skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nutt didn't advocate restrictions on alcohol use. He argued that it was absurd to make other drugs illegal when something as dangerous as alcohol is illegal.

(By the way, if that last sentence is giving you cognitive dissonance, you need to stop and think hard about the statistics. The fact is that the most dangerous thing about pot, MDMA, LSD, and the like isn't their biochemistry. It's the fact that ignorant people have made them illegal.)
So... no interview with the girl? Glossing over the fact that he's "rough-housed" this same girl before? It sounds like this kid has a pattern of violent unwanted physical advances.
Well, what does "success" look like to you? Let's make it $50 and say that it "works" - what does that mean?

Answer that and I'll spend the time to ask follow-ups. I don't feel like investing 20 minutes to come up with a well thought out answer when you likely spent all of two minutes writing out the initial thought.
Ok wow, I didn't knew that the proportion of inmates related would be that high! I didn't make my homework hehe.

But drug cartels will still be part of the picture; with police out of the way they would have one less thing to worry about and they will still be fighting between each other for the market. Those people will not give up at all.
Go to minute 12:00 to skip the 'architecture of diplomacy' part.
all depends how involved each layer is. perhaps the top layer never even speaks to the other 3 more than a yearly meeting.
Linux is [CENSORED]. (The Book)
Define assault. Is nudging someone to get their attention ok? How about hitting them in the face full force? Both are touching...

See, the thing is, common sense helps with this. Trying to relativise everything does not take a way the need to make moral decisions.
I think the site may be down. Visiting http://www.healthcare.gov gives me an upside down IIS7 logo!
http://www.healthcare.gov/welcome.png

(I'm in the UK)
"She said ‘If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,’ and I said ‘really?’"

Here's the crux of the matter - a two inch gun was taken because the TSA agent made a judgement call, and the TSA agent appears to lack judgement.
Of course, there will be lots of criticism that such schemes "don't scale". This is a BS red herring that detracts from the real issue.

The general idea is for companies to be run as a democracy, like how governments are. IMO this is even more important than Basic Income. You spend 1/3 of your life working under these conditions, so why shouldn't corporations be democratic?

As for "implicit hierarchy" or "informal authority", yes that is partly the point. Not for positions of absolute authority to be ill-defined by top-down management which don't reflect reality; but for recognition and respect to be awarded based on actual merit. Cliques and inappropriate peer pressure might form (as claimed by articles about Valve not too long ago[1]), but you can deal with that another way, instead of resorting to hierarchy and absolute authority.

How do democratic governments work? That could be how corporations work.

[1] Whether or not actually true is a side point; the things it described certainly could happen and therefore are theoretically interesting
Except that if the CPU completely masked its changes it would be no threat. The trick is getting the system to use the bad randomness. I find it unlikely none of the people debugging or running slightly different kernels or drivers or rootkits would not notice something. To exploit RDRAND you would not have to worry about what all the code in the system is doing (highly volatile over different configurations and versions) but you would just need to monitor a few select kernel symbols.
I was noting the familiarity of the tone of your response - nothing else.
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>where you draw the line
I don't see this as a problem. The goal is to discuss and voice a common moral standard for CS. The idea worked well for doctors.
actually there is a gem that solves that problem if you want to use SJR

https://github.com/xpdr/transponder

http://kontax.herokuapp.com/ - example app running on heroku

http://github.com/xpdr/kontax - example app on github
he may be on the shortlist of sex pests in the future. roughhousing record?
however moralizing is past it. lots of context missing though
Yeah straight to prison with him.
My new home is Zürich, and to be honest, it's pretty awesome.
What makes Python static analysis hard and interesting
hey darklegend!

Thanks very much for the feedback, it's really appreciated.

Hmm yeah that would seem to be the ideal behaviour for sure. I just gave it a go and it seems you can rearrange downwards but not upwards and also not as you would wish. So if you drag something down in the same column it will go to the end of that column. This definitely isn't ideal. I had initially started implementing using my own draggable implementation but then reverted to using html5 draggable with contenteditable. I ran into some styling issues when dragging items whilst trying to remain responsive. Basically the items were styled at 90% of the column width but when you dragged them out they grew to 90% of the page and then shrunk back again when they were dropped but I was unable to hack the drag move in a way to maintain size without there being some jump in width which I didn't think looked pleasant.

This could certainly go down as an issue if you would like to add it or I can add it to the repo.

