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Netflixes current trejectory is to become another (or maybe a morne ubiquitous) HBO. I think in ten years it might just be one of many tv on the Internet "channels".
Congratulations! For me, it's 353 days, and I attribute this success to having vaped for a year prior to that, and being able to gradually reduce the nicotine levels without reducing the frequency of vaping.

I think it's unfortunate that the conclusion of the paper (that all smokers are 28% less likely to quit if they also vape) will be confused with the questions that doctors and policy-makers will be interested in: whether smokers who want to quit are more or less likely to quit with the aid of e-cigarettes, and whether smokers who use e-cigarettes are more or less likely to die of cancer.

It seems like there's a huge, irrational split between pro-smokers and anti-smokers, and it's a big shame that what really matters might get lost in the argument: helping people to not die early.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICAM seems to indicate that while NICAM is used by a few broadcasters here and there, it was initially developed by the BBC, and it's no longer as widespread in Europe as it once was.
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I'm sorry, if we're talking about features being buggy, OS X is not something you exactly what to point a finger at as a good example of an OS that has features implemented in a stable way.

Thankfully, OS X is cheap/free. I use OS X, Windows, and Arch literally every day of my life, both at work and home.

To be quite honest, I blame consumers for all this non-sense. No one wants to actually pay for software. I can go into this in a more nuanced fashion, but I seriously think software across the board is a good bit cheaper than it needs to be. From OS's to games and everything in between.
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The charts on http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054842/visualizing/how-soon-befo... show that 45% of the time of a developer's job can be automated. Your thought?
Take a look at http://www.frontendhandbook.com.
Why not? Or rather, what hit do you expect productivity to take, and for what level of idleness would that still make sense?

If the problem is that some developers are literally idle because their task is done, they should do something else.
Really interesting article, but terrible clickbaity title. I wouldn't have read it if there weren't so many positive comments on HN already.

It could work if there were a subtitle. "35 million people didn’t notice a thing: BBC Radio's NICAM Codec replacement project". I dunno. But it is (or should be) very important that the title actually informs you as to what the article is about. "35M people didn't notice a thing" doesn't tell you anything at all.

Edit: Upon further consideration I may have been a little harsh. This is really a blog entry more than an "article" per se, and I suppose that's fine for a blog post title. The problem comes when we link to it from somewhere else, e.g. HN; we need the additional context.
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Am not surprised. As smoking has become more costly (with anti-secondhand-smoke regulations) and socially unacceptable, many smokers have found means to quit, and surely many used vaping for this. But it seems to me that a large proportion of the people who took up vaping were hardcore smokers who want a more licit habit. And so they're frequently going on about how vaping is totally harmless, it has absolutely no secondhand consumption issue (all very dubious). If vapers were formerly the most hardcore smokers, it's not surprising that vapers would be less likely to quit. Although it is still probably a good thing, from a harm reduction viewpoint.

Vaping for smoking cessation needs more than some anecdata. It needs controlled trials where vaping is compared against placebos and other cessation methods, like Chantix. but I'm afraid that the vaping industry is nearly as interested in promoting disinformation as the tobacco industry was.
Slightly rephrased and instant Onion:

Australia takes pedophilia and terrorism as seriously as properly measured lamb chops.
Good point. It only works until somebody decides that they are leaving money on the table.
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No, it's a problem for throughput even if you don't have deadlines. Limiting work in progress is possibly the heart of agile.
Now that Adblock plus is basically an extortion scheme to bring internet users under their umbrella and force advertisers to pay to gain access to it's users, I can understand why they would be barred.
I have started quitting this exact same way. I'm not as far along as you are, but I have dropped to 3mg (from 18) which is the next dosage up from 0.

I don't believe this article because of the massive tobacco lobby working valiantly to combat the rise of new companies in the vaping sector. the FDA is coming close to a ban on vape products all together for this same reason.
I was playing with Linux (Slackware) in 94, but was mainly using Trumpet on WfWg 3.11 until I discovered Windows NT. It had a full TCP/IP stack, which was rumored to have been stolen from BSD, IIRC. After NT got the Windows 95 facelift rev, it became a no-brainer replacement for Windows 3.x/95. It even ran most games! I also bought a dual P100 in 95, which is what made me post. I, too, found that they were about 30% faster than single-CPU boxes. I soon ran Linux for everything except games and CAD/FEA.
That response is ineffective, because the managers will simply pressure the engineers to give better estimates.

