skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's essentially the same way to use money, if someone steals from your credit card you're protected, but if it's debit card, it's not?

Debit cards have some protections; the basic difference is that a credit card is spending someone else's money, which you have to pay back to them if it was actually authorized by you; a debit card is spending your money, which you can recover from the bank in certain circumstances if it is accepted to be unauthorized.
Any ICO from a newly formed company is entirely at risk. An ICO from Kik or Telegram is different to an extent in that there is already an entity behind it.

Of course if there were no "blockchain" they would simply issue tokens like everyone has in the past, where you exchange money to get a token, that you can use in the app, and that token is locked into that app. So you can't use it elsewhere, but it still has some value as long as the app and users exist since you can sell your tokens to other people if you no longer need them, assuming that transferring of tokens is allowed / acceptable.

But then it wouldn't be block chain, and it wouldn't get any hype =]

Games have been using this for years and years, so there's really no difference here.

One side likes to point out the internet bubble, the other side likes to say well look at the internet now. What's missed though is the massive companies that were built in the middle, that really changed our daily lives. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc, these companies changed how we live our lives and then Banks and everyone else realized the benefits of offering connected services directly to a PC or a phone and again there were tremendous benefits to consumers and end users.

At the moment, there is no benefit, outside of a large remittance and some tax avoidance that can be accomplished through cryptocurrency, and certainly there's no functional product company in the crypto space, outside of the exchanges which make money through people simply trading currencies, but returning no real value back to the world.
Happy to change it, but I couldn't think of a better one. Actually we briefly changed the URL to https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/02/rent-control-policy-l..., which has the title "Rent-control policy `likely fueled the gentrification of San Francisco,’ study finds" — is that better?

(We changed the URL back because it's not clear that that article has more information in it.)
It is reasonable for you to find the link between videogame (or content) addiction and chemical addiction more tenuous.

I would be curious to know what your thoughts on gambling are? Irrespective of any solution, do you feel that leaving the gambling industry unrestrained would not be damaging for society?
This was the first calculator I used in my job, at COMASP, 1970.
I think I understand what you're saying, but anecdotal evidence isn't really the point here. The article is pointing toward a societal trend, not one that is likely to be observed on a case by case basis.

That said I do agree. All medications are a trade off of some sort. Usually the consequences aren't as bad as the effects of the drug, and I think this is no exception.
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And don't forget Microsoft search. Before "Bing" it was called "Live" and I think there were a few more names before that as well.

I'm surprised the name Bing is still around and not replaced with something else.
Naproxen is OTC in the US, as Aleve, but you need a prescription for higher doses, like with ibuprofen.
Well no, if someone went crazy and tried to murder him over this that would be a pretty inappropriate response.

I do get your point though.
The article you posted agrees with TFA. Not sure what you think is bullshit.

From TFA:

"The teaching of English usually starts in middle school in Iran, around the ages of 12 to 14, but some primary schools below that age also have English classes.

"Some children also attend private language institutes after their school day. And many children from more privileged families who attend nongovernment schools receive English tuition from day care through high school."
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Interesting. I guess that law would have protected both Brenden Eich and Donald Sterling, if they had been fired during their respective controversies.

To anyone assuming that I'm opposed to such a law: you're wrong. I've written in favor of such laws in the past, and think they should be strengthened even further. Assuming of course that they are used to protect all political opinions, both left wing and right.
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As a developer, I can't eat good will, and my landlord doesn't accept it for my rent payment.
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From the linked paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20825768
>The average annual rate of snow shovel-related injuries and medical emergencies was 4.15 per 100,000 population.

That's actually much more than I would have guessed, but is that still high enough for the general public, or HN readers to care enough to change their behavior (i.e. decision to shovel or not)?

For comparison, car related fatalities were 11.59 per 100,000 in 2016.
The 200mph 2x4 by itself doesn't seem unreasonable to me. When I lived in Oklahoma and was searching for a storm shelter, a common strength-test was to launch 2x4s at them at extreme speeds, in excess of 120mph I believe.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKBbRUcAoI
well in germany you still say "ein pfund" (one pound) or "halbes pfund" (half pound) if you buy sausages/meat. but you mean 500g and not the real value of one pound. it's just that this is used because we got used to it.
we also have a wierd system for the clock where we say "viertel vor" (a quarter to) or "viertel nach" (a quarter past). which is pretty common to say the time in quarters instead of values.
Basically, only 802 people told the IRS about their 2016 profits in CoinBase, one of the more popular exchanges. It's safe to assume that number was a tiny fraction of the actual US users.

http://fortune.com/2017/03/19/irs-bitcoin-lawsuit/
"I won't work with someone who thinks I'm less capable because of my genitals"

sounds a bit more valid to me.
Anatomy of a Proof-of-Stake crypto scam
The ordinance isn't ticky-tack, it allows people to use the sidewalk.

