skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you about legalizing marijuana in an established state with working institutions. I see Netherlands as a successful example of it. But here we have the state in the very beginning of its existence, without the recognised law enforcing institutions. Thus it may be more difficult to control drug traffic.

The current president is more like a king at the moment with a lot of influence to shape the country, but can also be heavily influenced by external forces (by money, armed force). A lot of things depend on personalities and hidden agendas of people who will rule there, and it may be difficult to control them. Money from illegal activities like drug traffic may be very attractive.

I am just speculating about this potentially interesting experiment.
"If outside was so good why has man spent thousands of years perfecting inside?"

Sheldon Cooper
But we certainly shouldn't discount the possibility that there is a causal link.
I do not have an answer to the question of whether experimenting on nonhuman animals can be justified out of necessity. I have some thoughts, though:

Assume that in the near future, we give nonhuman animals the same moral value as humans. And then say we wanted to conduct an experiment on an animal to cure a human ailment. Before we harm a nonhuman animal, we need to ask whether we have the right to harm that animal. Because nonhuman animals and humans have the same moral value, this is equivalent to asking whether we would have the right to harm a human in the same position.

So right off the bat, our standard for conducting tests on animals is, "would we have the right to conduct this test on a human?"

Let's also assume that we believe humans must give consent before we have the right to conduct scientific experiments on them. If we apply this to animals, then we need to determine how to get consent from an animal, which seems hairy. And then there's the question of fairness -- if we've already determined that we have the right to perform this test on a human, and we're trying to cure a human ailment, then isn't it selfish to perform the experiment on a nonhuman animal?

But, you may say, what if the gains outweight the cost? If we truly believe that we will gain enough to justify violating the rights of a nonhuman animal, that's consistent with justly violating the rights of a human. And then the question of selfishness comes up again.

> I believe that much bigger issue eating meat, where reason why we cause huge amount of pain to animals comes mostly to , because it taste good.

I believe they are both big issues. My only advice is to be careful not to fall into the trap of classifying one as a less evil (even though it seems that harming animals for our enjoyment is much worse than harming them out of necessity). If we fight to recognize the moral value of nonhuman animals on all fronts, then the world you wish for (only performing experiments out of extreme necessity) will come too. (This is not a personal jab at you -- it's something I noticed in my own thinking, too.)
"Purging" stuff is a pain in the ass. How do you responsibly and efficiently get rid of your crap?

My living room is a quarter full of shipping supplies for selling my things on eBay, and I am getting sick of it. It's not even that I want the money, but that I don't want to just toss things in the landfill.
Launching bugtrackers.io – Here's what we've learned
Show HN: The Code Kit – Design and Development Resources, Cheat Sheets, and News
What developers do I need?
Scenario:

I'm creating an iOS app, where consumers can scroll through deals.

There's also a website where clients can log in and publish and manage those deals. Which will be pulled through to the app.

What language would you recommend these be developed in, and who would you ideally hire if it was all up to you!?
Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise solved?
And the book's website: www.skyfaring.com
The Wacko in the Morning Show with Wacko Bob 04/21 by the Wacko Network
>Pay for a lawyer to fight it

And if the kid's family is not rich enough to afford a legal battle that is literally for nothing?

An expensive legal battle because no one knows how to properly punish a child.

Payroll for the police and booking agents, potentially even a show trial. Utter nonsense.
> Most of these switches are driven by a shift to some new programming paradigm.

Most of the switches should be driven by one thing, and one thing only: reducing the cost of software development (or increasing the quality, which is really the other side of the same coin). Whether a new programming paradigm actually achieves that or merely advertises itself as achieving that is the cause for the very high churn in fashion-driven SV and low churn elsewhere (where people are actually interested in cost reduction only).

