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Chemically speaking, synthesized vanillin is indistinguishable from the vanillin extracted from plants.

But vanilla plants contain a lot of other flavor/odor chemicals (like anise alcohol/methylguaiacol, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde/trimethylpirazine, p-cresol/anisole, guaiacol, piperonal) in addition to the one primarily chemical (vanillin), which may also be desirable in certain applications, such as foods or perfumes.

I would have no problem buying 750 mL of 40% grain alcohol loaded up with sugar and artificial vanillin if I'm gearing up for a giant bake sale or something, but I'd still keep the 10 mL bottle of the real stuff for finishing sauces, frostings, icings, or beverages.

Important caveat, though: vanillin derived from engineered bacteria or yeasts may be eligible to be labeled as "natural flavor"!
It's clearly a combination of GPS and accelerometer. When it detects you've gone 50m, the waterproof seal opens up and allows the water in, frying the delicate electronics. :)
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As a long-time ASP.NET developer, I definitely find the VSCode approach worthwhile. The new platform is definitely much more commandline oriented, but it's refreshing to be able to develop in such a lightweight text editor, compared the the usual Visual Studio experience.
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Yeah. You also want the page to redirect back to an HTTPS site when you're logged in, otherwise anyone who can intercept your communication can wait until you've logged in securely over HTTPS, and steal the auth token / cookie / whatever that's sent back through HTTP.
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> about "contrarians" and through a game of telephone turned created a new political boogieman.

That's an interesting suggestion. It does look like many so called alt righters seem to be contrarians, non-conformists, critics of mainstream ideology or 'normal' right wing ideology. We need more of those people, and we often benefit from listening to them.

Some of them have beliefs I find abhorrent, but they also clearly do not all share the same beliefs.

Narrow minded bloggers and such on the left have cultivated this widespread belief (among some liberals) that we should automatically despise and ignore anyone that gets labelled "alt right"
They have been doing this with headphones for a while now. I became acquainted with this when I had some headphones with play/pause, volume controls, and a mic for my iPhone 4S. After the 4S, I bought an Android phone and was sad to learn the volume controls over the 3.5mm connector were Apple proprietary and the only thing I could do with my $150 Klipsh 'phones as play/pause or answer calls - the volume rocker becoming totally useless.
I think they might have gotten the rule mixed up. I'm pretty sure "no" is usually followed by a plural.

Yet "zero" is usually followed by a singular. English is really tricky sometimes.
I mean, I listen from digital output through my 6s probably 90% of the time since the built-in amp doesn't cut it, but I'm also finding this whole thing ridiculous. I'll certainly not be upgrading to a 7.
Wow, that's lower than what many calorie restriction experimenters run!
So InfluxDB v1.0 has issues with the cardinality of the "primary key" (or candidate keys) gets high?

At what level of keys or tags did you start to see query performance become problematic?
Just a bit later, he says only the last 4 CC digits were published, is he wrong?
I wrote Rust version of spelling corrector sometime back to explore nitty gritty of language https://github.com/vpanghal/spellcorrector
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I meant about consumer protections, labelling and so on generally rather than this specific issue.

Sorry if that didn't come across well.
It's worth noting that Prometheus isn't distributed either. So OSS InfluxDB or that are the same in terms of distributed capabilities.
I love how youtube is showing me advertisements for truffle oil right at the moment where Ramsay is completely blasting it.
> It's an underlying structure that helps organize concepts. Who says thinking in shapes or concepts is not a language?

Exactly, language is just the name we give these events when they are represented using a symbolic system.
They're still making playing cards.

And it took them 18 years (1956-1974) of experiments with new ventures (including a cab company, and love hotels, and assorted toy ranges) before they started selling video games. Another 5 or so before they got successful. Donkey Kong came out in 1981 and finally made them lots of money from it.

So ~25 years from they realised the playing card business didn't have room for further expansion until they had settled on a new direction that made them enough money for it to become the main driver of the company.

Yet 35 years after Donkey Kong, they're still selling playing cards...

Seems pretty conservative to me.
If this is true of Truffle salt, then I have definitely fell for it before. At least Wikipedia suggests truffle salt is not usually of synthetic origin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle_salt)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-16/the-parmes...

>Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania-based Castle produced mainly imitation cheeses for nearly 30 years. The company, whose factory was adorned with crenelated battlements and curved archways to look like a medieval castle, had $19 million in sales in 2013.