The penny game (where I work we call it the beer game) is a good learning exercise, but in software development you really don't want to be having different "stations" handing work off to each other in the first place, because that leads to delays and quality issues. Each station will develop its own little backlog and pretty soon a feature cannot make it from start to finish without spending weeks waiting in the design queue, then the dev queue, then the test queue...

Instead, you need to have a small, cross-functional team focusing on the same piece of the product at the same time, collaborating and giving rapid feedback on each other's work--that's what agile and XP and scrum are for. And you need a pull system instead of a push system, to regulate the amount of work in progress--that's what kanban boards are for.
In Sweden they've gone full circle with lobbyists and their friends in left-wing "news".

It's hard to explain to a 50 year old marxist/activist lawyer the value of booking a cab with my watch just to grab my wallet (and card) from the restaurant I forgot them in.

I've mentioned this before. No other company with bigger muscle/wallet here has whipped up an API - that's a litmus test.

Tells me the "Dread Pirate" (or his CTO) was on to something... everything should be a service.
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Agreed.

This seems to be the same issue with other frameworks when they get to a point where they have enough adaptation and find out they need to change/update parts of their framework to get it to the next level.

Same thing is happening right now with AngularJS. Been around for a while, had massive adaptation, then they realized they needed to make major changes. Enter pivot to 2.0 which pissed a lot of people off, but the heat is dying down now and people are coming to their senses.

I'm pretty sure at some point React and other frameworks will hit their wall too.
I think the poster is talking about programs using the new Microsoft application frameworks and provided through their app store. The older style "Win32" programs can be installed as they always were.
It isn't clear to me how useful this study is. There is no indication that the people found "less likely" to quit even intended to do so in the first place. The story seems to make the assumption that anyone vaping is doing so as a cessation technique but that certainly is not true in my anecdotal experience.

Since this came from the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, it's pretty easy to assume a senseless agenda behind the whole thing.

I will say, as someone who shuns nicotine after a decades-long addiction, I find vapers far more pleasant than smokers. If people are switching with no intent to quit, that's still a big win in my eyes. Particularly since I don't see it as my job to regulate what people put into themselves.
Previous approaches relied upon detecting electrical changes in the graphene nanopore as the strand passed through; this new approach cleverly uses graphene nanoribbons with copies of nucleotide bases attached which chemically micro-bond to their respective opposite base (A<->T, G<-C) as the strand is passed through. This significantly improves accuracy of the detection method.
"I was half expecting the article to outline how a box full of 80s technology had been replaced with a Raspberry Pi!"

The Parallella computer, which looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi, has a Xilinx Zynq chip similar to the one in the BBC's new codec. So it's almost true.
It has been claimed that a literal radio silence of BBC could cause a nuclear strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_4 (C-f nuclear)
You can't quit if you don't really want to. E-cigs aren't a get out of jail free card and cannot replace willpower. It is a quitting aid. Like all quitting aids you will still have a job to do - it just takes a little less effort.

I am certain that I would have still quit on my final and successful attempt, regardless of the e-cig. I wanted to quit, instead of others wanting me to quit. It was merely a less harrowing experience.

Anecdotally e-cigs are not absolutely healthy, my lungs actually felt unhealthy after using one for a long time - something that I never felt with normal cigarettes. They are a tool and not a solution.
"Yet"? We should be moving away from Flash, not towards it.
Now if only I could push libreoffice/gdocs or ms would release office for linux, I could deploy linux. Also, way too many scada systems require windows machines for the various proprietary ide's.... and it drives me nuts! Where's the foss scada?

Windows is dangerous and 10 just made it more so. It's not easy, but break free of the proprietary os chains now before they lock your brain in with iBrain and update it without your permission.
The ad companies simply don't want ABP to come along and tell them stuff they don't want to hear. They also don't want ABP knowing what they are talking about and planning to do. So they used a system to prevent ABP changing their experience.

Seems fair enough, nothing hypocritical there.
Yes, Netflix has pivoted themselves as a content company, a la HBO.

Then again, the line for "tech company" is beginning to blur, since every company is so heavily reliant on technology.
Everywhere I look I see examples of confirmation bias. Just as I suspected.
I built an app with Meteor right around when 1.0 was released. The absolute worst part for me was attempting to shim what should have been a relational database design into the default NOSQL mongoDb (you pretty much had no choice).
Scrapy can do the job, for sure. We use it to crawl more than 2 billion pages a month. :)
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The book Principles of Product Development Flow by Don Reinertson has an excellent chapter on queueing theory, giving an overview of the math behind it and how it applies to the development process.
> Misconception #3: Gulp’s Streams Are Necessary for Fast Builds

The author fails to acknowledge that gulp is also asynchronous. This is what makes it "fast". Streaming is just a nice abstraction for passing data through a pipeline.