A lot of towns have similar and don't enforce it very much.
Yes, that's how inflation works.
>If you are publishing a new package—that is, a package that has not been in the registry before—we remove punctuation from its name and compare it to existing package names. If the names are identical without punctuation, we do not allow the package to be created.

Simply checking the name without punctuation seems too simple. What about a similarity check? Hamming distance? Is there something like metaphone for visual similarity between words?

Also good on them for suggesting using namespaces but since that apparently exists and they're admitting that it helps disambiguate packages, why not just make it mandatory?
You don't think a communication device used by hundreds of millions of people should be or potentially be worth billions of dollars? There are few things more important to people than communication.

I don't particularly like Snapchat, I do however entirely get why it's valuable. There's room to debate whether it's worth $5 billion or $15 billion, I don't believe there's any room for debate on whether it's worth billions. It has had its market value validated at or above those levels for years now, from VC to public investors. It has maintained a large userbase for years as well.

Snap also has 30-40 times the revenue of Canva, which makes the point about how lucrative those hundreds of millions of users can be.
Color me shocked (not that shocked).

On its face . . . just the idea . . . how could anyone look at that one, out of all of the ICOs out there, and not think twice before sending in their money?
Are we seeing low labor costs in San Francisco area?
Trump pushes to expand high-speed internet in rural America
AM means "before noon".
PM means "after noon"

12:00 noon is neither AM nor PM, and there'se no confusion.

The real question is why is the hour after midnight 12:01-12:59 AM.

Anyway, the real answer is that 0/12 and 13/1 are partial branch cuts and that "12" is used because "0" is awkward for mundane reasons, but retains some of its "0-ness"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_point
Good, force people to put their name behind an issue.
- Keep them as short as possible.

- If you're presenting options, label them with numbers/letters so people can easily reference them in a reply.

- Instead of leaving follow-up actions open-ended, specifically call out what you're going to do, when you need a response by, etc.
The article says "Gates is only other person to have built 13-figure fortune" but isn't $100B a 12-figure fortune? I suggested we count zeros instead which would make Bezos a level 11 and Gates a high level 10: http://www.kmeme.com/2017/11/the-richer-scale.html
The quantum of resolution in the UI. Usually 1 minute
Cool. I think you're entitled for charging your rates for your labor. Do free work for me.
By not eating meat or dairy and relying on grains and legumes.
> Can anyone outline the norms for English teaching in the rest of the region and the rest of the world?

I'd be interested in this too (or other languages, where it would be appropriate, such as the extent of French teaching in Canada, or Spanish in the USA). I suspect what Iran is apparently not doing any more is very uncommon around the world anyway.
I agree conceptually: if both sides consider the transaction to in ethereum-denominated currency, then there is a logical argument to what you said.

But legally, ETH is not a currency. If they take this to court, the court will award the original USD price. They bought an asset worth $x. They are owed $x.

When we get away from this funny money "we're inventing currencies" bullshit, there is a law of the land. An asset was promised, and they are owed the value of that asset when purchased, in USD.
That really depends on the context of the discussion.

To me and the app I am trying to add some features to it's not misleading at all. Basically I have to "zip" the fil and uncompress it to keep the data.
Oculus has roomscale with 3 sensors. Even 2 sensors is "good enough" (comparable with 3 sensors if you use mounts)
Mexico has no cancer within, it is the cancer. The central government is inept and corrupt, leading to the drastic measures you see here.

A revolution on the part of the Mexican people is needed, but the US will never allow such volatility so close to home. Until then, the US government is content to let the cartels and the Mexican state fight it out ad infitium.
Yup; after seeing my mom be recommended 3-4 pills every 6 hours as needed for knee pain, I sure don't bother with just 2 pills as a 200# male if I "need" ibuprofen. I either take 3, or I take nothing.

Fortunately I have no chronic issues, rarely need ibuprofen (in fact I'm paranoid about taking it for muscle aches as I've always felt it must harm muscle development, which seems to be catching traction as a theory), and generally avoid medications altogether, but it seems like if you're taking it, might as well take a dose that will do something.
> with time going from 00:00:00 to 24:59:59 a day

I guess the 24-hour system leads to confusion, too..? ;-)
Last I checked AWS doesn't accept crypto. You can't eat crypto can you? So how was this person expected to build anything using literally only Ethereum(in compensation and in expenses)?
I don't think I lost any data on my iDisk, but the connection wasn't always reliable. IIRC it was mounted over WebDAV, but may have been AppleShare before they switched to that. Flash drives were definitely safer (but more expensive) option. I can't remember ever losing one while I needed it.
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Slow food is about enjoying food which might mean longer preparation but less quantity. So in many ways yes (in some ways no)
it wasn't that it was too hard. It was that there's a cost to compile the data, and Google shouldn't have to pay 250k to compile a data inquery just `because`.

