skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I also highly recommend e-cigarettes, your story is of course the ideal picture of how it should go. But it might not go that easy for everyone: even with the use of it I'm having a hard time to quit the actual cigarretes completely and it's not due to the nicotine (in fact I do not know what exactly still makes me crave for those hand-rolled cigarettes). Also nicotine can be a pleasant drug to use. Which is likely why I know several people who've been vaping for years and have a hard time quitting, or even just don't want to quit. But they did quit smoking so that's a huge win already of course.
Sorry, I was confused because they're allowed to vote in Scottish Parliamentary elections.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/voting-and-registr...

"Citizens of EU countries other than the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Malta cannot vote in UK Parliamentary general elections, but can vote at local government elections, Scottish Parliamentary elections if they are registered in Scotland, National Assembly for Wales elections if they are registered in Wales and Greater London Authority elections if they are registered in London. They can also vote at European Parliamentary elections if they fill in a form stating that they wish to vote in the UK and not in their home country"

Bonus points to people who can give a rational non-imperialist argument as to why Ireland, Cyprus and Malta nationals get that privilege.
Not sure what that has to do with my comment. Perhaps you meant to reply to someone else?
Other governments spend less and get more impressive results http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/SiteGlobals/StyleBundles/Bi...
Wanted to know that as well. They were making a major rewrite. Not sure if it is finished yet.
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£20K for a London developer? How the fuck is someone supposed to live on £20K in London? These kind of listings should be banned. You are a sweatshop exploiting cheap labour and should be ashamed of your pathetic pay.
This referendum was not set up as binding or self-executing. If you can find where in the rules the government committed to any particular course of action, you're welcome to quote them.
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I am visiting China and only about half of my taobao orders have had free shipping. In some cases where I paid for shipping, there was a free shipping option, but the price + shipping was lower for another listing of the same item where I had to pay for shipping.

Also, shipping is not always quick. Sometimes, the merchant doesn't have the item in stock that they listed and rather than delist or tell you, they just leave your order in the system until you contact them. Then they tell you to ask for a refund. I have had it happen multiple times over the past 2 weeks with enterprise-grade network equipment like SFP transceivers and media converters. I even had it happen with a TP-LINK TL-EP110.
"Do you prefer this complex, useful but far-from-ideal trade bloc to a raft of (mostly implausible) hypothetical alternative arrangements?" is a somewhat less basic question than "which country do you want to be part of?" though. 72.2% is high, considering the turnout at UK General Elections.
I always wonder with people who say this - if the vote had gone the other way but Parliament decided to leave the EU anyway, would you still be saying the vote was only advisory so it's fine?
The treaties, like all EU treaties, are deliberately designed to bind people to things they don't want to do by artificially tying them all together with a "guillotine clause". There is no need for this type of thing - it's a pure power play.

Switzerland is heading for what could be a potentially nasty constitutional crisis, if things go wrong. Parliament is legally bound to implement referendums because they work by adjusting the constitution. Swiss MPs are apparently more scared of the EU than they are of their own courts. This is not a sustainable situation for a democracy. Even if it doesn't blow up now, eventually it will. Switzerland will eventually go through its own "Swexit", due to a referendum that involves wishing to withdraw from one part of one agreement and the EU insisting that it withdraws from all of them simultaneously.
Good point. You can express an I don't know by spoiling your ballot. Unfortunately not many people consider this option. Nor is this approach perfect.
> ...and its syntax for me is worse than Java's

Both C++ and Java have been improving their syntax in recent years. I'd recommend reintroducing yourself to the latest version of either.
What have we been seeing? Lower pound is probably a major advantage to working class people.

We have such a high pound because we are a country driven by financial industry, people keep their wealth in pounds because of this. Ultimately it screws over other industries resulting in the south/north divide.
To be clear, I'm not claiming that the result of this referendum has to be carried out. I honestly don't know enough about British politics to say to what extent that's the case.

I'm saying that dismissing a popular vote on the basis of voter turnout doesn't make sense. E.g. only 66.4%[1] voted in the last UK general election. Would anyone argue that the entire government of the UK is illegitimate on that basis?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_electio...
I'm not sure why the goal is quitting. Nicotine itself isn't the problem with cigarettes, it's just a stimulant and has the usual stimulant effects. If you have high blood pressure or trouble sleeping, probably not a great drug to use. But the same can be said of coffee, which is perfectly legal.

