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>> and the first step in the legalization of Marijuana at the Federal level.

You don't want that. Trust me, you don't that. All you need to do is look at how heavily regulated tobacco is. Right now, the way to get people to stop smoking is to simply make it unaffordable. It just keeps getting taxed more and more and the price keeps going up and up.

Thinking the Feds will do a better job than the states is a joke. Look at how well the states have handled their own Obamacare exchanges and then how the Federal Obamacare website is a joke. If anything, this should be left at a state level. Let them regulate, tax and decide whether the people in that state want to allow it.
In fact, there are many members of Congress that would be delighted to oppose whatever the ACLU is recommending (and perhaps even put out a press release announcing it!).
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so after 100 hours of work,
you think that your advice
will be worth $100 an hour?

whatever happened with that
10,000 hours thing? inflation?

-bowerbird
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Confirming a Kepler planet requires observing multiple transits of the planet, so it takes several years if it's an Earth-like orbit. On top of that, the analysis and confirmation and peer review take time.

Incidentally, Kepler's been partially revived - they're going to point it somewhere else that doesn't require the reaction wheels to stay stable.
This is great work. Anyone have any references to animating an entire SVG object by location and size at the same time? For example, slide the SVG diagonally while increasing it's size. I'm particularly interested in doing this with D3 objects.
Looks slick. From the title, I was under the impression that this thing could talk to the native Airdrop app on iOS. Looks like that's not the case? Maybe it'd be more accurate to call it an Airdrop-like app for Android :)
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data mining, paper writing, and peer review are inherently slow. We'll be seeing new Kepler papers for quite a few more years, I think.
I'd "create" a big fat check to help the less fortunate.
Oh my, Midtown Madness! The VW Bug was such bullshit, it had the acceleration of a Ferrari. Loved bombing around town fishtailing in the cadillac though!
Medical insurance software.
Raising the price through taxes is likely to put off new young smokers who will find it incredibly difficult to afford. It probably won't deter as many adults who can afford the price increase even if it does piss them off. I've also known some people who have switched to cheaper, lower quality cigarettes because of the price increases rather than quitting. In other words raising the prices has caused them to seek a worse alternative for their health.
Silk Road 2.0 Launches
In a far off yet inevitable future of bounty and abundance... physical and emotional pain have been edited out of our genetic code, replaced by neurochemically enhanced empathy & bliss & a lavish minimum income frees our leaders to put social good ahead of job security.

Until then, we're still living primitively... in the jungle as a savage, infant race.
This is just crap!!! The google guys are no better.
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The conduct in this case is not the fiber tapping, but the possession and use of U.S. citizen data by the NSA. It does not matter how they gather it, their restrictions are the same--they must limit and justify it.
> Any regulation would need to be sufficiently loose that you do not need a black market.

No, it wouldn't. There are black markets in many legal goods to evade taxes and other elements of regulation, and yet the social harms associated with such black markets tend to be much less than for similar goods that are prohibited (compare alcohol before and after Prohibition).

You mostly seem to be arguing if we can't have a perfect scheme for legalization and regulation, we should instead keep the status quo prohibition, but a legal-and-regulated scheme can be far from perfect (indeed, can even be quite bad) and be a marked improvement from the status quo.

> I would argue that the most important impact of drug use is to people who are not drug users.

I'd like to see that argument (and note that "argue" and "assert" are not the same thing.)
I'd like to read more about this. Do you have a source for this?
I'm an ex heroin addict. Have been on Suboxone for a year and a half (nearly off it, only two months to go yay!) after being addicted from 16-22 years old.

Would I still be where I am if heroin was legal and I was on that for ORT instead of Suboxone? I think I would -- as it stands, I'm still on an extremely strong opiate daily, but it is pure and legal, so a lot of the issues fall away from it.

The problem is: that's just me! Your brother might be completely different, and that sucks :( An argument can be made, however, that because one person might not benefit (I'd argue that it won't make his situation worse: he's already an addict, like I was, if it's now clean and doesn't require breaking the law to get..) does that mean that those who can should miss out?

It's a complex issue, and you raised some great points about how people conflate "drugs" as if they were all the same. I'm still not sure where the answer lies, but I'm pretty certain what we have now isn't working.
<i>"The difference should be that in a democracy you can't abuse your power without repercussions."</i>

Do you see the irony? Western governments are abusing their powers.. and they are getting away with it. Democracy means nothing if the government doesn't hold itself accountable.
That's quite a claim. Right now the NSA holds privileged information for millions of Americans. What happens if one of those people becomes some populist political entity. It would be trivial for the NSA to leak dirt of any kind (sexual fetishes, hangups, private emails to wife, other private things that when taken to the public would look bad, trash talking others, etc) to help discredit this person. Imagine that this person ran on a platform for cutting down the NSA or reforming the intelligence agencies. How "protected" do you think this "metadata" would be?