> the current shift from object-oriented imperative to functional/declarative programming

As someone familiar with the software industry, I can tell you that there is no such shift happening other than in the minds of some wishful-thinkers. Are functional concepts being adopted by OO languages? Sure! (although Gilad Bracha would tell you, correctly, that most of these concepts were already in some OO languages -- i.e. Smalltalk -- long before people in the industry started using the term FP). But people aren't really switching languages outside those sectors that have made switching languages every few years a lifestyle choice.

> Basically, the more dramatic the switch is, the more likely the switch to be a net gain rather than a net loss,

I completely agree with that.

> since it indicates that the switch was truly necessary.

But not with this. Dramatic changes do have the potential to make a dramatic impact, but 1/ they rarely do, and 2/ when they do, it's mostly in the runtime -- not the language. Erlang is certainly an excellent runtime that has a big impact (though personally, I prefer the JVM, which can do anything BEAM does only better), but Haskell? Haskell is a very, very unproven language. I remember that about 15 years ago everyone was talking about it, saying how it's going to be the next big thing. 20 years into its existence, though, the largest single Haskell program is still its own compiler, which is not particularly large. The truth is that nobody really knows Haskell's actual benefits (in terms of real impact to project development) because in twenty years no one has tried to actually use the language for anything big (and small projects are usually cost-effective in any language). Its impact could be great but it may well be negative. Nobody knows. So if anyone tells me they've switched to Haskell out of necessity, I call BS.

But switching to BEAM is always a good idea (sooner or later) for large projects (unless you're already on the JVM), although if you're making the switch, I'd advise on the JVM, as it's a safer bet (both in terms of future, as well as likeliness of addressing the needs you may actually face; BEAM is a slow runtime, and many Erlang shops rely on C for important parts of their code).
Designers Freebie Pouch of April, 2015
The examples listed there are really not very similar to Liberland. Those countries may not have military power, but they certainly have political power.
* Easy privacy.

EasyPrivacy is an optional supplementary subscription that completely removes all forms of tracking from the internet, including web bugs, tracking scripts and information collectors, thereby protecting your personal data.
Awesome work. Thanks a lot for this. Reading on a epub is so much better than digging through the HN posts.
Introduction to Professional Web Design
If I was single, I could actually swing something like this.

However, in reality, I just moved from a 1600 sq foot house to a 3200 sq foot house. Commute is 40 minutes, best-case, each way in and out of West Houston.

Your lifestyle, great as it is for a single guy working hard, is going to hit a brick wall if you meet a woman who wants children, a big house, to live in a good school district etc.
You should write that in your README file.
U.K. Gov’t-Funded Startup Skills Courses Get 12k Sign Ups
Ummm... If you don't earn that much, yet still want to live in the center of a big city, isn't small housing a good solution? Unoccupied investment homes are making the space problem worse, but fitting lots of people into a small area requires small housing. In everyday physics, space is conserved.
Designing for Content: Part One
No search of historical pages still.
On Quantifying Memory-Allocation Strategies [pdf]
offsetof is part of C89 stddef.h, why would you call the underlying GCC-specific __builtin_offsetof? Just call offsetof that's what it's here for, __builtin_offsetof is the GCC implementation detail.
There's nothing I love more than articles that are full of 'look how much smarter I am than everybody else'.
Well I Wouldn't Want to Make a *Dys*functional Game – Clojure/West
Another one of those obscure pointless sites with no explanation. Of course you're free to produce as many of them as you want but putting something like that on HN is just very bad style. Not everybody is comfortable using a crystal ball to find out what this diversion is supposed to be. It's just wasting everybody's time.
Cannabis is not legal in NL and there are many problems with their current setup involving organized crime. You say you "see" NL as a successful example, but I think it's more of a belief based on assumptions. In reality it's a bit of a mess.

The U.S. ironically (they're the ones who got the world to sign treaties promising to never legalize) has the some of the best decriminalizatoin/legalization laws on the planet
Quoting a comment:

In other words, perfectly ordinary behavior in the proprietary world.

