skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Its also people who poison their kids making meth at home"

This particular problem is immediately solved by legalizing recreational methamphetamine. Pharmaceutical companies make methamphetamine too, and their production processes are well-regulated, produce drugs without hazardous adulterants, and do not put children in danger.

I agree with you otherwise, that the social problems caused by recreational drug abuse will not just go away if drugs are legalized. Quite a few of those problems, however, are unique to black market drugs. People would not be throwing garbage bags full of chemical byproducts onto the side of a highway if they could just produce the drugs legally. Likewise with opiates: you would not see "Krokodil" or any of the other botched attempts to replace heroin if recreational opiates were legal and accessible. Likewise with the numerous "gray area" attempts to replace marijuana. These are artificial problems with an easy solution; the rest of the social problems associated with drug abuse can and should be addressed without prohibition.
Why is this court even allowed to make such ruling anymore? Take the case straight to the Supreme Court. FISC is a joke that needs to be immediately disbanded.
> Countries don't just skip that stage in their evolution, short of some mythical utopia project, however much we might like to think they can.

However, countries cannot simply follow other countries' recipes for "success". Unbridled optimism hurts. Economic development (not to be confused with economic growth) is not an inevitable process. There are many pitfalls and it is a constant effort to stay on the path towards economic development to reach a point where you become a developed nation and can look forward to growth.

There is no simple blue print for guaranteed success. What worked for South Korea might not work for Bangladesh.
This is not actually true. Both amphetamine and methamphetamine are neurotoxic: methamphetamine is both more potent and less neurotoxic per 'dose'.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22289608

Also, as an anecdote, I have received d-amphetamine by prescription and have taken Desoxyn about five times. They're not that different, Desoxyn is subjectively 'cleaner'.

I stick to caffeine though, and roughly half a Modafinil every two weeks. Amphetamine is just not my friend. Your mileage may vary.
Yeah I know the Blue screen comes on Windows 7 ( and 8 ) Just that it has not happened to me ( I have had the crashes )
> since drug addicts are unlikely to have many kids

This is very wrong. Drug addicts have plenty of children.
I should have indicated that my post was sarcasm, but I think the underlying point is correct. Most of our lives are determined by extremely powerful people because power and wealth are distributed in extremely unequal ways. The point being that HN posters complaining about Zuckerberg and his hypocritical views on privacy is not unlike an ant complaining about the kid who owns the ant farm. What are they gonna do about it?
("... Most of the owners could obviously afford to pay employees better given the incredible amounts of wealth that the factory owners have accumulated and having gone to school with some of their children, I know quite a few factory owners personally. The reason they don't pay more comes down to simply business principles. The objective of a labor intensive business is to drive costs down the lowest possible amount legally. That is what they do.")

That's a fancy way of saying that they are greedy. Which is what "business practice" really is. Pay your workers crap and reap the rewards. Meanwhile the society as a whole hasn't benefited at all (except more low-wage work struggling to live life). But the owners have. Bully for them.
Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director
If there is a blue screen, and it crashes after showing it, it can be called the BSOD.

Anyway, it's official, it's on Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death#iPhone_5S :)
I saw this last week with a really fascinating Q&A from Assange, thought he was very compelling. I'm not sure how the people of Sixteen Films will feel about this "challenging" The Fifth Estate though.

It was a worthwhile doc as well, worth the watch - much better than the Alex Gibney thing earlier this year, which felt very much phoned in.
So if someone starts fingering a random girl in public and she freezes in shock and fear, it's not sexual assault because she couldn't gather her wits in time to resist? Because that's what happened.
They're the patent trolls we're trying to defend against. Are you also going to ask the NSA to protect people's privacy?
We should really stop calling it "war on drugs". It's really the "war on the communities of black and brown people" and so is on par with the US legal apparatus since the country's founding
They should be exactly the same barring any showstopper bugs that get uncovered in the GM.
Temporal databases and immutability are independent concepts. A 'time series database' only solves the simple temporal database problems. When validity comes into play things become really hard (something was entered yesterday but will be valid from tomorrow).
And that's how long I've been MS-free :-).
I was surprised that they had anything ready on October 1st. I expected at least a six month delay. Not because of hurr durr government can't do anything right, but that's the nature of large scale IT projects. They're extremely hard to manage, especially when there are a lot of third party systems involved.
I did mention that MS "cast the first stone" in the comment I linked. However, if you look deeper, Motorola had started with the outrageous demands (which they got convicted for) even earlier, and MS sued preemptively. They definitely sued first, but when a lawsuit is inevitable, it's tactically better to sue first, because e.g. you can choose a more favorable jurisdiction etc.

