skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Swede I'm not sure there's any base for this claim, other than that we now have racist politicians who make populist statements like this one without shame, referring to cherry picked data at best.

Generally, if you're going to make racist statements, at least try to back them up with some data and/or source.
I worked at a company where they took away our kettle from the office kitchen. (They had just bought a wall heater that produced "quite hot" water, and thought that it would be safer if we just used that.)

Boy they got a lot of stick for that.
Configure your browser to drop nytimes.com cookies on exit. Works for me.

I never visit the site deliberately, but I do land there occasionally by following links. However, since I restart my browser at least once a day, I rarely come close to the limit of 10 free NY Times articles in a month in a browser session.
It turns out people like Woz need people like Steve Jobs, and people like Steve Jobs need people like Woz. Steve moved on to actively search for, find and collaborate with as many people like Woz as he could. Unfortunately for us Woz never moved on, but then maybe he did what he needed to do.
> But it's still a highly addictive substance

I'd call it slightly addictive. It seems it only becomes highly addictive in concert with other ingredients of tobacco smoke, at least that's what the German Wikipedia [1] has and it references [2,3,4,5,6,7] (I didn't read those myself as I can't say I understand their terminology)

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotin

[2] http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v30/n4/full/1300586a.html

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9089846

[4] http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_la...

[5] http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/75.short

[6] http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v31/n8/full/1300987a.html

[7] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53018/
My dad smoked for 40 years. Every time he tried to stop he got tremors, fevers, headaches, and diarrhea. It took a heart attack for him to finally stop, and almost twenty years later he still has cravings.
See my other comment -- also, see the book Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine, and The Gender Trap by Emily Kane
Please provide reasoning how it is ok to distribute it. CDDL is incompatible with GPL. Distributing that would allow your distribution to be sued for copyright violation.

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue makes some funny claims about "same binary". GPL is not about "same binary" at all.
Once upon a time, progressive modernist thinkers believed that the correct response to vile speech was a well thought out logical rebuttal.

I miss those days. Nowadays it's dismiss, demonize and downvote.
New or not, I literally cannot picture a home without a microwave. My best guess is that most are the homes of immigrants.
or you can use django-rest-framework
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As a smoker I highly support fair taxes on tobacco. I would welcome the additional incentive to finally stop smoking and I believe that every individual has the right to hurt itself as long as it paying for the damage and not dropping the bill on others (I also think this applies to driving cars, eating unhealthy food, and so on).

One problem in Europe is that tobacco taxes are not bound to be used to bolster the health care systems or smoking prevention programs (In Germany the 2002 and 2003 tax raises have been used for funding the War on Terror). Another problem is, as shown by the article, that our damage estimates are very likely to have a large error margin.

If think if we could improve our damage estimates, use the estimates to continuously adapt taxes, use the tax income to pay for the damage and to prevent spread of the problem the problem could be solved.

To me it seems there is a gap for technology to make those things possible.
Please excuse my naivety, but I have only recently gotten interested in compilers, memory management, etc. [1]

Can someone please explain to me why GC isn't implemented as a library that can be used by any runtime/VM? We recently had a generational GC land in Ruby 2.1 Few languages out there specially target JVM because of its GC story. Wouldn't everyone benefit from a common code-base with rock-solid GC algorithms & implementations? Analogous to crypto libraries.

[1] After getting sick of the fact that all the "new age" languages use shit-loads of resources for, essentially, achieving trivialities. We were able to do the same things using 386 PCs with a few megs or RAM for which, today, we need 2 GHz multi-core CPUs and 8 GB of RAM.

PS: Not trying to downplay the work done in bringing better memory management to Firefox. I would really appreciate Firefox not using up 1.3GB of memory -- that was one of the reasons I had to fork out INR 5,000 for an extra 8GB of RAM recently.
We do both, but it's still very tideous. After a while the dynamic analysis only caught false postives (something on the stack looked like a pointer). The static analysis had to be updated when new potential hazardous cases became obvious. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Javascript:SpiderMonkey:ExactStackR...
A two-pack-a-day smoker is smoking forty cigarettes. A weed smoker is smoking, what, maybe the equivalent of two? I've no doubt on a puff-for-puff basis weed is just as bad or worse. But quantity matters.
Small companies(S corps and LLCs) don't pay corporate taxes. C corps pay a wide variety of taxes depending on where they earn their profits, how aggressively they working to minimize tax burden, and how hard their industry lobbyists work.

Certainly some companies pay far more and far less than their fair share. I'd wager the tech companies who generally have little in the way of physical presence where they earn revenue, and have towns and cities competing for the chance to host their offices and data centers, probably pay very little relatively.
All using their Real Name™, of course.
e-cigs are not addictive, which is the problem. As a device to get people to stop smoking much more dangerous cigarettes, they aren't very effective (yet).

