skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxing them really high will increase the likelihood of black market product, which goes against the public health aspect. You don't want a poor person buying junk and getting sick because they couldn't go to the store and buy proper medicine. Just like you wouldn't heavily tax aspirin or ibuprofen.

Basic medical education should be provided as part of national education. Except, properly done, not the factually incorrect, dramatic anti-drug programs they have these days.

There also seem to be a bias against drugs here, which I don't believe is founded in research. After all, we encourage people to get treatment for mental illnesses, the treatments which usually involve becoming addicted to very strong medications like SSRIs. Yet there's no education against being "trapped" onto such things.
> then deliberately removing the warrant canary language

Is it considered "removing" when you are composing a new message from scratch? Besides, they can't force you to publish a transparency report can they? What if you just stop publishing them?
True, you just need to assign them enough authority that their approval is a technical requirement for compliance. You would then have to rely on them evaluating the provenance of the order and stopping any canary related activity if they get an order that is suspect.

I don't think it is an unsolvable problem, it just takes some tricky thinking to implement if you have more than one person in your organization.
This seems to suggest that founderdating needs to do a better job getting members from the more successful alumni networks (Paypal, Salesforce, etc); the salesforce alumni network had $8b in IPOs in the past 6 weeks alone.
You're in the exact same spot I was. C# developer, completely enthralled with strongly-typed languages and OO development.

I definitely use Python professionally (and some Django, but that's not the critical stuff.) It's not the only thing I do, but it's another arrow in my quiver. It's really useful for generating applications that need to do a lot of stuff, but benefit from brevity in code. Django is actually more responsible for me learning Python and how to use it responsibly in a production environment. I knew how to write services in C# and Java that wouldn't be an administrative nightmare or cause pagers to go off at odd hours, so I needed to learn that with Python (turns out, it's not hard.)

As always, your mileage may vary. Nonetheless, lean toward finding a use for it in your operation, if only for experience. It's super practical, and to minimize transitional familiarity, go with IronPython. Works with all the VS IDEs.
Would you care to elaborate on your assessment, or do you just want to bash people who want to live in a better world?
But you're looking at it globally which has no bearing in Korea. Locally ofcource its a chicken and egg problem. IMO they should just opensource their technology.
I'm making way too little if this is true...
It's misleading to use a broad term like "dissident" instead of the more precise word, "traitor".
"They aren't trying to outlaw tobacco but they are trying to stop it's use in a different way"

Yep. Also through taxes. In the U.S., taxes on a single pack of cigarettes can be as high as $5.36, depending on where you live.
I made sure to save it to Archive.org as soon as it hit Hacker News; figured someone was going to realize it was still up and take it down.

EDIT: There were older versions of it, I just wanted to grab that snapshot in time. Here is the bookmarklet I use to do this:

javascript:void(open('//web.archive.org/save/'+encodeURI(document.location)))
Pure pedantry. Nobody is under the illusion that doctors and nurses work for free. When people say "free" they mean "free for the user at the point of service", which is a bit of a mouthful.

Exactly zero people believe that the health care doesn't have to be paid for by someone at some point. This is a straw man.

Also, "tax breaks" is the fancy term for "welfare" or "handouts". See, I can do meaningless feel-good rhetoric! Let's debate these issues at their core, not resort to meaningless weasel words.
Not sure if we talk of the same thing? When I say transaction I mean a number of queries between START TRANSACTION and COMMIT (or ROLLBACK) SQL command, and mysql will lock automatically all tables inside that block. If you use SELECT inside the transaction innoDB will work on a data snapshot to insure the data consistency. (btw. thanks for the link I'll read it later)
U.S. law follows U.S. citizens around the world. For example if a U.S. citizen rob a bank in the U.S. and then flees to the UK, when the UK police catch him, he will be extradited and prosecuted in a U.S. court. He's not stuck into a UK jail without a trial.

That's the minimum issue here--Google ships the data of U.S. citizens around the world, and the NSA knows it. They are trying to play a cute game by pretending to assume that if the GCHQ collects the data in the UK, the NSA can safely treat it as foreign data. We need to call them on it.
IMHO Internet tracking has become like fast food. A meaningful difference will only come when average users start caring about their privacy and are willing to make conscious choices for it.

Definitely agreed. Unfortunately, I think it's much harder for your average web user to make that choice than for your average person to avoid fast food: Everyone knows what and where a grocery store is and that fast food is not usually nutritious, but I don't believe most web users understand how many browser options there are or, in many cases, what that actually means or what other means could help preserve their privacy, if they understand this particular privacy issue in the first place.
OK to clear up some muddy thinking here, there's lobbying and then there's campaign finance.

