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Your attack is high on prejudicial conclusion-jumping disgust-invoking labels – 'stupid', 'amoral', 'stink', 'pile of shit' – and low on reasoning. It's also unnecessarily personal – implying a person holding a reasoned opinion is an untouchable outcast.

That's what makes it out-of-bounds.

Looking back, you made no substantive comments on thread. You just opened by making a speaker the subject, and slurring that speaker. That's nasty.
Hell, it's a public jobs program at this point. There's a lot of good-paying work in saving people from themselves.
I perfer Synology's DiskStation over that. At least with that it'll give me a RAID array to back up my files.
I kinda think petitions.whitehouse.gov should just be shutdown. These things are a total joke. The responses, when they do respond are almost always vague, wishy-washy nonsense that barely address the actual point of the petition, and mostly just turn into a way to praise the administration for some tangential connections to the issue under discussion. And they don't seem to respond to the really important ones, or they give some non-response like "we can't comment on this for reason $FOO".

To be fair to this issue, it is a State level issue and the Feds probably should stay out of it. But they could have said that, and then comment on whether or not they would push or campaign for States to allow Tesla direct sales, and dropped all the rah-rah "pro administration" hand-waving that made up the bulk of the response.
This isn't the only country where pot is illegal and I doubt it's "big pharma" behind every country where the drug is prohibited.
I haven't read Christensen's books, but the story Jill Lepore tells in that article sounds totally credible.

Disruptive innovation is a theory of history. Given any historical event with winners and losers, it reframes it as a contest between innovator and non-innovator with a preordained outcome. Microsoft succeeded and Xerox failed because PCs were the inevitable future, which Microsoft embraced and Xerox denied. Xerox should have seen that the PC was inevitable and planned accordingly, the theory says.

However, there is a problem when trying to apply the theory in real time, as Lepore points out: "Disruptive innovation can reliably be seen only after the fact." She explains the theory's circularity: "Christensen has compared the theory of disruptive innovation to a theory of nature: the theory of evolution. But... advocates of disruption have an affinity for circular arguments. If an established company doesn’t disrupt, it will fail, and if it fails it must be because it didn’t disrupt. When a startup fails, that’s a success, since epidemic failure is a hallmark of disruptive innovation. ... When an established company succeeds, that’s only because it hasn’t yet failed. And, when any of these things happen, all of them are only further evidence of disruption." It works well only in retrospect, and it can't be disproven. Like all theories of history, it only explains things that have already happened.
I'll bet the reason why the drug companies are funding anti-drug organizations are simpler than what the author is suggesting. They aren't doing it because they think marijuana will steal all their market share.

Companies like Purdue produce prescription drugs that can be easily abused. Purdue pulled some really stupid moves that made it a whole lot easier for abuse of their product. They are funding the anti-drug coalition because it makes for good PR.

"What is Purdue doing about drug abuse??"

"In addition to encouraging the appropriate use of our pain medicine, we are also funding community programs to help stop our children from using illegal drugs."
Somehow, this poor writeup of LastPass's disclosure is ranking higher than the original post, which predates it on the site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022543
But is simply refraining from one specific something – outbound targeted 'poaching' of your competitor's superstars – really 'trampling' on the employee?

If they never hired an applicant from a competitor, that'd be low. If they sabotaged their own employees' independent applications elsewhere, that'd be low.

But targeted outbound recruiting is a very specific activity – which is sometimes even viewed as harassment by the targets themselves. It's likely zero-sum for the industry, and possibly negative-sum – if it disrupts ongoing projects and deters investment in employee-specific enrichments.

A cutthroat bidding-war attitude – between competitors, and between employee short-term compensation and the enterprise's long-term value – isn't necessarily in the interest of all industries or even most of the employees. (It might, for example, reward superstars but at the expense of the bulk of employees seeking stability and meaning in their work. It's hard to say, and the rush-to-demonize crowd does not appear to have studied the tradeoffs as closely as Catmull and similar.)

Starting a cycle of incentivized poaching could be like starting a cycle of nasty-negative-advertising. A first-mover might get a temporary advantage, but once everyone responds, they're all worse off for having competed in that way. Even the stars who 'won' immediate compensation boosts might wind up losing, as projects fail and the industry underperforms.
The rules are --very specifically-- exactly as easily defined for marijuana.

There is no test that can determine when someone last had a drink. The results of a blood alcohol test for someone who had a beer 7 hours and 30 minutes ago will be wildly different than those of someone who skipped dinner and crushed a fifth of whiskey 7 hours and 30 minutes ago...
> Eventually I made it to the depths of the Stygian Abyss and faced the final question. That's when the game bugged out and would say nothing more than "It looks like you could use a good horse!" repeatedly.

