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I wish you the best. If I can add my 2 cents: please, can you do something about the UI? It's dated badly and hard to use. Also: I realise you need to generate income from ads, but can you please please remove any ads that use dark patterns like buttons that look like you are going to download the software you came for?
This comment is largely a variant on the usual "science is just another belief like religion". It really isn't. The far fringes of science that you need lots of eduction and tools to work with, sure, you need to take those on faith. But you don't have to "believe" them, don't have to take them on faith. Your life is not changed one iota if you personally believe in quantum mechanics or not.

Meanwhile, the bulk of science is in the human scale - you can do a ton of scientific experiments with the stuff in your house right now. There's this misconception that 'science=theoretical physics' and it's just not so. You don't need to trust that gravitational acceleration on earth is 9.8m/s/s, you can determine that yourself, easily. You don't even have to use meters or seconds - use your own units. You will find that it works out the same anyway.

You can work out science from first principles and get a long way - the difference here with religion is that in religion, the first principles are not accessible to anyone. "This book is holy because I was told it was holy". There's no way to verify the initial state and work through from there.

Trying to paint science as this thing that exists only in our heads and investigating only the really tiny (quantum mechanics) or the really large (astrophysics) misses the vast bulk of the science we use as humans - the stuff that's been tested again and again through use. The edge of science is where you'll find conjecture, and hence a lot of trappings that sound like religion, but that's not the whole of science, not by a long shot.
The MySpace of open source software. Maybe they need Justin Timberlake on board.
The Witcher 3 can hardly be categorized as a "mainstream blockbuster." It's more akin to a cult classic that was finally accepted by a larger audience.

Beyond that the original comment was lamenting the lack of a central cultural authority on gaming, which there is none (and I don't think there necessarily needs to be one given the lack of marketable personalities or reasons to watch one beyond ad space). "Her Story" was recognized last year because of its approachable, non-linear play mixed with FMV, but there dozens of other titles released that would be easier to argue for as "art" that aren't going be recognized in any notable manner. Does something need to have recognition to designated as art? No. Neither sculptures nor paintings have award shows, so I think it's fair to say that artistic merit goes beyond gaming having an Oscars.
Depends on)
1) Who you ask, their opinions etc (and there are many)
2) What you want to do. Coding is too big of a field to say "you should learn this language." Javascript is ubiquitous and you can do most anything with it (especially work with browsers) but it's also not the loveliest language.

You mention web design so then CSS, Javascript and HTML would be the logical choices.

If you want to learn to code, though, then I would personally suggest learning a functional language - maybe Clojure or Scala? That's a highly opinionated recommendation because my own experience has shown me that learning functional programming makes you more capable with other more imperative languages. This might be of interest. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/OtherDocs/To%20the%20Budg...

Most people would likely recommend something like python or ruby or even Java. There are many opinions. I would look at what you want to do first, and then choose the technologies that are used in that problem domain.

Coursera has courses that you can take for free. It would be a good place to start.
Fronting up and participating here counts for a lot. Thanks :-)
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Are you familiar with the concept of a "company town".
From the abstract of the quoted paper:

Our data confirm that smoking cigarettes causes suppression of several key immune genes in the nasal mucosa. E-cig users showed the same changes in immune genes as cigarette smokers. However, e-cig users also demonstrated suppression of several additional immune genes, suggesting even broader suppressive effects on respiratory mucosal immune responses as compared to cigarette smokers.

Looks to me that E-cigs shut down hundreds of immune system genes—regular cigs don’t is misleading.
Vendors shouldn't be liable for actions of users. And if they are doing this out of well-meant concern for user safety, I suppose this warning screen during bootup would suffice.

I would like to know if there are some actual regulations/litigations which forced them or if it's just another money grab like this SuperFish adware.
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Is there a way to port publicly viewable github issues and PRs over to gitlab automatically?
Gist: https://gist.github.com/gajus/bbf06ea2e37047b01e70
That problem is solved by vaping.
From the article, it seems it's the flavourings that are added to e-cig liquid that seem to be causing the problem.

Presumably the effect would be the same if the same flavourings were added to 'real' cigs, but, with the exception of menthol, that isn't commonly done.

Why are flavourings so popular with e-cig? Does the liquid (glycerin?) have a foul taste that they are trying to mask?
I go to Quora whenever they send me a Digest (every 2-4 days), and I'm all day on Twitter.
I think the origin of the book doesn't really matter. The copyright was owned by her father Otto Frank, who then transferred it to the Ann Frank foundation, which still owns the copyright and can enforce it worldwide.
Heat damage or busted overvoltage protection diode. Is there something else a broken/wrong battery can do to a laptop?
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A really good strategy if you have the cash reserves.
Let's look at Google vs AWS from people's time:

* Ease of use: Google Wins(Cloud Shell, SSH into instance from browser). Its far easier to spin up an instance and manage it on Google Cloud than AWS with VPC mess.

