skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see your point, but some kids are always going to try some of what's available - weed, tobacco, alcohol, vaping, glue sniffing etc. I doubt the flavour mattered much when cigs were the only choice, or before they'd learnt to like beer / vodka. It's far more peer pressure than advertising. yes, of course ads play a part too.

I would be comfortable with discouraging kids as far as possible, requiring ID and so on. For some of the adult ex smokers I know, including myself, I doubt they'd have quit without vaping with some of the sillier sounding flavours. Some of the quitters will be kids who regret starting smoking 5 years previously. I don't have good answers to balance the conflicting needs or to prevent it becoming a growth sector far beyond smokers wanting out.

When I first tried vaping one of the few flavours I got was tobacco - which was awful, and never tried again. It took some months to step down the strengths to zero, and kept on vaping a while at 0 nicotine. That was 7 or 8 years ago, and no vaping or tobacco since.

Regulation in the US and UK is very different for vaping, but here big tobacco seems to be badly failing at vaping. Every shop that sells cigarettes now has a selection of the tobacco company's cartridge style "pretend cigarettes" vaping at five or ten times the cost of the simple juice bottles. I've only ever seen one person using one. Most towns have gained a juice stall selling cheap flavours.
Downvote for truth if you want. Got Karma to burn. Execs that say they want "diversity" want H1B slots for visa slaves. It was brought up in the linked video. 52:40 what they are really worried about. They don't care about equality. People want to flee BRIC nations and google wants cheap labor that can't quit their jobs.
I think you're being naive personally. PHP has a place like everything else does and not everything needs a shiny new toy.
That's not the question. It's whether audiobooks are as good for you as quietly sobbing wondering how many hours of your life you've given to the Sunol Grade.
Take one week off where you don't use your phone as an experiment. This recently happened to me (unintentionally) and the difference in my day to day life was striking. Without socials/browser/HN in my pocket ready to consume my consciousness at the slightest hint of boredom, I found a calming sense of "head space" where I would organically think about things. I had lots of little "aha" moments as my brain naturally drifted towards what I'd been working on. It made me realize just how addicted to my phone that I was.
Outside of the HN echo chamber, PHP is still what drives a lot, probably most of the web. Wordpress alone accounts for 30% of websites [1].

That translates to easy access to labor for a lot of companies. If you want a quick web app stood up, you can have your pick between a few hundred thousand hungry PHP devs or the three node.js devs that are currently considering being available for new work.

...'course, a lot of those cheap PHP devs will turn out some horrifyingly bad code, but that's not PHP's fault, and most businesses don't care.

[1]: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/05/wordpress-now-powers-30-o...
Anything, as long as it has < 100 google results.

At least, plonk the project name into the github search, and see if there are existing projects using exactly that name. I found at least EIGHT other projects with more then 100 stars already named "carbon". At least one of them is VERY widely used (carbon, which is the time-series backend for graphite).

Basically, you're actively making life harder for users when you decide to name-collide with existing active projects.
But nicotine by itself isn't really that harmful to your body. So why should we care if some kids pickup vaping habits?

I mean, it we remove all the bad part of being addicted to nicotine, why is it still bad to be addicted to nicotine?

It's like the experiment of a room with monkeys, ladder, banana and water hose.

By the way, there's nothing preventing one to use nicotine-free fruity vaping liquid.
The longer people use your product, the more resistant they will be to unexpected changes in the product. One of a product manager's primary responsibilities is preparing customers for upcoming product changes so that they are well received.
If you're a software engineer and willing to take a pay cut, plenty of research labs will be happy to take you on.
Why hasn’t anyone hosted it on YouTube yet? Serious question.
The same thing happens if you owe them any money, however small. Right now I owe Apple $0.99 because I’m waiting on a new card to come and one of my recent previous purchases failed.

Their response is to hold my entire library of “purchased” music and movies hostage until they get their $0.99. I can’t play or access anything.

