skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone else wondering the same thing as I was, it seems this legality extends beyond just tourists, and marijuana is available too, so it's legality isn't just a technicality. Interesting stuff: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/marijuana-in-north-...
What don't you get? It's exactly facebook's goal to get critical mass to get the network peer pressure.

If it's my goal to create a product that forces people via social pressure to do something, it's definitely my fault when it works.

Your response is the same as people saying "don't fly" when they complain about the TSA. 'Someone had an unpleasant experience with the TSA? How is that the TSA's fault? That person didn't have to fly.'
Until today, the only places in the world where marijuana was legal are two states in the US (Colorado and Washington)[0], and the entire country of North Korea[1].

Other jurisdictions have decriminalized marijuana, but most of us haven't seen the legal sale of recreational marijuana in our lifetimes (in the US, it was all-but-illegal since 1937, and truly illegal since 1970 - there were only 6 months in 1969 during which there were technically no laws prohibiting its sale).

These are exciting times we live in.

[0] Technically these haven't gone into effect yet, but I'm still counting them.

[1] Surprising, but (as far as we can tell) true. Less surprising when you consider that exports of drugs that need to be engineered (like methamphetamine) are one of North Korea's biggest sources of foreign currency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

"... securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right...".

The weasels in Congress get around this by retroactively extending copyrights every time Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain. Such extensions are thefts from the public domain and destroyers of wealth, but the Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional.
Wonder when the liberals will wake up and smell the coffee: Private busses are the miracle solution to public transport.
As another commenter pointed out, it's only the indices that are one-based. I think it would look something like this:

int count_occurrences(std::vector<int> vec, int value) {
int count = 0;
for(int i = 1; i <= vec.size(); ++i) { // using 1-based index
if(vec[i] == value)
++count;
}
return count;
}

Off the top of my head, this has a number of benefits in higher level languages. For instance in Javascript, here are some common inconveniences caused by zero-based indices:

var lastEl = arr[arr.length - 1];

if(arr.indexOf(someEl) !== -1) {
// do something knowing that someEl is in the array
}

and if we lived in a one-based world, here's what they would look like:

var lastEl = arr[arr.length];

if(arr.indexOf(someEl)) {
// do something knowing that someEl is in the array
}
despots are many things but not suicidal.
I believe the fix for this (checking if the request is xhr) hasn't been committed yet.
Yeah, don't see any real advantages over Owncloud.
> how would some police and a single APC pacify even a couple of blocks of citizens without the cooperation of those citizens?

Assuming that the police have no restriction in the use of force, it would be very simple for them to pacify a rather large area with an APC and Police. All they have to do is kill a few people who are out of line, and the rest will cower.

No single or small group of citizens in the US really has the ability to stand up to even a single measly APC. The firepower required to stop one is beyond what anybody outside the US enforcement structure can realistically obtain. You may be able to limit its movement with well constructed roadblocks, but harming the vehicle or its passengers with an assortment of shotguns, handguns and IEDs is not reasonable to expect (given they were explicitly designed to withstand these threats).
Yes, although owning, driving, and parking a car in Japan are not pleasant experiences, either. I remember one drive in particular when traffic was stalled so badly people were just leaving their cars idle to go pee on the side of the road.

I do think the most ideal setup would be public transport for most occasions combined with car rentals / delivery for large items.
Can someone explain in technical-but-not-necessarily-domain-expert terms what the relationship between QEMU and KVM is? Is one a dependency of the other, or could they each work independent of the other?
This on AMD chips as well? Since it's BSD we can just have an option to turn it off.
plenty of the guys i'm around do, and plenty don't.

i would posit that you're not getting as whole a picture (definitely of men, possibly of women) as you could if nobody you know does.
Nice work, ked
>Once enough states in the US legalize it, the Feds will have to back down.

Or the federal government can just use it as a means to arrest pot-smoking undesirables at will? I don't really see how state laws come to a head with federal ones in this case - state police and lower will not enforce the federal laws, but FBI/DEA etc. can and probably will continue to. When it's a federal law granting someone a right (e.g. Roe v. Wade, the 14th amendment) then the federal government gets to go in and change state laws, but I've never heard of a case of federal laws changing because something it criminalizes was explicitly legalized in state laws. The most analogous historical precedent we have is prohibition, and iirc state laws didn't change until after the ratification of the 21st amendment, so that doesn't really apply. Unless you're saying that states would pass a constitutional amendment, which seems a little far fetched to me, though not impossible.
Pirate Bay moves to Ascension Island following domain name seizure
Obviously it's not that simple. We need massive reform in public education and affordability of healthcare (such as rehab facilities) before sane drug laws can possibly be implemented.
I seem to remember the view time including ActiveRecord method calls, assuming that you use ActiveRecord objects in your views.
>Taxis are a lot more expensive than self-driving cars.

