skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your response was exactly what "attacking a strawman" is. I was talking about how I use American sourced propylene glycol versus Chinese PG as used in the samples where DEG was found. You responded to a statement I never made, that something is "100% natural". You are clearly an intellectually dishonest person so, sure, see yourself out of the conversation.

You can call me biased but you have failed to to make any sort of substantive argument on the science. I have critcisms of the safety on ecigs and some false claims people make too.

The real angle for safety you want to go at, if anything, is the addition of volatile diketones in creamy/buttery flavorings (diacetyl, acetoin, acetyl propionyl, etc.) Some of these small businesses selling liquid claim they use FDA-approved flavorings.

The FDA doesn't approve flavorings. It is sourced out to a group called FEMA (no, not that FEMA): http://www.femaflavor.org/gras

The FDA largely accepts the opinion of FEMA for what is GRAS (generally recognized as safe). Flavorings are only GRAS at varying levels for the intended usage (baking, alcoholic beverages etc., none of which is inhalation).

Diacetyl is not safe to inhale and has been known to cause bronchiolitis obliterans AKA "popcorn lung" both in workers at flavoring plants and even cases like a man who ate multiple bags of microwave popcorn per day.

I'm worried that these smaller eliquid makers haven't taken the warnings on this seriously enough and in a few years the first cases of this will appear. It can be a long process for popcorn lung to develop but the harm is irreversible. It is only this class of flavoring chemicals which raise concern, so I am sure to avoid them.
I do not see how anyone could possibly believe the author is exhibiting misogyny. Perhaps you are confused by the meaning of the word:

Misogyny /mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/ is the hatred or dislike of women or girls.
That's nice, but what about better styling?

Where I live, the Tesla model S outsells the Leaf by at least 20:1.

I know that the two cars are targeted at different market segments, and that the model S is far more expensive. But that still doesn't explain why the Leaf looks like a deformed catfish. Per unit, it doesn't take a significant amount of money to make something beautiful.

Edit - here's some more evidence:

"Shoppers Say Chevy Volt Expensive, Nissan Leaf Ugly in Study" http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2012/01/shoppers-say-chev...

"Nissan Leaf. Another ugly EV." http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/nissan-leaf-anothe...

"Fiat calls out Nissan Leaf for being an ugly electric car" http://www.examiner.com/article/fiat-calls-out-nissan-leaf-f...
Why is raising the gas tax not an option?

It is an option. You are currently witnessing an attempt to move the Overton Window [1] from "should we or should we not raise the gas tax" to "should we raise the gas tax or should we add a mileage tax with big brother tracking".

Later legislators will tell us they've listened to us, and they're going to raise the gas tax instead of instituting a mileage tax. There will be much rejoicing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Until you've got that legacy system that the project has to integrate with. At that point, the legacy system is dealing with twenty different new large projects trying to integrate with it, instead of one.

MVP doesn't work well with deep integration. You can break this down to a form that takes one input, and returns one result on a following page. From a UI perspective, this seems like one Agile story. But that one round-trip can spawn so many integration steps. I just got finished with a health care IT project like that. One round-trip step involved integration with a single-sign-on service (which needed to be reconfigured), a rickety SOAP service provider (which had limits in how many test boxes they could set up and was controlled by a different bureaucracy and needed approval processes to turn on each required API method), a separate box returning chunks of patient data wrapped in html (don't ask, this was again out of our division's control), and our own backend system through REST so our resultant data would not be stored on the same server as our webserver (cluster). If some of these backend servers were told "okay, you now have twenty implementations to deal with instead of one", it would have drastically reduced the probabilities of completion.
any plans on making it retina ready?
If the text was about the issue, the method of provocation wouldn't be as effective.
IPL: Intuitionistic Programming Language
Price isn't the only thing that dictates value
Don't use checklists that have been photocopied 10 times.
Why does iTunes backup iPhone Apps onto your computer?
> Really? I have a hard time believing that Gruber actually believed this.