> It might be better for smokers than smoking,

It most definitely is better than cigarettes.

> but it's still a drug addiction.

And so is caffeine in coffee or sugar in coke or adrenaline from running. Human beings are quite easily addicted to many things (some better than others).

> If you were a normal person, and not a junkie, you'd never smoke those things in public because you'd see how bizarre, odd and selfish thing it is to do.

Self righteousness is actually not effective in this case at all.

> So no, it's not just 'vapour' and you've got no right to try and convince people otherwise because you are, ultimately, a junkie justifying your addiction.

Strong perfume is also not just vapour and can be downright annoying, especially for someone who is allergic.

> I'm a junkie too, but at least I admit it.

Great. Because someone who hasn't been addicted to something bad before has absolutely ZERO clue about what is going on (skinny people telling fat people to eat less, non-smokers telling smokers to just stop smoking...its so easy right?).
That's a good question.

At this point, I'd say just add it, since I'd rather have more data. If it becomes a popular resource, I suppose the site will need a clearer definition of what constitutes a hike.
That's worse than the time Amazon emailed me with the subject line:
"I hope you die soon."
But its not addictive. I totally wish it was, but its not. The addictive part about smoking is psychological, placing the nicotine into a pill, gum, or a vapour pipe doesn't really help you stop smoking.
You know, your comments can be twisted the same way: that you are not capable to interpret other opinion without twisting it your way.
You seem pleasant..
Not sure which country you have in mind but I am very sure (first hand) that those countries where cannabis consumption is legal are not those with a thriving population of "pot smokers". There, it is mostly tourists that consume weed, and tourists would make a lousy basis for a scientific study (hard to recruit them in advance and track their addiction).

So the feasibility of a study is not so clear, even in places where legality is not an issue.
Scott wrote a Goals vs Systems blogpost before he wrote the book:

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/goals_vs_systems/

EDIT: oops, this was after the book. The one before the book is as follows:

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/systems/
Couldn't they also only serve up the fix to affected chrome browsers by checking the user agent string in the request header? That way they give the most effective format based on the browser and os requesting it.
Why anything but simplest faucets cost 50-200$ and just 2-3 models cost less than 20$?

Because it's reasonably durable decorative item so theres no shortage of people willing to part with their money because it's just 5 times as expensive but 100 times prettier.

The cheap ones are for people that just want faucet. Quality is pretty much the same.
I mentioned this in other comments, but I've found a decent replacement in the iTaste variable voltage battery with a dual-coil pro-tank. I've been vaping with 'Toblacco' which is a black honey tobacco --- most tobacco flavoured e-liquids taste like shit, but this one is well balanced. I also enjoyed Blackberry quite a bit.
Great idea and nice simple UI, this is literally the exact workflow I have for drawing my feedback on website proofs that I get from our designer, but I do it with a drawing tablet and MacPaint (I'm not that advanced). I'd really love something that let a designer just email me a link to a proof that I could annotate, and automatically send him my feedback. Right now the process is download-from-Google-Drive-and-open-in-MacPaint, draw-my-feedback, then export-as-image-and-put-back-on-Google-Drive.
I'm only going on our panel, which is perhaps slightly non-standard due to another UK electricity quirk [1], but was done by an electrician last year so is up to regulations at least.

It has a split in the bus, so there are two RCDs, one on the left with a couple of breakers and one on the right with the rest of the breakers, and a separator in the middle.

Like:

supply in -> R-B-B | B-B-B-B-B-R <- supply in
C R R | R-R R R R C
neutral -> D-K-K | K-K-K-K-K-D <- neutral

[1] The quirk of our board is that the left hand breaker is driven by a separate supply cable from the meter, which is only turned on between midnight and 7am. In this way, we get cheaper electricity at night which is used for storage heaters and immersion water heater. However, we no longer have the storage heaters, so it doesn't really make sense. This set up is called Economy 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_7).

Also, @alextingle, I didn't know that you were meant to have two separate circuits, although that makes sense. Lots of things are required to be RCD protected in the UK, so as you say, it makes sense just to put everything behind an RCD. We don't get any nuisance trips, which I attribute to a generally higher standard of wiring, earthing etc. in the UK, although that could just be jingoism :) (I did once live in the US and some of the literally fraying wiring connected to two pin sockets with no earthing in the house I lived in scared me.)
Your statement is about as intelligent as saying feminists are indistinguishable from trolls. The men's rights movement, like feminism, isn't monolithic.
Don't forget they have 110v but the same current limits on their plugs, so at best their kettles will use 1.5kW. The speed advantage isn't there.

