skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a conversation about cannabis with my mother that went along these lines. I told her I'd smoked it a few times, she was shocked, I asked what her concerns were.

Over the next half an hour or so I patiently and factually answered all of them. She had clearly been sold fully on the propaganda and had thought, amongst other things, that one puff of weed smoke could potentially kill you if you were unlucky.

Anyway, at the end of this I said "so what do you think about the law now, seems pretty stupid huh?" and she said that no, she still thought it should be illegal because it was just bad, regardless. Facts just don't work on some people.
That would be awesome. I like CodeCombat but it's still direct coding. It'd be nice to learn variables, control flow structures etc but visually. The same way that DragonBox doesn't make it explicit that you're actually learning algebra.
This looks awesome, but unfortunately I made a rule in my house that says "You can't play a video game in this house unless you are the one that invented it", so now I am quite conflicted...
There is also this one from Forbes. It claims it only takes 42 minutes, but that depends on how you define "learning algebra", i guess. Still a great game that both my kids loved.
> "After [Alex Payne, who ran the developer and platform side of the company for a long time] left in 2010, he described a letter that he had sent to the executive team arguing that Twitter was making a mistake by closing down the network, and that it should have made the opposite decision: that is, by becoming as open as possible. In a nutshell, he said, Twitter’s choice was to become more open — to decentralize the network — or die like other walled-garden platforms before it."

A decentralised Twitter would have been amazing. I've tried playing with all kinds of services to push notifications to a variety of devices and the only thing I've ever found that I liked was Twitter - but I don't want to share private notifications with public Twitter servers (even if I do mark the account as private)

One day I might actually build a service myself - but I have far too many projects on the go as it is.
App to find tours by independent guides and tour operators
Hey guys,
just wanted to let you know about a product I just released with a couple of friends. It's called Belocal and the idea behind it is about letting people find great tours by independent guides and small tour operators :)

Here's the website: https://belocal.io

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.belocal.belocal

iOS App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/belocal-its-time-to-step-outside/id979165664?mt=8

Hope you guys will enjoy it! Thanks
Just curious, what's with the rule? Also, do they know how to code already?
The reaction of the college was all about covering themselves rather than helping a student. Banning someone from the college grounds is not helping them take time off - it's making sure nothing happens that you might be held responsible for. Legally and technically they might not have done anything "wrong", but morally and socially they couldn't have been farther from doing the right thing.
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Neither does normal drug use. It's the alcoholics (read: alcohol drug abusers) who let things get out of hand.
I think what Apple does is a bit different to outsourcing hardware production. They actually finance the initial investment in the manufacturing facilities in order to secure exclusive and long term contracts.

It seems to be a cost effective in that they get the benefits of owning the hardware production while the technology is still new.
And many of our jobs are in automation research and implementation.

Our work puts dozens, if not thousands of people out of work. When driverless vehicles are finalized, that work will put millions of people out of a job.

Is it a crime? No. But it sure very negatively impacts people. Why not illegalize implementation of automation?
Absolutely. SSH also sucks. TLS sucks badly. The only protocols that doesn't are those that haven't seen real-world usage yet. That's what drives innovation.
How is this even legal? I can't even imagine this happening in Europe; you can't dismiss someone from school without legal basis. Is it different in America?
Anyone else getting a malware warning from the site's icon.ico file? Avast's not letting me access it on mac; could someone post a mirror that would get around the issue?

Alternatively, can someone confirm/disconfirm that the ico's bad news?
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How containers will shape the Drupal ecosystem
Grooveshark shutting down
Hacking Aviation Technology
Digital Disaster Response
It seems to be a wrong choice to me, here's why. There is a lot of mods for Minecraft that use unofficial Forge API. If this project reimplemented Minecraft and made a similar API, many of the mods could be ported to it.
Git v2.4.0 released
You can check the project directly here: https://github.com/sustrik/mill
As much as it must suck for Sam Tarantino & co., it must also be relieving in some measure - fighting such huge labels for so long must've been incredibly stressful.
Stop Demonizing Digital Life
> decentralised Twitter would have been amazing [..]
> One day I might actually build a service myself

Or you might use one of the myriads of decentralized microblogging platforms, using any API you wish (REST, XMPP, whatever...) in any language you want and in a choice of BSD-like or GPL-ish licenses... The only thing missing from those platforms is users - gaining mindshare through promotion is a strength of large commercial providers.
Don't take my word for it. Take Bob Young's.
I disagree. The third party eco-system diluted the brand, restricted monetization potential, and left Twitter with little control over their user experience.

Letting third parties do the hard work of experimenting with user acquisition and engagement, then buying up the best and turning their backs on the rest was a masterful move.

