skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting that even in an article like this that they still say things like "for all its potential, blockchain is still in its early days." It is sticking with the unfounded assumption that it will be a success in the future, if only it is given more time. In technological terms, it is old. Innumerable efforts have been attempted, yielding almost no fruit.

At what point are the fundamental assumptions going to be questioned?
No offense --- I don't know you or anything about you --- but this comment is like the Triple Crown of dumb GMO arguments.

1. That's a dude who was asked by Canal+ to give an interview about Golden Rice, a product that has nothing to do with herbicides, and is at the end of the interview asked to drink a glass of herbicide.

2. That dude doesn't work for Monsanto, isn't a "Monsanto lobbyist", and has never taken a dollar from Monsanto.

3. I don't need to watch Canal+ stunt interviews to know how dangerous glyphosate is, because there's something called "the medical literature", which documents people having drunk a half liter of the stuff with no effect.

4. But drinking a half liter of glyphosate-based herbicide is an extremely bad plan, because glyphosate isn't the only thing in glyphosate herbicide. Lots of routinely-used fungicides are extremely toxic to humans and found commonly in households.

5. Even if drinking a half liter of random herbicide was completely safe, I'd be upset if you demanded I drink it, for the same reason I'd be upset if you asked me to drink a glass of grapeseed oil or of human urine.

6. All of this drastically misses the point of glyphosate, which is that it's a very simple, broad-spectrum herbicide that is better understood than the selective herbicides farmers use for non-GMO crops. Glyphosate targets a metabolic pathway present in plants and fungus that isn't present in animals. That's not true of selective (grass- or broadleaf- targeting) herbicides. "Conventional" weed control programs are known to be dangerous to humans, rather than the targets of FUD campaigns.

7. If you're "inclined to agree with IARC" about glyphosate, unlike a significant number of scientists, I have bad news for you about cooking food --- meat or vegetables --- which is also 2A-carcinogenic.
I use a scraper shaped for the bars on my grill. Works much better in my experience.
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Or a read. The book is fantastic.
Serious question: how do I clean my grill instead?
I hate companies doing this.

Uber is profiling passengers, it's been known, which is why I stopped using them. As convenient as they are, I hate being profiled.

I'm from Romania and our alternative over here is https://taxify.eu; the app is as polished, the cars and drivers are actually a little better due to being less popular and thus less noisy. And they do charge higher prices in rush hour, but their pricing is far more predictable.

I don't care if this is legal or not btw. It's my money, so fuck Uber.
They might cancel the rest of your roundtrip ticket and refuse give you a refund, or they might ignore it for a while and then ban you, or they might do random things like refusing to honor ff miles. There are no rules to protect you and no one to complain to except the airline's customer service.

Care to roll the dice? :-)
So trees don't change the 0 sum aspect behind cloud seeding: if the rain falls in one place, it can't rain in some other place. The primary reason why plants (read: anything photosynthetic) have a role to play in where it rains is the same principle behind cloud seeding. Plants, when they don't have sufficient nutrients to run photosynthesis and make new plant material, release unused photosynthesis as short chained hydrocarbons, usually ethane and some derivatives. Idea here is that it gives them a place to land the electrons from photosynthesis without tearing themselves apart when nutrients aren't readily available. These short chained hydrocarbons go on to play the same role as the silver compound used by China; they form the 'seeds' for droplet formation.

Neither method does anything to address the fact that there is only so much water in the atmosphere (although that is changing with a changing climate).
+100 "The Logic Of Failure" is a great starting point, and everything by Gerald Weinberg is worth reading.
DTCC is a central authority by definition; there's no amount of handwaving that you can do to make a distributed quorum system fit this particular problem...unless you're just trying to raise VC money.
Prior to USB-PD, USB maxed out at 4.5W, and that was a later addition, originally it maxed out at 2.5W. The USB-PW spec allows for 100W power transfer. There are far more modes in USB-C/PW, and they're much higher energy. If all you ever need to deal with is 5V and 0.1-0.9A then there's a much narrower range of failure states.
Interesting theory, but I've never seen a storage facility close down and be turned in to other real-estate...
Might I suggest actually reading the article where they suggest the culprit is the phthalate-containing plastic containers commonly used in fast food.
Isn’t steel wool flammable? I wouldn’t want to use that on a grill.
speaking of outliers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_94

that also is said to have little dark matter, but that was an indirect observation and unconfirmed afaik
>why shouldn't we charge people who are more affluent more than those who are poor

Because in the case of taxes, you are paying to a collective fund to advance collective interest.

