skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but there is a substantial body within countries like the United States who benefit a lot from it being legal. For instance, the for profit prisons incarcerate non-violent drug offenders. Also, law enforcement relies heavily on policies such as seizures as a source of funding. These types of institutions also have a lot to lose when it comes to drug legalization...
> I have one idea for how to do that, through a network of peer-to-peer search engines, and I hope to post it soon.

This was 2002 ... Is there any follow up posting on it?

I'm actively developing a censor free distributed search engine, with the abilities to parse the layout of a page into fields like author, title, date, abstract, article, pictures. The system is able to login into sites, hide itself as a normal browser to scrap the dark side of the web. Nodes and leafs of the network will communicate with tor (nyi), and act like a torrent of search engines.

Use the /chat/ or contact from my homepage, if you want to discuss my vision of a Google killer.
The Heise article says so - arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks. A link is enough. The fine can be up to € 300k or six years in prison. The Spanish education minister hails this as a pioneering effort designed to be followed up by the EU at large.
Strangely enough I get the same from £1.75 T-shirts off Amazon and they fit better and last 4 years longer than the expensive Gieves and Hawkes (tailored) shirts I had a few years ago...

I think this is all YMMV territory and subject to mystique like wine tasting, watches (jewellery class watches) and crazy expensive HiFi products.
And in a decade or two, legalization of prostitution.
is there a recorded version which we could see, like the NY startup school?
Angular-debaser: a better way to test AngularJS apps
Where can I even see fabric swatches without downloading the app?
Well, you have to remember that Spanish politics is completely fucked up. American politics are only recently beginning to come close, to add a sense of scale. Doesn't help that they have legal cruft dating back to the medieval ages, but that's separate.
Same ought to have been done in SoCal.
If the purpose of ethics is to help you live, then why would this be unethical?
Nice XSS attack against the comment-page there. Oops.
The distinguishing trait of a profession is that it involves ethical obligations that supersede managerial authority. Here's a blog post I wrote on it: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d... . (However, I've become convinced, later in my career, in the value of having some representation, like a Hollywood writer's union.) If you're a professional, "I was following orders" is no excuse.

The flip side of that, which professionals tend to enjoy, is that your boss's power over you must be limited. Thus, the profession gives credibility to all members. If you get fired because your boss doesn't like you, you're still a doctor. The AMA wants it to be this way, because if the boss held as much power as in most jobs, professionals wouldn't have the autonomy under which that responsibility (don't harm patients, even if ordered to do so) makes sense.

The professional organization also, at least in theory, looks out for its membership. If doctors are autonomous (i.e. can always find jobs) and wealthy enough that they have the resources to keep up with lifelong duties (e.g. keeping abreast of medical advances) then the risk that they are compromised against their obligations is low.

A doctor can say, "I won't do this, because I believe it will harm the patient." A software engineer can't. That's the difference.
"The stupidity, the submission, the lack of responsibility, the disregard for life."

This is absolutely nothing like my experience of life in the military (British Army). If you people think life in a modern western military is about stupidity, submission, lack of responsibility and disregard for your life you are so incredibly far off I don't even know how to start making you better informed.

My experience of military life was one of mutual respect, shared experience and delegated responsibility and at a level most civilians can't even understand.

You could have taken the squadrons and batteries I was in and put them anywhere in the world and asked them to do anything and we would have made it work no matter what. Try that with a group of civilians without the values the military has and see how far you get.

If you really think the military is like this, challenge your preconceptions and sign up to your country's reserves in your spare time for a year or two. See how far you get with stupidity, submission, lack of responsibility and disregard for people's lives.
Thanks, and glad my comment helped.

Startups are REALLY FREAKING HARD, but you are not alone. ;-)

Good luck!
There's apparently a breathalyzer in development[0] that can detect use within the past two hours.

[0] http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/thc-breathalyzer-could-help-pol...
>As horrible as this may sound, the best we can hope for is the radiation will act quickly so those venturing in will provide ample examples to those that didn't.

Oh man so this crazy ancient tomb has this magical force that kills everyone that goes in. I heard the last team made it further than everyone else before it and the last guy stumbled out with all these ancient artifacts!
Yeah, alcohol is far more likely to result in police incidents. Here in Boulder I often think that if all the drunk college students were getting high instead, the worst thing that would happen is all the restaurants will get overrun at 2 am.
Cassandra as a big nested map
> arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks

This will do wonders for the SEO of these newspapers, not to mention their presence at all in the discourse.
He's got one thing right:

he makes it clear that skill is not enough.
Yes, it is the first box a candidate needs
to check ...

