skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could the green line correspond to the moment the camera was hit, and the next 'closer' image show the rebounding of the puck?
From my personal experience, LLVM is tied a bit to closely to the C ABI, which makes it difficult to implement some FP features cleanly. One example is forgoing C's stack discipline to implement double-barreled continuations.
"I tried e-cigs as a replacement for coffee...it is probably healthier."
I'll grant that vaporization ameliorates the problems merely caused by smoke inhalation, but doesn't inhaling nicotine cause many health problems on its own? I'll also not aware of there being health issues that result from drinking a normal amount of tea or coffee.
Did HN just get more whitespace between rows?
It looks like there's now an extra pixel or two of vacant space between rows.

Not sure what the etiology was, but I'm pretty sure there's less information in more space with this approach, and it's somehow less legible than before.

Mobile version appears unaffected.
Exactly ! thank you.
Windows Azure actually does this. If the host your virtual machine is on for some reason fails or needs to be replaced your entire VM is migrated to another host. The migration process can take a few minutes but all your data is safe.

My point being. On this topic AWS could learn from Microsoft on how to do cloud.
I'd be OK with uploading sensitive data onto S3, as long as it's properly encrypted, but with EC2 I guess you can never tell.
I've never really got why people want gravestones. They're obviously very important to some, to have place to go where people can contemplate that sort of thing, but to be remembered in the long-term as nothing more than a name taking up space seems very sad.

There's a place where my family scatter our ashes, I don't know when it started but both the grandparents I knew are there. We go there after the funeral and plant a tree or a shrub or some flowers, whatever the person liked in life, and scatter the ashes. Some of them get carried off, others fall into the earth. For all I know there's probably nothing beyond this life, it feels right, like they're being freed to be part of the wind and the trees; the song of some greater existence. I've always found it more emotional than the actual funerals.

The last time we went there was for my grandfather, we planted a small tree alongside my grandmother's.
Thank you, nice one.
I like the quote at the top of the page:

“A philosopher...is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares
at what sensible people take for granted.” – Alan Watts

I'm not a philosopher, but I find myself gaping and staring at common things like money and colors, astounded that they seem so concrete yet only exist as a figment of our collective imagination.
It's a process on someone else's server? Do you have a link where I can know more on this?
> I am starting to see people puffing on these stupid e-cigarettes in restaurants that ban cigarette smoking.

Most reasonable people in the vaping community discourage that kind of behavior. At the end of the day, there will always be assholes.

> The FDA is collecting reports of adverse effects and there are plenty

There are four ingredients in e-cigarette juice: propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, and flavoring.

Adverse effects generally come from an allergic reaction to PG, which is uncommon but well known. Those who are allergic are advised to use 100% VG mixtures.

Aside from that, PG is well known to be safe for human consumption as regulated by the FDA. It is an ingredient in inhalers for asthma and is used in smoke machines. It can cause a humidicant effect on the throat, which leaves it dry, but drinking liquids easily avoids this problem.

No one is arguing that e-cigarette companies should not be regulated to make sure that the juice they produce is of a high quality, but arguments to regulate them heavily (or like regular cigarettes) is based mostly on FUD.

> Why in the world are people starting to smoke today with everything we know about it?

Because humans aren't rational machines and there are many things that cause people to take up habits that aren't healthy. That's not something that's ever going to go away.

While long term data on e-cigarettes is not yet available, most experts agree that even in the worst-case scenario, they are nowhere near as bad for you as regular cigarettes. The FUD that exists in the debate can mostly be traced back to groups that have a temperance movement-esque attitude toward nicotine habits.

Nicotine is no more addictive or harmful to a person in a normal dose than caffeine, and its effects are similar also.

E-cigarettes are helping millions of people to get themselves off the dangers of regular cigarettes. That in itself is a public health miracle. The rates of cessation for cigarettes through traditional methods are frighteningly low, yet with the introduction of e-cigarettes, many people (including myself) will never touch a regular cigarette again after the first day.

I have a more advanced device than the ones you pick up at a gas station. It has variable wattage, variable voltage, an ohm-meter, a puff counter, and I can charge my iPhone from it via USB. As well as getting me off tobacco, it's also given me something else to geek out over, and I really enjoy it and the community around it.

Access to these devices must be made available widely and without encumbrance to as many people as possible. Regulations that come in should be about quality of product, not discouragement of purchase.
You have no idea what chemicals are actually in that stuff.
You have the scientific method backwards. Things are not shown to be safe, ever. They are shown to be dangerous.

For example, cannabis smoke. It has been shown to cause emphysema. Despite rather large and lengthy population studies, it has not been shown to cause lung cancer. That's despite both your instinct and my own that "of course any smoke causes cancer of the lungs". No, cannabis smoke has not been demonstrated to do that.