We need an open alternative to Twitter, but as a publicly-traded for-profit organization, Twitter, Inc. will never deliver that.
Isn't this how employment there works too?
Because that's what the government and DoD calls it?
That was a war for drugs, rather than against them. It was also about fighting for another drug - tea. Tea and coffee also had quite a loud vocal support for prohibition against it in the UK.
If they don't control the Twitter clients, they can't avoid the clients from using multiple platforms (e.g. Facebook, app.net, the newer platform). Then clients can switch away users from Twitter seamlessly.

This is pretty clear from their API policies.

This makes me think that all this locking is not about monetization. It's about protecting their user base.

Facebook is following the same direction. Their current api version does not allow to build an alternative Facebook client.
> I assumed it was big to allow easy tactile reading.

Braille is quite small though? Perhaps it's just a stylistic choice, or the mechanism/durability constraints demand a larger size.
Kaspersky just blocked the whole site for me.

EDIT: Looks like it doesn't like http://millc.org/main.css which is innocuous. >>shrugs<< looks like a false positive.
I don't understand that part either. I wonder if the councilor saw a potential to not only harm himself but others and that's why it was included. I can understand the school not wanting to be the next stage for another tragedy similar to Virginia Tech.

And had they not dismissed him and he continued on and something to that effect were to happen would we not see stories about friends and families of victims asking about why they would have allowed an obviously deeply disturbed person to remain on campus?

Maybe the counselor thought (erroneously?) this particular problem was too big to handle?
Evil man is out there. You just need to know how to recognize him
There is a difference between allowing someone time off and what I would describe as "create a lot of fuss to make sure if something happens it is as far as possible from the school". Surely forbidding someone from his known environment (which might be harmful to him, but also provide support, and I have a feeling they didn't have time to figure that out exactly) isn't the perfect first response.
> There was another alternative on HN recently. Basically a super-deep hole in the ground with super heavy object falling into it, but suspended by a rope.

Or a train going up and down a hill...

http://www.aresnorthamerica.com/

Both are basically the same concept as pumped hydro which has been in use for a long time... pump water up a hill when energy is cheap, let it fall down and turn a turbine when energy is expensive. And hey, if it rains, free energy!

The rail/hole in the ground approach have the advantage of taking up less land I suppose, but I suspect are less efficient.
A lot of things that seem like they should be helpful, are in-fact just ass covering for the organisation.

HR, Health & Safety officers, etc
Weird. It's a totally plain CSS file.
I think you read more into my statement than I intended. I have no problem with big watches, and I'm happy for people who can enjoy them! It's only a shame because I have small wrists, so it's not suitable for me :)
Everyone always asks me that. It's a hack that someone else later turned into:

http://doitlive.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I hope you were able to pay attention to the talk instead of the gimmick.
Great link. It's also amazing how Solar power generation falls significantly in the winter months. For instance, December output is less than 10% of June!

Chart here: Check out monthly/weekly energy production for 2014 https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm
You mean like Scratch?
scratch.mit.edu is not far from what you're describing.
Many blind people tell the time by feeling the machinery on their watches. This is simply a watch which is designed for that and I would imagine, less prone to the issues usually experienced: e.g. a blind person might have a watch with the face removed, and touch the hands in order to tell the time. The problem is the hands can move slightly, so it throws off the watch's accuracy.
Open Source Neutrino 32-bit Miniature Arduino Zero
Lets be honest, this was just a way to avoid any legal responsibilities, or any other mess coming from it happening on/in the college.
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I don't agree. False pretense of security can be worse than visible insecurity.
This weirdly addictive app seems to be taking the world by storm. It's an easy way to share your opinion quickly, for those who are even too lazy/busy to Tweet, and don't want to express it as cut and dried as a "Like".
There's no icon.ico file there afaics.
But https doesn't 'let you know for sure that the content is exactly what the owner of the site intended' as it doesn't protect you from xss
Simple Java Class to Measure Latency
Fifteen years ago, I got temporarily banned from an English-speaking IRC channel (#gamedev on AfterNET) for my part in instigating the ironic usage of "kekeke", which was very well known at the time due to the popularity of Starcraft in South Korea.
'Fortunately we do have a largely successful, bloodless war on a drug to learn from.'

Successful maybe, bloodless not even close. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/justice/new-york-choke-hold-de...
Good news for you, a decentralized Twitter already exist and it's called Twister : http://twister.net.co/
Apart from there not beeing a single law for Europe...

In theory yes, in practice it's easy to make something up, here it's mostly "company internal reasons", which they don't have to justify.