So if the demands were so outrageous that they got fined millions for it, can you still say they were using them "defensively"?
Yep, I was wrong (fixed the post).

The empty list does not have a head, neither a tail, it's just an empty list.

I've replaced it with another example. Thanks for all the feedback by the way.
Is SALTYSATAN a metal band or a sex act?
HDF5 is a hierarchical data storage format, it doesn't store or 'execute' code or retrieve language objects. In fact, it has nothing more to do with python or python data structures than NetCDF, geotiff or .mkv.

I guess this comparison is just saying "don't use pickle to efficiently store data"... Which is a bit of a 'dur'...
Phone verification may have been performed using a phone number listed on the fake fax, if at all.
Which, in turn, is one of the inspirations for urbit:

http://www.urbit.org/2013/09/25/continuity.html
TSA threatens travelers with arrest for making jokes about security
This comes after the intense backlash following the squashing of the project's entire contributor/commit history.

I was wondering why the issue complaining about this didn't have any recent updates.

---

EDIT: It looks like some people may have used the Issues system to launch asinine political bromides against Obamacare proper - that were and are completely impertinent to the GitHub project. This could have been part of the reasoning for closing off the repo, but I've never dealt with users basically defacing my Issues system, so I don't know what your options are as repo owner in a situation like that.
"Call me again when it gets the Review function right. Your average college professor isn't going to learn how to use a version control system to suggest changes to his student's thesis-in-progress."

I suspect this is the ultimate longevity of Word. Retraining is a real pain. So the only way to kill Word is by a thousand cuts. One of those cuts seems to be Google's documents. A number of non-technical folks can now send me a document in Google Docs so I don't have to switch from my Linux desktop to something else to access it, and Google has done a reasonable job of auto importing Word.

So domain specific solutions, with "good enough" import/export may be the solution.
You make some good points, so how about the point that's really getting to me?

THREE AND A HALF YEARS

That is, March 23, 2010 to October 1, 2013, 2 days after the Congress was finished with it. The Administration's CTO should have been bird dogging this from about then, along with the HHS specialists who we know have a clue (CMS.gov and Medicare.gov).

They've had plenty of time to get the basic signup system working ... that should have been undergoing stress testing a long time ago, not failing on people as attested to in this discussion.

We often talk about the triad of time, money and quality. They've had plenty of time, and obviously quality was punted. Is anyone claiming they didn't have enough money to the point it could have caused this level of failure?
And this is my imho simpler approach: https://github.com/rofrol/.configs

Store all configs in ~/.configs, and make symlinks to ~/ with install.sh. There is also push_configs.sh to rsync configs to some host and users
Wrong area of California
I have an older 3xxx card as well and enabling DPM noticeably reduced work temperatures. I'd say the temperature levels with DPM enabled are similar to using fglrx propriety drivers.
I don't automatically feel outrage when I hear about someone aspiring to work a sewing machine. But when I hear about the conditions, and how many hours are worked, then the outrage comes. After all, with that many hours bent over, sitting on the floor, the body is put under a lot of stress it wasn't evolved to handle. That young girl may become crippled by her work and be unable to continue. At that point, will her job support her disability? I think not. And when that happens, will her outcome be better than the outcome of women who didn't have the benefit of her job? Probably not. The fact is that if and when this girl slows down at her work, she will be replaced by someone faster, and tossed to the curb, at which point she may or may not be sufficiently viable to marry a rickshaw operator.

So I would add:

4. What are the 'first world' governments' roles?

To encourage international trade for goods that are generated from countries with healthy labor laws. The first round of countries that went through the Industrial Revolution didn't have the (potential) benefit of other, post-industrial countries that could at least provide outside pressure to prevent corporations from exploiting people.

Unfortunately that potential benefit is a drawback more often than not, because there isn't strong international pressure to enact good labor laws. When such an environment doesn't exist, it is difficult for a country to bootstrap its own laws, because such laws may raise the price of goods relative to other countries.

There should be an environment where a country without labor protections finds that it can't trade with other countries.

Of course such an international environment alone won't guarantee improvements. But it's a start. In this age of multinational corporations, its an enormous form of leverage for a company to say, "Oh, you're forcing me to pay $10 an hour? I'll just take my factory and go over here..." Such leverage can be reversed: "Oh, your labor laws don't meet U.N. standards? We'll move our money over here..."
Watsi has too much overhead per child to make a difference on this level I think.

Why not do what the entire world should be doing in the first place? Pay children to go to school.

This way you remove the overhead of a campaign for every single child, and make sure they are going to school at the same time.
Remarkably powerful tool the FAX machine, to many bureaucracies have them connected directly into the brain.
I'd just go with "war on the people".