I'll try to keep it up and thanks again very much for the feedback, it's really appreciated!
Rand is difficult for many people because her philosophy is essentially standalone; take it all or take none of it. You cannot really take one small lesson of Rand on its own - it always comes tightly bound to the premises it is derived from.
I fail to see the legitimate reason software assisted weapons or mass surveillance tech have to exist. Enlighten me? See my other reply below for your relativation fallacy.
Didn't say prison, or ruining his life or anything. But a suspension seems appropriate. And while a euphemism may be warranted for someone his age, it is technically sexual assault.
No, it does not look like you see what I was saying. I said explicitly that exploited sex workers don't really have freedom of choice. Their "captivity" isn't even economic. In some cases it is outright physical captivity, sometimes it is legal captivity (illegal immigrants), psychological captivity or even addiction.

Don't assume that a prostitute can just walk away from her pimp, because you think you would be able to do so in her place.

I'm not talking about higher-priced or even "self-employed" prostitutes, I'm talking about the "mass market". These women don't earn more than minimum wage. Sometimes less, all things considered. In lots of cases they would even get more social benefits than the pimps pay them... In some reported cases the pimps take even the social benefits from their "employees".
Wait…what? – Tales from the Testing Dark Side
Why are you comparing crack cocaine to cannabis?
I live in Portugal. Decriminalization of drugs for personal use happened over ten years ago. Nothing dramatic happened. Life went on as before. Except that we have less people in prison, and more in rehab. And if anything, crime went down and overall drug use decreased.
No, it's just a normal thermostat, snaps on to a back plate with the same wires as they all do. You can swap your old thermostat back on in minutes.
hey niyazpk!

Thanks for the heads up!

I'd hoped to avoid older browsers as burdening myself with the stress of backwards compatibility in my spare time doesn't seem too appealing. However, in saying that, if there was demand I would be more than happy to investigate. I use mac so I tend not to encounter IE too much if I can help it.

Thanks again for your input!
That sounds like Stokes' Theorem!
Clustering map pins in iOS apps to reduce clutter and improve performance
Well, history teaches us that it probably is the case. During the alcohol prohibition in the USA, the situation was more or less equal than before it.

There aren't hard numbers of consumption during the prohibition (obviously) but statistics of alcohol related deaths and arrests seem to show that there was a serious decrease just before the prohibition, and after a few years it returns to its previous state, and was worse in some aspects.

http://www.druglibrary.org/prohibitionresults.htm

Also, in the Netherlands the marijuana consumption rate is less than in the USA, despite it being almost legal.

So, don't worry, things won't change much, except for those people who won't have to be worried about being arrested for smoking a plant.
what criteria is used to define if something is a hack? or a feature? I mean if there is a pattern that works for some people and provides secure and clean way to achieve a goal how can you say that its a hack? I mean where do you draw the line between a 'hack' or 'beautiful implementation' I would like to know.
Does a 6 year old even understand what sexual assault means?
Yeah, but http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=big+in+japan
I will test my changes before I commit them to production.
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I'm not sure why you were downvoted - I thought it's pretty well-accepted that prolonged sitting is bad for you.
What good is it to be "honest to your principles" if your principles are outdated, damaging or just plain wrong?

The event that made me leave was when thieves broke into my house, two rooms away from where my wife and I were sleeping. Thank God the noises didn't wake me up; by that time I was sleeping with a gun in my nightstand, and I really don't want to imagine what could have happened if I had woken up and walked around the house, as I had done many other times. I'd probably be either dead or in jail.

Nope, nope, nope. It took us a whole 5 months from that day to moving out of the country.
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Who says you can't use fingerprints? There will probably be an app for that.
What is it with more and more people from the US having an "Obey me!!" fetish, to me it says most of them have major mental insecurity problems.
This is mostly wrong. It's true that EU member states don't have a separation of legislature and executive but so what? Separation of powers sounds great in theory but the benefits are grossly oversold.

One could technically argue that the ministry of foreign affairs has some legislative power by virtue of its role in negotiating treaties but it's a very misleading description. Treaties are Big Deals™ and require at the very least ratification by the Cabinet. This is one of the benefits of parliamentary government is that trying to do something appallingly stupid or unpopular can lead to an immediate change of government by a vote of no confidence. The closest equivalent for presidential systems is impeachment, which the US has never actually done, yes?

2) is just pure horseshit. Sovereignty is ultimately decided by men with guns and the EU doesn't have any. As a legal matter it's also horseshit but this comment is long enough for a phone already.
Vicente Fox is a shareholder and the public image of one of the first 'entrepenurial' companies that plan to distribute marijuana at a major scale...

