skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of my life we've had an outsized problem with heroin and other opiates in Vermont. Recently this has developed into an odd symbiotic relationship with New York State, where Heroin is exchanged for guns across the border.

I recently left the state, but only a year ago I was living in Saint Albans when a warrant sweep rounded up dozens of my neighbors, including one who had been moving thousands of grams of heroin monthly.

Throughout 2013 there were ongoing sweeps in 3 major counties, all focused on narcotics only. Dozens were arrested each time. We're a small state with a terrible economy. As glad as I am that Shumlin is taking this step (and he's made it clear for a while now that he's happy to ignore the political consequences of this action) this has been a very long time coming. I remember first hearing about the heroin problem in my state 20 years ago, when I was in middle school and there was a report of someone overdosing in a park adjacent to a summit on combating opiate addiction.

Vice did a good story on all of this last year: http://www.vice.com/read/the-brown-mountain-state
Agree completely. The fundamental problem of package management is the dependencies of the package manager itself.

Every programming language has its own package manager because it's written in that language. No language maintainer is going to say something like, "Hey, want to use Ruby? Just install Perl first so you can install some Ruby packages!"

Likewise, every OS-level package manager assumes an OS. I'm sure apt-get, and yum and Nix are great. I'm also sure their greatness isn't very helpful to Windows users.

There's also the dependency between those two. An OS-level package manager can't easily be written in a high-level language, because one of its core jobs is to install high level languages. A language-level package manager doesn't want to re-invent the OS stack.

Bootstrapping is hard. Package managers sit very very low on the software stack where any dependencies are very difficult to manage and where consolidation is nigh impossible.
I find that Ebay makes it very unclear what the fees are if you sell something; this £0.50 to list something I assume they would have to say + x percent of the say price now? Be even better if they were force to list an estimated sale price and fee...
New York isn't as expensive as you thought
Nah, I talked to the guys who develop Horizon, and the Android APIs and devices are very spotty about gyroscopes/accelerometers. Each device needs to be developed for almost separately, and the iPhone APIs are higher-quality on these things in general.

That doesn't mean you can't do it, it's just easier on the iPhone, which sucks for us Android users.
Quite frankly, all business should have to advertise a final price. "Fuel surcharge" on a transport product ... as if fuel wasn't an intrinsic part of their service.

It's true that there are stupid things like USF which is like 17%, but that's well-known.

The only "surprise" stuff are things like assorted locales deciding to charge you fees. Like some podunk county in Missouri will decide you now need to pay a $1/month 911 fee if your number is from there, even if you aren't there. But it's nowhere nearly as bad as the big telecoms make it out to be.
Yeah, it seems like the judge is making an effort to let you have friends and friends-of-friends, just not customers. It's worth noting that this is an opinion from Administrative Law Judge, which is about a half-dozen appeals from the State's highest court, the Court of Appeals. So there are plenty of judges who could overrule this in the next few years.
It certainly isn't. You can just do:

ansible webservers -m yum -a "name=puppet state=latest" -s

Or just use ansible for provisioning and install puppet along with the OS. Or something...
SQLite ships with iOS and OSX too, just like Core Data. All you have to do is link libsqlite3.dylib instead of CoreData.framework.
> ... can you show us the link where the intent of the burglary or robbery was to take the cell phone?

There are many examples --

http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-me-0522-strong-arm-rob...

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/5-arrested-in-attack-on-woman-cel...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101589854#.

Quote from the last link: "About 3.1 million Americans had their phones stolen last year, according to a just-released national survey by Consumer Reports. That's nearly double the magazine's estimate of 1.6 million mobile phones stolen during 2012."

-- but the intent is irrelevant to the problem the bill addresses -- it removes the incentive to try to steal a cell phone, regardless of the specifics.
Does Zidisha view having the broken (obviously because its not their first language and this is not a criticism of the borrowers) English in the descriptions as a benefit over descriptions that have been edited to be more readable? I could see arguments for both sides and wonder if they have experimented with giving a proofreader to every potential borrower, if only to improve readability. I'd imagine they haven't done it because it removes some of the human connections, but I'd be interested in A/B testing of it.
Daily Ten: a simple way to rethink your todo list
“Ebola is the Kardashian of diseases”
That would be a great move. Wendy's is really most trashy fast food chain out there. The one in my city still has carpet in it...
Teaching a physical science at an okay university can be a bit depressing.

Students tend to view education in purely economic terms: They pay the university, and therefore they are entitled to "receive an education" in the form of high grades and a degree. This does not facilitate any sort of learning, and this problem will not be solved by getting rid of grades and degrees.

At some point, the wheat and chaff need to be separated. Whether this is done by employers, universities, etc. is somewhat immaterial-- But it's not likely to be accomplished by self-reflection on the part of the students, because (the vast majority of) students simply do not care.

