skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, right, yeah. Because this line totally isn't directly from the paper's conclusion:

> These results contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting vaping as a one-way bridge to cigarette smoking among youth.
So it's wrong to be offended at the possibility of mass-scale censorship just as a matter of principle?

Search results are always going to be biased the same way that any media is always going to be biased. Have the regimes of the 20th century not taught us that it's naive to think we can objectively correct for that without opening the possibility for significantly worse repercussions?
Considering he continues to have a severely underwater approval rating I’d wager it’s less derangement and more the majority view.

If anything the “it’s all normal, everything is fine” folks whose reactions are more interesting here. It’s certainly not the consensus view.
> When only 20-30% of the population can speak correctly a language, how long can it survive?

When it has the same legal rights as the dominant language, government funds to help run media and entertainment, and a strong culture determined to nurture it, I would argue that it can survive indefinitely. All of which are the case for Basque, which is in fairly rude health at the moment.
WP plugins are where these exploits are, less so in WP core
This affects the passport application -- not the passport itself.
PHP 7 has Zend OPtimizer built in, basically a caching bytecode compiler. Previous versions used to use the APC extension to serve the same purpose.
I wonder how this will affect major websites outside of Facebook that rely on HHVM, such as Wikipedia. They made a big announcement when they switched to HHVM in early 2015. Have they moved over to PHP 7 yet?
I don't think there are enough backend web developers in the world to support vibrant communities for both PHP and Hack.

Unless Facebook's prepared to invest a lot in community-building, Hack and similar FB projects will go the way of VBScript and Silverlight.
I know. I've been on it for quite some time.
One brilliant way to stimulate and support cutting edge research in the United States would be to impose tariffs on high end equipment and research supplies that are made elsewhere in the world. By making it comparatively more expensive to buy equipment and supplies than other places in the world, the world's top research talent will be clawing at the door (assuming they can get visas) to take up residence in our universities!
Depends if you are a native speaker or not I guess.

My first contact with "master" and "slave" were IDE drives.
Having a bachelors doesn't make someone a good teacher. There is a reason teachers get teaching degrees.
So make ID’s free, and then require voter ID :/ seems the solution is right there. I have a hard time imagining the US can’t bear the cost of printing a few hundred million ID’s.
what?

They ADMITTED to deliberately slowing down phones
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/29/apple-apo...
My biggest takeaway is that Sergey Brin needs to stick to technology. The “boredom” explanation for Trump’s victory might be the stupidest one yet.
I’m fascinated by the parallels between the fascination with this leaked all hands and the external interest in the interns cultures of elite universities and the like - is the implication that Googleplex and Harvard Yard share a similar space in our culture now?
That’s because it’s possible to argue that Occitan, Catalan, Aranese etc are all ‘dialects’ of the same language.

I speak Catalan, and I can understand most written Occitan, for example.

“A language is a dialect with an army and navy” (said somebody, once!]
Do you dislike paintings of Oranges, the human body on exhibition or other such pieces if art?

Paintings, and Prints, tend to take real world subjects and artistically adapt their native format into a 2d perspective.

This transformation typically removes fidelity oringinally found in the subject. Eg, you can't (or shouldn't) eat a painting of an orange, nor could one typically feel the texture of an orange via a painting.

Alternatively there may be some benefits to the transformation. I'm not sure but in this case one may be able to display more content via the image on Twitter, then transmitted via the oringinal text format due to tweet length "string" hard limits vs image size limitations.
I'm quite taken aback by the vitriol in those comments.

Programs are meant to be read by humans, and language/terminology has a huge impact. If there are cost-less replacements to words that are easy to adopt, why not adopt them? These changes are beneficial to the community, don't hurt the language, and are cheap to adopt in many cases anyway.
Study Reveals the Great Pyramid of Giza Can Focus Electromagnetic Energy
Its not there yet but obviously not far off.. his glasses and brow were changing width.
But voter fraud disenfranchises everyone. Every single state has free ID programs. We have campaigns to help people get food stamps (which incidentally require ID,) but we can’t have similar programs to ensure everyone has ID? The idea that we can’t get ID for the poor is just ridiculous. Even illegal immigrants in California can get drivers licenses and they are far more marginalized than poor American citizens in terms of access to services.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14909764/study-vote...
It depends on a task. IMHO, “WPEngine with Wordpress” - is better choice or “Firebase with cloud functions”.
iPhone Xs and Xs Max
In my experience HHVM is still quite a bit faster once it gets going.
They are planning to move to PHP7 largely because of this change but also since PHP7 closed the performance gap:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176370
Yes, so much this. I want to be able to write simple idiomatic code without having an insanely large (10x-1000x) overhead. That just doesn't happen in Python.
Legit asking, why do you do what you do?

