skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you anticipate that anyone will ever use or maintain your code in the future (including you), you should document it.

Right, I think we don't disagree that much. In particular, if you don't anticipate your code being used or maintained for very long, don't document it! Both of us worked on a lot of throw-away code over the years after all ;)
As someone who doesn't live in the SF bay area, the sheer number of transportation systems confuses and puzzles me. Caltrain, BART, Muni, SamTrans, Golden Gate Transit, etc. Why aren't these systems unified under a single system map and timetable? In the Boston area we have the MBTA, in New York there's the MTA. Why does San Francisco need 5+?
I'll try putting energy into my life next time I have a killer migraine that nothing else will relieve.
At a guess, someone is curious and wants to know the answer to the question. Feel free to ignore it or give a false answer (I promise I won't come to check up on you).

The impression seems to be that all people from NL must use soft drugs because they are more or less legal there. It couldn't be further from the truth, the majority of the people that I see use drugs (soft/hard) in NL are actually foreigners that moved to NL specifically because of that particular freedom (and the generally laid back atmosphere of Amsterdam I guess) and tourists.

So, as a dutch person I'm kind of interested in the outcome of this poll too, especially given that in the rest of the developed world use/possession could easily be a misdemeanour or even a crime.
Yeah that looks to be closer to what I'd like, although it's still not type-safe.
I would love to be a bigger fan of it but I find it makes me feel too anxious.
The common argument against overnight service in non-New York cities is "only two tracks! no time to do maintenance!": http://www.bart.gov/guide/latenight

This seems to just completely ignore the existence of the 14th Street-Canarsie and Crosstown lines (L and G services), both of which are dual tracked, yet provide 24/7 service most of the time. The Second Avenue Subway will also be dual tracked (unfortunately).
Notice in the video he didn't weigh an iPad, he weighed the MacBook Air. Microsoft is going after laptops – not tablets – with the Surface. This makes sense to me because when I'm working I need a keyboard (typing is just too important). When I'm in a meeting I want to jot notes down with a stylus (feels more personal then typing). This is a pretty impressive bridge between these ideals.
If you vote in a poll remember that upvoting an option in the poll does not automatically upvote the poll itself.
Levison ran a for-profit service that made security claims to its users that the system couldn't possibly back up. Other people, like Moxie Marlinspike, the OpenPGP team, and the OTR developers build systems that can provide meaningful security for their users. Perhaps they don't end up in the news because their services actually work; regrettably, this means they may never become "heroes" the way Levison did.
some people probably don't want to answer honestly. this has always been a challenge for cannabis advocates and activists.
This poll has a lot of options for something that could have been boiled down to "No, Rarely, Sometimes, Smoke Weed Everyday."

Even worse - although there are 8 options to choose from - I don't find myself fitting into any of the categories.
Someone is curious, and apparently many upvoters are curious as well.
No, I get drug tested needs to be on there.
Instead of smoking the leaves, many people put extracts into foods. e.g. marijuana brownies. Hadn't heard of patches, but I would think it's just like nicotine patches but with THC instead.
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Curious if any developers here would advocate it as an enhancement to creativity or other ability that relates to their work...
Same boat - there's a lot of granularity in the poll options but maybe not in the right way...
I hope you've never had coffee. Or taken asprin. Or spun around in a swivel chair.
edibles are, well, things you eat that have been infused - typically baked goods, but there's a pretty broad spectrum. i once went to a thanksgiving where everything, including the turkey, was infused with cannabis oil.

patch i'm not familiar with, i guess there is some kind of patch. sounds boring.
Best cities I've been that has the most decent public transportation ever: Barcelona and Berlin. Period. The rest of the cities it feels like a Mad Max movie.
If you want to buy x Gbps no questions asked, that is definitely a service that exists. It sounds like you were dealing with retail-level sales people and you weren't clear about what you want to buy so they're trying to help you figure it out.
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Like I said, your problem is with the result, not the method. You don't like the decisions our politicians make. I don't blame you. That doesn't mean we're being dishonest.
I still think first of a terminal mail program when I read "elm". Same for "pine".
This would be a great form of Steganography. [1] Obviously, not having it return the same image, but something different. Encrypting a given file into a valid image file (like a meme.) It would pass by many things without raising suspicion, and require private knowledge (key, iv) to recover the alternate payload. It might even be plausibly deniable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
It is? I had little problems getting around SF when I was there. Especially the bus network is quite good.
Leaving the trackpoint in the middle / deadzone and then monitoring it's data input values, I always got a (-3,-1) gravity (not sure if that was the term), which is quite bad to be honest. I couldn't get around tweaking the dead zone well enough to avoid the issue. I would take an IBM over this anyday.
> The government effectively killed his business the second they first coerced him into undermining his clients.