Clearly, I own nothing in their eyes. This is the same as if Blockbuster would hold all your DVDs hostage you bought from them if you owed them any money. If you don’t own the unrestricted physical medium, you own nothing.

I guess there’s a reason Apple is dominant: aggression and brutality always win out in humanity. We are all just passive & submissive subordinates, Apple is our one true master and dark lord.
This is selling it short. They picked the right acquisition to integrate into their native system.

It's not just siri voice support: Shortcuts can now access system functions. And third party apps will integrate into it.
Laravel, to name one, broke HHVM compatibility a while ago (or perhaps more accurately no longer included it as a target platform). In my experience, trying it out every year or so with an existing project, there were always compatibility issues with HHVM, most often in C modules but also a few odd corner cases in pure PHP.

As far as I know once PHP 7 came out HHVM fell much further behind (as far as the PHP language goes, no idea how Hack is doing).
How is that fair to employees at Google that are conservative?

What obligation do you think that a company should have to respect the political leanings of its employees? While it might be in a company's self-interest not to alienate talented employees with minority political beliefs, do you believe it should be forbidden for the company to "choose sides"?
I had AdBlock rather than uBlock Origin for Chrome, but my experience with it was that it had odd stability issues (eg. certain PDFs would crash the tab, so would a certain window.open call on a niche site I frequent, or accessing a TurboTax download took me to TurboTax's internal login page for their Box account) and many news sites have counter-AdBlock pages where they put up an annoying popup if they detect you're using AdBlock. Not sure if you get those with uBlock Origin, but they don't show up on Brave.
It's the same difference, as far as innovation is concerned.
Realistically there doesn't exist a good solution for this. That's why every single site out there with user content that is large enough is struggling with moderation.

There is no solution that scales up to billions of users, and while it's true that AI most likely won't work, it is the best they've got right now. Do you have a better solution? Because Google has hired some of the smartest people and even then they still are having issues with Youtube every other week, so I'm sure you'd be paid a pretty hefty sum if you could solve this.
Identifying as a woman means you are not in the middle?
That computer is there for them to not do with as they please, as another poster mentioned.

Yes, there are a LOT of defaults people will just "go with" on the basis of path of least resistance. That does not absolve we programmers and software engineers to write well behaved, principled software that respects the sanctity of the user's digital sovereignty.

A computer is a tool, not a playground for the first person to throw code at it. Attitudes in the vein of your comment aren't uncommon, but that doesn't make them right.

The fact it has taken so long for technical literacy to get to where it is at is because most people have grown accustomed to the machine making decisions for them because it didn't occur to the programmer to present the option to think for themselves. Or, that saintly programmer wanted to, but got shot down in the name of UX and quick KPI boosts rather than creating an experience of the computer as a tool a user can do something with.

So again, I beg to differ.
After the Damore thing, Breitbart posted several anonymous interviews with conservative Googlers and Xooglers, so it seems like they've cultivated a group of contacts there. One of them specifically even discussed this exact TGIF and what it was like. I suspect one of those contacts leaked this to them as well.
You act like Trump didn't quickly move to travel bans and visa shenanigans that have a serious impact on employees. Worrying about harshing a victory buzz is not a priority.

I'm not sure why you think politics doesn't effect Google and the people who work there or why concerns shouldn't be addressed in an all hands.
HyperCard was a fancier PowerPoint.

I was deep into HyperCard at the relevant time.
It's directional. The calculation is 6x6 = 36.

The simplest example is with two people. John is a different person from Mary, so both John and Mary have a relationship with each other. 1x2 = 2 relationships.
You might be interested in reading about the history of the Australian ballot[0] to get a sense of we vote the way with do ("we" being fairly loose in this case, as many places outside the US use the Australian ballot -- and some American don't).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot#United_States
Nearly all free webhosts run PHP too.

