skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The makeup of e-cigarette vapor is different than the what's in the liquid. When vaping, the e-cigarette coil heats up to 300°C and breaks compounds in the liquid (such as propylene glycol) into new compounds such as propylene oxide, acetaldehyde, and formaldehyde. Researchers found that aerosols generated by e-cigarettes contain up to 31 compounds, some of which are known carcinogens.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.6b01741
I never have thought this way. If this is true then there should have been highly visible media campaign to point this out.
How many bytes of memory were saved? 32-bits multiplied by potentially trillions of time, considering storage was not dirt cheap as it is now...
I laughed out loud when I read that headline... I'm a vegetarian and am sitting here munching on some sickening off-brand potato-chips that I'm pretty sure will kill me if I finish the packet. No animal products though.
Although, I do think it's borderline inarguable that you are reading too much into the personality traits of the Slack channel members (e.g., "hateful") with far too little information to justify the strength of the words.

That is a misinterpretation of my remark. I have personally seen this firsthand over and over. My general remark that I am sick of seeing it does not attribute hatefulness per se to the discussion members. I still seriously doubt that it was a very warm fuzzy conversation. I think the author of the piece is being incredibly charitable.

Just look at how I am being attacked here to give you some inkling of how such conversations typically go. It is hard enough to get privileged white males to be genuinely respectful to each other in an internet conversation. That used to be kind of a given on HN, which deteriorated over time. I hope to see that sort of atmosphere return here -- it does seem to be improving -- but I hope it also includes the women in a way they never were before.
In most tech contexts, diversity means racial and gender appearance-only diversity. There is very little to no thought put into background or cultural diversity.

The different groups (immigrants and 2nd generation children of immigrants) that offer the most cultural and background diversity are flagged as a monolithic group based on appearance, completely ignoring the cultural diversity that they bring.
Good question!

1) I trust them ever so slightly more than your average off-shored telco rep.

2) AFAIK, they do not hold the credentials in unencrypted form, they're only decrypted on the device with the backup password.
He, Martin Skreli, and other CEOs like them.. don't treat others like human beings.
So its easy to demonize giant pieces of shit.
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EU Debit / Credit Card withdrawals are down, but
SEPA transfers are still up, as is the API, so you can pull your money and Bitcoins out of Coinbase. Do so now; if Coinbase is OK, you can put it back; if not, you've got it.

The history of Bitcoin exchanges is that when they get into trouble, things get worse, not better. Get out while you can.

The Mt. Gox liquidation is still proceeding, slowly.[1]

[1] https://www.mtgox.com/
Kraken and Gemini inexplicably don't support users from WA state, which is incredibly frustrating.
I used to work the same way. Then, I discovered that if I drastically cut (and, in most cases, eliminated entirely) the amount of time I spent toiling after-hours on a given issue, I was able to achieve the same level of next-day success. You touched on the key here: sleeping on a problem, letting your brain solve it in the background, is really quite effective.
Wow. This is what happens when someone never leaves their bubble of liberal rags e.g. Vox, Mother Jones and believes every word. Cultural Marxism as a thing is several decades older than that kid, yet their first association for it is a conspiracy theory. Pretty embarrassing.
> Why the EFF doesn't publish a huge map showing land used by ISPs that's not owned by them I don't understand.

Likely because it wouldn't show anything interesting. State and local governments may only "manage the public rights-of-way or to require fair and reasonable compensation from telecommunications providers, on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for use of public rights-of-way on a nondiscriminatory basis, if the compensation required is publicly disclosed by such government." https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/253. In practice, rights of way are poles and conduits, which are rented to all companies at published, non-discriminatory rates: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/224. The idea that companies are sitting on all these free rights of way they don't own is largely false.
Yeah, at the very least slap a leaky bucket on there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_bucket

Also, a user navigating to /search/:title is currently shown a raw error .json that exposes both your HMAC signature and your AWS access ID
Here is my collection of standard sized Sudoku test puzzles: https://github.com/jcoffland/fsudoku/tree/master/puzzles

Some of these are the hardest possible puzzles, with a solution, for the size.
Last time I checked 1-bit gradient descent is one of the only bits of CNTK that is closed source. I expect it is patented.
Could either of them apply topspin or return it?
Brisk walking for an hour daily is absolutely considered moderate exercise. High quality relationships can reduce stress which is related to sleeping.
Software, what its all about: assignments
if and while loops
Google is a thing?

