skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the vaunted ”appeal to authority”... a logical fallacy that hadn’t yet shown up on this sub-thread.
Many people, even within crypto-community, failed to recognize that speculation is one of fundamental factors which bring real value to cryptocurrencies.

To understand that you have to think about a concept called self-fulfilling prophesy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

Bitcoin started as a fixed-supply currency. Fixed-supply attracted early speculators who are willing to put their fiat into gamble about future utility of Bitcoin.

As speculators started to trade, guys who sell drugs over internet got idea that they can use these new unknown strange tokens for transactions because they could dump these weird tokens on speculators in exchange of fiats.

So gamble about unknown future became reality which attracted even more speculators (https://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/).

This in turn attracted wealthy people in countries like China because they wanted to move money out of their country.

Do you see here a loop?

If Bitcoin wouldn't have huge financial incentive for early adopters, then nobody would give a shit about these weird p2p internet tokens!

So key factors of early cryptocurrency value: speculation, war on drugs, excessive cross-border transfer regulation.

Since most people are politically left-wing, they can't get rid of negative bias towards words like speculation and bubble.

There are good bubbles and bad bubbles. Every bubble eventually burst but it doesn't automaticaly make them bad.

Dot-com bubble was good as it was wealth transfer towards programmers with lack of social skills. Some one them created something cool and interesting, some of them are don't.

2005-2008 housing bubble was bad as it was wealth transfer towards snobbish conservative bankers who live in their exclusive Wall-Street club protected from competitors by excessive regulation ironically supported by left-wing voters.

Cryptocurrency bubble is very good. It's not just wealth transfer towards programmers. It's wealth transfer towards open-source protocol creators. Of course, there will be clowns in the space but come on, it's life, nothing is perfect. It's way better bubble since in the center of this bubble some random nerds, not snobby privileged Harvard-type Lehman Brothers top managers.
You are willing to hinder conversation because you simply don't know?
Reading over the Elm documentation, I respect the ideals a lot, it looks like a fantastic language, but why does it need to be a completely new language instead of a framework in js? It's not particularly convincing to my co-workers if I have to convince them to try a completely new syntax instead of just a new framework. Actually, I think this is why something like cycle.js is more tractable.
Entertainment dominates Wikipedia's most popular pages – Axios
rust at one point had garbage-collected references. And there's still Rc/Arc types for reference counting.

I get what you're saying though. Another poster mentioned Swift and indeed Graydon Hoare, Rust's creator, is now working on Swift at Apple. And I believe some kind of notion of borrow checking/lifetimes is supposed to be coming to Swift in the future?
If I kill myself, please blame dang
What complexity adds up?
Nope, javascript is less than 1/4 of this page, time for the "above the fold" render for me (on standard laptop + broadband) is under 0.5 seconds.

Please examine other possible causes for a 30 second page load, unless you're running on an 1st gen raspberry pi, 56k modem and a browser with a showstoppingly bad js engine.

EDIT, using chrome's dev tools I tried loading with the "slow 3g" preset, rendering of useful textual + hyperlink content took under 10 seconds, images slowly came in after that over a longer period.
Circle jerking startups
I kinda hope it's the "harsh realm" interview (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak) of this generation.
Dolphins Show Self-Recognition Earlier Than Children
Can somebody compare Reason to Elm and PureScript?
a big part of the early Rust community comes from Ruby, so Rust as an entry to systems programming is really common.

Mozilla's IRC server has a #rust-beginners channel that is like, overwhelmingly helpful. Go and ask stupid questions.

"The Rust Programming Language" is good:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/

Knowing the difference between the stack and the heap, and having a picture of it in your head and understanding which variables go where, and what happens to the stack when calling and returning from functions, is pretty important. (Python wouldn't give you this intuition, although programming in something like Java might.)

