skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hey, yeah that's a fair comment! So I've actually gotten to know some senior devs and CTOs from interviewing them for my other blog - https://www.nocsdegree.com - so for things like pricing I have input from them. I'll definitely prioritise talking to companies and building relationships. I've also been in contact with some bootcamps.
That's not a good enough reason to ban something. Actually let me clarify that, it is theoretically a good enough reason to ban something, but in reality it just lead to speakeasies and NASCAR.
Governments that continue to subsidize fossil fuel industries while failing to properly incentivize renewable or regulate/tax carbon emissions are the thing that holds the feedback loop back.
Since this is a relatively new vehicle in delivery of an addictive substance it would seem prudent to ban it while possible before wide spread adoption.

India already has a problem with heavy pollution that basically amounts to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day just living in most of its cities. Add to the fact that cigarettes and tobacco are widely available, why even introduce more ways to destroy peoples health.
Notation system allows scientists to communicate polymers more easily
Maybe by improving the socioeconomic conditions that generate crime in the first place?
Right, and it's likely that this verb was imported into English from French :)

TIL!
As a legal adult, all of 4 of those marketing drives appeal to me, especially sweet flavors. I don't see how that means they are marketing toward a demographic that is legally unable to purchase their product. To me, this is just another case of moral panic.
Thanks! Oh, I thought that had been changed. Thanks for catching that!
Why would you ever be escaping HTML in client-side JS? You should be using appropriate DOM APIs (which don't include innerHTML) to manipulate the document.
> And at night?

It gets dark.

Source: I used to live in a middle eastern country.
Linus Torvalds goes against secure-by-default philosophy
As depressing as it is to say this: Firefox's marketshare is so low that we really need the Chrome numbers here. 24% of a <10% market share means "quite likely around 2.4% globally". That's basically a number that says "safe to entirely ignore in terms of userbase support" =/
Ok, thanks for the tip!
Do you have any grounding for this assertion or is it just something kicking around in your head?

I can provide examples[0] of non-native speakers that have written good novels in another tongue.

The trick to being a good writer is generally being a good reader. If you read enough, you can figure out how to have the turns of phrase and pacing and everything else that makes for compelling prose in any language. As far as I'm aware, there is nothing fundamental about the function of the human brain that would cause your statement to be in any way reasonable. Of course exophonic writers are not very common, it will always be easier to write a novel in your native tongue. But the idea that more difficult is close to the exceptionally difficult that you are espousing does not seem founded in reality. It's just not very common.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exophonic_writers
OP is obviously pointing out the hypocrisy, especially since vaping is an easy target and tobacco has deep pockets.
"Dude", you obviously just don't want your incomplete world view challenged. Details matter here. Yes, Flint MI has a drinking water problem and it's deplorable. That doesn't generalize to the rest of the nation. Health Care is an issue as well. Our low income citizens have coverage problems and it's an issue being debated at the highest levels currently. If you care to dig further, you'd also find that we have better health outcomes for those who are covered than does most of the world. It's a complex issue, but just like your Flint comment, it doesn't generalize to "most people in the US are poor".

I'm fine with have a reasoned discussion, but you don't seem to want that, so you're not worth talking to.
>I don't think a single compile cycle per half day

Hm... I read this quite differently than you do. Not compile cycles, but actual test-driven product iterations.

Do you have more solid sources than I do?

https://intenseminimalism.com/2012/a-brief-history-of-agile-...

https://brettwgreen.com/2014/01/25/rockets-before-rovers/
Well here's some of it. This is what ublock origin has to say about us.hsbc.com:

google.com
adsrvr.org
amazon-adsystem.com
appdynamics.com
bing.com
demdex.net
doubleclick.net
facebook.com
googleusercontent.com
gstatic.com
hsbc.com
linkedin.com
liveperson.net
lpsnmedia.net
omtrdc.net
tiqcdn.com
yahoo.com
youtube.com
ytimg.com

Plenty of behavioral stuff in there!
Per TFA, there are around 35 Million vapers worldwide. The WHO (via Wikipedia) indicates that over 120 million people smoke cigarettes in India alone, with 1m dying every year due exclusively to smoking complications.

So, no, e-cig use could not possibly be higher, or have a higher health impact.
it's also important to note that these companies are known for lying. I've had five separate CenturyLink employees lie to me over the phone in the past week and a half so I don't really even think their word something you can rely on.
Fair enough - I might roll it into my other website No CS Degree in future.
The simplest heuristic I can think of is that if you made another purchase yourself not long before or after the fraudsters did, it's easy to tell that you'd have to go supersonic for both transactions to be valid.
> I don't think of 170,000 as "huge"

Interesting, that's pretty big from my perspective.

