skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but I'm having a hard time to imagine a scenario where it is really easy. It is not that easy (as, say, soft drinks) neither in Uruguay or Amsterdam. It is expensive at the houses of everyone involved in drug dealing - it is their work after all.

Any way, the exceptions don't affect a open poll as this one. But I would be interest in a research that answer this questions at different realities, such as, slums, high society, drug dealers family, public high school, private high school, etc.
Agreed. My pot usage is similar to my alcohol usage. It's not every day, just every now and then. I also enjoy different forms of cannabis (edibles, vaporize, hash oil, etc) just like alcohol (whiskey, beer, wine).
I don't think you can quite call these patterns of failure mistakes.

They are effective, reliable way to get certain things up and running in a given time frame and in a decentralized fashion. If you have limited resources and need to have things working in that time frame, decentralized services can be the right decision even if they give you problems later.

Further, being a fairly reliable way to do things, they have appeal even if your time frame is far enough ahead to see the problems.
I completely agree. I moved to Chicago about a year ago, and have been very happy with how great their public trans is!
And one of its ex-mayor, Gavin Newsom, is aiming to be the next Governor of CA.

sigh...
Why would you want to be a bigger fan then ? Are there upsides too ?
In New York you have MTA Metro North, PATH, MTA Subway, MTA Select Bus Service, NJ Transit, etc.

Plus things like JFK AirTrain, Amtrak.

It's not confusing though --different names for different things. commuter rail vs intra-city transportation. Metro North doesn't share ticketing with the subway even though they're both MTA
Right, but the two "No" options don't leave room for having a positive outcome and still not being an active user. What about, "No, because my current job or state's laws or inability to access marijuana prevent me from using it." Or, "No, but I would if I could."

In a way it's funny, either you hate it or you still use it on a regular basis.
This is beautiful! Anyone who has such feeling for English at its most alive is someone I want to read more of. It's an exemplary piece of intellectual detective work, too, with a satisfying reward.

I think the article should be called "Using the Right Dictionary". It is far too good to commingle with the shite genre that is internet bait titles.
Placeholder API routes + schema with random data
Strange. I honestly wouldn't say it's bad at all. I can easily get from downtown SF to SoMa, Stonestown Galleria, Chinatown, the Cannery Area/Pier 39, Golden Gate Park, etc using just a handful of Muni buses/lightrails and probably no more than 2 transfers. That's just using Muni.

For the rest of the Bay Area, I travel from San Jose to the northern Peninsula very often via some combination of Caltrain, Bart, and Valley Transport Authority. Sure it's slower than it could be, but it's hardly inconvenient or bad.

Not sure what the real issue is here after reading the article. However, I found the facts about unused tunnels (like the one in Fort Mason) pretty fascinating. There are some areas that could be better and more directly connected.
"and consider most people that do drugs to be pretty irrational"

Why do you say that? Seems kinda silly to think that "socially accepted" drugs make someone more rational than the non-socially-accepted drugs.
Daily to treat vicious insomnia.
jokes on you then.
>aging

A natural process applied by our Creator. Amplifying this deprecation of your body by using drugs or other substances is bad form. The more so if you are fully aware these substances do that damage.
An AngularJS directive for NVD3 re-usable charting library (based on D3)
The meaning of a word used 1600 years ago in a society with a different culture and legal system does not change the plain meaning of a commonly-used word in English that has a specific meaning.
I'm curious, why isn't type inference used in the examples? For example:

http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/WebGL/Triangle.elm

Edit: ok, the language has full type inference, but not the webgl examples.
Yeah well, we also have our city council people arrested for gun smuggling to terrorists in the Philippines...
I would agree, except for the lack of support for Unicode and LF line endings.
Not if you launch bash.exe, then it's GNU bash, version 3.1.0
I have great respect for your writing, but as I am not in the security field I often have difficulty understanding some of the points you make in threads like these. When you say Levison's system made claims it couldn't possibly backup, do you mean that from a technical perspective, or from a legal perspective? I assume you mean from a legal perspective; as his service was a central point at which all messages traveled, he had access to both the encrypted content as well as the decryption keys which the government could then obtain access to via legal means. The advantage afforded by personal systems like PGP keys is obvious in that no third party is involved, but at the same time, PGP or anything else doesn't do any better from a legal perspective - the government can coerce you to give up your encryption keys just the same, no?

edit: I think you explained this in your reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7775232. but still, if the idea is, "you can't claim that system X protects you, because the government can compel that system to give up its keys", that would appear to apply to any encryption system. OpenPGP can't make the claim, "now you can send any message with absolutely zero chance of the government ever reading them!", one subpoena (edit again: search warrant) for your laptop and your passphrase (or a covertly installed snooping device) is all it takes.
> The Second Avenue Subway will also be dual tracked (unfortunately).

