skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the Euro and the US Dollar are legal tender in their respective jurisdictions, thus giving them a competitive edge over other types of money, and — perhaps more importantly — because capital gains are calculated using each currency as a reference in the jurisdiction where it’s legal tender.

So, if you invest in Euros in the US, and the dollar falls relative to the Euro, you owe money to the IRS — and vice verse for the Euro in Euro-countries. It’s difficult for competing currencies to gain traction when you owe money if the legal tender drops in value (relative to the competing currency).
This looks like a pretty frontend for the terraform-community-modules github org - https://github.com/terraform-community-modules

The main problem with these off the shelf modules is the lack of standards around state management and reuse.
Over the past couple of years, China has lost around a trillion dollars in foreign reserves (a 4 trillion dollar cash pile earned from exporting all those made in china goods) to capital flight. Whenever a Chinese citizen or business takes yuan and exchanges them for a foreign asset, China's fx cash pile is diminished. If china's "savings account" is bled dry, it would have to choice but to devalue and print its currency to handled some of it local fiscal issues.

To prevent "rocking the boat" with a currency devaluation before the Communist Party Meeting this fall, China has locked down it's capital account by blocking foreign company acquisitions, repatriation by multinational corporations (think blocking Apple's yuan accounts from withdrawals to USD), Toronto real estate purchases, etc.

Bitcoin was an unregulated and popular means of capital flight. It was just a matter of time before they cracked down on it as well.
Or which 3 packages with the same name from spooky abandonware looking websites.
> Others will survive on their merits, and I'll say this much: If it isn't low latency, low energy consumption, highly liquid, and traceable, it's as good as dead.

What are a few things that pass those criterion and hence have a chance at living in your estimation?
I'm not claiming it's going to be 100% solution, only that it would be much better, and cut out some of the profit motives at the gang level, and need for vast amounts of cash at the addict level.

>> I also have a bit of a hard time imagining that someone having even easier access to, say, meth will thus be able to hold onto a job more easily. Personally I can't show up drunk to work

Me neither. And I honestly don't know how this stuff might apply to a substance like meth.

I know that studies tend to show that when opiate addicts are given easy and cheap/free access to maintenance doses and counselling, they have a much easier time returning to something like a normal life, and many can hold down jobs while either continuing the maintenance indefinitely or slowly tapering. The constant search for money and the insecurity about the next dose both make the effects of the addiction on their lives much, much worse. And it's not like heroin is all that expensive to make.

This isn't, as I said above, necessarily an argument for a totally free market in heroin, but it is to show that a different approach may reduce the harm to the individual and reduce the harm done to society by both those individuals and the black market profit-making organisation above them. Not to mention the hell that gets rained on producer-countries.

>> Cigarettes and alcohol mess up society a lot already

Objectively, scientifically, these are two of the worst and most harmful drugs we know of.
> The only company on the list of browser makers that really has any desire to try to exclude DRM is Mozilla, and unfortunately, if they do that, the users will switch to the browser that makes watching Netflix easiest.

This is the world we live in. People are willing to sacrifice privacy and security in favor of convenience. Sounds a hell of a lot like a book I read in high school.

People are so willing to make these sacrifices because they don't even understand what they're sacrificing. They don't understand what they're sacrificing because they couldn't be bothered. Apathy is the disease that will bring down the world. I'm calling it now.
How is this any different from the various packaging mechanisms that exist for all the different programming languages out there? You make it sound like this is a new kind of problem that started with Docker.

When I add some dependency to the Maven pom of my legacy Java EE app, I'm exposed to exactly the same kind of risk.

In short: research any dependency you pull in, whether it is a library for your favorite language or a module for your infrastructure automation tool of choice.
it's sad that content creators have to beg for money or litter their stuff with ads :/
Here in Oregon, it's state law that only gas station attendants can fill vehicles. It seems that this would prevent some of this, but of course it doesn't prevent the skimmer from being installed after hours or by the attendants themselves..
What is unsplash? Pardon me but your question is very skimpy on the details.
Could someone explain why Patreon needs to raise funding? I thought a service built with the express concept of collecting money (and a very popular service at that) wouldn't need external funding.

Also, in an unrelated point,

> I had been making YouTube videos with my band, Pomplamoose

Finally! I thought I was crazy for thinking it was the same guy. If you haven't listened to his band, you definitely should.
You gotta wonder if they will go after the miners. I suppose other cryptos have dealt with this issue, and one with the right properties will emerge, but BTC requires huge warehouses full of computers to mine, so the decentralisation part of the argument is a bit flawed.