Easier to fit in a soundbite.
My debit card got skimmed at a gas station this past week. It was used that same day to make purchases in LA (about 3 hours south of me).

Now that this is happening in other types of retail stores, maybe it will spur the use of more secure options (chip and pin?).
It's logical that people would want to defend these things because abusive labor practices are driving almost every aspect of our lives in the Western world. Our food, our clothes, our phones, our computers, our furniture, almost everything that we buy is manufactured and sold though exploitation.

People have a tendency to fight problems when they seem manageable, but labor exploitation is so out of control, the only options seem like flight into some kind of back-to-the-land movement or justification. It's too bad that this kind of mentality is so prevalent among people who think of themselves as problem solvers.
Exactly. If someone goes as far as a body shot , I consider something like kissing very minor detail. Maybe its a cultural thing.

I see this in movies all the time. Now you guys are telling me its sexual assault.
...no. My copy of the Codex is among my most treasured tomes.

It is so far from boring that I have agreements with myself about when and how I peruse it, to keep the pleasure and wonder of discovery going for as long as possible.

If you're not a fan of incredible, surreal, self-consistent art, then the Codex is not for you. The text is kinda hard to read. ;-)
> I know you work for Google, so you must have the
> technical competency to see the nuance; can you say with
> a straight face that this was "copying"?

My personal belief is that it was copying, yes. There is no other legitimate reason to phone home which results a user clicked on in a competing search engine.

> Is it any different from the tracking Google of Facebook
> do across the web via their various products?

When I go to a site with Analytics on it, the site operator chose to put that code on their page and they're the ones using the resulting data. In my opinion, tracking scripts are morally no different from analyzing server logs.

In contrast, the toolbar in question appears to record the user's behavior across the entire web, then send it back to the toolbar's developer. The purpose appears to be distributed scraping of search results across various search engines (it's not just Google being copied from, here).

If Chrome reported which links people clicked on to Google, there would be an uproar (and rightly so). In terms of malicious behavior, tracking a user's clicks on web sites and sending them to a third party is only one step above a keylogger.
We call this "rape culture."
Matches Seglousy will love this one.
Same here. Really impressive.
Most likely when he sends a plain text file to his editor, he gets back a .doc file with the revisions and annotations.
Pre-PHP 5.3 -> Right off the bat: no namespace support, no closures, no surprises there

I am a bit surprised about the lack of OO though...
> Mostly because he was drugged, physically and psychologically tortured and reduced to his basic instinct and given option to experience its greatest fear or 'love' Big Brother.

Sounds remarkably like using Microsoft Office.
Having lived in the Bay Area for more than half a decade, I can confidently say it has a lot to do with the fact that many people prefer to live in SF than in the suburbs (night life, etc) and building a company in SF is an attractive thing compare to asking people to commute (even if there are people doing it).
I have absolutely no idea what this comment means; sorry.
No offense, but your comment is full of shit! I really doubt the person who you responded to is a "Grown-ass white men getting paid to develop digital toys justifying to themselves why the situation for 9 year old sweatshop workers is good enough"

You sound to me like fashionista looking at a bum and lamenting that he doesn't have an Armani suit (oh My!). Sure things aren't good enough around the world. It's easy to appear morally "superior", but quite frankly, it's a lot worse in other places. (Last I check, things were looking that great in Somalia either)

Bangladesh was part of Pakistan, and looking at the situation objectively they're in a much better position than Pakistan is. I'd rather have a corrupt government where people are outraged and talking about minimum wage than having to focus merely on survival. The place has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and while there are filthy rich people there and filthy poor too, the gap between the too has narrowed significantly over the last 20 years.

Believe it or not, it's the "start up" crowd who made a good bit of the difference in the third world. India has been transformed by the IT industry, and Bangladesh is well on it's way. There are those who bitch and moan and there are those who do something. And if one took their head out of their ass long enough to see reality for what it is, they would notice how much of this is article is sensationalism and how much is really about actually helping the poor and doing something. And yes, I do get to say something about it b/c I do spend a significant amount of time DOING something about it rather than just bitching.

Good luck getting all the bums Armani suits, those with some sense will hopefully continue to help in getting them food and shelter first.
Ship too late and none of it will matter.
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On my old laptop, an HP G61 something, I had a Mobility 4200. I hadn't been able to test it with the released 3.11 (replaced it before it was out), but I did always add the patches from the drm-next branch that was developing all of this. It did make a decent change in the temperature of the whole laptop. From being about 60C down to about 40C if I remember right. At least when I wasn't trying to run minecraft.
The BEAM virtual machine is able to reorder most clauses based on need, and for most cases, a binary search will be done through all clauses. Exceptions include function clauses with guards, which cannot easily be reordered but still impact whether a clause will be used or not.