What do you get out of your supposed red pilling of people?
> (I don’t want to use Cloud Front)

Why? Is this just for cost saving purposes or are there some known flaws?
I could not find it but there was an old blog post complaining about this question because it was an open topic in computer science for more than ten years, and if one is not familiar with it they are essentially asking the interviewee to be smarter than then all the people in the computer science world in the 1960's or to be an actor and pretend to figure it out in 30 minutes or less.
> It's not contributing anything. Just spend that time doing something useful.

Oh I think it is incredibly useful to warn people who are new to programming, to stay the fuck away from PHP. Even though it is incredibly broken, it is hard for people new to programming to see it. Heck it is even hard for people who are only programming in php, even for a decade. Also the widespread use of Php could be mistakenly interpreted as a sign of its quality.

So I guess, comments that warn against php very strongly, are a hell lot more valuable than ones that maintain a neutral stance.
Please don't edit your comments to the reverse of what they said earlier.
hack is going to become incredibly widespread before slowly dying off due to market forces?
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Poor Galileo.
Nvidia launches the Tesla T4, its fastest data center inferencing platform yet
How is Trump winning fair to the Iranian immigrants working at Google?
Whoops, I meant, a diamond ring. From the De Beers website (!) :

"1930s Diamond sales in the US were at an all time low They were seen as an extravagance for the wealthy, and sales, already declining for more than two decades, had plummeted during the Great Depression.

De Beers needed a strategy to create a multi-faceted
demand for diamonds In the unique position of having to
create demand for a product that hadn't been widely marketed before.

1938 De Beers hired advertising agency N.W. Ayer to craft a campaign They were chosen for their approach - to conduct extensive research on social attitudes to
diamonds.

A new form of advertising was born The brilliant concept was to create an emotional link to diamonds, the sentiment being love, like diamonds, is eternal.

1947 Frances Gerety A copywriter on the De Beers account at the advertising agency N.W. Ayer solidified the link between eternal romance and diamonds by suggesting the
line 'A diamond is forever'.

These four iconic words have been used ever since Making it one of the longest running and successful campaigns in history. By 1951 8/10 brides in the United States received a diamond engagement ring The engagement diamond tradition was established.

An emblem of love 'A diamond is forever' became a symbol of enduring love weaving itself into popular culture and inspiring books, films and songs.

1999 Slogan of the century It's no wonder Advertising Age voted the De Beers campaign as the top advertising slogan of the past century."

http://www.debeersgroup.com/en/our-story/innovation-hub/a-di...
> If e-cigarette companies had a study, much like Theranos, they'd publish it

Will this do? "In a nutshell, best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether."

From the extensive Public Health England study: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...

E-cigarettes are now available on prescription in the UK as one of the smoking cessation aids available to doctors.

No idea about Juul, they're not in the UK yet.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the debate works. We're not talking about two rational individuals forming a debate in good faith where they're able to change each other's opinion.

We're talking about people latching themselves to an anti-empirical evidence, anti-scientific approach to things such as climate change or vaccinations. The debate becomes political when there's enough people and policymakers believing in something, scientific process be damned, to actively affect law.

The debate about vaccinations causing autism for example is a absolutely political one, enough that we see people eschewing scientific fact in a way that endangers large portions of our society. Yet when we talk about an environment needing to be politically neutral, then their opinion must be treated with equal weight. We've seen this occur with people who are anti-evolution as well, where they demand their opinions be taken seriously and allowed into the greater debate. And it shows with our current society.
Sounds cool. I’ve lost faith in this species and have no desire but to die. Thanks for the thoughtful advice.
As a notice (since the original post is too old to edit): I'm going to take that URL offline within the next 12 hours. Hopefully by then it'll be mirrored in enough other places.
Audiobooks are much better for me than reading. If I read at the time I typically use audiobooks, I'd be dead and arrested. Seriously though, I spend non-negligible time per day driving around, and audiobooks are a godsend.
You could argue that it already did become incredibly widespread (as php) then died off slowly due to market forces.
That is like claiming you can re-publish someone else's book if you translate it to Spanish or just replace all of the words with synonyms: you are creating a derivative work and are still using the original.
What's offensive is that if their candidate wins, they don't raise that question.
> Even though it is incredibly broken

I'll bite. What specifically would you say is broken in PHP?
He’s been a notable Democratic donor for a while - he even invited Obama to a talk at Google and asked him about how to sort a billion integers.
you can use google trips app or search for label:trips in gmail client which have same list. but combination of these is basically the feature in inbox
> Oh I think it is incredibly useful to warn people who are new to programming,

No it's not. It's been done to death, and you are not contributing anything.
New Nvidia DGX-2 AI Supercomputer
WHAT THE FUCK GOOGLE
> It's as nonsensical to refuse to say where the line is drawn.

