skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think car-centric town and transport planning actually has a hell of a lot to answer for. Most drink driving accidents in the UK are rural. Not so many in human-scale/public transport provisioned cities - and the UK has a much bigger drinking problem than the U.S.

Also, in the US, buses equate to poverty in the minds of many, and that attitude is going to be hard to shift, so... roll on driverless cars?

I don't think punishment will put people off to any great degree. I mean - how many people do you know who have not once lamented the shit they got up to while drink? Rather the problem with impaired judgment...
>>> How could anyone put a definitive number on that?

If existing metrics are not sufficient, then we need to innovate :) and define new set of metrics to get complete picture.

Actually it is not difficult. Let us register all existing people jobs and one year later register again and you can get the list of jobs that got changed and if you can survey the reasons for change, then you can measure negative/positive impact. There may be refinements to this idea and there can be new ones too.

>>> should we not pursue innovation that leads to increased productivity in existing sectors?
Definitely, you need to pursue innovation but what I call "responsible innovation" which is inclusive of society and environmental concerns rather than mere profits.
Also consider reading Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" if you're interested in philosophy (it takes effort, but rewards the reader). It characterizes modern society as emotivist. When you say:

I'm overwhelmed by the volume of information, but even more so by the volume of opinions. Take even a simple long-running one, what to believe religiously. I can hear one side, then the other, then another... and each in turn (usually) makes sense. There's not enough info to say one is right, but which is right?? Because each believes their point is right, and yet if I held a different position all would criticise me. I can't resolve that dichotomy.

You are describing emotivism.

As an antidote to emotivism, MacIntyre suggests we rekindle an Aristotelian account of the virtues and cultivate them through practices. For example, cultivate those attributes (virtues) which aid in rigorous pursuit of mastery in a discipline (practice). Herein lies meaning and the good life for man.
The problem is people want to feel special. It's not enough to say you're a Computer Programmer. Instead you have to be a Software Engineer. And once that bores you, you start calling yourself an Architect.

I have an actual engineering degree. Call me what you want to call me, but at the end of the day, I'm a computer programmer. And darn proud to be one.
Between 7 and 7:45 I wake up, make my bed, wash any dishes and clean up a little, exercise, deodorize, put some coffee on and go to the shop if I need milk or anything.

I read something, usually from Nautilus magazines, while I have my coffee and something to eat if I'm hungry. If I don't have leftovers or other plans I pull something out of the freezer to cook for lunch/dinner. Then I spend about half an hour walking to/from my daughter's mom's then kindergarten.

Eventually I get back home and will finally get to my computer, unless I also need to do washing or cooking in which case I'll be busy a bit longer.

On weekends I do no exercise and sleep in if I can.

These mornings specifically do not involve checking my phone, tablet or computer for anything more than seeing what time it is, working from home that stuff was defining all of my time until I set a proper routine.
True. Nor that enough eyeballs with bugs will be found at the shallow end.
this is the commonly used BLAST/alignment tool:
http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearc...

for comparison.
That sucks. In my eyes that's more on Ticketfly than on you. They have an event with ~400 dollar tickets that far more people want to pay for and attend than tickets are available. They should have made sure there system wasn't exploitable in this way.

Of course hindsight is always 20/20. It just doesn't seem fair that for clicking a link they served to your computer a few minutes early you'd get totally #$&$ed out of a ticket.

It doesn't seem fair you got to click the link a little early by peeking at the source but that shouldn't have been doable in the first place and they literally served you the key for access.
"Cant believe some of these toy unboxing videos have +70 million views, insane"

My son watched the same skylanders unboxing every day for ... weeks? It adds up.

Kids viewing habits are not like adults. I saw the movie "sorcerer" (a tolerably good movie from the 70s, although its timeless) and its pretty cool but I'm probably not watching it again until my next reincarnation. Kids will watch the same thing over and over.
Wow, that's actually really good. I recently released an app in a related category (personal/family budget and spending tracker), and I am struggling to get to my first thousand downloads. My friends and people who have seen the app or the landing page are enthusiastic, and about half of the users become very active, but even with ads I am having a hard time spreading the word. Either my social circle is too small, or the app has more niche appeal than I initially anticipated.

Off topic edit: for those interested, unlike other budget apps/spending trackers my app actually is meant to be used by a family that shares expenses. You log your purchases as you go (this was optimized to be super quick), and your family can see how much money is left until the next refill period automatically. This was also out of necessity. I read on HN that the easiest way to get extra cash every month is to make a budget. Turns out, that's correct, and this is the easiest way to do it for me.
Thanks!

