skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first job was writing simple glue scripts that talk to a database for a small biology lab, to help them keep track of their samples and orders. It was ancient. I was so grateful to have the job. Man, I was happy.

This is the 99% of programmers who are a lot more grateful to have a stable API that reliably works than they are worrying about "obsolete languages".

The more time I spend in this industry, the more I begin to think that developers are really not the friends of users or even of their employers. Developers hate maintaining code they didn't write, which is the most important need most businesses have, as well as the most important need customers have. This creates a real tension where companies, especially as they become a monopoly, tend to lose the customer focus and start focusing on internal constituencies. And in a tight labor market for devs, that usually means mass rewrites, rolling out complicated ambitious new frameworks and models, rather than, you know, adding features that customers use to existing code.

The result of these rewrites is generally something with fewer features, an unfamiliar interface, and more bugs than what preceded it. Joel Spolsky has a nice article about this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Fixed, thanks. (The joys of doing final editing past midnight.)
I regret my degree (though I'm doing fine).

It's in History, but that's not the issue. The issue is that I wasn't mature enough or academically inclined enough when I was 18-22. I did very well in High School due to fear of disappointing my parents but I didn't do any work in college and now I regret it. I did learn how to program.

I have a coworker who worked in a kitchen for a year after high school which spurred him to get a college degree. I think that's a good fit for lots of people and possibly would have been a better fit for me.
Google Green PE.
So I can still buy a pack of cigarettes at any corner store - just not an e-cigarette?

What the fuck, SF?
A prime example where GDPR would apply to a security camera in your own house would be if that camera was used to record renters (including short term rentals e.g. AirBnB) without their knowledge.

For example, I recall reading about cases of renters finding out that the landlord has installed hidden cameras in the bedrooms and showers.
I used this service a while ago, when I saw the host of podcast I follow was available as a "cameo", my request for the video was a in-joke from the podcast, I was sent the video a couple days later, I watched it, laughed and waited for the next podcast where I hoped he would talk about it, when he did it was equally as funny as the original video and took the in-joke deeper again.

I think this use case provided a lot more value and depth than a more pedestrian "congratulations on graduating".
It doesn't have to be an either/or situation. I would be perfectly fine if cities also wanted to make it harder to buy heroin/traditional cigarettes.
It's good to be reminded of how many backwards laws there are in the world. Every country is a little bit fascist and insane and it makes you appreciate the good parts of your own country.
Yeah they are pretty useless. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it as I got downvoted. But the other points might make some difference.
Haha, I wonder how much of an effect this is going to have. Most SF kids know how to take BART down to Daly City and everyone knows enforcement of using a vape is not going to happen. Like you could always smoke weed on the streets of SF. It was defacto legal for years.

It’ll be interesting to see if taking BART/muni down to Daly City will be a problem.
Just to be clear, it's a similar case, not the same case.

It would be nice to compare the unpixellated photos of the thieves.
Very little produce actually goes to waste... What do you think stoufers puts in their frozen stews? Where do you get carrot cubes in your soups? Where do you get bananas for your strawberry banana smoothies? Where does tomato paste come from?

The nicest looking stuff is put on the shelf and the ugly stuff is just ground up into your everyday food items.
https://www.google.com/search?q=juul+ads&safe=off&hl=de&tbm=... as a starting point for ads very much on the "attract young people", not the "medically helpful device" end of the spectrum.
Just having 51% of the network doesn't mean checkmate. It allows you to perform something called a double spend. I could buy something from you with bitcoin, while at the same time I attempted to send the same funds back to myself. If I controlled 51% of the network, there is a slim chance that would work, because the other 49% of the hash power is still validating the transaction where I sent you the funds, not the secret one I sent myself.

If this were a big transaction, I might choose to wait for more than one confirmation before completing my end of the transaction. The longer I wait, the more expensive it becomes for you to conduct your 51% attack.

It really is prohibitively expensive, to conduct such an attack, when you consider a few other factors. I could double spend the money to myself, but after news of such an attack came out, the price likely could crash, reducing the prize.

Not to mention opportunity cost. If you have the means to conduct a 51% attack it means you have a lot of capital and expertise. You could put those two together to make a giant pile of money through legitimate means, like operating a hedge fund. The risk is a lot less.

The only group that would be motivated enough and capable enough to perpetrate such an attack would be a state, and why would they bother when, like was mentioned elsewhere, they could attack bitcoin with the stroke of a pen, via regulation etc. It's waaay less effort.
Types alone are severely insufficient documentation. That’s the refutation of the original poster’s claim.
If healthcare is perfectly inelastic and inelasticity is the dominant factor in pricing, shouldn't we expect all procedures cost $LIFE_SAVINGS each already? I'm not trying to be glib; my point is that a) healthcare is _not_ perfectly inelastic, and b) even in the presence of high inelasticity, we can observe that market forces can exert downwards pressure on pricing. I think that arguing for a remedy solely on the basis of elasticity is misguided and potentially ignores larger problems within the market.