The rest of my comment is arguing for where I think the qualitative line is...

> Are we actually comparing private property and free speech to an unlimited totalitarian state?

Yes. Kim Jong-un himself has some of the best-maintained private property and free speech rights. The field of CS is very comfortable with logical reductions - don't play coy.

> I have no obligation to change their mind. I have no obligation to listen to them. An unwelcome visitor is, in law and right, a trespasser.

Ostensibly you've invited this person into your home for some reason. But if they express a disagreeable view, and they're not already beating their feet, then they're a trespasser? Do you really not see how ridiculously binary and supremely divisive this is?

If you argue and they're invited back, maybe they'll attempt to square their views with civility/commonsense/reality before speaking them again. If you banish them from your life, then you're all but guaranteeing their only friends will be their echo chamber.

> Calling it an "environment of censorship" is hyperbole.

It's accurate - scroll down the responses on the OP and most everybody is cheering it on. We used to make fun of stupid ideas (including general censorship itself). Now we celebrate the pruning of a community because doing so undermines the opposing political ignorance team.
No code snippets and a tiny README.md that just links to other stuff is a great way to get me to hit the back button.

Edit: So, there's a link to docs on the Github page. http://docs.lucee.org/. You need to click "About Lucee", and ignore the page they take you to, then, in the nav-bar you need to click "Why Lucee Server's great". Or, if you didn't have the patience, you can click here https://docs.lucee.org/guides/about-lucee/why-lucee-server-g...

This definitely needs to be the first thing I see on the Github page...
Citations are so easy to game though: you just need to create citation rings and that number can rise quickly along with a bunch of mediocre publications.
Haven't translated the Malay but since you speak Engris want to give us some details surrounding the case?
It's an interesting point. I'm all for languages evolving as they do. I still would say that the "first" meaning of slave would be known to a majority of people as "an enslaved person." For that reason, it seems like using that term should be avoided and corrected.

In the same vein, even if a small number of people created an alternative meaning that was offensive for a term, I wouldn't think that particular word should be changed/removed just because of that minority of usage.

When the first and most common usage has an ugly history that impacts real people, that seems like a good candidate for an alternative term.
And? Unless you can prove “getting group X less addicted” is more valuable than “getting group Y addicted”, that’s just a bogus argument. Considering Y is more likely to be younger people, I find that unlikely.
Hi,
Can you elaborate on your desire to leave the EU(/EZ) altogether?

From the data I've seen, an increasing number of Americans are actually leaving the U.S and/or giving up citizenship. The reasons seem to range from tax policy to cost of living/quality of living to 'other'.

In aggregate, the economy may look good, but for many individuals things are actually pretty tough. Even those who aren't all that affected by such problems (think journalist writing uber-positive stories about America's "robust economy", politicians, banking officials, etc.,) will acknowledge this albeit mostly in private settings.

Anyway, rather than leave, wouldn't it just be easier to employ some sort of strategic corporate structuring?
Most places advertise pretty loudly in the careers section or in the interview prep material they send to you beforehand that you are going to be hazed. Amazon and Google both send out preparation packets after a phone screen that made me laugh out loud.
Long before Apple Music subscription was available, I purchased dozens of albums and songs from iTunes.

As the service become available, I joined it for about a year or so.

One day I decided to cancel my Apple Music monthly subscription. As I did so, all the albums and songs I purchased prior to the Apple Music subscription simply vanished.

That is to say, not only Obie’s, rather anything.
Who wants to tell simula67 about Trump's relationship to reality?
> Money is the only safe method of pressuring China into ending it's atrocities. We should use it.

surely your congress can double the debt ceiling to borrow another 22 trillion USD.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
But what if I'm not interested in these particular digital tokens out of the pool of thousands? I get they have a dollar value associated with them, but I don't want them. I want exactly 0 of them. I want 0 pretend cash tokens of any kind. Why would the browser vendor get to decide this on my behalf?
> It does not apply to any cases where a defendant was convicted, or to more serious charges like selling marijuana.