I haven't played the game, but this struck me as suspiciously relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022817
I find the "bottom line" argument to be pretty weak. Marijuana is not going to replace pain killers like Oxycontin or Vicodin.
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From TFA:

> Prescription opioids, a line of pain-relieving
> medications derived from the opium poppy or produced
> synthetically, are the most dangerous drugs abused in
> America, with more than 16,000 deaths annually linked to > opioid addiction and overdose.

But, that's wrong.

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

"There are approximately 88,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States.1 This makes excessive alcohol use the 3rd leading lifestyle-related cause of death for the nation.2 Excessive alcohol use is responsible for 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) annually, or an average of about 30 years of potential life lost for each death.1 In 2006, there were more than 1.2 million emergency room visits and 2.7 million physician office visits due to excessive drinking.3 The economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption in 2006 were estimated at $223.5 billion.3"
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I am just stuck on what exactly clodefare does. Can you guys explain to a noob on the benefits of using clodefare vs another DNS provider, like either hosting your own, or your hosting providers DNS?
What about completely, will that take time, too? I don't really see "instantly, completely" together at all here, because that would probably be pretty apparent, like "dead girl or live boy" apparent.
Look at what the U.S. military has been doing - they're effectively well paid mercenaries. For the last 60 years, hardly anyone in the military has had a vested interest in any of the conflicts, and does it just for the money.
That's because it is a medical condition - haemorrhoids. Googling "piles" is not a pretty thing...
"Overall, we find that the impact of decriminalization is concentrated amongst minors, who have a higher rate of uptake in the first five years following its introduction."

http://scitr.com/a2a

"Early initiation of cannabis use and regular use during adolescence are particular risk factors for later problematic cannabis and other drug use, as well as mental health problems, delinquency, loss of cognitive capacity and educational achievement, risky sexual behavior and criminal offending."

http://scitr.com/a29
http://scitr.com/a2b
Do you have any links to actual studies that find you can get high by burning fat "even years later"? Everything I've read has said that some of the metabolites of THC can be stored in fat--and those are the actual compounds tested by "marijuana" tests, but THC itself isn't stored in the human body after the initial processing even if it is fat soluble itself.

Lengths of high vary, but so do lengths of being drunk. And lengths of undergoing caffeine or nicotine withdrawal or being high on them.
Well it's a solution to the same underlying problem - that by running binaries compiled by a 3rd party you trust that they aren't adding in code to compromise your privacy (voluntarily or not). If you compile the application from source yourself you don't need that leap of faith - no need to compare identical binaries or have deterministic builds (which is not trivial as the bug report demonstrates).
What a terrible, lying, article.

"Prescription opioids ... are the most dangerous drugs abused in America"

That's patently untrue. Alcohol is far more harmful, as is smoking. Their opiate death counts probably also include deaths from combinations of drugs. And, the antidote for opiate overdose (Naloxone) is difficult to obtain.

The article goes onto say that painkillers are "overprescribed". What does that even mean? Sounds like they're simply disagreeing with somebody else's choice to use opiates. Which is thing they're arguing against with pot.

The article further spins Zohydro as some terrible thing, when it's really just the removal of a denaturing agent from hydrocodone tablets. But the article states it as "ten times stronger than OxyContin", which is a nonsensical fabrication.
You're going to have to post some citation on the whole "getting high from burning THC-laden fat" point. Just because it's fat soluble doesn't mean you can get high enough concentrations in your bloodstream from exercise alone to cause impairment, or even be noticeable.
Do you really need referrals for your server to live?

It does seem innocent, though I didn't see anything about where you posted it yourself.

It may not be like having your AWS key stolen because you accidentally committed to github, but when you toss something out to the public that can be abused and ruin your reputation-how else would they respond?
> But if the lender decides to take their stock back from you the borrower, then you are suddenly and unexpectedly in the position of naked short selling?

Yes, short sold shares can be recalled at any time. If the shares you short sold are recalled by the lender, then your broker will attempt to find replacement shares to borrow. If no replacement shares can be found, you will be notified and can either buy the shares back yourself or your broker will perform a "buy in" (i.e. force you to cover the loaned shares at the current price). All of this happens within 3 business days, or less. This happens with some regularity in "hard to borrow" stocks and is a substantive risk to short sellers. The lender also has the option to "rerate" the loan instead of an outright "recall" ... short sellers must pay interest to borrow shares and the interest rate is set by the lender, which which can be very high in "hard to borrow" stocks and can be increased at any time by the lender. In the case of a rerate, the short seller must buy back the shares in order to avoid paying the excess interest.
Yes, in fact, I've asked the site owner if he could at least tweak the page to visually separate the ad from the page content. We'll see if he does anything.
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From what I know, Redis's virtual memory mode isn't bad at all. Odds are that unless you have an absurd amount of keys or have very little RAM, Redis will likely be able to fit all of the keys into memory. To help with this, use short key names, and use collection data types (so one key may be able to hold hundreds or thousands of values).