Lobbyists are unregulated employees or contractors, whose budget is only limited by the largesse of the sponsor. Its goal is to affect legislation and regulation through swaying the votes and actions of elected officials, political appointees and to a lesser extent career bureaucrats. In this regard they are limited by anti-corruption and bribery laws.

Campaign finance is a highly regulated system through which politicians amass money to fund campaign to sway the votes of the public. PACs and other organizations channel money to candidates whom they believe will be sympathetic to their causes.

Regardless, forget about the PAC money and the campaign finance. I assume BigCorp has lobbyists, and those lobbyists look out for BigCorps interests. As an employee of Big Corp, you are a beneficiary of those lobbyists.
An annual transparency report from the NSA? Good luck with that.

I doubt the NSA cares about negative publicity. Deep inside the NSA it's business as usual.
I'd love to know where I could find the stats on actual support that drug war policies have. Although I'm sure that majorities exist opposing outright legalization, I think that the people who support "drug war" policies as they are currently implemented are in the minority.

The way the question is posed to people can have a big effect on support. For instance, saying, "The war on drugs is counter-productive because it increases addiction rates and increases the harm caused by addiction, and should be replaced with a well-funded addiction-minimization and education regime," is different than saying, "Drugs should be legalized because adults should be able to choose for themselves what they put in their bodies."

When I mentioned "real leadership" above, I meant leaders that would make a case and design an alternate policy that would convince voters who are afraid of legalization as such, but who recognize that the drug war is a failed policy.
"But some really big names (ACLU, CDT)"

Just to point out, neither of these are actually big names to congress, or more importantly, particularly effective at getting things passed when push comes to shove.

If you want these things passed, never rely on advocacy orgs to do the work of the people.
Really cool app, but will it be around? Any plans to monetize it?
> Maybe the TLDR of both our posts is we should be submitting more of what we see? Would anyone else upvote an interesting hardware startup / entrepreneur type story as opposed to the prevailing common software ones?

I don't know if this is an actionable problem, as it depends on the interests of the community, which are, in turn, governed by who they are and what they do. If other types of developers join HN in large numbers, the situation might change, and it will benefit even web-based SV startups, too.

But there's another problem. A few years ago I was working for the defense industry, and hadn't even heard of HN. We were doing distributed, fault tolerant systems with graceful degradation – things that have since become very interesting for "web" (in the wide sense) developers. Obviously, much of the work done there is classified, but even the parts that aren't don't get discussed much because that community hardly blogs at all.

So it's not just a function of what gets submitted or upvoted, but of what "content" (how I loathe that word) is out there, and developers in other industries just don't write of their experience as much (which is a shame because we could all benefit from that). Once in a while we're very lucky to have some technology leak from the often maligned (here on HN) "enterprise". Look how much we've learned from Erlang, that for years was the sole domain of telecom. Or Clojure, which is a result of Rich Hickey's experience in projects that are very far removed from web startups.
You're probably right, no administration would ever admit that, though.
Is it? I'm not saying "dissident" is the best word, but it certainly seems less value-laden than "traitor".
Brazilian government to stop buying "non-auditable" software
It's back up now, a deploy had reset the password on it.
We already have two very good examples of regulating a legal drug with little or no black market: Tobacco & Alcohol

I think many of the things we've learned with regulating those drugs could be applied to a lot of other drugs.
> "cheering the idea that we should let people get ill and die if they could not afford to treat themselves"

For an extra level of sadness, said candidates were simultaneously criticizing other countries for allegedly letting people die unnecessarily (see: "death panels").
Good luck ever finding a federal prosecutor who gives a crap about this rather than spending time making their bones on drug cases ...
Here's a useful site showing Py3 support for packages: https://python3wos.appspot.com
Yes, you can't combine libraries compiled for 2.10 and 2.8. No one disputes this. Yes, this is a problem. How much will vary from project to project.

However, while you may think that binary compatibility is 'laughable', to imply that there have been no improvements in this area is disingenuous. The presence of this compatibility contradicts the claims you made in the article.

You also gloss over source compatibility. Which, again, contradicts the claims you made in the article.
Metal - Heavy/Progressive/Melodic/Symphonic
Electronic - Progressive/House/Dubstep

I use Spotify
HTTPea - iOS app for HTTP requests
But as well as your comp expectations, your comp is also adjusted accordingly through a bonus program. I am not sure the advice provided applies to those with a bonus and equity incentive.
We're no longer putting the password in the URL, but play and sandbox aren't over HTTPS. And the password still gets sent. As their name implies, they're for playing around, not for real data. On a real installation you'll want to use SSL. We'll have that built into the prod releases or you can always have your load balancer/proxy handle that for you.
poets feel that way about things described as "poetic".

we get no respect, yet everyone wants to be _like_us._ :+)

-bowerbird
It's called soft-realtime. The difference is well known, and you getting offended about it isn't going to do anything for anyone.
Well this is day 1 for me and I am loving HN already.
ngBind was new for me today. Thank you!
There were also non-political corpses used.