The formal reason will never be that someone sucked at their job.
If you take the $300 billion spent on drug enforcement that would do it...
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I'm amazed at the price. This actually makes it competitive with whole house generators at least for backup electricity.
For me, that final letter shows how little they care about their students and how all that process was about covering their asses.
Do we know the prices they're charging for the utility versions? Does it make it a viable option for a lot of utilities?
To put it in perspective, Twitter's market cap is still $25B after taking a recent slide - that's about 10x the valuation when they started closing down APIs a few years back.

I think it's a bit of a knee-jerk to start assessing their whole strategy on that basis. It pains me to say so as a developer who would have loved the old platform to remain (I had to shut down a somewhat popular hobby website because I didn't want to put in the effort to switch to OAuth). And as a user who misses a proper TweetDeck equivalent on the phone.

They didn't win any friends in the developer community, but the article is about growth and it's not clear they would have achieved the same level of growth with the majority of users on 3rd party apps.
We could put so many more criminals behind bars if it weren't for those pesky 4th and 5th amendments.
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Bill gates future predictions
> I can understand the school not wanting to be the next stage for another tragedy similar to Virginia Tech.

How can you understand this that way? I can't.

I can't understand it because I know lots of people with depression, and I've experienced it once myself, never once did anybody I know or myself or for that matter, a reported case, ever think "I know, lets go and kill a bunch of people."

I don't understand it...

The number of dehumanizing things that have been done in the name of "health and safety" is staggering. Life begins with birth and ends with death, use compassionate reasoning in between, there's always a rule or formalism to hide behind.
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And you'd get a free backup power system too. That's worth something.
> that may well be how you feel, but lately I feel like any burning of petrol is just disgusting (though I still do it as I cannot afford alternatives at the moment).

LOL. that's some serious self-delusion. some of the best i've ever seen in the wild.

the alternative to fossil fuels is free -- just don't use them. your feet are free. bikes are almost free and subsidized in many cities.

the reason you use it is not because you "can't afford the alternative" but because you find the convenience and utility quite high, i.e. WORTH THE COST, compared to walking your ass around town and going cold in the winter, just like everyone else.

fundamentally this is a problem of economics, not of really really really wanting to do the right thing.
This is a three-pronged stroke of genius:

1) Immediate benefits to just about anyone. If you have your own solar panels, you need this (or something like it). Even if you don't, you can benefit by drawing more power during cheaper off-peak times.

2) If lots of people get in on this, we'll have the storage capacity we need on the grid to be more dependent on renewable energy. Lack of storage capacity is one of the biggest obstacles to increasing renewable generation.

3) If lots of people buy this, the price per unit goes down, and it's the most expensive component of Tesla's main product, their cars - which are effectively batteries on wheels.
Gravity batteries have really low power densities, in general.

Now, vanadium-redox flow batteries... That's always been my pet large-scale energy storage. That or hydro.
I used Mercurial for years because I tried early git and didn't like it. Then I tried it again, everything was easier than Mercurial and I wouldn't ever go back.
If the student is at risk of suicide, there are times when they need to seek professional help away from school. He could be a danger to himself or others. I think you are making it black and white. "If the student wants to stay at school, let them." It is not as simple as that. Think about it from the other perspective. If he killed himself at school and they knew he had serious mental health issues, people would be way more up and arms. "The school did nothing!"
Picky, meet new people in person.
> You didn't read the article.

I did.

> The central point is that nerds don't become popular because they don't put the time in to be popular. They'd rather spend it on other things.

I read the article. I disagree with his argument. Graham even admits his fallacy near the middle of the article, when he admits to desperately wanting to be popular. The "wanting to be smart more" deal is nothing more than pride, I'd say.

> In fact you're agreeing by saying that it comes down to social awareness, which is essentially putting in the time to be popular.

Nope. You don't get more social awareness from something like "putting in the time to be popular". It might work for something like programming but this is nothing like that. You get it from having a healthy, normal-ish mind and from constantly surrounding yourself with people who have social awareness. Some people simply don't have access to that.
Blocked by work's filtering proxy as "phishing-and-other-frauds". Just a heads up.
Well, we can't avoid git. Being allergic to git is like being allergic to water.

There are ways around it like hg-git, but they can't really hide the git underneath. We have to use git or be computer hermits.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/34goss/meta_groovesha...
$2699 on a 1GHz G4 Powerbook in 2003. Didn't even have a DVD recordable, had to shell out another $300 for a firewire one and another $300 for 256MB more memory.
Color temperature is nowhere near everything. Or rather, it would be, were LEDs actually anywhere near a blackbody in terms of radiation output over the visible spectrum. But they aren't. Nowhere near.
I always had the impression kek was a joke-version of lol

lol -> lolz -> lulz -> lel -> kek
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Thanks for the reply. Then, my question becomes as follows: Is there a way for basic PostgreSQL users (as me) benefit from this (yet)? I don't want to dive into any codes :)
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If everyone had these and they were all attempting to "charge during nonpeak hours" wouldn't those hours become the peak hours?
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Yeah, it's a formula
If we are going to be looking into what William and Mary clouda shoulda woulda done to prevent this isn't it only fair to do the same in regards to this individuals own family? I mean as this is written by a member of said family don't we need a counterpoint? Also with all the people saying that W&M are just 'covering their asses', do you believe that they should be held liable for the intentional actions of their adult students?
The author is trying not to place any blame on the school, but they clearly deserve some.
Our child is older and he loves the 12+ version. Made him do a little bit every day, he thought it was a treat and I was thrilled to see him gradually absorbing the concepts of algebra.