The problem is, in the U.S. and I'd imagine most other countries, your business cannot be built on refusing to follow court orders to protect your clients. Specifically, refusing to furnish relevant information despite being able to do so without excessive burden.

We're not talking about some new erosion of civil rights. The power of courts to compel witnesses to provide relevant evidence and testimony dates back to the origins of jury trials in the middle ages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_ad_testificandum.
Yes Smoke Occasionally (aka at a parties/social gathering once or twice a week).
Since this thread is potentially used for feedback, and no upvote numbers are provided, let me say: this.

While the new features are welcome, the new presentation is not, at least for me. Now I can't even describe the old format, or create a clone front-end, or ANYTHING because there was no formal cutover date given to users.
Marijuana is scarce, hard to get and expensive after all.

Things like "anyone can try it if willing to" is different for "it is selling at any sypermarket".
Can't answer this pool. I consume once every 6 months in any special occasion, nothing hardcore, just 2 shots. :)
So this is a post saying that they removed the start menu because they didn't want to update it a bit?

It's not really relevant to a "force windows classic" mode because the listed bugs are mostly interactions with new features.

The claim that they would have had to sacrifice significant other features is a strawman.

And they're doing the work anyway for the next service pack, apparently...
The proper way to ask for time to mount a defense is a motion to the court. Behavior like this doesn't help anyone, least of all Levison.
I'm not sure about that. I know a few people (n<10) that have used soft drugs over a longer time and I remember them as crazy sharp in their younger years and they are very wooly headed now. Concentration problems, simply seem less smart to me. Note that they are heavy users, but still I definitely see a difference there that does not correlate with other people that have gone through a similar stretch of time and that have simply gotten older, but that don't feel less smart, and those don't seem to have concentration issues either.

I'm sure there is a scientific story out there to either confirm or deny this, it's just a personal observation.
I think one of the most interesting things about weed is that it makes some people more relaxed and some people more anxious. It's bizarre that the same drug could have totally opposite reactions. I wonder if the anxiety comes from the illegality and/or the social stigmas it still has.
Why answer at all then?
Or even have an ice cream in a hot day in summer.
Why? I'm surprised so many more have tried it.
I miss the option "No, tried it, nothing special but will try once more if there is an opportunity."
Yes I get that but the article says how it became a reality. It's been a non-consumer reality for quite a while in arcades. It's still not a reality unless you have a dev kit.
This is true, but there's no reason that San Francisco itself couldn't have proper rapid transit instead of street cars. Even just removing cars from those streets and creating dedicated lanes (these exist in some places, of course) would be a huge help.
and then your site will show that thing to other users

I think this is worth emphasizing more than the article does. The problem is just as much with the after-the-fact direct access as with the upload. Given the wide variety of illegal things you will quickly end up hosting and the amount of traffic this will generate, cross site scripting attacks may not be your top concern.
I fully support legalization and find marijuana to be relatively harmless compared to other recreational drugs, but comparing it to coffee is ludicrous!
possibly related to an article in the wall street journal which says the FBI is having trouble hiring great techies / hackers to fight cybercrime without considering allowing people who smoke marijuana.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/05/20/director-comey-fbi-grapp...

from the article:

“I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,” Mr. Comey said.
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Is Silicon Valley your only option?
If you're not trolling - you do know that most people don't smoke as an escape from their lives, but for whole other reasons, right?

Personally I don't like it in recent years, but I used to years ago, and it was certainly not as an escape from anything.
The deleted comments claimed that Elm would not fit into the usual definition of FRP (giving references to Conal Elliot).
FBI struggling to hire hackers who don't smoke weed
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I fail to comprehend why people voluntarily, fully aware, choose to destroy their own inner organs. You are the weakest.
That is very untrue.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

You can even ship it with a proprietary installer.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLCompatInstaller
I live in LA.
It can cause both of those response in the same person. Even within the same session
Troubling story and anyone going through such an ordeal would probably loose any faith they might have had in the system. That said he lost my sympathy at:

"I am building a series of memorial groves for the greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer."
I think the focus of the poll is not to determine public attitude/opinion towards the substance, but to simply get a count of HN visitors who either do or do not consume it.
Does this mean requirejs being harmful?
Glad I live in Chicago, which has comparatively (for USA) awesome public transport.
A friend told me - If you've abstained for a while and then smoke, yes it helps creativity / thinking. A lot. If you consume daily then not at all
Nope, never done it. Most of my friends aren't into it, and the legal situation makes it seem more of a hassle than it's worth.
The Green Line in Boston runs down a protected center path in the road for a significant portion. Is there a reason that SF can't carve out those lanes for exclusive Muni use?
Wow, that looks great. Even with a 500GB dock (which is exactly what I need) the 32GB version is <$400. That's netbook territory (which is what I'd be replacing).

