skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Etsy’s fundamental value proposition is ill defined and hard to define, and therefore hard to enforce.
Last I checked, server-side Rust usage at Dropbox is reserved for the very bottom of the stack, for the bits that are performance-sensitive enough that the alternative would have demanded they be written in C++. Apparently there's a significant amount of Rust in Dropbox's Windows client as well, though I don't know the story there...
Crashy Android apps will get downranked in the Google Play Store
I'd love to have an alternative to ChargePoint for charging my Tesla at airports. It takes multiple minutes of diddling around with their app to make their charger's relay contacts close. They have reviews within their app, wherein people report which of their chargers usually work, which sometimes work, and which never work. In no case is the actual power faulty -- it's their monetization strategy that fails to tough-luck.

Back in the early 80s, I spent part of a summer in a slate-roofed cottage in Wales. The cottage had a box in which you had to insert a coin to turn on the electricity. Like, if you wanted to cook or watch TV that night you had to insert a shilling coin and turn a knob and --- kerchunk --- you'd have electricity until you'd used up your 1d worth of kilowatt-hours and then --- kerchunk --- you were a savage again.

Somehow, paying for electricity at each act of consumption feels bad. Like paying for toilets.

Tesla got it right. I paid $100,000 for the car -- I want hassle-free electricity, thanks.
> Of course there are wild honeybees.

Huh.

For me, the word "honey" in front of the word "bee" indicates a function it is performing for humans. If that's the case, then well, you can't have a "wild honey bee;" it'd be self-contradictory. It'd be like talking about a "wild milk cow" or a "wild show dog" or a "wild support animal."

It just sounds... off.

So, no, I didn't think you could have wild honey bees. You seem pretty certain I'm wrong though, so I'm thinking it over.

Also, n.b., maybe the confusion is partly about "wild" vs. "feral?"

http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-feral-an...

Maybe you and I just use a few of these words in radically incompatible ways.

> It's highly unlikely that GP cannot tell the difference between a bumble bee and a honey bee.

It honestly wasn't very clear.

CCD is one of those topics where lay people and especially journalists get really confused or possibly just lazy about what bees are relevant to the conversation. So I took tp's comment way back as noting that we're mainly talking about domestic bees here, as a shot at focusing the discussion. He got a response about random bees found in parks, which, what with the comparison to chickens especially, seemed either sarcastic and missing the point or just deeply confused.

So I started at the lowest possible level of confusion and decided we could work up from there if necessary. Maybe I should have been more charitable to start, but I didn't want to risk another detour because we skipped too many steps ahead, which seemed to be the exact problem the first time.

Maybe the comment was literally just expressing excitement at the possibility that the apis seen in parks are related to backyard cultivation, and I read it completely the wrong way.
Not mention the tariff. The amount of power consumed might put you in the industrial consumption category.
Same could be said about feudalism and agriculture. And they did exist.

There will always be these monopolistic business practices and there is nothing much we could do about it.
Creator here — thanks for posting our project! For more info, check out my Medium announcement post here: https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide... :)

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I thought it looked like snakeskin. And then wondered about evolutionary adaptation, i.e. making it harder for predators to accurately see where the snake is.
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There is also LASS[1] for Common Lisp. You use it either as a library for generating CSS, or as a standalone preprocessor.

[1]: https://github.com/Shinmera/LASS
I think it is common knowledge that banks use money to invest, lend to others for profit and so on. So no, not everyone could take it out at once as it would crash the bank.

I guess you could say that they hold your $2000 most times, but at times they use it for something else and are in debt to you.

I don't think on the user-level it is complicated at all. You can literally go to a bank, have them create your account and give them physical money. Then take it out.
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Does rust gurantee data race free code?
Expecting every single command-line application to support different colour schemes for colorblind people is insane, not because the effort it worthless, but you are asking it to be spent on the wrong level of abstraction.

I know that Gnome Terminal supports[1] different colour schemes which you can customise, and I think this is the point where it should be implemented at.

[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/bw0y7.png
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Most Bitcoin wallets give users some control on how much they want to pay in fees.
That doesn't seem to be a very helpful point of view. You also didn't support it in any way. Would you take me saying the reverse without requesting evidence for that opinion? e.g.

There is a coalition of gun rights people. Some of them want absolutely no restrictions whatsoever. Some of them are accepting of some controls on certain types of guns. The ones that are accepting of certain types of controls don't appear to object to shutting down any control of guns. If they do object it's not a priority and they're politically irrelevant.