But they have the advantage of actually existing. Whatever relatively near-term possibilities there may be for cars to operate on "autopilot" on certain highways, an urban environment where taxis are most common is probably one of the last places you'll see self-driving cars.
You know what's wasteful and inefficient? Empty buses driving around all day. My city is full of them!
It has and will continue to be interpreted that way until a stronger defense against it is conceived.
According to the article that comment linked to; it's now on the same level as a parking-ticket for those growing it without proper registration or in possession of more than 10-days-worth. I can live with that very positive step in the right direction. Would put a huge dent in the War-On-Drugs cash-cow the USA criminal system is seriously milking. My main concern is pretty much the arrest, jailing and criminal-record that drugs causes. All that goes away if it's just a parking ticket.
You should read the Dune series.
Would be interesting to see the effect of free trial length on their conversions (specifically shortening to 30 or 14 days and measuring the effects). At a company I work for, we found that shorter free trials actually led to more conversions.
You can't have the voters knowing anything that would reliably give them a reason to ignore the marketing campaigns that constitute political campaigns. That is, it would help citizens exercise independent thought, which campaign managers, donors, and candidates themselves hate.
They stopped his vehicle and summoned him an Uber (charging him stewed prune surge pricing).
You redirect properly + submit to Google, etc? A proper redirect + submission should see a dip then recovery, not a persistent dip.
Trying to be as non promotional as possible here.

With my startup I'm working on this problem aiming to make easily setting up private transport a reality.

You can check out my vision here.

http://www.driveless.co/about.html

My contact if is in my profile if you have any comments or criticism.
He probably just wants to spy on them.
Don't talk to me about that - I'm buying a ranch with farmable defensible land in a remote underpopulated location with good water access, large enough to support friends and family indefinitely. Ya, know. Just for vacations and things of course.

On a serious note (though I really am getting the ranch) I would recommend reading John Robb's resilient communities blog - though his former defense-related work on Global Guerillas is brilliant too (he used to be a military strategist before realizing all these problems boil down to what I refer to above).

It's about resiliency. When things fail, and given our lack of investment in infrastructure, and coming challenges they will, it's important to be resilient and make sure those around you are too. After that it depends on how big you think the bottle neck is we all have to squeeze through to whatever is coming next. I worry it's quite narrow personally, but ymmv.

Finally... that edit to lifestyle is coming. It's just whether it's managed by you or you're managed by it.

Happy holidays.
But they bring in undesirable male nerds.
Did they legalize it in North Korea? I suppose not if it wasn't illegal to begin with.

Possibly it was never illegal, or it could be a legal grey area.
People with education and good parents are at the table playing the game. The poor and disadvantaged are playing a different game, with its own pressures and psychological frame. Decision making is dependant on psychological frame, and decisions made by players either game look strange to players in the other. The OP makes the mistake of moralising when he should be empathising.
Well, it was also legal to buy marijuana in Amsterdam coffee shops.

Don't know if there was any legal technicallity behind it, but it was (is) as legal as you can get.
Is there a way to check that which can't be faked by altering the browser or a js framework though?

I was under the impression that trying to validate that was ultimately as fragile as checking the user-agent string...
It's interesting that you mentioned the newspaper model, because that's actually what I had it on the back of my mind when I wrote my comment above: The newspapers you are referring to actually have a history rooted in social-justice activism and grassroots movements, which are very different from the patronizing approach McConlogue decided to take. I do not see a minimal interest in his Medium blog, in the video, or anywhere else related to the homeless issues, their lives, how they got there, and so on. To the contrary, his choice of words are actually offensive and demeaning.

I suggest you take a look at his Medium blog.
I would rather know the inverse; what causes people to reject that system of control? It is extremely rare compared to the acceptance but people do it, how do you "teach" the rest to do likewise?
Generating light from gravity
Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, believes that legalization of marijuana in Mexico is the solution to the extreme cartel violence in Mexico.

Of course while he was in office he was prohibitionist; my understanding is that he believes that faltering prohibition in America (primarily signaled by legalization in Colorado and Washington, and near de facto legalization in California) presents an opportunity to legalize in Mexico and choke out the cartels.
Ask HN: Interviewing my potential boss (a dev manager), what should I ask?
A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop.com
That's a big lab.
Business model that will change the world.. For homeless people.
GOAL: Give homeless people across the country signs that say "Fund My Startup: PayMeToShutup.com"<p>Increasing homeless people’s donations, getting them off the street.
VALUE PROPOSITION:
Homeless people see an increase in donations from businessmen and women reducing crime rates and homeless Americans.
REVENUE MODEL:
Individual will hold the sign and sing with the intention of having people pay them (USD) to be quiet.
TARGET MARKET: Financial Districts
GO TO MARKET STRATEGY:
Buy 1,000 “Fund My Startup: Pay me to shut up” yard signs.
Individual will sing loudly EARLY morning in train stations.
ROI: Good karma.