(note to self: quit trying to crack jokes on HN)

;-)
This matches my observations. On the "technical ladder" I'm the equivalent of a Senior Manger or Director (or, less commonly, VP). My pay is definitely less than anybody at those positions in truth, and the tech ladder generally tops off just north of $200k base, as I've seen it. Outliers exist, the plural of anecdote is not data, and similar disclaimers apply.
Their branding and existing install base is a huge advantage.

Uber and Lyft returned to Austin last week after the Texas state legislature passed a law that overturns Austin's regulations. The local competitors have lost huge numbers of customers. Fare is shutting down, Fasten had to lower their rates, and Ride Austin saw their trip volume decrease by 55% in the first week [0]. I'd say it's pretty unlikely they will survive to the end of this year.

[0]: https://austinstartups.com/what-we-learned-from-the-first-we...
Right - clearly it is the job of women and PoC to give positive experiences to white men otherwise they cannot expect to be treated well.

It is also clearly not the responsibility of white men to give positive experiences to PoC and women, because they can't be expected to understand how if they aren't first given positive experiences by PoC and women.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents, the very worst kind of tangent.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538494 and marked it off-topic.
Unless Silicon Valley or NYC it is going to be cheaper to live. More take home pay after all expenses (including medical, mortgage).
The code is compiled on-the-fly and dynamically linked.
Not to mention XML supports comments.
Thanks so much! I imagine you're right, I must have misremembered. Though as you insinuated, this is the same thing in practice:

> In most cities, a startup cannot come in and build out neighborhood-by-neighborhood based on demonstrated demand. They're required to commit to building out the whole city in a short time frame, without regard to demand.

-- EDIT

I checked on this, and you're indeed correct. The franchise in my home town includes a non-exclusivity clause.

As you said, it also contains a clause stating that "The Licensee shall make its Cable System Service" available to all residents of the town within seven business days of a request". So the network must cover the entire town.

Finally, in the non-exclusivity clause, it states that if any other cable provider is ever granted a license with "more favorable or less burdensome" terms, then the town will renegotiate terms with Comcast.

To me, this is the same thing as "granting a monopoly" in practice. But I appreciate your clarification!

-- END OF EDIT

I want to also point out:

> The problem is not that municipalities are granting monopolies.

In the case of Chattanooga that I mentioned, the law preventing the municipal ISP from expanding is unfair in the same way, even if this is not a case of a monopoly being "granted". Why shouldn't a company created by a town be allowed to compete in the marketplace?
On a related note, there are many services

https://google.com/search?q=shared+checklists
On the "drug vs drug" question, are you implying that the competition is reduced to who takes the best or most drugs? I would have to disagree. These are professional; highly-trained athletes who work long and hard to be the best at what they do. Taking drugs makes them better, but they don't work any less hard. Drugs just raise the standards a little more.

As a general rule, the more elite your level of something, the lesser the difference in ability between you and your peers. Also, at the elite levels you get diminishing returns on your "investment" of more training.

Thus, at the level of, say, the NFL, can you really imagine an athlete turning down a drug that will boost his performance by, say, 5%, when he is training 100 hours per week to improve by 1%?

Also, athletes who do not take steroids are probably weeded out at the high school and college levels, so by the time you make it to the NFL you probably have few, if any, "natural" players.

W.r.t. steroid testing, I could be wrong but last time I read on the subject the tests used were easily circumvented.
The U2F bit is a dream, yes. The rest of it not so much.
Your project reminds me that I wish GOOS=efi to be a thing.
Could you elaborate why you think it looks like a fractional FT?

If you solve Schrödinger's equation with periodic boundary conditions on the potential what you get are Bloch functions, which are the product of a phasor and a periodic function.
Weird name collision with the Crash Override Network and Zoe Quinn's book.

I'm curious about the provenance of the name, as the article seems to suggest the security researchers provided the name.

[Edit]: I show my cultural ignorance -- it appears both are likely a reference to Hackers, based on the responses below.
I built FamSnap last year after becoming frustrated with the process of searching for a photographer to take family portraits on our vacation. The process consisted of searching google and spending days looking through individual photographer websites looking for examples of their work, their rates and what (if anything) they included in their packages.

I built FamSnap to make it easier on folks like myself to find a photographer in their area at a price they can afford who's offering the things they're looking for in a package deal.
It was a joke, it was always a 64-bit integer.
I disagree that there is some kind of anti-wealthy narrative that characterizes the rich as evil or at fault for the state of the nation and world. I believe there is a great deal of anti-corporate sentiment and, in my opinion, it is well deserved. But in terms of individual people who are rich, they seem as well loved and esteemed as ever. If you have some compelling articles to the contrary, I would be interested to read them.

