skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Has Breaking Bad Impacted the Meth Business?
Breaking Bad is popular.

Popular enough that food coloring dyed blue meth has shown up in the streets [1] despite the fact that there is no actual chemical process to make blue meth the way it's described in the show [2].

This is interesting because it means that meth producers and drug dealers are savvy and using pop culture to drive marketing/sales decisions despite the fact that the product is unambiguously worse in quality/purity (probably implying something about the level of "research" that end consumers use).

Drug dealers and consumers are using Breaking Bad to drive production and purchasing decisions:

So the question, in several parts:

1. How has the popularity of Breaking Bad impacted the prevalence, popularity, price, consumption, availability and arrest rates for meth?

2. What do these numbers look like:

(A) over the 6 year lifetime of Breaking Bad,
(B) by geography (are there bigger spikes (if there are spikes) in New Mexico vs Massachusetts)
(C) by demographic

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10338805/Breaking-Bad-facts-30-things-you-didnt-know.html
[2] http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/so_what_if_pure_meth_isnt_really_blue_partner/
Moscow Gets a New Logo
I was just in DC and I noticed that on the buses some times you have to swipe 3-4 times just to get it to work? Is it just a weird software glitch or my bad luck?
At most one side can elect a new leader, since there are an odd number of nodes.
You cant do "add fare" like in the bay area BART system make up the difference?
It’s not paranoia (at least not necessarily so) when there is every indication that they really are out to get you. Or all of us, really.
"he calls out Android for being so bad, multiple times", but only in the context he's using it. See my quote from the article, he's not saying Android is bad, just it's necessarily "no fun" if you're going to support diverse hardware.

To support that kind of hardware without Android's SDK is worse than "no fun" it's practically impossible.

"Carmack: [..] Android was more hell to move to than most consoles [..] Just because of the way Google has to position things across a diverse hardware spectrum, and because [..] they’d still rather everyone worked in Java. And that’s a defensible position, but it’s certainly not what you want to be doing on a resource-constrained VR system."
Why Is 290 Special?
Are you saying that there is some kind of dropoff, where current GFX hardware has the horsepower to drive 3 large screens easily but not 4?
Unlimited journeys for e.g. 1 month

Not unlimited time
FYI, station agents will merge/combine MetroCards for you, so you can recover small balances from old/unexpired ones.
That sounds illegal. What country/state are you in?
Indeed, the whole "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" bit.

I think there's a strong likelihood that the numbers 9, 19, and 39 were chosen because with the $1 card fee, they make nice round multiples of $10. Put a $20 bill in, get a $19 card.
I would assume that people are more likely to throw away a card that is nearing the end of it's usable life if it had a zero balance.

But if a balance remains it seems like one would be more likely to add more money to the card.
etcd is better compared to zookeeper (SOA orchestration, service discovery, etc) and etcd (after researching for the last two weeks for a production environment) is nowhere near as stable (ie non-beta/alpha) as zookeeper or Netflix's Eureka.

Configuration management (puppet, chef, salt, ansible) is a completely different beats than service discovery, health management, etc.
When using unlimited cards I always back swipe as I leave the station to allow others to get free rides.
I wish Yao luck. The total ban contemplated by the USA has me worried. It's an admission of defeat. Certainly something can be done to accommodate the ivory taken legally.

It also sparks memories - for instance, what happened to the "blood diamond" campaign waged by deBeers? I presume it had some success, because the US govt hasn't seen fit to ban all diamonds? They used a certification process.

Another similar situation exists with Brazilian rosewood. Gibson ran into some trouble over that. And yet nothing has been done except to ban trade. No attempt made at sustainability or habitat preservation.

Connecting the dots...deBeers making money, no ban. deBeers not making money, ban.
How do you do these animations?
Interested in Retro Gaming on Linux? We Need You
Predicting US 2012 Presidential Election Using Twitter Data
> The other interesting scheme going on these days is lying about the diagonal. My 31.5" monitor is called "32 inch class". My 64" TV is called 65 "inch class". WTF!?

