skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its unclear and all over the map.

There's a famous study from '97 in direct opposition based on nicotine gums and patches and I quote:

"Clinical trials of NRT in patients with underlying, stable coronary disease suggest that nicotine does not increase cardiovascular risk"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9180099

On the other hand there's something in e-cig fluid aside from nicotine that seems to be a cancer risk

"E-cigarette vapor, both with and without nicotine, is cytotoxic to epithelial cell lines and is a DNA strand break-inducing agent. Further assessment of the potential carcinogenic effects of e-cigarette vapor is urgently needed."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26547127

To some extent its like arguing with people about a paleo diet. Twinkies may or may not be good or bad for you, none the less removing twinkies from your diet totally utterly freaks some people out. Likewise it seems highly likely that not using ecigs will have no negative health effects, but people will freak out if you suggest not vapeing.

In terms of recreational activities, its probably not as bad as numerous activities like being exposed to fumes from drying paint, stripping and refinishing of furniture, etc. On the other hand its likely far more dangerous than watching TV or reading HN articles.
To play devil's advocate, a lot of volunteer fire departments use pagers still - not because of the technology being cheaper, but because coverage is better, more reliable and more widespread than cellular.
I didn't say anything about good or bad in my post - I'm just commenting about what is.

I suspect that you (and probably other readers) are injecting some of the sentiment around the "You're the product, not the customer" meme that surrounds advertising-supported tech companies. I don't think those are bad things either, but a number of other HN readers do. I'm just pointing out that this business model has existed for centuries.
> Inhaling nicotine vapor is inherently much safer than inhaling tobacco smoke

We need to stop kidding ourselves - inhaling any chemical is not "safe", or good.

E-Cigarettes are on the road to being banned indoors, and possibly other places as well. It's the same user behavior (and complete disregard for others around) that led to traditional cigarettes being banned indoors etc.
The ecosystem is a killer. As a developer, it's missing everything I need to be built-in on a device: a terminal, VMware, SSH, remote access to other machines. Obviously I'm not the target market, but consider the same thing for designers: where is Sketch for iOS? Where is the equivalent of desktop Photoshop?

I still think that iX devices are create for consumption and very basic creation, but anyone who is doing creation full-time isn't going to able to switch for some time.
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Add HTTPS to the mix and it's a party!
My point is more that even if they were on the same footing from benchmark timings, v2 is still far behind what is supported in Torch, Caffe, and Theano right now (v3 in all IIRC). Your comparison is very fair, and it is good insight!
Yes, apple could probably capture 10% of this market and make some profit.

If that is your yardstick for "success", they can reach it.

But fracturing the market by yet another 10% is not my idea of the future of money.
I think laptops are becoming irrelevant for many use cases. They are not sufficiently powerful to do heavy data processing without running into thermal issues, and they are less mobile than tablets equipped with external keyboards. This is what Microsoft has realised about when they created the Surface product line.

Workstations are surprisingly capable for the money. A big NVMe consumer-grade SSD, some RAM and a good GPU can take you really far. 5 years ago I never thought I would be able to run my stuff on a workstation instead of a big server.

Tablets are very interesting, because they fill in the mobility use case much better than laptops. They are way more ergonomic as long as you have an external keyboard. The shame with the iPad Pro is not being able to run a full OS. I'd love to run say Arch Linux ARM.
You don't have to shut off SMS, but it is only encrypted with another iOS device, although I am hopeful they will release an Android client as difficult as that would be.
Abacus (YC W14) is expanding its sales team
It's fairly common to take profits on half one's stake in stocks when you want to realize some profit but still think the stock could go up further.
As someone who has built a comfortably profitable business focused purely on Shopify-related products and services, I agree that it's a great market to be in.

I understand and can relate to some of the hardships the sibling throwaway comment is referring to, but I feel you're going to face challenges whatever you do when building a business, and this is simply one that I'm comfortable with choosing.
Point taken, but i'd suggest it also can work the other way. The faster technology moves, the faster competitors can enter markets. More competitors generally means the consumer (and worker) wins.
According to the Fed's website, commercial banks (including foreign/international banks) can actually create and loan out up to $14,500,000 per loan and not be required to have anything backing it (0% required reserve ratio).

http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Hackaday article links to another with additional images and info.

http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article020109.html
If the end-user's router has firmware with AQM, would that solve the buffer bloat?
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The "backlash" is largely propelled by user's disregard for others around them. Users regularly can be witnessed using their e-cig indoors and in close proximity to others. These users often say "it's only water vapor", which is absurdly false.
"The entire x86 computer architecture is living on borrowed time. It’s a dead platform walking. The future belongs to ARM, and Apple’s A-series SoC’s are leading the way."