If it was a ruse, it was an elaborate one. Gruber posted his predictions about the Mini update several times. When he gets things wrong, it's kind of a standard practice of his to call himself out; vis a vis his claim chowder posts.

I suppose it's possible that Gruber intentionally underestimated the Mini update so that he could stand mouth agape, dumfounded in excitement that Apple over-delivered, but that doesn't strike me as his style.
ex-smoker here. Used ecigs without nicotine to quit. From the moment I tried the e-cig I thought ot tasted and felt better than burning plant matter.

I puffed like mad for about three months, then noticed I'd just stopped by accident.

Highly recommended IMHO.
So does BT (In the UK)
http://www.btwifi.co.uk/

It's a good feature. The open wifi is separated from your wifi, and it doesn't use your bandwidth. Plus - If you have BT wifi, you get to use all those hotspots for free.
They're good quality notebooks. I've had a few. But you're right - at the end of the day they're just notebooks.
What does "Made from Paper" mean? As opposed to a book made from plastic?
More and more Anti-Android propaganda pops up since iOS' market share is nosediving.

If Android is not freedom what is iOS then? No inter app communication, no exchangeable launcher/lock screen/ keyboard, real multitasking came just since this fall, no real resolution independency, no nothing.
This looks like a FOSS implementation of Depixelizing Pixel Art - https://github.com/jerith/depixel
Advancing Informal STEM Learning (NSF RFP)
and if it did it would be a clusterfuck of epic proportions

I've worked on tiny government projects and their requirements docs have such proportions.
What is this magical flexbox polyfill?! This isn't quite so simple as rewriting CSS gradient syntax to some defunct oldIE filters or something.

Its a whole layout algorithm, I'd love to use this! Last I heard a flexbox polyfill was barely a concept. Please, my good man, link to the repo!

Edit:
I hoped the parent meant something new but I think he means https://github.com/doctyper/flexie

"Flexie enables the 2009 Flexbox model. You're probably looking for the updated spec. There is currently no polyfill for the new spec."

There's a bunch of caveats and it was finicky when I played with it. The beauty of flexbox is that you can throw complex layouts at the browser and it would handle it natively, this seems more for simple pages and didn't work out for me back when I tried it. :(

Bah, humbug.
Curious why you voted against the mandate. System-wise, a vote against a mandate is basically a vote for allowing rejection of pre-existing conditions.
No, this is referring to their app, Paper. These are notebooks printed straight from their app, using your art.
I answer all on this topic, just shoot me an email
In this case "Paper" refers to the name of the app that you can order these notebooks from, Paper: http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
I agree. This submission has taken up about an entire half an inch of screen real estate, and seeing as how Apple hasn't yet offered a Macbook Air with a larger display, I can't really give up that much space. What's worse is the js script HN seems to be running that forces your mouse cursor to gravitate towards links of celebrity news.
As an aside, when I hear about the problems they're having understanding the legacy data formats, it makes me wonder how far you could get with a high-powered, big data NLP system to "parse" the data. Sort of like how Google translate works.

There are rules, after all, they're just not written down. Why not let the computer figure them out, with continuous training from people until the computer's accuracy is high enough?

I suspect instead they tried to write parsers and trusted "the spec", which was never even right the day it was written down. :)
To assure consumers that it's not actually made of mole skin, despite the spelling in the headline.
That's enough for me. I need to be able to comfortably drive my commute, round-trip, with maybe a stop at a store, before I could go all-electric.

The current Leaf is very close, but I drive over a small mountain range which cuts the range. Affordable electrics with 120+ mile range will be huge.
> Before responding, you might want to read http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine.

I can assure that this is a topic on which I have done far more research in my lifetime than that blog post. I'm not trying to be snarky; I'm just emphasizing that I have a lot more knowledge on this topic than I can reasonably compress into a 124-word HN post (like my original comment).

> Citation needed.