I grew up in a suburb of a big city (~750k, ~4M metro), and my city was ~60k people. I currently live in a city of <50k. I never considered either to be huge, but definitely not small. The biggest city in my county is a little over 100k people, the "big city" in my area is just under 200k, with the metro area being just over 1M.

My 30k city has its own fiber network, and several neighboring cities have banded together on a fiber project. When I see "town", I think of something smaller than my own city, not something nearly as big as the "big city" in my area.
I'm pretty sure that is discouraged by the docs and the author. Just because a library doesn't pop up a bouncing anthropomorphic paperclip and specifically ASK you, "are you sure you want to store this state globally?", doesn't mean the library is bad. Just think of the brain-dead things the C language allows you to do with malloc! Yet that's not at all C's fault.
> I'd probably fire someone if I started to see `JSON.parse(...)`

I've had the privilege of working in organizations that consider mistakes to be the cornerstone of resilient systems. Because of that, comments like this scare me, even when intentionally hyperbolic. More so, if the product works well and is being maintained easily, why would you micromanage like that? Sounds like a minor conversation only worth having if the technical decision is having a real impact.

Thomas J. Watson:

> Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
I don't understand, what are you referring to that isn't true?
Letting stuff like this college cheating scandal go can completely undermine the public's trust in a "meritocracy", which is absolutely essential to a stable, prosperous society. Even if they are going against low hanging fruit, it is better than doing nothing.
Here are the Tripadvisor reviews: https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReviews-g776617-d4090866-...
My experience of embedded is that it encapsulates needing to know everything about more complex systems. You can't make any assumptions about anything, which makes life fun. And often it's something totally unexpected which causes you grief.

I do a lot of embedded work without a CS degree. Every board and chip is different, so you learn by doing. But,at the same time a lot of hardware is basically the same. You have some low power cpu and a bunch of standard peripherals. Once you know how most of them work, it's just engineering to figure out what libraries you need.

There's lots of work in embedded that's for sure. There's also a huge amount of variety depending how close to the metal you want to be.
I appreciate the sentiment but this article is riddled with factual errors.

1) digitization (which includes tracking objects in the real world with IoT tech) increases efficiency, which results in moving fewer real objects around in the world, thus reducing total energy consumption. Think of Netflix vs manufacturing and shipping DVDs to stores then driving to the store to buy them.

2) data centers are far from the biggest carbon creators. Transportation and construction are, by far, #1

3) data centers can run off green energy. Combustion engine cars cannot.

4) data centers can be built in far away places that provide the most efficient and greenest energy
Is whatever he said (I doubt he used the words "sexual assault") actually untrue?
When I was a high school sophomore, Blackboard allowed you to customize your student homepage with widgets, one of which was a "notes" widget which allowed you to save random strings which would be displayed on your page next time you loaded it. Fortunately, if you saved arbitrary html, it would be rendered so we embedded flash games for us to play during classes which allowed computer use.
> A few finger budges for ~2hr of entertainment.

It's more like: check sites 1-5 looking for the movie, can't find it (or it a PPV download, OR the app/site doesn't support 5.1 DDS, its quality is bad) get frustrated go onto $torrentsite, sort by size, download one with most seeders & a larger file size wait 30-60 min and done.

Netflix used to make it easier as their app UX and quality are high so it was a one stop shop. Now i just find torrenting easier to make sure its high quality with 5.1.. however i may not be the norm.
Save your money. Create robust regression scripts and hire a freelancer to fix it when the schema changes. anyone serious crawling/scraping data from websites won’t leave it up to some automated ml magic to extract the right data for them.
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How about censorship? I would assume some books are considered subversive and censored by the CCP but I may be wrong.
Wonder how big a check the traditional cigarette makers cut to make this happen.
Different substances are regulated differently because they have different risks for the population. Nicotine is significantly more addictive and harmful than marijuana which is why it is regulated differently than marijuana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drug_danger_and_dependenc...
What about the people that will go back to smoking cigarettes, a clearly worse alternative? E-cigs are preventing all those people from using traditional tobacco products, not causing higher use...
My credit card is stolen every other year. Somehow XBox live (for my son) has no problem figuring out how to keep charging me, despite the number changing.
I have had no issues getting interviews with Microsoft (and a position), Google, Netflix, FB (turned down), etc. No CS degree. I doubt it's because of my philosophy degree. Marketing is very important however.
Or pictures of people on the sides of sprinter vans.

Or bikes on trailers on the backs of cars.

Or pickup trucks stuffed to the gills with Lime scooters.

Or...
They are set to ban cigarette filters as part of the single-use plastics ban. India is, apparently, one of the worlds largest producers of cheap unfiltered cigarettes.

Not necessarily a bad thing, however, as the filters have little to no health benefit and are a huge environmental issue.
This is not an argument in good faith.