Consider the example of food, in general. Demand for food is wildly inelastic - without it provided regularly, for your entire life, you _will_ die. If elasticity were the only consideration in pricing, we should expect food to be break-the-bank expensive, but it clearly isn't. What else is different between the healthcare and food markets?

(To be clear, I'm not defending the current state of our healthcare system. It's broken in a lot of ways, and is way more expensive than it needs to be. I'm just arguing against the idea that the cause of its dysfunction is inelasticity of demand.)
Do you think they care if you waste your time on that? The board has proven to be incompetent for decades. The government of SF is fundamentally broken.
I get that everyone smoking is way worse than everyone vaping, but nowadays smoking (cigarettes) isn't popular at all. Even without vaping claiming some of the would-be smokers, I doubt a significant portion of my generation would smoke.

Of course, I'm also biased by having only lived in LA and the Bay Area where I bet smoking is less prevalent than other parts of the country.
Let's play devil's advocate.

Where's the proof that e-cigarettes are harmful?

We have mountains of evidence that cigarettes are one of the most harmful habits one can do.

Do we have proof e-cigs cause lung cancer, or other types of cancer? COPD? asthma? no, we do not.

edit: people seem to be very downvote-happy on this site when they disagree with something.

Combustion of tobacco produces polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) which are heavily carcinogenic. Vaporization of nicotine does NOT produce these compounds.

Additionally the UK Government claims that e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes, suggesting they are less damaging than junk food, soda, or car exhaust. Why not ban coca-cola and real cigarettes besides ecig?
Punctuation was never my strongest trait,nor was English,as a foreign language. The fact that I typed it all while watching a film didn't help either to the quality of the punctuation.I'm happy to advocate for a product I believe in, however I doubt that could pass as marketing.
At least with ecigs the batteries and cartridges probably end up in a trash bin instead of thrown on the ground like with cigarette butts. A single pack of cigarettes is 20 butts, and having been a smoker (and having known many other smokers), a good deal of butts are discarded wherever without care. Ecig components typically last longer than a single pack (an atomizer lasts longer than a pack of cigarettes, anywhere from 2-20 packs worth). A battery lasts longer and gets more use. So while ecig components will be thrown out, they are thrown away much less frequently than cigarette butts are thrown out.

To be clear, I no longer smoke.
That's basically where I'm going with "not providing that value." Much like if I charge you $20 for a McDonald's cheeseburger, you're not getting nothing in return, but you're not getting $20 of value.
Actually I think that substance abuse (cigs, alcohol, heroin, etc.) is the reason why many of them are homeless to begin with. The right thing to do for them would be to medically cure their addiction, thereby making them capable of helping themselves. This is hard to accept for those who don't know how to cheaply and sustainably treat addictions.
>> "It’s all in our terms of service!”

This smells to high heaven. As pointed out by OP, your TOS are written to gloss over who holds liability if a renter splits with your kit.
I really wanted to get into the promise-land of Haskell, and tried hard to, but my enthusiasm went south when I found out I can hit bugs with lazy-IO that the compiler wouldn't warn me about.
If they beat women, they may not value them as people?
Up until about the time of Jobs' death there was a very clear market timing window on AAPL at every major product announcement.

The stock would always run up in the day before the event. If the announcement was good, it would run up more after the event, but either way things would calm down after a few more days, because there was no way that price was sustainable.

So every year you could make an extra 5% above the normal trend line for the stock by profit taking and buying back in immediately. The short term capital gains taxes would have eaten into that pretty hard.
I think they can never win on price. Their stores create too much overhead. I read somewhere that like 80% of their sales were during the two weeks before Christmas.

If I were them, I'd rent dead spaces in malls for Nov, Dec and Jan (returns, liquidation). I'd also demand that Lego or Hasbro or whomever give them several exclusive toys for the season you can only get there. Make all the money in one quarter without maintaining expensive stores the rest of the year. Anything else is folly outside of 20 stores in the 20 biggest markets.
Are you sure? After Prop J and Prop K, I’m positive that the California populace will just go after things that seem like they’ll make them individually better off in the short term. In fact, I can’t see why an app would make it different. People will still want the stability of laws being enforced for a long term. I see your proposed system as amplifying the problem honestly.
No you dont. Thats the point. The type of the function completely determines the operation. Dont read the code. Read the type and then you know what the code has to do.
Good point about the size. Unengorged nymph ticks are tough to spot. That's why most people don't notice them until after multiple days of feeding. The adults are much easier to catch early, and thus pose less of a threat.

For storage, a Ziplock bag works well (especially for mailing). Just make sure it's sealed air tight. A prescription pill bottle works great too because of the secure lid.
"Queers hate techies". I saw it spraypainted on the sidewalk a while back.

