skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate bluntness; here's my blunt response to that thought.

Your comment and the comment you replied to have very quickly established an argument with two sides, a duality. This is a tired old debate that is based on a confused pseudo-theory about human nature.

I'll just address the side you have chosen. You're postulating that the person who has issues with the drug probably has issues in general. The logic seems to be that since the drug has no will of its own, it is a kind of neutral object that should not be blamed. Fine; that's reasonable enough.

But is there also an aspect of defensiveness? That is, this herb has a positive valence for you, and so any negativity associated with it must be shifted towards some essential source -- so that the neutrality of the drug is maintained.

Personally I think it's both amusing and sad that it's so difficult to have a rational, clear-headed conversation about these things. Part of that is probably because the issue of criminality looms in the background, making everything into a heavily value-loaded "statement," causing stigma and demonization and, on the flip side, valorization and blame-shifting.

It's the same thing but much worse with stronger psychedelics. The whole discussion becomes "are they good or evil?" And by extension, "are people who use it good or evil?" It's simply stupid, unenlightened, regressive.

Because the real discussion is "What should we do given that these molecules do exist?" How should we think about them? When are they useful and when do they cause harm? How do these particular kinds of harm work? How can we provide help and guidance to people who -- for whatever reason -- experience these molecules as a negative, seductive, destructive presence in their lives? How can we harness whatever good potential they have? Etc etc etc.

We're treating these molecules as if they were capricious Olympic gods, but they're just substances that happen to affect the human mind in different ways.
Lots and lots of stuff runs QNX. My brother works in lighting and stage design, and it's big there.
Perhaps councils will see them as a way to make money and start charging for the electricity they provide. Could be a nice little earner when they become popular.
Buddy, do yourself a favor, stop reading online forums and go see a psychologist. You're blaming "addiction" but that's a smokescreen (sorry for the pun).
And yet here you are ranting how bad it is?

Let me guess, a node / python hipster?
I'm currently using gulp + browserify, it's basically the same set of features (modules, compilation, livereload), but free.

Maybe a little more configuration necessary though.
That's pretty uncalled for. If you met a Facebook developer in person would you talk to them like that?

Facebook provides a service people find genuinely useful, or they probably wouldn't keep using it.

Their business motives don't seem much different from other large businesses, and their impact on consumer interests seem minimal (e.g. compare them to Target's accidental pregnancy revelations – which is worse?)

The are pushing society in new and interesting directions on privacy, but I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing, nor is it their fault (e.g. the invention of personal cars changed society a lot, positively and negatively, but no-one blames car companies.)

On the substantive point, when you see the number of credential leaks and account hijackings out there, maybe telling most developers "You're too busy and inexperienced to handle this well; we have many well paid experts working on this" is a good thing.
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However, a lot of woods were transformed into deserts because all the trees were chopped down for building sailing ships.
You have to afford the Austrians some sympathy. They know, just know, that their economic theories are correct and just. However, they kept running into a problem: there's so much troublesome data that proves the opposite of their beliefs. One day, Ludwig von Mises discovered that the scientific method itself was flawed. So he created a new system to replace it by fiat: "praxeology." Problem solved - now science confirms everything Austrians believe. No need for data.
Funny enough, Diebold, one of the leaders in ATM manufacturing and ATM software, use Windows 7 for their latest ATM's. I know because my current gig is customizing the software for a very large South African bank.
Are you kidding me?

The testimonials give the whola page a somewhat human touch. I - for one - am now pondering if there really is a story behind the "Mad at me since 2008" stuff about Apple's legal department :P
> Or is it that depression is becoming so pervasive that even successful people are opting out of life?

In addition to what csense said, it's not clear to me why these "successful people" would be much less likely to commit suicide than less prominent figures. High profile often just means higher pressure.

It's not as if the folks you named were resting on past laurels, living a life of leisure. (Not to suggest that retirement is free from problems, e.g. ennui.) These were working individuals, which means dealing with the stresses of jobs and ambitions.
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The sad part about our system of justice is that the police and prosecutors are immune from any consequences of their abuses.
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Actually it does attempt to do that - it requires you keep your finger on the screen while viewing so you can't perform whatever the screenshot command is. Which is lame but that's not the point - their selling point is that they do claim the images are transient. I'll wager 90% of their traffic is images people would not want made public, and some of it will be technically illegal.
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I've seen many Model S' driving around Amsterdam. Mainly because I filter through the traffic jams on my commute.
Yesterday I was at a company which had two parked in front (connected to a charger on an EV-only parking spot next to a Plug in Prius).