> Then, you either run large (more expensive than can be done in a firewall) jobs over the data offline to look for intrusions, or wait for a breach and then drill down on the data to try to learn exactly what happened.

I was thinking in terms of offline jobs, and don't have a good intuition for what those rules would look like. I'm also skeptical that your average company would have the expertise to write a good set of rules. So I was interested to see that "half" of an IDS tool.

I think the real answer is that it truly is just a rolling packet dump, and it's up to you to use it however you choose.

I can think of uses outside of network security: capturing traffic from your mobile devices on your home network (maybe this is just IDS if you're watching for the contents of your address book to be exfiltrated by a malicious app), or snooping on people through a Internet cafe, library, or other (small) open network that you administer.

For these uses, just like IDS, you'd want to run offline jobs against the data. Whether that's a full scan for something interesting, or an indexing pass that extracts (portions?) into a more easily viewable form.
Many of them don't allow two-letter domain names at all.
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Empirically, driving under the influence of marijuana makes one safer by dialing back their willingness to take risk. Empirically, I'd rather be a passenger to stoner a than someone past their 60s, in their teens or recently emigrated from a non driving country. More research needs to be done before we can make any conclusions but research to date hasn't shown it to be a problem [0]. I actually dread legalization because it's only a matter of time before some legislator decides to "crack down" on the menace that is stoned drivers.

http://norml.org/library/item/marijuana-and-driving-a-review...
"Updating this with modern knowledge of quantised magnetic flux, we show that if you model a flux tube as a phase vortex in an inviscid compressible fluid, then wavepackets sent down this vortex obey Maxwell’s equations to first order; that they can have linear or circular polarisation; and that the correlation measured between the polarisation of two cogenerated wavepackets is exactly the same as is predicted by quantum mechanics and measured in the Bell tests."

How long would I have to study physics to be able to understand everything in this sentence?
No I wasn't, but while writing it, I came to desire it, and so now, as I write this, I am! :-)
> The number of elderly people who drive who shouldn't be is mind boggling.

Is this supported by any research? Road traffic accident statistics show too many young people. So, older people might be safer drivers.

Of course, there are a few people with dementia or visual impairment who shouldn't be driving but it's interesting that it's ok to suggest that older people are risky drivers when that doesn't appear to be true.
But you need 4 cards on the board vs using both in your hand for all those 2-7 "straights"
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I've seen this story before. Ten years ago.

"How eBay alienated its sellers and lost its soul"

Was it true? Perhaps, and it has nothing to do with whether eBay was able to build an auction platform business that spits off two billion dollars per year in profit.

Etsy will be just fine, despite the scare headlines. There's nothing else quite like it, and no replacement for it of scale. They already won, and that's why they can afford to alienate people now.
I think you're suggesting that there's an error in the snippet you've quoted? I don't immediately see it. Can you point it out?
Up and down... Like wood.
I've solved more tough, intractable programming problems after a hit of weed than I'd like to admit. IMO its a wonder drug for getting you out of patterns of thinking.

And no, zero detrimental effects on my mind (at least thus far). In fact, I would say that it has made me at least 5-10% smarter in the sense that indica marijuana (the strain is key) was the first thing I discovered that allowed me to get a solid 8 hours of rest every night. It has had a remarkable cascading effect throughout my life, leading to much (much) greater clarity, attentiveness and focus during the day.
I'm going to guess that, after you enumerate all possible opposing hands along with all possible table cards, that the 7 gets paired up for a win more often than the straight lines up for a win. Also, due to their low card value, a 2-3 will pretty much automatically lose with no pairings, straights, or flushes. (And even then, it's a weak flush.)

If you look at the final diagram, they are almost equal in average expected payout, with the 2-7 dropping value much more than the 2-3. I would expect this is due to the paired 7 not being very strong against more commonly played hands with higher average card value. (In other words, 7 doesn't mean as much when the average opponent has cards higher than a 7.)
Or replace the need for an active driver at all. Seems like we're already flirting with this scenario with the lane-assist, adaptive cruise control etc.

The question then becomes, if an active/traditional "driver" is not needed, can the occupants be intoxicated?
There is a big difference between a 10 pound animal and lots of 100-400lb pigs on fire.

Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of their own soldiers by trampling them to death.

