skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I wasn't clear. It's not that the drugs are "not so bad", it's just that the fog around something so horribly stigmatized prevents any sensible treatment program.

The only thing society does if there's a major drug Moral Panic is to punish the offenders severely. Putting people in prison just causes huge problems all around, even for those not in prison. We end up with a prison-industrial complex and a militarized police force.

Illegal drugs do indeed destroy families and lives: but prison is almost certainly not any help for those issues. We've got AA for booze, Narcotics Anonymous for heroin, etc etc. Those actually seem to make a difference. The Moral Panics around particular drugs keep us from helping the people involved.
When I go to bingiton.com it redirects to bing.com so I can't do the challenge.
Have you considered using any Graphite alternatives? I found it to be very slow with rendering data, especially when multiple arrays are being used as sources. Also, it lacks some features that graphs rendering software is generally supposed to have, at least the half-a-year old version.
Can a non-citizen apply?
Many of the tools are actually reused again and again. However, between uses they are sterilized using an autoclave and then immediately put into sealed bags to maintain sterility.
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4:45pm on a Friday before a long weekend.
Nice! yeah, this would be preferable. If there's a catastrophe in the opposite lane, I'd really love it if it could stay over there while I'm going 70 miles an hour in the opposite direction :P
You seriously need to get F.lux. Totally free, works on multiple OS's, and shifts your color/brightness on your monitor throughout the day to more naturally mimic natural light. This means it starts blue and bright in the AM, and gets darker and more orange in the evenings. It can be pretty noticeable if you are away and come back to your screen, but if you are on it for extended periods you never even notice the shift.

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While the results returned are of use, Bing It On removes any of the right-hand side Google content pulled from Wikipedia and other databases which differentiate Google results quite a bit more than the Bing results (especially for quick returns on top hits). Selecting only a portion of a page is not really a fair comparison. That said, the effort did get me to take a closer look at the two and evaluate which one I preferred. I just didn't pick their horse.
Also, are you using local statsd installations at each server that is sending stats, or you keep statsd separately?
© 2013 Errplane Inc.

Can anyone clarify the relationship between this and Errplane - is this a rebranding, a new complementary product, a new iteration of the existing product, etc?
I see this all the time in Massachusetts - Route 2 West to Route 95 North, about a mile from my home. At rush hour there are always enough jerks playing the "merge at the last minute" game that only the left lane is still moving significantly, and sometimes not even then. Every once in a while there's an accident because people who were unaware of this "congest all the lanes" behavior didn't see a blocked left lane soon enough.

You're right, it's a major dick move. It's reckless and endangering; police should treat it accordingly.
Bingo. It's amazing how many people don't understand this.
Excellent point and I hope the founders are listening. Target 1-3 very specific use cases and push that hard. It has gotten a lot of buzz around SEO circles so hopefully that community will support this project if they feel it helps enough in their day to day jobs.
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It doesn't really look like cleaning that would be as straightforward as cleaning a lot of the equipment that dental hygienists use.
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(And this is where anyone with a background in writing sighs.)
A study produced by a party with an interest in producing a particular result? It's more likely thank you think.
For the record, I am "that guy" who runs all the way down to the end of the closed lane before merging over. Except I don't consider it an asshole move because as OP points out, I'm making the best use of the road ahead (while allowing fewer people to merge ahead of me)

In interstate travel I have noticed the increasing frequency of the "two trucks" maneuver, in which a big rig driven by someone philosophically opposed to your habit will drive in the "closed ahead" lane directly alongside another big rig in the "open but crawling" lane. Once the two trucks near the point of obstruction, the "open" driver is happy to let the "closed" one merge in, and there is no merging at the point of obstruction, which is both a safety and traffic-flow win.

I contend that the two truckers have done more to speed actual traffic flow (i.e. from a point before the obstacle to a point after it) than any number of assholes have. While at the beginning of the maneuver there is a solid line of fuming assholes behind the "closed" truck, by the time the obstacle has been reached all fuming asshole traffic has completely merged behind the "open" truck. Since it is only merging at the point of obstruction that slows traffic more than the obstruction itself already has, this is a net win.

Of course this maneuver must be repeated by successive pairs of truckers, and occasionally an asshole will "win" by racing forward between pairs, but that's minor.
At the end of https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read#leanpub-auto-val..., it states that when you do this:

var ouroboros = [];
ouroboros[0] = ouroboros;
//=> [ [Circular] ]

Examining ouroboros and ouroboros[0] with '===' will show that they are different.

