skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you must naturally support a return to alcohol prohibition, right?

Perhaps you can provide us with your own "theories and internet references" that might change our minds? Like, I don't know, maybe some evidence that throwing people in prison for minor drug offenses (a necessary consequence of making drugs illegal) has helped those people, their children, and their communities in any way. Statistically speaking, that is.

No wait I have a better idea! How about you convince me that the addicts in my own family would be better served by criminal records than by treatment. Now that's a real appeal to emotion!
I'm sorry, but this meme is flat-out wrong.

/dev/urandom gives the exact same quality randomness as /dev/random (let's ignore the issue of boot-time and VM cloning for now).

There is a slight twist to it, where for information-theoretically secure algorithms /dev/random would be preferable, but you don't need that. Because you don't use those algorithms (the only one really worth mentioning is Shamir's secret sharing scheme).

I'm just amazed how people don't trust the cryptographic building blocks inside a modern CSPRNG, but then use the very same building blocks to use the randomness and encrypt their secrets.
The problem with decent public transportation in the US is that our cities were not designed for it.

Just one look at a megalopolis like Los Angeles and it becomes clear there's almost no way to exist without your own car outside of a narrow set of locations and life styles.

If you are a single guy or gal living and working in Santa Monica and can bike to work, well, life is good.

The minute you move away from those areas, turn into a family with multiple kids things change. Work might no longer be a bike ride away.

Work for many is anywhere from thirty to sixty miles away from home. Each adult in the family is likely to work at a very different location. Schools are not centralized. You have separate elementary, middle and high schools. Many families have kids in all three at the same time. This means potentially driving and picking-up kids from three different schools at three different locations every day.

Look at Silicon Valley and their commute scenarios.

In general terms, yes, I agree, good mass transportation would be good for many reasons. In practical terms this dream is not really attainable without major structural, cultural and labor changes in most US cities. This, for all intents and purposes, probably means this is a pipe dream.
Try again with QEMU 1.7 and recent gcc. There has been a known gcc issue triggered by one of the QEMU source files that requires a lot of memory. A workaround went into QEMU a while back using the gcc -fno-gcse flag for that particular source file.
> Christ, is everyone on this board an economist too?

Well everyone on the Internet "is-an-economist-too" -- so by implication: of course!
You did not see anybody killed by marijuana.

You may have seen people killed by crime, or untreated addiction to other drugs. You may have seen lives ruined by the legal system. I am sure you saw many of the problems the war on drugs has given us, but you did not see anybody killed by marijuana. You did not see a plant tear a community apart.

What the fuck is an "internet source" anyway? What is next, disbelieving anything written in a book that has a black cover, instead of a white one?
By all means, please do keep taking a percentage as a sensible funding model; it doesn't seem at all unreasonable, and it ensures you'll stick around. I'd be more concerned if you didn't have any obvious revenue stream.

Alternatively, if you do make your site open (and that'd be awesome, please do), you should prominently encourage people to post tips to your repository.
I'm curious why the option of blocking this business completely is not an option. US has the biggest army in the world, right? Doesn't it have a budget for occupying an entire country in somewhere far away? Then what does stop you from asking this simple question: why don't we fight for more life quality for everybody? Why doesn't Japan has this problem, have you ever asked this to yourself?
They make democracy possible, by informing the voters.
That doesn't make any sense.

If the evil White people you are referring to didn't care about the poor, why would they say "the free market will sort everything out". They would say "the free market will screw you over, but that's the way things should be".
No, it's not legal.

There's no penalty for possession of up to 4oz, or 25 plants, in a private residence, but that's most emphatically not the same as legal. That's just "fully" decriminalized, in that specific context.

Consider, however: having a single gram on your person when not in your private residence — presumably even if that single gram came from plants that you grew in yourself, in your private residence — is still punishable by a 90-day sentence a/o a $2000 fine. [1]

I can't conceive how that situation fits any definition of "legal".

[1] http://norml.org/laws/item/alaska-penalties
You're missing the forrest for the trees. Reforming drug laws won't solve racism, classism, or sexism. Anyway, everyone here is in favor of reforming drug laws - this thread of discussion is within the context of talking about the relatively radical position of legalizing all drugs without any supportive educational or healthcare programs.
Are you suggesting that we enact martial law for the sake of prohibition? Are you insane?
How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter
I guess this is why no one is discussing it right now but it is frustrating for people that did not have access to their emails for past day.
Because pilloried and decried is different than feared (-phobia). The paranoia some Americans have about Sharia law is a good example of the difference - I'm strongly against that happening, but I'm not afraid of that happening, because it isn't a real threat. Being against something and being afraid of something are very different, and it's the fear that can be useful to those in power.
I believe the Android emulator is now quite different from mainline QEMU. No efforts have been made to merge patches back into QEMU, so the Android emulator is basically a fork of QEMU.