The Chinese wouldn't do that to me. They don't have a dog in this fight.
Side note: Sec 702 of the FAA gives NSA complete immunity from all federal, state, and local laws, criminal prosecutions, and civil lawsuits when doing this kind of fiber tapping. "Notwithstanding" is an extremely powerful phrase. Wildcard. Trumps all other laws.

(And this is why some of us were concerned about CISPA, which uses the identical language. Note CISPA's proponents have quietly faded into the woodwork post-Snowden revelations.)
The data from these observatories can take some time to analyze. As for the spacecraft, they are currently investigating whether there is other science, or other methods to hunt for exoplanets, that can be performed despite the loss of half of the reaction wheels.
Privacy. It'll be more obvious as I get more apps done, but you can replace remote services with pages in the browser and avoid sending data away.
No, democracy means nothing if the people don't hold the government accountable.

Relying on the government to hold itself accountable makes democracy no different from monarchy.
How about we end assigning meaningless catchy phrases to boring but important US policies. There is no "war on sex" or "war on religion" in the US only news organizations framing policies in that manor to get ratings.
Slashdot wasn't that different in its early days, a little less startup and a little more Linux.
Where I live McDonalds are the only fast food chain to hammer the fact that their burgers are 100% pure beef (produced inside the borders of my country even).

Don't know if it is correct but repeating it on tv for months sounds risky if they are lying.
Assuming this life is not techological civilizations that were hiding in plain sight, such a discovery would be bad news for us because it put us before the great filter.

cf http://www.technologyreview.com/article/409936/where-are-the...
I think the compatibility is done with libhybris: https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris

Anyway, I am so excited about this. I think 2 means they have a real shot at this, and their product looks great.

I just got an N9, but it seems the N9 port is dubious at this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6647428

Still, I'm very happy for Jolla. Maybe I'll drop 500+ bucks on it when it comes out.

edit: Uh oh, update again, looks like it's possible!

http://wiki.maemo.org/OS

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=90761&page=17
I object to the word because it implies that those who pay more taxes deserve more protection, while those who pay no taxes (children, the elderly, the poor) deserve none.
I got addicted at 16. Was easier than convincing someone at a bottle shop to sell alcohol to me.
Agreed. LXDE is my favorite light desktop. I just hope that in the migration from GTK to qt, they manage to keep the memory footprint and CPU resource usage as low as it has always been.
Probably, nothing changes untill we start communicating with them, what may take a while. If we start feeling less significant, well, list that in the benefits... But I doubt it'll happen.

Rationaly, we should start looking hard for the explanation to Fermi's Paradox. Since it's not in our past, it must be in our future, what's very bad. But we are not rational, so we probably won't.
pycparser (https://github.com/eliben/pycparser) - a complete front-end for C99 in pure Python. Used in production by tools like cffi.
In regards to #1 I understand your point. I am suggesting that a large portion of software developers in startups do have significant responsibility, authority and share of profits. Even at a large company: Consider a scenario of a Principal/Architect earning $150k salary and $150k in equity grants and working on a flagship product. Even at an extremely large company it appears to me, based on my own experience, that a meaningful connection exists between effort and reward.

In regards to #2, I don't think you can wave away this point. A raise is, in fact, compensation.
I'm very suspicious when MySQL finds its way into an open-source package, due to its ties to Oracle. Why not Postgresql?
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It'll revolve around the Native American Experience, hopefully minus the conquest and genocide, more likely as a pattern than an anti-pattern.

In the long run, some high school sports teams controversially named after the aliens, some B-list movies, some academic interest, and that's about it?
Of course working smarter is more important than working longer. I think that goes without saying.
Don't take it personally. Besides, the hacker news crowd probably isn't the target audience for your product. So it's all about feeding your ego anyway. Keep building and improving your product, and pitch it to the right community: ala Inbound.org, Moz, SEO forums, etc.
First: congrats on the funding!

A suggestion (not really just for you, but given the headline it's applicable): don't describe yourself as the X of Y [1]. It carries with it any negative connotations that may be associated - fairly or not - with X. Second, it doesn't really define what your product is. It just says your product is like this other product X.

In particular here, it's a bit worse: "napster of mobile" doesn't really mean a whole lot - peer-to-peer file sharing that was shut down? music download service that was sold and re-sold? Doesn't seem like either one fits, after visiting your site.

[1] Not sure if that came from you or if submitter has no relation.
> There are currently no age restrictions on heroin. All a child needs is a morally-bankrupt drug dealer, which imo is easier than finding a morally-bankrupt store clerk if it were legal.