From the Hackers at http://fivedollarstartups.com/
The web development world has been trending toward a Thick Client. This article is a call back to the Thin Client and centralizing all logic in the app server.

Most devs are still used to the Thin Client approach, so there is a productivity benefit to remain where you are familiar.

However, you can have just as many or more productivity enhancing libraries and practices in client side javascript as in the server side rails-like frameworks.
> Hence, I am an entrepreneur.

Petite bourgeoisie. How wonderful, everything that was old is new again.
The Best Way to Log Class and Method Names in Objective-C
Riot Games launches League of Legends API
Pedantically maybe. Practically I don't see any big difference.
What if this kind of routine trivial fix is exactly the sort that needs to be incentivized to actually happen? This is perhaps an extreme example, but it's also the sort of thing that is both common and vaguely unappealing about open source projects. Everyone's excited to do the big important next feature or blatant bug fix, but no one really wants to do the janitorial cleanup.
The bounce rate on this guy's site must be astronomical
> Expected value is not $millions.

Speak for yourself.
Someone has taken Iron Man saving NYC from a rogue nuke a bit too seriously. If only we could shoot down ICBMs with fighters, my favorite military vehicle, the aircraft carrier, would be far more prevalent in the world.
members_became_friends = 1/(1+ exp(-1297.88087 * f_shoe_size + m_shoe_size * m_facebook_friends_count - 11761.6138))
Buses don't have to get stuck in the same traffic. Bogota, Columbia and more recently New York City have dedicated cross town bus lanes.

Edit: video of the Bogota bus system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6ImWY4IBc
What about coffee shops? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_coffee_shop)
and if it happens that NSA doesn't do it or haven't even yet collected an imagined database, it should be treated as a performance issue and negligence on behalf of the NSA.
> Don't know if there was any legal technicallity behind it, but it was (is) as legal as you can get.

It was not legal. They practice gedoogbeleid ("tolerance"). They agree that it is illegal but prosecutors rarely enforce the law, because they prioritize other crimes instead.

In that sense, marijuana has been "legal" in Oakland's Measure Z clubs for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaksterdam,_Oakland#Measure_Z_...

In both cases, sale to customers is tolerated, but sale to the coffeeshops (and growth/production) is illegal.

Because wholesale growth and production are illegal, this setup lacks a key benefit of legalization: cutting off a major source of cash to organized crime syndicates and drug cartels. (This is the exact reason that the former president of Mexico, Vincente Fox, now supports legalization).

Furthermore, in the Netherlands, coffeeshops have been dwindling in number in recent years, due to crackdowns, zoning regulations (oftentimes targeted at coffeeshops specifically), and other laws/policies that restrict the degree of "safe harbor" that such coffeshops have. (There was recently a proposal to ban sale to tourists; I believe it was due to go into effect recently, though it may have been delayed or reversed).

As long as these businesses are forced to operate in a legal grey area (whether in the Netherlands or in the US), they cannot demonstrate the true potential of legalization.
Making ws's life hell for charity.
> homeless people aren't all stupid, stoned-out losers.

And then you say I am biased?
$20 for both
Subscriptions sure are convenient (and lucrative), but there's also something to be said for the certainty of an owned asset that will always be there, even if you run out of money later.
I'd love to study how long it takes the tanks to fall into disuse, to the point of being inoperable, simply because police departments will lose interest in them, neglect maintenance, forget where all of the pieces are, fail to find suppliers for spares, etc.
I suppose that is a derogatory remark, but I never claimed that to be an entrepreneur is a new thing. It is demonstrably not. What I did try to suggest is that it is perhaps a good way to deconstruct this problem.
Ah, a nice green account to go with your bragging. You know what OP means..
The more open the debate the less likely the US can dictate to the rest of the world.
Harvard Study of Yelp Data Finds Advertisers Don't Get Special Treatment
Codecademy (YC S11) Hiring iOS Engineers (and more) for #1 Education App
You sue any company with a "Bitcoin accepted here" logo.
I don't believe it's possible to grant them to a UK contractor in a tax-efficient manner
This is a dangerous oversimplification that can lead to gross misunderstandings.
Not legal, just "officially unenforced".
The problem with that thinking is the poor and uneducated make demands on the educated and productive. If they want to live in squalor, who am I to judge. If they want what I have, I have something to say about that.
Or ancient Rome or Persia.

