skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A broader spectrum of legally available, socially acceptable drugs would certainly negatively impact both smoking and alcohol consumption.

Really, both nicotine and caffeine are terrible stimulants, despite the fact that most people, especially city people and young people, seem to love stimulants. For example, chewing coca leaves or consuming coca-leaf derived teas is probably better for you than smoking (and certainly better for you than snorting cocaine). Coca Cola famously used to include coca leaves: why not re-legalize? Ephedrine is also a great natural stimulant, still consumed traditionally in China, Central and South Asia.

Alcohol is awesome socially at a certain range of intoxication, beyond that it gets progressively more terrible. However, many people who have tried low doses of empathogens such as MDMA believe they are better socially than alcohol. Many highly ranked medical professionals also believe that occasional use of these substances is less dangerous than alcohol.

But intelligent drug policy is unlikely to happen on a wide scale any time soon: like many major facets of our current international capitalist dystopia, there's far too many cashed up, cross-border, back-scratching mutual support networks with an interest in the status quo to easily facilitate change: for example existing cartels with near-monopolies on supply (and everyone they pay off), big pharma, the prison industry, and conservative politics.

PS. To quit smoking, have a child... you get free backup from hormone changes, and naturally wind up spending more time around non-smoking young parent types.
The transition from Silverlight/XNA to WinRT pissed many developers, specially since WP 8 forced everyone into asynchronous programming model, with no consistent APIs between mobile and store models.

WP 8.1 improved the situation with the shared code and PCLs, but it still required two code bases for the UI.

Also forcing everyone to write code for handling application state that should be part of WinRT didn't help.

On my case, I got a Lumia 630 to play around with C++/CX, thinking about the good old C++ Builder days, but even with WP 8.1 UAP, one gets fed up to write something multiple times for the same OS.
Wind is feasible now, but efficient batteries would be a complete game changer. They would make all sorts of power generation viable (wave power, tidal power etc).

With efficient batteries, the entire concept of "the grid" changes. You have distributed energy buffers everywhere, so you don't need to worry so much about high / low loads, brownouts, high voltage line requirements, power losses over distance etc.
Surprisingly D3.js actually can do your AJAX calls with d3.xhr()!
"nicotine itself is not the problem"

Be careful with this... It is the vapor salesman's false pitch. Nicotine is a known neurotoxin, it increases inflammation, lowers your hdl, raises your ldl, and stresses your endocrine system (adrenal et al.). While ecigs may deliver fewer toxins than analogs, that doesn't erase the fact that you are much better off without nicotine.
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Linux also has excellent professional tools, maybe even better because they are opensource. Libre Office is as good as MS Office. AutoCAD has the FreeCAD alternatively. For all Adobe programs there is an alternative. Look at h "alternativeto.net".
FWIW, harassment isn't free speech, even when you're talking about the government, and aside from basic decency, the company could be responsible, esp if it facilitated people actually following through with threats.

It is unreasonably acceptable for death, rape, and other threats to be used as a form of outspoken criticism online, and as an outspoken critic, I don't appreciate being lumped in.
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I'd been smoking about a pack a day for 15 years when I started seeing electronic cigarettes. They were a bit expensive at first, but once the prices started to come down I couldn't resist trying one. I like electronic gadgets and the idea of trying these (and being able to smoke in even more places) was appealing. I had no intention of quitting when I bought my first one, it hadn't even occurred to me.

Gradually the convenience of the electronic cigarettes shifted my habit away from regular cigarettes, and I found myself rarely lighting up a normal one. I also would take fewer puffs, I might do one or two drags and put it down absentmindedly, not thinking about smoking for a while after. It was 100% on-demand, no urgency to finish something lit.

I tell people I 'accidentally quit' now, since I just gradually weaned myself off tobacco and nicotine. I haven't smoked or used electronic cigarettes in about eight years, and the cravings are gone. I liked smoking and I might consider going back to it if the health risks disappeared due to advances in medicine.

I wonder why the medical community hasn't done more to embrace electronic cigarettes as a 'safer' alternative or method of quitting. Addicts of other drugs are treated using the same model. I don't expect them to embrace it as a safe alternative, but I think they could help others quit or reduce their traditional cigarette smoking habits.
I don't know much about the story, but a couple thoughts:

1) High-level officials disclose classified information with no or little consequence. For example, someone in the Bush administration outed CIA agent Valarie Plame for political reasons, and General Patraeus disclosed classified information and got a slap on the wrist. And they leak it to the media regularly.

2) It could be that they didn't care about the leak but wanted to prosecute him and found a reason, found in his years of service and in his actions something they could charge him with.

