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> The truth of the matter is that we view them as competitors at best and enemies at worst.

What's wrong with being competitors? Japan gained the most public respect in the U.S. when it looked like they were kicking America's ass in manufacturing and high technology.

> There most definitely is an anti-russian, anti-china/asia, anti-iran/middle east/muslim, etc "sentiment" in the US.

I was mainly saying that you don't tend to see the language used as a tool for propaganda. I'm not saying that some people don't feel animosity toward china, north Korea, Iran (I actually don't see anyone complaining about Afghanistan these days), and Russia; I'm just saying that their languages aren't being used in propaganda like German was used in anti-Nazi propaganda.

> Which two are universally beloved in the US? Certainly not japan and korea...

The only people I hear complain about (South) Korea are Japanese people, and the only people I hear complain about the Japanese are Chinese and Korean people. Maybe I live in a bubble, but I would think I'd run into somebody with one of these prejudices over the years, if it were a big thing.
You're not a 'lay scientist' if you're just parsing newspaper articles, while ignoring the methodological explanation and cited sources.

You're just nitpicking at a short interactive widget, simplified for a general audience, as if it were the core argument of a paper in an academic journal - which it isn't.

You're not doing science; you are role-playing a character on the internet, and offering your intellectual laziness or lack of comprehension (idk which) as if it were a counter-argument - which it isn't.

It's true that this article solicits your interest in a phenomenon and does not walk through the full detail of everything, but provides only a short summary and a reference to sources. It'd be great if it were a fully-developed explainer that you could navigate through like a science documentary on one particular subject or a deep dive into Wikipedia. Maybe in a few years we';; be able to produce such elaborate tutorials on the fly using AI, and by asking astute questions you'll be able to interactively broaden your education or even make valuable suggestions from left field, and then you will indeed be a lay scientist. But in the meantime, you're LARPing.
> ...anything else is distraction

Is it? I was under the impression that many game shops do several releases based on the same code. It seems it would be valuable to limit the incremental cost for extra episodes, DLC, Madden YYYY+1, etc.
Craftsman - Czesław Miłosz

Craftsman, prepare your instruments.
A tall echo comes down the mountain; you hear the roaring of spring torrents.
The beauty of the earth reveals itself for the first time to children's eyes just as it did once to yours.
Craftsman, you are building a star that will journey in the sky of those now being born,
While you withdraw without regret, thinking how difficult it was to live a life.
And to learn that we do not get what we wanted,
and that the two greatest virtues are resignation and persistence.
Also that consciousness brings no solace,
since it is the consciousness of a clown turning somersaults on a stage, hungry for applause.
You acquired unwelcome knowledge, of yourself and others; you are filled to the brim with pity and wonder.
May those who are destined to pick up your labor start where you finished, master of vanquished despair.
Praising, renewing, healing. Grateful because the sun rose for you and for others.
What have you learnt from the postmortem?
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This is Richard: a product manager with Wasabi

Presently we accept all credit cards (via stripe of course), and are rolling out invoices for ACH / etc soon.
Manjaro-openrc will be discontinued
In your opinion, given the skepticism you observe here, is there something more that iRobot/Colin could do or say that could better alleviate concerns based on your insider knowledge?
Yeah I tend to see Boulder instead of Denver. That may have to do with the percentages of tech jobs. Denver is still a big Energy city.
Nicotine has several health and mental benefits and is not at all addictive if taken apart from cigarettes.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nicotine-all-b...
I agree in principal, but realistically I'm not sure that you can reduce the cancer-causing agents because some of them are the result of burning plant matter not additives. I think the idea they are working on is to make the product less addictive and thereby easier to quit using.
So the threshold is "provides no health benefits"? Should we also target coffee in the same way (nicotine being in the same classification as caffiene)?

How about we only regulated things which are proven to be harmful?
Well I'm disappointed that "1. You should know the core language" does not include reading the actual language spec! Especially that this is apparently aimed at serious developers. ES 5.1 spec is actually quite simple and contains a lot of interesting information.

While books are nice to read at first the real "meat" is always in specs. Tangential but I noticed a lot of developers I meet do not read the actual RFCs or white papers... D'oh.
Low fixed property taxes means cities rely on sales and use tax, which means retail is favored and housing disfavored.

Prop 13 ruins everything.
It's not though. It's a mild stimulant, with similar benefits to caffeine. (Not health benefits per se; it helps some people focus).

