skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end of Bitcoin as we knew it (a rebellion against Wall Street and the governments)!
I've been looking to create a ErgoDox[0] which is a two part mechanical design. Not sure I could deal with the split layout but I'm willing to try. It looks pretty similar to the ones in this post and you build it yourself.

[0]: http://ergodox.org/
"I never smoked" = "I don't like tobacco" = "People who like tobacco are trolls"

I can say firsthand that nicotine is a decent nootropic from experience with both cigarettes and e-cigarettes (atomized nicotine suspension.) It's actually talked about quite a bit in /r/nootropics.
Amiga 500 emulator running inside Chrome
I wish iOS's Settings app had search. The number of items and sub-hierarchies in there has gotten silly.

OS X's System Preferences has had a great and novel (spotlight with varying brightness) search feature forever.
If a competitor came in and took your customer list, would it be good for your customers?
There have been a few, but there aren't any in production right now, as far as I know.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47590.30 may have some leads.
Breaking form and upvoting and commenting saying that this should be upvoted.

But seriously, I remember when the last e-cig article submitted to HN. Comments were a complete shit show of conflation of of tobacco, smoking and nicotine. It was absolutely completely cringeworthy.

Mind you the article does just fine conflating the two as well. For example, the first big evidence it produces, the meta-analysis on effect of nicotine. The article leads in with "which summarizes the last 40 years of knowledge about tobacco and nicotine effects on the brain", but the actual study is directly about nicotine only, only dealing with tobacco tangentially.

This is absolute hurtful to the discussion.

And honestly, anytime we have a discussion about non-medicinal (as in using chemicals to treat a condition that a doctor would consider not normal) use of drugs, its probably really useful to take a moment and think "how about our societal addiction to caffeine?".
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Does this count as revenge porn under these laws?

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/shortcuts/2013/aug/06...
I wish you'd kept with Mark 8/Mark 9 style (allowing you separate the two halves of the keyboard). I find this the one killer feature of the Kinesis FreeStyle. Unfortunately Kinesis Freestyle does not use mechanical keys.
Yes, but with well-supported numbers (and uncertainties) and links to references?

Not trying to be a hard-ass, just stating what I'd look for in either a paper up for funding review or for making my own crowdfunded investment.

You guys are doing something awesome.
Not in MV. Sounds like it just means some arbitrary part of SF.
Yeah. That's where I started last year. (I 3D printed one before the PCBs were done.) - blog.fsck.com/2013/01/pinkies-and-your-brain.html
Could you please post your real name? If not, you are by definition a hypocrite in what you have just said.
From his Nictotine article, gum or patch. But e-cig might be fine too if the parts don't have lead or other hazardous substances in them, modulo maybe higher risk of addiction.
There's a functional and chemical different between the amphetamine salts in popular ADD drugs and methamphetamine (namely, a methyl group.)
This person realized that with the NSA and however many other agencies spying on us, and other issues, we may not effectively have any real privacy anymore, and therefore he has come up with one or more rationalizations for why this is OK.

This is probably a common thing. Seems a bit similar to Stockholm syndrome. Anyway its probably an automatic self-defense mechanism.

The scary part is that a significant portion of the population is probably also doing a similar sort of rationalization now.

People will eventually accept any circumstance that they can't change, unless it is going to kill them. Actually, even if it _will_ kill them. In fact, our inevitable death is one aspect of life that people will often rationalize in the most determined way.

We can change this circumstance though. We can have privacy, even in the digital age. Don't give up your natural rights so easily.
I'm glad I can stay on 6.x until all the kinks are worked out with systemd. I was on whatever Fedora made the switch to systemd and it was pretty painful.
I do too! And we'll get back to it. But I know that if we tried to ship a splittable keyboard as our first product, we'd fuck it up. And I really don't want to fuck this up.
They spent a long time on that hack!
gandi.net offers an API to process domain related stuff. It also offers the ability to manage domains as an authorized user while the owner is some other entity.
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He's set for life and rails is his pet project. I really don't think he cares if people move to alternative frameworks.

I'm happy they continue to support methods like this though because I REALLY enjoy being able to put up a site that works perfect without javascript, gets crawled by everything and has a fantastic user experience for people with JS without having to worry about duplicating "MVC logic" on both sides, messing around with having to render something in 2 different template languages or add a lot of extra boilerplate.