Banning vaping and not tobacco keeps with the aesthetic of embracing tradition and rejecting technology. Ridiculous, but unsurprising.
I thought Picaridin (or Icaridin) was the leading alternative to DEET?
Anybody knows how it compares to Permetherin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaridin
You can get zero nicotine, but not everyone does. I know a few people who accidentally got themselves addicted to nicotine by vaping too much without really thinking of the consequences.
Decriminalization is different than legalization. This ordinance does not criminalize e-cigs.

I think criminalizing drugs leads to a lot of societal problems. I don't think legalizing all drugs is the answer to those problems.
Security by obscurity ain't security, though. If they weren't opaque, at least we as a society would be better equipped to keep up with the algorithmic exploitation arms race.
There’s a similarish channel called Company Man. I treat it as purely entertainment, because I have no idea what the credentials of the dude are, but it’s fun.
When I broke up with my last girlfriend, she said one of the best things I ever did for her was get her to quit smoking. Now things taste better, she smells things better, and she's not huffing after climbing the stairs.
I think that my answer here is pretty nuanced, and it is that most people I talk to should over the majority of their lives be using something like Wealthfront or a Vanguard target date retirement fund, but I also talk to folks who have quirky life circumstances as a function of how the technology industry works, and those folks would potentially benefit materially from IB.

Here's about as much as I can say publicly before I start getting worried about social dynamics: if you will, at some point in the next 20 years, own millions of dollars of stock as a function of your employment, you should be radically more interested in Interactive Brokers than a similarly situated technologist who does not have some of the needs implied by that.
Absolutely, and I have put a decent amount of time in to learning Haskell. But I've been imperative programming since 8 yo, and as much as I love Haskell I can't be saved from finding it hard to understand. I also find it unmemorable - I could get my head around that code if I tried but 2 weeks later I will forget.

I also find that code quite abstract, it looks to be solving some kind of problem that usually the language designer (if say you are in C#) would be solving. Haskell seems to be something that leaks it's mechanics into your code, where as C# keeps it for the most part nicely separated from your code, albeit with the effect of giving the programmer less power. No typeclasses etc.
Vaping is not smoking. Tobacco is not nicotine. Learn the differences in health risks between the former and the latter and how much of a positive it is for people to transfer to the latter group before crying.

Vaping is so much better than tobacco than we should be discussing banning alcohol before vaping as far as harm to society is concerned.
Wayfair employees plan walkout in response to company furnishing border camps
No tricks, work with users, show them often, get constant feedback and learnings.

Build, measure, learn. Also solve a real and important pain.

Try solution oriented thinking, as opposed to product.
Vaping plus flavored nicotine is marketed at kids. If vaping were strictly an alternative to cigarettes, marketed at existing smokers, as a harm reduction alternative then it would be fine. But it's not, it's marketed as a hip new thing, getting kids hooked on nicotine that would have otherwise never touched a cigarette.

Also, that flavored nicotine smoke smells nasty. Most smokers tend to be aware that people don't like their smoke and they make some effort to keep it out of people's faces, but vaping isn't smoking, it's vaping, and cool and less harmful than cigarettes, so who could possibly object to vape smoke filling the air? /s
Did you get better? What treatments did you use, what did you do?
Supermarkets seem to change their approach too. Woolworths has it's own brand of "odd bunch" https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/search/products?searchTer... which is the imperfect produce at lower prices. You can buy it right next to the standard ones.

And from the customer side, that's much easier than a subscription service.
hoistStateIntoStateT
:: Sem (State s ': r) a
-> S.StateT s (Sem r) a

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Sorry even that'll get my brain CPU on 100% for a few minutes.
A fresh graduate also isn't going to be able to walk out with a PE until they've held some kind of industry role. I would think that this is a good indicator that a fresh graduate isn't supposed to be ready-to-go but ready to be trained.

It seems more like it's those doing the hiring who are slacking on their responsibility than the school.
"Host it somewhere else" doesn't make German citizens somehow immune to German law and their "imprint" requirement.
The book I buy all of my cousins joining the workforce is I Will Teach You To Be Rich, which has an unfortunate title, doesn't teach you much about brokerages and investment options, but has the core right advice about personal finance management.
The Secret Tesla Motors Masterplan
I use it as part of my job periodically. It is not intrinsically shitty.

When used properly, salesforce provides valuable information and organizes and facilitates coordination around customer-related issues and initiatives far better than anything else that's generally available at the kind of scale it's used for.

The problems start when people who create tickets don't understand how things are supposed to work (because no one gets fucking training), and just end up jamming multiple problems into one ticket.
Instead of writing short rages or immediately drawing party lines, those who enjoy consuming nicotine might benefit from writing openly and honestly about the fact that they enjoy these products. Perhaps mention the fact that current research leans in the direction that secondhand vapor is less harmful than secondhand smoke [1] and so vaping could be treated as more of an individual freedom.