When I worked in NYC, it always amazed me that people 100 years ago had the foresight to build a 4-track system to allow for express trains. A century later...
I would say it depends on who you know more than where you are.
How do we know that wired broadband is even the answer? Wouldn't wireless connectivity be more attractive if the goal is social justice? Many lower-income homes don't own a PC, and at this point they probably never will. How attractive is a home PC to you if all you've ever known are smartphones?

Wired broadband, to me, is more of an entertainment consumption platform. Wireless serves the needs of low-bandwidth information consumption quite well these days, and at a significantly lower cost and better market dynamics. Wouldn't a city be better served by pushing Wi-Fi or 4G? Especially given the mass adoption of smartphones by all segments of the economy.
One area where it's really interesting is increasing spacial understanding. For example, 3D programming concepts.
Yes, and liked it.
Yes, and felt paranoid.
Yes, drank beers, and smoked weed--stumbled home.
Stopped.
No, there are probably other Linux / Windows users who are similarly confused. :-p

Among Mac users, your comment is hard to understand, though. We don't have "suspend" or "hibernate" so we don't think about that. Want to relocate? You close the lid, no thought about it. Get to the new place? Open the lid, and your mac is operational instantaneously - literally as soon as the lid is fully open. Of course, the laptop was in power-save mode while you were relocating, but you don't think of that.
You mean long term impact right? Because if not you're either very sensitive to coffee or not inhaling or something :)
WHAT? I didn't know that!

I knew of Calif. state senator (dem known as gun-control advocate) getting busted for gun-running and money laundering.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/27/ca...
* Most people don't use OS X

* I find their paradigm very bizzare. The nail(s) in the coffin for me were the inconsistent and incomplete patchwork of shortcuts and modifier keys. Even with universal keyboard access enabled, there is no way to do some very basic things via keyboard out of the box (e.g. move, maximize, minimize windows). Every time I use OS X I feel like I'm fighting the system. The only way I can get anything done on it is via CLI, which defeats the purpose of switching (at that point why not just ssh into it from windows)

If I had started out on OS X it would probably be great but as it is, the learning curve and opportunity cost is too steep for me.
>I would venture the guess that the price you pay per megabit has decreased.

For me personally or on average? I'm a heavy usage user, but most my neighbors pay the same as me for using a lot less. My grandparents have basically the same service as me and all they use it for is email, some web games, and the occasional VOIP call and video.

Considering that nowadays almost everyone has high-speed unlimited plans for the same price I might question whether the net per megabit price for ISPs has really gone up. At the very least I'd gamble to say that it hasn't been anywhere close to exponential or unsustainable for them to keep up with.
I'm curious why precisely they need to see the source.

As a secondary note: Why would you expect it to be free? It's something that someone spent time on.
> I'm not sure how much it is a case of Americans tolerating it, rather than Americans lacking decent labour legislation to challenge this sort of nonsense.

Not having "decent labour legislation" is a result of "Americans tolerating it". If Americans didn't tolerate it, they'd have legal protection against it.
"You are the weakest"

Because someone doesn't adhere to your standards, they are weak? That's a pretty poor outlook. Besides, there are perfectly safe ways to consume marijuana that aren't destructive, as with just about any other substance.
I seem to have /libx32 and /usr/libx32 (and they're non-empty too) on my Debian unstable system.
True, the original impetus for the market monoply exclusions that exist today was to insure that someone coming into the market had a reasonable chance of making their money back. This encouraged people like Comcast to bring cable to the city. What has changed is that the Internet which was a 'ride along' on the Telephone and Cable monopolies has become more of a lifeline service. Further it has gone to the point where it supercedes both, since a home with a 1 - 3mbps Internet connection can get both phone and television services over it. This is the message that I'm bringing to the city, which is that Internet pipes have become like roads, essential for the citizens and the proper functioning of the city itself.

And given that, lets move the infrastructure into the same place, city owned/maintained raw pipes, company services accessible by those pipes.
I love the fact that Donald Knuth, one of the most knowledgable minds about computer science, hasn't had an email address since 1990. He used to have one for fifteen years (between 1975 - 1990) but it killed his productivity so he no longer uses it.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Yep, pay now or really pay later. That's why the HSR in CA is going to cost a large fortune, and be a suboptimal solution. Sure, it could have been started before man landed on the moon but Americans don't take trains.
The reason is that the Bay Area is far more of a unit than originally, so things grew up independently basically in each county.

San Francisco, the city, has one main municipal system, Muni. Caltrain grew out of commuter rail that's existed for about a century and was originally private I believe.

