skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend has been tossing around the idea of "null vote" for quite some time. Basically, to encourage a bigger proportion of constituency to vote, add a new bracket: "none of the above". And then start to visibly track that figure. (Note: this is in Finland, not US)

The problem with general elections is that there is no meaningful choice. You can vote for the shade of your representative, but you can't vote against putting an invertebrate lizard in position of power. Adding a valid "none of the above" choice to the ballot would be a way to track just how big a fraction of population disagree with ALL of the available representative options.

Currently we lump "invalid" votes together with disqualified votes, so protest votes do not count. They are treated as empty ballots. Personally I would be very much interested in seeing the results after a few years of "N/A" votes. Once the fraction of the votes to go against all of the available choices starts to gain and approach any of the potentially winning entries in the ballot, you might just see a reaction against the uselessness of current political system. At least that's what I hope.
Or the $4bn. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5106950/google-snapchat-4...
What would you say is the most you will tolerate before the French Revolution seems like an appropriate course of action? Does your personal French Revolution cutoff happen before or after a close friend or family member is robbed, raped, kidnapped, or murdered by royalty? Does your personal French Revolution cutoff happen before or after the level of oppression makes the French Revolution impossible?
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Now stop that right now! :) I strongly doubt there is any such thing as "medical-grade" marijuana.

"Medical marijuana" refers to pot sold in such as way as to shield the buyer and seller from criminal liability (by requiring a prescription from a health-care provider). No official or semi-official body is holding this medical marijuana to any standard.

Heading off a potential nit: in the last year or two a new strain of pot much lower in THC and much higher in CDB has arrived on the scene, and some doctors are advising some patients to use that strain, but as far as I know, no one refers to that as medical marijuana.
What small fusion devices do you speak of? Or did you mean fission?
>>female vervet monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the feminine toys (a picture book and a stuffed dog).

I don't know what to say about using monkeys for this kind of study, but I will say that I never thought of stuffed dogs & picture books as feminine. Those sound like male/neutral to me!
> since marijuana is literally a weed, why wouldn't the price eventually drop to something like that of tea?

It will, plus whatever extra for taxes and regulatory compliance. But it will be the same as with fruit, where what you see in stores are the A-grade products, and the B- and C-grade products get turned into food, beverages, industrial materials, etc.
For better readability, try 75 characters per sentence.

The larger font amplified the "wall of text" feeling.
BC Liberals listen up! BC bud is the last good thing remaining besides the shit job market and housing bubble. Take note of the Southern brethrens and emulate, tax, pay off the Olympic debt. If Vancouver does not do this, all the tech people will leave!
So, now that pot is legalized, how will the police fill all those costly new jails with black people now?

Criminalize them just for being black?
But the last code edit was 11 hours ago. Web page is not so important to me.

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/etoile/
Google Search and CSE are inconsistent, Google doesn't care since 2009.
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More acceptance would presumably result in more clinical trials of cannabis.

I'm aware of some small scale studies which have shown promise for diseases such as IBD (Crohn's/ulcerative colitis). How it stands presently some sections of society (global) suffer unnecessarily.

I'm lead to believe that some substances in cannabis are neuroprotective; This contrasts to something like alcohol, which causes neurological damage.

And from what I've read, it can also inhibit angiogenesis within tumours. Thus, may be legitimately useful against cancer.

It's hard for me to make assertions with sources, as this is merely what I've read over the years. It simply hasn't been worth the time to investigate further, given its legal status. But from what I can gather, outlawing of a drug with low toxicity and potential medical benefit is an absolute travesty for humanity! It's tantamount to low-grade torture by the state on people who have an illness that can be, to some degree, ameliorated. There also seems to be a pandering to special interests (alcohol, tobacco, and the prison industry). And a disregard for people's freedom.

Some may not like the idea of Cannabis being legal, but if it becomes a substitute for alcohol and tobacco, it could turn out to be a health boon (given its low toxicity). Not to mention the saving of lives via a reduction in organised crime.

It's a shame this didn't happen earlier, and in more places!
tl;dr More "proof" that men are biologically superior to women.
Very relevant to hackernews
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Apropos of nothing, since I don't travel with my machine booted the boot sequence of grub would give it away I suspect.
From the study:

"Male monkeys, like boys, showed consistent and strong preferences for wheeled toys, while female monkeys, like girls, showed greater variability in preferences."