That said, ARM development in QEMU is very active right now and its only a matter of time before one of the supported QEMU ARM targets also happens to be a platform with good Android support.

TL;DR consider sticking to the official Android emulator for now but keep an eye on QEMU.
10 New Chromecast Apps Released: Cast from Plex, Vevo, PostTV apps
Twitter dethrones Facebook as the best tech company to work for
There is an interesting web framework that takes this approach as well -- N2O.

http://synrc.com/framework/web/

It can do server side rendering but then pushes it via a websocket (well with fallback) to the client.

The use case I understand is mobile clients.
A shameful day in India for sure :(
Not really- that, and it is incredibly feature poor.
galaktor isn't talking about #ifdefs, galaktor is talking about CMake-language special casing.
thank you! I am quite new to HC News so have not found how to make a link and the description all together
I have always found this part of Bitcoin interesting, but I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how this would be used. I would love to see a blog post detailing how to implement a service (escrow or something) annotated with code.
I don't think Amazon is particularly damaging the Android brand because they don't mention Android anywhere.
First of all, Nokia will be forking Android

Microsoft has earned more money from android (by lawsuits) then it earned from WP8. Maybe it is trying to earn some more by embracing and extending.

And another approach would be like, Samsung Crapwiz will look the same even if it switches to tizen or stays android. Similar to that, the latest Symbian phones already resemble androids both in UI and UX. So changing the underlying software would cause minimal attention. Nokia would only profit from this more mature and capable technology.
Yeah may be, or you have too much dead brain cells.
You weren't "being forthcoming", you were stereotyping.

Even a casual read of your comment leaves one with little question which group you think are the "good guys", and which ones you think are full of shit.

Simplistic analyses like that are a big part of why politics in America are as fucked up as they are: because we've been conditioned to generalize about huge numbers of people on the basis of affiliation with one or the other of a more or less completely "forced choice" between political parties.

But, yeah, go ahead and assert that everyone in the progressive left wants to siphon money from investment accounts in Belmont and deposit it into checking accounts in Fishtown. Go ahead and suggest that all libertarians (note, small-l, per original) want to abolish the minimum wage, or Federal income taxes.

That's what I'm talking about when I observe the breadth of your brush. It's impossibly broad.
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How the bottom 40% of US earners paid -9% in income taxes (yes, negative nine)
Yes, one almost never inverts a matrix using a computer, and one never inverts a matrix by hand. What does that teach you? I was pretty surprised to see trivialities like this in a four-page summary. But, unfortunately, this is just a poor summary. It also barely covers the spectral decomposition, and has no mention at all of the singular-value decomposition.
Hmm, now wasn't there a commentary article on HN earlier today about how papers in Nature (et al.) are sensationalized?
There’s Now Video of Aaron Swartz Downloading Articles from MIT
One oft-claimed safety improvement is traffic. This isn't really true as pedestrian fatalities are still comparable to urban areas. But I am willing to accept that people believe they are getting improved traffic safety in these places.

I wonder to what extent pedestrian fatalities are comparable because kids play in the street? i.e., it is safer but children engage in riskier behavior and it reaches an equilibrium?
> The fact that we are somehow considering Americans' privacy more important that non-Americans' privacy is what I find disturbing.

I see this argument a lot. While I do think it is totally valid, I think people forget that the NSA doesn't have any direct authority over foreign citizens in theory (but in practice probably all the intel orgs share info and exert influence across borders).
I know I shouldn't feed clear trolls, but what exactly are you suggesting then? Because it sure as hell sounds like you are just interested in putting the warfare into "class warfare".

Prohibition does not work. The war on drugs does not work. Throwing more money at it will not work.
I've been working on an open source alternative to proprietary analytics services, for those that want a middle territory between being a Mixpanel or Heap customer and having to roll their own.

Keep an eye out for Simonides if you're interested.
It's hypothetical. Don't over-think it.

Still, both people would be handicapped in different respects. How many vegans can climb trees and identify the various edible species of plant life on an island. I'll tell you one thing, the idea of having to live off plants in the wild scares me. Unless you happen to come upon something like an apple, orange, fig or other recognizable tree you are screwed. The guy in the Survivorman show makes it look easy, but he has an army of consultants preparing him before each trip. That's how he knows that a specific grass is edible and that the root of a given plant is good food. Without that most city dwellers would not know what to do with most vegetation on an island. You could easily kill yourself if you eat the wrong plant.

