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Working on a product for dead-simple CDN backed hosting for static websites with performance optimizations built in, called BitBalloon (https://www.bitballoon.com).

Shoot me a note at mathias@bitballoon.com if you're interested in trying it out.

you can have the app online and a lot faster than on S3 in around 30 seconds :)
The liquids are usually made of: propylene glycol (a food safe additive), glycerine, nicotine and flavoring (the same kind used in food). Nicotine, while not completely benign, is not exactly deadly stuff at the concentrations used in ecigs; it's in the same ballpark as caffeine. Propylene glycol and glycerine are well studied and safe. The "unknown" part is whether or not the food flavorings (which are safe to ingest) are also safe when vaporized. Probably, but not all of them have been tested, so there can't be a guarantee.

So there are no known special health risks apart from those from the nicotine, and no particular reason to believe that there are any. The superficial ressemblence with the act of smoking is what makes people afraid of ecigs, and in reaction the public is pushing a rather unfair burden of proof onto the ecig industry.

As for whether it can be used to deliver other substances than nicotine; I'm not really sure I follow your question. Do you mean whether someone could use it to vape pot? If that's what you want to know, well there are ways to make hash oil that can be used in an ecig, but apparently it's a big hassle; most would prefer buying a dry herb vaporizer and would use that instead.

If you want to know if there a guarantee as to the content of the liquid used, not exactly. You could buy Chinese made liquid (Dekang and the like), of which I would be very wary. But most vapers I know buy liquid from small domestic businesses. Personally, I have talked with and met the very people who make the liquid I use. If I did not trust them, I could even make it myself: all of the ingredients are easy to find, and mixing them require little equipment.

The biggest risk to the ecig industry is that overly zealous regulation will remove the small players from the industry, leaving only the large corporations. Many of whom would be tobacco companies, which have an incentive to keep people smoking rather than vaping.
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All that this study shows is that the amount of psychosis and schizophrenia in the population stayed constant. This doesn't in and of itself disprove a link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, it just disproves the prior hypothesis that a greater percentage of people would develop it.
Those of us in the cycling world know Oleg Tinkov well, and the first rule of listening to Oleg Tinkov is don't listen to Oleg Tinkov. Few people on earth are as full of it as he is...

I don't know what the result of the case will be, but his statements regarding it will certainly be useless.
I've got some decent experience with both OpenGL and WebGL. It's simply not worth the effort to learn for 95% of whatever you'll be doing--you end up reinventing a broken subset of what's already there.

Three.js is taking care of a lot for you, and it's not a bad thing. It's doing scene graphs, matrix math, GL setup and teardown code, shader setup and teardown, buffer setup and teardown, camera math, and much more.

Use a bloody engine unless your explicit goal is learning something arcane.
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For software developers the "CV gap" problem (if it really is a problem) seems easily solvable to me: do a little freelancing, and put that in the gap.
Reviews are not solely for the developer. In fact, they are there mainly for the users. They absolutely should be there for a public beta to let other users know the status of the application.

What should change is the silly star rating system and they should not be calculated or even used in the review. There is way too much dependence on a 'good score' for the developer and hiding beneficial information is not a solution.
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From their docs: "The protocol does not require that [identity provider]-backed identities are SMTP-routable, but it does require that identities follow the user@domain format."

The protocol still requires an identity provider to attest to your identity, but the actual identitifier doesn't appear to have to be a real email address. It seems like you could use anything in email address format.
actually thats not frustrating, thats what doctors are supposed to do in general
At least one in Ghent, Belgium too.
>>Certainly flatness is a big incentive. Our reaction, however, is against the comment "There is only one, and one reason: their country is flat."

>That's simply not true. As the article points out, the Netherlands, like other countries, had a large decrease in the use of bicycles in favor of the car. It wasn't until political protests of the 70s and 80s that that trend reversed itself.

Ah yes, I see. I was too vague and biased, my mistake. I chose the wrong approach.

Where I live we are often told "why don't ride like the dutchs ?" and after a while it becomes tiresome to explain why we don't.
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I disagree in the case iOS 7 betas. iOS 6 betas spoiled us because they were so solid. iOS 7 betas 1 and 2 were basically garbage as a general release. One of our devs had to figure out how to dial into AT&T to get his voicemail until Beta 3.

Apple's betas are not "Google betas" where they're pretty solid at release and keep the beta monicker until we've learned to ignore it. This round of Betas have definitely been early releases so developers can get a grasp on APIs and UI changes and nothing more.
I have found some more info on good faith and fair dealing as it pertains to this type of case. Robert Summers' 1968 article "'Good Faith' in General Contract Law and the Sales Provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code" has a section on bad faith in the negotiation phase of contracts. That's exactly what we need.