E-liquid is hugely variable in quality because there's no regulation. While I happen to think quality e-liquid will be safe for say 98% of the population to inhale, and the rest will be just as easily sent into shock by, say, perfume (this allergy is quite common), it is only detailed study which can actually answer this question.
> There are four ingredients in e-cigarette juice: propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, and flavoring.

There should be four ingredients. God only knows what actually goes into the lower quality versions.

> Regulations that come in should be about quality of product,

Yes.
Can you tell me subject line of email.

I searched my mails for couple of words including instance ID, result is negative. No email in spam folder in last one month.
Yeah, I too despise the militant glee people derive from using them everywhere. I also hate the enormous numbers of tacky shops ('MyCiggy'... jeez) appearing to flog them, which seem single-handedly to be propping up the Guild of Bad Typographers.
> The problem is that [we know nothing about the safety or lack thereof of] e-cigarettes

> Why in the world are people starting to smoke today with everything we know about it?

We don't know anything about it [e-cigarrettes]. There is no literature that suggests that nicotine alone causes cancer, and no research at all on the safety of the devices themselves.

Should we do more research as they gain popular adoption? Definitely.
Some e-cigs deliver nicotine more slowly, that might the reason for what you are describing.

See "A fresh look at tobacco harm reduction: the case
for the electronic cigarette" , reference 76.
Slow, legacy backend systems are not an intractable problem. You can do things such as copy the data to a faster cache, or you use some kind of queuing system so that queries are processed only as fast as the backend can handle (of course the frontend needs to be able to "check back later" for the results).

This does support the widely held disbelief that this system will be fixed anytime soon. Clearly the management of the project and the design of the architecture are/were fundamentally flawed, and its very unlikely that it can be fixed in 30 days or whatever at this point.
I'm not sure it's really that different. Say you have a .war running in Tomcat. You still have 1) provision your server, 2) make sure any dependencies or local services are installed, 3) deploy/redeploy your code. That's really all this does. The guide is just a bit long because it employs a lot of automation and I wanted to give background on how all that automation works.

If you strip it to just the code samples it's only like ~8 commands and you're running.
I'm not sure about Xen (what AWS uses), but if you look at KVMs as an analogy, instances are literally processes on the host.
> I am starting to see people puffing on these stupid e-cigarettes in restaurants that ban cigarette smoking.

Ad hominem. Plus, just because something resembles smoking does not mean you should conflate the two, "poisoning the well."

> When you say something to them they invariably try to "educate" you on what an e-cigarette is and how it's different

Condescending and derisive.

> The FDA is collecting reports of adverse effects and there are plenty

Finally we get to some actual evidence. I'll check it out, but from that intro you're probably seeking confirmation bias. Did you find any opposing data?
I'm working on Taniger https://www.taniger.com which is a real time Facebook chat encryption service.
Quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU57xQcAcd0

Why it's cool:
It's open source. It provides REAL real-time encryption without the hassle of "choosing a password", "copy pasting text" etc. Also same logic can be applied to any web chat service.

Code available at: https://github.com/sadreck/taniger
thanks, worked like a charm.

So having flashed the BIOS and upgrading it, should I be secure that there is no rootkit inside the machine?
There's no need to wonder about these things. Check out the AWS Security Center at http://aws.amazon.com/security/ to get the facts. At that address you will find a very detailed (39 page) Security White Paper.
A couple of items to consider. Does Linux support ALL the applications the programmers need to interact with other people in the company? The answer is "no" in my workplace.

Our company has a lot of legacy VBA code that would need to be replaced. Don't get me wrong, I think it would be smart to replace this. I hated the way VBA changed on every release and broke my code base. The last straw was when I needed to access spreadsheets that used 3rd party VBA modules that were locked. I ported my whole back-end data analysis/report generation code base to Open Source R/Sweave/LaTeX. But I'm just one user and did it myself as a spare time activity.

I still think Visual Studio is a pretty nice development environment for C++. I'm trying to get up to speed with Eclipse. I do prefer Open Source. Now that our corporate budget is REALLY tight, that is a big help. Guess the IT folks think it would cost more to switch than pay the annual tribute to Redmond
Reflections on Startup School (Podcast)
Just use tables. I know that everyone recommends against it, but IMO they are the only solution which works as expected. Everyone says they have a fancy workaround, but none of them works well enough. And besides, whats wrong with tables? Semantic HTML is hip again :-)
In India Tata developed a car called Nano for only $2000 (the prize of a motobike) that failed to meed expectations. Since you seem to be on the same path there are some tips that you could consider from the consumer perspective which caused people not buying. Why failed?. Though it is cheap should have not looked cheap. The effort on engineering made Nano am affordable $2000 car but less efforts on design and finishing made it fail. My suggestion, put your eyes on design and make it look nice and modern before flying. Congratulations!.
Some varieties of bullsh*t
Ah, had to explicitly reload favicon.ico itself to get the old one to stop being cached.
Not true. The men who die in the fighting tend to be the unsuccessful ones. The ones who did not die, in addition to having the opportunity for rape (and in ancient times to take concubines home), would also come back as heros and have the opportunity to marry women from their own tribe.