The post that you yourself link is a citation for my statement. Notice that I worded my post carefully - I did not say that nicotine has only harmful effects, or even that it has no positive effects.

All I stated is that it is a toxic substance in the medical sense - a statement which could also apply to the drugs used in chemotherapy. Therefore, it is correct to say "we can be fairly certain that they are least somewhat harmful."

I make no claim about the situations under which any alleged benefits outweigh the the toxic effects, simply that said toxic effects exist.
I'm sorry, I must object to that line of thinking

We can say with near certainty that they are less harmful, because we know what caused harm when smoking cigarettes, and those elements are not present. We also know what is being inhaled is either inert, or the point of smoking.

Also, whether a substance has a measurable LD50 or not is irrelevant. Most medicens have easily measurable LD50's, Some Vitamins have LD50's.
And starting out in programming, for the love of code, learn how to do these.
They set your brain in motion.
And ProjectEuler.net
China’s bystander problem: Another death after crowd ignores woman in peril
Lessons from consulting
At-least that's the case with transmission-daemon.
> First of all, if Himmler and Goebbels were hell bent on fighting to the death, they almost certainly would have been shot and killed by U.S. forces. Perhaps not though, because high-ranking German officials aren't known for blowing themselves up, so there's a much better chance of taking them alive even if they do fight back.

It was decided precisely by all Allied Forces: USA, UK, USSR during Yalta Conference in 1945 that some kind of International Tribunal will be established to give the Nazis elite a fair process. Mind you, that was after 70m people dead and horrors of the war. When Aushwitz was months old history, not years old. And they still gave them free process. Why? Because they believed in the values of our civilization. Once the political will like that is there, we are morally victorious as well. We just show to the world that our values are different. What you show by killing innocent 16 year old boy whose only fault was to have a father that was suspected of terrorist acticity is that you yourself don't believe in your values anymore and are cynical about them. And this makes radical muslims case in their countries of origin this much stronger. "You see, they are just like us, they kill innocent children too, they are just hypocrites and cynical people when they talk about the freedom, democracy, due process. There are no such things in the world". They can say it, and you know what? They'll be right! On this level we already lost big time, there is no slightest shadow of a doubt about it in my mind. They are ready to commit suicide in the name of their values. We don't give a crap about our own. How exactly you want to win this war of civilizations in this circumstance? Robespierre was ready to die for Liberal values. And he did. Dantone was ready to die for Liberal values. And he did. People are not going to die in the name of cynism. Capture Bin Laden and give him free, honest, open free trial. That's what people who actually believe in what they preach would do. If we don't believe in these things anymore, why on Earth you think that we can even remotely win?

> Another thing to consider, is that after the Germans surrendered, they largely stopped trying to kill us. They lost, and we occupied their territory in a relatively peaceful manner. The same cannot be said for Afghanistan or Pakistan, so you really can't compare the situations.

Talibans didn't lost. You ask me, they are winning. Winning like a little fly being still alive wins when you try to kill it with a machine gun. Just by its existence is a proof of your inability to win using the current strategy.
And the reasoning is most of those apps (for better or worse) depend on Google's cloud services, so it makes no sense for them to be in AOSP.

There remains nothing stopping you replacing all the Google stuff on Android, including the very parts that make them money.

One of the sadder, non obvious, parts of the way mobile has developed is it is becoming synonymous with trivial front ends to cloud services, and not really smart client apps at all.
This comment uses both "K" and "grand" to mean "thousand". I prefer "K".
I don't see how this article is relevant at all.
The distribution among startups is about spreading risk for the project. The existing approach was one integrator, and they failed. Because there are so many reasons that are provided for why this had no chance of success, i.e. "Even if you found a better company to do the implementation", it makes strategic sense to me to try multiple approaches.

