skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because those who smoke e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke real cigarettes, we should ban e-cigarettes?

The conclusion in the article suggests "restricting youth access to e-cigarettes." It's not talking about a general ban.

> e-cigarettes are already illegal for those under-18,

In the US, individual states have varying laws, and the FDA position has been evolving. Research like this presumably provides input to that ongoing process.

> Why not just ban real cigarettes?

They are already restricted at the federal level for under 18.

> Alcohol and cigarettes were bought for me by the burnout and local junior college kids when I was in high school.

The problem with personal anecdotes like this is that they give no idea of how many kids actually didn't do alcohol or cigarettes, or consumed less than they would have otherwise, because of restrictions.

Your unstated premise seems to be that restrictions like this don't work. If you look into that, you'll find that's incorrect.
Thank you. It seems that lately I've been reminded several times how simply re-reading articles can be a great memory improvement tool.

An additional re-reading tool I had forgotten about for a while is by clicking my history button to remind me what caught my fancy on the 1st round and probably will be worth re-reading again.

That, plus adding a star to certain articles.
Loved the gif animator that used to ship with photoimpact. When corel bought it they stopped shipping the separate gif animator with it though. Glad I bought them on cd / dvd back in the day.
You can keep a copy of your iTunes media, it's perfectly legal.

Apple is not the publisher, they are the distributor. They are not "coming into your home and scratching your DVD", an actually analogous analogy would be they stop supporting the DVD format with new disc players they release.
I can listen to interviews while coding but not books. Seems coding needs a different part of the brain
Very interesting! I hadn't heard of this before but I'd love to see it in action.

If anyone from the FB team or anyone using LogDevice wants to test performance with Optane SSDs (and compare to a NAND SSD), make a request by submitting an issue on our GitHub page: https://github.com/AccelerateWithOptane/lab/issues. I'll hook you up with a server hosted by Packet.
The US spends plenty on health care, we just don't get good value. Medicaid and Medicare alone are 1.5x defense spending.
Its not the politicians I am worried about. Sadly its the people. No one here protested. With Mozilla's campaigning nothing happened. To stop the law previously Wikipedia had to shutdown. Seems folks here dont really care.
Sorry, that argument begs the question. I am well aware of what cookies are and think about the content of what I'm agreeing to, and often decline invitations from sites I don't trust. You're assuming that's what is convenient for one party in the transaction must be optimal for all parties, which is irrational.
My home towns school stopped giving homework when I was in high school because the budget ran out for paper halfway through the year.

There may be unparalleled access to science research in the US, but it is unevenly distributed
> People didn't vote for our person! Change the algorithms!

This is so corrupt and manipulative it makes me sad.
Whois shows GoDaddy. I doubt that Apple would be using GoDaddy. In fact, whois on apple.com shows that their registrar is www.cscprotectsbrands.com.
r/iamverysmart material there.
Perhaps, but you could say the same about 99% of marketing appeals, which are far more profuse, and many of which are actively deceptive.
Original article:

Roselló-Díez A., Madisen L., Bastide S., Zeng H., Joyner A.L. "Cell-nonautonomous local and systemic responses to cell arrest enable long-bone catch-up growth in developing mice." PLoS Biol. 2018 Jun 26;16(6):e2005086. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2005086

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Is there supposed to be a replay of that talk on the site you link to or is it just not loading for me?
In this case, the use of the terms "buy", "purchase", "own" and "yours" in all marketing materials should be considered outright fraud, and fined accordingly. Deal?
GSM Phone on a Conference Badge – Computerphile
With the current Copyright law plus other proposed things, do they not think about consequences...
For me it depends a lot on the reader. With some readers I get totally absorbed whereas with other readersi can't keep listening although the content may be very good.
> It makes sense that audiobooks have less comprehension...

And yet, interestingly, their study didn't find any significant difference in comprehension.
I have offered many such arguments if you would like to peruse my comment history. I've been debating these issued for about 25 years now, and have several friends who work at the EFF.
Apple's adoption of Face ID is a big deal from a design POV. Apple was famous for adopting superior technology early and with Face ID they're adopting inferior technology late.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-xs/face-id/
I see. At this point I would actually love to hear a few positive stories. Do elaborate on your experience if you can.
I listen to podcasts while I walk my dog even though it does require almost constant attention on my dogs actions. I find myself constantly trying to focus on what's being said and missing it often enough to have to rewind 15 seconds.
Opportunities like OP described are not as rare as all that. I grew up in an agrarian town but was able to access a lot of the resources of the nearby university through programs like the Cooperative Extension Service. They are not things that fall in your lap, you need to find them and take part; but you don't need well connected or educated parents to get them.
> If you're doing meaningful work, you're changing things in the world.