I don't want to quote at length, and there's no particular passage that nails this case, but my overall sense from the article is that the contract could be voided for want of mutual assent. Or that perhaps even the contract could be judicially modified back to the bank's version.

Anyway, here's the most concise (heavily edited) quotation I could find from the article:

"There are many ways, short of fraud, by which one party can take advantage of another in driving a bargain. For example...his disinclination to read a printed form...At the least, if a person consciously takes advantage of such weaknesses, he acts in bad faith."

But, as of 1968, he said: "Case law under this section is scant." Has this changed? Quite probably. Do I have a Lexus or Westlaw account to find out? No.
That's a poor example then. "Calling names" generally refers to attacking the person/people, not ideas/things. I saw nothing uncivil about the 'stupid' post, unless you chose to read it in an iflammatory tone of voice.
It's on the developer to disclose to the user that they are recording video and beaming it back up. Companies that sell call-recording software leave it up to the recording party to say something like "this call may/will be recorded".

What they are saying is that assuming that you are a good dev and care about privacy, the tools they provide to preserve privacy (ie pixelating text out) show that they care too.
These studies found trace amounts only. The same could be said of water. These studies were also done on early liquid made in China, not on the domestic, small batch liquid most of the vaping community now use.
Osteopaths are doctors. They aren't chiropractors.
Understandable. Thanks anyway - great experience!
We've been using this internally for the last couple days. It's strangely awesome to see real stack traces for Javascript errors. Makes it feel just a little more like a "real" programming language. If anyone has any questions, we're here.
Cofounder here. We're a service that helps app developers understand their users in order to make their apps better. Like almost any other service that collects and stores data, it's possible to intentionally misuse Watchsend in ways that grossly violate users' privacy.

What we mean by "we take privacy seriously" is that we work really hard to make sure that devs who care about their users' privacy can use Watchsend to make their apps better without infringing on their users' privacy. At the end of the day, if a developer wants to spy on their users, there's very little we (or anyone else) can do about it.
You can choose different identifies to log in with. It doesn't know that you want to use Google to authenticate until you choose an identity. You could have used, say, a Yahoo identity, in which case asking Google to vouch for you wouldn't make any sense.
> In fact, they are there mainly for the users. They absolutely should be there for a public beta to let other users know the status of the application.

I'm more likely to agree with this if you mean only other users of the beta OS should be able to see the review. It doesn't do the general user any good to see a beta review, positive or negative, when they aren't even using the beta OS.
But legalizing it for recreational and medicinal use are two completely different issues. This piece is about how he didn't believe in the therapeutic efficacy of marijuana as medical treatment and weighed too heavily the research outlining its side-effects. This is not about letting kids and adults smoke bowls and bowls of weed on their leisure time.
It's not odorless, but most of the liquids have pleasant smells.
In Japan they have (or had) nicotine energy drinks.
I agree this is the major takeaway of the article.

Interesting to think that what is "mainstream" can be observed in what print-media outlet editors are brave (or un-scared) enough to publish. As you said, I imagine this would have been a pretty controversial article 10 years ago. Now, it feels almost like a me-too opinion piece from Sanjay Gupta, which is a big enough name on a trending topic for a CNN editor to call it news.
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I want an update after 14 days.
Along the lines of what PG said yesterday (which I commented on) regarding telling smallish lies (had to do with getting funded and how investors jump to conclusions) this is probably a case of "turnabout is fair play, eh".

In other words if the person reading the resume is going to read (incorrectly) into the situation and penalize you for leaving it's ok to fib a bit in order to prevent them from having that wrong impression (which you can't correct if you don't get the interview).. A case of who draws first blood.
Straight out of the misinformation arsenal of the anti drug crowd; in fact there is no evidence that the strongest modern strains are any stronger than the strongest strains available in the 60's.
It's called Weed for a reason. However, the stuff you get from a dispensary will have a significantly higher THC count than the stuff you grow in your backyard during the summer.
If only HN proper looked this good by default.
I have not claimed that the original post claimed otherwise.....

I am introducing another point for consideration.
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BitCoin signatures are traceable, but the link between signatures and human beings is only traceable from outside the BitCoin system. If you are already dealing with briefcases of cash, it is a simple matter to buy BitCoin using one of those briefcases anonymously. Throw Tor in the mix, and you'd have to be the next Bin Laden for the world to dedicate the resources necessary to uncover your dealings. These are people who built 200meter+ tunnels underground to transport drugs between the US and Mexico: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/14/drug-tunnels_n_1673...