And the big miners happen to be in China, which is pretty convenient for the government. Not sure exactly how much of capacity is in the country, but if a lot of it gets shut down I think there's a 2 week reset window before the difficulty can come back down. If it's a large proportion it will significantly lengthen the time between blocks.

Also in the bigger picture, if illicit movements bother the Chinese, will they pressure other countries to stop allowing BTC?
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>But regulation is only there to keep the established order.

That's a very narrow minded view of what regulation is good for.
I use them. Cause and effect have a direction: I switched to mech boards because I was having wrist trouble. It made all the difference for me - they're fine now.

Other reasons people like them usually are about customizability. If you think of it as being roughly similar to how some people can be about noodling with cars, you won't be too far off-base.

- With the right firmware, they are fully customizable - you can remap things how you like, create macros, whatever, and config is stored on the board.

- You can customize the switches - there are a bewildering array of switch options. People also spend lots of time customizing switches in various ways to change how they feel.

- Layouts - keyboard nerds have produced a huge array of different layouts.

- Looks - you can buy your own keycaps. Those, too, come in a wide array of profiles and appearances. Some people make really nice boards out of metal, wood, sometimes odder things (I heard about someone trying to make cases out of Corian at one point). If you like that sort of thing, you can have them covered in blinky LEDs. There's a whole tiny art scene making keycap-sculptures that go for a ton of money, relatively speaking.

And that's before you get to the crazy stuff that leads to people paying $1k+ on a keyboard.

Really, it is like anything else - people do a lot of things as hobbies that look odd from outside.
Yours must be different than mine:

https://imgur.com/a/xCsE9
Oh I see, I'd read that as generating some kind of simplified "generic face" model to use for face features without biometric identifiers, but you're talking about using the grid projector for more generic stuff like people had done with Kinekt sensors?
Rust macros are extremely impressive. This reminds me of Will Crichton's Lia library[0], which embeds a convenient matrix manipulation domain specific language inside of Rust. This seems like a very promising direction for fusing the low-level performance of Rust with the high-level readability and usability of a managed language. Exciting times.

[0]:https://github.com/willcrichton/lia
Eth hasn't been hacked, but the technical parties developing it have yet to deliver a smart contract platform which is reasonable to write a verifiable contract on. And as a consequence: contracts are being exploited either due to implementation bugs in the language or code that has no obvious testing or verification plan.

In many ways this is worse. There is a lack of competence in executing on the single most important feature of Etherium: it's ability to home other cryptocurrency.

And without this, what exactly is the value eth adds? To me, this is an attempt to control and force the ecosystem. It's there to facilitate overvalued and underveted ICos and sidecar it as a revenue stream.

It's not there to build something sustainable, it's there to extract value. If they cared about sustainability, the lack of rigor and correcness in eth contract building tools would be seen as a crisis and it would be much closer to resolution.
Same here. I did use it often in college when it was still .edu only and got a lot out of it so I understand why people like it.

On the flip side, shortly after I graduated I realized it was my default "thing to do" online (i.e. when I open my browser it was muscle memory to type in facebook.com). Yet when I opened it up I cared less and less about what I would actually see. Anything worthwhile I would have gotten a text/call about, everything else was just attention-grabbing noise.

After I disabled my account honestly I can't say parting with it had any negative effect on my life whatsoever. Anyone who would have invited me to something on FB just sent me a message on something else, or text/called. Any friends I wanted to stay in touch with did so any way in other ways. Anyone that I lost touch with wasn't someone I was trying to stay in touch with in the first place.

It's amazing how often I hear people complaining about Facebook or the people they have "connections" with on there, but just not using the platform is almost a foreign concept for them at this point.
My comment was rephrasing the OP so they'd understand why they're argument was wrong, not an actual opinion.
I dunno man, it sounds more like an intervention than a switch.
Slate focuses on demonizing white people as somehow being uniquely evil, to the point of inciting blacks to commit acts of racial violence against whites, like this: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/18/report-vanderbilt-football...
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Clickable link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Legal_changes (for the copy/paste-challenged)

By the way, this is a really interesting argument. I’m surprised it hasn’t be pointed out before.