The barrier to entry is very very low

This, absolutely this. There's literally nothing to configure or setup beyond PHP itself. You open a text editor and write your script, save the file, drop it on the server and it's immediately ready to run. No messing around with convoluted toolchains, massive frameworks, or some elaborate "build process" just to get a "Hello world" to work.

I'm not sure if it's even a majority of users, but PHP certainly appeals to those of us who like writing plain HTML in a text editor and being able to immediately refresh the browser that has it open to see the effects of changes.

The language itself has its warts, but they're easy to avoid and IMHO the disadvantages pale in comparison to the extreme simplicity of getting started and continuing to work.
> It looks they're actively trying to prevent certain content from being seen while exposing the content Google executives feel the masses 'should' see.

Even if they were doing this overtly to promote a political view rather than to address the problem—false information—that the question expressly raises, this would be protected political speech.

> This doesn't seem very neutral to me.

Even if it didn't (and the actual answer to the actual question does
not suggest political bias unless false propaganda uniquely favors one side), so what? What corporation, particularly in the business of distributing current events information, is strictly politically neutral? Certainly none of the ones pushing the narrative that this should be considered disturbing.
Someone in Georgia just learned the word "logistically" and wanted to show it off in a sentence.
Could you elaborate why/how other alternative are better? Why PHP is bad for a new project? Or PHP just doesn't sound cool to you?

Of course you got downvoted (I have never used PHP but I also downvoted you) simply because you do not say any reasoning on your claim and thus there is no value in your comment.
I guess it depends on why you are introverted; for me, I actually don’t have any social anxiety. I feel very comfortable being myself and am not worried about what others think. I choose to be alone because I enjoy it and it relaxes me.
> Bacteria absolutely care

Seriously?

> Political policy determines how the FDA regulates...

That's exactly what I mean when I talk about a tendentious excuse for putting activism where it doesn't belong. A drug company might have a lobbying arm that has to care about policy (and that, for pragmatic purposes, talks to all sides!), but a researcher looking at chromosomal recombination isn't going to do a better job of examining the damn chromosomes after being subject to political screeds. If anything, politics in that venue will distract researchers and detract from the business's core. Is that cost worth it so that some people can feel self-righteous?

> Saying that workplaces should be non-political is a a political statement, and by definition a conservative one

So, according to "crazygringo", neutrality is "by definition" supporting the opposition. Much George Bush. Very "with us or against us". Wow.

Re "by definition": see https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by...
The process of English becoming the global language has taken over 150 years. Massive cultural and economic forces have been at play to make English global.

It's not a simple thing, and what will likely happen is language balkanization for a significant period of time before any seismic shift from English to Chinese which is unlikely to happen for a number of reasons regardless.
“Logistically impossible” -> it’s more work than it’s worth to us.
Just as liberals like to promote social justice, I think it's not fair to conservatives that are harassed, outed, and unfairly represented. Since when is it ok for a company to hold a political rally?
It's awkward when government decisions are not subject to persuasive lobbying.
Aha, I didn't realize that statue of limitations only limited charging. Clearly I should have paid more attention in social studies. :P
Cryovolcanism on the Earth: Origin of a Crater in the Yamal Peninsula (Russia)
> Bundles are coming soon

I'm quite relieved to hear that; do you have a source? It doesn't seem that you work at Google.
> I believe the law is made with good intentions in mind.

"He looked down at the broad steps they were climbing. They were something of a novelty; each one was built out of large stone letters. The one he was just stepping on to, for example, read: I Meant It For The Best. The next one was: I Thought You’d Like It. Eric was standing on: For the Sake of the Children. “Weird, isn’t it?” he said. “Why do it like this?” “I think they’re meant to be good intentions,” said Rincewind. This was a road to Hell, and demons were, after all, traditionalists. And, while they are of course irredeemably evil, they are not always bad. And so Rincewind stepped off We Are Equal Opportunity Employers and through a wall, which healed up behind him, and into the world."
What's funny about this still though is that people keep saying TSMC's 7nm is roughly equivalent to Intel's 10nm like that somehow scores points for Intel... even though Intel hasn't been able to ship their 10nm process for shit.