From of foreign policy standpoint it's often less about the entire country vs small groups of well-connected people with foreign interests. In the end most of what the US government does is easier to understand when you reolise and account for just how corrupt it is.

EX: US immigration policy seems vary reasonable when you reolise exploting both legal and illigal immigrants makes some people lot's of money.
For another dollop of irony the leading current P6 attacker was once the leading P6 booster around 2010. When he was pro P6 he didn't accept suggestions that it was slower than dog slow. (It was.) Now he's anti P6 he doesn't appear to be accepting that it's been speeding up every month and is due for official launch within a year. (It is.)

I've asked you multiple times in multiple places not to speak for me. Your assertions here are nonsense.

Please cease and desist.
Programming Without a Computer
Fynx reduces it even more if you use immutable data. You only worry about the actions.
Why NLP sucks (2012)
Right. I'm sure everyone who failed to get a ticket feels like that totally resolves the issue. No one could possibly still feel cheated.
The connection to mental illness in teen usage is particularly worrisome.

http://www.futurity.org/teen-marijuana-abuse/

memory issues as well:

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2013/12/marij...

The problem here is that the age that you'd most likely use drugs is the age where you probably shouldn't. That said, of course the currenly policy is madness, but when I speak to "drug culture" people they seem 100% unaware of the risks and often tell me pot is a magical healing herb that can fix just about everything and, of course, is completely safe to drive on.

The activists have painted this false picture of it being this ultra-safe magic drug and I think its time we started building a rational view of it, as well as discussing with people what it means to be high and drive a car, and building out breathalyzer-like devices for police enforcement. It should be treated the same as a DUI.
That's a nice, made-up anecdote you have there.
I wonder if any of the "hackers" will get sued.
I don't think anyone, regardless of their own take on the issues, would argue that current drug policy in the U.S. is internally consistent.
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Reasons for termination usually are that broad. A broad explanation for a constructive termination isn't a strong signal in any direction. A person could be fired for gross incompetence, or for exploiting a conflict of interest, or for a grave personal indiscretion, and if the company was forced to announce that termination, they'd probably still be similarly broad.

Real companies are extremely cautious about publishing reasons for letting people go.

Remember as well the real goalposts: US companies are not required to document cause for terminating employees. The plaintiff in a discrimination suit bears the burden of proving that they were terminated for a legally prohibited reason. The defendant does not bear a burden of proving cause for termination. Employees are routinely terminated without legal cause, and (controversial but I think true) we're all better off for that.
Flow Tracker: Making programs safe though static flow analyses
Why Engineers always says No (and how to make them say yes)
Also, there's no way to download an app but deny it some permissions. iOS gets this right: apps don't get to ask for any permissions when you download them, they have to request them at runtime and the user can deny any of them (and the app is still expected to function)
Revoking the license of everyone who drives while impaired seems unworkable given its prevalence and the necessity of driving in the States:

1. Since so many people do it and will continue to do it, you essentially create a lottery situation; just as now, very few are caught, whereas the vast majority will evade punishment, and they know it, therefore the problem persists.

2. People who have their licenses revoked still have to get places, therefore they continue to drive and accept the fact of additional penalties.

In summary, creating harsh penalties for everyday behavior creates new problems while solving no existing ones.
>After smoking fairly consistently for 13 years, I seem to be blessed by having no negative effects of which I am aware.

Well, that's the problem with cognitive faults, we usually aren't aware of them.
Is there Hacker News like website that isn't startup focused but more lifestyle focused?

Don't get me wrong, Hacker News is great and I learned a lot of useful stuff about the startup world. But the startup world is probably a world I'll never be a part of and the lack lifestyle business advice here makes me feel I'm missing out on stuff that matter to me more.

Closest things to what I'm looking for are reddit's /r/startups and /r/entrepreneur subreddits but they're still reddit which doesn't have the kind of quality discussion that I like about HN.
I agree - they're not the kinds of places that engineers who love working in a startup would enjoy. But if you're going to scale as a company past a certain size, you have to centralize these functions, which is why large enterprises are such a pain in the ass to work for. If you don't centralize the architecture functions, you start to get multiple independent groups building the same things because the communication is too hard to manage across a big organization.