One of the main reasons Tesla S' are this popular is that as a business owner you can get tax breaks for electric vehicles which can change the actual price you pay from €80.000 to ~€35.000...(Curious when that gets shut down by the government...)
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When I was in us, my wife has a non working visa. It didn't prevent her to find a job at a company who sponsored her to get her own work visa, about a year after we arrived.
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html5-ninja.com is a marketplace where authors & designers propose their creations (themes, scripts... ) for selling.
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I think your point is quite possibly the greatest example of religious thinking I've seen for a while.

Perhaps the family structure is just as rotten as it always was but now we don't lobotomise our depressed wives, pile them up with valium and beat our kids to shut up about it.

It's no longer acceptable to put up with shit and abuse and unhappiness is the greatest thing that has happened to the western world.
What about performance? How does it compare to, say, regular icons that are combined within a CSS Sprite?
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In Switzerland the half-direct democracy works very well. I wonder why no other countries have tried this system.
In direct democracy the people decide how the consitution gets changed. One guy can change it with a nationwide vote if he gets 100,000 signatures in a limited timeframe. And the populace will therefore carry the decisions made.
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Just assume that "like" means they're expressing interest, sort of like a public bookmark.

The "like" model is a bit of an awkward fit for sad stories, granted.
This is one of the few examples of code that is valid in both C and C++ but that produces different results (in C++ the size would be 1).
1. Normally modifications to a web-application as well as database changes

2. Bitbucket repo check-in, and deploy to staging server for acceptance, then I also do the promotion to live. (although for one client, it's an internal TFS system)

3. Before. I invoice in arrears.

4. Bank transfer. Used to be cheque, but it's a pain, so only direct bank transfers now... Some clients are slow to pay. Between 60-90 days for a NET30 invoice...
They should reconsider MDMA for therapy as well, there was no good reason to ban it, and it was working well for people with post traumatic stress syndrome, people with terminal illnesses etc.
This guy must be a joy at parties ... oh but he doesn't go to parties because he's so superior to us.

I wish he made his argument without being insulting, there are some interesting things in this article.
I think it's trying to parody itself.

I remember the days when I thought tools like this were cool. Like Coda for example.

CLI tools don't need to parody themselves, they're usually free, cross platform and I can retire them quickly because I don't feel overtly attached to them.
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If he proves that his wife had coverage before enrolling in the plan (for example from Canadian health care) the insurance company shouldn't be able to play the preexisting condition card. Then again, that does not mean the insurance will have a good coverage for that. The best thing to do is to check that with the company you're applying to before signing.

Anyway, I agree that it sucks to live in a country where you have to think about this shit. Even with the best network (blue cross or blue shield) it's still not as good as France with a decent mutuelle for example.
It's supposed to be hard enough for 99.9999% of users.
Whoa, fancy seeing you here.

pass is pretty much the ONLY password manager I have actually found useful, and I have tried a LOT of them. I wrote about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7175888

Also, I have a personal use "fork" (scare quotes cause its not really a fork, just an personal work-in-progress) on github:

https://github.com/abgoyal/password-store2

Its an attempt to fix the "leak" of sitenames/usernames I talked about in the HN thread linked above. I am sorry, I have not gotten around to fixing the READMEs etc yet. Is this something you would be interested in merging?

In any case, big thanks for making "pass". Its a pleasure to use.
I think it depend on how much you want to tweak the server and which framework you use.

For me, I use Zend Framework and AWS. So far so good and AWS release my loading effort in maintaining the whole system.

In my monthly bill, the most expensive AWS service was EC2 and RDS.

FYI: AWS Free Usage Tier charge me less then $1 every month during my development phase.
The Flickr redesign has been the worst UI change I've ever seen on the web. I've been on Flickr since 2007 and really enjoyed its interface - much like reddit (pre- custom subreddit styles) it was clean and fast. Now it's ugly, confusing and very sluggish.
To be fair, that's Jewish civil law. The vast majority of Christians would agree that this doesn't apply to Christians today.
Context: "How Facebook is destroying history in the context of the Syrian Civil War"
http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/how-facebook-is-de...

Alghayma is free and open-source software: https://github.com/Alghayma/Alghayma
A few thoughts:

- 2min and 54secondes of demo video to explain the localhost address. Sooo, boring.
- At first, it sounded like another text editor but it's not.
- It seems that's just a GUI skin to CLI tools
Direct link to responsive site: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news
"Each snapshot of data represents all the devices that visited the Google Play Store in the prior 7 days."

This also contains people who only open the play store by accident, or to install updates where the app permission have changed. But I would personally see any person who opens the play store as a person who is able and willing to download an app.