Paying more for some product or service will just fill the pockets of the owners. It is just thievery.
I had the same problem. This is from 2016 and the issue was likely known a lot earlier, yet I never heard of it and most people I know with a bbq clean it that way.

Which in itself references a huge problem. How do you combat conventional wisdom and traditions?
That works if you can actually compile the code yourself, I left out the "if you want to link to a pre-compiled library that was compiled with MSVC" case.

Basically, MSVC is the default, standard way to access C code on the platform, so we work with it by default. We also provide other options if you want to do it other ways, through things like the GNU target.
Ha! There's really little reason to try "cleaning" a hot grill.
An even better way to avoid it: don't use Uber.
By that logic there are literately thousands of people in the chain of "facilitators" from the people who write cell phone operating systems to the auto dealership who sells them a car.
'and one transition we have been planning for is for Terry Myerson to pursue his next chapter outside Microsoft. "

Gotta love corporate speak. Do they even realize how awful that is?
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If they're what I'm thinking of the green ones will score stainless steel, so consider testing first. The blue non scratching ones may not be quite as effective, but are a lot less dangerous to your pots, pans and other kitchen equipment.
Yes: Thunderbolt. I only buy those because the $10 extra I spend on a cable now will never matter if I have to deal with this nonsense even once.
Not to be a cliche of a tech community comment…

but… this will be the primary usecase of blockchain projects.

Players on markets agreeing to use one common protocol and compete for prices in real time.

It won't be the incumbent who wants to do this or change. (it never is) It will be the powerlaw distributed Number 3 to 99 who together are alone barely competitive but together as interesting as the main incumbent.
Sending money without fees and delay? Have you ever tried a normal bank transfer? How long did it take?
Have you ever tried, say, nano? It literally takes seconds and 0 fees.
Here is some value.
For what he wants, a GPL license might be a better fit than an MIT license with caveats.

Because any unaddressed obscurity within those caveats could be a foothold for a lawsuit.
I look at it differently:

Brick-and-mortar plus mail-order was a viable business model for decades. Building the network infrastructure and software interconnections to move from that state to today’s online commerce and delivery model took years to accomplish and was (is) filled with hyped innovations.

Blockchains may never reach their hyped potential, or we may simply be attempting to evaluate at very early stages vs. the point where utilities are clear.
Financialization of everything and everything strikes again; we're now routinely applying quality of income measurements to determine book of business value - this means that increasing the current revenue take from recurring customers gives you a huge expected customer LTV bump prior to the increased churn. During this period, your numbers look great, so analysts pop up your ratings, which affords you access to cheaper capital - or alternately you can cash in and sell with a higher valuation multiple on your book.

In larger firms, you'd think the incentive would be to account for the drop-off caused by eroded goodwill, but functionally there's a middle level manager who is using this spike in numbers to jump to another role before the piper has to be paid by his replacement. Even if the company blows up, he can lateral safely with his new title.
GPU acceleration in scientific computing. My god in 2011 it was the only thing anyone talked about. Every COTS solver package cobbled together support in less than a year and were promising order of magnitude speedups.

In 2018 it's still hanging around but realizing a 20% speedup on certain classes of problems. Maybe.
Muscles can move spastically too, while electric or fluid power can be smooth. It's mainly a function of the control software.
I suspect that for many on this forum, their time would be better spent making more money than figuring out how to save money.
I've always used aluminum foil. Just wad it up and scrub
Which brings up the real question - do we want self-driving cars that ONLY drive as well as humans. I for one would be terrified at that criteria.
Like it, might use it as a online alternative to FreeMind, which allows pure keyboard control, so kind of similar, at least from my perspective.
A follow up for people that enjoy hardcore history, would be The History Of Rome by Mike Duncan. All of The History of Rome is available on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItwGz43a_ak&list=PLmhKTejvqn...

It's really great that it's on YT because it allows you to listen to the podcast at a faster speed.
I really hope they make fixing the long standing Windows usability issues a priority rather than adding even more "features" that nobody wants or uses.
There was just a single failure due to the arithmetic bug (and they patched the software the day after it happened). The general bad performance of Patriot missiles in the gulf war was because shooting down ballistic missiles is hard, not because of a discrete bug.

Incidentally, although this is often described as a "floating point bug", the actual arithmetic was 24-bit fixed point. In order to convert from tenths of seconds to seconds they multiplied by 1/10 = 0.00011001100110011001100. If they had used a floating point format with a 24-bit mantissa, they could have multiplied by 2^-3 * 0.110011001100110011001100, giving 4 more bits of precision, which would probably have been enough to intercept the missile! :)

Also perhaps interestingly, the problem only arose because a software upgrade had introduced a new function to do the conversion more accurately, but didn't call it everywhere. If they had used the old inaccurate conversion throughout, the errors would mostly have cancelled out.