Because selling weed would interfere with tax laws. DA just punting to save money so they can get themselves some new hemp money satchels for future convictions.
> Is it really surprising that a multinational company would have a preferred candidate?

Not really. Google lobbies the government more than Verizon, Wall St. banks and defense contractors. We don't usually mind cause they lobby for the things we care about as well.

However we could also see how perhaps Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO and at that time Executive Chairman, walking about at a Hillary Clinton's event with a staff badge might make things a bit too obvious:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxbUJoZWEAAzp04.jpg

But perhaps Google isn't partisan enough? I think it is the superficial "we are not biased and all opinions are welcome" type message clashing with their existing bias, that's bothering people. I think they should be bolder even and say, we are biased, we support these values.
With all the case dropping one wonders if the court calendars are suddenly freeing up a lot of time to hear other cases. Is anyone tracking that?
You misunderstood. I'm responding to the idea that we wouldn't want to filter the aggregation of content on the internet. I overwhelmingly disagree that an unfiltered stream of everything everyone wants to say is the only way to consume that content. As in the example I gave, I would rather have a robot determine whether someone is lying before that content gets to me.
I'm sorry you maintain such a low opinion of yourself, but just like my lifespan, my attention is finite and I consider it priceless. If I'm forced to burn energy on something it better be for my long-term benefit, because let's face it, either of us could be dead tomorrow, and let's not waste our last breath cursing the fact we spent our final day alive on a new e-mail client, or in servitude to some other bullshit tool.

Google have broken that trust on countless occasions, and as a consequence for half a decade they have been deprived of the opportunity to waste any more of my time. You should consider doing the same
Ask HN: Secondary Market for Datacenter Equipment?
If I run a datacenter, where do I go to sell my equipment after a year or two? They're still useful and valuable, just a little dusty!
It's honestly not as limiting as you might think.
Readability has definitely improved a ton since switching.

Of course we don't count every bracket or blank lines. Only the rows with any logic or assignment.

And yes, I agree, there are occasions where the complexity goes up.
If there is a good argument for that, then we of course go with it.

But so far, almost everything anyone in our team has made, has been improved by rewriting it to something that works well in 4 lines, be it using polymorphism, object oriented, or functional.
It's a dielectric prism. I would be surprised if it didn't focus (bend) EM waves.
It is interesting that you've been downvoted (as your post is gray when I saw it), just for questioning that you might face repercussions for adding a comment. Which kind of proves your point I suppose.
I'm honestly confused why they didn't just postpone TGIF and then ignore the election. Just say someone got sick or something. Let employees deal with the results themselves and move on.
I think framing the conversation as a deprecation or discontinuation of a product is too generous towards Google.
It makes it seem like the product has reached it's end of life.

This isn't a discontinuation, it's a failure. If invoice was a startup this would be an "our incredible journey" article after the company has been acquired and it's product destroyed.

Google has failed to monetize inbox.

Similarly it's not that we don't use google products because we fear they'll discontinue it, google has failed too many times - you don't bet on a company that fails so often.
Docker is the best thing to happen to Linux since the GNU bread
> why didn't FB just spend that energy submitting a patch to make PHP faster?

Several reasons. First, it's not that easy. It took years of work by some very smart people to get the jump from PHP 5 to PHP 7, and Facebook needed the performance much earlier that this way could deliver (and it wasn't at all certain that it would deliver at all). Second, Facebook needed their own language anyway to be able to add stuff they - with their particular use case, which is dissimilar to the use case of the vast majority of PHP users - need and for the model they use to run servers and operations. So for Facebook having something that both delivers performance that they need and is under their total control and can be made to do exactly what they need it to do makes a lot of sense.

> Now I also don't know if I buy that MAX_INT + 1 and pass-by-reference is a pressing enough use case to break compatibility.

It's not about that, that part is small change. The point is they don't want to be restrained by what PHP does, but want to have their own way with HHVM. Which is very understandable, they have their needs and they found a way to support them. Of course, for the open source community might be better if Facebook continued to support PHP - but if for Facebook it makes more sense to do their own thing without worrying about being compatible with PHP, then that's what they should do.
I'm all for cool new projects, but when the first thing I see in a project's readme is "build: failing", I'm really discouraged from looking into it further.
That won't happen because of Chicago. Just drive to CO, fill your trunk with Boulder Bars, and avoid states with harsher penalties on the blissful ride home.