon without real effort. Atoms persist; bits are fleeting.
I wouldn't be so happy about that either. What you call "drug dealers" is people who sell merchandise which the government disapproves. I can remember a lot of things that government disapproved in the past that you wouldn't probably agree with - from beer to black men walking free. So I see no particular reason for happiness here, especially knowing that 50% of drug arrests are marijuana arrests, and that many of those caught are probably some poor losers who sold somebody a couple of packets of marijuana. And who knows what government would ban in 26 years? Sugary sodas? Fatty hamburgers? Purses with wrong embroidery (http://is.gd/m9lqaC)?
India has a strictly-enforced national do-not-call list (among other limitations). Twilio cannot send messages to numbers on this list (other SMS providers are probably in a similar situation). Github probably decided it's better to disallow Indian numbers completely than let you sign up with a number that may not work when you need it. http://www.twilio.com/help/faq/sms/are-there-limitations-on-...
Yes, httpseverywhere breaks it here...
Beautiful but restarting from the beginning on the slightest mistake makes this game negative fun to play.
Juggling Business | Curtis McHale
Thank you. I now understand the need for hellbanning on HN.

But it speaks volumes about HN's filtering that it took this long for me to see the need.
a new one of these little computer in a box things seem to be popping up every couple weeks, are they selling that well to warrant so many companies making so many varieties?
Nokia started in 1865 as a pulp mill and paper manufacturer.
Interesting, I guess I'll have to install it and take a look.

(I've been a long-term mutt user until now, but I did use pine/alpine a few years ago.)
The Kindle and Kindle Fire didn't ring that bell already?
Buy directly from oreilly or pragmatic (or probably others)

There's a different "deal" for every book, or so it seems, so I can't provide anything other than anecdotes WRT price. However both do the "radio button thing" on the main ordering page and you never pay full price for paper and ebook (at least never that I've seen)

I like how Pragmatic uploads the newest edition to my Dropbox if a newer edition is printed in the future. I don't believe they promise to do it in all cases, but it does at least occasionally happen. Always makes me smile, wanna buy some more from them... Cheap and effective marketing indeed.
Android vs. iOS: The green robot wins on app downloads (but not revenue)
LinkedIn files for $1 billion stock offering
It doesn't surprise me the government would be able to find people swapping out phones on a regular basis using this data.

I once worked in the fraud department of a major US mobile carrier. At that time analog was on its last legs, and the new money-making opportunity was bog-standard identity theft. People would sign up for new phones using stolen information and then rent out minutes to immigrants from the back of a van until we found them out and shut down the phone. We had a system that "fingerprinted" usage patterns such that we knew with a fair degree of certainty when a new account was fraudulent based on his usage patters and the people he called.

I don't see any reason why the same technology wouldn't work to identify criminals with boxes full of prepaid phones.
I didn't realise it was a continuous range of heights, 3 set heights would definitely be better as the holes are at set heights. Fantastic game and music, though. Really demonstrates how capable WebGL actually is.
Apple's Sep 10 event invite
Yay, somewhere all the NSA/Snowden/Wikileaks/New World Order/bombing stories can go instead of HN. Huge thumbs up to this.
I've been thinking of making a scripting language in Korean alphabet Hangul. The properties of Hangul alphabet allows you to compress multiple consanants and vowels. for example: system.out.println("Hello"); would be in Korean 시.웃.플("안녕하세요"); the Korean words themselves have no coherent meaning but this is how you could distinguish from the programming language and semantic korean language.
From what I understand based on HN comments over the years, HN proper has lots of special secret sauce to prevent spam, voting fraud, etc.
The comments alone make /r/politics nearly unusable for me. And I honestly tried! /r/WorldNews Isn't much better in that regard and I'd much rather see a forum with limited or no comments than either of those. I still get access to the news and get to avoid the trite in the comments.
Fedora 20 Will Be Named Heisenbug
But MeeGo did ship! And as far as I know the N9 got good reviews.
Out of curiosity, what voting algorithm are you using at the moment? You'll have to tweak it if the site takes off. Especially since people get very particular about politics, even more so than money, and will try to game it in whatever way possible. It could make HN voting rings look benign.
No, but MS just found a way to bootstrap it.
Well said-- "giving his full attention to you." I knew I left out an important point in my comment about meeting Mr. Pohl, and that covers it. I was a 20 yr old who knew close to nothing & had delusions of being a great SF writer one day, but Mr. Pohl treated me as if I were completely sane. He was definitely one of a kind.As you said, a complete gentleman, in the very best meaning of the word.
I also was an early backer of the OUYA and couldn't run a decent netflix version. I side loaded a netflix apk from a tablet version and the result was really poor (low res and impossible navigation). Do they finally have an "official" version of netflix ?
I'm suspect this will be the case until they achieve critical mass. Of course, posting it here will likely help.
Improve DB Performance by Removing Query Logic
Yeah, outright lies like that are definitely bad. But various recruiters have asked me to add some skills to my CV that I personally considered not interesting enough to mention.

Like Scrum. I've worked in Scrum, and I love it. But I didn't really consider it a skill until recruiters pointed out that clients wanted clear Scrum experience.

I've listed SOAP. Is it a skill? It's fairly trivial to work with. (Though I'm amazed some people manage to mess it up. Tools do everything for you. How do you mess that up? But somehow they do.) But I've got experience with it, so I list it, though I'm hardly a SOAP guru.