Grades should be useful, and the reputation of a school should have some bearing on the competence of its graduates.

However, grade inflation has essentially rendered grades useless. Poor grades lead to poor faculty evaluations and endless unpleasantness. The dominant viewpoint seems to be: Give everyone high-ish grades, and let them become someone else's problem. Which is irresponsible and devalues the university's degrees, but such is life.

The computer programming model of evaluating peoples' competency via open-source contributions seems like a good idea. I wonder how this sort of thing would work for sciences or humanities. I also wonder how to make a system of evaluating competency immune to being gamed.
Or because other people in this thread insist that in fact it's not stable, and there are numerous bugs on multiple platforms.

Regardless, if you want people to know that a release is ready for use by people who want a stable release, you label it a final release, right? Presumably the developer(s) do not believe it is ready for wide use. Whether they are being overly conservative or not is I suppose another question.

But it seems silly to suggest that everyone should do research on their own to discover something labelled 'beta' or 'dev' should really be considered the latest stable release.
Take a workshop if they're offered where you live. Just search for standup comedy workshop on Google.
Thank you so much for your feedback.

Almost right cause your pictures not following you, but they stay where them were taken. So you will see only pictures of clubbing in zone of clubbing.
The theory is that the information inside any 3D volume might be completely encoded on its 2D surface.

There are a number of reasons this might make sense. For one, the maximum entropy of a volume increases with its surface area, not its volume (IIRC).
It would be on a totally isolated network. Classified networks don't touch unclassified networks.
> And in the forum he even mentioned ST4 base libs he is preparing a month or so ago.

Huh. Do you think there will be an ST4 beta/dev release before there's an ST3 stable release? I wonder if the developer has just decided to label all his releases beta from now on?
the dev releases are hidden on the website. You have to look to find them. The website by default directs you to the very stable 2 version. If you look you can find the stable 3 builds. If you dig deeper you can find the dev builds. Each of these things is clearly labeled and not mixed. Nobody going through the website is going to download a dev build on accident.
"But much of the regulation in the US is regulatory capture. We need regulation for the people, not for the companies."

I'll just go ahead and leave this here for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Yeah it is a key plot device in quite a few of Ursula Le Guin books. Pretty sure Card even gives credit in the appendix of one of his books.
I, too, worked for EA on sports titles.

Superman Returns was worse: 9 months of 60+ hour, 6 days a week crunch.
It's amazing what personal greed and arrogance will do to ideology.
The problem boils down to language. Interesting content in Korea is in Korean and would be of no interest to the majority English speaking Australian population.

Hence, Australia relies on content from the English speaking world which is dominated on the Internet by the U.S., this translates to trans-pacific cabling to the U.S. West Cost which is pretty pricey.
Or, to add in the more specifically measured element:

40 hours is the peak of the Laffer curve [productivity being inversely proportional to hours worked a week]. I have absolutely no data on variance for the peak of the Laffer curve (if you imagine attempting to gather this data, you'll notice it is extremely difficult). That being said, despite this lack of data, I have heard a lot of people claiming they can work a whole lot more and get more and more done. I do not believe their ad hoc methods have secretly outsmarted science. It seems more likely that they are mistaken (if only for the reason that it is very hard to measure and they universally lack specific reason to choose "my peak productivity happens at >60 hours a week" over "the volume of my work is more noticeable than the quality of my work", which is essentially universal -- but lines of code, as a metric, don't pay the bills).
I didn't say it was difficult, I said it was annoying. The bootstrapping step isn't just easier when using Ansible, it doesn't exist.
Oh, got it. Didn't realize "in the browser" specifically meant javascript.
Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone
If you are serious, watch "Kill Tony" podcast, go to open mic nights as much as possible and write as much as possible.
Or I did and I'm self-endorsing on HN for karma?
I don't get it. Is the author under the impression that Twitter data is some sort of essential common resource? That's ridiculous. Its private and and its for sale by a for-profit company.

This isn't about "data democracy". Thats a weasel word the author used to try and sound persuasive despite his weak argument. This is about the author wanting to have cheaper access to Twitter data and whining about how much it will cost him to get that data.
Is pair programming really that awesome?
"MYSTIC is a voice interception program used by the National Security Agency. The program recorded every phone call made within a non-specified country for thirty days."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MYSTIC_(surveillance_program)
With both iOS & OSX now supporting frameworks, CocoaPods has the potential of becoming much more elegant. See progress on this here: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/pull/2222
I would imagine its because the continued and unexpected maintenance of things at the bottom of the ocean is much harder
I always find it interesting that the business network in the US is often ignored. It's quite stellar on a combination of quality and price. I think it's an inconvenient data point for people that only like to bash the US telecommunications situation.
Wait don't go yet - where do you see Instagram in five years?
A good argument can be made either way, but I doubt we'd ever use a proofreader as so much of our identity is in keeping the lender-borrower communication direct and authentic.