That is an extremely bold claim. I'd love for it to be true though.
It almost sounds like you're saying laptops may be on the decline, something that many people claimed laptops were going to do to desktops.
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Maybe those regulations only apply to the exchanges.

Tangentially I read about an interesting money laundering technique once. Apparently you can take two low-volume stocks and use them to launder money by effectively committing financial fraud against yourself. It works like this:

1) Take a small amount of clean money and average into a position on a cheap low-volume stock.

2) Take the dirty money and use it to pump the stock by buying in and driving it up.

3) Sell your position on the clean side. Then pick another low-volume stock and do the same again.

Apparently variations of this technique can be used to smurf money across the market. You'll lose some in the transfer but that's cost. The dirty money appears to be "lost" in the market, while the clean side books short-term capital gains. I'm sure experts would know how to calibrate their smurfing rate to avoid SEC scrutiny and minimize side-channel losses. Seems like something that could be automated with an algorithm.

The illegal drugs industry kicks off such obscene profits that there's probably an enormous market out there for creative ways to launder it all.
surely having a large market share

Having a large market share of what, the smartphone market? It's the users of the peer-to-peer payment service/application that they need, and they have 0 of those right now.

Venmo already has millions of those users (many of whom who use iPhones) due to a good UX/UI and seamless integration with all major banks/card providers. So what value does apple bring to the table if my network is already set up on Venmo?
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> Just money you've made from your own labor, and loans you've received without nepotism. You'd be surprised how few entrepreneurs fall under this category.

Frankly, I'd be surprised if anyone fits under that category. Pretty hard to survive as an infant completely on your own.

I mean, obviously that doesn't count. But where exactly are you drawing the line? It's less black and white than you are implying; it seems like there's enough fuzziness here that you can put anyone in the "not self-made" category, so of course group X has very few members outside that category. Because, you know, Mr. CEO over here was driven to college by his parents once, so he's out, and Ms. Entrepreneur there inherited a few hundred dollars from her grandfather, so that's no good either.
This is utterly ridiculous, possibly even subversive, given two things:

(a) The number of intentional leaks in Microsoft products (esp new Window's) that might be inspired by NSA surveillance

(b) The leaks showing German BND and Five Eyes cooperate very closely on SIGINT with BND letting them use selectors that no patriot of German government or industry should've tolerated.

Many articles, esp Der Spiegel, also indicate that German intelligence is lap-dogging so hard in an attempt to join Five Eyes club. Additionally, remember that the TAREX teams in ECI leaks were focusing on Germany, South Korea, and China. Yeah, not all the terrorism they talk about on TV: one opponent and two seeming partners. What do all three have in common? They're among the biggest economies competing with American (and Five Eyes') business interests. Makes sense among scheming intelligence agencies to use assets against them to get privileged few tight with Washington a competitive advantage and do counter-intelligence against their agencies doing the same.

So, Microsoft are either a bunch of idiots that have no awareness of Snowden leaks or reporting on the situation with NSA and Germany. Or they knew that while subverting their European offering to give NSA every chance to hit the customers' data as a favor to them to avoid pressure and keep lucrative contracts. I'm betting on the latter to be safe and continuing a boycott of Microsoft tech where possible.
I want the board to go to jail, not some low level janitor. Or do we only go as high as the paper trail takes us? This lets companies erect firewalls and appear innocent like the vw CEO...
I don't think protests constitute mobbing. Also, I believe in the video the Master at Yale he wasn't mobbed but rather had several public meetings like this. But on the whole, I still don't see any evidence of there being a problem. It just seems to me that there's a strong contingent of social moderates to conservatives that would prefer people to toe the line out of some unnamed tradition. To me, tradition and authority warrant no respect unless it can be justified.
You basically just described what Tribune Company did over the last few years. 8 years ago they owned the Chicago Cubs, a bunch of profitable TV stations, and a bunch of newspapers that were in big trouble.

They sold the Cubs and created two new companies, Tribune Media and Tribune Publishing. Tribune Media got all the TV stations and holdings in internet companies. Tribune Publishing consists of all the newspapers.

The best part is that Tribune Media kept Tribune Tower in Chicago, home of the newspaper, and makes Tribune Publishing lease it from them.
I really wish they'll upgrade keyboard navigation (whether scrolling or selecting items, etc) - I've started relying on my iPad more and leaving my computer at the office, and it's fine for most tasks with a keyboard except when navigating in an app - having to touch the screen is just too slow.
I wonder how the option-tab combo works when multitasking with two apps on the screen though
> We need to stop kidding ourselves - inhaling any chemical is not "safe", or good.