This scam has been going on long before LCDs. CRT marketing also chronically stretched the truth.
That's pretty far from mainstream.
Why not just ask how many rides do you want instead?
HDMI and TB are playing a bit of catchup, but I was under the impression DP can do it today.
If you think you can get 5 years out of Old Navy clothes, good luck to you in that. This is not about being inexpensive, which is why I shared the link to everlane. It's about being CHEAP. The clothes are cheap and fall apart. There is no wonder of modern supply chain there.

And save your "single mother" speech. Really. This site has nothing to do with buying for your children. This is aimed at adults. That's obvious. Besides, why exactly is it virtuous that the single mother is emphasizing style over economy here?
Ah, ok so all nodes needs to be known beforehand
Hopefully they reconsider their security questions as well. I was helping my mother create a iCloud account and the stock questions are a nightmare for her. Things like "Who was your first teacher?" require her to remember things that happened 60 years ago in a non english speaking country and provide an answer in English (that she will now have to spell consistently next time).
Wordpress, sadly :-)
The cards expire ~one year after the first purchase. At that point you'll have up to two years to transfer the balance to a new card. I don't see the conservation.

- http://web.mta.info/metrocard/problems.htm#expired
A sufficiently malicious compiler could keep around a copy of the key in non-volatile memory.
Timeline of the Munich 11 Massacre
Ah, that makes sense. This way he doesn't get caught a day outside the month with no fare. Thank you.
First, the word "misogyny" doesn't simply mean "hatred of women". You can't simply take the greek roots of a word and shuck off the context it's acquired over millennia of use.

Second, to objectify a person is to rob them of part of their humanity, or sometimes even of their agency. It's a casually contemptuous way to treat people. Only on a nerd message board is the connection to the concept of misogyny hard to follow.
The current pricing has the potential to cut down waste.
If your metro card has zero balance, you may as well toss it out.
If you're carrying a balance, you'll refill it at one of the kiosks.
Is it just me or are displays starting to have their own "moores law" in how fast the resolutions/technology is increasing. I wouldn't know were to predict what the max resolution of a commercially available display will be in 2-3 years. It's seems like it took a decade for 1080p to become "standard" and now I can buy decent 4K TV for the price a 1080p TV was just 5-6 years ago.
I don't. But if you have one of these cards and only top up using the default options as the original post describes (and I imagine most people do), it's effectively impossible for one of these cards to reach a zero balance. It will always EOL with a positive balance.

Not so with Oyster, mine hits zero or very close quite often. Difference there is you buy an Oyster card up front.
That's an interesting article. However, seems very confusing at all to have a card with money on it to travel with the metro. According to the comments here, most other cities (in USA I guess) have it the same way as well.

In Barcelona, where I live, the system is different. You buy a card with travels on it instead. One travel is a entry to the metro until you leave the metro. So if you buy a card with ten travels, you're sure to get ten travels. If you buy 50, you get 50. This seems like a much more reasonable system.
The generalization of the 'gamer culture' as portrayed by this article and the negative premise based upon this generalization is misguided at best.
Replace every instance of 'gamer/gaming' in the article with 'religious extremist' and presto ... you have a new article!
Just because a few 'zealots' act out in such extreme behavior, doesn't make 'gamers/gaming' a bunch of slack jawed neanderthal brutes ... same for 'Religion/Politics..'
How about rolling out what they already have (2-factor auth) out to the rest of the world? Only about 60 countries have 2-factor auth for Apple IDs.
Congrats to Dusty and team!
Are you doing your development on a remote computer via putty then?
I'm glad to see growing Meteor ecosystem.

Judging from first few pages, looks like a decent book.
The importance of honoring pro-rata agreements
CoreOS is not a drop-in replacement for Ubuntu; migrating to it requires re-deploying your services inside Docker containers. I would think you might want to run your service implementations in parallel and then cut over later.

Can you not move IP's between Digitalocean droplets?
Looks like tal:attributes to me. That was a terrible idea before, and its a terrible idea now.

