skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I know this is idealist. I'd like people to act responsibly and consider others but to be honest this is beyond a not insignificant proportion of the population. I live in the UK. This class of drug is banned and it should stay so. The police don't go around locking people up - they do slap wrists and that keeps it under control.

When it gets too much or puts people in danger, through drug driving or mindless paranoia caused violence, they have the power to say "stop - that's enough" and solve the problem there and then through the courts. If legalised, that power diminishes into a non-absolute method of control.

We have laws against drinking and smoking in certain places as well already and things have improved massively since these were introduced.

The deep problem we all know, and this is written in many a paper freely googlable, is that smoking, alcohol and drug consumption have observable and statistically obvious negative health effects and negative effects on society. In the UK, this means healthcare budget being sucked up.
Good points. FYI, Washington, D.C.'s Union Station is an hour train ride away from Penn Station.
On a press note (http://www.mecd.gob.es/prensa-mecd/actualidad/2014/07/201407...):

Google+, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks won't be subject to this tax.
Definitely planning on Android (but not for a few months).

You're definitely right about precision vs. accuracy. The phrase never polled as well. Maybe if we'd run our surveys in the statistics department it would have been different. :-)
I'll explain it, though I didn't downvote you.

Marijuana is illegal right now. That didn't stop that bad stuff from happening to you or your sister. Turn it into a public health issue and people like your sister-in-law will have more resources to get help.

I also have skepticism that marijuana caused someone to crash into your car. It has not been proven that weed has much if any effect on driving ability, especially for those experienced with the drug.
I'm usually a brand-name food and medicine buyer, for one particular reason: reputation.

Tylenol is an excellent example. It's such a valuable brand that the manufacturer has an incentive to provide a quality product. In the past, J&J has done an excellent job of this. But even they have slipped. For a while in the recent past, J&J was forced to recall quite a number of products.

But still, in my probably grossly uninformed opinion, generics are generally a "commodity" business. Where else to manufacture a product like that but China? And I'm tired of reading about harmful Chinese products, e.g. [0]. China is like the USA was about 100 years ago, the wild wild West.

I don't mean to single out China. I'm leery of the entire third world. E.g. [1] given the state of sanitation in India, do I want them manufacturing my medicine? They have been called out on this in the recent past. [2]

To paraphrase Clint: You've got to ask yourself a question. "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya?

[0] http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/726160-dog-treats-made-in-ch...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitation...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/world/asia/medicines-made-...
Marijuana delays reaction time. Does penicillin?
No, you are think about this the wrong way. You think that people will obviously stay away from it, much as you would stay away from a rotting corpse. Yes, mines may kill a lot of people, but you know that walking in. You mention that any adequate miner will have a Geiger counter. You need electricity for that, and an idea of not only atomic or chemical theory, but sub-atomic theory. I'll remind that the Great Wall of China was built with much much less and is much less than 10k years old.

Also, you think that once people figured out that the metal cans buried deep (in what may or may not be a desert in 10k years) cause death quickly, that they would run away. History has proven this many times not to be the case. Disease is a similar threat to people like radiation. It moves unseen, until recently, it's dynamics were a mystery. The cause is death or sever scarring and discomfort in extreme cases, it is debilitating and painful and very confusing. Often times, the cures were random attempts that may have made things worse.

What did we do with this threat? Well, the Indians may have a word with you about infected blankets. Or besieged castles that had rotting bodies thrown into them via catapult. Disease has been used as a weapon for nearly forever.

What make anyone think that in 7k years another Genghis or Alexander wont use the magic death barrels to invade Nuevo Houston? The issue is that with disease, your crops were still fine, you water was not glowing, your cows would still eat. With radiation, you don't get those things. The disease parallel break down into a plague of Moses type scenario, only it won't go away.

And that's if we just devolve into medieval savages again. Imagine what a person with some atomic theory could do with this stuff. The horror is unimaginable. At the end of the day, this stuff has to be very well taken care of/totally forgotten. There are no go betweens really. And since life and history rarely if ever forget about a potential weapon, I got bad news.
> It attempts to exploit a facility Shell programmers are very familiar with, but virtually unknown to other programmers - the pipeline.

Really?