> Wikipedia summarizes Guillem et al 2005 as "Technically, nicotine is not significantly addictive, as nicotine administered alone does not produce significant reinforcing properties" - the addictiveness coming from MAOIs (eg. Khalil et al 2000, Khalil et al 2006) & possibly other compounds present in tobacco; while there don’t seem to many human studies aside from the Amsterdam et al 2006 review on the observed inhibition in smokers (consistent with the MAOIs playing a role in addiction), there are a number of significant animal studies:

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

Not to say it's not addictive at all, I'm mildly addicted to nicotine gum, to about the same extent I'm addicted to caffeine (if it's available I'll certainly take it, but if I run out, I'm not rushing to the store to buy more).
You could say the same about sugar.
I've seen a few "promising" build toolchains; the sad part is that they need to get significant traction to make real progress. Sincerely, best of luck on build2.
You can do this with the 2nd generation I think.

I'm in the android ecosystem, and have had 2 watches that do this: Moto 360 Sport, and now have Polar M600 that can store music (from Google Play), and which allows running without a phone.
Yes, this is insane. I just object to the idea that this insanity validates other kinds of insanity like neo-Nazi ideology. It's all bullshit.
The most deadly addictive substance on Earth is sugar, it kills far more than nicotine could ever hope to. But for some reason the FDA doesn't care to restrict everyone's sugar intake. As far as I'm concerned all we needed was appropriate tort reform which would allow people who get cancer to sue tobacco companies for damages (before the warnings).
It isn't so much that your employer is hiring (that's great!) - but what happens should the employee be let go or want to change employers? Are there other employers in the area needing software engineers? Are there enough of them to support the needed software engineers as a whole?

That's the issue, as I am sure you are aware. In SV, a software engineer (according to trite legend, I suppose) can walk out the door and be hired again across the street the same day. They can probably repeat that every day for a year, and still not run out of options.

I know that's an oversimplification, and hyperbole to boot - but you know what I mean.

An area needs more than one employer in the space to make it attractive to those employees they need. Especially if they want to stay in the area long term...
it reminds me of the mentality of the extreme right and left wing. if they just repeat their rhetoric over and over, and in groups, it gives them a sense of solace that they aren't being inhumane, greedy pigs.
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That depends on whatever the local mean and standard deviation is for the locale you're talking about. Absolute temperatures are meaningless in that context
That lag time is unfortunate. At this point I'd want to see research on regulating and stigmatizing marijuana use.

(One of the first things Canada did when making marijuana legal was to make "no smoking" zones extend to marijuana, too.)
Nicotine by itself is not dangerous. There's a VERY common misconception that nicotine itself is carcinogenic, while there is actually insufficient evidence for that. It's the tobacco, tar, and carbon monoxide that are responsible for most of the adverse effects of nicotine products.

The only concern with vapes like the juul is that while their base components are safe to vape, sometimes they use flavors which are not very well studied (and which, when heated, may degrade into carcinogenic chemicals).
Nicotine is not super highly addictive, as far as drugs go.

Tobacco smoke is. It has MAOIs (addictive) and possibly other drugs.
What with last-minute changes in the code and different exchanges doing different things, it would be best to have all your Bitcoins in offline wallets before the fork. Within a few days after the fork, things should settle down.

(Although, of course, there's probably money to be made while prices are changing rapidly around the time of the split. There's going to be some churn.)
But not nearly as many as sugar related products.
nootropic
The community is hurt by their greed for massively inflated property values, low taxes,

Or maybe they see positive tradeoffs. Either way it's for them to assess, not you.

Keeping the younger generation from living the lives they want.

As if they have some inalienable right to live in places like Brisbane.

If that makes me negative, fine.

I doubt they care what you think, actually.
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I'm sure this allows them to drop a lot of legacy. Keeping the shuffle means continuing to support a non-Darwin based OS [1] and any legacy protocols it used. It's continuing to be a shrinking market, so I can't imagine investing much r&d to add support for current services.

Another poster asked why not use Apple Watch guts to update the Nano. I'm sure for similar reasons including the hardware used in the watch is likely significantly more expensive than what's in the nano, now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixo
We’ve been using Phoenix at my company in production for over a year now. So far the experience has been overwhelmingly positive, our team have totally come round to its adoption, our server costs have come down and our response times have gone down also.

Coming from Rails, the ecosystem isn’t quite there yet, but it is far more mature than rails’ was this early on.

The hardest thing for us has been deployment, but we’ve solved that internally, including giving back by building exrm_deb (it works with distillery too!) to compile the entire project into a Debian package.

If you haven’t already looked at Phoenix (and Ecto!) give it a try :)
I would like to point out that this summer is probably one of the coldest in a while. My flowers that are usually in full bloom from the hot summer, have yet to bloom.