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine is interesting reading.

Of course, e-cigarette liquid is not only nicotine, so who knows what the long term effect of that is. The chromium in the heating coils worries me personally. (Kanthal and stainless steel both contain chromium. Obviously stainless steel is designed to be relatively inert, so maybe it's OK. Titanium is another option, and is implanted in the body regularly. But things are different at high temperatures.)
I have two products I want to build (one more than the other) but I'm raising the capital (which is pretty small, mostly it's time I need) needed to do the initial development by running a small dev-shop with my business partner, client work pays the bills and leaves enough free time to work on the product, it'll take longer to build and there is a slight risk of someone building something similar (though I've not seen anything remotely like it yet which means a) good idea b) it's a terrible idea).

I've no interest in the "startup" model, We work out of a very cheap office in a council (local gov) building and we run cheap!, total business costs (inc rent, internet and phone) run around £450 a month for both businesses (the dev shop and business partners design business), We have a local startup hub that would cost that for a couple of hotdesks, it's crazy.
For a Facebook employee, there is many other ways to speak about Emacs than on a closed platform.

In North Korea, I am not sure they have many alternative if they want to chat about freedom of speech.

Though, I appreciate that you compare Facebook to North Korea.
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It's bad when its purpose is the evasion of lawful public oversight, e.g. by FOIA requests.
> Thus the tobacco companies are happy to lobby against e-cigarettes

I saw this on Reddit a while back, someone pointed out that "we get it, you vape" was probably introduced by tobacco companies to create a stigma around the practice.

I'm a quitting smoker, on vape (RBA) and it bloody works. If only there were such great tools for quitting other addictions.
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That still leaks a number, let's say it's 0-5h and resolution is 1 minute, that's 60*5 == 300, so roughly 8 bits of entropy.

A `onBatteryLow` callback might do the trick?
I was actually quite successful with the gum, but the only thing that really made it difficult for me to quit was the withdrawal symptoms. So I suppose it's effectiveness depends on how someone is addicted to smoking.
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Ask HN: I'm implementing a progress bar – could Apple reject my App, then?
I'm totally new in the iOS App Store and not so familiar with Apple's rules or the US DMCA, either...
I want to develop an App which shows a radial progress bar, similar to the one in the iPhone App "Activity" (looks likes this: http://pablomolnar.github.io/radial-progress-chart/ ).

Could I get in trouble regarding to Apple's rules, DMCA or even software patents?

Don't get me wrong, I don't wanna steal their design, but just reuse it. So the users aren't confused by multiple designs for the same thing.
It just remains blank and tells me to type something (even when I have). Tested on FF android and the Materialistic hacker news app
UK partners are already being left out. I predict a generation of uk phd's that will just not exist - between now and when the whole thing is sorted out, funded and implemented - 3-4 years easily.
Sure, but Emacs didn't became Emacs without it's specific freedom ideology. Sorry, but I find it weird to forget about it.
I disagree that remaining was a status-quo option.

Firstly it was 'remain' with Cameron's new package of concessions, not remaining as-is, and it's not like the EU is a static entity.

I think I would have preferred a real in-out referendum, with the 'in' option being really diving in and embracing the whole project.
Or like Gore getting an incredibly thin majority based on interpretation of ambiguous ballots and then having it overruled by the Supreme court?

(George W. Bush:	50,456,002.
Al Gore:	50,999,897. Yes, I do know how the electoral college works, but if the same election had been counted under referendum rules the result would have been different)
some people just aren't good at technical interviewing but on the other hand there are a lot of bad interviewers.

I work with a guy I interviewed that gave one of the worst interview performances I had done. He couldn't answer many of the technical questions correctly or only had a surface understanding of them. But, from asking him the soft skill questions I knew he would work well with our team. Then we gave him two simple programming assignment that many of the more senior developers we interviewed couldn't do. He didn't know the syntax of the language well, but you could tell from his thought process, the questions he asked, and how we solved the problem that he was as Joel Spolsky said "smart and gets stuff done".