Enterprise architecture is a totally different skill set from software development - it requires a business mindset, not a technical one. It's really more a requirements gathering job than a development one, and it wouldn't be enjoyable to most developers anyway. It's one of the inflection points that growing companies have to deal with - the people who built the company may not be right to maintain it going forward. The job becomes more corporate and less fun, and growing companies often see a lot of turnover during these times. But some people will stay on, as job security to support a growing family becomes more important to a developer than fun projects or the content of their work.
I guess in the end you are saying you trust the motives of governments and I'm saying I don't. It's fine to argue that but lets hope neither of us end up on the wrong side of government in a legal case for example. The UK government has been breaking client attorney privilege with these tools.

The people who are meant to be serving our best interest are clearly often serving themselves.

>> I doubt those spying tools are used for private interests

It's proven from the Snowden papers and elsewhere that America uses it's spying power for industrial espionage.

A program with limitless powers such as this will lead to limitless abuses. I'm all for governments being able to individually monitor bad people but it seems to me the old mechanisms are still the most effective and that particularly mass surveillance, but also deep and difficult to detect hacks like this make me think that everything we believe about democracy is probably false and that we actually live in a kleptocracy.

I still think that we know very little about the people using these systems for the wrong reasons. I think government should be reporting them where abuse occurs; it would make me feel a lot safer about their use. If there are never any abuses reported you can be sure that they are many.
What exactly are you implying is wrong with the quoted segment?

Further, are you basing an opinion of a human's mental acuity on a single comment posted on a news forum? Do you think that is a valid measure of the long term effects of marijuana use?
I honestly don't understand why this is a problem. Isn't it enough that the app says it requires my location when I install it?
If you don't like the required permissions no one is forcing you to install it.
Author here. Code is also available [1]. Made with React, material-ui, dygraphs.

Data collected/analyzed with GCloud tools (will blog about that soon - but feel free to ask, it's good pre-feedback for the posts)

[1] https://github.com/ecesena/oscars2015
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Do we really know that? I mean, it stands to reason that combustion produces carcinogens, but cannabis is not tobacco. I think this is one of the basic assertions that must be validated by quantitative analysis.
What are you even doing on a tech site if you can't even reinstall an adblocker and select the proper lists?
People will be willing to look past a weak design in order to get their questions answered.

The OP didn't set out to start a business, but this definitely is a good example of rather than looking for the next billion dollar startup idea just focus on building cool stuff to solve problems. Who knows, maybe this could turn into some kind of exchange rate information company.
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You guess wrong - demand will always be high. For the most part, the people who can easily get hookups on Tinder are not the same people who would be paying for sex.
I threw something similar together after sitting down with a regex-challenged developer the other day.

https://github.com/Kyoushu/RegexBuilder
If you get a DUI, even for the first time, you're going to spend at least a night in jail and rack up several thousand dollars in fines and attorney fees. I don't think first time DUI's are a felony in most of the U.S., but you're going to get points on your license and it's going to cost you long-term with insurance as well. The penalties aren't damning, but I'm not sure I'd call them "light" either. Many states also having shaming laws in place where you have to get a different colored license plate on your car if you've gotten a DUI.

You're right in that in that for most of the US, not having a vehicle is crippling. Many first-time DUI offenders have their licenses suspended but are allowed work privileges to avoid them losing their job.

Also, in my state, first-time offenders are often sentenced to either spend three days in jail or take a weekend class, so at least in Ohio, they're doing exactly what you're mentioning.

The only serious issue I see with making DUI laws somewhat more strict is knowing whether or not you're too impaired to drive. Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have successfully lobbied to effectively force States to reduce the blood/alcohol threshold that's often used to distinguish impairment. I really have no idea how many drinks I can have within a given time frame and still know I'm legally not considered drunk. I've heard enough instances where people test right at, or slightly below, the threshold and get arrested and they say they felt their driving wasn't impaired at all. So I am left with no choice other than to arrange other transportation, or drink what I feel is a limited enough to make me not impaired.
No it's not. That does not expose voltage and current.

The research paper says they're doing this ...

... by repeatedly reading the following two files:
/sys/class/power_supply/battery/voltage_now
/sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_now
It's a shame that this is being downvoted, as the prohibition of marijuana was in fact very racially motivated [1].

1. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/c...
I remember last time the concern with going from 2.x to 3.x was that version parsers would break. Is that still a concern today?
If you refreshed yourself of some American history you might not feel so sure. The likelihood of such a thing happening increases with each rightward shift the country takes. The war on terror is rather popular, and the constitution not so much with is protections for criminals, terrorists, gay marriage, non-christians and atheists, and all other things that make the right see red.
Proud that I was able to snatch my initials a few years ago: jz.io
I'm a huge fan of Micah Scott. Inspiring work.