skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm crazy but I feel like the US goes on this uppers/downers cycle. Of course I'm probably seeing patterns where there are none, but we had heroin in the seventies, cocaine/crack in the eighties, heroin was back in the 90s, meth in the 00s, heroin in the teens.
Um, but the STLport in r5 wasn't compatible with exceptions or RTTI. It says so in CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html
That and the tax revenue.

A drug lord can sustain his business with high margins because of the high price however they couldn't compete against a major corporation producing the same thing even with a higher end tax rate if it was legal.

It's the reason why tobacco and alcohol markets are largely dominated by legitimate companies, economies of scale, distribution etc are all in favour of the legal entity (which isn't to say some tobacco and alcohol aren't sold without the tax, nothing is perfect).

So legalising drugs is a double whammy, you save a massive expenditure and the war on drugs and increase your tax revenue and force drug cartels into competing with legitimate businesses they simply can't compete with.

If I was doing it I'd ring fence the revenue from taxation into treatment and education and put the savings on enforcement either back into the general tax pot or shift the focus onto things like sex trafficking.

If nothing else the War on Drugs we have now simply isn't working, it has to be worth trying something else at this point.
Usually with languages that are feature rich they can be plain library types.

With Go, they will keep adding special case after special case.
tl;dr: To put it one last way: if drugs were legal, the pharmaceutical industry would be free to iterate on making recreational drugs, that don't have the drawbacks of the things people currently make in back alleys.

The taboo truth is people do drugs because they are fun, and people want the drugs that are fun to do, and don't have negative health consequences. Many drugs are relatively safe to do (in small quantities) (or at least moreso than things like skydiving), provided drug purity.

Drugs that seriously harm health, are by and large things that people either get suckered into via the black market, or are things people turn to when they do not have access to safer alternatives.

And many of the negative health consequences and horrors of drug use, come from unpure drug quality, which in turn is a result of the illegal nature of drugs.

Let me put it this way: If it were legal to buy a non-addictive opiod and heroin, nearly 100% of people would choose the opiod. Out of pure self interest, people wouldn't choose the addictive substance, given a safer alternative.

Similarly, if people could choose between pure mdma, and meth, meth would nearly cease to exist.

But if you decide to use an opiod today, you're going to get a mix of heroin and all sorts of awful junk that you're going to pump into your veins. And if you buy mdma today, there's a huge chance there's going to be a lot of meth in there. Etc, etc, etc
Did you read your link? Ecuador was the one that shut him out and the questions were asked by a prosecutor from Ecuador.

>The questions were prepared by prosecutors in Sweden, where an arrest warrant for Mr. Assange was issued in 2010, but were posed by a prosecutor from Ecuador under an agreement the two countries made in August.

>“For some reason that I am not aware of, I am not on the list of approved persons that Ecuador has established,” Mr. Samuelsson told Radio Sweden.
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The thing is, I don't disagree with those parents' concerns. There's a lot of horrible horrible crap on the Internet, stuff that I don't want my child anywhere near. And if I wasn't tech savvy, having the government do it would probably sound like a good idea

However, enforcing a nation-state firewall which blocks stuff 'for our own good' – and records every aspect of our lives in the process – is not the right way to go about it.
From a standard Bayesian Optimisation approach, without having the need for in-depth knowledge into the relationship between the individual parameters and the overall performance, BO algorithms can be shown to converge on the global maximum of an application's configuration parameters (N>10) in significantly fewer than 1000 iterations, while also yielding large performance gains. This is of course, provided the choice of kernel and hyper parameters are a true representation of both the continuous and categorical configuration space.
ACM is kind of limiting though. You can only use it with 4 of AWS's services none of which is ec2 directly which limits use cases I would think.
> In general people buying electric vehicles in 2017 are buying them for non-economic reasons. They lose money. Hybrids are likely the best bang for your buck, and may remain that way even after Tesla ship their $36K competitor (since no other major metric in the equation changes, electricity is still very expensive, and gas very cheap).

That may be true in America. Here in Norway, fuel costs 1.7 euros/L; that is, $7/gallon. The calculation comes out rather different.
My toyota has lifetime trans fluid, which smart owners change every 100k. Chevy iirc was the 1st to try this in the corvette transaxle. It makes maint a lot harder if you keep a car more than a decade. No fluids additives can last that long. You will just end up replacing whole components instead of servicing them.