These pressures are much more pronounced in polygamous societies, such as fundamentalist Muslim countries today, or ancient Jewish culture as documented in the Old Testament.
This is just typical push back from trying to make someone do something in a way that is different from what they're used to . Sounds like they are mostly jQuery devs who throw lots of explicit DOM manipulation around to get done what they want.

Knockout (and other libraries like it) turn manual DOM manipulation into something stateful and object-based.

That said, unobtrusive event handling that comes packaged with knockout might make the transition easier for them (http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/unobtrusive-event-handli...).
Would such devices really work as post-op infection treatments? Presumably the bacteria might evolve to be more heat-resistant. And there's only so much heat you can apply before you start to kill off healthy tissue.
15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain.
Actually for a while the parallel postulate was a matter of religious zeal. The studies of consistent geometries that had different behaviors for "parallel" lines was, for some reason, profoundly disturbing to some christians who tried to prove that the parallel postulate was not needed (i.e. That non-euclidean geometry was inconsistent). This was a matter of amusement for mathematicians, even though many mathematicians were a bit disturbed by non-euclidean geometry.

Lewis Carrol, who was a mathematician and some kind of Anglican, couldn't stomach complex numbers. So religion can become confused with axioms, but it tends to start with religion, not axioms.
Yes, we must repair the tattered remains of our freedoms and democratic institutions.

To do that, we desperately need exposure and public condemnation of the people and practices responsible for our predicament, plus discussion and analysis of the actions we can take.

To do that we need free expression and a free press, where sources aren't afraid to talk to reporters or to self-publish.

And _that_ requires well-practiced digital security habits and routine use of encryption, Tor, VPNs and secure voice communication at a minimum.
As someone who switched to an e-cigarette, I might be able to answer this for you.

The first thing is that the level and effect of nicotine that is absorbed though vapor is a lot less than a regular cigarette. The reason for this is twofold: firstly, the lungs/mouth/throat seem to simply not pick up as much as in a cigarette, and secondly, cigarette smoke also contains MAOIs, which increase the sensitivity of the brain to nicotine's effects.

In addition, users can choose the level of nicotine that they use. Most e-cig users who are regular smokers tend to start at around 18mg/ml. When I first started, I was using this liquid in a 1.6ml tank. One tank worked out to about 1 pack of cigarettes worth of nicotine, and I got through about a tank a day: the same amount that I used to smoke in cigarettes, except spread out through a longer period of time.

Most vapers will puff way differently to cigarette users. We take one or two puffs at a time and then wait, while a cigarette user will smoke the whole thing quickly in one go.

Nicotine has been shown[1] to increase creativity in the brain, and I know from my own experience that I find it to be great while working. Most of my 'House' moments when tackling difficult coding problems have occurred on the curb with a cigarette in my mouth, and now I lean back at my desk and have a few puffs of fine-tasting menthol e-liquid.

[1] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/uoc--bcw08150...
Where can I find a code example?
Why I bought the Boston Globe
Can anyone verify this info? I was a bit surprised to see it wasn't better sourced than the comments of a previous Marginal Revolution post. (Nothing against MR, but this seems like huge news if true.)
This is not what is being claimed here.

I do the exact same thing STRML with my lastpass vault. Lastpass has a bunch of fine grained access controls for when the password needs to be entered. Having your password saved on lastpass just lets you view your list of password, as long as you have it set to require the master password before accessing an individual password.

Here is how the process goes for logging into a website with these settings:

1) Go to website

2) Click autologin

3) Type your master password

4) Lastpass fills in your password on the website and logs you in

This clearly involves your master password before doing anything that would seem to reveal your individual website password. The problem here is that this would appear to be completely false as the article points out.

Another way to get the password in lastpass:

1) Open the lastpass vault

2) Search for the target website

3) Click edit

4) Click the eye icon to show your password

5) Type in your master password

6) See the password

Once again, exactly as you'd expect, and seems to require the master password before revealing anything. The problem is that you can replace steps #5 and #6 with (in chrome):

5) ctrl-shift-j (brings up dev console)

6) $('input[type=password]').setAttribute('type', 'text')

And now your password is sitting there in plaintext without ever requiring your master password, despite telling lastpass to require your master password for any password access.

