skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been a long time coinbase user. I have been very unhappy with their support. I have been unable to add additional funds to buy both additional ethereum and btc from their site, even after contacting them repeatedly about this ... but never getting a reply. I did multiple identity verifications and connected bank and credit cards. No luck in being able to transact properly. Bitcoin Cash was a forcing function and last week I sent my funds to a private wallet. I am also buying additional crypto on Gemini and other exchanges. To give an idea of my frustration with them, I first tried to buy ethereum thru then at $40. I gave them benefit of the doubt in solving my issues ... and waited and waited. By the time I realized that they were not listening to me, ether had shot up to more than $200. I ultimately bought on Gemini. This was their business to lose and they did exactly that.
> This smacks of Mozilla misjudging the market again and wasting a lot of time and money on things that just won't work at scale.

It's an experiment, part of the Test Pilot program. A relatively low-budget MVP to test the waters and see if the concept is worth exploring. If not, the experiment ends and the organization moves on.

The program exists precisely to counter your concerns here while ensuring Mozilla can continue to innovate in new areas.
Getting Started with GraphQL
export TIME_STYLE=long-iso

I found this option whilst investigating why most locales were honoured, but en_GB still gave American (backwards) dates.

I also have this, for the thousands-comma display:

export BLOCK_SIZE="'1"

$ ls -on i*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1001 1,335 2017-06-16 14:31 icon-shelters.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1,633,946 2016-11-07 14:50 insects.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1,445,837 2016-11-18 10:32 ix

Block size: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Bloc...

Time style: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Form...
Please don't accuse other users of astroturfing or shilling unless you have evidence. It degrades discussion, badly. In this case it even crosses into personal attack, which we ban people for, so please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14925431 and marked it off-topic.
bless the good PM's, they're worth their weight in gold. The mediocre ones might as well not be there. The bad ones are actively destructive

The same is true of recruiters
it's the same row of numerals, where's the difference?
I use ChargePoint a lot. If the charger isn't broken, it takes significantly less time than dealing with a gas station. 9 times out of 10, I know ahead of time whether a charger is broken or busy.

As for their monetization strategy, I think chargers should require a maintenance contract and that that should be built into the kWh cost. Pay at the pump. I do not like to see free chargers because everyone uses them and no one maintains them because they're not getting paid for.

A buck an hour should be the minimum for 6kWh L2. $5/hr if you leave it 30 minutes past full.

As for the blockchain idea, this seems strange. Too much solution for not enough problem. I don't want to use some random person's L2 in a neighborhood. I could imagine an emergency thing but that's about it.
Please don't respond to someone else breaking the HN guidelines by breaking them yourself? We all need to take care of this place or it will get way less interesting and eventually not be worth preserving.
And the credit card charges. I am sure people driving uber would not mind keeping the 3% to themselves.
People with different skin color have vastly different life experiences which leads to diversity of thought.
How is this unsettling? They didn't develop Fentanyl to make people's lives worse, they developed it to relieve severe pain and prevent dangerous instinctive reactions to surgeries like these; most of the time that Fentanyl is used, it is used for the right reasons.

The oral version is purportedly amazing, it is basically an off switch for pain, exactly the sort of thing you'll want if some day you get shot or stabbed, or fall over onto a hard surface and break something.

Sometimes the brain is not well equipped to handle exceptional scenarios which none of our ancestors would have survived anyway. For those scenarios, there's Fentanyl.
Original post from 3 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913
After you are on these drugs, you are no longer able to make free choices.

I don't buy it. I heard exactly this being said about cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, ecstasy, and yes marijuana in the 80s. Reefer Madness was not a parody movie, and let's not forget that pot is still officially Schedule I in the US.

I'm not saying that all drugs require equal amounts of care - carfentanyl sounds more like a chemical weapon, and for that reason alone should be heavily regulated. But folks tend to overreact with panic every single time a new drug comes up, and I've watched this excuse ("no longer able to make free choices!") used to justify ratcheting up the drug war every time.