>According to the FDA’s report on Castle, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, “no parmesan cheese was used to manufacture” the Market Pantry brand 100% grated Parmesan Cheese, sold at Target Corp. stores, and Always Save Grated Parmesan Cheese and Best Choice 100% Grated Parmesan Cheese, sold by Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc., which along with its subsidiaries supplies 3,400 retail stores in 30 states. Instead, there was a mixture of Swiss, mozzarella, white cheddar and cellulose, according to the FDA.

>Castle President Michelle Myrter is scheduled to plead guilty this month to criminal charges. She faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
I didn't take it as negative at all. Anything that moves the ball forward is good. Thanks for taking the time.

I'm looking for the next step to take when someone has liked a post, and inviting them to like the page seems to be the only option, which as I said, has limited results.

Your comments are helpful.
Humor is possibly the most egregiously self over-estimated skill.
It drives me nuts to read an announcement regarding $some_product when they don't spend a single word on explaining what the hell $some_product actually is.
What the hell Google PR???

disclaimer: I work at Google :|
I have not had that problem, but I use Gmail natively on all devices--i.e. on my iPhone I use Google's Gmail app instead of Mail. On my Macs I log into Gmail in the browser instead of using Apple Mail.
> AirBnB places are not hotels.

Often, they are exactly illegal hotels.

> In the end as an Owner you should be free to select whoever you accept

You generally aren't legally in the US, with very narrow exceptions, especially if you have a commercial service involved with you in arranging the rental. AirBnB doesn't make the laws, but they are bound by them, and are visible enough that simply ignoring them may no longer be tenable.
I got downvoted for that? (I was sincere in saying "good advice"; just giving context on my background in this conversation as well)
I'm actually working on one that I hope to have ready by sometime next week.

Short version:

1. Elixir, Phoenix, Umbrella and Nerves were the main "themes" of the conference
2. Lots of emphasis on Nerves
3. Closing keynote of "Elixir for the next 10 years" is one of the best talks on any subject I've heard in several years and a must watch.

4. For me, the Dialyzer talk was one of the most interesting because it explained how the lack of operator overloading lets Dialyzer map and infer types at compile time, so a variable next to a + is always a number for example and with that you can map wrongful usages. For anywhere that the type is ambiguous (function with a _ variable) you can use a typespec comment to tell Dialyzer exactly what it is. Gives you implicitly strong typing and type checking without that rigidity that comes from fully static typing.
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Note that "natural" does not mean it's "real" vanilla extract. It just refers to how the chemical compounds that taste like vanilla were obtained (which may or may not have involved actual vanilla in the first place).

Commented more above:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454658
Yeah, how Apple of them.
Sounds more like lack of immunity and candidosis.
To me, it is an odd domain choice. I read it as "dot dot net" and I can't imagine I am the only one...

Something like code.net or develop.net or even get.net makes more sense to me.
AFAIK they own it since very, very long time back so probably not.
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Several Google auth services are affected. Google Plus is down right now, same for photos and some other services.

https://twitter.com/GooglePlus/status/773924681166434304
>Because it's true, and most people and most games to care about frame rates

If it's been true then 30fps games like GTA, AC, Elder Scrolls series, GT, RE, FF etc, etc had not been selling crazy millions of units.

And yes, not all 4k games are rendering everything into a single 4k buffer, modern games are a bit more complicated than what was around in 90s. It's silly to complain about this IMHO, because 4k movies also don't have 8M full pixels for every frame either.
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I think you are thinking about more traditional Lightfield cameras - this doesn't appear to be that.

It definitely won't be pretty, but whomever puts the work in will probably benefit from it somehow.
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Though I can't find the reference offhand, Apple said the adapter would support other "audio jack" tools, specifically calling out the Square payment dongle.
It took me several seconds to load (compared to about 1-1.5 for HN)... this page needs better hosting for Asian users.
CORE. It's not much different than regular ASP.NET. However they both are very different from Classic ASP.NET
As xkcd put it, "In the last few years, with very little fanfare, we've conclusively settled the questions of flying saucers, lake monsters, ghosts, and bigfoot."

https://xkcd.com/1235/

The Chelyabinsk meteor was pretty amazing, though.
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damn how weak must nintendo be to have its market value change so much on a single game that has yet to be released.
Please pay the guy. He is helping your product.
Actually, under 10, since the first beta, you must make contact with the banner notification itself and then swipe up. Prior to 10, this was unnecessary, and a quick flick up from outside the notification toward the top of the screen would dismiss. I appreciate an instruction guide for dismissal, but it is unnecessary, and doesn't respond to my point. I know how to dismiss.
Generally in the notes of a meeting there is a list of attendees, that helps someone reading the notes to understand who was present and should presumably already be aware of the subject matter, and who wasn't and may need background on the meeting if the subject came up.
So D > A > Encr. A > D > A > Ear?