Honestly, what problem is this actually solving?

You have .foo, .foo--bar, .foo--extra, and you're concerned the style tags are what... not pretty enough? Too hard to visually parse? Too complex when you're building a large css framework?

I really don't understand the problem.

...but having worked with tal, I can hands down say I hate the custom attribute syntax; it scatters the style into multiple locations and makes it unclear what parts are data and what parts are presentation.

I thought we all agreed that:

<font color="red"> Its 1998! Hi! </font>

Was a bad thing. (and that was fifteen years ago... lessons from the past or whatever...)
> Is it possible to record audio with org-mode (and then categorize/annotate)?

I haven't seen any plugin to do audio recording from Emacs, but it should be easy (if you're willing to dig into elisp a bit; it's not hard) to invoke any kind of CLI tool for that, and then a/ move the output recording to a proper place, and b/ capture the link for org-mode.

> And do quick drawings with a stylus on the screen?

There are picture-mode and artist-mode in Emacs for that, but I haven't tested any of them with a stylus and a touchscreen, and draw in text mode.
Couldn't help but to make another one... http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/tFMe
BLY90: an RF power transistor.

MSDS: material safety data sheet.

Just what is it that's inside the BLY90 that's so bad?
I use "What is Jack's name?" on throwaway registrations that let me ask my own question. I agree that the sites that don't let me do that are probably trying to protect me from myself.

Not letting me include the answer in the question might also be a good idea.
That's a rather bad argument; that's like saying you should only be able to use cash that is registered to an address, to prevent people from stealing it.
I was thinking this very thing yesterday as I walked down the street past a payday loan shop. I see no reason one couldn't open their own competitor with slightly lower rates and then ratchet down until you're just profitable enough to continue while giving the best deals to the people who need it.

I feel like it's similar to how credit unions do what banks do, but in their customers' interest rather than the owners.
You can develop on iOS? Can you do anything on iOS aside from what apple allows you? Not if someone hadn't figured out how to jailbreak the device.
Also not mentioned is that these cards expire in some 3-6 month range and are usually never redeemed.
Show HN: Zengine – a platform to build custom business apps
I think pretty much 100% of drivers have broken some speed limit at some time. So you are suggesting banning all drivers for ever?
Hi, I'm a co-founder of WizeHive, and Zengine is our new product.

Zengine's JavaScript plugin architecture, currently an alpha proof-of-concept, will allow developers of any skill level to add rich functionality to the Zengine UI in minutes. These plugins can then be used privately or shared with the world. It's the power and promise of Salesforce without all the complexity and cost.

Feedback on the idea itself and the technical direction of the architecture is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I always wonder why the traffic lights in Germany (and other countries I guess) are operated in a way that you have green all the way when you drive 10-15km/h above the speed limit. Depending on the time of day.

You can get a ticket for being 1km/h above the limit but you only get (permanent record) points in Flensburg if you're 21km/h above the limit within city limits. I guess everybody is fine if drivers go above the limit up to 20km/h. It seems to me the speed limit in Germany are always set with that buffer (10%) in mind.
Meteor is a joy to work in
Indeed, it'd be intersting to know how many people use stable.
I like the project, but I'm not convinced about the pricing model constrained by visits. Especially the bulks/freelancers where -I assume- the number of visits depends upon the freelancer's clients. Not to mention 10$/m for TLS...

Congrats for the round, btw!
Digital Ocean officially supports CoreOS
Between Google Sheet (using a bookmarklet to dump data), WorkFlowy, Gmail and the combination of Dropbox/Onedrive. I am okay. But, there is certainly an open-source and unified solution needed.
Sure, Emacs can display images inline if you want it to, or just open it in another buffer ("tab") or with an external application. You just store the image in a separate file and make a link in your org-mode text file.