And all ecars have at least a differential, and many have gearsets, even if they do not shift. These are mostly heilical/hypoid style gears. That fluid uses shear additives that need to be replenished to abate wear. If you have not changed your trans/diff fluid in over 100k, now is the time. Your jeep, having a solid axle, is tremendously more simple and overbuilt than a normal car too. Extrapolating from that is not accurate.
>than the decision of two apparently major fans to report him to the police after comparing notes on his sexual behaviour

OTOH, it stretches my credulity that the decision lies to the actual fans, with no external motive/pressure on them.

>If the state wanted to railroad Assange, he'd have been in jail a lot quicker on much more straightforward charges

Yes, but character assassination works better even if you have no real charges. It even keeps working after/if one is cleared...
TLSA DNS records coupled with DNSSEC could eliminate the need for CAs but we still have a long way to go until we can rely on it.
Not sure how this works.

I have OCSP stapling turned on in Apache and Firefox wouldn't load my page when Let's Encrypt OCSP servers went down.

My monitoring shows that last stapled response had 4 days of validity left. So it seems that Apache immediately threw away cached OCSP responses.
Specially when we see which languages get the preview SDKs for all Google platforms and services.
It sounds like you are going through a very difficult time. I hope you can get help soon. In case you get down again, below is the website and phone number for the suicide prevention hotline:

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
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The world consumes 50 billion chickens a year.
> You ignore the procedural limitations imposed by Swedish law.

Can you clarify this? I'm honestly confused - the topic seems to be the refusal and then acceptance of an in-embassy interview. I could understand if the refusal was a procedural issue, but in that case why was it eventually accepted?
You don't have to conclude this since the prosecutor has spoken about it directly:

From https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/world/europe/julian-assan...

"“I can conclude, based on the evidence, that probable cause for this crime still exists,” she said on Friday, the deadline for prosecutors to respond to a court-ordered deadline in the case.

But prosecutors felt that they had no choice but to abandon the investigation because they had concluded that Ecuador would not cooperate, and because all other possibilities had been exhausted."
At that time gold would become just like plastic. Gold has value because it is rare and because it can not be forged.
People throw out legalization because they're used to the marijuana debate. But how do you legalize a drug like fentanyl? How do you pretend you're here to protect and serve when you legalize a drug that seems like it was designed to kill people in a single use? We need to rethink the laws, and have some effective changes lead by people who understand the problem and have nothing to gain financially. But there's never going to be carfentanil at Rite-Aid, and if there was, these cartels would compete. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem as simple as pot.
Same here. I really don't like people leering over my shoulder, and vice-versa. Additionally, I talk to people over the phone more than in person. My office isn't an open floor plan (thankfully). There's lots of rooms, and we're spread out. So, it's easier to ring someone up.

Also, any user issues that I need to investigate are done with Team Viewer. So, even though I'm in the office, most things are done remotely.
Improving community, social ties, and the economy reduces addictions.

The interior of the USA looks like post-Soviet-collapse Russia economically, and the way we've built cities and suburbs for the past 50 years has destroyed opportunities for beneficial community and social connection. Nothing will reduce addiction until those things are fixed. If heroin is unavailable people will go to prescription pills, alcohol, or even food, video games, etc.

Legalizing, taxing, and regulating drugs reduces crime, redirects money from criminals into law abiding enterprises and tax revenue that can be used to address the problems above, and allows the deployment of strategies to reduce the harm done by addiction.
For the downvoters:

Wikileaks weren't the originator of the Macron leaks. They were put up on pastebin anonymously.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/860577607670276096

Wikileaks investigated them to check the veracity of the contents but they weren't behind the leak or the ones who made it public.
What strikes me as most tragic about all this is that we've somehow forgotten that China is still our #1 strategic threat. At best, Russia is second-fiddle -- similar to the UK's function in NATO.

That may be intentional -- focus on Russia and avoid antagonizing China.
There were other ones to choose from.
The end of freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

And after the next terrorist attack, they'll say it wasn't enough of a lock-down.

Einstein was right: Human stupidity is infinite.
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Until they get popular.
Up in Germany
Yeah, seems like Apache handles OCSP server outages pretty poorly. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375334
Most sources I can find say that the vast majority of heroin in the US comes from Mexico and South America.
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So Assange should get special treatment? On what grounds? He was accused of rape, what if they decided after the interview to arrest him, should they ask nicely that he come along with them?
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> How does legalizing fix or reduce addictions?

It doesn't. It's partly an acknowledgement that, "It's really none of your business what people put in their own bodies."

You're implicitly saying, "I don't like the fact that you are addicted to X substance or action Y, so I think that gives me the moral justification to lock you in a literal cage for a very long time."