Personally, I think society should allow adults to vape, though I believe there should be incredibly strong regulations against companies benefiting from the sale of addictive chemicals. The interesting conversation to me is how to protect children and inform the public while not compromising liberties that don't need to be compromised.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparison-of-the-effe...

From the abstract: "For all byproducts measured, electronic cigarettes produce very small exposures relative to tobacco cigarettes."
Not really. I may have vector length manipulation and address formatting though. But vector lengths are not integers (or natural for that matter) and an address is certainly not a string. Perhaps you could use these primitives to represent these things but we should not confuse representation with equality.
The Uber one is odd, US fined Uber $148m, the UK fined them £385,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecPrwqjbGw
(I'm a quant at a trading firm) On the quant side, the somewhat unfortunate answer is "get a STEM PhD". My firm is always looking to hire quants who are also good (Python / C++) developers, but you'll probably not get past the initial resume screen without a PhD or other serious research experience.
I presume it could also mean a fork, or someone else taking over X.org, if anyone using the API has an interest in keeping it alive?
> I'll never understand why lawmakers think that fruit and other flavorings for tobacco are aimed at getting kids hooked.

Do you have kids? They love what their friends have, and really really like candy flavors.
There is a component to terribly written phishing emails where the poor spelling and grammar becomes a filter for people who won't fall for it. People who will fall for either won't care or aren't paying attention anyway.
Nice. Dear gods I forgot what nonsense plugs were before USB. Did it plug into a? MIDI? port??
Adults like flavored nicotine too, but have you seen the ads? They're blatantly targeted at kids. Hell, I saw one once that showed a vape plugged into the USB port of a kid's laptop in class, where the advertising was basically saying your teacher won't know it's a vape.
You want to assume whatever is best for the environment. Worst case, if the assumption is wrong, we are preventing more pollution.
Somehow this system works for 50+ other countries in the world, but when it comes to the US its only discussed in hypotheticals.. completely insane. Somehow the others already have a functioning system without a tax rate of 100%...
>I'm not trying to be snarky or insensitive, but

oh boy, this is how you're starting this comment?

>is it really that hard for a woman...

facepalm. be mindful of your privilege. this isn't a helpful comment from the start. If you find yourself starting lots of conversations this way, I suggest taking a long reassessment on what your goals are when holding dialogue on the internet.
"The nicotine in e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes is addictive. E-cigarettes are considered tobacco products because most of them contain nicotine, which comes from tobacco.

Besides nicotine, e-cigarettes can contain harmful and potentially harmful ingredients, including:

>ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs

>flavorants such as diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease

>volatile organic compounds

>heavy metals, such as nickel, tin, and lead"

https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/
It should have been more.The idiots who do this deserve it. My fiancé's ex employeer used to send emails cc'ing contractors that haven't even seen each other.I've seen some small scale companies even try to send marketing emails to their small list of clients..
Yeah, last attempt before Libra takes over. I'm not sure why Bitcoin diehards are so stupid to believe that Libra is bullish for their VHS technology when people use Bluray, for example. It's over. You didn't get the memo? Nobody needs decentralized systems except the tinfoil hat people. Centralization is a result of progress, it's not archaic - like it or not! And stop lying to yourself that you care about the technology (which is outdated and highly inefficient without two opinions about it) - all you care about is waking up a millionaire without doing much about it! Well, it's not happening. Get a job, get a girlfriend, get a life! Bitcoin will not make your dreams come true!
The buck still broke in 2008; that's what started the crisis.
Massive tax on vaping for what harm?
It's weird to see the hype for Monzo, since other than a somewhat-nicer UI and data exportability, all of its features have been done before in the US. Some of the features have been around for more than a decade stateside...

It seems everything old is new again. At least with a normal CC I have access to a bank branch so I can talk to a real person if I need to.
Can I devil's devil's advocate - various players in the tobacco industry carried out a long PR campaign trying to downplay the health effects of smoking after being internally aware of them so... maybe let's wait to see if this new way to inhale tobacco is safe before accepting the word of tobacco industry participants again?

This is going by the old "Fool me once shame on you, falsely convince me that tobacco products pose no health risks twice shame on me" - I think that's how that quote goes.
From a purely selfish perspective, it's usually cheaper and easier to keep a healthy stock of components to hand. If you've made the jump to SMD, I can highly recommend these sample books.

https://www.banggood.com/0805-SMD-Resistor-And-Capacitor-Sam...
Facebook’s new cryptocurrency promises a government-free solution to poverty
What, ban the use of illegal products? Novel idea!
Ultrawidify on Firefox is doing a pretty good job at stretching it out to 21:9 (dynamically so it switches on the xBox logo part).