skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who doesn't understand Coinbase's reluctance to add support for BCH, or any other altcoin, needs to understand this hypothetical scenario:

1) I'm a long time miner who owns a massive wealth of Bitcoins.

2) I fund some developers to create a hardfork.

3) I dedicate a small percentage of my mining power to prop up the new coin.

4) Coinbase adds support for the new coin.

5) I deposit all my new split coins at Coinbase, trade for BTC, and withdraw BTC.

6) Using the rest of my mining power I then reverse the depositing transactions to Coinbase by double spending.

7) Profit.

I think it's positively absurd that _any_ exchange is supporting BCH.

But to each their own peril.
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I tried the Impossible Meats burger - it was nowhere near as tasty as a beef burger. I think it could be improved drastically by just adding a little MSG tho.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900615 (criticizing other media coverage of this).
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Yes. This. So Much Of It.
Harsh advice for jobseekers (2016)
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So the 95% confidence level of cancers and deaths is 3x to 4000x the actual measured cancers and deaths? What is going on here?
This is absolutely horrific. The path the UK is on is terrifying. On the bright side they are quite far ahead down this road compared to other Western countries, so when the UK inevitably collapses first, other governments can learn their lesson.
VR development, or just game dev in general.

After getting burned out on web dev, I bought a Vive and started learning Unity/C#/GLSL. It's incredibly intuitive and fun. Graphics programming is a whole different ballgame from any other kind of coding. It really made me grow as a developer and realize just how wide and varied the field of programming actually is.

Also, working with C# after years of dealing with JS is just plain awesome. Having a fully featured "real" programming language with first class IDE support makes things a million times easier and more productive. Definitely the best general purpose programming language in existence IMO.
To give you some idea of what's different:

http://youtu.be/ebNeUihciDI
Ask HN: Why is writing maintainable code hard?
Recently I have took interest in watching documentaries for ship building, general constructions and mega projects; and it occurred to me that much of these efforts require much better precision and coordination than coding.

The tolerance for failures in these projects are much lower than most coding projects, yet it would seem to an untrained set of eye that alot of these projects are more successful than many coding projects in terms of maintainability and final output.

Hearing many horror stories about legacy code bases, and currently experiencing one myself, I would believe that the methodology used in managing these constructions is much superior than those managing code bases.

I was wondering if anyone has any insights on my observations and have any suggestions on managing techniques that would improve the action in building and maintaining large code bases.
The C standard actually has many alternatives to undefined behavior: implementation-defined behavior like the propagation of the high-order bit when a signed integer is shifted right, unspecified behavior like the order in which the arguments to a function are evaluated. Related to those are the implementation-defined, unspecified and indeterminate (unspecified or trap) values.

Now unspecified values are tricky again. They can propagate their unspecifiedness and can be different each time you look at them. x == x can be both true and false and is actually unspecified again.
If your compiler is using this, things can get insane.
I think here the definitions of the C standard would need to be changed a bit.

Also I don't see why signed integer overflow cannot be implementation-defined behavior.
> Writing in languages with a GC is quite cumbersome.

On the contrary, the GC simplifies program for the vast majority of use cases. If it becomes a problem, then don't use it.

> And at the same time you loose valuable constructs such as RAII.

Forgive me for being argumentative, but have you looked at the D website? D has RAII, as advertised on the website homepage.
This may be unrelated, but why do they push out updates every other day or so? No other app is like that. And sizes aren’t getting any smaller. They’re at version 137 right now...
They paid him, I do believe (saw this asserted by folks who'd know and saw no contesting it).
Check the ingredients list:

>Full Ingredient List:

>Water, Textured Wheat Protein, Coconut Oil, Potato Protein, Natural Flavors, 2% or less of: Leghemoglobin (soy), Yeast Extract, Salt, Soy Protein Isolate, Konjac Gum, Xanthan Gum, Thiamin (Vitamin B1), Zinc, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12.