If you have a hot water-based appliance the coffee maker offers far greater convenience. Now you have even less reason for a kettle.
How does that punish the general tax-paying public?

The burden of taxes falls on both consumer and supplier.
Great site! I think there are a lot of fun things to add in the "hiker" space. I would have found it more intuitive to start with the map view actually, instead of a text search, since I think most users will consult your website AFTER knowing where they are located, rather than already having pinpointed specific trails.

I've been thinking of creating a hiking app for a while now, but just haven't been able to free up time. When I was living in Berkeley, I think I went hiking pretty much every single weekend, and I could think of a ton of things I'd have liked to have been able to access on my phone to make my experiences that much richer.

Anyway, good stuff and kudos for open-sourcing it all!
No one is "telling" girls to do anything

I did not say a gun was pointing at the girls to force them to program. If low female population in the tech sector is due to the lack of resource and the stereotyped masculine geek image, then how does inviting girls to an all-girl programming class help them in the long run?

If we want to minimize stereotype, and if the stereotype has to do with gender, then we need to educate both genders. This means bring in female speakers to educate and show to both the boys and the girls what they do as software engineer or as a mechanical engineer. The same resource we offer to girls can be offered to boys.

Because the popular culture has associated geek with a masculine image, a lot of girls don't think they are capable of or should be involved. Is mixed gender event less powerful than single-gender event? To some extent yes. For the beginning, the girls may feel comfortable with their own gender. But later on? First time working with a guy on a hackathon project? I am not shy, but if you ask me to work with a female for the first time, I probably end up being shy and careful.

but you don't want to put any effort into thinking or learning about gender

What do I need to know about gender? What is special there that I am not aware of?

In reality, people think differently about themselves. Some people think they are more capable than others. The best we can hope is that we can give each other a chance to show what they can do, to bust the myth that guys are better.
>The new report rightly calls for more vigorous tobacco-control efforts, including an increase in cigarette taxes to drive up the average price of cigarettes to at least $10 a pack...

Will that really work? My suspicion is at those prices you're going to see a hell of a lot of smuggling.
It's fugliness is part of the appeal. If it looked like any other Nissan (Sentra for example) then people wouldn't know you paid extra for an EV. For example, a friend has a Camry hybrid. I never knew it was a hybrid until it silently left our parking lot. He paid $4000+ (I think) extra and has nothing to show for it.

EVs on the other hand you, see them, you recognize something that ugly could only be an EV.
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I dont think the gender split is the issue that needs to be fixed, if the ratio was uneven for some particularly boring reason then I dont think its an issue that people would care about as much.

The problem I care about is that this industry is hostile to a very large group of people, women arent around not only because they arent encouraged early on, but because they are being driven out when they do get here, ask any women in the industry what their experiences have been and it will likely be surprising and upsetting, it has been to me at least every time.
That one was all me. I did the hike, took the pictures, and typed it up. And actually most of the hikes I wrote, although I'm starting to get edits from others. One great example is Mount Meru - http://hike.io/hikes/mount-meru which was done by a good samaritan I've never met.
I know Canada is involved in Afghanistan. Attacks on United States in 2001 were based from Afghanistan. Afghanistan defended the probable leaders of attack. Canada is a member of NATO, and responded in what most would consider a "Just War.", for better or worse.

But, irrespective of all that - Afghanistan is in Asia.

I'm wondering if you could point to any indication of Canadian Forces slaughtering innocent people in the Middle East or Africa in the last 10 years? Curious, more than anything else.
Fun with the halting problem
Rapportive makes cold emailing easier..
In most cases the insurance company can just contact your GP, you will have agreed to this during the sign-up.
Cherry picking incidents involving the actions of disturbed individuals to attempt to smear a multifaceted movement is intellectually dishonest. That's like claiming all Muslims are terrorists because some Muslims are.
This is why I don't even put sarky comments in code.. Funny but not lose your job funny
Nice site but the background on the homepage makes the text unreadable
Still waiting for e10sM2. I hope after this is finish and done they can move on to it.

Firefox really needs some help in its snappiness area.
>>>"I don't like my insurance company knowing my health status."

Are you joking?
Insurance companies have/need access to all the data about you, otherwise they won't be able to pay providers for the services.

This is equivalent of Tea Party activist proclaiming "Keep government out of my Medicare".

