skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicide is a more general problem than substance abuse. Providing frameworks to help people would not be 100% effective and a 'lapse' on the suicide front is something that one is less likely to be able to recover from than a lapse on substance abuse. So I don't see why anti-suicide nets are 'perverse.'
A few months ago, one of these discussions came up and someone presented some interesting data on negative effects this had on students and the drop out rate. Sorry I do not have a link to the discussion but I would love to see if someone had that data.
I'm no Tor expert so please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't people trading child porn (etc) most likely be entirely within the onion network anyway and therefore have no need for an exit node?
Who cares who pays? Dissident journalists financed by drug dealers? I consider that awesome.
> I worry about what will happen when the next GOP President takes office.

Probably a repeat of how Obama handled things.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/obama-marijuana-rai...
I love old-style numbers.

Why should letters get all the ascender & descender fun! :P
I think I will have to make a hacker film just for this....
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Remote: Sure. More like, "Absolutely!" since there isn't much going on in the area.

Willing to relocate: Not particularly, unfortunately. Home-ownership, wife owns a local business, family, dogs, etc.

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I have worked up and down the stack, and as a result, my knowledge and experience is very diverse. My skill set is definitely slanted more towards systems and the backend.

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The UK is free to look into the Facebook experiment and to pursue the case. That alone doesn't make Facebook guilty of anything. They didn't go to a court of law, Facebook wasn't proven guilty of breaking the UK Data Protection Act, they're just investigating whether proper precautions were taken.

Facebook should obviously be bound to the same laws as everyone else. Which human experimentation laws did they break? Users registered on Facebook and agreed to the terms of service, and how Facebook will choose which stories they view, and analyze their response.
It wouldn't be "retroactively" any more than all criminal prosecutions (which, in the absence of precrime legislation, necessarily address events in the past) are.

Subject to the applicable statutes of limitations, as long as the federal laws are on the books, yes, people who committed offenses at a time when the those offenses were not prosecutorial priorities of the executive branch could be charged when the prosecutorial priorities of the executive branch change. That's sort of the key distinction between "prosecutorial priorities" and "laws".
> Run it for every project you mean.

Yep. Is that so bad? You know you can have multiple Terminal.app's open at once, right?

> The nice thing about the web is that with a simple http server you can just start coding.

The nice thing about browserify/node is that I can install node, clone my seed script, execute it, and just start coding.

> Compile-steps take away that incredible advantage.

While giving you the huge advantages of TDD/unit testing; the npm repository; being able to use the CommonJS module pattern...

If you're just woodshedding a toy, or trying to learn - by all means, set up lighttpd and boot sublime and go at it. But if you're trying to build production-quality software... hone your craft; be better than a codemonkey.
What you're seeing is that Chrome is using the (terrible) old Windows GDI ClearType font rendering, whereas Firefox is using the (newer, less terrible) DirectWrite font rendering. This can be enabled in Chrome by visiting chrome://flags . Specifically, what you're mostly seeing here is that ClearType does not antialias in the Y dimension, which is why you see stairstepping. (Firefox will also use GDI font rendering if it is not using Direct2D acceleration, IIRC.)

Of course, a lot of people have complained that DirectWrite rendering is "fuzzy", so to each their own I guess.

I've been starting to use webfonts and this issue has been very annoying for me (as a Linux user, where pretty much all fonts look good).
My mistake... I didn't look close enough at this.
BT is blocking my site about my homebrewed beer. That's fun.
How did you do it?

I haven't. I've never had that "ah-ha!" moment and I'm constantly looking at problems to solve, nothing viable at least.

How old were you?

I'm 23, so I'm not worried. I have plenty of time!

Do you feel happy in your life?