I agree with this. Unfortunately, at many companies skill is the last thing people look for (just a mild exaggeration). Everything else is more important. The fundamental question of "can he do the job?" is only relevant after eliminating candidates who aren't perceived as "team players", or are too old, or don't have all the right buzzwords on their resume.
The term specifically refers to a "dark" period in Europe. E.g. Islamic science famously flourished at these same centuries.
But it's increasingly seen as a misnomer wrt. Europe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
Because they have been led to believe other EU countries will follow suit, which is not entirely outside of the realm of possibility. Personally I also suspect that there is extensive "sponsoring" by the content industry going on. They see Spain is vulnerable, so they probably see it as a cheap foot in the door for the entire EU.

Living in Germany myself, the cynic in me can already envision the German adaptation of this, which would include the same definition of the crime, but they would allow arbitrary lawyers to send cost notices of, say, €10k to private individuals and owners of small websites. The €300k will then only be enforced if you don't pay up. While that is going on, large companies will do backroom deals so they can carry on like before.

These laws are never designed to stop Google, Twitter, or Facebook. They'll be just fine, as long as they pay enough behind the scenes. It's always about the little guys.
A few days of Google-FB-Twitter blackout for Spain would reverse this law, but the newspapers that proposed it should be banned forever from the search engines and social sites, to teach them a lesson.
Now I want to be true. Hopefully, it will have an inoculating effect.
>> But there are some real issues to be worked out, as someone who had a friend sent to hospital after being hit by a stoned driver who blew through a stop sign. Whats the legal limit?

Sorry that happened to your friend. Was it proven that the driver was stoned? If so I'm guessing they have an accurate way to measure it. Either way this is always going to be a problem. Look at the number of people killed by drunk drivers. The only solution is harsh prison sentences imo. Some people, willing to take the risk of DWI, disregard the danger they pose to others and if they can't understand that they should be severely punished. DWI shouldn't just lose you your license and get you probation. The punishment should be much more severe.

As for your question on the legal limit - there shouldn't be one. If you get in the car you should not have had any marijuana in the last 24 hours.
You can see a Zero in Paul Allen's collection in Everett when they have one of their many open houses.
> You're trying to police ideas and behaviors that offend you.

Again where in this specific thread did you read that? In this thread, I'm questioning the long term logic of someone else's idea of what you would call "policing".

Have you read your own comments on this thread? I find it ironic that you're essentially doing the same thing that you accuse me of doing.
Well, you could just assume that all non-Scala code is impure.

Actually, thinking about it, why not just make it illegal to modify arguments, full stop? It's perhaps the worst software practice I can think of.

I think Oracle is going to wait a long time until they add that to Java, and it's not going into the JVM before it's going into Java, unfortunately. Well, there is a limited number of instructions in the JVM, so using them on things that are unproven might be a very bad idea.
I think this is a big deal. The New York Times is hardly universally respected, but it has a lot more credibility than the image normally associated with the marijuana legalization crowd. I would expect Sunday morning news programs to mention this editorial tomorrow.
The Heise article says that a mere link to the URL is enough (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8091162). I really hope they mistook some Spanish source.
I don't think so. If I had been an interview partner of him, I'd describe how I (as part of a three-person team) re-architected a 10-year old JEE application and converted it to a Jersey/Angular single-page app - while retaining parts of the old code that dealt with scientific calculations, replace other parts with a math library and found the flaws in the ORM configuration that made it take 30s for a page view.

After we were done, the same page took less than a second - but the thing that would "light me up" was the process of finding the performance bottlenecks and gradually arriving at a better understanding of exactly why bizarre flaws existed in the way the old application configured the ORM (lack of experience by the original developers and most likely external consultants that told them that using an ORM was professional but not teaching them enough on how to work with it)
There were some blog posts in 2003, referring to a paper. Hmmm... the link is broken, but this should be it: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.58.4...
That's an Op-Ed, not necessarily the position of the National Review's editors.

The NYT isn't just running a series of articles on legalization, they are taking a stand as a newspaper in favor of it.
How is this different from humility? "Be humble" is an easier sell than "Be mediocre" if the message is the same.
if it works, that would solve the problem of detection.
This Tiny Burrito Shop has Legs
Anecdotally watching my sister-in-law destroy her life and brain with the stuff and having a car written off because someone was fucked up on it and crashed into me, I'd rather it stayed illegal. Also it's not other people's right to inflict the rancid shitty smell upon me is it?

(Yes I know that goes for smoking and alcohol too and I'd be quite happy to do away with them as well)

Edit: downvoters, please explain rather than leave a cowardly silence. I'd love to see people's down votes named on HN.
> Being a trouble maker always looked bad on your calibration scores and that translates into real money.