* Platform Cohesivity: Google Wins (See the comparisio below)

* AWS has 2 storage solutions with different APIS: S3 and Glacier; Compare that to Google. Just one storage solution to serve all needs. You get a backed in CDN for free!

* AWS has two queuing systems (SQS and Kinesis) and still require the developer / admin to adjust the scaling of infrastructure. Google has just one Pub/Sub. You get push notifications on top. No need to tune knobs to get extra scale. It just works.

* AWS load balancers and persistent disks need warming up before high usage. If you are running a website on global scale, you need to use DNS geo load balancing on top. Google load balancers are global (as opposed AWS regional load balancers), no need of DNS tricks. No need of prewarming. Google persistent disks need no prewarming. You can mount a single persistent disk on multiple instance and share data easily.

* Security: Google encrypts data at rest and at wire by default. Try doing that on AWS. Google takes care of SSH key provisioning and management. AWS: You have to do it by yourself.

* AWS NATs and micro instance are known to be unreliable. Google has live migration. If something goes wrong with instance they work their magic behind the scenes so that you don't have to worry about migrating the instance to another physical host.

* Automation: Instance id are not global on AWS. Have fun creating maps and stuff inside CloudFormation templates. Google Cloud resources are global. All resources (images ids) have a global identifier. No more messing with zonal vs regional vs global resources.

Google Cloud can save money by saving your time too!
AFAIK github implemented Libgit2 (or are at least a major contributor), which is an independent implementation. Am on mobile, so sorry for lack of sources.
> The codepoint is U+2A6A5, but in UTF16 it requires combining 2 utf16 characters (\uD869 and \uDEA5) in order to reference it.

No, you mean two UTF-16 code units. A character is one or more code points.
If I live in a country where copyright term is 1 day, and I publish online every Disney movie ever created, the US will enforce US copyright terms on me.

Why does the copyright of where the reader lives, not where the publishing person lives, matter?
A related/alternative question would be why flavorings are unpopular with regular cigarettes. (The answer, at least in the US, is that it's been made illegal, as a youth antismoking measure.)
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I've used sci-hub a few times. It's a little buggy and not every article can be accessed, but it works well enough to try when I'm not on campus.

$30 to read a single article is ridiculous anyway and presents a barrier to scientists who don't have, can't afford, or don't want to pay for access. I hope sci-hub stays up and improves for some time.
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The out-sized "demand" is largely coming from yield hungry investors and Chinese investors looking for a bolthole.

Both kinds of demand could easily be clamped down upon by raising property taxes - the victims of which would be wealthy foreign investors and people who have sat on one of the largest increase in property values in history.

Likewise, supply could be increased if local government were at all interested in doing so just by building 10,000-20,000 low income apartments.

If the government announced both, the cost of San Francisco housing would plummet within days.
It's difficult to find any research in this area. What I could find generally says that the advances made in earlier years are more significant than anything recent.

http://www.cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy_insights/Poli...
Same here. Since it combines most of my areas of interest, I don't need to use other sources.

If I'm not active on HN for some time, I check out Lobste.rs to keep up. They have way less members and posts, so hot news stay longer on the front page.

For funny things I go to regular Reddit front page.
Silicon Valley and YC don't exactly have a stellar reputation for ethical behavior. Having a "pirate website" at the top of the news page doesn't exactly change that perception.

I totally get that journals are evil, and charging money for research generated with public funds is questionable. It's very frustrating as a small entity needing to view articles, and being asked to cough up $25-50. That said, there are legitimate alternatives (like emailing the corresponding author, or professional society memberships, or alumni library access, or DeepDyve). The linked website is flagrantly violating copyright and that should be cause for concern; not breaking the law is part of every engineering (and professional) ethical code.
Good for them. For the last article that I published, the publisher "value added" consisted of highlighting all the all-caps names in my document and asking me to define them as acronyms. Literally the only thing they did, and it wasn't even right.
You can nest columns in sections (which correspond to rows in the design). Do you have an example of the layout you're trying to build? We would love to help you here!
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Nice, I need to copy one of my projects from github and try the CI (with Windows) support then. Sounds too good to be true.
I have to agree regarding the slowness, and although we do have many repositories (~100) and the machine only has 2GiB of RAM, it does feel slow for a service that sits idle 90% of the time, and almost never gets concurrent user access. We're on 8.0.0, so maybe it has gotten better.