Cash is a terrible currency for big time crime. It is very difficult to store, being susceptible to mites and fungus. It is very difficult to exchange large quantities, think pallets instead of briefcases for millions/billions of dollars (which is the primary reason they don't make a $1000 bill). It is nearly impossible to exchange any meaningful amount cross-border. It is difficult to count and keep track of. It is easier to counterfeit and get bad cash. Cash has serial numbers, fingerprints, and DNA all over them (I'm surprised we don't hear more about cash forensics, or bugged cash with tracking chips in them).

Cash will still be used for the last mile, for the street-level "retail" transactions. But when those get gathered up and need to be sent back to headquarters, or between organizations, or to other nations, the backhaul, by necessity, needs to run on something more sophisticated. Today, that seems to be Bitcoin, even though I agree with you that it is far from perfect. Its first-mover advantage is allowing it to build a robust ecosystem of services that is making it that much harder for an incumbent to take its place. But when that super currency does come, and crime shifts to using it, I predict a relatively straight decline in BitCoin value.
That's because they drive on the left in London!
It is not a public beta in any way shape or form. The only way to get the beta is to be a developer paying $99 a year to Apple. The "users" do not have iOS 7 and therefore bad reviews based on an unreleased BETA OS should not be allowed. Most of these issues aren't even something wrong with the apps. They will get fixed when the OS stops being buggy.
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The problem is that there are two simultaneous arguments happening.

The first is whether cannabis should be legalized and available as a business opportunity. You'll find very few people here to disagree with about this; there's a practically universal belief that cannabis should be legalized.

The second is whether cannabis is benign. There is a valid discussion to be had about how safe cannabis is. Having it does not imply that anyone thinks cannabis should be outlawed. Trans-fats, tobacco, and sugar are also not benign, and few people jump to the conclusion that critics of those substances are pushing for their prohibition.
You're right that "I didn't read the contract" is an invalid defense in the general case. However, this is an unusual situation. The peculiar circumstances would likely lead the bank to believe they were signing a different contract which they had in fact read. And there is (arguably) some willful deception on the customer's part.

In other words, it's not just carelessness on the bank's part. That alone would not be a sufficient argument. Rather, it's carelessness coupled with the customer's willful exploitation of that carelessness. That may be enough to tip the scales in the bank's favor.
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Yeah, the mist is hot. It uses heat to vaporize the liquid. Even at 56C, it's not far outside the temperature range of a typical cup of coffee [1]. According to that link from coffeedetective.com, coffee should be served closer to 80C. They even list the low end of proper coffee temperature at 65C (and other sources I found on Google corroborate). As nicotine and caffine serve similar functions, I'm not sure that the temperature at the throat is necessarily an issue. How many people pour a fresh cup of coffee and breathe in the steam coming off the top? I know I do occasionally.

[1] http://www.coffeedetective.com/what-is-the-correct-temperatu...
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You touch on another way in which drug laws are positively evil - the only reason why Vicodin causes liver damage is because it is legally required to contain a large amount of acetaminophen. The express purpose of the acetaminophen is to permanently damage your liver if you are ever tempted to 'abuse' the Vicodin and exceed the approved dosage.

Of course, with opioid tolerance there is no clear line between therapeutic and recreational dosages, and no way of setting an acetaminophen level that hurts one group of users but not the other, so in practice we have legally mandated poisoning of thousands of chronic pain sufferers.
E-cigs are marketed pretty strongly towards current smokers. In that group, not smoking is a fairly difficult alternative to accept.
Can someone comment on what is going to happen when iOS 7 is released? The upgrade from 5->6 didn't break any apps by default. It appears 7 resizes all the stock controls, and this breaks tons of apps by default. Will an existing iOS6 app work unchanged in iOS 7, or will it have to be fixed.
Well, you can run a Linux VM. Windows doesn't support anything like BSD jails or LXC right now.
No, this is the difference between being employed by a company that values bottom-up input and being a corporate drone. If you're going to be treated like a drone you might as well get the stability and steady (as well as possibly bigger) paycheck that BigCo pays.
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Something like Half Life or Assassin's Creed basically works for (2). No real cutscenes, playable from a first-person POV, biiiig game worlds.
Can anyone comment on how important this is to the results of the paper?
This could be really great. Watching users interact with your product directly provides a whole different level of insight.

A few things that I can think of that they may already be considering:

1. Asking the developer to specify explicitly which screens should be recorded. From the article, it seems like it's opt-out (the developer specifies which screens should not be recorded), rather than opt-in.