In that sense meat is easy. So long as the animal doesn't kill you first and you clean and cook it you are generally pretty safe.

An omnivore can eat anything, ants, grubs, bugs of all kinds, worms, snakes, lizards, crabs, rabbits, rats, etc. You just have to be smart enough to make a trap and a fire. Find a reasonably flat rock, heat it up and use it to cook. I think most people who have watched a little television can figure out how to do that, particularly when coupled with the intense need to survive. Making fire isn't easy. I've done it. I failed miserably a bunch of times before I got it. My hands were shredded, but I did it. If you are not injured and persevere it isn't impossible. It can be painfully hard, but not impossible.
Surely there is some limit to population growth. Certainly there are many countries whose populations are known to be in decline.
Five Word Tech Horrors
Ask HN: Should web services recycle usernames after 120 days of inactivity?
If a user does not log into their account for 120 days why don't providers strip the user of their handle and release it?

I've noticed many twitter (and other services) handles are claimed but not in use.

Is it time for major providers to implement a 'use it or lose it' philosophy if a user doesn't log in every 4 months!

Kudos to Github! A few months ago I noticed a handle was taken but not in use for couple of years (no repository). Within minutes of investigating, they assigned it to me. They get it!
Nokia offers Lumia to owner of the Samsung Galaxy S4 which caught on fire
I have had the pleasure of working with Doug on Julia in the last couple of years, and I fully agree that we are extremely fortunate to have Doug working on Julia. I have heard the sentiment you express from friends of mine too - they all talk about having learnt their R and statistics from Doug, through all his contributions on the mailing lists, software, documentation, email exchanges, etc.
Expectation Management: 3 Tips from a Design Studio CEO
This one [1] surprised me.

Q1: Is the following code legal C++?

string f() { return "abc"; }

void g() {
const string& s = f();
cout << s << endl; // can we still use the "temporary" object?
}

[1] http://herbsutter.com/2008/01/01/gotw-88-a-candidate-for-the...
I advise everybody not to stop at the current state-sponsored propaganda of Mujica as a wise old man; for completeness, also read about his colorful, shooting-cops-in-the-back-of-the-head, soviet-union-financed terrorist activities background, or the way education, everyday violence and society in general have gone to sh*t since he's in charge. He has almost single-handledly destroyed the country.

This is the reason why I left three years ago; it got to a point I couldn't take it anymore. A lot of young, qualified people are running away for the same reasons. Even if the government changed overnight and started doing everything right, the damage they've done in the last 5-10 years will take generations to reverse :(
What a shame, indeed. :/
I begin to wonder whether the US isn't just trolling, to sink the treaty on purpose.
I think you have misinterpreted my comments as arguments for the backdoor that I am attempting to dismiss.
Wow.

> "lets throw drugs at the under educated and already disadvantaged that will help social inequality in our country greatly."

They already have the drugs aplenty. But we do them one better by giving them criminal records on top of their addictions. Isn't that helpful! Plus, as an added bonus, prohibition ensures that the profits from those drugs go to actual criminal organizations.

> " Why bother when mental illness has been linked to cannabis use in adolescents"

First, unless I'm missing something, no one here has proposed legalizing drugs for children. Second, tobacco has been linked to a bible-full of hellish ailments for everybody. Perhaps you'd like to illegalize that and call it a day yourself?
There is nothing else I've ever seen like Feynman's QED, not for any field of physics. It's spectacular: a "popular" level book for a general audience that doesn't tell a single fib (even by omission), and that captures the essence of the subject without delving into the math required for serious calculations. I dream of writing a book like this (about string theory or anything else).
You know, Nokia could have planned/done the work for this before Microsoft decided to buy them. The deal hasn't closed yet, and there is a firewall between Nokia and Microsoft until then. Who knows what the future will hold...

(disclaimer: no inside knowledge from either Microsoft or Nokia)
I have a problem with alcohol. Many friends do not. It's up to me to make the best decision for my life, which is not drink and treatment as necessary, but I shouldn't tell those without the problem that it must be illegal because of my lack of self control.

I know plenty of people who do not drink or smoke (cigarettes), despite how legal it is. They have their own reasons (health concern, religion, etc).