So no matter how you slice it Intel has fallen behind.
It's a content-free statement, so it always makes jump to thinking about a sad distant future instead. Like a heat death of the universe, or when there is just a decline in economies of scale, the next phone might cease being the best ever produced.
I have never had this problem with Hangouts in Firefox. Hangouts has a million bugs on its own, but it works similarly poorly in Chrome and Firefox and has for a long time as far as I can tell.
It's all I do. It's the only way I can understand if my next comment will offend or work as a joke or if I'm posing an interesting topic. It's what makes conversations so draining to an introvert I feel. The more people, the more I have to figure out what I can say to be ok with the group at hand.
Same as you, I moved to Canada for college, and for a while detached myself from "those lowly Chinese" still stuck in China. But eventually it occurred to me, people also judge me with those stereotypes. Looking at myself and other Chinese people I crossed path with, I feel most of us live with integrity and a high morale compass, and having those stereotypes applied to us are incredibly unfair and dangerous.

Holocaust did not stop after all the bad Jews were persecuted.
(Full disclosure: I run a small business making and selling flavoured e-cigarette liquid)
The levels of diacetyl from a conventional cigarette can be around 750x that of what you'd get from an e-cigarette containing such a flavouring.
Most concentrate manufacturers have removed or replaced any flavours that contain this or other known irritants wherever possible, and provide material safety data sheets for all ingredients.
As far as I am aware, there have been no reported cases of "popcorn lung" from vapers or smokers.

If I am mistaken or unaware of any contradictory information, I would really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/new-study-finds-...
Now, I must revise and extend my remarks. I found this site:
https://www.aaas.org/page/historical-trends-federal-rd

From which you can download R&D spending as a percent of GDP in an excel spreadsheet. They also have nice breakdowns for research, development, and facilities.

If you look at total Federal R&D (all of the 3 above), it has indeed declined as a percent of GDP (although not in real terms).

1976: 1.23%
1986: 1.2%
1996: 0.89%
2006: 0.99%
2016: 0.81%

Then there is a plunge:

2017: 0.67%
2018: 0.71%

but the plunge comes with an asterisk:
"Beginning in FY 2017, a new official definition of R&D has been adopted by federal agencies. Late-stage development, testing, and evaluation programs, primarily within the Defense Department, are no longer counted as R&D. "

So, it's fair to say Federal R&D spending is at least stagnant and probably in a slow decline as a percent of GDP.
It depends on your goals. I’m trying to gain muscle. 90 isn’t bad for maintenance in my case. Some folks would say I’m low as the recommendation is as high as 1.1g of protein per lb to gain.
I'm not familiar with Twist but from a quick glance I don't see a similar function.

Wave let you post a reply in the middle of someone else's message, so that if you were presented with a whole list of questions you could answer each of them inline, and other people could tag on to those new conversation threads in place.
Yes, pleeeease do. I can't even imagine what I'm going to do come next year March :(
Facebook's competitive advantage doesn't come from having the best reliable streaming data store at scale, or from its software in general. Even if MySpace, Friendster or Google + got their hands on the whole software stack & started running it, people would stick with Facebook.

So there's no cost to open sourcing. The benefit comes from being known as technically innovative in general, and for recruiting, being known as having interesting, meaty, challenging projects to work on.

The impetus usually comes from team members who want to do the work. It could be to become known for having worked on the project, or a sense of giving back to the community, or a hope that you'll get bug fixes & features from outside contributors. In my (very limited) experience, managers "passively encourage" it -- they generally don't push the team to do it, but when the team asks, they encourage it.
Unfortunately, it's quite enforceable. That's the whole point of this legislation - it goes after those entities that it can be enforced against (businesses), forcing them to turn around and enforce it against the smaller fish in their domain.
On the one hand, I don't want to condescend. Relative risk and odds ratio are best explained on Wikipedia.