I half-assed learned to code in C++ for scientific purposes. Later I got deeper into Rust, and it's made me a better, safer C++ programmer when I run into C++ code.
That's what sells in articles. You aren't going to get an interesting article describing some guy who invested early in crypto but still spends days coding and trying improve the ecosystem or just build something, even unrelated to crypto. Not possible to get in touch with such people to write an article, not possible to find them.

That's where the bias is coming from that is shaping how many people perceive Bitcoin and crypto community in general. Those who want attention are more likely to get it.

Even the Pineapple Fund, briefly mentioned here, being as awesome as it is, doesn't get much recognition. Because it's not an interesting story. Specific people make interesting stories, preferably with pictures. And saying some controversial things.

But that's just how our brains work. Even though it's HN, we are both in this thread, while there are many more tech oriented Bitcoin articles in new that will never hit the frontpage.
Probably the same applies to why there are several home brewed Z80s and 6502s around, but few to no home brewed 68020s. (-:
I’m really confused now... you’re advocating for promiscuity, but also calling somebody out (with unfathomably crude language, but you’ve tried to explain that) for doing what you’re advocating? Is it because she’s female and you’re not that you feel entitled to contrast your behaviours? Did you not know she was promiscuous before getting with her? Did you not care? Did you feel ’unspecial’ when she went her separate way or indulged her alternative passions whilst with you?
Completely backward. Real world events have consequences on how people talk in general and this spills over into the online world.

The new years event was a real event carried out by real people. It was the first mass rape event in the entire history of Germany. Something like this has never been seen before.

Now the last, most well meaning person has noticed that those so called "refugees" are either from countries where there is no war like north Africa or they are jihadists "fleeing" from Assad whose crime is that he wants to much secularism for their taste.

Attacks on refugees are nothing but an appropiate counter reaction to a crime and rape epidemic caused by people that see the initial kindness of German people as a weakness. They see themselves literally as invaders on behalf of prophet Muhammad.

The new planned coalition wants to import even another million over the next four years. If German men have just a little amount of spine and dignity left there will be a civil war.
key word is 'could'
I was going to suggest changing the opacity attribute of the marker elements using your browser's developer tools, but the markers are provided as a layer of pre-generated image tiles (e.g. [1]), so while you can make these images more transparent (which lets you see place names on the underlying map) you can't make the individual markers more transparent.

[1]: http://geoserver.bombsight.org/geoserver/gwc/service/tms/1.0...
Hmm, mine was done in four seconds, on my phone.
And many others handle this externally, including some functional languages, in case you want a list, I can provide it.
(Firstly: Hi @crispinb, I lived in Mullumbimby for a few months, Northern Rivers truly is a beautiful place).

In Australia, for a first offence of a not-particularly serious nature, it is possible to ask for "no conviction", at the magistrates discretion, even when found guilty, especially if a conviction would effect your chances of future employment or study options. This doesn't apply to sexual offences, and typically wouldn't apply to anything that goes further than the magistrates courts.
I just thought, to a certain age, it may be required. I'm not a parent so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
How about regulators in your country gets regional delete link for every public content ? Does that soothe govts concern ?
Why learn Javascript when you can't find a job unless you are privileged
More interesting: northern or southern
It is possible, but far from productive, which I learned exactly by trying to use Gtk-rs to port an old basic Gtkmm demo, that I used for a C/C++ Users Journal article.
By any normal definition these aren't criminal cases. People don't end up losing jobs, going behind bars, gaining criminal records. They usually won't even lose their accounts; certainly the law doesn't suggest that. They simply cannot spread hate-speech.

The actual effects of this law in terms of possibly useful message lost are minuscule compared to the real culprits of goverment-enforced speech restrictions: namely copyrights ( and extras like DMCA) & libel laws. Those actually matter.

This doesn't.
Lending dynamics are different in a gold standard economy, with a fixed amount of currency, because banks do not have leverage on lending.

Today, banks need only have ~10% of the money they lend in deposits. The rest is new money. With a fixed money supply, banks can't do that. You divide by 10 the amount of money available to lend. In a gold standard economy, money supply available for financing is much, much more restricted.