Is it possible your view on this is colored by the narrative that's been presented by people with a vested interest? It wouldn't be the first time that a loud minority controlled a narrative and thus the issue. It's easy to believe there are no moderates, or they constitute a minority, if both sides think the other side is unreasonable and reaching too far, as that can cause people to vote against the perceived agenda of the other side rather than for what they themselves really want.
Perhaps not surprisingly there's a just as large cohort of people who love how GUIs are defined in desktop and mobile applications and despise CSS. I've seen someone go so far as to redefine the entire browser rendering system, drawing every button and control onto one big HTML canvas element.

They're very different ways of building a UI, and it's hard to find people with a ton of experience in both to provide perspective, much less an answer as to which is 'better'.
5 things everyone gets wrong about artificial intelligence
Here is a study of 12 diseases correlated with glyphosate, it is not official as in a published journal, but given that even pubmed states there are not enough toxicity studies, that most safety papers are not independently funded, and scientists who dare to say the contrary are shut down, I rather be more cautious than sorry: https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/glyphosate/NancySwanson....
IdTech #2 (Quake 2 engine) redesigned for a 16MHz Atari Falcon / 1992
So strange to me. I've had Vicodin prescribed a few times, and never felt it did much of anything.
XHTML hyper here.

Had the browsers properly adopted XHTML and the accompanying standards, and today we could already enjoy something like XAML on the browser instead of having only Chrome supporting WebComponents with workarounds like ShadowDOM to preserve local changes.
They've done this for years. The US believe so much in globalisation they refuse to do anything.
> It’s easy to be productive in Go.

Hum, I'm not sure what this means. Is it saying go is a productice language, or just that you'll master go quickly and reach peek go productivity quickly?
Mobile App Icon: Beyond a Design, It’s a Product Identity
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/ACSwamp2010.jpg got me. But there's a catch: it only works when you scroll. So you have to go to http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html and scroll down till you see it. It looks bizarre.
> In contrast human directed genetic modification often changes a single gene

Even CRISPR-CAS9 is not perfect and introduces a lot of unwanted genetic changes when used. Further the big advantage of GM compared with selective breeding is that you can inject Transgenes. This makes them totally incomparable.
Because the way of native GUI programming is much more productive than the mess of trying to make piles of <div>, <span> and tags designed for text like <li> to do something meaningful.
That's a claim of the durability of the data, or the odds that a chunk of data will be lost in a year.

They calculate this through the odds that a single node fails, and then multiplying that odd out through all replicas. This covers the most easily quantifiable failure mode.

Obviously the real odds are somewhat higher when you consider that a rogue admin, malicious actor, or buggy code could delete multiple instances of replicated data at once. There's no way to estimate these odds though, and really they don't matter - they're big enough events that they could spell the end of Dropbox if they happened.
> She talked at GopherCon 2017 about

Ya'll too young to remember OG Gopher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
Shell scripts break. If it's not a parity with ls(1), the output and arguments won't be compatible.

I forgot to add: Having colors / fancy output when you just want to pipe information around the shell is of no value.

IMO it goes against the spirit of what commands like ls are meant to do, and the behavior exa provides is better placed, and already done well, via shell configuration (e.g. oh-my-zsh, presto, pure)
I don't know if it makes sense to cite India as an example given a rather large social preference for Tech and Engineering (and Medical Science) to begin with.
What do you work on that does that? I'd love to learn more. zain at za1 dot co
> I do not see why one has to use a machine.

One reason is that Americans vote a lot more than Swedes. Here in California I have probably ~100 elections to vote in for each I had in Sweden.
After 2 decades browsers are finally evolving to add the icing themselves:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
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Lol, this is bullshit. Just read their ToS and tell me these "services" aren't a joke...
Blue and gold?? Surely it should be blue and black or white and gold?
The video linked by kylequest below [1] speaks about durability, not reliability:
"Create a system that provides annual data DURABILITY of 99.9999999999. Create a system with availability of over 99.99%"

[1] https://youtu.be/5doOcaMXx08?t=220
I think this makes sense. If they can get it instantly without pain there is no incentive to upgrade. Having to wait is extremely annoying.

A dating website I used to use does something similar. It makes guys wait 10 minutes between each message while girls can send all they want. I can imagine this works really well because even I considered purchasing it, and I never purchase such stuff.
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Have to say -- it's looking real good otherwise. Cool scifi fonts and colors, awesome by default. Apparently it also skips systemd and pulseaudio -- a big plus, a big plus indeed.
Yeah, I also suspect this may be it. Cryptocurrency will be useful to consumers 'directly' in exactly the same sense that linux is useful to consumers 'directly' - it runs behind practically every service they touch every day.