I'd say experiment with Redis, with actual testing, before looking at an alternative solution. You can set a maximum memory limit in Redis's config and see what performance is like. You can also have it prune entries once the memory limit is reached.

At the scale at which Redis stores data, RAM is pretty cheap.
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Lots of things effect the "next day."

If you want to drink and not feel bad (in order of efficacy)
* exercise
* drink water
* eat well
* vitamin b (this what the yeast provides)

Exercise helps you metabolize everything you throw at your body, water keeps those chemical reactions running smoothly and allows the kidneys to remove everything they want to. Eating well, more of the same. Alcohol strips out vitamin b, which we need to metabolize sugar. That headache you have the next morning is a no-sugar headache. Bingeing on sugar is one way, having an over abundance of vitamin b is another. You piss out vitamin b, can't keep it in your system. So a couple hours before drinking take a tab, with water AND food. And then do the same at the end of the night. Don't take it on an empty stomach, will make you sick.

Run some of your own science on this advice. Be active and drink well!

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Most people in the booze business have a BAC over 0.04 all the time. This was science done by non-scientists.
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Not as prescribed, no, but as an alternative recreational drug is less far-fetched. What surprises me more frankly is that no large corporations appear to be gearing up to enter the legal pot market (think BT developing solar power; can't hurt to diversify...).
You'll pay interest to the broker. Often 10+%.
That describes zero of the people I've met who serve in the armed forces.
cool info, thanks.
Without JS, it's all bad :(.
But, with JS, and without CSS, I can just right-click¸ view-image. This gives me the base64 in the address bar (Firefox).

data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAPAAAADwCAYAAAA+VemSAAAgAElEQVR4nLS96ZMUV5rm6x/Czd2P7+7h4REeHntkZETkvkAmCYh

A simple save page later, and I get your image. Bang.
RapGenius cofounders are/were: Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory

FoxwoodsFiends is Ariel Schneller, high stakes poker player.

So my guess is he decided not to continue and maybe has a small stake in the company?

Back when Google was selling ads on TV, he bought one for super cheap and made a stupid commercial about himself. Pretty funny stuff...

http://gawker.com/5111509/24-year-old-poker-player-buys-own-...
Even if your claims are true, the harm caused by imprisoning users is much greater than the harm caused by allowing use.
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Try looking back a bit further. You'll note that it was actually the previous poster who had made the speaker the subject, and that was in the context of a remark about how he was being reflexively down-voted for (presumably) making conspicuously bad arguments.

Bear in mind that it was failures of reasoning like these - that is to say, ones grounded in distinctly personal shortcomings - that produced the situation at Pixar which we're discussing. Indeed, for those of us whose careers have taught us the importance of making suitably judicious assessments of the personal character of those we depend on, a discussion of the rhetorical hallmarks of people who defend illegal and abusive employment practices is vitally important. Spotting them quickly can be the difference between a really bad choice and a good one. So again, that's why I was saying there's value in cookiecaper's otherwise objectionable remarks: they're a case study in the kind of stuff you really do need to watch out for.

And within the specific social context I noted - i.e. people working in HR - remarks like cookiecaper's jolly well should him an untouchable outcast. For the same reason you don't want a person with a lax attitude about embezzling anywhere near your finance department, you don't want a person who thinks that contracts are "inconvenient" in a position where they're likely to conclude that violating the law "is just a lot faster and easier" than respecting it. (I'm paraphrasing, but that's the essence of the "reasoning" on display.)

Now perhaps you don't consider a frank characterization of the sub-par ethical traits that are the direct cause of problems like Pixar's to be "substantive". On that point I can only say that we sharply disagree.
Years may have been a stretch. Looks like 7 days has been shown in a lab, and the CDC thinks weeks.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/09/17/one-toke-many-hits-exe...

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001143.htm
This one does...

http://smilingdavesblog.blogspot.hk/2012/08/bitcoin-all-in-o...
Remember, these are adults, not little kids. If I can't trust them to be professional and cautious of risks, I wouldn't bother with their services, and likely neither would their employer.

Personally, i think sleep deprivation is a much bigger issue for pilots and doctors than weed. Please, do leave careless speculation and personal vendettas by the door.
This is completely ridiculous and written by someone with absolutely no experience with marijuana. The idea that you "could end up high years later" is laughable, and has absolutely no basis in scientific fact.

"A stoned Doctor might not smell of it, might not have any real outwards signs, and then could get the giggles when he nicked an artery."