My point is, I wouldn't take it at face value.
Thanks for this. I had no idea this was possible. Changing my holiday plans as we speak.
Yes, that's pretty much it. Doing this systematically for all types including dependent types that quantify over Bool, as well as for user defined higher inductive types is another matter.
Fascinating. Wondering what their tax rates look like...
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Just a guess but I'm going to go with a common sense answer. Because usage can quickly outstrip supply.

Look at how Saudi domestic oil consumption has greatly increased, for example.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/business/energy-environmen...

Update

Let me add another common sense answer. Because any excess electricity can be sold to other countries for a profit.
The demo has been available from day one. We want people to try the game first and see if they like our design. You can download it either from our Steam page or Atomic Gamer:

http://www.atomicgamer.com/files/106498/the-age-of-decadence...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230070/

The demo gives you access to the first 3 locations and about 30 quests. While it hasn't been updated since Nov 2013 due to the lack of time and thus doesn't have the latest features, it does represent the game well. If you don't like the demo, you definitely won't like the full game.
I have a friend on a very low income - most of which he spends on alcohol and tobacco. When he runs out of money he borrows it to fund his bad habits.

High taxation hasn't help him. I'm not sure anything would?
You say this with certainty? Do you know this to be true?

Because I seriously doubt it.
Starting a (generally GUI) application in the background and detaching it as much as possible from the current terminal, so it doesn't quit on a SIGHUP. I have this as a bash script (~/bin/bgrun), but it could pretty easily become an alias or function:

#!/bin/bash
nohup "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &
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The alternative I'm suggesting is to retain legal counsel to determine what my actual alternatives are and their associated potential costs/risks.
Except it is at the expense of people, so that's not true at all.

SRS are notorious for brigading and messing with peoples lives.
What I really don't like about the bundle is following: "All purchases are for your personal use only."
This is written in small size beneath the steam keys.
Nothing mentioned about that on the main page though.
* smoking is recreational, its not a necessary expense

* the rich pay the tax too

* it has a cost and is a nuisance to others

* some countries fund the health programs caused by smoking thanks to those taxes

* you got to stop finding excuses about smoking, smokers are addicts, society must be intolerant towards regular smokers. I went through passive smoking as a kid, believe me, its awful.
LOL Wired you did it again. The thing your article does not say is that Gartner's report does not count Apple Mac sales as PCs, so actually as a whole the market is pretty much the same size as last year.

And yes, Apple Macs are PCs : they have the same internals, while they ship with a different OS - and as far as I know you don't discount Dells shipping with Linux either.

Seriously journalists, do your JOB.
Because some people still expect to win simply by showing up. We tell them the game is hard, they think it's a wink-wink message that doesn't apply to them. We tell them the optional fights are the hardest (i.e. being a hero is a harsh business), they jump into every opportunity to be a hero because that's what they are used to - if the game offers you a fight, surely it's scaled to their level. It's not.
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I should mention that I've been coding for almost 40 years now, and still only feel I've scratched the surface of it.
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One example is Germany. I was talking with a German friend of mine at lunch and he noted that they are "tracked" after grade 8. Some go to trade school. Then (IIRC) there are two university tracks - one more prestigious (and more stressful) than the other. The egalitarians in the US would never stand for this.

That said, we cannot continue to fund the system we have which according to R. Arum's Academically Adrift, leaves many students with a mountain of debt and few marketable skills. As the authors of "Paying for the Party" note, these students had a great time but learned little. Both books (and Arum's follow up book tracking graduates) are sobering reads...
Agree 100% with the point being made here, but the two examples used are also examples of the (large) weaknesses of centralized systems, which is much more abstract, often overlooked, and can be a much greater threat to our well being. A centralized system that everyone depends on will hurt everyone when it fails. A robust, decentralized system limits this exposure.
For the Romans, an often cited reason for the comparatively low rate of advance in manufacturing (and farming) techniques was the abundance of slave labor.
Nobody is talking about donating all time, money and resources of anyone towards that goal.

In any case if you create a platform (you possibly profit from) that is used to distribute child pornography you are faced with restrictions that the rest of the public understandbly isn't.

I see no reason OP shouldn't be legally compelled to cooperate in an investigation in at least the same way a witness can be.
The most important point you have made is number one. Addiction isn't a magic spell that forces you to behave in a particular matter. Complicated behaviors require thought, thought can be reigned in with logic and introspection. People simply don't want to deal with the temporary discomfort of withdraw and prefer to continue what they are doing. "I'm addicted" makes for a nice excuse to tell yourself.