I agree with the rest of the commenters that sharing a password with someone and expecting it to remain secret is a bit foolish, but the problem I described here is a HUGE vulnerability. I'm going to seriously reconsider using lastpass ever again.
> There should be four ingredients. God only knows what actually goes into the lower quality versions.

Then we're in agreement. I don't know of anyone (besides the usual anarcho-capitalists) who thinks that low quality ingredients should be used in any consumed product.
Spyder – Scientific Python Development Environment
That's almost certainly a different one. It's described as a scripting language and that it appeared in 92. This C-- only came around 97...

It's quite an obvious name, I'd expect there to be many more called C--!
People tap-tap-tapping at their fucking phones gets the same reaction from me. Of course it's irrational for me to feel this way, so I've learned to ignore it.
The one problem they have is that the majority of their instances include local storage, which would make migration impossible. So the best they can offer is a reboot so the server ends up on another host.

They could potentially do this on their second generation (M3) instances, as well as micro instances if they wanted to. However I'd guess that these instances are just a small percentage of the overall servers used.
it mentions c-- as a scripting language, i'd guess they're different things.
That's why you look at completeness in terms of coverage, not as a binary.
Also, there's a working paper by a Pepperdine professor
showing firms with patents four times more likely to
succeed. I linked [2] particularly because it has a
greater focus on the software industry.

I'd also add that it's possible that there is a high correlation between having patents and working on a business that is well ahead of the curve relative to industry. When you create a photosharing service based on off-the-shelf parts like Rails or Angular, you are less likely to do any patentable work. It's also less likely that you have a defensible business model if successful, since anyone else out there can pick up the same off the shelf parts or analogues and build the same product.

With patentable work, the idea may be out there, but the implementation isn't necessarily out there as well and you often don't have enough information in a patent filing for someone skilled in the start of the art to implement a comparable clean room implementation without spending a long time experimenting to reach parity.
I agree that it would be nice if people wouldn't spend so much time complaining that people create free software, with the request that if you use it you share your changes freely as well. I'm on your side about the actual underlying issue.

What I was requesting was that you don't use phrases like "what disgusting arrogance" and "entitled jerks whining" to make your point. You are unlikely to convince anyone with that kind of language; when people feel like they are attacked, they're a lot more likely to respond defensively than they are to be convinced by you.
Exactly. I do not care what chemicals someone wants to put in his or her body but I care very strongly what chemicals and odors are around mine. The county where I live bans indoor e-cig and vaporizer consumption in the same places where cigarette smoking would be banned, such as inside office buildings, yet my coworkers simply do not care. This goes double for the bus or train stop where I have no choice; if I want or need to take that bus/train, I must stand _right_ _freaking_ _there_. When a couple of "vapers" (that's honestly the name I've heard people at work call themselves when they are partaking) are there and combined with another one to three people smoking "real" cigarettes, it gets quite hazy and uncomfortable.
> perhaps a different c--?

Yes, the graph talks about http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmmscript/ not the C-- used in/extracted from GHC.

There's at least one other C-- used in the OCaml compiler.
Well, Adidas vs Puma was a very special thing regarding who were the owners of both companies
Survey #Coop between companies and #communities in #OpenSource #MobileLinux proj
> I can't fathom who thought these things were a good idea.

The millions of people who have quit tobacco because of them, for one example.

> I don't care if it's just steam, I don't want it in my face.

On behalf of the decent people in the vaping community, I'm sorry that you have to put up with people like that. There's a big movement in the community at the moment to severely discourage people from using them in inappropriate places like restaurants or around people who are disturbed by it.

However, I think that this problem can be solved by awareness raising alone. It's too risky for the sake of public health to ban them in certain places or outright.

If you come across someone doing this and you don't like it, tell them that propylene glycol vapor irritates you and ask them to avoid making clouds. Holding in the vapor for more than 5 seconds usually means that none at all will be expelled when they exhale. This is what I, and many others, do if we ever vape on public transport etc., which I try to avoid anyway.
You could be selling physical items. Even pirates buy these.
The library is not unusable with this license.

Anyone writing GPLv3 software to begin with would be just fine with using this license.

The question you have to ask yourself is: am I OK with releasing my software under the GPLv3, or am I OK with rewriting this library if I decide to relicense my software under some other license. If you're OK with that, then you can use this library.
There's an upscaling algorithm he missed: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/...
It sort of worked for me - after reading it I gave up smoking day-to-day - just like that. It was amazing.

But I still smoked when I went to the pub and had a drink - I guess it's a deeper link between them. To stop that I went for hypnosis.

I still want cigarettes every now and then, but I'm not actually tempted to have one any more.