I along with my manager fought to get him hired. We were right about him. He's very effective, diligent, and if I ever got my own team at another company, I would fight to bring him on to work with me.
Do e-cigarettes really have a reputation as a 'menace'? I've never heard anyone express any significant concern about them on an individual level (certainly nowhere near as much as about traditional cigarettes), and yet I've read countless news articles decrying them.

It seems odd.
The Leave side.

The Remain camp had "project fear" which basically translated the top end of the economic consensus into tabloid.
I agree that certain aspects of the referendum (both in terms of the Referendum Act and also the campaigning) were far from ideal. All the same, we're in the situation we're in, and everyone needs to look forward at how the UK can best proceed with Brexit, and not look backwards and try to overturn the referendum result (but of course I'd say that).
Doh--missed my edit window.

*"Reddit is a pot of frogs slowly being boiled"
Does it do automatic conversion, so if you had used it continuously it would have just worked? (not a user of org mode, just curious)
AliExpress puts a markup on the actual item versus the price that you would pay in China. That could partially explain it.

In other posts in this discussion, kogepathic claimed that the cost of shipping is subsidized by other countries and webscaleizfun even posted a link to evidence of the US subsidizing the cost of shipping between China/HongKong and the US:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12857444
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854573

Maybe France has a similar arrangement. That combined with the markup Aliexpress charges would explain it.

Edit: According to jeromegv's link to the Washington Post, this is by international treaty and almost every country is subject to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12857145
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...

Consequently, France is subsidizing the shipping costs for AliExpress.
Indeed, the parent poster appears to be weaving a "just so" story with the moral being that government (somehow a monolith and not a composition of a representative legislature) seeks to get more revenue. This ignores the fact that federal tax receipts have been hovering around 20% of GDP for the last 40 years [1].

However, each state is different; some states' legislatures intentionally tax tobacco products as a deterrent to smoking, with demonstrable public health benefits [2]. Cigarette taxes are negatively correlated with smoking rates. I concede that the federal tobacco tax rate is too low to do anything substantial, for raising revenue or as a deterrent. It should either be raised, or scrapped and left to the states.

1. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/federal-receipt-an...

2. http://www.cbpp.org/research/higher-tobacco-taxes-can-improv...
> VOTE.org is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization and does not support or oppose any political candidate or party.

this is nothing but a Super-PAC for Hillary Clinton that exploit a loop hole in the robocall laws

60 people holding down the 'enter' key 24/7 (it's not automated!). disruptive.

this is the most unethical company YC has backed since InstallMonetizer
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There was no real way to define what "Leave" means: clearly it means ceasing to be a member of the European Union, and the only means provided for that is Article 50, but beyond that the UK does not have the power to decide unilaterally what "Leave" means (as it requires coming to an agreement with the Council of Europe), and therefore any referendum in the UK could not decide what "Leave" means.
The "hard remain" option would definitely have lost. The EU is not all that popular even among people who voted remain. Rather like the "oh well, Clinton if I must" voters in the US.

It would have been interesting to see a three-option ballot under runoff voting, but those are completely alien to the UK system.
Do you have to give people a permanent contract right away in the US? In Netherland, people usually get a temporary contract at first, and then a permanent one. Too much uncertainty isn't good of course, but half a year to prove yourself is not unreasonable, I think.

(Though there are Dutch companies that abuse it by extending temporary contracts without ever giving a permanent contract, and sometimes even let good employees go because they don't want to give them a permanent contract.)
Sure, but "giving up" is frowned upon even more than failing. Nobody wants to be a "quitter".
Anyone have any org-mode config settings that they've found invaluable? I finally have my normal emacs config mostly working how I want it, so why not go in and add more stuff to it with org-mode!
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I found it harder to quit as a rollie-smoker myself. My theory is the ritual of rolling up a quick cigarette is just as compelling as the actual smoke. I'd find myself rolling at my desk when in a stressful situation a fair bit.
Decisions like this should require a 2/3 yes vote. Raise the bar higher if something this big would have a long lasting impact.
> Are you assuming that there is some genetic or evolutionary reason for men to like cars? That somehow it is hard-coded into the Y chromosome to like cars?

There does seem to be some supporting evidence for this theory over social conditioning.

Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children[1]

[1]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X08...

[edit] I'm actually rather uncomfortable posting this paper as I don't feel I personally have enough expertise to draw any conclusions from it.