During the past election, much was made of the wealth of the candidates. That didn't strike me as very effective... What did seem to strike a chord was the idea that some of the wealthy aren't paying taxes and that sounds entirely reasonable to me.
Is this just an item-item collaborative filter based on star ratings and cosine distance or do you have something more sophisticated going on?
In my experience, I tend to think it's something like 30% technologists, 70% money makers. Unfortunately, barely anyone (including myself) wants to see themselves as the second group (for the record, I think I'm on the second group).
I will never do business on coinbase again.

Over the past few years, they are always down at the most inopportune time. I wouldn't trust them at this point.

No, I don't have alternatives, no I don't want to divulge details, just putting the warning out there. Yes you're free to do as you please.
Couldn't agree more with your advice, but I'll just point out: once you hit weights where you can injure yourself, you're by definition no longer new to weightlifting. Plus you've already reaped most of the health benefits that being stronger bestow. Beyond that, you're no longer lifting for health.
Wow! I did somehow miss the 15 years aspect. Mysterious.
I'm glad you're feeling better.
Isn't the change in perks due to Ruth's arrival as CFO?
Reading the wrong books is worse than reading no books at all. Any tool that allows you to avoid 10% of the wrong books is worth it.
How does your rank on HN as a female matter for us to get your point? To me, the FYIs (which I have seen at least two of your comments in this thread) aren't letting your comments stand on their own merits.

For what it's worth, your point makes sense and I agree with it. However, it didn't seem like the author of the article had a hateful experience, so much as an awkward one.
Just for reference. 1-4 per day would be about a pack every 8 days, averaged. I'd be curious how that compares to a non-daily smoker who as the grandparent suggests, only smokes about once every other day on average.

I expect it's still a significant health risk, but I've never seen studies on people who don't smoke daily.
Hate to pile on with the same comment that appears in every "github.com is down" post on HN, but BTC/ETH/LTC are decentralized networks.

Why would anyone carry balances in wallets outside their immediate, local control?
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For completeness, one of the issues with e-cigs is that it heats a hydrocarbon by passing it over a poorly-regulated heating element. That's a recipe for creating random organic molecules, many of which are most definitely harmful. Probably not as harmful as old-school smoking, but definitely a case of "do not use around others and do not use except as a substitute for smoking."
As another commenter noted, I believe the more appropriate razor is Occam's, since this is not a question of malicious vs. non-malicious, but a question of the complexity of the malicious methods used by the attacker, but we can agree to disagree.
It's like how homogeneity is explained by rapid expansion, both in cosmology, anthropology, and linguistics. Maybe globalization led to a rapid expansion of what was then fashionable, and that led to its freezing.
The README mentions it in the #documentation section and links to these resources: (let me know how they can be improved)

- CAP Theorem tradeoffs: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/CAP-Theorem (We are AP, which is eventually consistent)

- My tech talk of how the CRDT works: http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html (compared to consensus protocols)

Clients keep a copy of data that they are interested in (not the whole data set, correct), and together they can reconstruct the entire data set. You can also run multiple server peers that backup the whole data set, or use a shard key to determine which subsets. If this isn't fault tolerant, would you mind giving me some examples of what is?

Yes, good point, to prevent data from getting trashed you need to run auth on the system, more info here: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/auth

We certainly aren't a storage engine, but we are a database/datastore (whatever you want to call it), or more appropriately: an open data sync protocol. I have tried to make our guarantees/tradeoffs very well laid out in the above mentioned articles/README, anything I can do to make this more clear/obvious?
Good guys(TM) have done a lot of damage. I've been through this; I had a friend whom I still like a great deal as a person, but who did a ton of damage in a different type of situation. It is hard to sort out.

But the fact remains, total assholes are capable of being ethical and moral, and the nicest person in the world can be a horrorshow.

Coming off as nice doesn't tell us anything about character, even though we are wired to feel otherwise.

He is the CEO, who has been caught red-handed being various flavors of deceptive, assholish, unconcerned with the externalities caused by his actions, not to mention several deeply unethical acts across years of time. That's before we get to the actions of his minions.

I have trouble understanding how you can credit him with success (which naturally means he "earned" his billions) while claiming he should be shielded from the fallout of his own and his reports' actions.
Or his direct mismanagement of Fowler's sexual harassment allegations.
That is a combination of code and architecture, not architecture alone.
"Obviously unforeseen.. impossible to predict." Really? You don't know how to properly store ID numbers?

IMPOSSIBLE to predict.
Saying that such conversations are needed in the world in no way suggests that there is an onus on specific people to have them with every random asshole who blurts something awful. There is a difference.
>a moat-like advantage, if Uber was to disappear tomorrow, there are competitors who will quickly takeover & grow, this happened when Uber left Austin.