Anyway, I think the numbers are good. compared with other cross platform technologies, Android versions are adopted reasonably fast.
Hope that's not a pity:)
I like how the feedback in the comments is unanimously negative.

>Please DO NOT spoil the easy to read nature of BBC news page on the PC desktop

>please refine the design at desktop resolutions

>Seems to me that content starts to disappear or change whenever there's a 'responsive design' revamp.

>A huge backwards step for desktop users

>Looks like another redesign which will result in reduced service for anyone who uses a desktop
As the answers suggest, there's a difference between encrypting everything with the same key, and encrypting between two parties.

Arguably, encrypting all snapchat traffic with the exact same key is almost worthless, and they could just send everything unencrypted. If a snooper knows they're looking at snapchat traffic, decrypting it is trivial.

At least with a key exchange, you have a good chance that only the targeted recipient can view the photo.
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As usual nothing about what kind of animal protein...
A bit like claiming 'intake of plant minerals presents severe and acute dangers to human health' after including in the study a variety of species rich in, respectively, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and arsenic.

Milk protein has known detrimental health effects, and probably dominates the effects described here. (But since they don't even make the distinction, how would we know?)
I have yet to see convincing evidence that protein from e.g. muscle is problematic for cancer risk or cardiovascular health at reasonable levels of intake, and I won't be holding my breath waiting for that to show up.
Raid on Bungeling Bay on the C64 was the one for me. So many hours ...
That link still loads the normal site for me. Is the beta invite-only? I didn't see anything in the article about a link to the beta.
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1. web apps, workshops, and advising

2. push to staging/production, code repo

3. retainer only, which means they pre-buy hours in blocks of time. I work it off, and they "top-up" as needed. For project-based it is usually broken into parts (1/3 up front. 1/3 on miletstone 1, 1/3 on delivery)

4. check, ACH, paypal (sucks)
That link just seems to detect that I'm on a Macbook and give me the regular desktop site. Are you sure that's not the mobile page for BBC News?
I agree that this method is not particularly great but you are missing the use case.

This is useful for cases where you trust the person you are sending to (to not print screen, etc), and also don't care about third party knowing the message.

Security is a spectrum not an absolute measure.
HTML5 animations on this site are really slick
That sounds like a very nuanced view of a complicated and diverse belief system with many different interpretations practiced by different people.

No; actually, it sounds like the sort of ignorance and stereotyping that people generally accuse religion of generating.
If you're not pissing people off, you probably aren't doing anything important
Well that's an ambitious project for a company that just fired all it's developer departments so it could hire cheaper workers in Salford. For those of you who don't know Salford, it's the music of Joy Devision made solid.
If you scroll to the bottom of http://m.bbc.co.uk/news and click "mobile site", it forces the new responsive site.
In C, no. Even an enum type in C can be compared with integers without any warnings.
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Actually an Android app can disable screenshots, but your point still stands: there is nothing to stop someone taking a photo of the screen.
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That article was interesting about the utilitarian Mises vs the natural law Rothbard, but it was completely wrong about the 100% reserve clause Rothbard insisted as essential being necessarily enforced by the state.

It sounds like the writer has not heard of Rothbard's proposed anarchocapitalist systems, polycentric laws and competitive arbitration and enforcement organisations.
Ah you're right, it was just giving me the mobile site because I already had the cookie I guess
Ugh I really don't like the brace style in that code. Seen it a few times in GNU code and it's a PITA as everyone else does it differently resulting in merge/patch issues. It's ugly too.
No, you're spreading FUD. This is not the system working as intended. If he got 1 day in jail for linking it should be an outrage to every American.
Pencilo, I can really see your point but I that's not why we made it.

Delete.im is not supposed to keep you safe from hackers or NSA. It's only to prevent sensitive data from lying around your chat history or emails. That's pretty much it. It's a completely different concept from snapchat and the others.
This seems like an awful distraction.
Slightly OT: 'the modern web' is native and mobile
Who in their right mind would use their FB login on other websites anyway.

I personally tend to avoid it like the plague.

Every time you use it you grant another website access to your Facebook profile data.

I don't think i want to share that.

Now i know there's some security there but honestly I don't thrust it Facebook is leaky enough as it is I would rather not push my luck by giving permissions to unnecessary things.
Is it a lot of work to implement? For example, do you already pass a 'stream id' to each command to identify multiple streams, or would that have to be added to everything? And is it something that somebody is working on or that is planned for the near future, or just on some 'nice to have someday' list?
What about the defense industry? People die if you screw up. I mean, people die if you don't, too, but you know what I mean.
I was in the same boat as you are now. Plus I took other drugs as well from time to time. That went on for 7 years. Looking back at it know it's hard to imagine: during 7 years, I think there were only 2 or 3 days I did not smoke (or sometimes ate) weed. Now don't get me wrong: I had great fun and ultra creative moments a lot of times, produced quite nice music etc. But just as many times I was just high and not exactly creative at all, rather just laying in the couch like a zombie.