Sure you can do async on command line but that's not trivial and the author doesn't address that.
For years, people have said that learning Latin teaches you to think better. Why would not the same be true of learning Python or Lisp?
Why do you refer to MS as M$? In my experience the people who do that are far from the people who worked or would work at MS.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m
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No idea how good the data is, I assume it's good, but in my mind this is impressive just on the visual representation of it alone. What a fantastically beautiful display of information, the UI is great all around!
Honest question -- why are they using PATA ribbon cables in the new NICAM codec box? Surely SATA would be more reliable and easier to administer.
The number of times I've had someone bring up a feature at 9:02 am (usually on the phone with six other people, of course) and wonder why I won't "ballpark it" at 9:08 is mind boggling.
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I'm surprised by how dark Australia is. I at least expected the coastal cities to be lit up.
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Since they didn't include a link in the article (or I missed it), for the lazy that haven't heard of Gopher Gala: http://gophergala.com/
Surely you only need the rogue transmitter to be stronger at the receiver (your electric meter?) than the signal from the transmitter. That doesn't seem like a strong enough signal to easily locate you?

Seems a complicated way to do something - doesn't Economy7 operate between fixed times overnight?

I wonder if they can cut power using the transmissions - seems like something that could be used for emergency control of demand in times when the National Grid has problems.
Continuing that line of thinking, one of my epiphany moments when I first arrived at a dominant player was the acceptance that we would ship with bugs.

The way to stay at the front of the race is to prioritize your bugs and fix the right ones in the time that you have because if you think you'll get them all, you'll never ship. Get the ones that have the highest probability of causing your customers pain and know that you aren't ignoring the ones that are scheduled for your next maintenance release. Debate intelligently if you think something needs to be reclassified as a higher priority and learn to accept that there might be a couple that you don't win so you can get on with covering as much of what remains as possible.
I had a kiwi boss in the early aughts and picked it up from him. People here in the states would generally had no idea what I was saying or would ask if I spent time in Oz.

Cut forward a few years and everyone seems to be saying it.

It was definitely a sharp incline of usage
Anything that implies the lock-up unless everything is rewritten completely is not a viable choice for me.

I'm wary of anything (especially JavaScript as trends change there faster than one can read the articles) no matter how praised it is. Sometimes things just do break in the most bizarre manner when you already have everything set up. If components are modular enough, you can swap them, or at least patch a completely new piece over the old one, to handle the problematic cases.

When I once had to replace a very old legacy system (non-web, but it still holds) I've just slapped a dummy do-nothing proxy-like system in the front and gradually did stuff piece-by-piece. Then threw out the old garbage when it wasn't doing anything anymore.

But from what little I understood about Meteor from the tutorials and examples, there's one single giant system, that you either use or don't. This means, if one hits some bug or - worse - architectural limitation, they're going to have really tough time.
The `cross-env` used by the author seems useful, I didn't know about that, and for this reason I'd usually write a separate bash script when I wanted to execute something like

FOO=1 some-command

because this syntax doesn't work in `package.json` on Windows.

BTW. If you're not into bash for writing long scripts, it's pretty easy to write shell scripts in nodejs. Node 0.12+ has native `execSync` that is nice to have to write build code in JS in synchronous way. I wrapped it with two helper functions to have sth like `execAndPrint` and `execAndReturn`:

https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/a128174fc135eb773631

It's not as powerful as bash script (doesn't support | syntax for redirecting etc) but if you need that, you can extract it away to a helper bash script.

See also https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
That may be true in principle, but I have been unable to find any resource ever that explains them well. Presumably this is because I don't know Haskell and the only good explanations are in that language.
If ABP started letting unacceptable ads through they'd lose all their users. Enlightened self-interest and all that.
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One suggestion for the UI: when you click a + on an option, the minus should be at the bottom of the expanded option, so that you don't have to move the mouse to close the expansion.
...but picking out which 45%, now that's the trick. The site essentially reiterates the 1970s marketing pitch of COBOL, Now With Rounded Corners (TM) And A Cute Robot (batteries and lasers not included).