Remember the emotions that you feel were generated via random permutations of your genetic code. Logic was developed by Grecian scholars and continually improved by the best of us. Don't "Trust your gut", trust your mind.
What you are talking about? Importing iOS and Android apps into the Windows app store? There are some announcements, that this might be possible at some point in the future. But at the moment nobody knows how much modifications will be necessary for the apps to run on a windows phone.
Can you explain why asking you to be transparent about your personally identifiable information is laughable?

Also: privacy isn't about reward and personal power, it's about reducing risk - specifically, the risk that those with power over you are able to manipulate your future in ways you cannot defend against.

There is a distinct difference between the reward and the risk mitigation that privacy can bring, and I fear that's the aspect of the argument that you will never understand.
We talked about years because that's what most people look at. I gave this simple breakdown before:

"Let's say tomorrow an AoD-like game is announced by a "real" studio. I'd expect at least 3 years in development and at least 15 people working on it full-time. If you expect less, please explain.

So, 15 people x 40 hours a week (a bit on the low side, I know) x 52 weeks x 3 years = 93,600 man-hours vs 4 x 15 hours a week x 52 x 10 = 31,200 man-hours (roughly a third).

Some facts:

Civ 5 has been in development for 3 years, 52 people team = 324,480 man-hours. Fallout 3 was in development for 4 years. Gothic - more than 4 years. NWN - around 5 years, Witcher - more than 5 years, fairly large team, but the quality is undeniable. Arcanum 2.5 years. KOTOR 3 years. Fallout 3 years (In 1994 Steve Jackson mentioned that Interplay was working on a post-apoc game using GURPS)."
thanks for your comment -- we just added the installation instructions on the website: http://vispy.org/documentation.html#installation-instruction...
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Design by consensus generally produces inferior results.

Why is it necessary to speculate about the design of Go? You can read this and decide directly what you think of its design.

http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

Better yet, look at some existing projects and see how they are structured. Then make a judgment.

Or just walk away... There are plenty of other good programming languages out there.
> My big concern is this populist approach to firing people. Enough people don't like a company officer? Cobble a "movement" and generate enough controversy to force them to step down.

I think the line needs to be drawn more clearly than that, because we should have populist control over companies.

I'm more concerned about companies that really impact us, for example huge banks, energy conglomerates, people behind the TPP and TiSA.

But when the leader of a company who publishes the words of its' customers - a complex relationship, indeed - tries to curb some of the harmful speech of those customers, I don't think it's a reasonable populist standard to say that people supporting that speech can oppose it.
If you follows only subreddits focussed on interrests you have, reddit is a good source of information, not unlike Usenet 20 years ago.
You know what is unsafe? Installing java. Whether it is applet attacks on the client, timezone attacks on the server, it is just a gaping big glory hole on the computer ready for other people to insert their bits (of code) to exploit for fun and profit.
Friends don't let friends install java.
The biggest shame is that the apache project keeps pushing so much crappy java code out there, that this dinosaur persists.
So the answer is "no, that's not out of the ordinary".
Face-to-face flying crams in more passengers
As child comment mentions, do get this checked by an ENT who will check for a few things, including tumours. I went to two, neither of whom were able to help much, but it is important to check.

Personally, there was mystery for a long time, but rather than trying to solve the mystery fully, I tried to be pragmatic and do what helped.

I found that my range of motion turning my head one way was less than the other, having become restricted physically and psychologically, in a feedback loop.

I eventually went to a dentist who specialises in fascial pain who put me on muscle relaxants. These helped a little, but did not solve my issues. However they were a clue that some of my symptoms related to muscle tension. I was also experiencing increasing amounts of physical pain in my neck and face during this time.

Look into muscle shortening. It can be cumulative, as the pain caused by shortening causes the muscle to react more to strain, by shortening further.

I tried to compare my range of motion and both sides, and gradually try to match them through gentle stretching.

You could look into these things, and also trigger points. I can't say that my exact set of issues will be the same as yours, but feel free to contact me on Twitter if you want to chat. @paulbyrne
"When you say I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide, that is no different than saying I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say or freedom of the press because I have nothing to write."

- Edward Snowden
Human structures have modified the environment for millennia. You could probably put together a theory to say that the desert around Giza has been changed by the pyramids.

Do you consider that cities also block the sun on fields?
Odd that, on the graph in the link, one of the spikes in deaths seems to come immediately after an increase in consumption, but the next, bigger spike in deaths from ALD comes BEFORE a similarly large increase in consumption.

I'm suspicious, mostly because it goes against the conventional wisdom that alcohol consumption increased during prohibition.