That said, we do allow our users to post translations of non-English content, while leaving the untranslated versions accessible - you may view an example here: https://www.zidisha.org/microfinance/loan/SALIMATA2/9512.htm.... We also sometimes edit the titles of loan projects for clarity.
Wow, I somehow missed (or forgot?) that TextMate 2 got open sourced. Here is the Github repo: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Why I float
My exact though. I was like.. wait... didn't Microsoft release the SAME thing a week or so ago?
Ask HN: Anyone got an O-1 visa?
I'd like to hear some success stories of hackers who got an O-1 visa.

How long did it take, what were the pitfalls and how did you (legally) hack around the inefficient immigration system?
I love rethink and ReQL and especially the intuitive Python bindings - but I can't wait for geospatial indexing. It's the last thing preventing me from using RethinkDB in prod.
where did you see MySpace in 5 years when it was at its peak?

(there's your answer)
I just learned about a market called CSR(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility)

I could not find a clear big winner in this market.
Train your mind intuition and rationality
Why is this being downvoted? As an emacs user, I'm trying to figure out what's the advantage to using sublime.
Awesome concept. I've seen an other app top that's trying to do almost the same lately, roundio.com. It's based on a map, though, but the concepts of nearby activity is very similar.
I once drove four hours to the closest Krispy Kreme in my area the day it opened. It was worth every second of driving just to eat them. I brought back 10 dozen donuts and sold them locally for double the price.

Now living in Canada, I would probably drive 10 minutes to a Timmy's, but that's about the extent of it. The donuts aren't as good as the other local donut franchise (Robin's), and their coffee is absolutely terrible. Krispy Kreme is superior in every way.

If you find yourself in Canada, stop in and buy a Double-double and some Timbits. Don't make going to Timmy's the point of a trip.
I think that eventually we will move towards defining the whole system in a high level way that is independent of the languages, whether it is a service object/RPC or microservice, etc. In order to do that you need define the programming languages, databases, web servers, and web services using a common meta-language or interchange format based on some type of knowledge representation. To make things practical there will be the capability to work with the systems in your preferred representation and then translate back into the common metalanguage.
> Trust me, it's always better to cooperate with the cops.

Trust me -- an experienced defense lawyer will tell you in no uncertain terms to do exactly the opposite.

1. Exercise your right to be silent.

2. Do not volunteer any information.

3. Ask whether you are under arrest, and if the answer is "no", leave and engage the services of a competent attorney.

> Being a dick is just going to get you more trouble.

This is what the cops always tell you as they try to get you to abandon your rights. But the cops are allowed -- nay, encouraged -- to lie during interrogations, something the suspect cannot do without dire consequences.
Ethicists supervising guard robots guarding delivery robots in self-driving cars
If you had stopped at the first comma, this would have been a fine comment. But by taking a swipe at people[1], you start a political discussion.

[1] even if they are people that you Know For Sure and can Absolutely Prove are in the Wrong
As for scalability... I was thinking that for sure free access to internet would be very hard to monitor, but say you limit it to email: That would be certainly much, much easier (hence cheaper) to monitor than what we currently have.

Every written letter must be opened and read, possibly with an horrible script which takes time to "decipher". Besides, I don't know if they keep copies of all the mail in case something happens, but it would be orders of magnitude harder to index and search than email anyway. Phone calls are even worse, since you need at least as much time to monitor the conversation as the conversation lasts.

Maybe introducing email would shift some of the friends and family to use this cheaper means of communication, reducing costs. Or maybe Jevons paradox applies here and the number of emails would go up to such an extent that the improved efficiency would not make up for the increased traffic.

P.S.: just to make it clear, I'm not advocating for the inmates to have their phone calls replaced for emails.
I'm really exited about binary data support. The timing is amazingly convenient. It's exactly what I needed right now.

Coming from CouchDB, support for attachments (=binary data) was the only thing I was missing.
Agreed.

I am currently working on a MicroServices based system that exchanges Google Protocol buffers over Tibco EMS.

Key ingredients of MicroServices are simply finely granular distributed components.
Ansible Exec – Ansible Playbook Wrapper
How we took on board customer feedback and increased our conversion rate
I'd say: it's amazing how ideology can shut one's mind down. But then again, isn't that written into definition of ideology?
we're talking about ocean water, though. an excellent conductor.
> If he had chosen to simply invoke his 5th amendment right ...

The right to be silent, and the right to avoid self-incrimination, are distinct rights. Being silent during interrogation doesn't necessarily mean one is exercising a fifth amendment right.
As Chris says, in practice microservices are not really much different than using service objects, or Akka actors: They are just a form of enforced encapsulation, which is just happens to bring the advantages and disadvantages of always going over a network.