I don't accept that as a truism; most work is maintaining the historically unprecedented comfort that we enjoy as a society and I think that is meaningful.

Providing food is meaningful, providing shelter is meaningful, extracting raw resources is meaningful, taxation and welfare are meaningful, taxation and government services are meaningful. I could go io but that covers the basic point.

And since we are talking about a specific company, I don't even necessarily accept that the folk at Google are changing the world more than anyone else. I don't know anyone personally who's commented that 'wow Google has really changed my life' since the introduction of Gmail about 15 years ago. So, whatever they are doing it isn't very visible. Most of the improvement in the technological world is startups and the work of the circuit people.
The event is hosted by Facebook and there is an embedded Facebook video player on that page. Here's the direct link: https://www.facebook.com/atscaleevents/videos/19602876909109...
Or sometimes it's a downgrade, like with Skyrim SE.
That’s not a really accurate read of how NY/NYC politics works. Manhattan DA’s office is more symbiotic with the mayor, and hasn’t traditionally been really defined in relationship to Albany. With that said the general progressive climate is certainly relevant, ranging from
Nixon to Ocasio to Teachout.
Publications and citations don't really matter. All that matters at the end of the day is patents [1]. That's the real story here, this is all about patents and IP. The entire Chinese university system is being forcefully redesigned to become a machine that systematically produces high-value patents.

The goal here is very much to beat the US at its own game [2]. The US and Western Europe have trapped the whole world in an extremely harsh intellectual property regime and China, rather than fighting this regime, intends to dominate it.

It's very sad because what's being ultimately being legitimized is just Feudalism 3.0. It's also very corrosive to China's real strength, it's entrepreneurial spirit, which, until very recently, gave fuck all about patents. Now many Asian VCs won't even talk to you unless you have some valuable IP. Many people view this rapid "IP enclosure" in China, where IP is becoming everything and often the only thing, to be a very bad thing.

[1] http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2018/article_0002....

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/business/...
These aren't extraordinary claims by any means. Historically New York politics have been exceptionally corrupt.
I'm CoE and have done some FPGA in school. Stuff is pretty interesting.
Stop building car boats – tech debt 101
You can easily familiarise yourself with his history of abusive behavior towards innocent and undeserving people as well as his chronic incitements of violence.
13th Annual City of Santa Monica AltCar Expo October 12 – 13, 2018
I love reading an actual book (iPad is a bit of a pain), but I’m in the car over an hour a day. So, I do like audiobooks and have an Audible subscription.

My enjoyment really depends on the narrator. An appropriate to the material narrator is a joy, but some are just awful. The authors reads 1776 and he is awesome. I do love the radio dramas with a full cast.
bad markup meant lots of things. frontpage seemed to add tons of extra fluff in the code. Other editors for a while used 1pixel cleargifs to space and align all the elements on the page. That added a lot of extra code just to move over 42 pixels and down 133 for every element.

Then using tables for layouts was better. Cutting graphics for rounded corners worked. The web purists kept posting how bad it was, web visitors never cared.

Once monitors were less standardized (more than just 800 px wide and 1024) - and mobile became a thing- the web purists really pushed to do layout with css only - and they spend years posting about hacks and recreating.. table layout called something else.

Either way lots of extra code that is certainly not needed if using the modern grid css tagging...

I still preferred the table layouts of years past, though I like the new tiny code that is needed for grid, the bloated code of the 90s and 00s is nothing compared to all the hi rez images, video and javascript bloat these days.
I’m currently a postdoc at ETH Zurich. I think it’s very similar to a highly ranked US university in that the majority of researchers past master level come from all over the world and tend to be some of the smartest from each place. It’s really a matter of attracting talent. The US should be careful not to loose that leadership e.g. due to overzealous new immigration laws. Populist politics (and I count some of the leftist ‘postmodern’ agenda there as well) are immensely dangerous to a nation’s ability to lead in science and modern economy.
By your definition then every business, every primary producer, even every government are gambling, including insider traders. None of us, no matter how much we may think otherwise, has perfect knowledge. Every activity has a certain level of risk that means failure.

What I think you need to add to your definition is an addendum that says that what you bet is significant enough that you will suffer significant harm from losing. So if you cannot afford to lose that $5 you put down on some race, then that is significant. if putting down $1,000,000 on some event and losing means nothing to you, then are you still gambling or having entertainment.