2. Showing long recordings at high speed, slowing down/pausing at "interesting" portions

3. Data aggregated across multiple users: for example, a report of places in the app where most users pause the longest

4. Displays of multiple users' interactions with a single screen, overlaid on top of each other

5. Dealing with user offline scenarios where data may need to be locally stored and then uploaded when a connection is available

They must be doing some sort of frame delta on the videos to save bandwidth, I'm assuming.

Very cool idea!
Something very similar happened to me at a startup a few years ago and it took me a long time to realize what had happened and why I felt so terrible about it.

Even though my title, salary, and perks were still the same, it was a de-facto demotion. Important parts of my compensation (involvement, agency, sense of ownership, diversity in work effort) were just inadvertently phased out as the company I helped grow was big enough to support product managers who could do just the most rewarding parts of my job but not actually code or anything.

I think (hope) there are things that one can do to guard against this from happening, and just being aware of this phenomenon is valuable.
What benefit is there to compiling statistics to say that x% of patients have legitimate medical reasons, and y% don't? Trying to exert tight control on this issue has achieved nothing but disaster and failure, at great expense.

There are legitimate medical uses of alcohol, too. A great many people self-medicate, but it does provide them relief.

Investigating the medical science of the drug is important, yes. But perhaps investigation of the socio/psychological reasons is a red herring.
Yeah, that line made me wonder about the article's author. He really appears not to know. It makes me suspect a lot of financial writing is like writing about cars. He's throwing stock phrases around.
The interesting part of this article for me is the illumination of the weakness of Science as it's practiced and commissioned by the government today.

For political reasons, the government decided that marijuana was bad - so almost all of the approved research went into confirming that decision. If you'd naively look at the number of papers or scientists who've published the opinion that marijuana is "bad", the evidence would appear overwhelmingly confirmative.
You are incorrect about the effects of CBD, in fact modern research has shown it's effect to be more stimulating and has been compared to ritalin by those with experience.

For more modern up to date science backed information on CBD see projectcbd.org

CBN is not a primary cannabinoid, it's a breakdown product of THC and simply indicates how old or stale the cannabis is. It's primary effect is grogginess and general unpleasantness so you want to avoid it as much as possible.

Any dispensary that says CBD is good for insomnia is simply repeating long disproven but widely spread information.
Statements like this are exactly why Musk regrets talking about it. We don't even know what the idea is, and it's already more world-changing than two actual, amazing companies.
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Yes but with Personna you don't need to send them a password reset link because they have no password in your system :)
Actually, "generalized anxiety" is a good way to get a doctor to not want to give you a recommendation.
To be fair, the license agreement to which Apple developers agree has the following clause (line breaks added by me):

> Notwithstanding the foregoing, Apple Confidential Information will not include:

> (i) information that is generally and legitimately available to the public through no fault or breach of Yours,

> (ii) information that is generally made available to the public by Apple,

> (iii) information that is independently developed by You without the use of any Apple Confidential Information,

> (iv) information that was rightfully obtained from a third party who had the right to transfer or disclose it to You without limitation, or

> (v) any FOSS included in the Apple Software and accompanied by licensing terms that do not impose confidentiality obligations on the use or disclosure of such FOSS.

Because of (i), there are very few things that remain confidential for too long due to Apple fan/rumor sites breathlessly reporting every change in the DPs under the notion that it's in the public interest to know.

I'm not a lawyer and this shouldn't be construed as legal advice, but a plain reading of (iii) seems like it might indicate DP-related bugs in 3rd party apps would not be considered confidential either.
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It's not always about efficiency. It's about just not being part of it for moral reasons. You can't not support something ideologically but still partake in the activity without being hypocritical.
Damn right. I have an IRC client on my android cell phone.
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I'm actually fairly serious.

I've been bored before, so I hear you. But, I guess I'm kind of surprised that you chose to jump into nothing rather than parlay your way to something else. Seems a little impulsive. Impulsive is a red flag, despite what many on HN think (you can be impulsive, but you better be brilliant too).

Now you've got to explain a gap in your res to a potential employer (should you choose to go that route). The employer is going to hear "I got bored" and think "maybe he'll get bored here, too."

As for my sabbatical, it is true. I'm on one after spending my 20s earning enough to justify it. I'm not saying it was time well spent, but I got a lot out of it (dealing with corporate BS and powering through boredom to produce value teaches you a lot). It is also an easy narrative to tell.

Best of luck. I know you're a clever fella (maybe brilliant, too --- time will tell) and I'm sure you'll figure it out. But, this might end up being a very different lesson than you originally anticipated.
That's still BS. most of the bugs are caused by the OS being beta and not the app itself. Once the new version does get released the dev gets screwed because of something he had no control over.