I'm just posting it as it seems to directly address the parent's question.
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The export function is stellar (although I had to hack the OOo support to work on Windows); HTML exports look great (well, after using the right stylesheet).

It's a really great way of bootstrapping/seeding presentations.
Whether or not it's worth the money, many true startups that lose that much money die out. The threat of dying off if the company can't figure out how to get sufficient revenue is one major source of creativity in startups. So, it's just another government agency.
Yeah this is the kind of legalese bs that leads to violent overthrows of governments. If you believe that this will stop Brexit you are living in phantasy land.
> This sort of "opinion" is far more difficult to notice, but still exists in reporting in the form of attempting to speculate on the reasons behind the facts.

But that’s how it’s usually marked – as a seperate, independent part of the article, marked opinion or speculation, or by putting it in context.
Jumping directly to discrimination in society seems a bit hasted as an explanation for the data, since men entering the teaching profession also show the exact same data. When hitting a roadblock, men a several times more likely to quit the teaching profession than a woman hitting the same roadblock. Surely it not an issue of men knowing that they're worth something in and of themselves, competing against women in the teaching profession.

Theory should be testable. Failure rate after interview rejection should be fairly easy to gather over any number of profession, so why not do that. Rather than just studies on teaching and tech profession, lets have 20-30 different profession, about which 50% will be male dominated and 50% female dominated (should be easy since about 90% of all profession in Sweden have major gender imbalance, and >80% of both women and men are employed).

Rather than explaining the odds, and rather than talking about intrinsic value, maybe we should be talking about the psychological effect of diverging behavior. If 60% of people in a restaurant pick vanilla ice-cream as desert and 40% pick chocolate, the 40% is more likely to have buyers remorse than those in the 60%. Being in a minority, be that based on gender, race, language, or ice cream preference, will have an confidence impact. When it comes to carer choice, that impact has then a very noticeable effect.
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All the reports I've read point to only GRU using the exploit, which invalidates your comment completely. And the downvote I got.
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I sort of agree as regards the very general guillotine clause, but I don't think it would make a huge difference in this case, because the Swiss referendum hits at the core of the common market agreement. The common market is made up of a few things that all go together to attempt to produce an integrated economic zone: free movement of labor, equal treatment of foreign and domestic companies, regulatory harmonization, etc. If countries can choose to honor some parts and not others, then you end up with a very fragmented market that fails to achieve the objective. Maybe France passes labeling laws designed to exclude Danish dairy products, Switzerland decides to restrict free movement, Greece decides to tax foreign companies at a higher rate than domestic companies, etc., etc. So it makes sense to me that the treaties over the common market are written such that countries only retain membership as long as they continue to honor each of these factors.
Second for Bitwig - I came from using Cubase (since '91 on an Atari) - and while it was a bit of a change, my workflow is much improved.
Only in U.S. cities will I see scare-tactic advertisements against e-cigarettes. What's strange to me is that the Truth campaign is sponsoring some of them. The Truth campaign is a result of a liability suit of several states vs the cigarette companies, and it is intended to pay for anti-smoking advertisements and smoking cessation programs. It appears to be a blatant violation of the terms of the judgement.
More's the pity!

For some reason we have to stick with these archaic systems that produce perverse results...
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That's an apples to oranges comparison. Emacs is an operating system, not a text editor like Vi. ;-)
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IIRC it's more like 10:70 than 1:7, a HNsearch should show up stories on this imbalance, have definitely read about it here.
Exactly, when I was Lead Dev on Pornhub, I had more than once a phonecall at 2 or 3am while out partying having to sort out problems and deploy. All streamlined, press button, deploy happens, almost null chance of fuck up and if it would, a simple button click for a split second revert.
I'm not Australian, but come from a cricket-playing nation, and I agree with you. I'm more familiar with the Brisbane that houses The Gabba :)
Ask HN: How do you conduct technical interviews
I'd like to ask how other small- to medium-sized companies structure their technical interview process:

Do you use commercial tools (e.g. coderpad or similar) or your own custom-built or ad-hoc solution?
Although I think they are in more urgent need of developers than designers - their software looks great, but unfortunately tends to be rather buggy...
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that 727 hours for a logo change is pretty wild. here's the difference: https://twitter.com/deanc/status/794150888940113920
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