The disadvantages of always paying for network costs are extremely steep, so the minute you care about latency, either because there's a user on one side, or because every second you wait is more money thrown the way of AWS, making everything a microservice quickly becomes a bad tradeoff for most applications. All the real advantages of microservices only start to pay off at scales that you'll only reach in a few handful of companies.

I am thinking of a small startup, that had a big proponent of microservices as the tech lead, which boldly went all in with this architecture, before any of the real advantages of microservices ever came into play. WHen they went to production the first time, they saw everything was slow, and quickly started to colocate said microservices in the same machines, and made them talk to each other directly, without serialization. In other words, they reimplemented EJB local interfaces. At some point in this process, the microservices champion left.

So now they have hundreds of little faux services, and instead of a monolith, they have to worry about what happens when someone wants to change the contract of one of those services. A ball of yarn, by a different name. Instead of wondering whether the code will compile if they make a change, they wonder whether it will run, in practice.

It sounds to me like they are not in any better a shape than if they had built a monolith anyway, other than the fact that their employees can now claim they have microservice experience.

If we go back to basics, maintainability comes down to getting lucky with your selection of abstractions, and trying to minimize coupling. If your abstractions are wrong, your modularization will be either incorrect or just lacking overall, and no architectural pattern will save you.
I'm surprised no-one has suggested weather balloons.
Congrats on the update
Isn't this the goal of protocol buffers?
Definitely an important dark pattern with real, significant impacts [1]

Curious though - is this personally attributable to Zuckerburg?

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044416580...
Sounds like some pretty good description of the library in Pratchett's discworld universe to me.
That's not how I treat AirBnB at all; I use AirBnB to stay at a place that's not a hotel. Sometimes it ends up being a lot more expensive (i.e.: when renting out a cabin, or an on-beach room), but exactly what I want.
perhaps I wasn't clear before. I would like to see links showing that the majority of burglaries, where cellphones were stolen, were to take the cellphone itself, and not just burglarize the house.

But I appreciate the individual stories about cellphone theft, whether or not they are really relevant to the point of burglaries and robberies.
The computers cost 10 billion dollars? Who buys them? That would be above the noise floor of even the NSA's budget.
> There is nothing "Sublime-like" about a sidebar, TextMate had this earlier, other editors too.

I don't understand why every discussion like this devolves into a discussion over who did something first. It's completely irrelevant to the point. The quote you pulled says nothing about Sublime being the only editor to have a sidebar, or Sublime being the first editor to have a sidebar. It says that Sublime has a file sidebar, and this project has a file sidebar that is like Sublime. That is pretty basic statement of fact, your comments about other editors having sidebars is a complete non sequitur.
Life360 fights back against patent troll by sharing resources with other victims
On the other extreme - countries which ban all kinds of drugs (including alcohol) are seeing strong religious domination, which leads to extremism and terrorism, so total prohibition of altered states of consciousness is also bad.

And here I thought the causality went the other way; that is that religions like to ban alternative (ie, non-religious) means of altering your state.

Silly me.
Ask HN: My company is participating in discriminatory pay practices
A couple coworkers have mentioned recently that they found out they weren't making as much as equally or less qualified men at our start-up (to the tune of 15-25k differences), and someone in HR just tipped me off that this has been happening across the board (and includes my own salary).
It's a mid-size YC company that I won't name here of course....obviously I'm planning on leaving, but what's the correct course of action here? Is this something that's wise to report?

addendum: in one of the cases, the man's initial offer was 15k more (even though he didn't do as well in interviews) and we wouldn't respond to the woman's attempts to negotiate (and apparently started asking about her personal finances). I don't think negotiation is a huge factor here, though I know that's a common cause.
from the article "250 Teraflops per rack" and "a single NVIDIA Tesla K40 chip costs around $4,000. ... If you have four fully loaded racks, that’s over 700 chips. We’re talking some serious power for serious cash." so that's about 3m for 1PFlop
Thank you.

I saw the same as you, but we are a bit different and we ask people to describe what they see with this sentence : "What do you see ?" It seems to create great new content.
I wonder whether all the people talking about microservices have come across the unikernel approach (c.f Mirage OS [1, 2]). It seems like these two ideas, at some level, fit quite well together.

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628

[2] http://openmirage.org
Yep. Though Congress could liberate all of PACER, retrospective and prospective, if it chose -- one data dump to Carl Malamud would do it. The appropriations bills are wending their way through the legislative process right now (mostly out of committee), and that might be a vehicle to add a one-line amendment. Would require a lot of work in the next month or two.
Well, you can do stabilization as well for those, I guess.