A dissident is by definition not a traitor. From its first use in the Soviet Union to describe political dissidents, the term was used to describe people who would speak out against human rights violations committed by the state. You could hardly call that traitorous.

Now can we shut the fuck up about how the people who died fighting the Nazi regime might have been "traitors" ?
They were helping the other side in the war. They were actively participating in the downfall of their government. I don't think it needs a less value-laden word.
Have been using the app for a month now. really well done. especially aggregating music sources. i use hypem a lot but it has always seemed disconnected to the rest of the music on my phone.
An astute question, considering the strange wifi-chips-in-irons story.
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The real outward problem of drugs is poverty. As we've seen from a certain mayor who has been in the news lately, the issue people have with drug users is them "breaking into your house for $5"[1]. If you have the means to use the drugs without financial repercussions, then it is "okay" (a term I use lightly here). If you tax the drugs at a high rate and make them still inaccessible to some degree, then the problem persists exactly as it does today, with criminal organizations supplying the drugs at an artificially inflated price to the people who can afford them least.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/2416184416/
This news reminded me of Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode about the Drake Equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation) that I watched as a kid. It is really an improved estimate for a couple of the terms.

That segment of Cosmos is online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlikCebQSlY
Yes I read the article. The UN asserts the authority to interfere with what other people do to their own bodies and with their own property (drug use, manufacture, and consumption). This comes from "The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs" and later "The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances." The UN, including Kofi Annon, is used as an instrument by the US to further US drug policy.

The Global Commission on Drug Policy and its recommendations are nothing more than a ruse.
HN appended that link: https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke
Yep. But that may be understanding the case. If you're part of the anti-drug-war-industrial-complex, the worse thing in the world would be for enforcement to "go way down."

Look at state and local cops, federal prison guards and the BOP, state and local prison guards, federal prosecutors, state and local prosecutors, privately owned prisons operated under contract, government employee unions, state and local police departments receiving billions in tax dollars via "drug war" grants and gear from FedGov, companies manufacturing battering rams for those 4am no-knock SWAT drug raids, etc. Let's not forget the U.S. military and border police.

At least at the federal level, over half of prisoners are there for "drug offenses":
http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp

What would happen to all those jobs if non-violent "drug offenders" were released from prison? That would be a tragedy, really.
This really goes for “The research says…” as well. There is definitely good, peer-reviewed UX research out there, but if someone was well versed in it, they would say the conclusion of that research as fact instead of "The research says this is good".
I don't think DanBC is saying that insurance per se is a scam, but that the U.S. health insurance industry is unavoidably scammy.

EDIT: Put another way: you're 100% correct that that's what insurance should do and purports to do, but that's not how it actually plays out with American health insurance.
I'd be up for a regular something in Manhattan. btw there's http://eranyc.com if incubation is more your thing, approaching their winter deadline.
We're talking about people executed for passing information to the Soviet Union. Those are not dissidents by your definition.
Well, yes, "best" and "most likely" are two different things.

Of course, if punishing people for violating people's rights was something people were willing to actually hold politicians accountable for as much or more than punishing drug dealers, then US Attorneys -- always political appointees and usually also politicians -- would be much more concerned about it.

Accept-and-mutter-darkly just preserves the status quo.
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Or perhaps the Paypal and Salesforce mafias don't need Founderdating?

It seems like a very non-scientific sample, but still interesting. Google versus Yahoo was a surprise, but perhaps Yahoo also has incented more people to leave over time.
How about Markit On Demand? (http://dev.markitondemand.com/)
I'll guess Yahoo is quite high because they have historically grown by acquisition. All those entrepreneurs aren't really "native" to Yahoo. They're acquired by Yahoo, stay for a couple years, and then start a new thing.
FTA "Mornings are for quiet, uninterrupted, and focused work. No emails, no chat, no calls until lunch break." I would agree with that. But how do I solve my addiction to chat? I feel naked when I go offline...
all those characters? You mean except the straight ascii-compatible ones, which will just take up one byte.
Hopefully, we'd get a little attitude adjustment, question religion more and work together as a human race in the newfound awareness of our place in the universe. Perhaps also work towards actually surviving as a race for a while instead of selfishly exploiting every resource before others do.
I want them charged with unlawful access to a computer system
While we're at it, end the war on terror, war on poverty, war on sex, war on religion.