The fact that many won't need to know or care that's the case, what it is, how it works, may be similarly irrelevant.
How Britain fell out of love with the free market
GOTO 2017 • Feature Branches and Toggles in a Post-GitHub World
Right. And if both of you are authenticated on HN, you don't need to know anything else about them. That is, anyway, if it's enough to know them by their HN username.
An example of speech that is actually illegal in the U.S. -- saying "[The President] ought to be killed. It is a wonder some one has not done it already. If I had an opportunity, I would do it myself." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_t...
Similar device was used in the sci-fi novel Snow Crash. It appeared like a black and white image of static but in fact contained a subliminal message which tapped into some subconscious low-level cognitive functions of the brain. Just by looking at it, it reprogrammed the victim's brain and made them into a mindless zombie.
Since pay is high in the bay area, I have a couple of nice cars.

Thankfully the climate is outstanding so I don't even need A/C.
> A man walked into a meeting with a fent sucker in his mouth...You can buy fentanyl straight from China in a properly wrapped packet.

Talking about OTFC lollipops? You can get those in the mail from China? I'm guessing these are disjoint cases.

> Dosage is the problem, mixing dry is not easy, hence the street deaths.

I feel like the bad rap it gets is mostly about dosage, ultimately it is the market at work despite the law, producing ever more potent and compact (concealable) fixes as customers demand. If caffeine were a controlled substance, people would buy it more often in the (hazardously potent) powdered form. When booze was prohibited, it was regularly distributed in 180/190 proof.

The demand is the part you can improve, the supply is the part you think you can solve.
If you are going to detect Google fraud, you should use Google tools to do it!
He's also very friendly on his Facebook account. He's got quite a few fans there.
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I'm having trouble discerning how your comment relates to what I am saying. It doesn't appear to negate any point that I am making.
Bitcoin Cash isn't the only altcoin. It's just a recent popular one that forked from Bitcoin's blockchain history.
I'm a supporter of the original Etsy vision and company... but.. how, exactly, is this petition supposed to change the company's direction? The company IPO'd. These changes reflects the new owners, investors, and their vision is a niche Amazon competitor.

When the company has been brought to market, cut up and sold as stocks, when the CEO + CTO have left and 20% of the staff have already been laid off - the battle is over.

The software doesn't seem revolutionary or deeply technical, maybe it's time to regroup as a competitor? By no means easy - but certainly more actionable than a nebulous unanswered petition.
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Creator here — thanks for posting our project! For more info, check out my Medium announcement post here: https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide.... :)
Perfect! Put a few tons of carbon in the air pointlessly calculating hashes to mine *coins, and then use those e-coins to charge your electric car.

This uses Ethereum so when they eventually move to proof-of-stake I'll mostly retract my scorn, but for now I stand by this being counterproductive and dumb.
https://vimeo.com/118342272
Here is a talk by Jamie Turner of Dropbox about where Rust is used: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/

(I work at Dropbox)
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For those interested in more info on this, it's called Temperature Lag. There's also the related phenomenon of Seasonal Lag, which is where the hottest part of the year comes somewhat after the period of maximum solar radiation, not during it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diurnal_temperature_variation#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_lag
It has [ ] nothing where a garbage collector would be. ML is beautiful language. I am not trying to get anyone to stop speaking their language of choice, but I am trying to get people who need to do systems-y things to use Rust. There are more similarities between the Rust programmer and the OCaml programmer than there are differences.
You could at least buy generic glyphosate and not fund them. The generics tend not to have the modern cocktails of other chemicals that are suspect.
These illusions must be bugs in our image perception hardware that evolution hasn't sorted out for some reason.

It would be interesting to know if some people don't get fooled by them, and if so how they're different in other ways.

Also, do other species react like we do? How do you design an experiment for that?

Finally, I wonder if this can be used practically. Some kind of camouflage maybe?
It doesn't always work that way.

Anecdotally - I've worked as a programmer since 2001 and my best (or at least one of the best) managers was a former restauranteur who never worked in software before.
But why is there a blockchain?

Why not just charge people?

Crytocurrencies both have large advantages AND disadvantages.

The advantage is that it is a decentralized, censorship resist currency. But if you don't care about the decentralized part of it, then there is no point. Just use a credit card.
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just like this link which is unreadable (on text webbrowser) you mean that knowledge should be for some people, not for all.
Why? I only glanced over it, but it reads like a run of the mill ToS.
It depends on how "mainstream" bitcoin gets. Lots of commentators use the current total value of various liquid asset markets, such as gold or M1 money supply, as a rough idea of the market cap bitcoin could grow to.

Taking gold as an example, the ten largest central banks hold a total of about 33,000 tonnes of gold, worth about $1.6 trillion. If bitcoin could cut into, say, one quarter of that, it implies a market cap of $400 billion, or a price of about USD 20,000 per BTC. (Of course, there are good arguments to be made that central banks will never use bitcoin as a reserve asset like gold, but this just shows one example of a rough reckoning for bitcoin's value.)