If you want to get advice on smoking cessation, ask a doctor. There have been no clinical trials for Juul or any e-cigarette product. No doctor following the letter of what they're supposed to be doing is going to recommend an e-cigarette product to a person seeking smoking cessation.

The strikingly low bar thing... People here defend Juul like people defended Theranos. Nobody wants to accept that the Juul guys are liars. Not yet anyway.

If e-cigarette companies had a study, much like Theranos, they'd publish it. They'd compare it to nicotine patches. They just don't. There's no secret, it's really just an agglomeration of personal experiences and unfortunate but real stories quitting addiction masquerading as a positive public health development.

This study shows pretty unequivocally that vaping can't possibly just substitute for cigarette smoking. If it did, we'd observe zero cigarette smokers in the vaping-only population. Correlation versus causation, whatever logic puzzles commenters invoke, it just distracts from both the evidence presented here and the total lack of a rigorous trial from e-cigarette sellers.
A woman that joins a company in mountain view that only hires women is the same as a man that joins a company in Manhattan that only hires men. Can't really say you are neutral after that.
Ha, I have the same feeling, even after several re-reads.
Would bd so easy to translate in this day and age
A moot point for humankind: we really do not care.

It seems it is working out quite well by the Chinese remaining in China. Well done!
It's a very stupid prediction that the Serena Williams incident will end her career. It should be a "lingering black eye" for her — she behaved horribly. But it won't be how she will be remembered ultimately.
You can turn your "show dead" setting in your profile to "yes" to see these. Some domains are automatically marked dead on submission, usually sites with a strong bias or who rarely break their own news. As dang noted elsewhere in this thread, this story is notable and worth sharing, so it's a worthy exception.

Users with enough karma can vouch for dead stories as well and make them visible, but since the dead pile is super spammy, most users don't bother to look in there.
> Vance announced earlier this year that his office would no longer prosecute marijuana smoking and possession cases.

People who believe smoking marijuana shouldn't be illegal may agree with this, but the better path seems to be to change the law. Otherwise, we are letting prosecutors decide which laws will get prosecuted.

I'm not referring to selective prosecution based upon the merits of a case but a prosecutor who can decide to completely stop prosecuting theft, embezzlement, or murder. The end doesn't justify the means.
Who are the manufacturers making COTS high speed document scanners?
Yes, I did leave out my point.

I have come across this before when I was a biologist many years ago. Homosexuality does not look like a genetic trait. It looks remarkably like a disease state - even an infectious one at that. But the first and last time I discussed this with other biology students, the reaction was very bad.

Research like this may get interpreted politically, and therefore ignored or even suppressed and the researchers lose credibility.

I do not know what you would interpret as natural, but homosexuality is detrimental for the persistence of a species. It is entirely a dead-end. The correct action to be taken is to prevent and/or counter the agent that causes this.
The horse market is like the piano market. Exceptional specimens are exceedingly expensive but at the low end you can probably just find one for free that no one wants anymore.
Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks
Not really. There are other journals that I do read.
I didn't look for numbers to back this, but I'm not sure node is that far behind in term of available developers (clearly not three vs hundreds of thousands), there is an enormous amount of Javascript developers today, and even those who do not use node can be ready for simple server-side development in a matter of days.

Wordpress powering most of the web is not necessarily a good indicator of the popularity of the language among developers, as the whole point of Wordpress is that you do not need to be a developer to operate your website.
The demoscene has always been awesome and influential, and it may be thriving right now, but it's still a niche hobby. It doesn't change the fact that use of assembly for practical purposes is dwindling, and has been for a long time.
Fun fact, Canada had the 3rd largest proven reserves of oil in the world, mostly in the oil/tar sands.