But above all, end the war on liberty.
Unfortunately every single one of them is unreachable within several lifetimes. We're going to be pretty much trapped in our solar system until we try to solve some of the more difficult problems.
Yes, Tatooine under Pootine really sucks, doing even jquery in the Valley beats it by orders of magnitude.
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I have a special "don't care" mail account whose mails are delivered to its own folder (included in the shown stats). I do get a spam message in that folder very occasionally (as in once per month), but it's really far off from becoming annoying.
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How about as a percent of the country's total population? India's certainly a larger country population-wise.
Apparently there is free wars though. That money seems to be always available.

They should use that magic war money to actually help people.
Weirdly enough (and this is completely pulled out of my posterior) I think this ties into why things like snapchat, facebook photos, and instagram took off as wildly as they did ... people love images. They seem to process them faster, and remember them longer.

By telling a story, you force the user to visualize your narrative, and this in turn makes it easier for people to remember what you tell them.
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The labor, civil rights, and environmental movements were all hugely outspent and yet changed the country and the law. Complaining about asymmetric resources is IMO a cop out and an excuse.

Of course new movements are under resourced. If it was easy to make that kind of change, it would already be done!
Voting for 2...AGPL is like biohazard level 4 viral.
Do you want a developer focused perks program?
Sample set is biased , and upon that it's quality which matters not quantity. While considering top firms like Google, Facebook,Linkedin, Twitter etc. , it turns out to be other way round. There is lot of scope of improvements , especially to boost start-up culture here in India.
In my mind, Fermi's Paradox looms very large.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
If this were actually true then word would get around quickly and insurance companies would lose business as honest rivals emerge. (Hint: This hasn't happened. Because it's not true.)

See, from a cancer patient writing three days ago who had her insurance canceled because of Obamacare:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230452750...
"The second element essential to my fight is a United Healthcare PPO (preferred provider organization) health-insurance policy. Since March 2007 United Healthcare has paid $1.2 million to help keep me alive, and it has never once questioned any treatment or procedure recommended by my medical team. The company pays a fair price to the doctors and hospitals, on time, and is responsive to the emergency treatment requirements of late-stage cancer. Its caring people in the claims office have been readily available to talk to me and my providers."
Thank you. No plans to monetize it. It's been running for about a month and it's fairly low maintenance. I find it really useful myself so I have an incentive to keep it running.

I'm currently only spending a couple dollars a month on the heroku costs but wouldn't mind paying more if people actually found it useful. If the financial burden was ever enough I'd just take donations. I doubt it will get that far though.
We're excited to work with you Josh!
Well, if you read the Terms of Service that Google (and to be fair - everyone else) makes people agree to - Google is free to sell your data to anyone they want. So I don't know which 'Google user' is expecting their data to be private anyway. Not to beat the 'you are the product' dead horse, but I wonder if they were to actually start selling user data would people be in uproar?
Is Sococo a web app? Does it support Linux and Windows? I looked very hard to find answers to these two questions on your site. The only way I can really tell is by looking at your screenshot that appears to be a Windows standalone application.

A working demo would be a nice addition to your site. I'm too stubborn to signup for a demo, so without a public demo I don't see myself ever being a customer, which is unfortunate because the software or web app looks useful.
When you're a web developer sometimes this is a little bit hard. However unplugging your wifi-router could work great when trying a new framework or something, when you don't have to commit changes and stuff, just test something new.
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U.S. law does follow U.S. citizens around the world, but only in certain circumstances does it apply to conduct abroad. For example, there is a law against U.S. citizens engaging in underage sex tourism abroad. But such laws are the exception. If you, e.g., murder someone in England, the U.S. can't hold you accountable under American law.

Your example is a bad one, because in your example the law is broken by conduct in the U.S. In this case, the splicing of the leased lines happened outside of the U.S.
Preorders were $5, at least by the time I bought (in alpha), which IMO is a much more justifiable price for an impulse buy that might not work out. It was raised to $10 after it hit "beta" (which was after it was already popular and had made at least a million, IIRC).
A single website can only track you inside their own pages. The problem with third-party cookies is that they enable cross-site tracking, which is much more privacy invading. First-party cookies don't help with that, since a cookie dropped by siteA won't be sent to siteB.

Now, sure there are other ways of doing cross-site tracking, like Etags, fingerprinting and such, but why shouldn't we try to plug those leaks too instead of giving up?