Statistically speaking, 100% of the inventions claiming "developers will be out of their jobs because This New Invention" has proven false so far, indeed creating more SW development jobs instead. Does that have any sort of predictive power about this product? Probably yes.
From the F.A.Q:

Accelerated Mobile Pages are just like any other HTML page, but with a limited set of allowed technical functionality that is defined and governed by the open source AMP spec

And from the Spec:

Enable the AMP runtime to manage the loading of external resources, which may slow down the initial render or cause jank.
Allow AMP authors to include functionality above and beyond standard HTML, while maintaining the security- and performance-minded requirement that no author-written JavaScript is executed

Appears we won't have access to Canvas2D, WebGL, WebRTC, Fetch and other HTML5 Web APIs. AMP's subset of declarative elements and caching will be great for longform-y "static" content. The kind of articles I find myself reading more of on Mobile Chrome during down times in transit. Thinking of Medium confessionals and NewYorker dispatches, etc.

But how do you implement something like ChartBeat? Snapshots of dynamic chart images and data pre-rendered on the server and pushed out to the cdn? Sort of eliminates the performance benefits of geospatial caching doesn't it...

I do take heart however in Tony Haile's pull quote from the ampproject.org homepage:

The mobile open web experience is terrible and some have suggested it's too slow to compete. We can choose to see the mobile open web as a relic of its time and flee to the warm embrace of closed platforms and apps. Or we can say that the open web means something important to the world and if it’s broken it’s our job to fix it. I think we should fix it.
Well, it'd be immediately visible to the users. While I think it is blackmail, ABP has a lot to lose by not enforcing strict standards.
Having been both a Manufacturing Engineer and a Software Engineer, there are similarities between the two scenarios: work-in-process within a manufacturing facility and whatever features/functionality a given software development department is creating.

I would create detailed step-by-step job instructions for each station in the manufacturing line, along with expected times each unit should take at each station. It was trivial to compare expected versus actual, then dive into the details of what's going wrong if the two values are not matching up (new vendor causing quality issues? machine troubles?).

With software, those "job instructions" are little more than the specification hammered out by (hopefully) someone who knows the product, domain, technical capabilities of the software development team (including design and QA). It's rare. Very Rare....any single person can estimate exactly how long a sprint or anything larger is going to take. One wrong technical hurdle, and every estimate is out the window.

For the "production worker" on the software dev team, just following those specs wont get them to the finished product. Their knowledge, how well the team can support lack of expertise, shifting priorities...these all create logjams.
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So, Meteor is going to turn into what SocketStream was, five years ago, before it was completely eclipsed by Meteor's marketing steamroller.
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The BBC seem to have moved to this sort of title with the recent updates to their web properties. They do these things seemingly confusing themselves with a commercial enterprise rather than a publicly funded provider.
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There are many Business Analytics tools out there, most of which need a lot of configuration and technical skills to get to understandable (business) insights. Imagine you had an Artificial Intelligence that would automatically analyse your data. What problems would you like it to solve for you?
Indeed. When I was troubleshooting a DNS problem last year, I was astonished at how much of the web seems to run on AWS.
Wow. I totally get your point, however it used to be that the OS was simply a platform to USE apps with which you do actual work. We've come a long way to this distorted weird dysfunctional belief ...
Regarding international payments, I dug into this a little one day out of curiosity and ended up here: https://www.frbservices.org/eventseducation/education/fedwir...
The PDFs on that page appear to show you precisely how the XML messages that conduct the transfers are formatted

There's some interesting stuff I couldn't get to here https://www2.swift.com/uhbonline/books/hub/httoc.htm

And some other interesting stuff covering these standards
http://project.i20022.com/the-standard
http://www.c24.biz/c24-io-standards-financial-messaging-libr...
It depends how strong it is.

The obvious benefit for a malicious person would be to set their meter to the cheaper tariff by replaying the signal.

It wouldn't need to be a powerful signal - if you were broadcasting right next to the meter even a few milliwatts would be enough. Build a faraday cage around the meter to be sure! Just remember to dismantle it before the meter reader comes round.
> 75% of iOS users are on Apple's latest major release.

That's because wealthier people tend to keep up with the latest technology. And Apple has always made a conscious decision to target the wealthier customers.

Walk into any Best Buy and compare prices for Apple machines against the likes of Dell, Asus, Acer, and such.

Poor people buy cheap because of need and upgrade only when things stop working. Rich people are more likely to buy to optimize the and share the latest and greatest experience.
The name of the url is even click-baity:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-01-35-million-people-didnt...
It seemed to fit our use-case really well. The CTO and I did a Meteor hackathon to get a feel for the tech, and thought that it would be a lay-up. Alas, it was quite an error.
Exactly, it's not most people but key people - ergo "most people" don't care.
HN API? https://github.com/HackerNews/API Haven't used it yet, so no comment on how well it works/how far back it goes)
Yep, lesson learned big time :)
Let me try and help with that:
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Sorry this should be:
http:// www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-01-35-million-people-didnt-notice-a-thing-dot-dot-dot