Hardly unbiased sources, but....

http://www.druglibrary.org/prohibitionresults1.htm
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/e1920/chicagodea...
A dataset of every Reddit comment
TLDR; magnet link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7690f71ea949b868080401c749e878f98de34d3d&dn=reddit%5Fdata&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pushshift.io%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80

Someone has already put it on Google Big Query - https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_05

Link to original Reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_every_publicly_available_reddit_comment/
Could be worse - it could ask siri for advice on how to write firmware... or maybe asking siri for advice on what do in a crash situation as the onboard firmware will now dangerously accelerate the car into a nearby stationary object!
I'd say it's nearly impossible. One of the biggest mistakes aspiring indie developers make is that they keep their cards close to their chest. They don't want to spoil the storyline, they don't want to share their ideas because someone might steal them, etc.

Well, if you run out of steam because you don't have any support, there will be nothing left to steal and nothing to spoil. You have to share everything. If you tell people that you're making an RPG, nobody would care. If you show everything you have, discuss all your ideas, then people will get interested and will stay with you and support you by giving a fuck - the best kind of support there is.
so cool

any demo of the time travel?
Clickables:

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_eve...
>My next plan was to use a small in-ear microphone setup to try and find out if there was an objective sound present.

As someone with some tinnitus myself I've been tempted to try that. The usual explanation you see of tinnitus is that the sound sensors break and then the nervous system makes up sounds to compensate but that's never really made sense to me. Usually if you don't get input to the nervous system because say a limb goes numb or you lose sight you don't get that kind of effect.

The ear seems to have a built in amplifier using positive feedback - the "cochlear amplifier is the outer hair cell which increases the amplitude and frequency selectivity of sound vibrations using electromechanical feedback."(Wikipedia). I wouldn't be surprised if that mechanism goes out of wack and makes a noise in the way that you can get a squealing feedback from a public address system when the gain is set too high. I'm not sure that's been experimentally tested in a way that makes if clear if that's a thing or not.
...and Reddit isn't even banning vile human beings - there are a bunch of subs for hating fat people and other worse subs.

Reddit is only banning subs that brigade.
Another thing is that TCP does not have a facility for reporting what the problem is.

So you basically has to dump signals down the wire and hope something comes out of it.
js kinda covers web coding and dynamic scripted languages at once, and ES6 is a real step forward that's going to open up some new possibilities.

C definitely, if only to be able to read *nix source and do low-level stuff on devices

Then I'd say Clojure, probably, because it covers the JVM as well as the functional group.
By default, any site that allows users to share content will devolve toward an attractive nuisance [0]. Like any security issue, passive measures are a Maginot Line awaiting blitzkrieg, even all the resources of a Google or Facebook aren't enough to automate all these things...they depend on communities to report issues [e.g. webmasters for Google]. And that's the only defense in depth: community.

"Everybody who signs up" isn't a community. There has to be some higher order interest...and what you're finding is that unfortunately the higher order interest of the community for your site is child porn.

There's no fixing DNS. If child porn is not what you want, your site is broken. Shut it down. The sort of users you want don't either don't care enough to keep out the bad or are overwhelmed by it's volume just as you are. They are or will be moving on. You have my sympathies.

Yeah it sucks but you have learned some things:

1. Community is the hard part.
2. Technology is necessary but not sufficient.
3. You can build something that scales to the point where
it becomes useful to a community.

Consider this version 0.1. You've gotten feedback and that says that the product (not the code) has failed by your definition of "fail" because it has not attracted the market segment you want. You have a platform from which to relaunch.

Good luck.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
Some insights:

Relationship between Reddit Comment Score and Comment Length for 1.66 Billion Comments [0] and the Github repo [1]. Reddit cliques N°2 - deeper into the subs [2]

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3cjyvb/rel...

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-comment-length

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3cofju/red...
Clever? There are plenty of completely valid uses for having a phone on whilst driving - such as navigation, streaming music or using CarPlay. As an iPhone needs to be plugged in to use "Hey Siri", this will pretty much entirely affect people using their devices legitimately - whereas people driving with one hand whilst they make a phone call with the other will be unaffected.

This seems like it would be more likely to cause an accident as people have to divert attention from driving to mess with their phone so they can get navigation back (and having listened to the advert, I know I would be very distracted by it).

Finally, is this even legal? I have no idea of the law in Sweden (and IANAL) but I feel like you could make the point that this advert is interfering with your device without authorisation.
And it's the same line of reasoning that opposes a central gun registry.
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That was not what I wrote. Please reread it in the context of the previous comment.
Almost everything impacts it's own micro-climate. Cities being the most obvious example.

It's when the effect creeps into the global climate that we need to really pay attention.