So yeah, that argument is kind of: 'but George Clooney said that I should buy Nespresso!'
So basically... Tcl. Which got all of that years and years ago. Except of course 'scaling', which doesn't make a lot of sense for the desktop environment it was created in. Actually, come to think of it though, it did get that too, via AOLServer.
Is Programming the New World Literacy?
Test-Driving Russia's Dual-Screen YotaPhone: Gimmick or Trendsetter?
Not yet, it isn't.
Enough to know that kissing someone who doesn't want to be kissed is wrong, and rough-housing with someone who doesn't want to be rough-housed with is wrong. It's not complicated...
How fucking stupid
> These guys are just desperately clinging the past. They should be writing the Ruby on Rails for Opal instead of trying to extend the life of something that, frankly, has seen its day.

Care to expand? I'm confused what you mean.
Your experience is colored by the language / framework of your choice. For example, look at the fortunes benchmark in the techempower benchmarks. Rails makes a good showing for a dynamic language framework, but it's clear that an order of magnitude better performance is possible on the same server hardware with java or c#: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...

So, someone using java or c# could very well say view render times don't matter, because for them that is true and their bottleneck is indeed the database.
In the US -- getting the main page of the site. So either it's a CDN thing, they brought the site back up since the original post, or it is indeed region locked.
> why shouldn't corporations be democratic

Probably because it doesn't work as well as the alternative. There are examples of this working here and there, but not many. The good thing about companies, as opposed to governments is that it's pretty easy to swap one out for another, without physically going anywhere. You can even start your own and try it out!
All around the world, educated women with a first-world standard of living are the weakest producers of babies humanity has ever known. Wealthy, educated people simply don't overpopulate.
surprised that most of this is considered obscure... and also teh square bracket thing is only for built-in types (e.g. pointer types) because it can be overloaded...

the constructor vs. function choice is a classic gotcha for instance. i've had to explain it to juniors many times.
This is missing something though: "new" and malloc() are just like managed memory: convenient, but sometimes (and often unpredictably) slow.

Some people eschew Java and the JVM due to the spectre of garbage collection ruining their quasi-realtime system. But others embrace the JVM, organizing their programs to avoid garbage collection during critical times (which could last for hours or days).

With C and C++ it is the same, but backward: people flock to these languages for the predictable performance. Yet once there, they discover they must avoid the default allocator, for it is a source of unpredictable delays. Pooled allocators are created, and the end result is much the same as for the JVM folks.
What's the total cost though? I read somewhere that the cost to keep an inmate in prison is like $40k a year and a good majority of the inmate population is in there due to drug related offenses. And what about the intangibles like the impact the drug war has had on minority and low income populations? I'm with everyone else here. This really is a lesser of two evils situation and letting a few people get high and possibly ruin their lives is much better than the situation we have today with the US having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
You'd be surprised how fast rank gets pulled when the money stops flowing. Management structure is basically irrelevant at a company that's doing well. It's only under stress that you understand why the military has a strict hierarchical structure. It's to prevent organizational collapse under extraordinary conditions.
"... the 'left' using lethal force to ensure that people pay for other people's healthcare."

WTF?

Here's a message from the civilized world where publicly funded healthcare is an utterly mundane fact of life, on a par with publicly funded policing: Take two Valium America and calm yourself down.
In London at least there is very little underground parking. Most buildings are 50+ years old, and even in new builds it isn't very common.

When I was working there, in a building with ~2000 desks, the underground car park had a spacious 80 spaces. I lived a bit further out, so I actually had a driveway, but if you live in the centre you are lucky to even get on-street parking.

Still, as you say, it makes no sense to have a car due to the easy availability of public transport. It's a catch 22 really :)
I like the idea behind this and there's some good stuff here. This one irked me a little because it's lacking nuance:

> I will remember that technology always improves, and will never stop learning, and the purpose of my life will be continuous self-improvement.

"The purpose of my life" is too strong of a phrase that makes this one sound like it trumps the others.

"Technology always improves" is true at the macro level, but there are a lot of fads, minor regressions, and forgotten gems from the past.
A regular photograph captures the intensity pattern of light at a particular location at a particular time.

Holograms recreate the interference pattern of light in a volume of space. By interfering two coherent sources using a film that has the interference pattern captured, you recreate the interference pattern. Hence it exists in 3-D.
Why Rebol, Red, and the Parse dialect are Cool
its a very messy language - its annoying to see that its the best extension to C.

i constantly want something better than C - something where the compiler has freedom to optimise my memory layout with a keyword for types that have to cross boundaries. something with metaprogramming built in. something where const is not just a promise, but the law etc...
I am confused about how the IntelliJ IDEA with android plugins competes with Android Studio. I thought that Android Studio is suppose to replace IntellyJ for android development.
"Probably because it doesn't work as well as the alternative" is pure conjecture. The real reason is historic. In 200 BC, the only example of anything close to democracy would have been Ancient Athens.

edit: it's still not that easy to start your own company, and the common advice these days is to "not try a new structure", so your argument doesn't follow there either.
> "prove me wrong"

This is a terrible answer: you are suggesting that Disconnect knows exactly which 3rd-party is legit when visiting a web page, and somehow you can vouch that none of these hostnames is a threat to privacy (this is what your defense of this implies).