This particular claim doesn't pass the obvious sniff test - if fentanyl was so compulsive, heroin addicts would be seeking it out instead of trying to avoid it. Yeah, these powerful new drugs are killing people - and we should lay the blame square where it belongs, with the prohibition of milder alternatives.
Unfortunately, clang-cl only supports a very limited subset of CL's flags. And if you want to talk to clang directly you have to go through an extra layer of indirection by using -Xclang -flag. By using clang directly you get the whole power of clang without arbitrary limitations (and as a bonus you can now compiler your software on mac and linux).
According to Wikipedia, remittances were in excess of $560 billion last year, faciliated by 250 million migrant workers[1].

You and I are not the user demographic ;)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance
My dad has Bitcoin and sends me Cryptocurrency articles.

My girlfriends father was an investment banker during the 80s and is long on gold. Every time I see him he asks me about Bitcoin.

Note: I am not a crypto expert.
Not true anymore, I've updated the repository and article to work with 2017.
Haven't heard from them yet. After mailing him twice.
Through no fault of their own, white people will continue enjoying privileges in many other areas of society.

Discrimination, past and present, reverberates in complex ways. I can't say I'm a supporter of race-based affirmative action. OTOH, all of the criticisms ring hollow to me when considering the reality of prejudice in society. Consider a black guy who's never going to college (because reasons), staring at the dimmest of job prospects imaginable; he might just end up being hired as a consequence of a Harvard-educated CEO (black or non-black) being more comfortable hiring him.

My sense is that our history of slavery, along w/ countless other aspects of our culture, have left us with a table full of shit sandwiches. Some will taste better than others, but they're all shit. Pointing out that they're shit isn't constructive.
The same is true of programmers.
Oh and file sizes should all use the same unit for easy comparing (maybe default to MB).
I use an external keyboard most of the time, so the TB goes unused.

I've customised it with BetterTouchTool so at least I have some useful shortcuts the few times I'm on the road, but I wouldn't cry if it went away. It's one of those things I would have loved when I was 16, but grown-up me doesn't see much value in it. The fact that I cannot reliably reach a button without looking at it, basically disqualifies it for any keyboard poweruser, I think.

Touch-ID addition is wonderful, no complaints there (beyond a bit of extra paranoia).

The rest of the keyboard is a love-hate thing. I find myself banging on it, the travel is really short, especially for people using mechanical or simil-mechanical keyboards; and it's pretty noisy compared to the previous one. I also hate the collapsed arrow keys.

To be honest I bought this MBP only because I found it uber-discounted in Japan. The power upgrade is nice, but everything else (the TB, the dongles, even the outsized trackpad) is change for change's sake, and it makes the experience overall worse compared to the previous model, IMHO.
Not true anymore, I've updated the repository and article to work with 2017. Visual Studio 2017 doesn't require the -fms-compatibility flags anymore, in fact, it refuses to compile if you specify them. Since I was expecting these to be required I found no way to compile them.
Gobo is a cool district - one of my favorites. I used it for a while in college with good success. Back then I recall the process for packaging being a little rough.

I should give it another go to see how it has evolved.
Who’s got the ‘best’ mobile network in the US?
And I, of course, can't access it at all :)
You're indirectly making international payments when you buy imported goods from local shops. When a single global currency is commonplace, you'll likely start doing it directly. The markets already exist in eBay, Alibaba, and Taobao.
Maybe you developed intuition for one but not the other. It's not at all obvious what kind of difference you perceived.
Cryptocurrency enthusiast here.

This is exactly the sort of nonsense that people are doing that makes other people think the entire cryptocurrency community is a joke. Obviously there is no benefit to having this on a blockchain here. You can just pay the charging station.