In practice that sounds ridiculous.
Honestly it took me a minute before my brain started to be able to read it a lot better. At least it was very slow because everything is so wrong. So I don't know how common either of our experiences are but I am your contrary :)
> It's a small group [some of whom] don't even take the positions seriously, just love to troll millennial college "activist" consumer-types.

I completely agree that this group exists, that this phenomenon exists. However, it's also apparent from the way many people use the label "alt right", that they are not limiting themselves to describing this group.
The dongle comes for free in the box[0].

> In the Box

>> Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter

[0]: http://www.apple.com/iphone-7/specs/
"The body was designed to stress and sleep"

robg, tell me – What kind of nonsens is this?
Designed by whom? God?
That's just fiction mongering my friend.
Also, can people please label sarcasm with a /s or similar? Sarcasm does not translate well to other languages.
probably in addition to the honest ingredients the sunflower oil has been known to fraternize with the palm and coconut oil
Ask HN: How to get high school students enthused about software engineering?
I work as a software engineer / consultant (primarily for web app development), and have been invited to speak to a local high school STEM Career Paths class. There are 8 students in the class. The teacher has been reaching out to "experts" in fields that some of the students have expressed interest in, in order to get them enthused about the industry and answer questions they may have.

Out of the 8, there are apparently 3-4 that are interested in programming, software development, web app development, etc. I'm looking for suggestions for how I can spend a half-hour to an hour talking about the industry in a way that will keep 16-year-olds engaged. I've thought of doing some kind of demo...but am at a loss for what would be exciting to this kind of student / non-/beginner-programmer.

Any suggestions?
I had the same experience. I've been doing intermittent fasting for several months, and after a while I felt that hunger doesn't bother me that much anymore, so I decided to go for a three day fast. I do get slightly elevated blood pressure from time to time, but on the third day of fast I noticed that it dropped to lower than 120. I did a bit of googling, and found that there even were some medical studies looking into effect of fasting and lowering of blood pressure.
Cellulose powder - says so right in the ingredients, alongside lipase, calcium chloride, and potassium sorbate: http://www.garycameron.org/files/2012/04/Kraft-100-Parm-q50....

Even better, it says "The label doesn't just say parmesan, it says 100% parmesan. That's because we only use the finest ingredients, carefully crafted and aged for a sharp, distinctive taste that enhances your favourite dishes - a taste that's 100% real, 100% parmesan."

They can get away with it because "parmesan" doesn't actually mean anything outside of the EU.

Edit: As that other poster just pointed out, maybe it does mean something in the US (that label was from Canada), since someone's actually facing criminal charges for it.
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Enter piracy.
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Is there any C++ version of a decent spell checker ? Been looking for sometime (mainly out of curiosity), most are either amateur school projects or too academic/phd-ish....would love to go through a good open source C++ based spell checker that can be used in practise (with little modifications if required)
The dongle: probably has a poor quality DAC, gets lost easily, and prevents the phone from being charged or tethered to a computer.
I've been writing ASP.NET since 2004 (and classic ASP using VBScript before that) and I'm not sure what distinguishes "regular ASP.NET" from "Classic ASP.NET". I hear this term occasionally - what exactly do folks think of when they say "Classic ASP.NET"? WebForms? Pre-Razor view engine?
Ha ha, that was a good play. I believe it was the introduction of the jet engine that fouled up his scheme.
I'm not trying to invest.

I'm not seeing a clear business model.

To me, producing a patented product in-house might be equivalent to self-licensing the patent. This makes the value of the patent primarily defensive and not revenue producing. On the other hand licensing the patent to others makes the patent revenue producing.

Which means I'm not seeing a clear business model. If there's a product, then users matter and the value of the patent isn't really relevant to the growth of the company, by which I mean the company could acquire users and grow without using a patented technology.