Not sure whether it's connected but he now says he likes maths at school :-)
Hey, thanks for spaCy! It's a great library.
JavaScript port of an open-source C++ game
Despite Queensland being rather draconian when it comes to drug laws, they have recently introduced naloxone available to anyone who does a one hour usage course and pays $5, at the same centre where you can get any amount of needles for free (and micron filters for very cheap). They also offer opiate replacement therapy (and benzodiazepine replacement and amphetamine replacement, though those are not well publicised). That centre is the reason why despite being a heroin addict for six years since I was 16, I've been clean for three and have zero health issues due to it. Why reuse needles when you can take 100 home? Anyway, good comment.
It says 3KW peak output which would handle things starting up.
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Oh that one was "In Xanadu" - William Dalrymple.

I should probably revise "some shitty paperback", what I mean is, I picked it up for $2, creased and it's a "travel writing" genre page turner. Time reading it has been time well spent :)
There was an interesting talk on Radio 4's Fourthought recently by an ex-cop.

"Peter Bleksley, a former undercover policeman fighting drugs crime and an ex-drug addict, argues that the only answer in the so-called "war on drugs" is to legalise and license them."

However, he was against simply putting the supply into the hands of pharmaceutical companies instead of criminals. He was calling for an affordable, state controlled supply to remove the incentive to build a business based on pushing the crap.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3zby
http://www.amazon.com/Gangbuster-Peter-Bleksley/dp/190340291...
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I wished my kid never touched iPhone before the age of 16, but that is impossible. However this app justifies iPhone usage by kid, for a little bit.
From the research I have been doing over the past year or two, the UK stock market has shown about 5% real return (after inflation) over the long term. I think the USA stock market is slightly better.

I am a total novice, and have fairly little invested, but those are the sort of numbers that pension projects are based on.

If you can keep you personal burn rate low, and over time invest a significant amount of money at 5% return for 10 years, the interest really starts to snowball.
Which services would you recommend?
The name clash with the CPU architecture[1] is by accident?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_CPU_Architecture
Very cool! Seems like they could be a serious competitor to SpaceX, although they are only aiming for sub-orbital flights at the moment.
What do you base that on? Because I think you'd be very surprised to see the number of people who take drugs, and the fact that most of them do not resort to theft for their habit.
Also: even though overdoses are so preventable, calling for help usually causes police to arrest you anyway.
Check out the following all based on the 'connect the puzzle pieces' UI of App Inventor:

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/designer-blocks.html

https://blockly-games.appspot.com/ (transitions to JavaScript)

http://pencilcode.net/

https://www.makewonder.com/ (physical robots)
Boeing 787 software bug can shut down planes' generators IN FLIGH
An empirical experience of why there are gender disparities in technology
Well let's deconstruct my comment:

1: I don't get why they would bar him from campus.

-Unless the councilor thought that he was also a danger to others.

2: If that was there view then I can understand why they would want to remove him.

I’m saying that I agree but that maybe they (erroneously) saw something more than depression or something different from your situation. Given that what exactly is the issue?
Not seen it mentioned yet but the 4g iPads make for a fantastic GPS replacement. £579 for 64gb 10 inch nav that is streets ahead of any manufacturers' system.
I did the same for six years, though I'm clean now. The people I used to run with were all well paid, too, though that's more a function of how expensive heroin is in Australia.
Higher voltage means lower current and thus lower voltage loss, and lower percentage losses for the same voltage loss, so you don’t need lots of copper.
It's a framework for future functionality. End-users won't be touching it for some time I expect. The best thing about psql is their careful, iterative engineering.
The second issue you bring up is %100 due to the legal status of the substances - in a world where they were legal, there'd be regulations on purity and safety and established/trusted brands. Note, though, there are a number of drugs that are fairly easy to safely cultivate indoors (mj, psylocibin) where it's pretty easy to know the person who grew/produced the product. At that point, any concern about the safety is a bit like worrying about the food safety of drinking your friend's homebrewed beer.

Also, the organization DanceSafe is doing some great work offering resources to test the purity of MDMA.