Paper link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11127-006-9074-...
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The first gas station chain that offers Apple Pay/Android Pay as a payment instrument gets 100% of my business. I'm really hoping Costco will enable the contactless payments on their pumps sooner rather than later.
I'd really love to be able to build modules in some other language like python, ruby or even javascript just because I am not very fluent yet in Go and its tooling.
> [Durov] The encryption of Signal (=WhatsApp, FB) was funded by the US Government. I predict a backdoor will be found there within 5 years from now...

If you can't win an argument on the merits, spew unfounded sensational accusations to confuse and distract the technically illiterate and conspiracy minded.
Read the OP, then read my comment... Yes, I understand why 2 different currencies have value. The OP does not. Rhetorical question.
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What do you want? A software platform? a credo and list of values to uphold? Rules for conduct? Moderator advice? Are you looking for software or books and interviews? My cousin started an online community through wordpress for her patients (she is a physician treating depression among other ailments) and I can ask her about the books and research papers she collected in creating it and making a case. She uses a wordpress plugin and has been having success, but it will never actually lead to a social network replacement until she hires someone to build out a whole 'nother service. So, provide more info please.
Now the real tough question is how do you pronounce Cholesky? I had a Polish math prof who was mad at the American pronunciation, but Cholesky was actually French, so should we actually pronounce it in the francophone style?
The point-free style is harder to read and reason about imo, especially since the data gets transformed in that pipeline. We use scala, and will avoid currying for this reason.
Yes, sorry I did expand in another comment, it's now been replaced with a percentage, but the principle is the same, you pay 7.5% on dividends which is effectively the income tax equivalent minus the 19% corporation tax that has already been paid.
That sounds like marketing speak. It's a website; yes it's a very sophisticated one, but the crux of all that sophistication (for the user) comes down to a web page with posts on it. There are pros and cons to everything so I'm not sure that's a very useful observation, but, once again, Facebook is nothing special compared to e.g. services provided by google, microsoft or amazon. I think that is the reason you see so many claims of "I quit Facebook and it was the best decision I ever made" and very few "I quit using Amazon and I've never looked back!"
It's not just mobile, Apple is actually blocking tracking in the desktop version of Safari.
Amazon updates the Fire HD 10 tablet with a 1080p display and a much lower price
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For what it's worth, I hope that you make that fortune.
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> governments want control over money

Of course. And for a good reason. People utter this line as if governments wanting control over money was somehow bad.

Money, within all human societies that exist or existed, is pretty much synonymous with power. It is the tool that allows an individual to incent, compel and coordinate other people to do what said individual wants. With $1 you can make someone cook you a hot dog. With $1K you can get someone to give you pretty advanced tech. With $1M you literally make other people build you a house.

State by its design is supposed to have monopoly on ultimate power. Since money is synonymous with power, the state needs to control money in order to fulfill its function (and to secure its ability to fulfill that function). So it's obvious that the state may not be happy about technologies that prevent them from controlling the money. It's threatening the state's ability to enforce rules. And despite the popular dystopian rhetoric, state being able to enforce rules is almost always a good thing for the society.
The US takes active efforts to prevent USD being used in illegal activities. That's not to say that it isn't, but there are legal red flags if you try to haul a big pile of bills through customs. Cryptocurrency's entire use case so far has focused around illegal activity. Whether said activity is immoral is up for debate (you can certainly deem breaking the laws of some countries to be moral), but illegal? Absolutely.
Are those of us who cashed out allowed to laugh?
It's a difference-of-kind problem when you're working on infrastructure. You unwind a bad dependency in your app by removing the dependency. You unwind a bad dependency in your infrastructure by destroying large whacks of it.
I'm currently working on a weekly curated newsletter of Florida Man content, http://floridamannewsletter.com as well as a personal blog about my projects and devops.
Well, as I said several posts above, I am working on a new, assembly language, portable GUI toolkit that to be used for v3.x series of Fresh IDE.

Unfortunately it will add another 50..100kB to the code, but the portability has price. :(
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The wikipedia article lists several competing and complementing explanations without elevating one as the one and only true one. In systems with strong feedback it is very hard to know what is cause, what is effect and what was just a coincident.
Still working on https://iheartreading.co. Trying to onboard schools to use it but so far cold emailing is not working. Thinking about other way to market it.
Yes, unfortunately, that is indeed illegal.