The VM will instead try to reorder the clauses up until the next guard clause, if possible.

You should mostly care about writing readable code and let the compiler and the VM do the rest.
Yes that was a mistake I made. I've fixed it now thanks to your feedback, with a proper example.
When I'm in a rush for a tldr, I want to flick through a few slides and move on with browsing something else. But, there are a lot of times that I'm not in a rush. When I'm taking a walk or riding the bus, an MP3 of a presentation is a great way to have someone slowly explain an idea that I'm interested in -but not enough to actively concentrate on researching.

Relaxing at home on the couch is another time that I'm not in a rush. I've largely replaced evening TV time with watching presentations on various topics. InfoQ is perfect for that. I get to have an expert take an hour to carefully explain a topic that I'm only tangentially interested in while I semi-nap on my couch after dinner with a beer. This has become a low-effort means for me to gain a high-level understanding of a broad range of topics that I wouldn't otherwise have the time or willpower to sit down and actively study.
Who then edited his comment to say that her DUI charges were unforgivable

I avoided that part of the post, but a DUI is something you bring on yourself and not something I can easily forgive. People driving drunk kill people. You don't get to say, "Yes I could have murdered people but don't you see I was distraught". "Oh, ok, it's fine then"
Will China Colonize and Incorporate Siberia? (2012)
It's actually a useful thought to bring in. You can actually prove, mathematically, that controlling a system becomes "more difficult" in a few important ways when your input is to a derivative of the system rather than the system itself.
Yeah, I read the "Opposition" too, looking for what Ars was talking about - I assume that is the section that prompted their headline.

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Opposi...

But, is this argument flawed in a legal sense? What other legal principle says that obtaining the business records (i.e. phone records, web browsing history) of one person is different from millions of people?

I have an intuitive sense that (a) it's bad because it makes a mockery of limited government (b) just as deepening a search into one person requires more justification (probable cause, etc), widening a search ought to require similar special justification.
Basic real time chat built on node.js
Of course it's welfare. That doesn't mean it's bad, it just means that they are not doing any work to get it.
Has GTA changed this much that money became a real thing? Real as in used to buy gear, finite amount and has an economy? What happened to memorizing game pad combinations whenever you needed some quick cash for your escapades?
What? I'm doing it wrong because I work 40 hours a week at a job I love, then go home in time to go for a walk in the park, read a book and watch the sunset, play a sport, and see friends?

I'm glad whatever you're doing works for you, but don't assume everyone else has similar needs.
I don't think that's at all realistic without massively subsidized hardware from Valve so the linux version can be the 'best' version, or someone risking hundreds of millions of dollars on exclusivity so the linux version can be the 'only' version.
My girlfriend put her hand in my pants without asking this morning, so she's part of 'rape culture'?
Temporal databases rely on the immutability of each record (whether by convention or as a system guarantee). Changes are no longer expressed with updates on a given row; instead you add new rows to represent the change.
> Society can hardly intervene in every individual's self destruction. But it cannot allow drugs which are not useful for anything BUT self destruction.

Why not? Should I not be permitted to destroy myself if I so choose?
You're ignoring the fact of globalization. Corporations and their consumers are getting more and more sophisticated at targeting and exploiting the countries with the worst labor laws. Multi national corporations are getting more sophisticated at evading scenarios where particular host countries (i.e. post-industrial nations) attempt to curb their exploitation.

This is a real and scary problem. It is not without precedent--the horrors perpetuated by the unfettered corporation-states during the colonial era are an example of the results of 'self policing', which is too often society's answer to how corporations should be regulated.

This makes for a situation that is worse than that faced by the first rounds of Industrial Revolution countries, for labor movements have little power when economic benefits actively bypass countries with more regulations and flow to the most corrupt and exploitation-friendly countries.

Perhaps we cannot (yet) create a utopia where every human who is born has a healthy and labor-light life. But we can refuse to accept the 'actual realities' and try to prevent scenarios where wealth is distributed to the exploiters and not the exploitees.
Why would someone downvote this comment?
I guess shipping is more important to you than the possibility of losing user details (or worse). Christ, I hope I never give my details to a company you found.

Shipping quickly is important but it's also important to write quality code. Small bugs that can easily be fixed are fine but security problems or bugs related to payments, for example, are not.
Ask HN: What's the diff b/w a lifestyle business, a side project and a startup?
How would you define whether what you are building is a lifestyle business, side project or a startup?

Are there any other categories that I have not listed?

Thanks

Sawyer
When I upgraded Windows machines I always went with a complete fresh install. Since switching to MAc I've always just run the upgrade.

What do people on HN recommend? Using this technique to do a complete reinstall, or upgrading?