The social ROI on driving is a net benefit, in our current society (95% of us would be dead in a few weeks, if all cars and trucks disappeared tomorrow.) They cause long-term problems, and we absolutely must be working towards a low-carbon future. Do you have a roadmap towards a low-vaping future? I assume not - so I'm not entirely sure your concern for public health is entirely sincere.

It's also been argued to me that prohibition did not have a particularly large impact on overall crime rates, but may have had a positive impact on public health. Depending on which statistics you want to cite, you can very easily make this case. [1]

So, no, it's not at all clear that prohibition was a disaster, and its entirely possible that had we let that experiment run a generation or two, alcohol consumption today would have been much, much lower.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2014/retrieve.php?pdfid=80...
This is just FUD. Those social media campaigns ended four years ago, the Sundance Film festival isn’t aimed at minors, and adults buy the flavors to help quit smoking cigarettes. I don’t know what to say about that 1 scholarship program, because I’ve never heard of it before.

Even saying that 31% of youth vapers citing flavors as a reason for trying vaping feel flimsy. Are they heavy or repeat users in any way? Do they switch to tobacco flavor in the absence of other flavors?
It would be interesting to see how this squares with GDPR, the purpose of the latter being to minimize recording of what your computer is willing to send.
i'd pay 2-3x which is more than i pay now (I refuse to use more then netflix tbh)
If it's exclusively going to be used for heavyweight operations like these, it's probably better to benchmark against protobuf decoding. I guess using JSON has a "works out of the box" appeal, and doesn't require defining any protobuf schema. But personally I don't see defining proto files as too prohibitive in terms of development cost.
Why? It doesn't affect you in any way.
Vaping is a substitute for smoking. If you ban vaping, you get more smokers and overall worse health outcomes.

Using just US statistics, you get the following result[1]:

> ...if a public e-cigarette ban reduces the number of smokers who switch to e-cigarettes by 2%, you’ve just killed an extra 9000 people per year – about three 9-11 attacks, or twice the number of US soldiers who died in the Iraq War.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-so...
I can vouch for #2 (and many other people if you'd listen). UK scientists vouch for #1.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/28/vaping-is-95...

With this evidence, are you willing change your stance on it?
They will likely also offer free streaming (though I realize that is "another service" in the sense that you again have to log in, search and browse) like Kanopy[1] which does offer a lot of older films, foreign films, and documentaries.

1: https://www.kanopy.com/
is it really that bad if people use tlds to make immature puns?
it's the variance that's going to bite us in the end. It's far more worrisome than a simple downward trend. A few really, _really_ extreme climate events are going to cause destruction and suffering on a scale we have not experienced before. There will be hand wringing and cries of "nobody saw this coming"

The analogy I use to describe it is speakers, speaker cones in particular. Anyone in their 20s or older who's ever been into electronics, cars or music is likely to have experienced speaker distortion and possibly blown speakers, and most of them as children or teens have watched cones bouncing.

Climate change is like turning the volume up and putting more energy into the system. The cones don't just go higher, they go deeper as well and at some point you start getting distortion. If you can turn the volume down at that point you can avoid damage, but if you keep pushing it higher you'll eventually get lasting damage, and eventually it may be catastrophic. Once the coil is off or the cone has ruptured, turning the volume down isn't going to get you anywhere close to where you started.

We're still in the distortion stage now with some material fatigue setting in, but the people in control of the volume are listening to a crowd yelling to "Pump! Pump!"

... Or perhaps it's "Jump!"
The graph in the article includes results for other engines too, not only V8.
Many people with CS degrees don't understand those topics and many people without a CS degree do. So I don't buy this.
It's an emotional response.
You already did. Why not choose the right university/curriculum that you're interested in? Or you have a problem with most of them?
No,the usual suspects - Russian Nazi March in Moscow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP2o13mxRpo

Or https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-neonazi-20...
> One place had me reverse a linked list on a whiteboard, and was rude and standoffish when I commented that I’d never thought about doing that before so I didn’t have the algorithm memorized.

A good interviewer prefers it if the candidate does not have the algorithm memorized. The whole point is to gauge their problem solving skills. Reciting something from a textbook doesn't tell the interviewer much. The reason you didn't get a favorable reaction in that situation could be because not knowing the algorithm was perfectly acceptable in that situation. It's expected that you figure it out instead of challenging the validity of the question.
This is, perhaps, more about protecting established industries than public health.
Your comment has contradictions. For example, if "most Americans already owns a house", how are they at the same not affected by home prices increasing?

Like a lot of financial analysis I read, you seem to look at only one side of the transaction. For every renter, there's a rentee. For every buyer, a seller. For every borrower, a lender. Those people are abundant as well, and the exact opposite comment could be written about them.
That's what can happen when the provincial government runs the telco -- it's not a guarantee of course, but they act in the best interest of the stakeholders (the people).