Everything just works and is lightning fast.
Good point. So I'll disagree with yummyfajitas in a different way: revenge porn is not journalism, so if publicly shaming Weiner is no different than revenge porn it also isn't journalism.
I interned in SF and other than the rent, everything else is cheaper comparing to Canada. Aside from healthcare and education of course.
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If we could somehow take the top college graduates and strip them completely of their education, would they fall into high school graduate earnings range to match their new education level, or would those people remain high earners regardless?
Meth is only prescribed for ADHD in the US. Is it prescribed for ... nevermind, you edited your post. (Original said something to the effect of "meth is prescribed for drowsiness in pilots," which is inaccurate for the US.)
Actually it could be. Let's say there's this beacon software that lets you look a bit into how someone interacts. Say you get to know what 'spending tier' they're in - high, medium, or low. You also get to see how much 'social influence' they have - again, high, medium, low. Why would you give a free hot dog to someone in the low-low tier? You probably wouldn't, but right now you have to carpet bomb free stuff. Select who gets your free stuff so you can maximize your influence. Have it pop up when someone is walking down your street, at a particular time of day.

When the big spender with a lot of friends walks by, drunk, at 2:30 in the morning home from the bar, send him a free sandwich coupon when he hits your street. Throw in a bag of chips and a pop, make it 'special'. Perfect advertisement to target the perfect people.

Your software lets companies deliver freebies to 'important' people when they're nearby. Have some automated identity finders - find them on fb, g+, twitter, see how much reach they have. Give them some free stuff, see if they tweet about it, put them a bit higher in the ranks because they gave a good word (or any word at all).
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> Re the dress example: true, but it's a broadly understood sigil for victim-blaming

You're missing the essential significance of the dress example. It's broadly understood to be a sigil for victim-blaming precisely because it's totally disconnected from the actual nature of rape and won't actually reduce your risk of rape. Therefore, it's presumed to be pretext. But that doesn't mean that every advice to exercise caution is pretext for victim-blaming.

> And yeah, moral righteousness doesn't undo trauma, but that's, again, completely orthogonal to victim-blaming.

You're the one who brought up victim-blaming, in response to post that simply gave cautionary advice. Telling someone to exercise caution, because being right doesn't undo the trauma of victimization, is also orthogonal to victim-blaming.

Let's recap:

"You deserve to be victimized because you took that photo/used a weak password/gave out your SSN over e-mail" is victim-blaming.

"Be careful who you give nude photos to/use a strong password/don't give out your SSN over e-mail" is cautionary advice that is orthogonal to victim-blaming.

More to the point, saying that the world should be a certain way does not make it that way. You should be able to drive on New Years Eve without being victimized by a drunk driver. But the world is not that way and it's prudent to exercise extra caution on holidays because there are more drunk drivers on the road. You should be able to walk down the streets of Wilmington, DE without being mugged. But the world is not that way and I still drive my wife home from work each night. You should be able to trust people with private information. But the world is not that way and it's prudent to keep anything that could be used against you close to your vest.

Being morally in the right does not erase the trauma of victimization, and giving advice that might reduce the chance of victimization is not automatically pretext for victim-blaming.
That is a matter of some debate. Even in the scientific literature. But I do know that when it hurts less for me to type, I can type for longer stretches. And that's way more important to me than typing faster.
Downvoting because this comment adds zero. Read the article. He also teaches a MOOC and has a much more nuanced view than "college is worth it b/c it pays my bills."
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But perhaps more importantly, not a big subjective difference ;-).
Use an electronic cigarette (vaporizer) or use the OTC nicotine replacement therapies (gum, lozenges, sprays).
If we're not capping the level of abuse it could easily be too late though. Let's take it to the extreme, somebody wants to kill you and you have no choice but to broadcast your location to everybody. Some people receiving that data, you don't know who, are happy to do the killing for the person who wants to kill you. Afterward they can be identified and tracked down, but at this extremity it's too late.
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Saying that something "seems wrong", is "ridiculous", "takes the cake", and "seems pretty ridiculous" doesn't seem like an argument. I prefer even bad science to innuendo and oh-please-come-on-common-sense.
totally understood. It's really good that you're holding my feet to the fire. It's a little bit buried, but linked from the "details" page is the full proposal:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By7AdX1eMEY2ZXZ5RzZ0Vl9QZG8...

I apologize, I had accidentally put in a wrong link there previously, it's been fixed, but the file has been publically available and visible for a while. Some non-scientific aspects (like our launch date) have obviously been changed at the last minute, but the proposal stands.
Oh, I agree. The difference is no other asset class that a non-accredited investor can put their money in has even remotely close to the same growth possibility as Bitcoin. IRAs, 401ks, stock indexes, and other asset classes don't do much other than protect you from inflation. You can pick specific funds or companies, but their value is more or less correctly priced and you're just gambling if you try to pick and choose, because you don't have inside knowledge.

Bitcoin (cryptocurrency) is different, because it hasn't been priced yet by investors who truly understand the technology or its implications. It's like the stock market for web companies in 1995. As an analogy, we're maybe in 1996 or 1997.
Old school IBM nipple mouse?
Jesse: what is your ideal retail price on these, if you had a good number of preorders?
I'd also be very interested in learning how to set up Android Studio to run Robolectric. Especially sinceone of the last releases removed the option to mark custom directories as test folders, so tat I now can't even use any Java features in the editor.
Just want to point out... that from a completely conservative point of view, having single mothers on welfare is better than the alternatives.