And then came the depression and all fun was gone, no matter how many drugs I would take in. Those days I would not even wish upon my worst enemies. They destroy you, and it takes a long time to get all pieces back together properly. Even now, again 7 years later, hooray for the magic number, I still have to cope with leftovers from back then.

So here's my suggestion to you: don't wait until the depression really kicks in, chances are high it will, but just quit asap. I know for a fact you won't believe me, neither did I, but it is actually way easier than you think it is (my experience + plus those of two friends). I just quit from one day to the other, never looked back, and the withdrawal effects were pretty mild - even pleasant. Here are some effects of quitting, as you will notice most are extremely postive.

- for a month or so I had a huge urge to be 'active' because I felt like I had tons of energy that had nowhere to go. Running biking, whatever. Sometimes I would just go out at night and climb trees. For fun. Didn't do that since I was a child.

- you start to remember things. Randomly. From your childhood, from a couple of years earlier, ... It's weird. I never knew where and why my brain kept those but suddenly they would just pop up.

- at the same time, the depression started to fade, also gone where the endless thought-circles about life in all it's aspects, and my position in it. I still have those thoughts, but they don't go in endless circles anymore, instead now I come to conclusions

- as a result of that, social interaction came back (not back to normal as it never was before, but back to acceptable levels anyway)

- as a result of that, I found a girlfriend, soon to be wife and likely mother of children

- one downside: from time to time there's still an extremely strong urge to get completely wasted. Now I always had this, the typical craving and search for a high, but after quitting with weed it only became stronger. Like my mind is still addicted to being altered. Lots of sports helps to suppress it, but I admit sometimes I still go wild, mainly on alcohol and preferrably when I'm my own. Seems like a small price to pay though.
"A Mac App for Cool People"

Did they really have to resort to a level that low?
Passwords / codes / etc. Pretty much everything you dont want sitting in your chat history / email forever.
Thanks, looks good.

I know it sounds pedantic but it's not 'prefer', it's that the properties as methods is fundamentally changing the way the language works and is very brittle.
But if you make it realistic - have you thought of the actual size of those letters?
I've never understood the hate for StratFor. I signed up to see what all the hatred was about, but their analysis of foreign affairs seem interesting and detailed. If they remind me of anything, it would be Economist articles.
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This is a bit of a tangent, but I think it get's at the more interesting part of this question.

I ended up following a link to another sec.se thread where the idea of secure program obfuscation was discussed.[0] I feel embarrassed for having missed this but it appears that there exists on a theoretical level a manner of solving snapchat's woes.

The wired article ([0][0]) seems to suggest that it would be impractical at the moment due to resource constraints, however I also haven't had a minute to read the paper ([0][1]) yet as it is quite near morning and I need to get to sleep.

On a related tangent, the thing that sprung to mind about this new technique in obfuscation was the potential for using keyed APIs easily from the browser without having to bother the primary site's servers at all. Clearly very far away from there however.

Also, wouldn't secure obfuscation enable a lot of malware to evade detection by most current av programs?

[0][0]http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/cryptography-break...
[0][1]http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/631.pdf
Yeah, sorry to be 'that guy', but if there ever was a case of 'citation needed', this is it. Please don't get caught up in the bubble of HN/Reddit legal reporting, as it is all very myopic and biased, and a lot of it is plain wrong. Getting your information on legal issues from HN/Reddit is like getting your information on jews from Stormfront.
> I'm surprised with all of the rhetoric about fiat money that nobody figured this out sooner.

My experience has been that goldbugs usually just don't want to be told about or think about this, so I'd expect things to be the same among Bitcoin supporters. And presumably a number of the clever boys will quietly reason that even if, later on, Bitcoin goes the way of all money, the people who were in on the ground floor will still have made their killing.
The redesign has been complete disaster for readability on the desktop.

Go look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/robertpeston/

See how little actual information they've managed to fit into the desktop design, you have to scroll miles just to scan the stories.

The design itself is rubbish with everything seemingly randomly spaced out.

Not impressed at all.

I'm actually getting really disillusioned with the mobile first movement, what it seems to actually mean is completely broken desktop experiences.

And bootstrap, as much as I love it, is part of the problem moving to mobile first.
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