What company, were it to disappear tomorrow wouldn't have competitors to take over its place? And how, from a Bayesian point of view, does P(competitors take over | company is dead) affect the chances of survival of a company?
I don't understand why the above comment was flagged. A woman was raped by an Uber driver in India. Eric Alexander brought the records to Kalanick, who rather than fire him for obtaining illicit medical documents related to an ongoing criminal investigation instead questioned the details in the report and postulated that the whole thing might have been fabricated by a competitor.

That's what the OP was talking about.
What about chewing tobacco? All smokeless tobacco has risks of cancer. I would not say that nicotine is harmless without a large amount of proof, and it should take about as much proof to say that it is not a carcinogen.
I mean this in the nicest possible way (so please don't take offense), but I think you're missing what is being said there. The framework itself should have no impact, positive or negative, on model accuracy. That being said, it can be extremely challenging to reproduce results given the stochasticity of random batches and asynchronous updates. Furthermore, precisely specifying the methods of data augmentation can be tedious, thus the protocol is often only partially detailed in published work which further exacerbates the challenges of reproducing results.
Anybody read the actual paper? I'm wondering what concoction of PG VG nicotine and what flavorings were used. It's already been shown that fruity juices vaporize into formaldehyde, so I'm wondering if they tested pure vegetable glycerin vapor as a control and what were the effects.
Suffers from my biggest complaint about modern JS applications as well: The assumption that the server is infallible.

The progress bar simply never goes away and my console is full of 503's. I sat waiting for like 30-40 seconds before I decided to check. Give me an error message so I know something went wrong at the very least!
Endurance is a different adaptation that strength. Somebody who is merely strong will only be modestly more "in shape" than somebody who does zero exercise. Expecting strong people to be adapted for endurance is like expecting marathon runners to deadlift 400lbs.

Strong people can get in shape, though. Take a look at crossfit athletes.
Attacking someone for ignorance is very unproductive
Assuming you're working in a language that defines signed integer overflow. Depending on the language, you can result in undefined behavior, instead. For that reason, I'd go with an unsigned counter, with the first million IDs being invalid or reserved for future use. That way, you get well-defined overflow into an invalid region.
But Germany has great public transport, excellent beers, free/close to free healthcare and liberal icon like Angela Merkel. That is all good hackers/developers care about.
If the outcome you want is empathy, you need to demonstrate it. If you don't demonstrate it, you are essentially dehumanizing yourself in the conversation, making it harder for others to empathize with you.

Then again, >whatever< outcome you want, you will need more empathy: you are not demonstrating enough empathy here in order to outwit an adversary, let alone to foster productive egalitarian relationships.
Please resist this kind of dismissive condescension towards other community members.
> Why shouldn't a company created by a town be allowed to compete in the marketplace?

Because EPB is a monopoly. In Chattanooga, it's illegal for anyone besides EPB to provide electric service. It's fairly conventional thinking that companies shouldn't be permitted to leverage their monopoly in one area to expand into a different area.
The researcher was equating 20 puffs to one cigarette, but the article doesn't say how that figure got selected. For a pack-a-day smoker, that would be 400 puffs a day. In a 10 hour period, 40 puffs each hour. I don't smoke or use e-cigs. For someone who does, how many puffs are you taking in a typical day? Do you think this is a good correlation? Do you typically, when puffing your e-cig, take 20 puffs in a few minutes as you would a cigarette? When you did smoke cigarettes (assuming you once did), does the number of puffs you take on the e-cig correspond to how many cigarettes you would smoke? Maybe people take fewer puffs to replace the same amount of cigarettes, which would undercut some of the conclusions reached.
The article's thesis, "Well it appears that the GPU era of computing is finally here! Intel is in deep trouble," has an implicit assumption that Intel's future mostly depends on processing power. Is that really the case?
Maybe a reference to the protagonist from Hackers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
Hierarchical file systems lack expressiveness and are awkward in places.

Hierarchical file systems made the most sense back in the days of the spatial desktop metaphor [0] pre-OS X classic Mac OS Finder. The ability to organize your files in a spatial manner and have the system preserve the one-to-one relationship between a file and its (virtual) physical location within the system was what made it work.

As soon as the browser metaphor (or navigational) file manager [1] took over (owing much of its success to the web browser), this relationship was lost and the system became unwieldy.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/3/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Navigational_file...
This is a whole class of problem - I wonder if there's a name for it. More examples include: talking about welfare being unnecessary because no one is starving. Or people on medications stopping because they feel better (while still on them).