On the other hand, if the goal is licensing then it is primarily a marketing exercise and growth is likely to be more linear and in the form of periodic returns rather than in the form of capital gain on equity that is typically sought by the Silicon Valley startup investment industry.
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Don't worry about it! The code probably isn't nearly as bad as you think, and anyway it can be improved through PRs... Did you consider open-sourcing it from the beginning? If so, why did you decide not to do that?
Any article like this for grammar correction?

I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate.
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I think the industry is on the cusp of settling on the Erlang model which is essentially allowing pieces of a program to crash so that the whole program doesn't have to. It will take time for practices and tools to spread.
In many cases, this invocation of fun_call() would not match its definition signature and it would generate an exception. When that's the case it's not at all a Python gotcha because it halted and forced you to fix the error.

I like this string catenation behavior and I prefer it, even if it causes some confusion in (IMO rare) cases.
Well. At first I thought this was crazy, but then I realized Google was the only major cloud provider that didn't offer an API Gateway service... Azure and AWS both have one.

So, makes sense. They got them cheap as well, only a really small premium of the stock price.
>And yes, not all 4k games are rendering everything into a single 4k buffer.

Games haven't been using a single buffer for ages, however games on the PC do render at a native resolution or higher (if you use render target supersampling).

Console games render at sub-display buffer resolutions all the time and use upscaling, which is what I was saying from the first post I don't even know what you are are arguing about.
The point is that calling either PS4pro or Xbox Scorpio a 4K gaming system is misleading at best, because as far as the frame resolution target they are going to be considerably more off from 4K than their current counterparts are from 1080p.

>If it's been true then 30fps games like GTA, AC, Elder Scrolls series, GT, RE, FF etc, etc had not been selling crazy millions of units.

GTA5 had major FPS issues on both consoles it was one of the major complaints, AC has major issues on both consoles, etc. Those games sell like crazy because they are huge franchises it doesn't mean the experience is good.
FPS games understand that they need 60fps and they stick to that often by drastically reducing the render target, because otherwise they are near unplayable even on consoles that already suffer from a pretty big input delay.

But sure if you accept <30 fps gaming with major screen tearing and frame time inconsistencies as a decent experience all the power to you, but let's call it what it is the minimal functional experience that these consoles can provide, it ain't a very pleasant one.
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Nor for gaming. Wireless doesn't compare to wired for low latency, high bandwidth, reliable connections.
Yes, but if you're using vanilla the way most people do, paying the 3x extra for "natural" is not strictly speaking a rational decision; it's the vendors of "natural" vanilla who are playing games in that case.

Which is what makes vanilla, I think, an interesting parallel to truffles.
iPhones weigh too much and are too big for running, anyway. I just use an iPod nano clone.
Thank you, that's very informative.
... oh and try the truffle flavored veal
I agree with you, but would also point out that the same is true for movies and books. In the general case, they're not any better off than video games. They've just both had much longer to accumulate classics and genres. You see this starting to happen in video games (walking simulators for example), and it will definitely continue.
I imagine it doesn't have any DAC. The DAC is still inside the phone, just like on previous iphone, the dongle is just a physical adapter to the 3.5mm standard.
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Programming is a very varied field. Sometimes people forget that their coding experience can be totally different than anothers.

Consider someone trying to do a 3D game in C# vs a web application back end. The kind of performance pitfalls they run into will have no similarity.
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Does it actually have a DAC, or does it just provide a physical interface to one of the Lightning pins which gets connected to a DAC inside the phone?
This latest upgrade of Chrome uses a lot more memory on my Win7. I run 5 tabs and I see 10 chrome.exe running processes. WTF and why?

EDIT: I take the above comment back. The chrome.exe processes match with the process running in the Chrome's Task Manager. I stand corrected.

However, I think there's something new about the latest upgrade. The interface looks heavy and different. This is the same upgrade which has removed the green colored SSL identifier in the URL bar.
It isn't really a question of native or non-native. It's more a question of "under the control of the package manager" vs. "not under the control".

You have a similar kind of pain when you have pip and apt trying to manage the system python installation.
I only use the Gmail app on Android and the web interface.
You can also use the set-comprehension syntax, which functions equivalently but looks slightly nicer:

return {w for w in words if w in WORDS}

could have also directly used the intersection operator on the sets:

return words & WORDS

or slightly more verbose, but maybe more clear for colleagues who don't regularly use sets in Python:

return words.intersection(WORDS)