BART was put together as an East-Bay-centric commuter rail that hoped to kind of unify everyone, but Marin (across the golden gate from SF), Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley/San Jose), and San Mateo County (between Santa Clara and SF) didn't want to pay the taxes required to be part of it.

And then there are other county bus-heavy transit agencies like Samtrans, VTA, AC Transit; it wouldn't make sense for Muni to run these since they're meant to serve other counties.

It's a giant mess, but each one largely sprung up on its own back when it was much less normal for someone to regularly travel all the way between Mountain View and SF.
I thought the point of viewing panoramas was that it was seamless at the edges? I.e. it wraps around. PanoPanda does not do this, and it seems like it's just a simple app to "view image at different zoom levels + panning".
Drink coffee for two weeks, have painful headache withdrawl for the better part of a day.

Smoke pot every day for three years and take a two week long break - on the third day I'll have a low grade headache for a few hours and then it will go away.

Only thing I'll give to the "other side" is that it will take a week to learn how to fall asleep sober again, but it's not a big deal.
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Solomo or somolo.
The odd part of that was he was pushing for gun control laws pretty heavily. I guess if you get all guns banned then your gun smuggling business will be more profitable.
I use my laptop on my lap for about 4 hours a day coding. I really need a laptop that works as a laptop in that case, nit just something I can use on my lap occasionally. Perhaps someone will make a counterweighted and braced keyboard like they have for iPad to solve this problem.
beautiful piece of writing. it reminds me of why chambers was my favourite dictionary when i was growing up; the definitions had a definite sense of style and individuality to them.
ahahahahahahahahaha. what organs does marijuana destroy?
Plenty of cities don't have a subway but do have decent public transport that rarely gets stuck in traffic. Separate bus and rail lanes help.

SF, like most US cities, reserves ridiculously wide roads for car traffic.
because no one disrupted it yet.
NYC and SF aren't comparable at all since NYC is so much larger. But even then, NYC is more well-organized. The majority of the services you mentioned move commuters between NYC and surrounding areas, so it makes sense that they don't fall under MTA. SF separates its bus system from its train system (at least in labeling), and there's more than one train service within the city alone.

EDIT: Bear in mind it wasn't always this way, and NYC went through a painful process to unify its transportation services - something SF might have to do at some point. Competing train companies (IRT and BMT) were nationalized and folded into the city's separate system (IND). That's why you see numbered vs lettered trains. Those trains have entirely different systems - even the tracks have different widths.
He is distinguishing between what the service provider can or cannot be compelled to do.
Thank republicans who block infrastructure spending every chance they get.
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San Francisco, the city itself, only has Muni and Bart unless you count the one or two express SamTrans buses that run to the busiest transit center (the end-of-the-line Caltrain station I believe). So it's actually relatively simple.

But if you're talking about the Bay Area, then you're talking about a pretty massive region composed of some pretty geographically-isolated subregions. You have the city of San Francisco, then the long peninsula, and then finally San Jose. But then wrapping up the other side of the bay you have several other cities and areas. I'm not sure that it would make sense to combine that.
Not...really
Here's a link to an overview of the service and architecture: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabi...

And a critique of the design from Moxie Marlinspike: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/

The critique provides details about how relatively easily the server could obtain any information about an account and its contents.
He was on the SF city council until he was term-limited out.
The text was rather small to read and the OCR'd text at the Internet Archive had errors so I've put up a cleaned up text version.

http://liamk.org/disneyland/
> No, not just decline. The rails were purposefully ripped up, mostly at the behest of the tire/auto/oil lobby.

This is a popular explanation of the fate of the Pacific Electric system, but like anything in history, it seems there were a number of factors that led to it happening.

The original system was designed as a loss-leader by Henry Huntington for his business venture of real estate sales and land development (e.g. electrification). Access to downtown LA from these new suburban developments in a pre-automobile world made them attractive to new buyers. As automobiles became common, three things happened:

1. The need for such a system began to decline as more people could afford their own personal transportation. This led to a decline in ridership, and hence revenue.

2. Because much of the system was at-grade (street-level), the increase in automobile traffic directly impacted service of the streetcars, as they had to share the road with the new influx of cars. This made the system less attractive, further decreasing revenue.

3. This declining revenue stream led to the system being sold to the local government, who inherited the problems above. At the same time, the freeway system was being planned (which at one point envisioned train tracks running down the middle of the freeways!), and this proposed system plus promises of more flexible (and cheaper) service via automobile busses made the system even less attractive to maintain.

So yes, while the system was eventually sold to a group with ties to the oil/auto/tire industries, the local authorities were all too happy to get rid of the system. While today the debate continues over busses (cheaper) vs trains, the real issue IMO is control of the right of ways. IIRC, MTA held on to a few ROWs and was able to use them in the new system's Expo line, among others.