See http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
"We just think the best place for Terry is to be not here."
Here's how to avoid it: Use Juno, Via, or Lyft. They are all better than Uber, at least in NYC.
Steel wool works pretty well.
As long as she doesn't use the charger to power the dock (so only directly to the device itself) then she's probably okay.
You definitely shouldn't feel guilty about your "expansive reading", but I do prefer to not have claims I did not make assigned to me. :)

Your comment is rather empty without examples or elaboration. It also seems that all but one point is not actually related to cooperative vs. preemptive multitasking.

You claim that the reasons for cooperative multitasking being simple do not apply to Go code (from your previous post, I assume that you find them to apply to ECMAScript). However, you do not present any reasons for this. Would you mind elaborating?

Go is a little bit more magic than ECMAScript, but ECMAScript is for all intends and purposes a single-threaded language (Web workers exist, but they cannot share resources due to the memory problems it would create, and instead rely on a simple message passing mechanism). This makes it a very different beast from Go (read: simpler).

However, it is not very magic. You can basically just consider all I/O and synchronization primitives to be prefixed with "runtime.Gosched()", or the equivalent yielding function from other green thread implementations.

Elaboration of your comment about the difficulty of turning cooperative code into "correct code in the face of high concurrency" would be also nice. Some types of parallel code can be quite hairy to guarantee correctness of, but I don't see how this is related to cooperative vs. preemptive multitasking.

You are mentioning channels and actors as if that is mutually exclusive from the Go model, which I find odd considering that Go caters specifically to the use of channels and actors. They are also completely detached from the choice of multitasking model, and exist just fine in both preemptive and cooperative environments.

I do quite like the channel/actor model, but that is entirely unrelated to the discussion. I would also find the implication that all other primitives are not "sensible" to be a very, very large claim. And a broken one at that. :)
I have 1 Bitcoin therefore blockchain will succeed.
wall street is buying now from panic selling grandmothers that entered in December. it has always been like that in immature markets.
This again is market segmentation. When I was flying a lot as a management consultant, even when flying somewhere and back, the times mattered more to me than the airline so I'd often do 1-ways on different airlines and didn't care that it cost ~$1k 1-way for a domestic airline. Also often, I was hopping from place to place using 1-ways.
Depends where you look. [1] lists:

> USB terminal USB Type-C terminal Used for charging or for connecting to the Nintendo Switch dock.

As does the Japanese site[2]:

> USB Type-C™端子

[1] https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Nintendo-Switch/Specifications/Sp...

[2] https://www.nintendo.co.jp/hardware/switch/specs/
They are all home owners.
The delay and cost is a function of mandatory compliance and recourse, rather than anything to do with technology.
Some consoles are getting bricked since the latest Switch update because of this problem, that's why it gained visibility.
You heat up the grill real hot and then you use it normally. Heat kills most of the nasty stuff. Real men dont clean grills, or so I hear.
This hasn't been my experience at all. I have been using express pool basically every day to commute for months, and the price has always been between $5 and $8 for a 30-45 min ride (depending on traffic and how many people pool in the same car). Fare increases are pretty obviously correlated with how close to the peak rush hour window I request and things like rain (i.e. more demand)

What I did notice though is that prices can fluctuate plus or minus a dollar in a matter of minutes, so sometimes I can get a cheaper fare by simply waiting a couple of minutes (though that tends to only work if I'm not approaching peak rush hour).
Of course banks can do it better with the traditional technologies. They operate in a centralized, trusted and regulated environment. Their consensus algorithm is "settling disputes in courts".

And still, it takes up to 5 days to receive a payment from USA in the EU and the sender pays 40$ for the wire transfer.

The blockchain technologies will disrupt the banks themselves, because they are the intermediaries in this industry. I can receive the equivalent of $1 mil in BTC from oversea in less than 10 minutes and the sender pays fractions of a dollar in fees.

The banks will be in a tough position the more people accept payments for their services and products in BTC. We're not there yet, of course, but who knows where we'll be in 5-10-20 years.
Nice. Could you add google login so my students could save their work?
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Yeah, I agree it's a very interesting and promising project.

Hopefully this will be improved and then I would definitely make this my daily OS.
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It's like taking a loan using magic beans as collateral.
I bought one of these a year ago and it seems to do a pretty good job: https://grillbadger.com/

The bristles are a lot bigger than steel bristles, so if one did come off it would presumably be easier to notice in your food and likely less damaging than the stainless steel needles that come off of metal bristle brushes.