>Contains:

>Soy, Wheat

This contains soy. My comment stands.
A fascinating aspect of this entire kerfuffle is that the meta story, the one about sensationalism and "bad journalism" is too, a form of media sensationalism that plays to the ears of a more sober and skeptical audience who wants news about "media sensationalism" and "AI hype".

A bit of digging reveals that no serious news outlet really got this wrong (correct me if I'm wrong!), and most of the sensationalist headlines were from British tabloids

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/what-...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/robot-intelligence-dangerous-ex...

but even more surprisingly, the articles themselves demonstrated a fairly sober understanding of what is going on. The only mistake they made was spinning a mundane story way out of proportion, something tabloids literally every day, and have done since their conception.
It tastes much better than tofu/soy burgers of the last 20 years.
And it's back: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/89244909895099187...
Gmail was in a very limited public beta during 2004 and 2005, not moving out of beta status until mid 2009. Even if he was an early adopter (which seems unlikely given the length of his email address and the fact that the oldest reference to it Google turns up appears to be from 2011), we still don't arrive at 15 years.

Whether he has 13 years or 13 months worth of email stored in his Gmail account, I hope he has started archiving it now!
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> make it easier to determine when the next iPhone was launching.

You mean it might not be around September 20 like the last 5 generations? (5: 2012-09-21, 5s: 2013-09-20, 6: 2014-09-19, 6s: 2015-09-25, 7: 2016-09-16)

The iPhone 4 was 3 weeks later on 2011-10-14. Only the SE was released not released in Fall, on 2016-03-31
Our app downloaded is just under 100MB. Biggest part? Google Maps For Business at 30MB. Why do we use this monstrosity? We signed some marketing deal with Google. We have a replacement using Apple Maps thats about 2MB. But the beancounters won't let us use it because of the $. Not every size problem is some programmers fault.
I feel like I heard that a Chrome install was comparable in size to an average Linux install a year or two ago.
If you actually believe in passive index investing, this seems like a bad thing. You want lots of little pieces of various companies, especially ones that protect from distractions/meddling by activist investors.
Services revenue is now 1/6th of the overall revenue and growing in double digit %. Apple still relies heavily on iPhone revenue but looks like in 5 years their main revenue source can be services. Also I wonder why they do not consider Apply Pay as a part of the services and put it in other product category?
AR and VR apps in Healthcare
Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career
This seems like cherry picking and the innate human bias at play. Given a big enough disaster, there isn't anything anyone can do as it unfolds. And spectacular failures stick in our mind. Here's some non-nuclear disasters that happened that people could only watch:

* Taum Sauk hydro pump-storage collapse

* Duke Energy's 30k+ tons of coal Ash spill into the Dan River

* But that was tiny, try Kentucky's 306 million tons of coal Ash spill or Tennessee's 525 million. People can only stand and watch that unfold, no modern robot is going to stop that either.

* Gas pipes in San Bruno, New Jersey, and Colorado exploding, killing families instantly

* Deepwater Horizon and the Valdez. Again, not much to do but stand and watch as it unfurls.

I could keep Googling more but every source of energy has its gigantic catastrophes where no amount of human bodies or robots will save the day (well, I guess a large enough pile of bodies would plug a hole in a collapsing dam).
We are working on other authentication methods and we'll be releasing OTP auth within the next few weeks, however the decision to start with SMS was based primarily on accessibility. Adoption of other authentication methods has been slow (despite warnings from agencies like NIST), and I don't believe the solution to that is to force it and drop SMS immediately and entirely. It's going to require education over time to convince both users and developers that other methods of authentication need to be adopted. In the meantime, I think we need to meet them where they're currently looking, get them to start using some form of 2FA, and convince them of the benefits of moving to more secure methods from there.