It seems that Unix pipes are the go-to example of what you might call pipeline programming, as if it originated there or because every programmer is a shell-programmer first and foremost. But I'm not sure that this is such a secret technique exclusive to shell programmers - object-oriented languages can and does seem to like to use "fluent interfaces", I think its called, which has the same pipelining style. Functional programmers are able to and probably find it convenient to use a "pipeline style" on longer expressions that are essentially long chains of function application or function composition - they just have to flip the order of the operators for function application and function composition, respectively. This is possible in languages like Haskell, and I think it is even pretty idiomatic in F#.
Even if that's true the drugs effect is different on each person and the amount you take will vary the effect it has on your driving ability. A couple of puffs probably won't make a difference. But you can also take enough that it's hard to even get out of a chair. The easiest solution and one that should appease everyone would be a total ban on driving within 12/24 hours of last taking marijuana imo.
The way this is phrased makes this seem more creepy than genuinely helpful.
I'll bring up a point here only because I feel like the HN crowd is on the younger side. Its not until your late 20's and really 30's that you start to find out about and see people you've known in the past that were intelligent, productive people who's lives have been completely destroyed due to their drug addictions. And yes, I've certainly had friends who are 40+ and barely hold down a job and live off friends and family because they were/are addicted to marijuana. It definitely happens, don't kid yourself.

I don't know if the correct solution is to criminalize it, but please keep in mind that drugs change who you are. That is truly the unique thing about them compared to other addictions. And again, if you think heavy marijuana use doesn't change a person, you don't know any heavy marijuana users.

For example, banning alcohol and marijuana probably isn't going to work, but selling bottles of cheap vodka at the grocery store 24/7 is setting up a lot of people who are trying to get clean to fail.
Well I'll add one more:

The physical and mental health problems and associated healthcare burden.

This is not insignificant and totally shrugged off by the "pro-legalisation" side of things.
There haven't been any actual concrete disclosures showing that DUAL EC DRBG was backdoored, just loads of conjecture. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't - the same conjectures were put forth regarding the manipulated S-boxes in DES and it turned out twenty years later that the NSA was actually strengthening the algorithm, not weakening it. If DUAL EC was backdoored, it was a pretty pathetic attempt: it was hardly ever used (only 720 confirmed vulnerable servers out of a survey of 21.8 million[1]) and due to its slow speed there were recommendations not to use it long before Snowden came along. One year later and nothing in the Snowden cache has been leaked providing concrete proof showing a backdoor; I'm not holding my breath for it.

Regarding Heartbleed, the NSA denied having knowledge of the bug before its disclosure. There was a follow up post on the Whitehouse blog[2] that discussed some of the criteria the administration would use in determining whether or not the NSA should disclose a 0-day.

It sounds like you're wanting them to actively search for vulnerabilities in software they didn't write and might not even be used by their targets (the Chinese government could have taken advantage of Heartbleed, but I don't know how many Chinese government sites use OpenSSL). That's not what we currently fund them to do, and I get the impression that most American tech companies wouldn't want the NSA's help anyways.

[1] http://dualec.org/

[2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/04/28/heartbleed-underst...
Why are you not seeing the word "subordinates" in the US Civil Rights Commission definition of racism. People are subordinated when the law fails to protect them. The law can fail to protect you due to corruption, bad management, or institutional racism. If you are white and the law fails you I'm saying it is not institutional racism.
Well, it depends on what the rules are. If you are in a park (first, last, doesn't matter) and someone has the right and chooses to exercise that right to light up, you can either move, ask them to move, or deal with it. Same applies to the bus stop.
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straight into what a lot of the discussion is about... personal attacks over the internet.

happens pretty easily, it seems.
Keep your eye on DC. It is neither the "whitest" nor even a "state" but it does have a full legalization ballot initiative set for November that will almost certainly pass if Congress doesn't block it.
We are already dealing with those problems, legal or not. At least if we legalize and tax it we have a means of paying for it.
Actually I'm half German and half English so that's a bit of a hard one to answer isn't it?

Do I support Europe or do I avoid getting my family killed by the German authorities for refusing to fight the other half?

War is ugly. Everyone refusing to fight is the only answer.
I think the points about types are really interesting. It sounds like a worthy project for that alone.

Does there exist anything like 'type protocols' across languages? Would it be feasible?
I thought NR was for legalization from way back? Quietly anyway. Definitely Bill Buckley personally was pro-legalization from at least the 70s onward.

Edit: and the piece is by a sitting Republican congressman, who is a somewhat legendary figure in movement conservative circles.
You can't up the ante and claim it's analogous. Burning a tyre releases a tremendous amount of thick black smoke, burning a joint releases several orders of magnitude less smoke, and unless you're within 10m of the person you realistically are not going to be affected.

For effect: "What if someone built a rocket launch pad next to my house and it was directly affecting my health?"
Spanish user here.

The main political parties have economic interest in mass media companies (like PRISA group). They are covering the hand who feds them.

Talking with other citiziens, they have no idea about this law being passed or does not support it.
This is a step in the right direction. I strongly believe that marijuana legalization is good for the economy -- personally I've come up with brilliant, practical ideas while stoned[0]. Many of which I have gone on to implement and generate wealth. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Think Steve Jobs and Apple etc.