Just like you aren't asked to strip search when going through TSA, `just because`. There needs to be a legitimate reason and suspicion.
You don't have a share purchase agreement that was signed by both you and the founders?
Unrelated, but IMO, the clients for iCloud Drive on both iOS and OS X are very poorly implemented. I used to have a 16 GB of iPhone that would magically go from 8GB of available storage to 0 despite me not downloading anything onto it. It turns out, if you have iCloud Drive enabled on iOS, it automatically downloads the entire content of your drive to your phone and in the settings app, it classifies it under the "other" so there was no way for me to figure out what was eating up all of my phone's storage.

The mac client isn't any better, it sometimes utilizes 100% of CPU to sync a few files (bird process on OS X) with iCloud and there's no way of stopping the sync or slowing it down.
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> I personally would be happier if there were national incentives to keep nuclear plants and not coal operating as long as safely possible

Why? I get coal, but why not operate the nuclear plants if they are already running?
It seems that later in life he quit focusing on computer science, and may have been out of touch with it as early as the start of the 70's. Here's his obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/sep/22/peter-lan...

"Always bisexual, he threw himself into the politics of the Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970s. He separated amicably from his wife in 1973, and was closely in touch with her and his children till his death. For the rest of his life he pursued gay politics, and his house in Rona Road, Camden, became a gay commune. Always more of a facilitator than an activist, he saw many plots hatched at his dinner parties. Aids: the Musical! was conceived there, as was the reinvigoration of Gay Pride marches in the mid-80s, just in time for the battle over Clause 28.
Towards the end of his life, Peter became convinced that computing had been a bad idea, giving support to profit-taking corporate interests and a surveillance state, and that he had wasted his energies in promoting it. But whether he liked it or not, his ideas underpin developments to this day."
This also makes me wonder about another "scam".

* Buy some of coin X

* Use that to buy some cash equivalent good that has a return policy (longer the better)

* If X appreciates by the time the return policy is up, you return the goods, collecting the gains.

* If X depreciates you sell the goods for cash in USD which likely won't have varied much in the intervening time.

* Repeat, and you will have effectively captured 100% of the increase of X while completely derisked.
everything i read here refers to effects on testosterone levels. how does this relate to actual fertility (that can be measured in a semen analysis)? would lower testosterone levels affect count, motility, morphology, etc?
Are you kidding? You know how much you have to pay for AppEngine's right?!!
Yep, people should hire someone or buy a snow blower. Or if you have too long of a drive get a plow.
Gotta disagree with you on this one, since in your example, 'candies' corresponds with USD in the real situation, while USD corresponds with ETH, which is quite distinctly not a real currency.

Not exactly an apt comparison.
If you turn "I only have sex with women" into "I only have sex with white people", suddenly it sounds pretty offensive. Can we judge those two statements equivalently? It's not a good argument at all.
Why can't etherium just be used for each new application instead instead of creating a new ICO for every new application?
> They should return the currency you used to invest with, though, right?

Depends on the contract potentially. It's why most larger business arrangements that could even possibly include such a refund (as part of the contract), will have specifications covering that. I'm curious what was in their agreement, if anything. For example, if it had a clause that allows for returning the dollar invested sum.

A court will usually find against you if you repay in a debased currency or similar however. If I tried to repay a loan, with no contract, in Venezuelan bolivars based on their former value on the date of the origination of the loan five years ago, that wouldn't get anywhere in a court of law, you'd lose easily.
I had seemed to think that 10 days was the threshold but it turns out to be half that - http://www.newsweek.com/cdc-opiate-addiction-572498
Exactly, what if ETH dropped to 1$? I am sure they would want their USD back.
>The context is that many people pick up a shovel and do maximum effort despite living a sedentary life.

I'd like to point out that even those of us that work out regularly suffer terribly from shoveling. As someone in his mid 40s who works out regularly, daily exercise may prevent a shoveling-induced heart attack but it does absolutely nothing to prevent crippling lower-back pain that lasts for days/weeks.
I think you're misreading. GP is saying that plans to keep nuclear plants operating are good but plans to keep coal operating are not.
To fully close the hole you would also need to load back in whatever cache lines were evicted by those speculatively loaded. Alternatively you could provide some buffer space for spec cache lines.