As we've been working on this we've been brainstorming different approaches we could take to help facilitate that adoption. It could be in the form of more favourable pricing, or even just a content strategy that encourages more secure methods, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject.
I didn't denigrate C++, I'm specifically talking about the behaviour of the data types/mention of OOP which is orthogonal to the surface syntax like using symbolic operators instead of textual names. It is factual that the default data declaration in C++ has a little of the "pointer soup" due to methods and `this`. This can often get inlined away and so is usually irrelevant (hence "almost so"), but the poster did emphasise their desire for pass-by-value. This can be avoided by e.g. using friends more than methods, but this isn't the default way a lot of people write C++.

(Also, Rust has pretty transparent support in the same manner also without OO overhead, but differs slightly because methods can and often do use pass-by-value. This is the distinction I was drawing.)
People put music up on YouTube with just a cover image and that's just fine for most people.
I don't really know anything about the oxaloborates, sorry. Can you synthesize them from the one of the borax hydrates? If so, what is the synthesis path?

Nitrates can of course be an oxidizing agent, so you'd like to keep them away from being e.g. carbothermically or aluminothermically reduced.
Appreciate your statement.

Many that left their BTC assets on CB in interest of your core benefits - simplicity, security - will watch with interest for further communication in the coming weeks as price of bt cash stabilizes.
Impossible Burgers contain heme iron, which is disastrous to the body.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-safety-of-heme-vs-non-h...
Finally BTC has been hard forked and BCH & BTC are live.

Some fun facts:
Forked should have name XBC as per ISO bt thats already taken so they named BCH

1st BCH block 478559 & BTC Block no 478559 where mined by ViaBTC

ViaBTC dedicated BCH block to her daughter by adding comment on 1st Block of BCH
"�_M�*/ViaBTC/Welcome to the world, Shuya Yang!/�q���3�0c"
It is true that the US guarantees liquidity for US dollar bills, but liquidity is hardly an issue for a public stock large enough to be listed on the S&P 500...
Judging by the all comments and the upvotes in this thread, it looks like it's a more popular sentiment than I expected - so, sure? But this is probably best discussed in a setting more convenient than HN comments.
It's since been reinstated according to his Twitter. I would guess (and hope) that he was automatically banned based on the huge quantity of reports he presumably receives.
Germany isn't far behind on their monitoring stuff. Not sure about Holland
Yes, that's right, and multiple compilers support the Windows C++ ABI. You still couldn't write portable C++ in C or assembly (or anything else not C++). Does anyone write C or assembly to that ABI? Probably not, though to be fair that's probably in large part because if you're going to do that you might as well write in C++ :^)

Still, I think a public and stable ABI with fine-grained control of binary elements is a critical aspect of a systems programming language.

Also, the linker contributes a lot to making a systems language. E.g., being able to map globals to specific physical addresses. And, of course, either an ABI has to be dead trivial from a linker's perspective, of the linker has to be very intimate with it (think of symbol mangling). The linkers we use all evolved in a C world, and it shows. C w/ a really good link-editor and RTLD (I'm thinking of Illumos') is a much more advanced beast than C with plain old static linking. Even the ABI aspects of dynamic linking are simple, public, and stable.

A great systems programming language has to have a great linker story as well.
No, this burger contains both soy leghemoglobin and soy protein isolate. I assume you thought I was referring only to the first one.
With a proof checker. They're usually tiny for easier verification. Some are trying to verify the verifiers. HOL/Light and Jared Davis's Milawa esp come to mind. Milawa's layered approach is pretty neat.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jared/milawa/Web/
I think it's a fantastic way to get value. Short of having significant influence over a company (Buffet) or very good intelligence about a company (e.g. to speculate that the value of a stock will change dramatically and use that information to make a trade) I consider it just about the best way to get value out of equities. The cash from dividends can be reinvested (the yield acts something like an interest rate on a savings account, although obviously the risk is higher and it isn't exactly the same thing) or pooled with cash from other dividends to diversify, etc.