It takes pretty huge step to get from there to suggesting that human girls are genetically predisposed to liking barbies and kitchen toys.

Those differences aren't so similar across nearly every culture. Gender differences vary widely by culture. Stuff like gender differences in IQ is wholly inconsistent across different racial groups. Nearly every metric related to gender differences varies substantially across different cultures. For instance in some countries it's women who test better in math.
New year’s resolutions are going to happen. The question is how we can help people to make sustainable progress on their goals, rather than spending January at the gym and quitting by the time February rolls around. This seems like a simple way of adding some accountability, which is widely known to improve dedication to the kind of incremental improvement that most new year’s resolutions concern.

My approach is like yours. Set a goal and get to it. This year I plan to gain 20 pounds and rekindle my love for various hobbies. :)
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You are correct, I looked up the original study and found that the picture book and the furry dog were actually the neutral condition toys. The feminine toys were a doll and a red cooking pan. Thank you for pointing this out, I will edit my post.
My interest was piqued at document archival/confirmation uses.
The underlying logic is the following "An operator of a commercial Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Web site or online service shall conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site". Basically what states/legislations are doing is protecting their citizens, therefore reversing that logic. So in theory I'd say yes.
The elements of a C struct must be sequentially ordered in memory as specified in the code, that's defined in the standard.
I can't read this while doing something else - I have to select the window and scroll every few words.
I think the author has a point .. however we're all conditioned now to the standard-ish font size on the web. We all sit at a distance from the screen optimised for a particular size - and as most sites are about the same we zoom in or our a little. Changing that is just jarring.

The number of characters per line is, however, important. I tend to either resize my browser to narrow sites like HN or use the 'Instapaper Text' button to totally transform the page.

One things missing in this article is talk about line-height. The longer the line of text and the longer the paragraph, the more line-height you need. The white gap between the two lines helps the eye to find the next line as it quickly scans back to the start.

Many news sites still use a small line-height reminiscent of newspapers where whitespace is expensive. I think the designers think it gives the feel of 'real' news.

TL;DR: lines around 70 - 80 characters are good. But more important is sufficient line-height to scan back to the start of the next line instantly.
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Sure, for the under 21&18 crowd.
Do you guys do internships?
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The black population is just 4.1% of Colorado, vs. the national average of 13.1%
I would assume you can't safely do arithmetic within a structure, for instance. As an example, take a

struct {
char a;
char b;
char c;
char *p;
char d;
}

A valgrind error that points at "0 bytes within an area of memory..." would signal an error originating somewhere in the struct, but who knows whether it's p or a.
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Starting with "the i7"? What microarchitecture do you mean?
I love Red Blossom Tea: http://www.redblossomtea.com/

Also, the Hacker's Guide to Tea is a great resource: http://www.worldoftea.org/hackers-guide-to-tea/
The difference that will be interesting is that the relative potency of the two drugs is completely different. At $6 a lb weed, the cost of a joint will be about 4 cents (3 cents for the rolling paper, 1 cent for the weed).
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Wouldn't be surprised if something like that is coming soon. Maybe not radioisotopes exactly, but something. Battery technology has been one of the major bottlenecks in advancing electronics, mobile computing, and transportation. It's an area ripe for change, and the economic pressure/incentive is definitely there.
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Doesn't 'Medical Grade' just mean high quality? IANAS but there are lots of different levels of quality right?
Like in Pulp Fiction? "That one's a Wild Man."
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this is a bad idea that will never work

/s
I'm non-US so I dont have any idea where to obtain detailed statistics - but does anyone have data about how many blacks in Colorado are in state/fed jail for pot compared to the whole US?

And as a side question: do private jails exist in Colorado, or is the jail system in state hands?
Maybe the author kept under the character limit
that he proposed, but due to large font I still had trouble
reading. Not only was it hard to find the next
line after finishing the previous one, but it
was also hard reading each word. I only want to
glance at a word to know what it is - which is why
those "the the" tricks work.
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"But exciting times, regardless!"

That's one way to describe what's coming, yes.
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It will be very interesting to see the numbers in the next 5 years. Numbers of those who smoke pot vs who don't. Lets see how successful financially each group are. How much they contribute to society. It will also be interesting to see which group goes further in school or their career. Which group turns out more long term "happy" people. Which group breaks more laws ETC.