These Privacy FUD articles bring out the worst of HN.
The biggest takeaway should be to not collect and use dehumanizing and degrading data like this in the first place.
Are you sure you mean JIT? That page doesn't mention JIT anywhere, and I can't think how a JIT would be very useful in a font engine. Maybe extremely complicated Unicode combining characters?
In an ideal society, I totally agree. However, in today's world, such data will mostly be exploited by health insurance companies, credit rating agencies, employers, and paparazzi. Unless, of course, the government(s) pass laws that protect the rights of the people and limit the influence of the industry, but that is rather the opposite of what has been happening recently.
Personally, I'd rather that Google keep as much of their money as possible and continue to spend it as they see fit.

I believe that society benefits far more from a company like Google having and spending the money than any federal government.
I think by now all the 404 images should be solved. I was using xvfb and it lacked the proper parameter to not be overloaded with so many requests.

I am fixing the offset in webkit as soon as possible.

Thanks for all the bug reporting and opinions.

edit:grammar
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The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous. The case is closed.

Isn't it also a trick to make the brain think that it's seeing continuous images instead of discrete single images?
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Dehumanizing - maybe, but the bigger issue in marketing imho is that it seems to be centered around finding more and more personal info about individuals. Most marketers seem to think that finding more personal info about customers can somehow turn into better sales.
My point was that there are things that are not worth arguing against as there is a prima facie against them. So those arguing for those positions are either ignorant of the prima facie case or are trying to deceive, sometimes themselves as well as you and me. If you want a more current example take Irans nuclear program, I have people try to tell me that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon, I used to point out that all 17 US intelligence agencies have said this is false, I have since stopped bothering and just avoid those people now.
As soon as it became clear that software was an important and serious business, it immediately became male-dominated.
I agree that these classes should not be touted as "the solution", especially when the problem has not really even been articulated. But I'm of the opinion that women need all the help they can get financially, and so organizations offering resources to women for a good profession are doing good work. You may not see it that way, and I'm not going to try to sway you.

Increasingly many social scientists are thinking about "gender" ("women and men") as a social construction, laid on top of material reality (sex dimorphism, "males and females"). There's a wellspring of new thought, theory, and research in the past 20 years on gender, including:

Doing Gender - Candace West; Don H. Zimmerman - http://blog.lib.umn.edu/clar0514/academic/west%20and%20zimme...

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine - http://www.cordeliafine.com/delusions_of_gender.html

The Gender Trap by Emily Kane - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095VEM5O/ref=cm_cr_thx_vi...
Wealth is meant for people. All of a company's wealth is ultimately destined for somebody's pocket. Why can't we just tax it when it gets there, and abolish corporate taxes?

Naturally I'd assume in that case that dividends would be taxed at the same rate as earned income, and that both would have to rise somewhat at the higher brackets to cover the lost income. But given that is the case, I honestly don't see any downside. Can anyone help?
3kW is faster than heating on a hob by enough to be worth the cost of cluttering your kitchen with an extra appliance. 1kW isn't, for many people.
Vent at HN: Youtube and Gmail - joined for life
I use gmail for my work emails, I have a personal youtube account which I don't want to be associated with my work life. At some point I created a Google + account, which I've never used. Unfortunately I used the same email address when creating all three of these entities, so Google decided in their infinite wisdom that they should be irreversibly linked for life.

I've just spend the best part of an hour trying to unlink them, I've deleted the Google + account 4 times. But when Ever I try to re-active my YouTube channel (which creates a new + account) it's instantly attached to my work email.

I've tried logging out of everything and going incognito, but because they all share an email address, they instantly become linked again. I though maybe if I deleted the + account and then changed my youtube email address that would work, but you can't change your email address without Google +. And even with + I couldn't remove the email address, just add new ones.

I know I'm flogging a dead horse here, there's no end of complaints about Google's account linking, but my complaint is a bit different - I don't mind having a Google + account linked to my gmail and youtube, it makes sense. The problem I have is I want separate + profiles for each. Which apparently can't be done.
So?

You can't pay people to take pot and take regular exams in such countries? That's what studies are for, no? Besides I'm pretty sure there must be some 'native' pot smokers. Not many, but surely there must be a few people, even if majority are tourist.

Gather enough studies in a meta study and you'll get enough of a sample.
Citing that horrible FDA study is comparable to saying that electronic devices are unsafe because you tested the cheapest available clones you could find in China. Here are just a few analyses that are more current.

[1] http://truthaboutecigs.com/science/13.pdf

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23701634

[3] https://zeecigs.com/PDF/Gamucci-electronic-cigarette-Lab-Stu...
> This is equivalent of Tea Party activist proclaiming "Keep government out of my Medicare".

I see little conflict of interest between the government and the insured citizens (lower costs, keep healthy people healthy, make sick people healthier), while there is a lot of conflict of interest between private insurers and their (potential) customers (not insure sick people, only insure those healthy people who have little chance of becoming sick, do all they can to avoid paying in case of a claim).