This one looks interesting as well: https://www.konabbqstore.com/products/safe-clean-grill-brush...

I also really like this idea: http://www.instructables.com/id/Quick-Bamboo-Skewer-BBQ-Brus...

But you would probably have to wear an oven mitt if you wanted to clean a really hot grill
governmemts are thinking of putting assets and laws on Blockchain, stock exchanges are waiting for scalability to start putting everything on the blockchain. Immutable government records already exist. Where do you base your argument?
On a related note, what are some reputable brands for USB-C adapters that actually do have proper implementation and quality assurance? Anker? UPTab? Belkin?
CTRL-N is apparently a shortcut for new? Nice thought but this runs into standard navigation supported in OS X and most Unixes of using CTRL-N to go down a line. Kind of hard wired for me to navigate text boxes using CTRL-N and CTRL-P so would recommend another shortcut.

Otherwise very neat!
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> I didn't know a janitor who thought that nurses or doctors didn't do valuable work (greatly more valuable than their own).

Much harder, no doubt. More valuable though… a good portion of that value comes from having a clean hospital to begin with.

(Not that I am not talking about market value, which is obviously much lower than that of doctors, thanks to the larger supply of janitors, and how much cheaper it is to train them.)
Lytro had announced at one point plans to open-source their viewer, but that never happened: https://web.archive.org/web/20180327231606/https://www.lytro...

As far as I've been able to tell, their hosting service generated online viewers and embeds server-side, rather than their desktop software generating it and uploading it to pictures.lytro, Facebook, or 500px (the supporting services). It won't even let you do that kind of export without logging into api.lytro.com first. (Their Desktop 5 software is a .NET app if anyone wants to try poking at it.)

After their hosting service shut down last year, I crawled every embed the Internet Archive had, and downloaded the additional JSON and JPEG assets necessary to restore the embeds. https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Lytro

Those were eventually added, so now any embeds the Wayback had before the shutdown should work again, e.g. http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/30/5949913/lytro-illum-review v. https://web.archive.org/web/20170317183900/http://www.thever...

It's unclear whether all the Lytro file formats (including their later standard "XRAW") have any sort of documentation. The earlier formats (from their pre-Illum camera) do, e.g. https://github.com/nrpatel/lfptools but not the later formats, which include camera calibration data.

The viewers on GitHub, e.g. https://github.com/damienfir/lytrogl and https://github.com/behnam/php-lytro are only for their earlier formats.
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This is why in the cyberpunk genre there are theese crazy hairstyles :D
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I got an offer from Lytro in 2012 but I turned it down to stay at Google, where I still work.

At the time, I considered Lytro because it had real, substantial technology behind it, and was not just some trivial social networking app. I turned it down because assuming a $1B exit, my shares would still not have been that much more than what I got from Google. Six years later, I am doing much better (more earnings, more vacation, and probably better work/life balance) than if I had joined Lytro.

Although I made the right decision in hindsight, I think about how things might have been different if I had accepted that offer. It really calls into question the dominant Silicon Valley culture and narrative that we should join startups and change the world with new technologies.
That's why I said "in the simplest form".
Hey guys!

Last month we launched Howler: AI-powered media outreach. So far Howler’s working really well for our users and were excited to make it better and better.

In doing so we’ve had to build out a comprehensive database of journalists that includes their name, email, and tags that represent what they’re interested in writing about (determined by what they’ve written about before, where they write, and what they’ve tweeted about). We have just about 500,000 journalists now.

Our goal is to perfect the matching of stories to journalists, helping startups get featured faster and helping journalists get less spam. Our tagging system is great this (and getting better), and we think it’s the right time for this database to be a standalone product.

While there are a few comparable services, they’re either a. too small (10k-100k contacts), b. outdated (making most of the data useless), or c. too niche (only TechCrunch emails).

In our experience with cold media outreach, we’ve found it to be a game of numbers. Assuming you’re only pitching to people interested in writing about stories similar to yours, around 1% - 2% on average will feature you. Given this, a database of 10k contacts isn’t very useful (especially when only a small number of the contacts are relevant).

The best strategy is to find as many relevant journalists as possible (a few thousand), and push cold email campaigns with a compelling story (but emails must be direct, not en masse spam––like sniping).

As always, we’ll be here all day to answer questions!

Check us out on PH here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/press-hunt

- Matt

P.S. Our goal is to launch 2 products a month for all of 2018. This is product #5 of the year!
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