I also like to issue covered calls/puts against assets/cash in my brokerage account for cash flow, although that's a tad more speculative than taking dividends.
Depending on the interest in the coin I would say yes. Not doing so will cost them customers.
Why does it give an advantage (and a massive one!) to Facebook? I see how it gives a massive advantage to MZ. But MZ!=Facebook.
Damn those charts are beautiful!
Haven't tried it but certainly a noble cause, I hope they succeed.

> “I love VCs and particularly the ones that invested in us,” Brown had said. “But it’s truly astonishing how little diligence they do in terms of the actual science that underlies some tech companies.”

Recent headlines on Theranos, Juicero, uBeam really drive this point home
"The real problem is to get in a bit before the snatch up because there's usually a stock boost then. It'd be a quick, low-yield safe return."

If you know the future, one can certainly get quick, safe returns. Until you get kidnapped.
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NYT needs to phase out its print product, now, and become a global paper, soon
Szabo sure seems like Satoshi. Interesting that they bash Litecoin though.
Google cache suggests no downloads, fortunately:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zAzfBZ...
Right, but a voting stock is a contract that provides some fraction of those Adwords to you. If they accumulate a lot of those AdWords dollars, shareholders will eventually demand that money back to spend for themselves. In the past, this was done via paying dividends, but my impression is that nowadays it is done via stock buybacks. But if stock buybacks don't have to include non-voting shareholders, what's to stop voting shareholders from just excluding them from the buyback completely and keeping the payout for themselves?
No explicit mention of soy, plus "The analysis did not explore reasons for the decline".

Furthermore, it's said that plant-derived oestrogen does not act in the same way as human-derived oestrogen. I'll find a link...

EDIT: Link...

http://www.pcrm.org/health/cancer-resources/ask/ask-the-expe...

"Phytoestrogens, being weak estrogens, are like small, private planes with few passengers and no cargo, yet they still occupy the Jetway after landing. When phytoestrogens occupy the cell, normal estrogens cannot. Plant estrogens do not eliminate all of estrogen's effects, but they do minimize them, apparently reducing breast cancer risk and menstrual symptoms.

For men and boys, the phytoestrogens in soy do not appear to have any effect on hormone levels and have not been shown to affect sexual development or fertility. Research studies show that men consuming soy have less prostate cancer and better prostate cancer survival."
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Those labels are because the compounds could trigger a soy allergy, because, y'know, they're chemically identical.

Notice that all the "soy" falls in the "2% or less of" bucket. This is not the same as a soy burger. Have you eaten one?
That's good advice. Thank you :)
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> "In summary, sure. I could turn the SoundCloud shitshow around with a decent team. But why fix someone else's fuckup after paying for it?"

> "I could turn [it] around... But why..."

Looks like he's got everything figured out... except for the business side of things.
Radio stations still exist and they survive primarily on audio advertisements. That's also without any of the internet fingerprinting which can be used to cater advertisements and potentially make Soundcloud's advertisements more lucrative.
Apparently those are a thing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_thermal_hybrid_so...
His cost basis was $170 [1]. It's a modest profit as a percentage, and he's now close to underwater on his entire investment into IBM due to the drop (the ~$2 billion in dividends he has yielded, may keep him over break-even, unless IBM plunges again).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/warren-buffetts-ibm-stake-wa...
Moro aceita nova denúncia contra Lula sobre caso do sítio de Atibaia
There was some speculation this year may be delayed because of supply issues with OLED panels.
If you consider only electrical power generation, in some areas, yes renewable are competitive for some hours of the day.

As a fraction of our total energy consumption, they barely register.
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I tried a Beyond Burger, which I believe is the main other horse in this "veggie burger" race and I was pretty impressed. It doesn't have the "plant blood" that seems to be Impossible's secret sauce, but on a bun, with ketchup, lettuce and tomato I thought it was pretty great. Great enough that I'd order it instead of a normal burger if it was widely available.
Am I right in thinking that all forms of meat contain heme iron? And in what dosage is this "disastrous" to the body?
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