`static-serve.appspot.com` is no different than `ajax.googleapis.com` (you didn't list this one, why?): they are 3rd-party hostnames, some are CDN which is exactly why they are not to be trusted, you can end up hitting these hostnames from other places than just the Guardian, which is the problem.

In any case, the legitimacy of their their purpose is not the point. They are 3rd-party hostnames: Unless being told, the user wouldn't know that he is also hitting these hostnames.

I will note that you completely disregarded the other results which are even more embarrassing to explain (like `simplereach.cc`: "SimpleReach tracks every social action on each piece of published content to deliver detailed insights and clear metrics around social behavior.")
Haha, sure, nobody likes WP8/Lumia besides Microsoft employees because clearly they simply haven't tried it yet. Regardless of all the terrible reviews. Come on, get a grip on reality.

The downvotes are even more amusing - does the truth hurt so much? Who is going to build this whole new non-Google Android ecosystem (store, maps, mail, etc)? Nokia's fired developers? Anybody who thinks this will work needs to get a medical check up.
>US dependents

Dependents? These countries have healthy trading with Asia and other parts of the world. From my perspective, given that China would eventually any trade hole left by the U.S., is that it comes down to cronyism.
I was just going to say this - Also worth nothing is the fact that Atlanta sits on a hunk of very uneven granite and has very strange drainage patterns.
US government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008.
to a good approximation every memory management problem i've had involved a garbage collector, a reference count or a fancy stl pointer type.

without these i have very few leaks or problems - and when i do they are trivial to find and fix. i see the advantage for RAD, but for performance and memory critical code these things are actually dangerous and stupid imo. measurably so...
If you care about e-mail privacy, you should consider desktop/native e-mail clients instead of webmail and IMAP.

Having all your mail sitting on someone else's server means it can be handed over by that company in response to a government request, legal or otherwise. After 6 months, it's not even a fourth amendment issue and no warrant is required; it's not "your" mail when it's data on someone else's server.

This doesn't require technical prowess the average person doesn't have. You can use your ISP's mail server, or a professional service like Rackspace Mail. There are free native e-mail clients for every desktop and mobile platform. You can still get instant mail notifications with IMAP Push. Just set at least one of your computers to delete mail from the server after downloading it.
It's great. I used it right now as I often have things I need to remember but I can't just dumpt it in my team's Trello. I think you can go ahead and brand it as a light weight Trello for a niche that wants privacy/is lazy and just wants something quick.

LocalStorage can take you miles ahead if you indeed make sure people use this as I described above. I certainly would.
I wish, they would have a free and lightweight version of the IDEA, so i could use it instead of Sublime Text.
they really aren't identical in the general case - this is a mistake on the part of the author. trivially consider the case where i overload operator[]...
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Why do we still have referrers? They don't allow us to do anything that we wouldn't be able to do without them. If Mozilla and Google made a statement today saying, "We'll be removing referrers from cross site requests in 6 months time for Chrome and Firefox.", the tiny tiny proportion of sites that are using them for real functionality will have plenty of time to update.

Of course, as a web developer, it's useful to be able to see where people came from. But we don't have any right to that information. As an end-user, why the hell is my browser giving you this information for no reason when it doesn't have to?

I've been using RefControl for Firefox for years now. It fakes the referrer, setting it to the root of the domain being requested. This hasn't ever caused me any problems, so there can't be that many sites that rely on it.

I don't give a shit about your analytics or how much money you think you'll lose from referrers disappearing. Privacy is more important.
well done on building this. Sometimes making is its own reward.

Some feedback:

I had no idea what it did and the opening screen about loading config etc was confusing. I would have preferred like a tour with tooltips instead. Though once you get into it and play you soon figure out what it does.

As a fellow maker - I generally have really basic UI and leave menu items visible and learn from these forums what to do with them. So I suggest expanding your menu and have it always available. (like the menu animation though, could be a little faster).

What problem were you trying to fix? Did you try something like Trello.com before you decided to build this? It's cool if you built it just because.
You mean the open-source community edition that actually exists?
Two things:

1) IANAL, but I think it's a trademark infringement to use the Google logo on that car

2) Let's ignore them intentionally bothering drivers and cyclists, but you go through the pain of building a rig and you don't put a camera in it? A cellphone with a GPS? Goddammit!!!
GenProg: automating bug fixes
IDEA Community Edition is free and perfectly usable