But I would contend the problems weren't unmanageable. Problematic, yes, but manageable. I will try to address your points:

1. Requirements delay - sure, specifics were delayed. But, there was a basic premise for what this system would entail, and core work could progress without incurring much risk or waste. (I'm unsure when project work by CGI was started versus development work.)

2. IT integration experience - this is dependency management 101. If this is a recognized risk, then CGI should have raised the red flag. This looks like very poor project management.

3. Dependencies - yes, there is a possibility that external dependencies can affect your system. You design and architect for these scenarios, including failure.

4. Technical know-how - I would not expect anyone in government to know one iota about software development. CGI's job, in this scenario, is to elicit those requirements in a way that's useful.

5. Good point, but this project would benefit from some competition. Why not let more teams try this, rather than wrapping it all up with an entity who's only proven competency is simply receiving more contracts?
The "open" variants of those you list can be compiled, installed and used practically without significant compromise - they are genuinely useful. The exception is AOSP.

There are very few devices where you can compile and install AOSP and have a genuinely useful result. Compiling alone is fairly useless if the binaries you generate can't be used for any purpose. You may recall the maintainer recently quit because it became an untenable position:

https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/9HHRURor...
The federal diesel motor fuels tax is 28¢ per gallon. The states will have their own tax as well. Texas imposes a 20¢ per gallon tax. Connecticut's is 54.9¢.

There's also a tax on the vehicle itself. I want to say that it's in the $500 per year range, depending on it's GVWR and the state.
You can however have as many consoles open as you need, and each file can have a unique set of run configurations. This obviates the "experimentation" problem.
As I understand it, it's allowed to a degree. Of course an award protest is even more likely....

Companies can also be disbarred from government contracting, but obviously that never? happens to the big, politically entrenched ones. But I wouldn't want to work for CGI Federal today....
Good article but why the hell that horrible font? If I was not hiring currently, I would not have bothered to try to read it...
If you commit to nothing, you'll be distracted by everything
Because you're not vaporizing peanuts and spraying it into the air where somebody with a peanut allergy has absolutely no choice but to inhale it?
So does Bezeq (in Israel) http://bezeq.co.il/

They are trying to meet customer demand for wider bandwidth with VDSL, and nearly stopped selling modems; it's all cheapo routers now, loaded with customized firmware complete with DNS spoofing to route you to their "new customer setup" page that seems to always be down. They have to be reset once in a while, when their internals contort into reboot loops.

The free hotspot is branded and the name contains a short string unique to your router. It might not be using "your" bandwidth with your ISP, but it is sitting on your uplink which could get stuffed as a result. The hotspot is completely open for anyone to connect, but is limited by the max_client setting which is global to the router and set at 16 clients by default.
Entrepreneurs should dig deeper
Isn't that just what this argues? nginx.org is free, but nginx.com isn't.

What conflates this is the confusing naming. Android, the open source OS is different from Android(TM), Google's brand for devices running Android, and both are different from Android, the combination of the open source OS with Google's services that many users recognize as Android.

Yes, the official name of he former is 'Android Open Source Project', but in the mind of many, it's just 'Android'.

Android is (about) just as free because AOSP is open source as Mac OS X is free because Darwin is open source.
Correct. As anyone with experience will tell you.
Assuming a Linux migration was on the cards, how would you go about supporting office excel spreadsheets with VBA code, VB6 Winform apps and intranet sites optimised for IE6?
'Reverse microwave' can chill wine bottles and fizzy drink cans in 45 seconds
An far as I know Spyder still doesn't support Python 3. Still a decent IDE for scientific Python, though.
I'd be curious about how this compares to the Buck project, which is another Google-like build system:

http://facebook.github.io/buck/
LLVM-General but more so LLVM-General-Pure give you a starter kit for building something like that, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/llvm-general http://hackage.haskell.org/package/llvm-general-pure
Very cool. Thanks for the reply!
I'm not sure, but I think it is more of a "regulated market/fixed price w/index adjustments based on inflation". So a price will have been set at some point in the past, and is adjusted up a few percent every year, depending on inflation (typically less than 2% I think for Sweden).