It is very easy for underage people to get hold of alcohol. It is ridiculous to suggest that drugs would be any different. It would make it much easier to buy.

> Beer isn't pure alcohol, McDonald's burgers aren't pure beef, etc.

I still don't understand how you can regulate that. How exactly do you define "not increasingly harmful"? Presumably whatever the definition it risks creating a black market, or being very cheap; both outcomes would be negative.

> Comparing keeping salmonella out of food to keeping drugs clean is apples and oranges - they're entirely different problems.

Why? It would presumably need a similar system of inspection and rules. It doesn't just need to be safe for current drug users, but all the other people that may decide to give it a go. Why would people give up basic consumer rights?
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Companies like IBM are "American" only in the sense that (1) legally they are domiciled in a US state such as, say, Delaware; (2) physically they are headquartered in or near a major US airport; and (3) their shares are listed in a US stock exchange.

In most other ways, these companies transcend national boundaries. For example, many of them book a substantial portion of revenues through complex networks of "offshore" subsidiaries to avoid paying corporate taxes in any jurisdiction.[1]

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[1] For example, see http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...

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Edit: deleted reference to "Accenture," which is apparently legally domiciled in Ireland (thanks mschaef).
I agree with henrik_w below. Experienced/Senior engineers lose a lot of their potency if they go dark during office hours. It is a criminal waste to let developers lurch around trying to solve a known problem. Managing distractions is a major part of growing as an engineer.

I don't encourage people pinging me for trivial stuff that they can find by themselves though. First few times I go with documentation links / google links, escalate to lmgtfy and finally I give direct feedback.
After reading the MS article, I clicked through to an explanation of yesterday's NYC Mayoral election results. Oddly enough, it's a pretty sober look at Bill de Blasio's candidacy and victory. It's pleasantly surprising to find some real journalism tucked in there.
How the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast Made Me a New Man
We can visit up to a few tens of solar systems in a few hundred years, if we could develop a space-ship powered by a black hole, antimatter, or some advanced or innovative hybrid fusion engine (there were talks about one from the 60's around here).

Colonizing a few solar systems out of the 100 or so we can visit with such a ship that reaches a large fraction of the speed of light, should be "enough" for the next 1,000 years or so.

By year 3,000, we'll probably figure out something faster than that, to really begin exploring the whole galaxy.
One random factoid, that's a favorite of mine: the Ku Klux Klan supported the right of women to vote. They did so because women voters supported temperence/prohibition. And those laws allowed them to target the Catholic Irish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Prohibition
We support 4x their number of paying customers with an ANNUAL server bill that is ~half their MONTHLY bill.
Open letter to LinkedIn
Dear Linkedin,

I love your service. I really do. But your email-marketing sucks. Last two years you have prompted me, without success, to get to try your Linkedin Premium service. Each time I try to do that you ask me for my credit card information, which I don't feel comfortable giving since the "Free premium month" should be free and therefore should not be dependent on my credit card information. I understand that your aim is to trick people to subscribe to your service by forgetting to cancel after the free month. Honestly, I might be interested just don't push me.
What's an MVP for a novel? I can sort of see it if you're writing a technical book, but not for fiction. Maybe doing short stories to see if people like your characters? Even then, you're not guaranteed to get the right people reading.

An indie author is _definitely_ an entrepreneur, "measure-and-learn" is not applicable to novels (making the article a bit nonsensical for NaNoWriMo).
> Among actual voters, the drug war is still seen favorably.

Some elements of it obviously aren't, as we see marijuana legalization advancing (in some places, at least nominally, restricted to "medical" use, in other places more generally.)
How and where they pay taxes is a vary important distinction.
Makes sense. It could be difficult to raise money for prevention and rehabilitation purposes from the tax approach. Although maybe wealthy recreational users would happily "fund" the education / rehabilitation of the poor. Or maybe I'm just completely wrong here :D

I agree with the other points you've discussed.
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| it's emotionally charged and douchy way of saying you don't like the government.

this is your emotionally charged and douchy way of projecting your dislike for those who dislike government. smokeyj's comment were accurate, and none of it, when read without being emotionally charged, suggests an anti-government sentiment: describing things the way they are doesn't always reveal a personal opinion.
I found the linked-to "study" (not sure why scare quotes were used) to be more in-depth: http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/
In law, we are taught, "make it fresh and vivid." Stories do that when they are well told. People relate. It makes an abstraction real to them by bringing their experience into play. It gives them a hook by which to remember an important point. This does not mean, "tell a story every time you want to make a point" because straining for effect while trying to persuade, even in trying to weave stories into your narrative, is self-defeating. The point is not to show how how clever or artful you are, it is to make your points in ways that will stick. To do that, you need above all to be sincere and credible. You need to use the power of logic where it applies. You need to bring in emotive elements when apt and when they fit naturally into your narrative. You need to use imagery that is original, not borrowed, drawing from your experience if possible and then from the use of a vigorous imagination. And you need to do all this with forceful use of language, with active style that moves quickly without pausing to try to impress.