But isn't that wrong? Comparing a reference of 'ouroboros' to whatever's in 'ouroboros[0]', which happens to be a reference of 'ouroboros' will return true.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the statement?
Also needs a string.replace("less", "fewer") in v1
Delete all cookies, visit google.com and tell it you speak english.
Ahh. the long weekend! Too bad those don't happen too often. We tend to push a new update every couple of days, sometimes a couple times a day.
Perhaps the point of the article was to stir conversation, but I'd prefer it if they'd actually propose some ideas, rather than saying that it's different now.

I'm not a huge fan of Agile, but I do think it encourages some good ideas. That said, I'd love to hear what the analogs are for remote work from the perspective of a company that really does it.
Reg: Is there a way after reading the book to donate a few bucks in a tip jar? It's unlikely that I ever purchase this ebook but I would maybe like to toss a 10 spot your way for the value I will extract from this.
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This sounds like a pretty nice work environment.
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But how do you clean the cleaning brushes?
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Maybe this can be my next weekend project. I've been itching to try Rethink, and it sounds ideal for this sort of thing. What sorts of logs are you thinking of?

By the way, you can email me if you want to discuss this more at length (email is in profile).
Not quite, you have to sterilize the things in the bag.
Microsoft’s Windows Azure deemed secure by the Feds
Sample size is immaterial unless you clearly can see and evaluate the criteria under which they were chosen. 8000 of 9000 dentists choose Brand X toothpaste means nothing if they asked 100,000 people and found 8,000 willing to say they liked Brand X. By itself the sample size that is indicated may have little to do with the actual test.
It says it is a bigger problem at low speeds.
Good points. Although even a brief comparison of similar yet somewhat inapplicable examples might be handy.

I'm old enough to have spent considerable time doing interactive arithmetic drills on a Commodore PET... Other than not being online, and having much lower res graphics (as if that matters) I'm not sure if there is a difference in the last 30+ years in that small sub-genre, so that tiny sub-genre would be a good area to explore.

Its still a good article, within its self imposed bounds. There's so much interesting / exciting stuff just barely over that boundary...
Only if you'd be able to use those 3 minutes productively. You can't sit down at a computer and work for just a minute and a half, you'd have to be able to get to work a minute and a half sooner to capitalize on this. If you have a salaried job then this makes no difference.
you're obsessing again. get over it.

-bowerbird
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You know, I see that argument all the time - 3 minutes here, 1 minute there. But I just wasted 5 minutes of my life where I zoned out staring at the ceiling. Sometimes you can justify 'wasting' 18 hours per year.

Also, it's not like you stop thinking in those 3 minutes per day, you can still use that time for something constructive, even if that something isn't using your hands.
Thats what I was thinking, for me this is a bit in the "I can't believe they invented it" territory. A 3d printing curiosity.
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> you can be anywhere

It will help job seekers if you put REMOTE in the first line of the posting.
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That's a bit of a simplification. When I brush my teeth, I am often doing something else as well. So it doesn't end up costing me 4 minutes of my free time every day.
I'm now looking for work.
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that most of us/the HN crowd can't fairly do the bingiton challenge.

At least for me, it's really quite easy to tell them apart just based on subtleties. I.E. Not the quality of the content itself but just how its presented. And if there are ever images involved, it gets even easier because Google and Bing display them completely differently (and honestly I think Bing does a more elegant/"nicer" job of it)
If you're into simple, hosted services, you might give http://www.postagon.com a try.
Sometimes MySQL is more standards-compliant than PostgreSQL
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You are assuming that you'd use those extra 3 minutes a day doing something that's worth >$17/hr. In most cases, it probably just means hitting the sack 3 minutes early. I've always found these types of arguments perplexing because while 18 hours at one time can be used to great effect, 1.5 minutes at a time cannot. I waste that much time just flipping through the HN headlines, which I would not pay $17/hr to do.
Now just give it some rigidity and attach it to a Sonicare handle. The high frequency vibration and resultant cavitation kill bacteria (or so says some papers on it).
Apparel has actually been the driving force in e-commerce over the last few years: http://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/apparel-drives-r...
It's also very easy to extend.