Mostly. I've got debts and I'm trying to save for a house, but I'm working to pay the debts with freelance, whilst I save with my wages - it's hard work but will be worth it. I also spend time learning new things, so I feel like I'm progressing well :)
To be honest, this looks more like an explanation of the concept of abstraction than of the concept of functional programming.
I plan to remain a member of The Church of Emacs until I die.
Yup. Following this logic they have a long trail of people to prosecute, both living and dead.

Good luck to them figuring out who to prosecute for inventing spoken and written language, as that aids more crime than anything else.

Ban language! And water! And humans!

It's a blanket "we'll crush you as we damn well please" law. Most states have them.
First, quit referring to it as "dope" since that is heroin, not marijuana. I suspect you know that but, for whatever reason, you've got a beef with people that don't have the iron skull you apparently have.

I guess I'd like to know what you think about people on depression/anxiety/bipolar meds since you have such a strong opinion on what a makes up "clear head"?
I don't know how to respond to this. 16 million connections is nothing. Gigabytes of data is nothing. Home Internet users incur gigabytes of bandwidth expense to get Torrented copies of movies they don't even end up watching.

I don't know how much clearer I can say this: RC4 is breakable with attacks that take mere hundreds of lines of code, and the attacks are bounded only by your ability to generate millions of connections and gigabytes of transferred bytes. It's 2014.

I'm getting some of my analysis from Bernstein and Patterson too, but more of it from the experience of having implemented some of the attacks, and working directly with people who have implemented the rest of them. You should take my word for this and stop using RC4. The attack is not "on the edge of feasibility". Yes, the attacks have been leveraged to recover "small pieces of data" from connection. That's because the data you care about in an HTTPS connection is small: you're trying to recover the session cookie.
For the record, Google has been working on adding support for more secure ciphers [1] and the fix is being (has been?) pushed as we speak. Users already reported seeing support for AES-GCM (see Jas Per's scan[2]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7775052

[2] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=r4---sn-uxaxo...
And when you decide to grow up and start unit testing, you'll still have to fall back to the command line.
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Perhaps it's more related than you think: If pot is legal, police can spend their valuable time policing other things, and making a difference in those areas.
This is the payment version of "Let them eat cake" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake for those who don't know)

And of course in Europe Credit Cards are not widespread as well and there are other popular payment options.
I don't buy that argument.

Sure, after 8 weeks, their happiness was equalized, but what about after 8 years, or a lifetime?

How many more positive experiences does having money unlock (innumerable) compared to how many positive experiences does being disabled prevent from happening (also innumerable)? Over a longer timescale, the differences between the momentum of good experiences versus the stagnation of having most of human activity inaccessible intuitively add up to be pretty large.

A good study would be to measure the happiness of paraplegics who won the lottery.
The most important piece that needs to be handled is described in the github repo:

'There also needs to be a public place to store SIN's, preferably in a decentralized blockchain or datastore like namecoin. Key revocations could be stored here as well as reviews/feedback to build a reputation around an identity.'

Otherwise, apps that integrate will need to store SINs in their user tables. I see that this would add an unnecessary amount of work around management of SINs.

Great work, I'm looking forward to see where this goes.
I've found brick.im[0] to be pretty good for free fonts as well. They have better support for ligatures, too.

I'm working on something similar, Pretty Open Type[1]..

[0]: http://brick.im/
[1]: http://namanyayg.github.io/pretty-open-type/
Yes, that would be just 20mg per can... I know that Red Bull is around 80mg per can and other energy drinks can be 275mg or more.
I live in Denver and work in Boulder, and honestly, I haven't noticed any change in people. The murder rate going down is awesome and having the state earn revenue is awesome, but the biggest misconception people have about Colorado right now (thanks to the media) is that it's a wild west of pot smoking lazy people stumbling around and acting up.

But really, there's been no change in how people act. The people that have always smoked it (hippies in the park and normal people at home) are still smoking it, and the people that don't smoke (myself included) still don't smoke.

So no lifestyle changes for the majority of the people in the state (except the people that get jobs now thanks to the legit industry and hopefully some lives saved by quality controlling the stuff) AND we get all the benefits.