That's exactly what capital flight is (one of its forms), and what most thrid-world countries try to avoid by these banning practices. They (we) have shitty unstable currencies and broken banking systems that the people have no trust in, so they use their savings to buy USD (hard to do in these countries) or Bitcoin to maintain value. Note that money doesn't even need to leave the country for it to be a form of capital flight; just the fact alone that you're buying foreign currency or Bitcoin in a black market.
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I like the patreon model, as it's let me support various creators whose content I like (Webcomics/Websites/Musicians) without having to endure web ads.

I get what this post is saying about wanting to add new features, but I can't help but be a little apprehensive about what taking this amount of external funding means for Patreon's future.

It doesn't strike me as a business that's likely to experience "hockey stick" growth, so there's a worry that they'll need to extract more money from existing creators to show the return on investment that their external investors are likely to seek...
I know you can short as an institutional investor on GDAX, but is it possible for the average person to do a BitCoin short?
> Some of us who have been holding since Bitcoin was worth $2 are laughing at you.

You are unquestionably better than ignorant humans with liquid assets.
How do you figure that? If you are in the 50th percentile?
I believe it's a free stock photo site.
Everyone has to sell. They're not "begging", they're offering a service: I keep doing art. That's a pretty good service to me.
For me the more common case for switching off Wifi is that I'm gonna connect to a network that is slower than the cellular network.

And no, I'm not turning on the Apple "feature" where it drains out my cellular data limits even when I am connected to excellent Wifi at home.
Whether it's true or not, I think there's a perception of a more cavalier attitude around Docker that things will "just work" if I make my whole build system and production deployment depend on a random lady's docker file.

Also, a lot of developers don't spend the time they ought to learning (or hire the people who already know) how a proper tech stack works to be resilient.

Tools like Docker and Terraform make it seem magic, which it's not. PyPI, Gems and NPM don't make Python, Ruby and Javascript seem like magic, as most devs are deep enough in the code to see a terrible library before building their app around it.
Producing content is never free. (if not in monetary cost, then in time/opportunity cost)

It is not "begging" so to speak; if anything, it's a win-win.
> Even Wire opened their server-side source code by now (not that Signal hadn't).

AFAIK the Signal voice/video server is still kept private so you can't run your own. Only the text server is freely available.
For those of you who know a bit more about the topic. Is this ban going to stop the large-scale cryptocurrency mining that occurs in China? Isn't it actually something interesting for the rest of the world, as mining could become a bit easier?
And it's much faster most of the time.
> In other words, lobbying is great and there should be more of it!

I said nothing of the sort.

Lobbying is not the only way to influence. How about voting and educating the population for starters?
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I often feel the same, although like you, I'm afraid it might have to do with my bias. The Scholarly Kitchen is an interesting place to catch up with the views of the publishers, but interactions like this and articles like most of Joe Esposito's don't really help with the image of "evil Elsevier et al"...
What allocation? After the first time it is sold, the stock being traded around provides zero resources to businesses.
As an introvert who has done some public speaking I can summarize it in one sentence.

Get enough private time and rest before you speak, and after if you feel tired then.

Introvert != shy

Introvert != stage fright

Introvert to me simply means I have a shorter energy supply when around people I don't know.

The closer they are to me, the more I can be around them without getting tired.

So don't equate introversion with social anxiety or inability to speak in public.

So with that said, learning public speaking for introverts should follow the same rules as for anyone else.
> ... I've never once changed the type of a variable.

I only do that for functions that accept multiple types (accept liberally and all that), but internally convert them into a canonical representation. For example, if a plain string is to be treated the same as an object with a name property, I will have code like

if(typeof(x) === "string") {
x = {name: x}
}

I like how Rust just lets you declare a new variable with the same name but different type, which then shadows the previous declaration for the rest of the scope.
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Besides water, California almonds are one of, if not the largest problem facing managed honeybees in the United States, due to the the agricultural practices of this industry and need to migrate in almost 2 million hives annually (first answer here has some good details: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-almonds-are-not-vegan).

If you care about protecting our managed pollinators, giving up almonds is a good first step. I have also switched to peanuts.
Bitcoin has existed for eight years[0] at this point, other cryptocurrencies, such as litecoin, have existed for six years[1]. Tulip mania was fairly short lived with its peak lasting only a few months (November to May)[2].

Yes, the hype is overwhelming but I think tulip mania is bad comparison, a better comparison would be AI winters or tech bubbles.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#History
Yeah, they also didn't include a lot of proprietary platforms. For example if you have 5+ years of customizing and implementing a specific enterprise platform you're probably highly in demand, but it's hard to approach that from a "developer salary" point of view.