I already know the answers to all of these questions, but it will interesting to see it become a provable, statistical reality.
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http://uptontea.com is somewhere in between and has not disappointed the few times I've ordered from them.
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I really can not think of a promising reason to switch from 2.X to 3

Sometimes I feel that Python will end at version 3
Many similarities, but different use case and workflow. It's to PaintCode like Indesign (or After Effects) is to Photoshop.
This is really cool. This is my favourite kind of idea; one that changes something fundamental in a succinct way.

This makes me wonder how important domains are at all. My mum never even thinks about the domains for the websites she visits, she just types in 'ebay' and Google does everything for her.

The only time I think about URLs (outside of coding) is when I have to share a link with someone, but I wonder if even that could be replaced with a sufficiently advanced search engine.
"For that matter, you will be able to reach someone at the moon colonies, concerning which General Motors puts on a display of impressive vehicles (in model form) with large soft tires intended to negotiate the uneven terrain that may exist on our natural satellite."

I'm not sure what I find more quaint: moon colonies or General Motors making impressive vehicles.
Colorado, unlike a large number of US states, seems to take crazy things like simple economics and overwhelmingly positive scientific research into account when drafting laws. Here in the south we prefer to use 1950's mores, Jim Crow era law enforcement priorities and 3000 year old Judean religious texts when writing our laws. Bravo Colorado!
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Reminds me of "RealNames". Dot-com era company. $130 million in funding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames

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I Decided To Delete All My Facebook Activity, And It Was Incredibly Hard
"Seems too good to be true"

Well for one thing there is nowhere near enough dust in that place to have been untouched and not cleaned for all of those years.

Particularly also this:

"left unoccupied since 1942 was discovered."

Seems to indicate that not even the landlord ever had a reason to enter the apartment in all of those years.
Apparently you didn't use Rails, or at least on real project.
Anyone has as an example of text that should be added?
Dell apologizes for 'inconvenience' caused by NSA backdoor
Lets see you categorize this card then:

- Pin & Chip EMV Visa Platinum

- Comes with a "Visa Facility", meaning it can go into the red

- Referred to as a "credit card" in the marketing brochures

- ATMs list it as a "credit card"

- 30 days interest free & does the whole minimum payment thing

- Money goes directly off the bank account

- One account...no moving money between credit card and bank account

- Fully banking functionality

- Has a credit component but doesn't show on my credit record at all

- Card keeps working after you hit the supposed facility limit

- Fraud dispute mechanism is similar to debit cards

I'd love to hear how the bank managed the above.

>I don't mean to imply you're a non-credit-worthy individual.

Haha. No worries. Its actually the most prestigious card issued in my country. (Until Amex brings their Black Centurion anyway).
Why do you think that? Please elaborate! HackerNews isn't supposed to be about trolling.

Personally, I like the idea and i'm going to use it. However, it relies on people downloading the extension. If there are enough people using it (which is definitely possible) then it would be successful.
Have you looked into project management?

Something along the lines of "business technology consulting" might be another route to get mostly offline. By that, I mean consulting businesses on how to utilize specific technology to solve their problems, not building that technology.

If all else fails, look to your passions. What do you do when you aren't working? Do you like photography, working on cars, building wooden furniture etc. etc? You might have to get creative but a lot of hobbies can transition into careers or businesses.
A fellow tinkerer in program synthesis? Just today, I was tweaking my AI-Programmer project http://primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx, which uses genetic algorithms to generate programs.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks programmers can/should become obsolete. :)
Latvia becomes 18th state to join the eurozone
GCC also supports that pragma, for compatibility with MSVC:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Structure-Packing-Pragmas....

Clang has this, too.
That is awesome! Sounds like a great start to 2014!
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(Not looking for a general discource or about.com like articles)
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I strongly disagree that your street address being linked to your name is the same as your pseudonymous snapchat username being linked to your cell phone number.
What are the answers? Is there a back of the book? Give up the goods!

This (OP) is one of the funniest HN submissions I've ever seen for comments. What does this have to do with HN?
Agree on the importance of line height—here's a calculator to help give a balanced line height—I'll add to the post. http://www.pearsonified.com/typography/
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