As for videos, I don't recall Emacs being able to play them directly, but you can easily invoke an external player.
Did you watch the Sarkeesian videos? It would be hard for any of us to make the initial case for AAA gaming misogyny better than she does. Her argument isn't dispositive, but why waste time with an inferior substitute to her own words?
Isn't stop-and-frisk the actions of the whole?
This is the problem. People know the law, but they justify their ignoring it with some vague ideas of "seems to me".
We really don't see either here, so I'm going to have to disagree with you on that.
Wait, how is a monitor that appears as two to the OS a problem? We've had multi monitor support for a long time, this is just the panels/pixels stitched closer together, isn't it?
Lastpass, Boxcryptor
Here use this - http://llllll.li/randomColor/
Beryllium oxide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium_oxide
What fashionistas want in a wearable?
No. In spite of his micro-managing engineers and developers managed to make great products that he advocated pretty packaging for. Apple has never made products for the mainstream anyway, they've always charged a premium which has put them squarely out of the mainstream.
What 60,000 Customer Searches Taught Us about Logging in JSON
Expiration is 1 year from issue, and will auto replace with a new card if they are filled in the last month.
Would you be willing to share more about what's in CoreOS that you feel like shouldn't be?
For those experimenting, you can also switch to the release channel[1] (or beta, if you prefer). CoreOS will not downgrade so you will be on the alpha version until this version is promoted to the channel you subscribe to. This way, when the changes do get promoted, you will be tracking the release channel without any additional changes.

[1]: https://coreos.com/docs/cluster-management/setup/switching-c...
Well, the problem with having foo and foo--bar but not both is that contextual overrides become a problem. Having both of them solves that but clutters things up.

This is a technique to better express your styling intent through markup. Instead of <div class="x x-y z"> you have <div x="y" z> - two namespaces instead of one.
"Point of the story is that almost everyone is prejudiced against thug-looking-people and it's often misattributed to racism."

I don't think I follow you here. I think that most folks concerned about racism in these situations would say that race is a big factor in how folks define "thug looking". (I'd be willing to bet that for a whole lot of people, there's a range of intermediate dress/appearance/behavior where they'd say a white person was not "thug looking" but an equivalent-looking black person was not.)
Just because there's a need for something, doesn't mean it should exist.
In NYC you can get the unlimited monthly passes with auto-refill from your CC at the end of each month. Nothing could be simpler and is a great value esp. compared with prices of anything else in high cost NYC.

It is much cheaper and easier to use than Wash DC. Also, the train frequency even at 11 PM and later is every few minutes in Manhattan. Just wish we had the Verizon WiFi access that the DC Metro has....
Isn't this identical in spirit to Content-Centric Networking (CCN) as espoused by Van Jacobsen?

I distinctly remember watching his Google Tech Talk on the idea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM) when I first joined AeroFS.
Seems like they care what Gruber says about their project, so I think they should have tried a lot harder to get feedback from him. But maybe that's just the journalist in me.
I'm assuming they have variable pricing based on distance traveled, and 20 EUR covers the highest fare for the system. That could just be my optimistic bias speaking though.
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...which is why I didn't include the cost of the phone in the 150 GPB.
It probably deducts the max fare when you tap on, and then refunds the difference when you tap off. The max fare must be 20 EUR.

Caltrain works like this too, though the card will go $5 negative, so you need max fare - $5 on the card at all times.
Look into methods like extended kalman filters to mitigate some of this. It's a smart way to blend multiple sources of information and checking amount of error in real time to weight / bias one source of information over the other.
I believe what they're proposing is largely the same, if not identical, to Content-Centric Networking from Xerox PARC.

The central idea is:

Instead of asking one particular server for some content, just ask for the content by name.

Since the content may come from any handy server, it is up to the receiver to validate it is really the content he requested. Nothing about this implies the evil "centralized security model" people are going on about. Sure, some bad actor could weasel it in later, but it's not there now.
Building your own apps with Zengine
Apple Sued Because iPhones Often Don't Deliver Text Messages to Android Users
Some do. The ones that don't typically employ phone support and want to be able to confirm secret questions/answers over the telephone.