No matter what you do this will result in a slowdown, either from re-loading data or from "wasting" cache space that could otherwise have been used generally for buffers.
Quality food usually requires less transformation and thus resources. Might require more labour tough...
Or just change the law. City could do it, jobs programs and all. You think I'm kidding but they do the streets anyway.
Fresh green peppercorns (พริกไทยสด) in Thai food give an amazingly complex, aromatic flavor without being overpoweringly spicy. The first time I tasted them was like a revelation. It seems that cuisines from hot climates are more aware of the value of fresh herbs and spices. I agree with the thesis of this article; European-rooted chefs will eventually catch on.
Lawyer. Call one you must.
No one will return you the original number of BTC for refunds for this reason. But if they did then this would work.
May cause agranulocytosis, according to wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole
Chinese dating apps shut down
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> Often your currency is backed by nothing at all, with no potential for it to even be worth anything.

If enough people make Pascal’s Wager, then god effectively exists.
> HN readers to care enough to change their behavior (i.e. decision to shovel or not)?

Where I live its not an option unless you enjoy being sued. You are legally obligated to keep the sidewalks clear. If you don't, and someone "slips", you are on the hook for a massive settlement.

I'd also like to point out that the 4.15 per 100,000 only counts the people who went to the doctor or hospital for their injuries. You should have no doubt that droves of people who end up with back injuries (like myself) from shoveling do not seek medical treatment and are not counted in the statistics.
"Only Tech Unicorn" is questionable. In addition to this and Atlassian, there is also WisetechGlobal https://www.marketindex.com.au/asx/wtc - market cap $4Bn.
Exactly this. The current CC situation isn't good either but at least they have an excuse because they are old as dinosaurs physical cards and there are workarounds like you mentioned (I do the exact same thing with the sharpie). Reusing them as the only way we identify payment options in the app is completely nuts.
i've heard of a cbd extract from hops, but i'm not sure whether it's true.
One of my favorite examples is looking at the Google Trends page for Google Allo [0]. Lots of initial interest at release, but since it didn't add anything to what people already was using, including Google hangouts, interest soon faded away. Google's practice of release early, release often, doesn't really work when entering a market with strong established products. Good luck getting people to try convincing their friends to switch to a different chat app they already tried and didn't like.

Google is known for attracting top engineers, but their product managers seems to be some of the worst in the industry. Where would they be without their ad cash cow? It's been years since I got exited about anything they released. I think I noticed it getting worse right around when Eric Schmidt got replaced as CEO.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-07-01%202...
What worries me most about the Pimax 8k is that you will need at least two 1080 Ti in SLI to drive it at full resolution, and even that may not be enough. I'd definitely wait for the next GPU generation to roll out (should be soonish now) before committing.
Well said. :-)

I've added a link to your feature comparison table to my REAMDE[1]. Thanks again for putting it together!

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#feature-comparison
I wouldn't call it madness, just limits Go usage somewhat, especially in domains involving a lot of concurrency.

I once had hopes for Go. But the team working on it decided not to fix any of its flaws that became obvious over time and even outright denied their existence. So, not much Go for me anymore, but I'm still looking forward to see what such approach can bring in Go 2.
A nephrologist I went to a year or two ago explained to me that the danger of ibuprofen is total lifetime consumption. Once you approach 9lbs or so (surprisingly easy to hit if your habit is daily) your risk of kidney failure increases exponentially.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/01/08/icloud-drive-can-strip-me....
"Last week, his worst fears were proved right when Intel, one of the world’s largest chipmakers, said all modern processors can be attacked by techniques dubbed Meltdown and Spectre".

Seems like a sneaky reporting by Bloomberg - has Intel actually said that "all modern processors can be attacked by ... Meltdown"?
If it is a public company, their SEC filing should reveal how much they paid for the acquisition.
The site linked to is one of the worst places on the internet for actual news/facts. I won't take this seriously until someone provides links to a reputable site.
Scenario 3: ETH crashes hard and is worth close to nothing so you refund the ETH amount that people invested. Basically zero net loss!
> I guess theoretically it's still possible to do that -- I wonder if anyone makes turnkey systems for that the way some people still specialize in old typewriters.

I still run WordPerfect. No other writing software has come close to making that same experience.

Til Win8.1, I was able to get it running natively with a little bit of effort, but it became too much of a hassle at that point.

Now, I run Win3.1 inside DOSBox, with WordPerfect installed. It's more stable than the my old IBM PC was, so I'm fairly happy, though crashes do still occur. The keymap differences do take some getting used to when swapping between everyday things and WP though: F1->Escape, F3->F1, etc.

Getting files from WP to the rest of the world isn't entirely straight forward, and I've found a lot of the WP->DOCX converters fail with typesetting and other issues, so I just print to PDF now.
FOMO for those RSUs? ;)
Would that mean a package with multiple authors would have to shared the private key with each other in order to publish a new version?
Android Pay is worthwhile even if you never use it for payment purposes. It also holds discount/membership cards. For example, my IKEA, Jet Blue, CVS, and Walgreens cards are in there. I don't know if you use those types of things, but they don't seem to warrant the type of security a credit card would.