I made a comment the other day that there is very little overlap between cryptocurrency enthusiasts and people who want to blockchain-all-the-things. It was heavily downvoted and I suspect people didn't believe me, so I'm going to keep repeating it until people believe me :)

Don't write off cryptocurrency just because of nonsense like this. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero (and a small handful of other coins) are genuinely worthwhile projects.
The recent HN thread about reddit working on a redesign would be relevant in relation to that statement. What circle are reddit users? The site is a link aggregator with comments which many users will argue works well and has been successful because of its apparent lack of styling. Yet many other users complain that it isn't 'pretty' enough. But the point of the site, the links and comments are there either way.

One thing many designers and programmers alike struggle with are who their circle/users are and what they want. The problem, if it is a problem, with bootstrap is that it makes everything look the same. It's both smart and lazy from a web-dev's pov.
A SemVer Example
Yep. It might not be zero-sum.
E4X was a standard for XML literals in JavaScript supported by Mozilla's JavaScript, including Rhino. It was hated or unknown at best because "XML sucks", so Moz removed it a couple years ago. Of course, today folks cheer at React's JSX, which is more or less the exact same thing, yet comes with the Facebook licence. Goes to show how much irrationality there is in the evolvement of web standards. It's also something to keep in mind when judging use of the newest ES7+ syntax sugar on a project.
Illusions like this always remind me of failure modes of image classifiers - where an AI thinks a sunflower is a panda or whatever, because it's never seen a sunflower before.

That is, presumably the illusion works because it depicts something we've never needed to distinguish before, in such a way that it shares salient features with something more familiar (in this case, oddly-textured concentric rings and normally textured spirals, respectively). Or am I spouting nonsense?
Naturally, of course there are. But the whole article was written about hacking a typical internet user, and my point was that the percentage of people who a) have the LinkedIn app installed on their phone and b) actually open it with any regularity is small enough not to be representative of a typical internet user.
Did he seriously just throw random colors on random words and compare that to syntax highlighting?
Accusations of astroturfing and shillage are not allowed on HN unless you have evidence. (Plenty of explanations of this in the comments via https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR....) Not only do you have no evidence, you're seriously misassessing HN if you think it isn't replete with sincere Tesla fanatics.

Worse, you broke the HN guidelines badly by smearing a particular user. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again.

Moreover, you've been engaging in the kind of tedious flamewar that I pray every day, in vain, will not appear today on Hacker News.

So: lots of reasons not to comment like this.

Edit: actually, this account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle and flamewar in general, so I've banned it. This isn't what HN is for. (No, this is not because of TSLA shillage or whatever immigration policy you disapprove of.)
My fingers are pretty well trained for typing - around 100 WPM, 120 on a good day. As I say, I've tried tweaking my technique for special cases, but it just makes typing more laborious for little or no gain.

It could be different for others. I saw a guy who could do 100 WPM with literally two fingers, although it looked exhausting. A year of waking up with my fingers locked, simultaneously numb and throbbing in pain, taught me that maintaining a relaxed flow is more important than those last 10 WPM. But that means a few combinations like e-x-a will be tap-tap-tap instead of t-t-tap.
Measuring the actual carbon produced by butcoin mining is hard, miners inevitably co-located with cheap sources of power where renewable power is oversupplied.

Compare that to say air travel
Safari had this feature a few years back but appear to have removed it sometime about 3 years ago. It was great, but also removed all ads from the page, so it probably wasn't popular with online news sites.
>If you were to say that there are technically no spirals in that image because they're not contiguous, then you could equally say that there are technically no circles either, only an arrangement of square boxes that is strongly suggestive of a circle.

There are circles though. The grey concentric rings.

If you removed them, you'd see the black and white pattern spirals towards the center.
I've had the same experience. Both codeine and vicodin.
Manuscript Was Due 30 Years Ago, University Press Still Wants It
That looks a lot better! Thanks for working on these little improvements too.
Browsers are thankfully highlighting the https-verified part of the URL (hostname) relative to the rest, so that a "paypal.com.fake.com" phishing attack is easier to spot. It was just a matter of time before UX people would put that highlighting to creative use. I like it.