I've just added this to my wish list.
are weed patches common or even a thing? i'd call myself extremely familiar with marijuana and i've never seen one in the wild.
> But I fear that we are waiting for the perfect opportunity - we are seeing these rights erode, and waiting for a unsullied cause, before we spring into action.

Not really. What's going on is that a lot of people are participating in impotent outrage rather than actually risking their livelihoods as they lionize Levison and Snowden for doing.

At the same time, do you really want to fight for a cause under the banner of a lie? Ignore for a moment the opinions of others on the subject; if someone told you that God is real and that He wants you to defend privacy, would that motivate you to finally "spring into action"?
Why are you surprised? I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything and consider most people that do drugs to be pretty irrational (especially anything beyond the socially accepted alcohol and cigs).
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This is fucked up. This type of court due process is not America. That being said Snowden is a Russian pawn and traitor but thats another matter.

Regardless of what might be the case even if its sealed there needs to be a process that allows fairness. "search" needs to be well defined its pretty general when it comes to software and tech and can be interpreted any way you want.

Perhaps time for some digital legislation?
yes, i suppose if smoking weed is the focus of your day, that could be the end result. I'm very much a casual user.
Jack Welch popularized this decades ago, where every year he would force departments to cull 5-10% of their employees. He stated that this was well-received for the first few years, but after that it got harder, because managers were starting to let go people who were actually decent. But Welch insisted on this because it kept things from stagnating, as well as keeping open reqs when you found very good people. He also said that managers would start to try to game the system where they would hire poorly performing people just so that they could be culled.

I think there is some value to occasionally culling your worst performers, but having it as a practice every year the way Welch did, and presumably Google does, makes it tough on everyone because it could lead to situations where good but not outstanding employees are let go for no apparently reason.
I've heard Indica strains can cause that more often that Sativa. I'm in the "never tried it" camp though, so I'm not an authority.
"Home Schooling" is code for "parent who doesn't work outside the house (and the income that provides)".

Public Schooling is the only way to not burn yourself up, and to get that you have to live in the right districts.
Is that because coffee is far more addictive and has a worse withdrawal?
I have heard a lot of people say that they feel more creative after smoking marijuana. They make connections between ideas that they normally wouldn't and come up with creative solutions to difficult problems.

I worked with someone who designed a sophisticated DSL and a framework surrounding it. They said the basic design of the framework occurred to them when they were high.

I am guessing this could be the reason the OP is running this poll. He or she might consider Hacker News readers/contributors to be the smart/creative. And might be wondering if there is a correlation between these readers/contributors and Marijuana use.
Tmux is built in to i3?
We are effectively destroying our own inner organs by aging. We are all weak.
Really hurts my ability to code, though not as badly as alcohol does.

I'm not the "productive user" type. Wish I was.
strongly advocate.
SF transit is poor partially because they have managed to make car movement so miserable that people feel compelled to use transit. By making all the alternatives worse, you can seem decent.

Compared to cities outside the US, it is a mess.
Apple shows the "Meanings" panel for me.
I am unsure how else he could handle it. If he said a flat no, Would that not have ended with him swiftly in jail for x number of years? And jailed without any public knowledge of the reason (Ala CEO of an ISP?) Was his approach something he / his lawyers felt was more defensible? These are not good choices to have.

In the end, I feel very very unconfortable with the direction we are being taken by our governments.

Edit - that was coming over waaaay more aggressive than I meant -
I suspect this is reasonably close to the timeline. A common misconception is that while an individual has a right to privacy (4th, 5th, and 14th amendments) there isn't a right for others to protect that person's privacy. So you are asked to testify about someone charged with a crime, you are compelled to do so. That is the argument here. Had Snowden or anyone else for that matter maintained their email account on their own private server and ideally at their own residence, it would be more difficult to get the kinds of access that can be compelled through a third party.
Hah! you should all come to Mexico some day.
Absolutely. I spent 3 years on MacBook Airs + OSX, and about a month ago, I just had finally had enough of the 'not-quite-right' development environment. Installed Ubuntu (on the MBA, it actually worked perfectly), and haven't looked back.

All the things I'd learned to work-around, suddenly became non-issues, and all of a sudden I had a real window manager again.
Actual vs. perceived market differentiation
Yep. Where I grew up a small amount would get you jail time and it could affect your student. Most stayed away from it.