Legalizing drugs is about not putting people in jail for harming their own bodies and providing them with safer alternatives (IE, actual heroin instead of fentanyl, which is why we have this so-called "epidemic")

And for the record, never tried heroin, never will, it ruins lives. But I don't think we need to be putting people in jail for it. In fact, this only makes it worse.

Btw, ever wonder how much fentanyl it takes to kill you vs the amount of heroin? https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/fentanyl-heroin-photo-fa... That's what's driving the huge number of deaths from "heroin".
I don't think anyone anywhere has seriously claimed he's a criminal because he was rude.
It all depends on your precise requirements and aesthetic preferences. I personally find TLA+ more elegant than any other high-level specification language, and very few projects actually require end-to-end verification. Those that do, must be kept small as we simply do not have the ability to do end-to-end verification of large software, no matter what tools or combination of tools we have. We don't even have a theoretical breakthrough to point us at a likely method of achieving that. If you need end-to-end verification, you must accept that the software (or component) verified will be small, and the process arduous. Then again, if you really need end-to-end verification, you must be ready to make that sacrifice. Moreover, to the best of my knowledge, no significant end-to-end verification was ever done in industry without close assistance from expert researchers, except in specialized niches where model-checkers give you sufficient coverage.

Supplementing a high-level verification with code-level specification tools is always possible, but, again, everything here is a matter of the required confidence vs. affordable cost. Additional confidence always comes with additional cost.
I'm currently evaluating using create-react-app. Could someone please confirm the following for me:
(1) Without ejecting, it's not possible to use 'styled-components'
(2) Would need to eject to do server-side rendering
(3) There's no hot module reloading

Not saying these things are deal breakers at all, create-react-app is really great. Just making sure I've got my pros and cons list correct! Thanks for any help
Yes, you are getting it ;-) So currently Unreal allows you pretty fast development using some blueprints. Now what is missing is some AI tool that understands a bit of context. Imagine you want to animate some character there. You can stand in front of a webcam and tell UE that the character should move like this, and perform the move. Then you review it, you see you really don't look nice on video, but the basics of movement are there. So you say "do it like this, but more artistic", and your AI will try to figure out what that does mean from some pre-trained "artistic" movements, and you can pick from the results; then you'd like to beautify it as you are out of shape and generally don't look like a model, so AI takes some pre-trained model info and launches a GAN to construct 3D body that looks like a "model" but follows your movements. Treat it as an advanced "pocket knife" that can automate some higher cognitive functions in the sense like "computer is a bicycle for our mind", and current AI allows you to do more complex tasks automatically. This will get better presumably, so each new iteration can do better than before.
I'm in Canada using Android. I don't see Japanese option yet. My app is up-to-date it seems.
>actually undermines the Assangist theory that actually the whole thing was a conspiracy by the authorities that his accusers had no agency in.

The thing being a conspiracy and his accusers having agency in it, are orthogonal matters.
I incorrectly worded my post. And placed too much focus on the individual, when I was as attempting to stress the individual AS A software developer.

But nonetheless I do agree with the final output.

An individual is largely incapable of doing anything ALONE. Only thought organized and mass action are things accomplished on societal scale.

Change requires work... this is physics. A large change requires a lot of work. If your force is too small (an individual). You may never over come friction.

If you want social change, you need organization.
Why did you switch away from nginx?
Opium production was virtually eliminated in Afghanistan before we invaded, by the Taliban, whom we thanked for doing such great work. We also granted Afghanistan $43 million to help farmers no longer profiting off poppy fields through a drought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-pop...
Are you talking about json-to-xml and xml-to-json?

From the XSLT spec [0]:

"Converts an XML tree, whose format corresponds to the XML representation of JSON defined in this specification, into a string conforming to the JSON grammar"

It can't take an arbitrary XML document and turn it into JSON, it can only take XML documents that conform to a specific format.

You can safely round-trip from JSON to XML and back to JSON. That's trivial because JSONs feature set is a subset of XMLs.

What you can't safely do is round-trip from arbitrary XML to JSON and back to XML. That's because, as the parent said, there are features in XML that don't exist in JSON. That means you are forced to find a way to encode it using the features you do have, but then you can't tell your encoding apart from valid values.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#func-xml-to-json
Legalize and tax/regulate production, purity, etc. Outlaw all marketing.

Invest all profits in the following:

1) Ensuring all children have an attuned attachment figure / parents have free (or even incentivized) training to learn how to attune emotionally.

2) Psychedelic therapy centers to help heal the underlying addiction along with support and integration.

3) Community gardens / organic food production & affordable housing.
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Just search around in HN for, say, "Yahoo core business", in the last couple of years.