To be clear, there is a "black market" of sorts wrt apartments in Sweden -- not sure how that works, but I think it is people illegally sub-letting at a higher price and/or owners taking a "bribe" on top of the regulated rent -- and it can be hard to get apartments in certain areas (high demand, too few new buildings) -- but my impression is that on the whole, it works much better than an unregulated marked, like the one we have in Norway.

Perhaps someone from Sweden can comment further.
Lou Reed fits the hacker zeitgeist. Sad loss.
Making a small difference and scaling it big.
Agreed re: your steps. My point is just that this doesn't sound "live" to me, for non-marketing definitions of the word "live".

Looking at VMware's marketing literature [1], they claim "less than two seconds on a gigabit Ethernet network." But it sounds like that's just for the memory / cpu migration. The disk migration section of their literature doesn't have any readily-visible timing claims.

My experience with zero-downtime upgrades has always involved either bringing new stateless servers online that talk to shared storage, or adding storage nodes to an existing cluster. In both cases, this involves multiple VMs and shared state.

What does the downtime typically look like for vMotion storage migration? Do they do anything intelligent to allow checkpointing and then fast replay of just the deltas during the outage, or does "migration" really just mean "copy"? And if the former, do they impose any filesystem requirements?

[1] http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-vmotion
How to mount Google Drive on Linux
The GHC C-- is a subset of the full Norman Ramsey C--
Why Vancouver got the world’s first Bitcoin ATM
If someone really loved playing an instrument, they'd get one and learn to play it well.

People who say this do not love playing an instrument. They love the romanticized idea of playing an instrument.
You're pretty much ignoring what I said. You are talking about a conflict that represents one of the unconventional parts of the largest conventional war ever. In contrast to this, the entire war on terror is an unconventional war fought against guerillas and insurgents.
Seems like a perfectly decent monospaced font. Medium grey on light grey is annoying, though.
No, its a glorified insurance application system. The most complex piece is that they try to use your real info (taxes, etc) to calculate subsidies before presenting the pre-canned policies available in your ZIP code. Then you can fill out the application and it goes to the specific company to continue on. There is not a whole lot there, if they had instead deferred the real income info part, and just asked the user for that info then verified later like a bank loan, they could have launched much more a scalable system.
Even without any specific tool, you can observe the "Properties" of the binaries from Explorer and see the signature of the files that are signed. And when the fix isn't signed, of course, nothing can be checked.
Project Euler, while great, is more about neat math tricks than actual programming.
Come on, you have to admit Lulu was a brilliant practical joke.
Title is misleading. I interpret this as they broadcast a separate wifi signal that connects to a different LAN. I don't see anything terribly wrong with this.
Time to move to Texas!
Bezos could turn Amazon into a money-making machine overnight.

All it would take is raising prices across the board by just a little bit. Amazon has more than $70 billion in annual sales, so a 1% average increase in prices would bring in more than $700 million in annual pretax profits. A 10% average increase would bring in over $7 billion more a year.

In fact, if Bezos were to ask his executives to go through Amazon's entire portfolio of products and services to figure out how, when, and where they could raise prices the most to maximize present profits, the company would quickly become one of the world's most profitable businesses. Customers -- particularly Amazon Prime members who've gotten used to clicking a button and ordering for free delivery almost everything they need -- will not suddenly change their buying habits if, say, the price of light bulbs on Amazon.com goes from $0.79 to $0.89 per unit.

So I agree with Wilson: Amazon's lack of profits today could be a very good thing. It all depends on WHY Bezos is holding back from taking all those easy profits already available to the company.
"Only about 3000 people bought Velvet Underground albums, but all of them started a band."
Maybe Firefox OS or Tizen fit the bill of a free mobile OS better?
as someone who used to be a Puppet maintainer, I say: use Chef. or Ansible.
Object in SF Bay could be a Google Glass store