My father's advice to me from a very young age, was to treat all "bets" as a loss anda form of entertainment. So only use what you could afford to lose. if you cannot afford to lose anything, then you don't lay down resources on the expectation of "winning", that is the mug's game. So as far as day trading is concerned, follow the rules that I set out above, which are the same rules that I received from others who have actually been successful in day trading. Interestingly enough, I have had the same advice from those who were unsuccessful and they admit they broke the rules as laid out.
IANAL, but the legal answer for why free speech and copyright aren't mutually exclusive is that copyright is an explicitly listed power of congress in the constitution:

The Congress shall have Power To... ...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

and

Congress shall make no law... ...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

So it's implied (by the constitution not being tautological) that there's a balance between the right of the people (free speech) and an power of congress (to implement copyright). Note also that that defamation/libel are not protected by the first amendment, but the theshold for proving it is high - information has to be known to be false to the speaker, and inflict an actual injury. For public figures and politicians, the speaker has to have "actual malice". These are not often proven. For example, "sell more newspapers" would not rise to the level of "actual malice".
How does an application (say, a RESTful API server) deal with dynamic secrets? I suppose it could be simply restarted when a secret changes (assuming it is requesting the secret from Vault at startup). Is that how it is typically handled?
While I agree that the first two titles are clickbait, every single executive leaves to spend "time with their family". It's such a trope that you cannot take that sentence at face value.
NASA tests foldable heat shield that could help human Mars landing
As a heavy Inbox user this is definitely a bummer, but I do feel a bit relieved to know what is coming to Gmail.

Last month a video showing some future updates to the Material Design components leaked. If you check out https://youtu.be/0mAude0774I?t=1m27s you can (briefly) see that the version of Gmail they're showing has a lot of functionality seen in Inbox, particularly Trip cards and expandable message bodies. Fingers crossed!
I see part of your argument, but the internet in the US is by no means full of free speech and fair use. The government has their hands on every major service provider and ISP and has used their power to compel companies to give information or censor data.

What's happening here is the EU is seeing every other major power lock down their internet, so why would they leave theirs open which would also allow foreign meddling?

Additionally the tech megacorps are trying to claim that they are open platforms and so shouldn't be responsible for user posted data while censoring and removing user posted data when it suits their economic means.

I'm a proponent of free speech, but the internet stopped being a bastion of free speech year ago. It's crazy to think that the EU was going to sit their and let companies do what they please, when those same companies we're already preventing users/EU citizens from doing so
the open source technologies they have created, Map/Reduce, Tensorflow... they essentially invented large scale cheap computing. This has had massive effect on the technology industry and the world.
Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theories
Gawker Site Relaunch 2019
There are plenty of humans involved in evaluating the algorithm. See my other post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17975122

If you mean humans rating every new page on the Internet in real time, this isn't possible. It's machines or nothing.
The concern is that the e-cig brands have moved well beyond those attempting to quit smoking. Similar to the old Joe Camel ads, the thinking is that the e-cig companies are targeting kids with fruit and candy flavors. If they were really serious about them strictly being a tool for quitting, they should mandate that the only allowed flavor is wet ashtray. Seriously, what legitimate reason is there for a quitting tool to be more appealing than the thing being quit unless the goal is to hook people on the new thing?
One of my favorite bits from Bill Hicks, "whatcha readin' for?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkdGr9JYmE
> special-case subdomains “www” and “m”

These are not special-case subdomains, they are simply subdomains...
I find it a bit absurd when I hear pundits and media types claim that liberal bias doesn't exists in silicon valley tech companies (top to bottom). As somebody who lived in San Francisco for five plus years, I can firmly attest it is more than bias. It's utter disdain, hatred, and prejudice. Just look at how James Damore was handled it should be clear that diversity of thought and individualism is not accepted. It's a complete echo chamber of shaming culture who stand on a pedestal of moral superiority.

Another example, Antirez has been absolutely mob shamed into changing master/slave in Redis by a Google employee. If you are against the change because it's an industry standard you are called a racist.
Lehman is long-term champion in Wall Street hubris
Russian Yandex is incorporated in Netherlands, which is a founding member of the EU.
I only started listening to audiobooks when my commute grew to over an hour each way. They’re great to pass the time and I learn a lot from nonfiction, but I really wish I could dogear sound snippets.
The new bees also never sting anyone, which is pretty good.
Detroit’s StockX Raises $44M from GV and Battery
How about a LPWAN endpoint with GPS that last 2+ years? Like this: http://bit.ly/2pBcYqp
This is a great analysis and I'm mainly replying in order to hopefully spur replies with actual constructive discussion instead of letting this turn into one of those [dead] comments you see that says something "controversial" yet gets zero replies before being buried; it's always a bummer when that happens.
> Look at the 8k filings, they are easy to find on Yahoo finance and show corporate officer departures/arrivals.

Since the beginning of the year I see this business everyone was talking about last week with the Chief Accounting Officer, and then one for the Director of Manufacturing and Engineering and one for the President of Global Sales and Service. Is this supposed to be an unusually large number? The other 8-K filings do not appear to be related to departures/arrivals.

By comparison, in the same time period GM replaced their CAO, their CFO and a member of the board.