[0] I hope the nomenclature evolves re marijuana. "stoned", "bong", "skunk", "chronic", etc conjure up images that are too tightly aligned with negative stereotypes IMO.
Ask HN: Where to sell domain names?
I have a few .io names I am not using and want to sell. No idea if they have any value beyond the actual cost, but where is a good place to sell domain names these days? Sedo is the only one I know of. Anyone have experience flipping domain names? I have hunter.io, tunes.io and songs.io - seems like they might be worth something to the right person.
or a weapon. Just think of what a Genghis or Cesar would have done with such a thing, especially if he had no idea of what the long term effects were. I think labeling the stuff is too dangerous as well, politicians can get their hands on the stuff. It's better to just bury it, as safely as possible, and then remove all outside traces of existence.
About 10 years ago, at a Q&A session with the almost-CTO of a Fortune 100 enterprise:

carlsborg: how much java does your company use compared to c++, and where do you see that going?
cto: we're at about 50% java - 50% c++, and we want to go to 90-10
carlsborg: why?
cto: its costs less to do it in java

(While this math might not hold true today, at the time it did - java 1.4 was relatively easy to master in its entirety, and universities were adopting it as the de facto programming language)

I think what he meant was that it cost less to develop java applications compared to C++ ones, in the fairly common situation where you didn't need the low level power and performance of C++.

Personally, I think what helped adoption was the boatloads of high quality middleware, multiple vendor support, and a relatively fast moving and open standards process. The latter playing an important role - when a language/technology stack stagnates, early adopters tend to go elsewhere looking for an "edge" and take their allegiance with them.
Comparing the UK and the US here is absurd. I live in the UK too and pratically speaking marijiuana is decriminalized. The police do not prosecute ordinary users and "small time growing" is often a warning or a fine.

Compare that to america where a tremendous number of college-age kids are imprisoned, where vast swathes of the black population are put away, where police meet their targets for funding by prosecuting weed smokers. It's a completely different world.

The "drug driving" is not being legalized anywhere. Illegal things are still illegal. "Mindless paranoia caused violence" is, as far as any one can tell, a myth. But even so, that's a HEALTH issue - not solvable by police.

As for "negative effects on society" and "health care budget" - these are phrases meant to restrict lifestyles available to people on the basis of your own fear, self-interest and jealousy. "Freedom" if it is to mean anything is the ability to enjoy: to have your life be - to you - enjoyable and worth living.
the issue is what founders think their clients think.
cpayne, I don't quite understand your question.

Since we don't make VERY cheap clothing, squeezing pennies by using harsh working conditions hasn't been something we've wanted to pursue.
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I didn't downvote you.

1. The person that crashed into you (sorry, that sucks) could have done the same thing after drinking alcohol. It's legal. Do you also recommend prohibiting it? I think most people would agree driving under the influence of marijuana should be illegal. Punishments should be severe. But even now with prohibition that doesn't stop stupid people doing stupid things. Illegal or not, the world is full of idiots and there's very little we can do about it.

2. I don't mean to be insensitive but your sister-in-law made that decision. It's her right. You have no right to enforce your views on her. I have seen many people addicted to alcohol and it's horrible. But they have an excuse - it's highly addictive. Marijuana isn't. It is less addictive than caffeine meaning that if she is choosing to spend her days on the couch, high, it's a choice she's making.
This is ridiculous... seems to me that much of the role of news reporting and publishing is being increasingly filled by social media. I think this is a pretty good thing because it democratizes the press and lets people decide to publish what they think is most important. These laws seem like a step in the wrong direction...
You are quite clearly an absolute dire example of a complete fucking moron if you think that smoking weed doesn't affect your driving.

It affects your judgement, your motor skills, slows your reaction time and so can the withdrawal symptoms.

I'm not even going to link a page because it's that easy to find supporting information that is credible.
Also, I'd bet the sound dampening stuff would act as a great thermal insulator as well.
Believe it or not, you can remove snow from narrow streets too.

Here's a very common snow removal vehicle: http://image.dieselpowermag.com/f/tech/11090507+w799+h499+cr...
This type of vehicle is used all winter on the narrow paths, sidewalks, and streets at the University of Michigan. Snow levels at U-M are very similar to those in Detroit. I imagine that these vehicles are probably a lot cheaper than the snow plows used for wide streets too.

While googling for that image, I also found this, which I thought was pretty cool: https://www.arcsfoundation.org/minnesota/news/its-time-annua...
Because Spanish politics is an inbred kind of politics.