Marijuana does not cause a significant impairment in regular users. Even if that were not the case, if a doctor chooses to be intoxicated when they are responsible for someone else's life, they are already making a terrible choice, regardless of the legality of the substance in question.
Existing copper inside the building.

It is absolutely useless for the 1km+ distance to exchanges common in cities and 10km+ common in rural settings.
Tracking Point: http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/companies/trackingpoint...
I'll preface by saying that I used to smoke a lot of weed, but I haven't in quite some time.

> it is fat soluble, and you can end up high even years later if you burn enough calories

Please cite this extensively. Many bioactive molecules are fat-soluble. Just because a substance is fat-soluble doesn't mean it can be stored indefinitely and readily metabolized.

> The real reason Pot is still illegal is that it is dangerous to those who aren't consuming it. A stoned Doctor might not smell of it, might not have any real outwards signs, and then could get the giggles when he nicked an artery.

I disagree with you 100% here. I can tell when someone is stoned, regardless of physical side-effects, changes in mentality or demeanor, etc.

Regardless, in my opinion, your argument crumbles if we clarify stoned to be under the influence of well-concealed alcohol, benzodiazepines, opiates, barbiturates, excessive stimulants, or, hell, maybe even ketamine, methaqualone, etc.

I (unfortunately, I suppose) have had experiences with pretty much every drug and RC under the sun, and I personally think it's very easy to detect when someone is under the influence of marijuana compared to any of the substances thereof (well, maybe except the dissociatives or excessive alcohol).
Any source for the calculations that calculator uses? A quick search says alcohol can be detected in blood up to 12 hours[1].

How many doobies does it take to stay high for 8 hours?

[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojp/181103.pdf
If you trust your compiler, then you can read the source code and then trust the compiled executable. If you are worried, then you can build the rest of your tool chain from source...
"Calm down" is patronizing; "political correctness police" is pejorative. This is language one uses not when trying to have a civil, substantive discussion, but when trying to skewer an adversary.

I called it a personal attack because it's needlessly personal: it implies that the other person is an overwrought ("calm down") fanatical ("political correctness") bully ("police"). If that doesn't meet your definition of "personal attack", I'm happy not to quibble. Either way, though, it doesn't meet Hacker News' definition of civil, substantive discussion, and therefore is inappropriate here.
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I agree with you, not taking legal action against this person is not a "respectable decision" and will, indeed, encourage people to report more rapes, but not necessarily real rapes ("hey, I can say whatever I want people won't do anything about it and it will ruin this guy's repuation" kind of stuff).

Also, I agree with some of the posts in this thread: the fact that such an accusation has any value, when it supposedly happened 10 years ago, is ridiculous, as proving that something did or did not happen 10 years ago is extremely difficult, if not impossible.

I'm not saying it did not happen, but it is very unlikely to be proven/disproven (and by proof, here, I mean actual proofs, not people's words on the subject).
I've heard that the API is being re-factored almost completely at the moment.

Would someone be able to post exactly what's being done?
How much of the Redis API do you rely on? You could write a client library for say any of a dozen data stores that mimics the redis API. Disclaimer: I've only used redis for small side projects, and I'm sure some of the in-memory data structures would be difficult to replicated on disk while maintaining performance.

I use redis mostly for stream processing, keeping the latest few gigs of data in memory while streaming the old data to mongo for archiving.
They also help you focus on the content of the resume, which is really what the bottom line is anyways. I to find them impersonal and boring though, I have spent way too much time building resumes _to–order_ and have even submitted some mistakes.

Focusing on a model for your resume is kind of a helpful developmental tool itself imo.

Too bad this sort of thing will not ever catch on, or standardize. Either way it is very useful for me personally.
it is fat soluble, and you can end up high even years later if you burn enough calories

You are confusing pot with one of the presumed mechanisms for LSD flashbacks.
You could probably use the Spotter as the Painter in the scenarios where there's s Sniper and a Spotter (e.g. SEALs don't use Spotters, whereas Army SF does).

However, having a Spotter in a different location than the Sniper (or Sniper + Spotter team) leads to other interesting capabilities. Things like, "I have the target marked, based on your current GPS position, just aim to the West."
No I don't really need it, that's why I found that after seven months.

This afternoon there was a networking outage in Linode Fremont impacted my website, so I clicked several links on Linode website and noticed that.

What disappointed me is that Linode can suspend referral program without notice or giving appeal while still benefiting from traffic, every day our website delivers 150K to 200K impressions of Linode logo.
The authors are pretty conscientious about basing the book on tech that's mostly here to stay. For example, camlp4 is not included because it's on it's way out.

So, there's no way to say for sure, but I think there's a reasonable chance it sticks around.