That said, are you sure you don't have a very old version? There is a simple path for accessing code in a branch, you can just click the repo, then on the button that shows the number of branches ("N branches"), then click on the branch you want. If you want to see the files in an older commit of that branch, just click on "History" and then "browse files" on the commit line.
(disclaimer: I work at Artsy)

Writing a blog post like this is a form of retrospective. Would you agree that those improve outcomes and surface issues and are valuable? The only difference with those other successful companies making money is that we try to do more of it in public and that non-Engineers are doing it too (like Robert did here). It shouldn't take more time.
Looks to me that smoking suppressed 53 genes vaping suppressed 358 that's 100's more indeed.

That said their test seems to be limited to ecigs with a specific flavoring compound which replicates the taste of cinnamon; so it's not clear how many types of flavored actually cause this effect.
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Start with Python because it's relatively easy and makes sense. [Learn Python the Hard Way](http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/) is a good resource.

After you've got a Python project under your belt, learn JavaScript because pretty much every programmer will need to use JS at some point. [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/) is a good reference for JS, CSS, and HTML. W3Schools is a terrible resource and should be avoided.

Finally, learn a LISP (like Clojure/ClojureScript) because it will expand the way you think about programming and learn at least one lower-level language (like Rust or C / C++).

You should also learn Bash or Zsh as you go. I wouldn't recommend shell-scripting languages for large projects, but they are immensely useful for tasks like file manipulation, and you will need to know how to work with a terminal for system administration tasks.
Why use proprietary software when there's https://webtorrent.io/

Is piratebay turning into another sourceforge or download.com?
Google cloud is missing RDS though, and DBA tasks are a giant headache.
It was always like that. When it started many of us were much, much younger. I was 18! It was always a troll magnet, hell the GNAA started there.

Unfortunately for Slashdot, most of us have grown up while it doesn't seem to have. I can't really see how you can change that culture, all I can think is you would have to do it very, very carefully and slowly.

That said, slashdot is in a better state than SourceForge.
I've never smoked cigarettes but cigars I have. They make so many claims about how addictive nicotine is, and yet cigars are supposed to have so much more nicotine than cigarettes, here I am a year without smoking a cigar (maybe I've had one or two in the past year, if anything) and I'm probably not going through what a cigarette smoker goes through, and I've gone times where I've had a cigar daily. Winston Churchill smoked daily and lived to be around 90. So I'm not an "expert" but a lot of what they say doesn't add up with what I've lived and it seems others have lived. Cigarettes aren't pure tobacco usually anyway, they're full of "tobacco sheets", just like Coca Cola isn't as full of sugar as it is "Corn Syrup." My uncle on the other hand smokes daily for quite a few years, and I never see him have the same symptoms other cigarette smokers usually do. The trick is probably the fact we don't inhale the cigar smoke into our lungs, enough of the smoke will get in there regardless.
I argued that the problem is in the health toll, not in smoking itself.
Booo.

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Those alternatives will not work 99% of the times.
I love the fact that it says pirate site.

Information wants to be free.
With professional Java8 and Scala experience, and as a published author of a book that uses both languages side by side, I strongly disagree.

Look at how Java8 implements lambdas via a Single Abstract Method (SAM) - it's syntactic sugar. Or look at the streams api and collections library - Java8 IS the hack on top of Java. Scala is built from the ground up to be a better language.

Java8 is not at all comparable with Scala. There is a giant gap in the quality of the core libraries and the quality of the language and implementations of functional features. Part of the problem is the history of the language. Bless java for the jvm but saying that scala is extrenous and that java should be improved to have those features ignores the evidence that it can't be done well ontop of what is already there.
Yes, perhaps they'll actually get out of the default uBlock Origin blocking list some time ...
This is also why we get those bullshit articles about the "shortage" of web developers or STEM graduates or "coders" or whatever the media buzzword du jour is. The only shortage is of people willing to work for below-market rates.

It's also why the UK will never have a tech scene anything like the USA.
This is what Aaron Swartz was trying to do, right?
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Well, I'm not from Silicon Valley or YC, and I avoid torrenting music etc because it takes more directly from content creators, but the publishers' business practices put this on a whole different level to me. Also, half the time for the old-school stuff that one has to cite in the introduction for a paper, the corresponding author is dead but the paper is still under copyright.
The last paragraph was especially of interest to me. I had heard of the experiment in Finland and the vote in Switzerland but not the Dutch experiments.

Most people I know haven't heard of Basic Income, let alone are convinced by it. The only way this can become a reality is through experiments like these. It's also the only way many of us can go from wishful thinkers to advocates with facts.