On the technological side, I guess separate hostnames might make some ops things a little easier. But that alone can hardly be the reason. Easier and good looks can. Also: In a large scale outage, an about.x.com that is not running on your main cloud provider could be valuable for status updates, because far more people would know about about.x.com than about some status.x.com you might have if your "about" content was on the main hostname.
The Farthest: Voyager in Space
> I was strapped onto a surgery table awake because I had to hold my breath every time they put tools into my brain.

> How is this unsettling?
Correct.

Of course if you are trying to lay out something document like (like those things we had back in the '90s called web pages), then HTML is much easier than native GUI programming.
Seriously, TFA was posted in the Style section. It's not exactly the most rigorous part of the Times.
Here's a comment on the video by the user K SA:

> The bar tender reaches down at 5:16 and brings up a different glass than the one he pours the chemicals in so this is a snow job. The two glasses have a different shape too and the new glass is greener. This is so fake. Why do the guys sprying this crap wear spacesuits if it is so safe?﻿
Please tell me, how many marijuana dealers would you have been willing to execute in the 80s? How many brewers would you have been comfortable executing in the 20s? How many homosexuals in the 50s?

I for one am very happy not to be living in an all-powerful police state. What's obviously "moral and good" seems to be awfully fluid across history.
I noticed you used let to instantiate variables. Should switch to const, and if really going functional, will begin to find few rare cases where let is needed.
I'll repeat this here:

export TIME_STYLE=long-iso
export BLOCK_SIZE="'1"

The first option gives ISO dates, the second the thousands separator. You need a locale for a thousands separator, en_GB here:

$ ls -on i*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1001 1,335 2017-06-16 14:31 icon-shelters.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1,633,946 2016-11-07 14:50 insects.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1,445,837 2016-11-18 10:32 ix

Block size: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Bloc...

Time style: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Form...
I strongly believe that we're currently in the early stage of the same cycle with localization formats.

The most popular ones, like gettext, xliff, .properties are very limited, while the most sophisticated one - MessageFormat - is stopping a few steps short of having all needed capabilities and is very hard to read/write by hand.

I'm very excited for the next 3-5 years where I believe we'll see more development in this field and hopefully we'll end up with a good equivalent of CSS for Web Localization.

Full disclosure:
I work on a project that my team believes to be a good contender for that - Project Fluent ( http://projectfluent.io/ )
I also work within TC39 on ECMA402 on APIs that will make coming up with new localization APIs much easier (PluralRules API, language negotiation and selection etc.).
Edit: I was mistaken
Another major class of data loss in this kind of system is operator error when dealing with rare, unrehearsed events requiring operator intervention. Often combined with confusing messages or behaviour from the software.
Well, if CSS actually supported full regular expressions in selectors, even/odd wouldn't need custom predicates.
Christ. This is one of those titles I read and go "am I the crazy one or are they? .....ok, it's them."
That I understand, The fentanyl lollipop has completely changed battlefield pain relief, it's also been used for cancer patients. Morphine can take 15-20 minutes to kick in, and needs to be injected into muscle, whereas the fentanyl citrate lollipops take considerably less time and can be administered and removed abruptly by putting it in or taking it out of the mouth. It also lacks some of the unpleasant side effects of morphine.
I'm a blockchain money noob. From my stand point this virtual money looks like pure speculation. Nice to see that ressource limitation can be bypassed by forking. So this speculation seams doomed to me.
I don't have an electric car, but I was under the impression that filling a tank up took a significant amount of time?

s/tank/battery
Facebook and the political: A review of book(s)
I already installed & replaced my ls config. Thanks for making it!
I actually made it to "The peer-to-peer concept relies on blockchain, one of today's hottest trends in energy..." before I laughed and closed the tab.