Let's go national with this thing.
Oldest bridge still in use:

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

It's from Mycenaean times! i.e. Agamemnon, fall of Troy etc.

Mind you, I've been inside much, much older buildings (from 3000BC rather than 1100BC):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeshowe
Crowdsourcing and Interior Design
But you can claim that it was well over market price? How does that work?
Most damning bit:

This does not add up. Haven’t you noticed that we have taken over the world?

No, software has exploded into previously untouched fertile ground--in another few decades, it'll be as boring and constrained as anything else, probably.

Other engineering disciplines are right to mock and laugh and be somewhat terrified about software folks, because they can't engineer for shit.

One of the biggest things that, say, the ASME does is to help standardize practices in its field. The mark of a mature engineering branch is that it has guidelines that are applicable to most use cases, and agreed-upon tools that work for most things.

Software is nothing like this, for better or worse--we still haven't standardized on a set of programming languages, we still haven't standardized on a way of documenting and planning projects, we still haven't even settled on the most basic of issues of training.

And you know what? We openly mock the people that have tried that--think about the criticisms of "architecture astronauts" and UML and XML and waterfall and testing and all the rest.

We don't deserve to be called engineers...we're simply lucky enough that people are willing to pay such large sums for such hastily-built things.
Asking a group of people to name and shame websites for you so that you have more content for your own website
OK, but he's still on the hook for "mentally mutilated".

Also, my point is that "good" is really a relative term. PHP is good, because the baseline for programming language quality is quite high. You can do so much stuff using PHP - you can build YouTube[1], Facebook, Wikipedia, WordPress and much more. I don't know what the total value of web applications written in PHP is in billions of dollars, but it's a big number. My point is that if that's what we can do with PHP, just think what we could do with better tools! In my definition, "good" means "enables the creation of valuable things", and PHP does that. I hope that it gets replaced by something better, for the same reason that I hope current medical treatments get replaced by better ones, but I can't call it "bad".

It's weird, but programmers are sometimes the people with the least appreciation for how valuable their creations are. We do things that non-programmers simply cannot do, creating massive value in the process. Yet many programmers are afflicted by impostor syndrome and the sense that what they do is not really that valuable and that most of what they build is crap. This negativity is misdirected, towards other programmers - "I'm better than her because she uses PHP and I use Haskell" - when it should be directed towards the things that cause real project failure. A well-conceived and well-managed project that creates a PHP web application is much more valuable for everyone than a badly-managed project that produces a Haskell application that nobody uses.

[1] The first version, at least. Google doesn't do PHP.
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I've been following all the legalization news closely since I live in Denver. The FUD from opponents of legalization are that it will negatively affect children since access will increase. The 'hey mister' won't be only for alcohol anymore but for cannabis too. Many edible products seem to be targeting children with products like gummy bears, hard candies, brownies, sodas, etc. This would increase the likelihood of accidental ingestion but also seems to be purposefully targeting children's interests similar to cigarette cartoon advertising. The issues around advertising, specific products, and increased access for children most likely will be an ongoing problem that will require additional legislation to resolve.

Second there is a big fear of increased DUI. The framework for legalization required that there be a penalty for DUI, which has been pegged at 5 nanograms of THC per millimeter of blood. This has its own problem, primarily that somebody who is no longer under the influence can still test positive if they are a heavy user. Officers need better tools at their disposal to determine if a driver is actually a danger while driving. This seems no different than legal pills that people also drive while under the influence. This might be a technology problem since there is no way to tell if a person is under the influence of cannabis.

The third big fear is that organized criminal elements will be attracted to the legal market in an attempt to launder their black market sales. There was a big bust of legal grows and dispensaries earlier this year which was supposedly related to cartel sales out of Miami. This seems like the real reason the DEA should be involved in cannabis legalization. So they can determine who is playing by the rules and who is trying to subvert them.