Which is beside the point -- the point being that modern society was supposed (for most of the 20th century) to be moving AWAY from all that, not back to Dickensian times or worse.
It may be self-regulating in a way. Could you imagine getting the munchies in a starving, dictatorial, failed nation-state. Already nothing to eat and now a drug that makes you crave food even more. No, thanks!
What if you didn't had your car? Would you have lost any property, or have anyone harmed?

Assuming not having your care would have been bad, what is the frequency of such events? Are they, say, more frequent than serious car crashes?

Not to mention the sheer costs of having most people owning their own car, compared to a decent public transportation system (which doesn't exist, I know). Even if cars save more lives than they crush, this money could go to more efficient life-saving effort, such as medical research, or existential risks mitigation.

It's all cost and benefit. Don't let your personal experience get in the way of numbers. They may be abstract, but at that scale, they matter more than your own family.
1 million years would be pushing it, but there isn't a clear boundary. Eldred v. Ashcroft is the most authoritative case in U.S. law on this but it doesn't reach a clear conclusion. [1]

What's more interesting is the dissent in that case. According to Justice Breyer, the current copyright term is valued at 99.8% of a perpetual copyright (presumably because the present value of the future becomes increasingly discounted over time). Unfortunately, the rest of the court didn't go along with this as it would have implied throwing out plenty of prior copyright extensions as well.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-618.ZO.html
The original article explains it well. It's okay to own a car, maybe even one per adult in the household (though I would advocate greater car sharing). The original article's point is using the right tool for the job. In your cases the car was the right tool. For many people, especially city dwellers, you can leave your car at home and ride a bicycle for your daily city commutes. If everyone physically able followed this rule.. We'll, we'd probably look a lot like Sweden or those other uber bike friendly European places.
Dude get out of this thread now, so many of these comments are infuriating. This is possibly the worst HN thread I have ever read.
>the American government was responsible for much of the social equality

The people that fought for social equality are the ones who are responsible for making it politically desirable. After their fight came the post-war economic boom which made US labor an economically valuable resource worth treating well. Globalization and the rise of automation now brings us back to considering US labor a surplus to be had cheap. Government policy will likely claw back expenses that contribute to social equality accordingly until unrest grows.
I'm still waiting for the Nakatomi Socrated BSD release (9.2).

Are we expecting to take the 10.0 series all the way through to .4?
But he's not distorting, what he said is actually very much in line with at least Theravada Buddhist view on morality. Here, I've posted this[0] a few hours ago because of this discussion and a comment I made above. Straight from the horse's mouth, approximately.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884572
I believe the current builds run a (standard?) kernel, with a partial Android userland in an LXC container. I assume the point of this is to access some services that are implemented in Android.

They were indeed running Android with Ubuntu in the container, until the container flip a few months ago.
Decrim feeds organized crime syndicates, legalization shuts them down.
Emacs or Vi?
I got one as a gift last year. Actually, got a set of 3 tools. They have been gathering dust. I have zero skill in woodworking but am interested in learning. What do you use your Dremel for?
Many places in the US already have local decriminalized possession of reasonable quantities. Legalization, as seen in Colorado and Washington, should be interesting since it will shortly become possible to run a legitimate business with marijuana (as far as the states are concerned...).
No more legal than in Oakland, CA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaksterdam,_Oakland#Measure_Z_...

"Tolerated", yes (that's the official Dutch word). But definitively not legal.
javascript with webworkers
I would think a system like that being public would cause a great deal of interpersonal problems until ways to circumvent the data collection were found (even if it meant tearing GPS receivers out of mobile phones).

I remember reading a meta-analysis of lie detection and deception studies in humans, and there was one social psychology experiment where the participants were asked not to lie for the duration of the experiment. They couldn't even use the tactic of "white lying."

Overwhelmingly the participants said it was extremely difficult not to lie and when they couldn't lie, it ended up causing their stress levels to rise and their relationships suffered. Lying, or much more fundamentally - concealing, is a necessary process for maintaining social relationships. [You don't want to tell Mary what you really think about her new dress, and in the same way, you don't want to tell your boyfriend that you're throwing him a surprise party, even if he asks you directly.] As technology becomes increasingly woven into our social fabric, it's going to have to conform with our pre-established patterns.
Because something something global citizenship something something.

It's out of date to believe in national borders, but fundamentally, jealously preserving national autonomy ensures that you aren't subject to laws formulated by people who don't think like you do or share your values.
> "PS and AI for asset creation"

Yeah - I agree - I think that PS is mainly a tool for the creation of assets rather than designing flows and information architecture. And even less so for interaction design.

I will however on occasion use PS to create wireframes when I need them to look presentation-quality.