True. I hadn't done any PHP coding in many years, and knew essentially nothing about how WP worked, but Google + tenacity = useful results. Shortcodes, for example; super cool.

There are plenty of WTF moments in PHP and Wordpress but nothing that prevents pragmatic results.
Sorry I don't have anything more constructive to say, but you have Europe and Asia reversed.

5:00 PT is midnight UTC, so Europe is more likely to have just gone to bed.
This isn't a statement about grammar, or how to structure your writing pieces. Its about articles / blogs I stumble upon (from hackernews) which are needlessly long. I want to read something, understand the message the author is trying to convey, and I want to move on.
...oh. Wow, major reading comprehension fail there. Thanks.
Looking at the source, there are a ton of hidden <input type="text"> fields. At first I thought the author was saying that it was because the field was stretched to 300px wide.
I- I- I mean- what? I apologize for writing short, pithy posts about a topic you clearly care a lot about, but what? Let's ignore the part where I referred to a current fad game to make a clearly joking reference. Your country has always loved its learned men, its gentry-without-titles, and sometimes its celebrities, for politicians. Lincoln and FDR were lawyers, Reagan was an actor for chrissakes. You think they had a better understanding of The Economy than you or Obama? Who was the most recent self-made businessman/CEO to be your president? Who was the most recent president to have declared bankruptcy as a result of business risk-taking in his career? You wrote about Obama's failings specifically in your first post - now they're turned into the last fifty years? And you think the partisan showdown going on now is an improvement over that?
This also causes the tab to freeze on the OS X version of Safari as well.

OS X 10.9 (13A584)

Safari 7.0 (9537.71)
I haven't even got a generic no
Good analytics will help you define what time of the day (or day of the week) is your traffic slump.
The only downside to DuckDuckGo is the results are terrible -- I don't care the claims are, this search provider doesn't in the same league of intelligent search results as Google or Bing.
Yeah, I just checked that as well. Perhaps after a touch event occurs, Safari iterates across all DOM nodes with the same tag to see which DOM node's coordinates intersects with the touch's XY point?
Here's me "blindly" picking Bing 5 times: http://i.imgur.com/NAuhhhV.png

This is why I'm skeptical of anyone here saying "I got Bing 100%" or "I got Google 100%". It's extremely easy for us to game.
By making custom tooth-brush cleaning brush cleaning brushes that are tailored to each tooth-brush cleaning brush they produce?
As someone who paid real money for this book, I am not sure how I feel about this...
of all the companies you listed, Scribd is the only one I've heard of.
Oddly enough, that's exactly what this post says in a completely serious manner.
I did look at the greater landscape. What I found great about Graphite is the number of functions you have to massage the metrics. Not all metrics come in the same form (total number of bytes received since boot, or number of bytes received per second) and things like the `hitcount` and the `perSecond` (in the upcoming 0.10) functions really help.

It can indeed be slow, and this is usually a I/O issue. The Whisper storage backend does a lot of seeks, and people recommend using SSDs to deal with that. Also, you can have graphite-web just give you the (calculated) metric data for a particular query in JSON, and have it rendered client-side. http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tools.html lists a few.

Finally, we are investigating other storage backends for more fault tolerance. Probably we'll settle on something based on Cassandra, like http://blueflood.io/.
The conditions of the problem would be clearer if they didn't hide the extra form elements. But then they wouldn't be able to get the punch of "a simple form breaks iOS 7!"
I thought we were talking about freeway/tollway/highway traffic? If there are side streets, that's a different situation.
This is technology fixing a problem that doesn't exist.
"There have been theories that (insert language) has always been superior for (insert hard science) because of inherent linguistic advantages."

I've never heard any of those theories coming from anybody who wasn't some know-nothing engineer whose idea of high literature was old Larry Niven stories.
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I think these curves are meant only for animations. For game logic curves, you should choose an elementary function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_functions...) that fits your curve best and implement the math yourself. For an EXP-needed-to-level function, it would be simplest to implement an eponential curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth) of the form c⋅b^x. In your game, that would be (initial_exp ⋅ (growth_rate ^ level_number)). Or you could implement the quartic function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic_function), which represents the easeInQuad curve you liked on the web page.
This is interesting but a pointless optimization. I use a cheap brush and have no dental issues to date. Also, for those of you like me who will criticize this -- make sure your small business isn't a virtual analogue of this.