Ehh.. I don't know. Everything in nature is about trade-offs. Generally speaking, maybe the nicotine buzz is worth the side-effects of vaping.
You're getting it. ;)
Tip to free up gigabytes of space if you are a Node.js developer
Crawl (cd) to the folder where you have you node projects (eg. /dev) and then just run the following command:

find . -type d -name node_modules -exec rm -rf {} +

Works great before backing up or moving files.
Eh, not sure I like it. For this to work, they have to make the indentation part of the syntax. Otherwise stuff is way too ambiguous to infer the correct parenthesis. A result is that the programmer has to be intimately familiar with how the inference works and what the syntax of indentation is. I feel that this just shifts cognitive load from managing parenthesis to managing indentation and inference. From the documentation:

The rules for what happens when inserting/deleting parens must be
learned. Also, the case necessitating a "Paren Mode" comes at the
cost of forcing the user to understand when and how to switch
editing modes.

Also, the preprocessor step performed when opening files will cause
more formatting-related changes in your commit history when
collaborating with others not using Parinfer.
The difference between caffeine and the chems in e-cigs is that caffeine consumption typically only involves the user. Where-as e-cig consumption too often involves the user, plus all those stuck in the same room/elevator.

If this were a nicotine patch, it wouldn't be such an issue.
The Logitech keyboard is available at Apple stores, offering real (19mm) keys, backlighting and shortcuts for home/lock, spotlight search, brightness, volume and music (reverse/play/pause/forward). A bit cheaper and heavier than Apple's keyboard.

Walt Mossberg said, "Of the three keyboards I used to write this column, I found that the MacBook Pro was best, the Logitech Create second, and Apple's iPad Pro Smart Keyboard dead last.", http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/11/9711284/logitech-ipad-pro...
Well, you've made a powerful argument against a position I didn't articulate. Thank you for starting out your comment with the snotty "Umm" of seeming disagreement that never materialized, I appreciate it.
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> They are loaded with chemicals known to cause harmful effects

Proper e-cig liquid consists of the same stuff that is used in fogger/hazer machines for decades, though here in medical purity grades, nicotine if wanted, and a bit of aroma.

Hardly comparable to the stuff that's in cigarettes, that includes also radioactive materials like polonium.
I assume the question was about _how_ backwards compatibility is holding x86 back and what features are problematic.
Ask HN: Who hires Infosys and Cognizant?
Infosys and Cognizant are everywhere. Who actually hires them and how are they so massive? Has anyone personally worked for them? Or used them as a client?
Google Wallet?
You're welcome BTW
It breaks the HN guidelines to editorialize like this in a submission title, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm aware that nearly every enterprise AP has the ability to detect rogue access points. I am not aware of any with the ability to attack them. Also, as far as I know, none of them can target devices that are not actually attached to their network.
I think customers have much more influence here than business owners do. If more customers prefer shopping at local stores than at chains, local stores will flourish. For better or for worse, most customers today prefer the lower prices and consistent experience of shopping at big chains. It's the same in other areas. More people seem to prefer blockbuster movie sequels than original indie films: whether you're a profit-motivated studio exec or a struggling artist, you want your work to be seen by an audience.

A minority of customers chooses local/eclectic/independent: not sure whether this minority is growing or shrinking.
Fwiw most of my iPad dev time I spend in a terminal (I use the one bundled in coda) working on a remote machine. Being able to have a split screen between a terminal and safari actually sounds like it could actually be enough for me most of the time.
I think a language which can do all three is best.
Sometimes you need exceptions, sometimes you need options and sometimes you need a option type.
I held off upgrading to iOS 8 for a long time out of fear that my iPhone 5 would slow to a halt; when it had to be replaced for an expanding battery I got it back with the upgrade and was pleasantly surprised at how well it performed. I took the jump with iOS 9 and now experience almost the same as in your link. I rarely have more than 3 apps open at a time, no media (photos, music, ...) stored, and all optional effects disabled. I wish they had some internal incentive for keeping old stuff working like new; it used to be a source of pride to own an Apple device that was several years old and still looked and worked like a new product. The iPhone 5 and unibody MacBook Pro are both examples of products that I've owned for years but continue to impress.
How bad a boss is Linus Torvalds?
Also consider that Peter Thiel sold $100 million worth of stock back in August at $93. A significantly larger size at one price as opposed to Andreessen's multiple sales in the past 2 weeks.

You can see a list of Insider Trades here:
http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=FB
The same applies to why there is a McDonald's on the Champs Elysse in Paris, in the heart of Beijing, New York City, etc. It's a loss for the location, but it's really just an investment vehicle where the land itself is not being used for traditional purposes.
Also Logitech have Azerty and qwertz keyboard, whereas I think Apple only has qwerty at the moment
He's a journalist. It's his job to make bold claims - no one want to read about boring things.