The numbers in both cases would obviously be higher if you broaden the category to include lower positions that don't make the 8-K filings like the Tesla VP in the current story, but people are saying "look how many" without specifying the breadth of the pool or how many should be expected.
Hmm, I don't really get it. But I suppose I don't really know if I bought the value proposition of HHVM in the first place.
php is amazing!
I used to smoke a pack a day, switched to ecigs, bought enough concentrated nicotine juice to last me for the next 100 years, mix my own juice so no worries about getting a bad product. It's been 5 years now and I can't stand being in a car or house full of cigarette smoke anymore. If nothing else my health has improved just from the fact I'm no longer being taxed into the poor house and can afford to buy healthier food. I don't know if there are going to be long term effects from ecig use but having lost my mom to lung cancer I know there are from using cigarettes. I am against kids smoking anything but I would say that kids that admit to trying ecigs are probably just more prone to high risk activities, I bet most of them also drank and did drugs too in the past 12 months that doesn't mean the vaping is the cause. As for your comment I agree that some people that vape still get cravings for what ever else is in tobacco as my dad will vape 99% of the time but still carries a pack of cigarettes of which he will smoke one or two of per week. Still much better that just smoking and when he does smoke he goes outside of his home, which has resulted in an added benefit that more non smokers come to visit him more often reducing the loneliness any widower will suffer from.
With audiobooks and podcasts, I don't feel anywhere near the same levels of retention compared with reading a book or watching a video. Even when wholly focused on the audio during a bus commute, my mind doesn't have the same levels of immersion when reading a book or news article.
Hermes is designing watch bands. They have, of course, obviously, zero involvement with the actual product.
Thanks! My script and adblockers must've broken the site.
StockX raises $44M from new investors with boost from Silicon Valley
You omitted the second part of that

> as well as rights to participate in government of the entity

It's easy to underestimate this -- the price of the stock represents a barrier to acquisition of the company. If the stock falls below a certain point, it would become profitable for an entity or group of entities to gain a controlling interest and reform the company in a way that suits their needs.

That is, not just the promise of future dividends paid to the shareholders, but a barrier against the profits being dispersed in a more aggressive fashion.
I think PHP is interchangeable with PHP, ROR, and node (i.e. give me a line in any of them, and there's a one-liner in the other to do the same thing) [this wouldn't be true for something like Scala].

So, presumably for the same reason somebody would do a project in ROR.
At least you have the ability as a nation to fight back within your nation. With the EU you could convince everyone in your country to vote correctly but still be out of luck unless you convince everyone in 10 others countries as well.
Lol, that's such a strange approach.

Just adopt the new services, and if they disappear, use something else.

What do we exist to persist these days and how long for?
I think the point that most grad programs don't have US students is revealing - for those who have alternative entry into the US economy, most people decide that a PhD program is a poor choice.

Most of the things people work on in their PhD programs are very niche, and most do not work in academia or on the same thing after they finish their PhD. And most people never really make a noticeable contribution to science with their thesis. So I'm a bit skeptical that we're losing all this valuable knowledge overseas, rather than PhD programs being about signaling their skill to employers and our byzantine immigration process. Not to say that people learn nothing valuable, but the number of people I've worked with who did a Math PhD and then never used that knowledge ever again is surprisingly high.

I think the US should be less concerned about whether it is on top wrt publications, but about whether English remains the language of scholarship, because if Chinese folks start publishing in Mandarin, that's going to be a far bigger loss to English speaking countries than if we do not originate as much research.
StockX to hire more than 1,000
If you're white, you should be ok. It's the brown folk that Trump is after.
Have you tried increasing the speed of the audio?

I find retention and understanding to be greatly increased when I don't get bored or distracted in between words and phrases.
Diverging from PHP was a good move as PHP 7 has largely caught up with HHVM in terms of speed. That's really neat that Facebook invented their own language to meet their needs. Will have to mess around with it further sometime.
I actually think that pushing ad matching to the browser will make ad fraud substantially easier, since you will collect less of the data that you could use to detect and block it. It also opens you up to entirely new forms of abuse, such as giving the end user the power to e.g. choose only the highest CPM ads to maximize their revenue share. Should be fascinating to see how you deal with these factors.
Did you try Sci-Hub? Always try Sci-Hub.
Render Comments from ODP and Enhanced Presentation Saving in PPS Format in .NET
There is no need to jump in as a PhD. Enroll as an undergraduate anywhere that has a good department in the area you're interested in, and then express interest and work as hard as you can -- if you show promise, the faculty and graduate students will notice you and enjoy your conversation. However, if you want a paid career as a researcher, you will absolutely need a PhD.
I would love to read more about how you did this. I bet it would be illuminating for many HN readers.