Can I just use my 2% cash-back credit card instead?
Did something change in the Hacker News RSS feed?
Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

The HN RSS feed is no longer working for me in my preferred reader. Also in Chrome, when you now view the feed, Chrome only shows the first 8 entries, and not the full 30 but Firefox still shows them all correctly, so something has changed.
The full tgz is 827 bytes, so it looks like a just joke submission to reserve the namespace.

EDIT: it's a pony (figured it out on my Android phone)
yep. those are either both wrong or both right. i haven't heard of anyone else who got it half right.
Your sniff test isn't passing my sniff test.
Best Foot Forward
> Also, do other species react like we do?

Cats seem to see the squirming snakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXXQ6GCUb8
If it's literally just "use cryptocurrency to pay for car charging", I don't think that counts as "blockchain-enabled" any more than, say, accepting Visa payments makes you "database-enabled".

(I've read it now)

EDIT: Not that the misleading headline makes it a worse project. I actually think "use cryptocurrency to pay for anything" is a good project. But it's not blockchain-enabled. And that's a good thing.
Drivers from the U.K. and U.S. ditched the Uber system
No, it could be much worse than that. Law enforcement didn't immediately shut Alphabay down---they let it run compromised for several weeks, gathering evidence. If Hutchins made transactions during that period, he was at signficant risk, especially if he was under surveilance at the time---simple traffic analysis would be enough to connect him to activity on the site. It's very hard to hide the content of a conversation from one of its participants.
We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions.

Yay, region locked. :(
Yes in my experience, we got the worst of both worlds.

We have people with a religion of separating style from content, so they introduce the complexities necessary to do that. But because it is merely a religion, they don't actually do it in a way that makes it possible to actually change styling just through CSS.
See also: BLIT

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
> I thought the "use" was the destruction or movement of the value

Implicit behaviour is not use.

> You may never use a C++ object, but it will be destroyed (under normal circumstances).

And that is different from Rust how? https://gankro.github.io/blah/linear-rust/#must-be-used-at-l...
Exactly! Even I worked on some ZeuS scripts back when i was freelancing. Not sure if qualifies for weapon. It may kill a JS programmer if they look at it though.

Upd. Oh it was sarcasm.
Joking, black hats are pain to deal with on payment side before bitcoin, so I havent got anywhere with that task.
Because (1) you can't check and (2) the SEC doesn't care and (3) there is such a thing as privacy.
> it takes significantly less time than dealing with a gas station

Considering that most interactions at a gas station are over in 2 minutes, this seems to be a revolutionary fast charging technology!
Alcohol, weed, soft drinks.

If you can get addicted to it, you can get rehab'd for it if you're willing.
Hackerhive, an Asia-focused platform for crowdsourced vulnerability testing
> Every construction has exactly one use (destruction.) it's fairly easy to see that RAII is a very limited version of a linear type system.

Aside from actually having it integrated to the type system, Rust does exactly that. RAII is not linear.

> But C++ instantiations for RAII are not destructed more than once.

That's also what happens in Rust, it's not a linear type system.
Ahh, fair enough. I completely missed that angle, I've never been squeamish about descriptions of surgical procedures, except when they involve cutting the eye. I'm probably the weird one here.
It doesn't use a blockchain, the headline is misleading.

It's just car charging where you pay using Ethereum.
In addition to it hurting SEO
"Put a few tons of carbon in the air pointlessly calculating hashes to mine coins"

It's not pointless. Have you read the arguments in
http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-mining-is-not-wasteful/ ? It's not Ethereum-specific but the same logic applies. I feel I post that link too frequently, but people get too often mentally blocked on one technical detail (hashing) and fail to think about the big picture (renewables, jobs created, real utility of cryptos, etc). If cars with internal combustion engines were introduced today, would HNers complain its a dumb tech because it wastes 97% of the fuel's energy?[1]

[1] 90% wasted moving 1.5 tons of metal and only 150 kg of useful cargo/passengers, and remaining 7% wasted mostly as heat/friction.