You'll notice that this particular journalist is seen as very polarizing (you love him, or you hate him).

That's shows he's doing his job well.
Hakyll is fantastic -- works great as a blog, but is also very extensible. I used Nanoc before that and it was also excellent.

I don't think you want Pelican or Jekyll in this case. Their emphasis is definitely on blogging and you'll have to fight them some if you move away from that niche.
Making products elsewhere and selling them in the U.S. is what happens right now.

We don't have a big trade deal with China. Do you see that slowing down imports from China? Or forcing them to have higher labor and environmental standards?

Tariffs do not provide any way for one country to request/impose higher standards for labor and environment on another country. Tariffs are domestic policy and don't cross borders.

Trade deals create leverage. A trade deal like the TPP provides the legal framework for one country to make demands on the other. The TPP, imperfect as it undoubtedly is, will make its signatories promise to one another to meet certain basic standards. Right now, there is no mechanism for them to do that.
Desktops did go on the decline. Certainly not eradicated, but the laptop is now the default choice, and the correct choice for most people.
That article is a year old, and somewhat off. Apple's recent cloud stuff has all worked very well for me. The only spotty things are CoreData syncing (which may be deprecated, it's certainly not encouraged) and anything that touches iTunes (which is probably the oldest infrastructure they have).

Stuff they've launched since then such as iCloud Photos has been working great. Heck Apple Pay works extremely well and that's technically a 'cloud' service.
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Currently the Play Store shows it to have 100 downloads with an average 3.1 stars from 7,979 reviews.
Venmo is quite easy to use IMO and I didn't feel it is particularly insecure because it is backed by PayPal. That being said, a lot of my friends just use Chase QuickPay to transfer money, which works really well. TBH, I don't know how a potentially device/OS restricted service is going to play here. Maybe they need better PR to <i>educate</i> Android users to install their app.
This isn't entirely true. From what I read the problems are mainly 2:

1) Some companies move profits to very low tax cuntries outside the EU. For example Starbucks in the UK bought coffee beans in from a subsidiary in an offshore country at very high prices so they can claim very low profits in the UK, moving most of them offshore where they pay very little taxes

2) Other companies like FCA and Apple instead are accused of having stuck deals with EU governments (Luxemburg and Ireland) where in exchange of having their HQ there they would get to pay very low taxes which other than being morally questionable (in my opinion) is possibly illegal because it amounts to state aid since other companies don't get the same treatment
You don't "grow" revenue. You don't exist a new service. You don't die germs.

You use transitive verbs when you want to direct them at an object.
I went unaccompanied minor on BA once (I'm pretty sure it didn't cost money in those days). I was 15 and would have been fine without, but it turned out to be a great way to skip the queue at immigration at Sheremetyevo.
Right but they've always cached map data. The offline mode also does navigation now.
Ah, makes sense. Is Google Wallet widely used, especially for person-to-person transactions? I've only ever used Venmo for that.
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> You're an idiot.

Citation needed. ;)

In seriousness, this isn't reddit, guy.

Make an argument, or comment something insightful.
> I'm pretty sure you're an idiot.

We ban accounts that do this. Please read the guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I doubt it. I think Apple Music is a trojan horse (much like the original iPod) to get people using their music service.

They MAY release the payment stuff for Android (so users can receive payments) but I doubt they want to be a general payment provider for Android users.
The financial statement is way more interesting of the article...

They are spending ~10M for developing the platform and ~18M for sales and marketing.

If they had completely shut down the the marketing side they would have bring around ~14M of profit this quarter.

They have around ~150M in the bank, so they can keep growing like this for other 3 years.
You realize that you're breathing stuff somebody exhales every time you're around other people, right?
Execution time is incredibly short and the whole thing is over in seconds.
The first block was reported on some news wires on 11/3 when the first SEC Form 4 filing hit, but it wasn't really picked up by more outlets until a few more days of sales (2 more Form 4 filings).

In the same time period he bought 50,145 shares of HP (on 11/2).
For sure. Just pointing out that relying on that difficulty for your security is a bad move.
I wouldn't leave OS X because of the high standard for app quality and UI that isn't there (consistently) in the Linux/OSS world. Even cross-platform GUI frameworks like Qt feel like lipstick on a pig next to a native Mac app.
Laptops only really became suitable desktop replacements for people a few years back - probably around 2010
HTTPS is HTTP over TLS.
Why stop with ARM? Once we get rid of x86, the future could as well belong to various ISA's, including open-source, royalty-free ones like RISC-V [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
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Circus Galop was actually originally written for player pianos, not "in" MIDI, but with a surprisingly similar goal in mind to black MIDI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Galop