If you let people write their own, they might write things which the telephone operators cannot read nor understand (e.g. foreign languages, inappropriate things, etc).

But some places are just lazy, the fact they're still using insecure secret questions in 2014 is within its own right proof of that. They're actually the weakest link in many company's security systems.
Got my deposit back as a tourist. No problem. Had to give them my address as you said.
JHipster v1.0.0 has been released
Well, obviously he's talking about it in the context of VR. Printing "Hello World" to the screen is trivial on any platform, doing realtime 3d graphics is something else entirely.
Hipster analytics: The 5 best tools you’ve probably never heard of
US, FL. Same thing.

It's absolutely absurd. If I paid by credit card, by the end of the year I would have essentially paid an entire month's rent in fees.
> what's the reasoning behind this?

Fair, per-kilometer pricing. Quoting from the english version of the page linked above[0]:

When you travel on credit, a boarding fare will be debited from your card when you
check in. When you check out, the boarding fare will be refunded and you will be
charged for the number of kilometres you travelled. If you do not check out, you
will pay the full boarding fare.

Not everything that looks like a blatant money grab is one. Hanlon's Razor[1] prevails once again.

[0] https://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/reizen/tarieven/instapenbasistar...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Making Sense of IoT Data with Machine Learning
I love how the app fades the notes out when you switch tabs. Very addictive little program.
Metrocard also works on other systems: the Airtrain JFK, which is $5 per ride; PATH, which used to be only $2.25 per ride; MTA express buses, which vary in price.

These systems are used because people don't want to line up and buy tickets before every ride.
Getting started with RabbitMQ using the Spring framework
Theft? Really?

The numbers, $9, $19, $39 are set so in the common case of someone paying with a $10 or $20, with the $1 card fee, no change needs to be refunded. The MTA machines only dispense change in coins, and because people are unlikely to pay with coins or small denomination bills like ones, a different default would mean more frequent refilling of the change reserves.
Absolutely beautiful science.
Making and Taming Monoliths
They already charge $1 for the card so why would you throw it away even when it runs out of money? Your comment makes no sense.
So then pay by eCheck for the minimal/reasonable $2 fee. Why should you expect them to eat the ~3% fee that they incur should you choose to pay by credit card?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Could the rest of its species be slightly more reasonable sized, while this particular specimen had some kind of growth disorder? But I suspect any large sauropod would need too much specialized adaptation to survive at a larger than usual size.
I just looked into this. From http://web.mta.info/metrocard/mcCombinationValue.htm -

> Your MetroCard can be refilled with time and value for about one year. The MetroCard Vending Machine will tell you when the card expiration date is coming up, and will issue you a new MetroCard at no charge with all your purchases on it.

I haven't had my coffee today. I took that quite wrong at first.
Admittedly, I don't work on flight or science related things, but testing here means taking relatively cursory look at things so that you can check off items on a list. It's extremely happy-path focused.
All come true: BBC News 2004 predictions for smartwatches and eyewear
As though the cops standing outside the station aren't linking your card to your facial record already.
So your opinion is that people with bad credit who need money should have no way of getting a loan? Why do you think that's better than the current situation?
link to videos (search "ML Family 2014"):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9g4dLR7xt6KzCYntNqYcw/vid...

links to papers:
http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/ML14.html
A billion binds on every nested function you see. It's gross :)
Say what you will about the SF bay area's public transportation system (yeah, it's kinda bad), at least we have RFID cards that are actually sturdy (I've had my current card for over 3 years), there's an auto-refill system that you can set up online, and I don't even have to take it out of my wallet to use it.
Odd choice of name, when flywheel.com is owned by the "official" SF cab-hailing app.
Market rates? You mean the same rate that people with good credit get? I'm guessing there would be no profit in such a situation.
So its to avoid human readable visual clutter?

...by having obscure custom attributes?

That seems extremely close to having size="big" and color="red" from html4.

How is this not just going back to a known bad design pattern?
So why don't you zero them?