One possible alternative is to deny them welfare, thus endangering the health of the children they care for, thus forcing the state to take the children into custody.

Financially that puts a burden on the state that now has to employ someone to take care of the children, whereas it was getting that for 'free' via the mother.

Also, being a better person should be a moral judgment not a judgement on their financial state.
Yeah, I saw that one, and it's reasssuring that this unorthodox gamepad can still be used as a gamepad (and it really excites me about how powerful the haptics can be if they can use the "clickyness" of the buttonpad make it feel d-pad-ish) it's kind of the opposite of what I was hoping to read. I want to see how it performs in the novel world of handheld pointers, not the proven territory of handhold joysticks.
5% on one side, 5% on the other side (presumably independent varibables, but minus a little bit to account for overlap hence ~10% not 10%). "client base" was the wrong turn of phrase, should have said "traffic potential". I don't really know what I'm talking about, so I could have done the math wrong.
I don't think it would, actually. Enough people are willing to mine for a loss and the difficulty rises with availability of cheap hardware that it never becomes profitable. OP only made a (slight) profit because they could temporarily make renting a miner cheaper than the payout. This was temporary and now the market is back to status quo.

Maybe OP could automatically run his miners when such situations arrive, but I think it's unlikely to net anything like $17k/yr.

Edit: sliverstorm described this way better than I could.
Cigarettes are a nasty filthy habit...

But I find a good cigar or pipe useful for clearing the mind when working on hard problems.
$4k/month for living expenses...is it that bad in SF? That's pretty good $ for much of the country, even some of the more expensive cities in the US.
They better be in the game to compete with consoles, because they're going to be, whether they want to or not. If their long term plan is to simply run Big Picture Mode, and that's it, they'll fail, and never be more than a niche device used by a few PC gamers. The average person would much rather buy an Xbox or Playstation since they can use them for watching movies, Netflix, etc. Why buy a Steam Machine, if I need to buy something else to do the rest of the job in the living room? And if I'm spending a few hundred on an Xbox or Playstation, why bother with a Steam Machine for a couple of extra game titles?

They have a chance to make Steam Machines a huge success. If they pigeon hole themselves as strictly being a gaming device, and not a media device that competes with consoles, they should change the name of their UI, because they're missing the big picture.

However, I think you're wrong. Yes, they want a backup plan if they get kicked to the curb by Microsoft. However, if that was the only case, they'd be focusing on making Steam OS an actual operating system. Why spend the resources on a gaming controller, and Steam Machines? Why not go hard on a Linux OS that's a viable alternative for gamers? Their core audience is PC gamers, so why not make an OS for PC gamers, and skip the living room hardware all together?
No I would have no problem if they just watch, only if they did something hurt then its problem. In open society they can be tracked easily.
So you think! :P

Okay, maybe pg or pmarca? patio11? That awesome lawyer dude who wrote the stock options comment? (EDIT: grellas?)
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1. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/astroturfing.html
Slow and steady wins the trivial (but amusing) race.
I don't see the problem, not for me the citizen. Sure, news outlets want access. But I don't really care to see photos of the President in meetings, I have my own meetings to go to.

I think on balance the health of the nation would rise in some vague way if we just didn't give so much of a fuck about what celebrities are doing every day. And yes, the President has devolved to celebrity status; we know this, because as the article points out his handlers are trying to closely manage his image via photos, among other things.

He could greatly improve his image by managing his effectiveness and truthfulness.
Honest question: What's the difference between that and telling someone they shouldn't use 123456 as their password because it increases the chances that their account might get hacked?
>Cigarettes are a depressant

You mean something different here than what most people mean when they say depressant. Are you saying that smoking makes you feel bad?
CTRL+F - hindu - 0 results in home page. Where is the "nonsense" that you're talking about?
I'd be happy to discuss those personal decisions in a private setting (email me, if you wish, it's on my profile). I don't think a public discussion will yield much benefit.

Also, I would argue military academies have such demands upon the person.
Might kill the GPU faster than gaming alone, unfortunately[0].