People joke in Latin America about Spaniards because of their remarkably low knowledge of foreign languages and outside culture, or the fact that they watch American films overdubbed whereas others just watch them with subtitles.

It's a subtle thing, but there's a perception, to me not unfounded, that some sectors of Spanish society just don't look outward much, which is the reason they get these crazy ideas that wouldn't even be considered for a second anywhere else.
I think we're being trolled. This moo character is a master of non sequitur.
Besides which, consumer GPS has a resolution down to 3M, 95th percentile - not 100M [1].

[1] http://www.gps.gov/technical/ps/2008-SPS-performance-standar...
1. Yes I do think that it should be made illegal on the basis that it causes a number of deep social problems in the UK. If you've ever seen an English town after closing time, you'll know what I mean.

2. I completely agree with you but do you think that legalising it is going to reduce the health impact? No, it's going to make it socially acceptable.

Shit or get off the pot: Cite your sources regarding addiction.

Edit: Ask for proof/sources = down vote. Hey everyone, fuck science.
The obvious one, some religious denominations: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=jewish.christian.musli...
When you do it in the app, it does say that shirtless and briefs or boxer briefs are OK. I assume that fully nude would also be OK, but I guess they didn't want to go there. ;)
PowerShell does pretty much all the things you mentioned except the lispy part. Actually, I guess it has first class and anonymous function support so if you squint a little you have the lispy part as well.
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It annoys me when people use healthcare cost as something to be counted against recreational drugs. It seems to me that this reasoning could equally be applied to every avoidable burden on the health system.

As an analogy. As far as I know heart disease is one of the main causes of healthcare costs and death. Obesity leads to an increased risk of heart disease. Does this mean that we should have a government mandated diet to eliminate obesity?
Regardless of what polls tell you, calling precision accuracy is inaccurate.
>And yes, I've certainly had friends who are 40+ and barely hold down a job and live off friends and family because they are addicted to marijuana.

Is the evidence available strong enough to suggest that it's the marijuana causing this? Marijuana is often used by those suffering from depression and anxiety as a form of self-medication.

In BC, Canada the province's leading medical doctors have come out in strong support of legalization.
You didn't explain how they knew about the PH/BP, which makes people assume it was due to location data (like your first example).

However, as for comment #1, Google doesn't use the SSIDs to determine locations on mobile, they use the [MAC Addresses](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...). They do have a database that also includes SSIDs for these MAC addresses, but there could be a dozen SSIDs around you at any given time, and you could be at any one of those businesses. I have already explained that Google uses coarse location to determine your location, not fine because of battery issues (and you can check this in Android, it's listed under the lower-power location use). Coarse doesn't use GPS, and its accuracy is generally 100+ meters because of this. It will know the general area you were at (and, no, it won't know you were there for 10 minutes, as it only picks up your location at fixed intervals which IIRC is above 10 minutes), but it won't know, specifically, where you were in that area.

I will concede on the Pizza Hut location, but it would have only known you were there because of the review, not because of the location (for the same reason as above).
We have definitely found that more expensive doesn't mean a better fit. Because every person is shaped differently, what fits great for me will almost certainly not fit as well on someone else. And being more expensive doesn't solve that problem.

We use over 14 dimensions for each of our shirts, so that every person who orders from us has a great fit.

If you can find off-the-rack shirts you love at a lower cost, I think that's an awesome option. However, I can say personally I've never found anything off-the-rack I like as much as my custom stuff (both pre-MTailor and now while doing MTailor), because it fits better, especially in my shoulders, waist and the length of the shirt.
As far as I can tell, you just made the argument that both narrow and wide streets are loud. Either because of people or because of vehicles. So I'm not sure why you disagree with the OP.
Very much so. Isn't public health about reducing avoidable risks and keeping the population healthy?
I'm curious, are you making custom patterns based on the video data, or just extracting standard measurements and then doing traditional shirtmaking?

Also, please add a solid black fabric! :)
It was legalized where I live years ago. Sex Workers pay income tax, and can make work related deductions. They can call the police if they have any trouble with clients. It is just another service industry.

The only restrictions imposed apon them is where they are allowed to operate their business. (Not near schools, playgrounds etc).
>Competency doesn't require fanaticism, and no employer should expect that their employees devote their entire lives to their occupation.

Very true. The only problem with that is that when judging between two job candidates, the one who is devoting their entire lives to their occupations is going to be a more desirable hire.

>At the very least, that seems to be his expectation of good candidates, and his hiring process clearly disadvantages people who can't or won't code 24/7.

Just as the field of competitive Olympians disadvantages people who can't or won't train 24/7
Fair enough. The Java/XML/.. technologies do seem to be the current favourite for all the projects publicly shown at tech.lds.org.
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