These are exciting times for proponents of Basic Income.
Distinguish ethical from legal. Not all laws are ethical (depending on where you live, most laws could easily be unethical), and this website goes out of its way to say why the laws they violate are not.
There are plenty of articles, books and videos from which you can gather the needed information.
I also like suggestions, but you can not focus on your personal interests if you always get distracted with news from other fileds.
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Great to see a massive middle finger to the journal system. It's a disgrace and has to stop. Unfortunately I fear sites like this might entice more stringent protections for future journal published articles. The war continues.
In my opinion he addiction doesn't come from nicotine but from the act itself which is very relaxing and pleasant.

Btw even if you don't inhale I understand that nicotine gets in your system anyway. Probably in smaller quantities, which is offset by the high amount of nicotine in cigar/pipe tobacco.
You've said this ad nauseum. We get it! Let the guy try to sort it out. He has a mammoth task ahead of him and I don't envy the work he's got to do to sort this out, but at least he's making an attempt. He's already made the right first moves.

I'll be watching with interest. Either this won't work, or it will work really well! I can't see any middle ground. I hope for Logan's sake that he's a spectacular success and he makes a lot of money in an ethical way :-)
Thank you. I guess I didn't articulate it well enough for the grand parent comment here. I guess we could make an exception for personal AND non-commercial diaries but if you make business decisions that affect me based on information you store about me, then I should have a right to see them.

I'm also thinking about the rights of everyone including criminal (including terror) suspects to see (I am specifically not asking permission to alter or delete, that's another conversation) all the information the government (and their agents in the private sector) stores about them.

I know it sounds onerous specially because of the issue of authentication (how does the CIA know that it is me who is asking for information about me and not someone impersonating me?) and I don't have a good solution for these questions.
Automating processes involving people from outside your project is just a very hard problem. The trade-off here is investing a possibly small amount of time into recruiting a PM vs. investing a possibly ridiculous amount of time into building a magical issue triaging AI.
Or you could even get used to drinking strong whiskies!

It's called acquired taste and not all of them are bad.
Google Cloud has MySQL for RDS. Agree that its lacks Oracle, MSSQL and Postgres. You can use managed Postgres by Enterprise if you like. If you are startup and running Oracle in AWS / Google Cloud, that's probably not a wise choice (You don't get the benefits Oracle, which is performance in AWS / Google Cloud). A startup using MSSQL in cloud? May for a niche purpose. If you are a big company with lots of legacy apps built with Oracle / Postgres / MSSQL, AWS makes more sense in short run.
I just checked, the two most popular public torrent sites have COMODO CA default-on https.

These sites do want to maintain security, so their users can keep coming back rather than getting copyright strikes or worse fines and getting scared off. That doesn't stop them from putting viruses in the ad banners, but that is not getting their users arrested.
Edit...this is wrong-> It's specific to Cisco ASA firewalls with a version level < 9.1(7), which was released in January of 2015.

Edit: Gelob, below, is right. There's a really unfortunate "read more" link that hides the important bits on Cisco's documentation and caused my confusion.
> The potential problem is that now you've created one of those loophole things. Now publically bribe the official n/105 of what you actually want, and it's totally legal!

That would still reduce the influence by >95% because you have to pay 105x and the politician only gets 5x.

The actual problem is that if a politician is known for reporting bribes then they won't be offered any, so taking 1x every time is still more profitable than taking 5x once.
Hm, let's investigate how things get to the front page of HN. Ah, here it is, on a page titled "Hacker News FAQ": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html under the header "How are stories ranked?"

Maybe perceptions are completely off base sometimes.
As you can see from the link the real intent of the creators of the Contributor Covenant and there 'inclusive' contract is really to attack, bully and exclude people who do not convert to there cult like sudo-religion.

Codes of conduct will not increase participation in your project they will reduce participation. No one wants to be part of a nanny state where political ideologues like Coraline Ada Ehmke poor over social media and attack you when they read things that disagree with there personal political and religious beliefs.

Project leaders and Platform providers can remove the door for entry-ism by simply removing third party codes of conduct. If you still feel the need to have some community guidance keep it simple to the point and honest.
Regardless of your personal stance, this is newsworthy for hackers and it belongs on a site named "Hacker News" if the users upvote it as such.

With that said, the site isn't working for me. Pirates better not quit their day jobs.
Generally speaking: what's legal and what's morally right sometimes diverge. Civil disobedience can be a necessity.

If being a professional means blindly following laws without thinking, I'm happy this place is not just for "professionals".
Because it's 90% not about the nicotine.
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If you're a student, your university likely has a proxy service that allows you to access journals from anywhere using your credentials.

My previous uni gives access to alumni for life, so I can access journals for free from wherever.