My friend in Finland said the summer there is one of the coldest in the last 50 years.
https://mail.google.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/

http://www.allgamesdelta.net/

and I can only think of a fourth, which is my web IRC client which then feeds me links for the rest of the day (in some channels across freenode and gamesurge)
>...preventing those consumers from making informed decisions about which products and services to consume.

Doesn't this provide an opportunity for another business such as Consumer Reports?
I've tried a few static site generators and I've written my own in Python. But they all sucked at some point - despite Hugo! Hugo is incredible fast, offers many features and is pleasant to use. But the killer feature is: Hugo just works out of the box without the need for an annoying setup. Just copy the binary and you are done!
Stop drawing your curves and then plotting your data to match your assumptions.

Stop attributing data that doesn't match your assumptions to conspiracy.
Facebook has a solution for over-fetching, which they call dataloader.

As for the access control problem: it's easily solved with existing features of GraphQL. GraphQL exposes a user context which can be referenced on a per-property basis and thus used to check the permissions of the user.
Well, for starters vapes/ecigarretes entirely avoid the cancer-causing agents of tobacco while still having nicotine. So it's pretty possible to do that for very cheap.
I wrote a chapter of my PhD explaining why the linked PNAS paper is highly misleading (see the letter we published in PNAS in response for a summary: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/7/E546.full and a somewhat extended comment including figures here: http://stochtastic.blogspot.com/2013/02/temperature-extremes... )

TL;DR: While regional normalization makes sense in a stationary climate, the presence of trends tends to exaggerate extremes by increasing the apparent variance of the distribution.

Eyeballing the data from the NYT article, it appears that the authors have continued to make the same statistical mistakes. It is unfortunate that NYT would publish this, as the field (climate science) is quite aware of the problem with the original 2012 paper.
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Ignoring the politics as it distracts from the article.

It looks like the FDA is going.to regulate new tobacco products such as e cigarette's nicotine levels down to non addictive levels. While opening public dialogue as to whether the same should apply to cigarettes.
Er, nicotine itself is absolutely addictive, regardless of the delivery mechanism. From the article you linked: "Scientists don't doubt nicotine is addictive".
ITER has done heroic design efforts over the past few years. But you'd be disappointed how small the resulting changes were, but they were heroic efforts. Things like feedback systems for plasma containment. So to your question, the answer is no. ITER cannot be retrofitted to use HTS materials. Effectively they cannot change the materials they use, nor can they change the shape of the superconductors. If you can't do that, there's no real point to switching to HTS supply.

The problem with ITER is that it's being half-ass funded. It's only enough funding to build it over 50 years or so. We could spend 3-4x the amount one year and have it built in 2 years instead and we wouldn't be asking these sorts of questions. We would know (that it doesn't work - I'm not a believer. However, I do agree that a massive amount of plasma physics will be learned with it after it fails to Q>1).
Which would have to face the accompanying infantry as well Tanks don't do very well in FIBA or Fish And Chips (Fighting In Someone's House, and Causing Havoc In Public Spaces)
> Unfortunately for residents of Oregon’s historically cloudy coast, NOAA scientists have calculated the chances of a clear day at about 44 percent.

...

> A few hours east, however, the odds increase dramatically. Because the Cascade Range creates a significant rain shadow across central and eastern Oregon, chances are high that the view will be unobstructed.

How good are the short term forecasts for Oregon? If the day before the forecast for an area west of the Cascades calls for a clear day, is that almost always right?

My plan currently is to drive to Oregon from the Seattle area the day before, and head to one of (1) the Salem/Albany area, (2) the Madras area, or (3) somewhere around where the 84 crosses the centerline of totality, with the choice being based on the weather forecasts at the time.
I didn't write (or contribute to writing) this book. But thanks for the sentiment! I'm sure you could buy the original book online somewhere.
Ask HN: How is Salesforce able to retain customers at this price?
It looks really expensive (~$140 per month per employee ?) but the company seems to be growing crazy and also a very good place to work for.

How are they able to pull off such a high subscription price ?
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I would not consider it to be one. Nicotine is not the most harmful part of tobacco use, the smoke is.

Nicotine is a helpful drug that enhances focus and working memory. Forcing tobacco to be sold with lower nicotine content seems to be throwing out the baby, and keeping the bathwater. Completely the opposite of what is good.
> >> “I do feel sorry that the younger generation is not going to get to live the life that we did,” she said. “But it’s a different time.”