I spend 90% of my time at work fighting monsters like that (another juicy example: a proprietary and broken pseudo-clones of yum born from an intern's summer project 4-5 years ago).
Blue Bell recalls all its ice cream products over listeria concerns
May I suggest a gh-pages branch so one can view the html online?
Depending on where you live, you can put it in the street and people who want it can pick it up. Come back the next day or two and throw the remainder in the garbage.
Awesome Apple Watch Source Code – Flip and Roll App in Swift Language
Hooray for sane defaults!
First of all, I think you made the right choice, gaining money (especially when you talk about the incremental gains of the vast majority of the work force) doesn't mean gaining happiness.

Have you found a trade off between networking with people "out there" and the fact that you are not "home" and accumulating contacts/experience? I could see how this kind of long term exploration could either help or hurt your job prospects for your entire life, or help if you met the right people.
Moore's law, at least until now, has never been so much technological as economical.
Title should be the original title, really...

"VMware just created its first Linux OS, and it’s container-friendly"
It is my understanding that some designers think "the more code and the more difficult it is, the better it is".
Magento is pretty old school. Things like patching will be much easier in Magento 2, which uses Composer for managing dependencies.
I smell the lawyers coming.
Thank you for your article. Pretty interesting. Will finish reading it when I get home.
Go for the startup, you said it was something you always wanted to do and you have the opportunity to do it. So do it. Sometimes you only get one shot at a opportunity like that.

Also if you are a great programmer there are going to be other employment opportunities down the road for you.
6 practices to avoid technical debt in your code – Software Development
One Page That Matters
A Case for CMS-Free Ecommerce
any alternative?
I'm smart enough to filter the bashing, negative comments and sometimes free hate :)

If stackoverflow goes down,45.55%* of developer will stop working

* based on my random ruby generator
How do you get no interchange fees then? Am actually curious.
Thanks, that makes sense. Where does the 2 hours come from? I don't see that included in the original thing, or is it implied/standard?
And to all sysadmins on HN... I receive 403 for this article, so do whatever is necessary to keep it from happening on your websites that reach wider audiences :)
This is like the lawyer version of my old summer job in high school. We had to fix any computer problems, but if there weren't any computer problems we might get asked to do anything -- rake leaves, pick up trash, whatever.

As a consequence, there were always computer problems.

This is like the same thing. All popular HBO content is ubiquitously available, from thousands of places, for free. I live in Japan, so I could never pay HBO for it until recently.

Then they came out with their new HBO Now thing, and I figured, "Fine, John Oliver is the most important newsman in the world, I will give them a shot (even though I suspect it will end up not working out)."

So I signed up through iTunes, confirmed that HBO Now was, as expected, a broken piece of shit that didn't work outside of the US, and then signed up for one of these VPN services. This makes their service $5/mo. more expensive for me, but they are now getting $180 a year as opposed to nothing.

And yet, they just seem hellbent on going back to nothing.

Literally ANYBODY who is willing and capable of signing up for a VPN service to access the content is also capable of just getting the same content for free on the interweb tubes. The vanishingly tiny minority of people who still have ethical qualms about doing so -- despite HBO essentially telling them, Fuck off, you don't get to watch! -- can't possibly amount to any significant business.

The behavior doesn't make any sense at all, unless you think about a bunch of lawyers acting like high school kids sneakily disconnecting cables to avoid raking leaves.
Explaining the IIS Range Header Attack (CVE-2015-1635)
Wikipedia [0] says it's still legal, but more and more restricted. So NL are not the best example for successful legalisation.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands
When you make an argument it's a good thing if you provide the sources you're using. That way you check your own biases; other people know if you're just cherry-picking or if you're being misled by faulty sources.
Do you have an alternative queued up and ready to deploy?
I don't think you can claim that a company trading at 300 times its earnings is fairly valued. That's just way out of whack and can't last.
^managers_dont_matter, is not really the same as managers_cant_easily_do_harm, nor the same as managers > ^managers.
Shameless plug for one of my side projects to manage reading lists with YAML and GitHub pages: https://github.com/bamos/reading-list
This is hardly unique to Magento. Lots of applications do this. It's not ideal, but it's not SO bad if the application nags you to patch on start up. I don't use Magento, so I'm not sure if it does.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582

The comments are mostly similar to the replies here.
"Any surgery that happens must be done under anesthesia using approved chemicals."