[0]: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cpu_reliability.html
Perhaps a way to promote your services and showing the concrete value you could provide, would be publishing a monthly newsletter. There you'd show the kind of analysis you are capable of.
You could do this also as a way to attract traffic if the topics are interesting enough. (Hosting, seo tools, analytics, project managers...). Those are generic topics and you could sure find an interesting (niche) subgroup enough to be useful & atract posible customers.
Any good ones? I researched a year or so ago and all the brands seemed a little bit..sketchy.
You don't hear about the benefits of smoking because of the obvious downsides... I will contribute to the benefits.
"Although tobacco smoke decreases life expectancy and quality of life, it may reduce the risk of PD by a third when compared to non-smokers"
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I believe ops point was that any stable api would be preferable to: "Yeah, there's an api, but we refuse to document it, and we'll randomly depricate stuff if you try to use it to build something that isn't gmail". The team behind gmail is probably one of the best qualified to hammer out a working api for email of json (what we have + a bit of what we want + stability and versioning). No reason why they couldn't publish that as an RFC and let people implement a front end for dbmail or whatnot that spoke the same api.
Thanks for injecting some actual peer reviewed research into this discussion. As I mentioned elsewhere, I was mostly responding to the notion that one can engineer a virus with specific properties as opposed to relying on natural pathogens. No argument that there are no shortage of naturally occurring bugs that can kick our butts.

Can you comment on the models that are used for simulating outbreaks? Do they factor in natural evolutionary pressure and change of the virus? In the case of smallpox, you have something fairly stable, but influenza is highly variable over time. I can't imagine how one does that but it would be cool to know if it's possible.
I'm in contact with olddatahands who started the project. I'll be helping in any way I can.

Datahands take some commitment, but they pay off big time. It took me about 3 weeks of using them at work before I became comfortable. I'm sure if I started learning to type on dvorak that would be lessened - I went all in and switched to the dvorak datahands and now I can't type on regular keyboards at all. They at least have to be dvorak.
>A depressant, or central depressant, is a drug or endogenous compound that lowers neurotransmission levels, which is to depress or reduce arousal or stimulation, in various areas of the brain. Depressants are also occasionally referred to as "downers" as they lower the level of arousal when taken. Stimulants or "uppers" increase mental and/or physical function are the functional opposites of depressants.

I mean cigarettes (nicotine, actually) are a "downer", the opposite of how LSD is an "upper" (which makes the world more colourful, makes you feel more "connected", etc)

EDIT: I can't reply to your next comment for some reason, but I've been doing some googling and I realize that I'm unclear and mistaken about my drugs and their effects. Making necessary adjustments, thanks.
> I would have called those examples racism.

Yeah, but this breed of joke is basically timeless and global. Read old folklore of any culture and it's full of these backhanded compliments and unsubtle digs at neighboring villages and provinces. Tribalistic derogation (yeah, I just made that term up) basically happens anytime you have two sets of people who can be distinguished at all. Here in Seattle, it's Huskies and Cougars because football teams.

A lot of people can't tell the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant, for instance, but they've cheerfully gone to war over the distinction quite a few times. Is that a race war? It seems less than useful to do so.

Actually, it now occurs to me to look up the etymology of "race": http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=race&allowed_in_fra... I'm not sure what the Arabic ra's has to do with anything, but the earliest attestation there is 1520s. Interesting that the root similarity with other meanings is due to the way a river branches; that would never have occurred to me.

Nationalism, as I countenance it, is a 20th century phenomenon, which leaves a period of 1.5 to 4 centuries for your interest if you agree. I group nationalism, racism, sexism, etc. under the larger umbrella of tribalism, though, which may or may not be academically sane. Nationalism doesn't seem to become a thing until nation-building became a thing as a retrospective reaction to colonialism; you could call some ancient prejudices nationalism but... that doesn't feel right to me.

...I am rambling now.
Not the parent, but Swedish snus is a great option.
lol . touche!
These revenge porn sites are journalism

Nonsense. I read your blog post; you begin by asking readers to imagine an alternative reality where someone engaged in briebery is expose d by a journalist (despite the briber wishing that such activity would remain private), and then draw a false equivalence between bribery and exposure of one's body in a photograph. The differentce is that while bribery is a crime in most jurisdictions, taking a revealing photograph (or being the subject of one taken by someone else) is not a crime in any of the jurisdictions that apply here. So your public interest argument goes up in smoke.

You go on to draw a comparison with Anthony Wiener. But given that a) he is occupying public office while b) sending unsolicited pictures of a sexual nature to random women he encountered on the internet, that isn't equivalent either. There is a public-interest argument to be made about the unwisdom of him sending out sexy pictures of himself (albeit a limited one; I think most people were more offended by his persistent cheating on his wife than being a horny guy, and this might not have been such an issue if he was single), but you seem to have forgotten that the story first made headlines because he mistakenly posted pictures to his public Twitter account and then organized a wild-goose-chase investigation by falsely claiming his Twitter account had been hacked. This is very different some third party making public a picture of him that he had anticipated would be kept private.

Now I like a good contrarian argument as much as the next guy but this isn't a well-formed argument; it's irrational on its face and degrades the subject of the story in the process of trying and failing to make a point.