The price forecasts get more zany & bullish the larger the market you look at, and the larger share you assume bitcoin will take. I personally view it as an option on the potential creation of a new monetary order (with all the risks implied in option ownership). The more that governments and banks use their control over money to dictate the financial lives of their denizens and depositors, the better bitcoin will do.
Bank of America also puts carbon in the air in order to make your debit card work. Those offices cost a lot of money, resources, and carbon in order to keep the lights on and make those databases work.

How are crypto-currencies any different than that?
Go and Rust are not competing for same space. They are different language for different purposes.
> because no-one will be removing /bin/ls with exa installed.

Why not? I would.
On HN we have a higher standard for comments than this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

I'm not a mod, but three out of your five comments contain the word "shit," and one of the five was flagged. HN has a lot to offer, but only if you put effort into it.

EDIT: Just to clarify, it's fine to call out something as bullshit, but you have to justify your reasoning. Ideally it wouldn't be so emotional, but an informative comment is valuable regardless of the clothes it wears. E.g. if you dig into the ToS and highlight clauses that illustrate why it's bullshit, that would be useful.
> International payments

When was the last time you made an international payment? I never made a payment outside of the EU and inside the EU I already have free wire transfers. For most people this is not interesting.

> unbanked/underbanked

You have the right to a bank account in the EU.

> Allowing merchants to save 2% in credit card fees

Currently Bitcoin is more expensive for typical transactions. And there's direct debit which is practically free at least here in Germany.
I'm not familiar with how billing for Tesla's chargers work, except that some of the high end models include free charging (or at least they used to). Are you saying the electricity should be free, or simply that you prefer to pay monthly based on usage?

This startup seems like a stepping stone to me. Eventually you should be able to define limits (max $/kWh, min charge rate, min time available, max distance) and the app should just show you available stations. Billing can happen automatically.
Yes, if you stick to safe Rust.
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This effect is kind of similar to what makes subpixel font rendering look horrible when the wrong LCD subpixel order is selected. Or why text looks jaggy on pentile displays, especially while scrolling.
Focussing on the negative gray color in between circles gives it away. Still requires extreme focus to figure out the spiral.
This explains pretty well: https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/nomicon/races.html
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people like you are going to bring back blasphemy laws. it's alarming to me how common your sentiment has become.
Nope, that's the good thing about gold: you cannot fork it, it's limited, it has chemical and physical value, it cannot artificially inflate, like paper or digital money.

That's why wall street got off gold .
I think it's only slightly ambiguous. It doesn't seem to be making a claim about mastering go or peak go productivity. It just says it's easy to be productive (not maximally productive, just "productive"). Which seems to be borne out by the huge amount of new code written in go just in the past few years.
I find it quite usefull at times. One thing I really like are the settings you get while taking a screenshot, when you press the shortcut for the area screenshot tool you have the option to change the destination or copy it to clipboard, you can also change it to another tool. I’m not sure if that was possible before.
along with workers being more mobile causing family units to fall apart.

"Millennials are moving significantly less than earlier generations of young adults."

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/13/americans-ar...
Real Talk: my skills have atrophied, wat do?
I'm a dummy for letting this happen, I know. I work and stress a lot about work stuff but maybe I'm lazy (I just know the last thing I want to do when I get home is think about studying)

My CSS skills are virtually non-existant, CS101 data structures a little hazy, when I hear about observable sagas in Redux stores on a todomvc hosted on etc etc I immediately think "what new goddamned thing and its politics do I need to keep track of and have opinions about is it now?"

Has anyone ever let themselves get to this situation (skills atrophied, focused too much in work stuff but missed stuff around you)?

If you did, how did you get your mojo back and fall in love with building again and just learn for it's own sake?

Curious.
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It would also cost a lot more.
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Bank of America processes orders of magnitude more transactions per ton of CO2 emissions.
Heat index in northern VA was 105 a few weeks ago.

You might not die but you might want to.
Because it seems these days projects tend to attract funds just because of mentioning the word 'blockchain'.
This conversation has been done a million times, and I don't feel like going through the motions again when it's so easy to look up.

The fact is it is different

(1) fundamentally, because BoA would use 0 electricity if it could, while it will ALWAYS be worthwhile to spend a certain fraction of Bitcoin's transaction volume on electricity in order to capture transaction fees, and that will ALWAYS involve pointless hashes. GPU /ASIC efficiency gains will only drive more miners to mine.

(2) obviously, just look at the comment chains on previous posts for numbers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751971); bitcoin burns a stupid amount of electricity to process a minute fraction of BoA's volume