I had a girlfriend who was working on a some kind of graduate neuroscience degree in the late 90's. She used to tell me stories about students, and researchers killing/maiming animals in order to carry out their experiments.

Her lab job was to kill rats in the lab(adults, and babies).
She would slam their heads into a piece of granite. Some times multiple times. (btw--she had horrid dexterity)

I asked her why they didn't administer some type of anesthetic--or kill the animals humanely.

She told me they couldn't because chemicals might affect the brain, or body chemistry when analyzing the tissues.

She told me endless stories about needless experiments on animals by students and faculty. They were not doing cutting edge research. She even admitted a lot of it was validating
Current studies--so students could finish their studies in order to get that advance degree.

I finally told her enough. She wasn't a bad person, just looking for the respect a advance degree in neurobiology would bring her. She wanted respect, and felt the degree would provide that.

She dropped out of the program for personal reasons(she couldn't keep up with the studies mainly) and spent
the next 10 years taking party drugs in San Francisco. She is now a vegetarian.

I don't think anyone is regulating the treatment on campuses in the United States? My nephew is taking a biology class at a little college in Los Angeles. I asked them if they are still pithing frogs in order to basically show the students the heart will beat once severed from the frog. He said they are still doing this in freshman biology.

So, there are no regulations in the United States on the treatment rodents and amphibians in schools and labs. I can state that with a fair amount of confidence! (The school he dropped out of was a private liberal arts school that accepted any kid who could come up with the tuition)

We need to, at the least, stop killing animals on campuses in order to teach art student majors--biology and anatomy.

Years ago some Researcher put a plywood cover on his truck. He then filled the truck with live piglets. He then went four wheel driving. He claimed to be studying orthopedic injuries.
> However, an aggressively optimizing compiler migh treat an expression like foo->bar as assert(foo != NULL)

In fact most modern optimising compilers do exactly that, and the article does refer to such a behaviour having had security implications in the past.
We just launched this site today with a clever 404. https://whispir.io/error - try using the arrow keys and spacebar.
Never been legal, but tolerated. If you're smoking in the streets you can still get into trouble with the police. That's why there's coffeeshops. Smoke there or home and NL looks the other way. But on the supply side there are many problems.
Threadsafe Offheap Buffers
I stopped reading the press release when I read "yum" and "rpm" -- this thing needs Ubuntu as the build-OS btw...
Don't know where you live, but here anything left curbside on a pleasant weekend morning will be gone by evening. Also look for local goodwill/Salvation Army locations that might take donations and consider having a yard/stoop sale for anything non-donatable, or even bring it to a flea market. Use Craigslist to sell anything that has value, with a "must pick up" requirement. Finally, there are people who EBay professionally and are generally willing to sell batches of stuff for you on commission.
Murmur, Reckoning/Fables, Automatic, Document, Pageant, Green, Out of Time, and after that can someone just make me a mix tape with the good songs from the other 7 albums?
If you read the article, you would have understood that the territory is a no man's land because of a border dispute between Serbia and Croatia. The two countries will probably keep each other in check.
You'll care when you have to subscribe to 8 different $9.99 services to get all of the content you want.
If you want to cheat then you have to smart enough. I am using torrent for GOT and still not caught because of VPN. I am following this tutorial http://www.vpnranks.com/watch-game-of-thrones-outside-us/ Next time try this if you want to download anything which is not legal.
> In particular XP is effective for web server products.

I was on a team that used it effectively to develop a Java back-end framework, which was not web services nor hosted by a web server. While I agree not everything fits into XP, you can't classify it like that.