When you do all that, and do it well, you will find your audience at each level relating to you and to what you are saying. Stories can add powerfully to that relational effect. Like a fellow out in nature watching birds from afar and suddenly seeing them up close and vividly through magnification, your hearer or reader will find himself drawn close to what might otherwise be a distant narrative through stories that enliven the very things he is eager to see. Your audience wants to relate. Help them along with this with stories where apt. If knowing the science behind this helps, apply that as well. But, at least as far as effective communication goes, don't forget the broader context. We get bored and glaze over all too easily. Make it fresh and vivid. Make it original. Make it memorable. Then you will have spoken or written well. And your audience will value what you give them.
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True. I can't remember the exact details but when a leading UK government advisor on drugs advised changes to the governments ridiculous classification of drugs and favoured one based on evidence of the harm they cause he was fired "because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy"[1] Governments aren't willing to be forward thinking or even rational on the issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#Dismissal
I pay $75/mo for Zipcar. On the rare occasion that I "need a car", I can just jump into one, adjust the seats and go. Annual cost: $900. 0 for gas or insurance. And if anything, I actually use it much less than that on average.
Humans think its hilarious good time to fight and kill each other over multinational corporations "owning" teams of grown men playing childrens ball games...

This is obviously tangential to your point, but it doesn't make you sound smarter or more evolved when you talk this way about sports. This sort of stuff is just tiring. As a software developer in one of the cities that sent a team to the World Series this year, I assure you I've heard every "sportsball" joke a dozen times and each time delivered as though the person saying it thinks they're the first person to realize some cultural blind-spot.

It doesn't advance your point, in other words.
Last Call: The rise and Fall of prohibition is a very interesting read on the topic.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition-ebook/...
and through the ACA, it is expressly legal to charge smokers more for insurance. As in, up to 50 (FIFTY) percent more.
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One weird regex issue I ran into recently: in php you need to use 4 backslashes to match a backslash in preg_match.
I knew (personally) of a surprisingly large number of white-collar functional addicts who worked in the city and earned mid six figures.

Hell, I technically am in the category myself with my Suboxone treatment. My life is better than fine, and has been since I went from paying $400 a day for heroin, to $5 a day for suboxone.

My lowest points where when I was poor and addicted. I never stole, and went through withdrawals instead, but I can tell you it crosses the mind of any addict at some point. Take that away, and the impact on society is lessened considerably.
Ruby is a dangerous language. It is so dominated by Rails that you will likely end up warping your mind into thinking that the ActiveRecord pattern is the best way to manage data and that every problem can be solved with a web app.

I would suggest learning Python instead because there is more diversity in the Python community (or should I say communities?). Compare the communities around http://ipython.org/notebook.html and http://www.gevent.org/ and http://plone.org/documentation/#developer_doc
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I would recommend using 1.6 and South for now. 1.7 is at least nine months away, and who knows where the API will go in that time. You're probably better off developing a stable version of your project using 1.6/South, and then refactoring when 1.7 lands.
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Yup.

I'm pretty sure we're screwed and interstellar colonization is impossible. At best, we'll get a probe that takes a thousand years to tell us what it found, and we'll only explore a handful of neighbouring systems this way before something eventually scrapes humanity down the memory hole.
I'm a neuroscientist by training. I'm really surprised that we don't talk today about the brain among knowledge workers like we do muscles with professional athletes. We all know that less sleep, worse nutrition, and long hours affect how we perform. Yet, we still expect to work 60 to 80 weeks and be at our best? It makes no sense and some day we'll look back and wonder what this generation was thinking.
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Depends on their velocity. Assuming a warp of 95% the speed of light, then ~640 years (~320 years one direction). See:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/31105/how-to-calc...

http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/HEP/QuarkNet/time.html

t / 2 = 100 / (1 - (0.95 * c)^2 / c^2)^(1/2)

Where t is the time for a one-way trip and c is the speed of light.
No: 1.7 is not stable and it's not like the current migration situation with South is a particularly large pain-point.

What I'd do is use South now and essentially rebase when you upgrade to 1.7 – ensure that your servers are current with South, remove it and start over with 1.7's built-in migrations.
Some people can, some people can't. I have lots of apps on the App Store, so I can.
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The major impact to society is because of peripheral crime, not the use itself.
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