Here's one story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/12/03/yaho...
Up in holland, right now.
For me, and from a mechanical perspective, the only truly difficult part of learning Japanese was kanji. The really annoying part is that Japanese doesn't use spaces and instead relies on transitions between the three writing systems to separate words, so even if you can get a hold of a page all in hiragana, it'll look like a wall of text. I still don't recognize much kanji, so for the most part I can only understand written Japanese after glossing it in WWWJDIC [0]. Furigana is a life saver.

Spoken Japanese, though, is easy. Well, at least from a mechanical standpoint. Japanese grammar is dirt simple and minimalistic, and I found it shockingly easy to learn. However, as someone else mentioned elsewhere in the post, Japanese is very big on inferring as much as possible from context and only speaking what can't be inferred. It can honestly be a chore just to determine whether a sentence is in the first person, the second person, or the third person, because Japanese is so aggressively pro-drop that most of the time, that information has to be inferred from context. And if you intend on speaking Japanese yourself, there's a lot of subtlety when it comes to picking the appropriate register to speak in. Use the wrong verb endings or the wrong pronouns (in this case, I'm glad Japanese is so aggressively pro-drop), and you'll stick your foot in your mouth.

[0] Most people use it as a dictionary, but it also has a really awesome glossing mode: http://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?9T
I would have been more interested to read a story that told me which software should be cheaper now that it doesn't have to bake the MP3 license into its selling price.
I don't fully agree with everything you say, but it's close enough along the lines of what I'm saying that I can't disagree with it either. It's a complicated thing with a huge gray area surrounding it, there's room for multiple trains of thought that can be reasonably correct. I think that's a fact many people tend to forget when discussing such matters.

But I would say that the mindset hasn't changed per se, but I think it's starting to get there.
I think you only have to compare the Prohibition America with today's America to understand why the current system is much more preferable to former.

When alcohol was illegal, we had gangsters like Al Capone. They built their empires and profited massively from illicit activity (not just smuggling but also violent crimes) at the expense of the American government and people. They also didn't pay a single dime in taxes despite all the profit they made.

The parallel to that is today's war on drugs and the drug lords it has given rise to.
I understand that. But I think it's better to let the programmer decide whether their parameters are mutable or not. Then you don't have to compromise.
> They challenge the long-held idea that people on the internet are capable of dealing with things they don't like...

However long-held those beliefs are, they pale into insignificance in the context of the nation state. The internet is not its own realm. It exists in the context of nation states. Nation states have laws that the people of the nation should obey or suffer the consequences.

> ...the government wouldn't like them to see

Britain has a long history of authoritarianism, enacted through its class system. Successive governments promote authoritarian policies because it appeals to the conservative majority.

> They also remove the need for there to be a victim of a crime.

Could you explain what you mean by this?

> I see a lot of discourse on the internet in the same way it happens in a pub. There are very little boundaries to the beliefs someone admits to sharing, and presence of a regulator to check that nothing illegal is being discussed doesn't sit right.

I think a lot of people behave as though the discourse they engage in on social media is as if it is in the pub, but it is simply not the case. The existing laws regarding on-line communication encompass anything that is 'published' online and people do get prosecuted.
In my experience building the product for my company, FareHarbor, what you describe -- steady growth driven by ever-improving software and hard-working sales -- is more familiar. (This is in the SaaS / SMB world).

We launched with just enough features to serve a single client. For a while, each new client needed something more. After something like a year we were able to onboard some new clients without changing anything about the software -- that's when I felt confident we were onto something. Nevertheless we didn't suddenly experience a deluge of customers, phones ringing off the hook. Perhaps sales got easier, onboarding got easier, people had heard of us already. But even as we were growing by several times each year, we were still "slogging it out", doing the work.
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It is obvious to me that VPNs will also be declared illegal (for users and proprietors) in short order. This will be in addition to ISPs being asked to block VPN connections and log and report any VPN connection attempts along with the associated user account. If your organisation has a 'legitimate' requirement for using VPN, your VPN software will have to use some government-backed key escrow where they can decrypt the traffic, for "National security reasons".
I am.

Lots of us about, mostly work in Banking.
Kotlin is a smart subset of Scala.

Scala did a lot of things that pushed mainstream programming forward, but it's also crapped up with a lot of detritus, ideas that didn't work out, and ideas that were always obviously bad.
but we don't get the hero that we need. Kotlin is the hero we deserve...
Skydiving is actually fairly safe, see http://www.uspa.org/facts-faqs/safety for stats. There were 0.0061 fatalities per 1000 jumps in 2015 .
>wrong. typescript is vastly more popular than flow.

Irrelevant, as both are still niche.