Wow. Did you actually see first hand anyone who was punished by Google for things said outside the workplace? And did this extend to topics other than Google?
If you are limited to one short question, a better choice is to ask them: "Teach me something technical you've learned recently." You can evaluate their answer on technical depth and correctness, communication skills, and timeliness of the topic. And if they can't think of anything they've learned recently, that tells you something as well.
Racism Is any action or attitude, conscious or unconscious, that subordinates an individual or group based on skin colour or race. It can be enacted individually or institutionally.

Source: US Civil Rights Commission

How does your point 1 above satisfy the "subordinates an individual" criteria for the definition of racism by the US Civil Rights Commission? It doesn't! For your point 2, to subordinate someone you need power or institutional power backing you up. If you don't have institutional power then the person you're bothering ignores you, tells others and gives you a bad reputation with people, takes you to civil court, calls the police and you are then in jail. The repercussions commensurate with your actions. I argue that your point 2 does not subordinate a white person beyond that of being attacked by an individual or small group of people because you do have recourse by law to defend yourself or have them arrested. The same with any physical assault. The significance of racism is when the person may not have recourse to defend themselves or protection by the law because of racial bias then they are put in a position of subordination and controlled.
My best project was 12 years ago and I hated it at the time.

If you had asked me about it while I was working on it, and I didn't sugar coat, I bet you would have said no hire.

Secondly, it has just taken me 10 minutes to remember the details in enough depth to have a proper conversation about it. Again that would probably be "best work behind him...", or "doesn't seem to know the details....insincere" etc.

This question is easy to game and disadvantages people who aren't prepared for it.
I was taking it as some sort of justification for calling his first paragraph "disingenuous"; I was trying to understand how a description of the people that you grew up with could make his argument appear insincere or deceptive.
Based on reading his blog Pharyngula a few years ago, I suspect that was a response to the "Biology is stupid because it says God didn't create us as his special children" sort of thing he's probably heard too much of when teaching intro bio classes.
Speaking for myself, I strongly prefer a plentitude of public open space, rather than a little bit of private yard. It would be neat if a city were ever built along the lines of this proposal: http://carfree.com/topology.html It's a proposal for a city housing a million people, which is 80% non-urbanized, and in which nobody lives more than 400 meters from open space.
‘breakthrough’ sixth-grade science project and a fight over scientific glory
The problem is the studies that show that MJ use is far less of an impact on driving than talking on a phone... The paranoia over stoned drivers is a little high (no pun intended)

Not saying it should be ignored as an issue all together, but it seems to be the last issue the opposition can attach itself to and sound sane, and its getting a little carried away.
and the point is that these publishers don't realize that all these news aggregators are sending a considerable amount of visits to them
this is a picture of an editorial celebrating that this law was passed and how they include the buttons to send the article to the aggregators: http://mnmstatic.net/cache/21/eb/thumb_medium-2223027.jpg
Show HN: Pie, a simple text based to-do list (web)app
Just a heads-up for those who can't find the expired certificate: in keychain access, you have to click on "View > Show Expired Certificates".
Seconded. Could you elaborate on how "being a trouble maker" affected calibration scores?
The risk of driving after using marijuana is comparable to the risk of driving after using penicillin, which isn't illegal. Furthermore, the risk is far less than the risk of driving at .08, which is legal in most states. While I'm not advocating that people drive while stoned, it's not clear that there is a legal problem that needs to be solved.
Phototropism
As a spanish guy I can't agree more. Bloody idiots.
Luckily it's not your right to inflict your views on the rest of us. It is your right to vacate an area that has an odor you disagree with though.
That sounds an awful lot like collective punishment, something I almost always oppose.

On the other hand, I definitely sympathize with the smell, the obnoxious behavior, the litter, and even the smoke itself. Were I a supreme dictator with no care for the needs of my subjects and having some method of enforcing 100% compliance, I'd ban all smoking and public displays of alcohol and sleep soundly at night.

Unfortunately (nah, fortunately) for the two of us, life doesn't bend to such whims. In any society where I'd want to live, I'd much rather the individuals who cause harm (minor, like litter, or major, like property damage or personal injury) be slapped and slapped hard by the law, but those who are responsible and cause no negative external effects are free to do what they like.
Curl command not working:

Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile erjang-r13b04-20110524.jar
So if someone told you that jeans were not proper working clothes and that you are being unprofessional, would you agree with them?