Laws surrounding intoxication won't change. Intelligent will make the best decision for themselves, whether that's total abstinence or situational abstinence. Those who won't are probably making those same bad choices today, only the costs are greater.
I agree with much that the article says. However, it seems awfully subjective ... more like one person's rant on their own private blog than a news article.
github does that ? a username is inactive for like 3 years but they won't give me the handle.
Legal drugs != less crime...

On one hand, yeah sure, some people won't end up in jail for buying/selling/consuming drugs but those are just like little drops in the sea.

The sea is actually the major criminal organizations that are perpetually conflicting with each other in order to maximize their particular profits. A situation where the demand becomes bigger (because it's not illegal anymore) will only put more fuel onto their war.

And yeah, you would say 'it was the same way with alcohol'; NO it wasn't. That was a problem of a very different society at a very different time; to put that on perspective: when have you heard of ENTIRE countries employing practically everyone (even children) to grow, launder and even murder for the business?
Proteus is a FPsomething; certainly not a shooter game. Almost barely a game, more of an experience.
GDP isn't the only variable that matters.
Right after you finish your "let's throw the entire family in jail" speech.
Just to clarify, you think the FBI/CIA/NSA/whatever is spying on politicians in order to extort them?
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I'm sure that it's just due to my ignorance, but this is the first newspaper column I've seen with code in it. Have there been others?

The other nice part about this is that parsing recipes is an approachable problem and worth tackling.
The supreme court opinion was essentially putting congress on notice not to try this again. They weren't really going to farther.
If congress does it again, i'd expect them to be significantly more receptive to the argument that it is "unlimited copyright on the installment plan"
I'm so glad I live in Palo Alto
Djangocon Europe 2014 will take place on its own island
Yeah, investing on occupying oil lands is more profitable, right?

Don't even mention about class. If you had a piece of idea of social classes, you'd first support their life quality and realize that the drug industry is already a device of the system to knock them down.

Plus, what I proposed was to war against drug cartels, not users.

And you just keep that bullshit with the assumption of "drug war doesn't work" oh really? I know that hopeless face of the government, when it comes to stopping the crime, the eagle turns to a rabbit!
I agree that downvotes are for poor comments, not differing opinions, but look at how HN doesn't work. If I say "patent lawsuit protect innovation" with supporting thoughts or "open source results in poor software", I'm likely to be downvoted as well. In most cases, it's the result of someone disagreeing with me.
And more than that, the extreme nature of the rant seems like sour grapes or jealousy to me.

Decadence, by definition, involves a decline but the author takes it to such a melodramatic level that a kid can not enjoy wealth without being completely broken inside.
Could hardly believe this when I read it. What an embarrassment. The damage done by the Brits lives on around the world.
Where Did ODF Disappear to?
Ah, silly me. I hadn't realized that I reject "any supportive educational or healthcare programs". I thought I supported stuff like that, but you've educated me.

Now I'm pretty sure that you're either playing me, or you really are one of those "folks" I mentioned above.
Gotta love the arrogance of "This is intend behavior of the feature. WONTFIX for me.", without the ability to explain why this cookie would be required for the feature to function.
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> Ultimately I was hoping that antirez and other contributors might realize why their proposal for a custom replication protocol was unsafe nine months ago, and abandon it in favor of an established algorithm with a formal model and a peer-reviewed proof, but that hasn’t happened yet. Redis continues to accrete homegrown consensus and replication algorithms without even a cursory nod to formal analysis.

That is kind of my feel. Redis is an outstanding product with a beautiful code base. This replication feature has been tough though. It is kind of due to external factors as I've mentioned in the previous post. Everyone and their cousin are talking about distributed databases, everyone likes CAP, CRDTs, Vector Clocks, Raft, Zookeeper and so on. It is hard to come up and say "Here I have made this custom replication protocol". Everyone stares and asks, "Hey where is your whitepaper or your partition tolerance tests?". 5-7 years ago, there would be only nods and approvals. The other aspect is this is about a database, so it is potentially toying and touching user's valuable data. If that gets lost either by a bug, mis-communication in docs, bad default, anything, it will not be taken lightly.

In the end I think it is fine to have it as what it is, with the warnings and disclaimers that data could be lost and avoiding papering over or hiding issues.

As an extra side note, simply put partition tolerance is hard. Net-splits are the devil of the distributed world. Some claim it doesn't exist or doesn't happens often. Others fear and tremble its name is mentioned. When it does happen it means having to resolve conflicts, throwing away user data, stopping killing your availability to stop some from accepting writes in order to provide consistency. This is a tough test (that Aphyr runs) and not very many databases fair well in it. But it is good these things are discussed.