My brother lives in Saskatoon as well and I remember going there in the early 2000s and his "cable" TV was IPTV (the cable box for his TV was connected with an ethernet cable -- it didn't even have a COAX connection). That blew my mind at the time but it made so much sense from a network health/bandwidth standpoint and allowed them to offer great options for movie rentals, etc.
this came up at a conference I was at last week (FITC WEBU/Toronto) in a talk by Houssein Djirdeh from Google entitled "What's New in Speed at Google?"

Someone asked if it was recommended everyone start refactoring their code to have this change and he replied it would depend on size of project/code etc..as the performance benefit might not be there for huge things, but in some smaller cases it could definitely be a plus.
We're struggling, IMHO, with adopting agile in a highly regulated environment where there are a multitude of tollgates to get to production. Roughly 20 different stakeholders that need to be accommodated while leveraging many internal services that do not support automation.

Slipping back into waterfall can happen because many of these issues have sequential dependencies and are one time request driven processes. It's a bit of a nightmare.
This is all subjective. I personally don't mind at all, but cigarette smoke irritates the hell out of me
> The question is how many businesses really want to pay the money for somebody to audit their entire network security through the OSI stack at layers 1-7

If there was a mandatory requirement (e.g., had it been incorporated in the HIPAA certification requirements that the ACA required the Department of Health and Human Services to have in place and in effect for some HIPAA transactions by the end of 2013, and for all HIPAA data by the end of 2015), the question would be equivalent to “how many businesses want to be legally permitted to conduct business involving HIPAA-covered transactions and data”.

Or course, not only was that not in the regs, the regs were late, and withdrawn without going into effect, so there are no (not even lip service audit) certification requirements for entities in health care.
Plug the hard drive into the TV or mobile device. I'm pretty sure mobile devices support USB harddrives these days, but I know for sure "smart TVs" do. If you prefer dumb tvs (as I do) plug an old computer into that. Or if you want to save power, plug a new computer into it. Or get something that supports DLNA (e.g. a playstation or I believe roku's and roku-like devices) and use a DLNA server on your NAS/workstation (I use minidlna, some people I know use Universal Media Server (cross platform GUI, GPLv2.)) Or use a more commercial DLNA-like solution such as plex.

There are many options here. That's one of the upsides of pirating non-DRM media. Storage is stupid cheap and anybody on HN should be able to figure out how to get an arbitrary mp4 file onto an arbitrary screen.
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It's happening in the US too, and we're all falling for it.
The article makes it very clear how the marketplace itself biases against fringe ideas, and the path fringe ideas must take to become mainstream. That was the whole point of it!

As for the critique of Pinker... by focusing on the past few decades, rather than the past few millennia (as Pinker does), it greatly misses the point on many things. If you've read Pinker, you'll see how. If you're just reading critiques of Pinker, well. I have my gripes with him too, but that article is just strawman arguments for the most part.
My question as a European is can it work? I mean, bmw, Honda and VW are non US companies (they do have a large enough base over there) but if world wide, fuel economy standards go up, what can trump do, other than a load of hot air?
I specifically stated we have not seen it coming off of a black hole, but dismissing this as just a simulation is silly and reductionist. To do the same in a counter-argument, if I can accurately model fluid dynamics, I don't have to go drop a log in my bathtub to observe the effects.

But sure, if you want, we can discount that specific study and focus on others that use different methods to detect it that aren't "just simulations"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4634
https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6612
I am from Georgia, not Ukraine. First of all they are Nationalists, not Nazists. I am not supporting nationalist too but anyway that is very different terms even if they can sound similarly. Second I am pretty sure you can find hundreds of real nazist in any country. But even if we suppose that people on video are nazist making inference about country based on minority is very big mistake.
Are the number of API calls per month? Is the answer the same for a free account?
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I guess he's opposing the statement that they're doing as little as possible to upgrade their service.
Exposed RDP servers see 150K brute-force attempts per week
People really dislike a hate train/circle jerk/lynch mob being derailed by facts.

I greatly dislike the new emphasis on feelings and image over accuracy and truth that has entered the tech sector in the last decade or so.

^ not particularly directed at your comment, it just inspired the thought
Well, that's what I said.

But non CS folk never did understand, in my > 10 year experience.

Of course there will always be exceptions. John Carmack is one of the greatest programmers of all time, and he never went to college. To be fair, he did excel a lot further under the mentorship of Michael Abrash, who was a researcher in 3d graphics.

But for your average Joe schmoe, this is likely not to be the case.

Would I not hire someone on the basis of no CS degree? No.

Would I be more skeptical? Absolutely.

Would I consider them for a senior advisor role? Probably not.

Unless it's from another technical field (math, physics). Even then, I don't know, it depends on the role. I've seen a lot of shit code from people who were mathematically brilliant.