What you're describing is just sticking a "I'm working" label onto yourself, which could be done with a button-down shirt just as well as with wearing a black t-shirt as long as it is, in your mind, "dressed for work".
The part where the PR industry comes in is where people in a customer-facing position - people used to call those "suits" in the 90s for the exact reason of being inappropriately dressed for someone doing production, as opposed to management or sales, work - expect others to conform to their standards instead of the other way around.

In other words, standards of dress tell a lot about whether your organization is engineering-driven or sales/marketing driven, and startup culture - traditionally driven at least in part by technical people - definitely has other standards than banking or consulting.
General legalization and amnesty is the way to go. This piecemeal recreational legalization is only happening in the whitest states in the country, and not helping the primary victims of the drug war.
"I'd defend my country at the border but nothing more."

If you had been a young man during WW2 would you have fought beyond the UK's borders to liberate Europe from Germany?
Let's use an analogy:

What if someone was burning a tyre in my neighbour's garden directly affecting my health?
The shirts are made to our stringent quality controls in China. We're definitely planning to expand into other types of clothing. And since we take all your measurements, you'll only have to get measured once!

We get what you're saying about virality. We wanted to make shirts of a quality that we were proud of and after getting many samples we decided that we could make very high-quality shirts for $69. We hope that we'll be able to bring the price down with time.

FYI - the salesman in me has to say that if you have any doubts, you can try us risk-free because of our very generous return policy. We're happy to accept a return or remake your shirt for any reason (not just fit).
I have created a live demo of MOE on a Terminal.com snapshot. More details here:

https://atharwat.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/moe-on-terminal-co...
From the parent:

> In fact, the caste system of racism is maintained by all of us, in the same way the rest of the status quo is maintained. Mostly just by people being comfortable enough with the status quo that they don't try very hard to change it, and end up reinforcing it without even realising.

By implication, if you're not against there caste system, you're for it. And if you don't believe in the caste system, how can you be against it?

And I don't think it's a helpful definition. It could confuse a stupid person into thinking a dumb celebrity twitting a racial slur is one of the primary causes of inequality.

The "caste system" is entrenched poverty. Visual markers (skin colour) might make it harder to fight the poverty cycle (as it speeds up white flight, and causes some profiling and other discrimination), but the fundamental problem is no longer about race.

The poverty cycle in the US was caused by racism, and is to some extent worsened by racism. But if you want to stop it, you have to fight poverty. Free community college level education to young mothers (and young fathers), remedial literacy (for the kids who need it) in K-6. A few busses, to prevent the segregation due to white flight. That's just IMO, there's probably some things I'm missing.

Fighting the caste system is more or less orthogonal to fighting racism.
From the end of Part 1 of the editorial series:

> On Monday at 4:20 p.m. Eastern Time, Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, will be taking questions about marijuana legalization at facebook.com/nytimes.
What ‘urban physics’ could tell us about how cities work
The Bible's a mess, but a designer is fixing it
Possibly, though I imagine that tobacco companies would probably find away to be the biggest beneficiaries if it suddenly became legal.
Depends on how long we have trees and if we stop to look up from our phones (my point being that we can't make too many assumptions).
Ford and Heinz are exploring the use of tomato fibers in vehicle manufacturing
In this case, I disagree. A couple of opposing views:

- What if I was in an area first, say a park? Does the right to light up trump my right to be somewhere in that case?

- What if I have to be there? Does the right to light up mean that I miss my bus because I'm walking to another stop or do I just have to live with it if there is no other nearby stop?
You seem to have a very very bad experience with cops. The majority of people are not afraid of driving any more than being ticketed for jay walking. And as you said, if you want to travel without cars you have to deal with the TSA and that nonsense.

Cars are certainly dangerous. You have a very good point there. But people have so accepted the risk they aren't going to change their entire lifestyle to eliminate it. And in a few years self-driving cars will fix it.
It seems that every week there's a post on HN about the "right way" to do interviews. It's too bad there's never any research done to actually test these strategies. I don't believe that you can get a good answer just from personal experience.
Couldn't you do all of that, except for CUDA, using Docker on a single machine/VM?

Also, why not use something based on OpenCL, which would be compatible with many student's own computers rather than requiring nvidia, so they could do that part of the exercise in PyOpenCL or maybe even node-webcl or something.
Because you basically just advocated prohibition of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, and included in your list of reasons 'I don't like the smell'.

Never mind that prohibition was already tried and already failed.
Faster than Python

Easier to avoid mistakes than C/C++

Easy to break into component parts that can be maintained separately

Don't have to worry about handling memory

Works the same on Windows, Linux, X86, ARM, etc. so your developers can be working on OS X and deploying on BSD for all you care

Static typing (remarkably important when you've got a team of 30 working on a large codebase)
With self driving cars on the horizon it will at some point become a moot point.