63 year old said that. How about in honour of the different time we stop bothering to keep the elderly alive. I feel sorry for them for not getting the health care that they need, but it's a different time.
I have a Shuffle, and your comment describes exactly how and why I use it.
Been using it almost daily for overa year now and love it. Was previously on Netbeans which feels ancient in comparison (though I didn't mind at the time). Was well worth the small amount I paid/pay.
Perhaps the FDA should regular sugar and the amounts of it which make it into our drinks, bread, prepared sauces, etc.
Why? I don't know whether the person in question is trolling or not, but the stated unwillingness to study the data pretty much disqualifies any value that person's opinion might have. Expecting advocates of good environmental policy to convince every last intellectual holdout (who may or may not be sincere) is unreasonable. It's like demanding that NASA get buy-in from the flat earth crowd.
>> Stop gaming peer review by having the papers reviewed by a group of people who all agree.

> Are you accusing of fraud? Any example, please?

Your response to this sentence is what feeds the problem. It is completely fair to point out, in the context of this discussion, flaws in the process that produces some of this research. The parent was pointing out, in the sentence, one problem with the process which produces scientific papers. This is certainly a discussion that needs to be had, and responding in this way which is dismissive is exactly what the parent was saying. Science needs to be scientific about the publishing process. And yes, literally complete gibberish has been published before:

https://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-12...

The academic peer review process is far from perfect, and the incentives of the humans involved does not necessarily align with producing the most accurate science.
The "our way is the right way" mentality
that is common in the Elm community is
really the larger issue here, and it has
been a bit of a turn off for me.

This is exactly how I felt as well.

I really enjoyed Elm in the beginning but soon hit the abstraction wall as the complexity of my apps grew. I never got the impression that the Elm community was going to fix those problems any time soon. I now use PureScript which is far more pleasant to use, albeit it took a while to get up to speed with the language.

Also I'm not the only one who went to PureScript from Elm: https://youtu.be/ngWo5e-294o?t=19m14s
I mostly agree with you, I subscribe to "don't attribute malice where you could attribute incompetence or unforseen factors" but I keep wondering in the back of my head why they would keep all this cruft in the docx format. They hard forked their document format in 2007 and caused a LOT of headache back then, why not take the opportunity to streamline all this stuff, you know? Why not remove "Thom Hopkins" in the case of your story?
The team at Savoir Faire Linux seems to be French-Canadians (Quebecois).
Come on, Renault are the cheapest cars that require the cheapest parts and will last a lifetime.

On the other hand, that does apply to older Peugeot cars. Can only think on Alfa Romeo as worse car brand to get fixed by commoners.
> There is a commitment to hierarchy. This is incompatible with meritocracy...

This is the part where we are in complete agreement.

> ... The fact is, there won't always be one "smartest" person at each company. Yet companies always find a way to make a pretty reporting tree.

I don't think anyone is under the illusion that a company hierarchy is stacked based on "smartness". If they are, they need to read the Gervais Principle [0]. I personally remap these roles as losers -> producers, clueless -> regulators, and psychopaths -> harvesters. I'll use these remappings throughout this response. So do I expect harvesters to be the "smartest"? No, but I do expect them to be good at driving value.

> It's not about trust, mid-level-managers care more about their promotions not reflecting poorly on them politically than the best interest of the company in the long-term.

I'm not even sure what you mean by this. How would a promotion reflect poorly on someone? And I don't think anyone is saying that actors needs to be 100% dedicated to the company. But you certainly aren't going to climb any ladders if you can't demonstrate the ability to create value as a producer and drive value as a harvester. But those harvesters are also in a position capable of destroying value, which is where the trust comes in. You also aren't going to be climbing ladders unless those above you trust that you aren't going to Godzilla the existent value that's been built.

> Most companies will codify a standard "promotion process" with peer reviews and 2 "cycles" a year. If this is about ROI then Joe the freshman can be CTO if he's that good (and heck, he may be, if he's the next Larry Page), no matter what he rates on the 4 dimensions of reviews.

To refer back to Gervais Principle, those games are for the produces and regulators. Harvesters are running "tours of duty" that last 3-4 years and are not looking at peer review processes at all. This tour is only meant to line them up for the next tour, which will be bigger if they do well and smaller if they don't. And potentially non-existent if they really muck it up.

> Most companies adamantly follow standard norms. For example they do not demote people (i.e. with pay cut). A meritocracy (or a truly ROI based system) would demote people.

No. They just marginalize and / or lay off those people instead.

> Most companies base their pay on previous compensation, rather than expected worth.

Again, a game for the produces and regulators. Harvesters compensation is negotiated and decided on a different level, usually with large bonuses for performance (aka expected worth) and maybe even a golden parachute if they're particularly juicy.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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I imagine the way forward in that space is the watch. I wouldn't be shocked if the prices come way down this fall. If the use case is athletics, Apple could hit that market well if they drop below $200.