EDIT: LA's MTA still faces this issue of at-grade tracks being impacted by traffic. Because it is cheaper, it is used substantially in both the Blue and Expo lines, and I've heard some arguments that the Expo line isn't much faster than driving because it has to deal with traffic+lights. From a purely financial point of view, some have argued that you get the most bang for your buck with lines like the Orange line: busses on private roadways, so you get the fleet cost of busses but the time benefits of traditional train tracks separated from traffic.
Yup, same here. What a fucking moron. Id read that he was a bit of a wanker, juat concrete evidence.
I have absolutely noticed it helping me understand concepts in 3D programming. I would say it helps me understand mathematical concepts in general.
Hwdy,

Just curious if you can answer this... I worked at the original Decide.com in 1999 before the down-turn...

How much did you acquire that domain name for when you launched your version of decide.com?
Please don't editorialize titles, as the HN guidelines say.
Well, the Twin Cities when I lived there built a light rail that didn't really follow the commuters and killed a couple of people every year because they removed roads to build the tracks but didn't ensure that people wouldn't turn onto the tracks.
Here's a link to a screenshot of the older version:

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/317/files/2014/...

And I agree. Random mandatory switchovers to new interfaces are a good way to make me stop using a product.
Sloppy, or simply "not evil"?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/15/apples_worldwide_l...

The lengths at which Apple goes to prevent leaks is straight up evil.

According to the source, Apple takes leaks very
seriously. When a leak is suspected, a very specific
protocol is followed, involving the confiscation of all
cell phones and a total blackout of all unmonitored
communication. "It is like a gag order, and if the
employee does not want to participate they are
basically asked to leave and never come back," says Tom.

"The same Worldwide Loyalty Team does many other things
to keep everyone in check, from searching out the email
history of every employee, to seeding fake images to
catch potential leaks and diffuse the hype about some
product introductions."
And I consider people who limit their own experience for no good reason to be pretty irrational.
I simply fail to fathom people justifying their lousy and destructive behavior.

Tell me how exactly you safely consume marijuana? Please don't spread disinformation like that. I am not the one to judge you, but if you through all means try to good-talk your faulty behavior, this is a sign of addiction.

I encourage you to read the following page and seek help before it drags you down to a place you cannot recover from. It's not too late.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/drug_substance_abuse_addicti...
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It can give you a different perspective on your product since it will appear "new" to you (cannabis makes life seem more novel). And it makes you appreciate good UI/UX.
Encapsulation (and it's twin sibling identity) is completely essential to OO, otherwise you are just using objects as poor man modules.
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>the government can coerce you to give up your encryption keys just the same, no?

No they can't. In general, such an act would be a breach of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. You cannot claim similar protections for information that would get another person in trouble though. This is why Levison was risking a contempt charge by refusing to turn over evidence about someone else.
Wrong! There are very few Republicans in the Bay Area and none in SF city goverment.
Yes, N-trig's edge performance is better. But Wacom is better supported in terms of software, has more granular pressure sensitivity and the pen does not require a battery.
Did anyone realise, that it had been time 1400000000?
It was a time 1400000000 on 13. of May 2014. But nobody wrote about it in any IT news source I know. There are lots of fireworks on New Year's Eve, but nobody is celebrating that magical Unix time, though it happens just once in 3.17 years. Well, I wish you a happy new hundred of millions of seconds :)

http://www.currenttimestamp.com/
Interesting. I must admit I was badly misinformed on the role of Lisp in this project. My apologies.
Which is why the US legal system has the judiciary as a separate and co-equal branch of government, and the fourth amendment requires the approval of a neutral and detached magistrate.

The DOJ's emotional state has nothing to do with their ability to order Levison to hand over the keys because the order didn't come from them, it came from the Court.
If it was really a quine, the process could be repeated. This one works only once.
Because we're afraid of having something like the post office in the private sector.

It is really hard to fire federal employees, even if they are drunk on the job, make racist comments about customers, call their supervisors degenerates, refuse to sell stamps that are in-stock, or just hang out in the corner chatting while a line of people stretches out the door.
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if you use the + register, you probably compiled it to workaround OSX limitations.
What I was suggesting is that this would empirically favor quantum decoherence over waveform collapse.

The ability to subsequently control quantum decoherence allows for its patterns to be recorded and reproduced; i.e. an ability which would allow humans to eventually recreate entire quantum sections and perhaps eventually allow them to alter both the past, present and future states in-between the margins of quantum decoherence.

I'm not suggesting non-locality; I'm suggesting non-realism from a universal standpoint and thus the ability to control 'reality' lies in the ability of human beings to control quantum decoherence and quantum mechanics.

The ability to recreate a version of the past via quantum mechanics is, in effect, time travel.

We aren't too far away from full control of decoherence:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5876/638