Without much quantitative data, the qualitative affects of legalization seem to have a positive impact on people's lives and the general communities around Denver in my personal opinion.
Hi Blaine,

I'm pretty it's not Startuptabs because we aren't using the maps api. Do you have another extension that is using it?
To be honest, beyond the obvious fall in weed related arrests I wouldn't expect legalisation of the stuff to have much of an effect on crime either way above the background noise level, at least in the short term. You might be able to tease something out with a long term epidemiological study, but that will take a lot of time and a lot of data points. I could be wrong but I suspect that reality will be stubbornly a lot more boring on this particular topic than either the doomsayers or the evangelists will like. On a long term, I could see some real and lasting benefits from the reduced arrests and incarcerations and the social identity effects of dissociating the use of the drug from crime.
> And apparently Austria uses what are, in effect, Anglo-American juries. They are selected at random from the electorate. They decide questions of fact. I don't see the lack of separation between "trier of fact" and "trier of law" as obviously better or worse.

There are two versions of "juries" in Austria: Geschworenengerichte and Schoeffengerichte. Either only become relevant if you have committed a crime that could get you in prison for 5 years or more. Geschworene decide of guity and not guilty and decide the punishment, Schoeffen do it with the help of a judge. Not sure how that is related to the American system where the decision is made of "proven and not proven" or am I misunderstanding you?
IE used to support JScript and VBScript out of the box. I think you could also install ActiveState PerlScript to run perl in the browser, too.

Chrome supports JavaScript and Dart.
Yea, I just read the article again and it seems more ridiculous than I thought at first glance.
I think I've had a word about this before. It's a completely separate CDN from 1e100, often colocated, and purely software.
It will be interesting to see how the economic benefits hold up- Colorado has a history of boom and bust, whether from mining, ranching, military, tech, or tourism. It also has a history of making decisions during the boom that are unsustainable throughout the bust. As prices drop and more states legalize my guess is that the economic benefits will prove relatively modest.
I thinks that's just when the source control kicks in.

DannyBee claims that reload was started in the late 80s.

There are commits going back to 1988, but it looks like a lot of the early commits are out of order; the repository was (at least) converted from RCS to CVS to SVN to Git.
Tor has a notion of exit policy, but it's only expressed in terms of permitted and forbidden TCP port numbers. This lets you, for example, decline to deliver SMTP traffic on TCP port 25. The exit policy can't list IP subnets (contrary to my recollection; I thought it could, and maybe it once did).

A lot of government investigations of Tor users do involve the use of pretty mainstream, popular services like Gmail, accessed over Tor. Someone can access Gmail over Tor and send e-mails that provoke a government investigation.
AES-NI is an extension of the instruction set of the CPU just like x64 extensions, or the older MMX, MMX2, SSE style extensions. They are opcodes that are hardwired into the CPU itself.

Software has to be compiled to take advantage of these additional instructions. Much like how you can compile software for say, i586 instead of i386, and get code that executes faster. so it all depends on how OpenSSH is compiled (and, to some extent, whether the OpenSSH source code has extract compiler flags/code sections)
Instead he went into some legalistic lock down mode and refused to consider even a token severance.

I can see going into some kind of "legalistic lock down mode" if you suddenly are worried about a lawsuit, but in that case it might be prudent to get an actual lawyer's advice. I'm not a lawyer myself, but it seems unlikely that the CEO's actions here are something that the company's lawyer would've advised. It sounds like she was asking for honestly much less than she should've been asking for, and unless there's something I'm missing, I can't believe it was in the company's interests for him to refuse that offer. She was offering to resign in return for quite modest severance conditions, and my guess is that a corporate lawyer would've been happy to advise the CEO to accept the offer and close the affair.
Wouldn't frequent panic attacks warrant a change in workplace? Or at least an attempt from your company to make you comfortable? (This is assuming that you've brought it up to them, which you should do)
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