I don't list Linux, because I'm no system admin. I do know my way around the command line, but everybody programmer can do that, right? Right?

So I've got some skills listed that I consider fluff, but they're not lies. I consider them fluff because they don't really add much, and are certainly not on the same level as a language or framework, but I list them anyway because hiring managers care about them.
Same problem here. I couldn't get it to move properly at all unless I picked the mouse up and moved it.
Micro-stiffie
Verizon Poised to Announce $130 Billion Vodafone Accord
Sure, and for 911 that's one thing. But the poster said GPS is saved in the CDRs, which is something I had not heard of. Otherwise it'd be best-of triangulation if needed. And I was under the impression that was only done for Phase 2 Wireless 911 calls. (And with far less accuracy than GPS.)
Maybe, if it solved the problems of keeping it fresh and not bruising it.
> I feel that I currently only have my programming skills and have no idea how to safely move to something else.

That's a pretty damn good skill to have. I often think the opposite "If only I knew how to program I would..."
Unless it was an execution that allayed my fears for the cleanliness of the fruit and also where it was sourced from (organic), I would not. And I can't envision a cost-effective solution to this that would provide the fruit to me at a reasonable price point.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/28.0.1500.71 Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36]

JS console says:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'firstChild' of null derefnull.org/wx/:290
doParseWxXml derefnull.org/wx/:290
forecastAsync_Update derefnull.org/wx/:148
c jquery.js:4
p.fireWith jquery.js:4
k jquery.js:6
r jquery.js:6
I think MK808 is a much better deal at the same price.
I don't understand "PEOPLE WHO DON’T NEED MONEY.", specifically where the author states "We’ll need a new name for the group of people who have the incomes of the lower middle class and the cultural habits of the wealthy or upper middle class."

Don't we have that already? Comparing the present-day to a generation or two ago, incomes and quality-of-life have changed, but the "middle class" is still the middle class. Two generations ago, having 2 television sets, 2+ cars per household, phones for each person (child or adult), trips overseas, eating foods from all over the world, etc. meant upper class (or quite close to it). Nowadays I'm guessing(!) most families have more than one car, everyone has a cell phone, people travel the world, eat foods from various cultures regularly and go to college more than ever before.

But there's still a notion of "middle class", and always will be. The current "middle class" lives fairly close to the "upper class" of a few generations ago in a lot of ways. Why that is is up for debate (lack of savings? lower wages? Could be a lot of things), but overall I'd say based purely on lifestyle, our current middle class has the cultural habits of the upper class of a few generations ago.
Well, how do I find out which books are eligible, and at what price? Is it available now or coming soon? How do I sign up? Do the books have to be ones I bought through Amazon, or can I like take a picture or something of a book I got at a garage sale?
On an offering like this I always like to look at the use of proceeds, which is the argument (investment thesis) used with investors to try and convince them to subscribe to the offering. In this case they are pretty vague: "increase our financial flexibility and to further strengthen our balance sheet".

Still, "international expansion" and "acquisition[s]" are mentioned. Nonetheless I believe they will be a bit more explicit when meeting funds and investors during bookbuilding.

One final thought: LinkedIn's share price is an all time high, with no fundamentals to support it. This to me is a signal that management believes that share price has peaked (or is about to) and now is the right time to fill the coffers with cash with minimal shareholder dilution. Good move, lets see how the market plays it.
Is there a good website for keeping track of these ARM SoC PC's ? I'd like to see at a glance what is currently available and detailed spec of the chipsets.
There's also https://www.plantdietlife.com that posted here not long ago. Both are interesting and worthy topics. It's getting users engaged with the content, that's the challenge.
I'm adding support for Vagrant.

So you can boot the whole thing with Vagrant. Check out the latest commits.
NULL is a marker that means this data value does not exist in the database.

Your second, and any other 'meanings' are a misuse of NULL, which is your fault, not SQLs
I'm okay with this.

Android Lion

Android Mars

Android Nuts

Android Oreo

Android Peppermint Crisp

They'll have to introduce their own brand of chocolate after that.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/754227/bgimage

It might not be the only bug that believes fences make good neighbors.

FYI: I found out about that from http://io9.com/we-have-absolutely-no-clue-what-built-this-cr...
Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
What’s new for HTML Developers in Blend for Visual Studio 2013
That was kind of my point about the rough start, you won't get emacs to do the real work without putting time into figuring out how to get it to go.

The tutorial is more of a get you started and make sure you can actually edit text in emacs.

The most important parts of the tutorial are the how to save (which most people get to) and getting more help which is probably what people don't get to or understand. It isn't the best thing but it is okay if people make it through the end.

But you're right if you don't want to mess with your editor and `learn` emacs go for a starter kit or go for another editor with bells and whistles included.
>But otherwise I don't have a problem with a war on meth or crack or other drugs that increase the odds that I'll be a victim of violent crime or robbery.

Why do you assume this? Do you think people so inclined have any trouble getting "meth or crack or other drugs"? Prohibition only raises the price, and I could make the argument that just means addicts have to rob people more often before they start having medical problems.
It is also broken on TLS. But to be fair, the ? text says " If it seems borked, your guess is wrong. "
Yes, I am aware of all that. Still, there can be various modes in effect, so it would be nice to have a function that would do a pick (that would work in all modes) instead of me scanning the list all the times.

Also, it would be nice if I could easily remap all keys with the given prefix. Maybe someone wrote library for these things already, I don't know.
A Heartwave-Sensing Wristband That Wants To Replace All Your Passwords & Keys