Now I live in San Francisco and it's a bit of a different story here.
yup better just stay inside forever.
Its enhancements are amplified by the context in which it's used. If you are a frequent user and tend to use it when trying to relax, that will be the mode your body associates THC intake with.
Check your pet's pee with your smartphone
My understanding is that the importance of the indica-sativa dichotomy has been vastly exaggerated and that whatever differences exist between strains are more complicated. Think of something like a fingerprint that specifies the levels of various cannabinoids.
Not true, it's pretty easy to find, and very cheap compared to any other drugs (legal drugs like alcohol & tobacco included).
sativa strains are more associated with anxiety. indica are more associated with couch lock and falling asleep. most strains are a hybrid of the two, and lean one way or the other.
No. At least you guys didn't have 1000+ miles of rail 9 decades ago that got ripped up for no good reason.
You know, besides drinking alcohol, watching movies, reading books, and going to museums are also about escaping from every day life. There's no reason to stigmatize that, as long as it is in moderation.
Quit my productive engineering job to chase women, work on personal projects and political agitation. Getting paid to go Galt? Yes please.

I may not be representative, But that's honestly what I'd do.
Source on edibles destroying organs?
> Would be very interesting to see what happened if the big CDN providers just depeered Comcast for 24 hours.

Those providers would very quickly get prosecuted via collusion and antitrust laws, and Comcast would gain a moral high ground to stand on, almost certainly making the situation worse.
You should try Marin County Transit--you could walk faster.
When I worked on SF--I quickly bought three beater bikes and
chained them up. They were so crappy no one stole them.
I chained them in strategic spots around town and used them.
This was 10 years ago, maybe the thieves have gotten desperate?
Ask HN: Mobile App back-end CMS?
I've got a project for a mobile app that needs to be able to provide custom assets to a Mobile app and allow the clients to update new content etc.

I'm debating on something like Node.js with KeystoneJS, but I'm not sure if that is the best approach here.

It would be nice if the mobile client had a native feel to it but loaded content from the server in a way that makes the various client experiences reasonably similar. A custom client is fine even if we have to develop it but would be nice if something existed to speed that process up.

I’m not married to Node.js, heck I’d like to see something in Go but I worry about finding a team that can help me build it later if this gets from prototype to reality.

What would others suggest as the best way to approach this challenge?
joke ?
Not true. I work for a cable/fiber ISP. Customers always blame the ISP.

Even when the problem is the feed (like with CW's networks last month)...or when some dipshit construction company digs where they aren't supposed to.

Luckily I don't work for one of the horrible ISPs that everyone hates, but we're definitely more in the blame-receiving business than is warranted.

Folks don't understand the complexity involved in making a utility service "just work" and if the provider doesn't have hundreds of millions to invest in infrastructure (like my small provider doesn't have) it won't.

The big ISPs have no excuse for not peering properly, but this is a fight they've been having with Level3 since the late 90s. Sadly they're winning.
The keyboard resembles mechanical keys in my mind. A bit too thick of a machine, but otherwise looks more usable than what we have today.
I only did rarely (maybe once or twice every two or three years, purely socially) until it was legalized in my state.

I don't like it enough to risk legal trouble to use it regularly. It's nice a few times a week, a healthier way to unwind than alcohol (it has replaced alcohol entirely for me with the exception of social drinking), but it's nothing special.

I've never had luck with getting edible dosage correct (to my liking), so I avoid those.
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That would be enough money for 500-1000 large stadiums.

Citi Field in New York: $900 million

Allianz Arena in Munich: 340€ million
I don't understand what you mean by "updating the operating system to update applications". In Ubuntu, for example, my apps are updates as soon as new versions are out. If I want a major version upgrade, in some cases, I can also add particular repos that track those apps... I have not compiled anything in Linux for so long I don't even remember what/when was the last time.
The public, as they say, is entitled to every man's evidence; that's a principle that apparently goes back to common law.

But once again: regardless of what the public is entitled to, the developers of GnuPG can't furnish any evidence about what its users are saying, nor can the developers of libotr. Levison can't reasonably make the same claim, but he tried to, much to everyone's detriment.
Here's the thing about the bay area, and California in general: everyone that lives there says "not in my backyard" to every infrastructure project ever. Nobody wants more infrastructure.

Why is the N so slow? Because it stops every block and runs in traffic. It's a smoother bus, not heavy rail.

California firmly embraced the automobile, and that's the state it will be in for a long time.
2009, SF is the worst run big city, has anything changed?
I read this a while back and was reminded by another post on SF public transport today. HN community, has anything changed?
Wouldn't most people answer honestly because the poll is anonymous?
http://www.drugs.com/marijuana.html#side-effects
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