Mob programming is not classical XP, but it is in the same spirit of pair programming. It can burn a lot of money per feature developed and LOC written, you need to also consider the mentoring/learning aspect of it. Same goes with pair programming. It isn't only about code quality. It is about mentoring/sharing/learning.

Don't get me wrong- if you've never pair programmed for a long time before, you don't know really understand the meaning of the word "annoyance", and if you don't have the right setup, one person may zone-out and not really be helping.

Doing it right is an art. If you learn a way to do it correctly, it will really help: your developers will be more productive because they learn from each other, there will be less churn resulting from any formal code reviews that might be required if you need formal sign-off (if required at all) and there will be fewer bugs. Fewer bugs mean: less work for helpdesk/customer service, fewer adversely affected users within the company, fewer periods when you aren't taking orders/etc. which cause lost revenue and customer frustration which can lead to them telling others about their bad experience and losing additional opportunities, etc.

But, odds are unless you try things out, tune them, try again, no matter what methodology you choose, you're going to get something wrong. It doesn't matter what you are developing. Hone it.
Don't be tricked by that "area".
I admit I haven't tried it but, from my experience with the Oculus, you will barely able to see that nose (unless you actually try to look at it, like you would in real life). That area is mainly in the peripheral vision.
What's bad is that it's so easy to fix. It's the distribution platform for software. Shouldn't there be lots of interested people that could take 20 minutes and write some software to fix this problem?
Help me crowdsource the best educational apps for kids grades Pre-K to 12
Vaporization Startup Pax Labs Introduces Juul, Its Next-Gen E-Cigarette
Works fine on my iPhone 6plus
> Thanks for the ad-hominem

GP is attacking your points, not your person, that's not an ad-hominem attack.
In case someone is interested, one of the most beautiful photos in this collection (parachute over the clouds) is by Bill Ingalls and is licensed under Creative Commons Non Commercial license. (so you aren't completely free to use it)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/16604583049/

It shows Soyuz TMA-14M bringing back astronauts from ISS.
I must be off, because I've played Elite: Dangerous in the DK2 for several hours at a time and felt fine.
Via Player FM's Discover feature - there's just tons in it plus they feature news ones on their Twitter accounts! Some I find on Reddit too. :)
Cracking Windows NTLM Hashes using the Crackq GPU Cluster
Twitter bot OCRs your pics
"Unlike the US it seems these companies need to proof that they can turn a profit."

Not NQ Mobile.
Golden... err, "hats"... yeah right.
Looks definitely phallic to me.
Kanye West insists that Jay Z's music company Tidal is not the Illuminati
How similar red-hot Chinese startup Xiaomi's products are to Apple's designs
Yea, definitely: I haven't read either of them in a while, but my memory is that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress felt like it had a plot with some philosophizing added on, but Stranger In A Strange Land was political exposition/description of wish-fulfillment orgies with an attempt at forming a plot around it, and that's why it is more like Ayn Rand novels.
Not that I don't want me some more nginx features, but how will this work exactly? Are you suggesting these features, once developed, become closed source? Honestly, I am not sure how nginx could be profitable long term. It is so good, that you don't need paid support or whatever the Plus version offers.
It does, and looks like this, a screen filling alert view when you login into the backend. http://i.imgur.com/yeBKQIM.png
Some are too polite, or laughing too hard, to post codpiece commentary.
Countries, like Companies, need to compete for talent, not just accept it
From the name I thought it was going to be a book of text generated by a Markov chain trained on HN comment data. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't.

Anyway, good collection of comments. It'd be useful to have a HTML version linked in the README.
How to Make Sure Your Deals Don’t Die Outside of the End Zone in the Enterprise
Given enough time, any two-pizza-rule will prompt someone to the clever idea that leads to installing a giant pizza oven to accommodate 36 inch pizzas.
All non-ASCII characters are missing from the JSON dump.