The modern economy is a constant bet on future economic growth. Failed bets translate into inflation on a macro-scale, and painful leveraged losses for banks on a micro-scale. With fixed money supply, you cannot bet at all and potential growth is, by definition, much slower.
> Judeo-Christian inspired sexual ethics

There are religions outside the Judeo-Islamic world with similar views. Besides, such mores also have a lot to do with culture and class.
Oh, before anyone thinks this backs up radical "SJW" sentiments: there's plenty of hatred on that side of the arena as well. Intersectionality especially has a tendency to break down into othering. Victim narratives easily lend themselves to excusing violence against "abusers".

While we're going full Godwin: Nazi Germany started out as the victim of the victors of WW2 and socialist traitors. Germany's entry into WW2 literally was as the victim of Polish aggression. None of that is really true if you look at it objectively, of course, but that was the language used by nazis at the time.

If you the only thing making your behaviour morally righteous is your victimhood, maybe your behaviour isn't righteous at all.

I'm socialist-libertarian myself but that doesn't mean I tolerate the same damaging behaviour from "my" side.
Alternatively, perhaps the trend is that teenagers nowadays tend to lie less when they're asked about how much sex they have.
Facebook makes money off that criminal activity via ads. It's not as clear cut as you make it.
My well funded Fortune 500 would pay out 1 month per year worked (above 2 years), so you could get to 18 months eventually.

I guess that technically means you could retire 4 years early if you had been working there all your life.
Don't tell people what to do
Well, sure, but it didn't go nowhere because a clear procedure for reporting didn't exist, but because the law was not enforced and maybe because some pieces necessary for successful enforcement were missing (which the NetzDG adds, in addition to all the crap that privatizes the law enforcement).

Really, I don't see many people in "net freedom circles" who object to forcing Facebook to delete illegal posts. The objection is rather to (a) deleting stuff instead of prosecuting the perpetrators, (b) hiding (censoring) stuff that's still there, and (c) making parties other than the judicial system responsible for limiting speech.

But, yeah, sure, I don't care about Facebook or Twitter either.
Use Safari.
I'm from neither the US nor Britain and I got 90% British (I don't hear any British in the way I speak though).
All hate speech people are violating freedom of speech. Why someone would like to be against mainstream opinions?
Lock them up!

Facebook, twitter and google are the mainstream biggest outlets. Why someone would call them "fake news"?

Google fired whole lot of hate speech people from they organisation. They simply needed to go out with they outraged, damaging opinions.

Lock them all up.
Let's keep Germany clean of hateful speech and let's get rid of so called "freedom of speech" also.
> Kakoune uses a clippy ASCII art for its immediate help, it's nice.

Had to look this up - very cute!

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#screenshots

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mawww/kakoune/master/doc/s...
Thanks for the link.

I thought it was a small effort to show around the language features. Like a live(runnable code) version of the Rust programming language book. Very useful for someone trying learn the language feature by feature.

What I'm writing about is a how-to style wiki. For example,

How to do things with Rust:

How to read from stdin?

How to read and write from a text file?

How to make a REST API call from Rust?

How to parse JSON content in Rust?

How to connect to PostgreSQL in Rust?

How to issue Unix commands to a remote host via SSH using Rust?

How to create threads for parallel work in Rust?

You get the idea..
> Former criminals are far more likely to commit crimes than random citizens. So it's rational to discriminate against people with records. This fact has to get acknowledged, and my sense is that a lot of people don't want to because it makes the problem seem really hard to solve.

What I'd like to see is how that number changes if you only look at those in stable employment.

One reason I'm wondering about that is that the re-offending rate in the US is really horrific compared to places like Norway for example. But it's not clear if that is because of the particularly brutal US prisons, or because of ability to run background checks (there are strict legal limitations on who can request background checks and for what roles, and what can be revealed, in Norway), or something else.
Long term it's the most stable.
Pogroms were definitely not a Soviet phenomenon. Many of the party leaders were Jewish. In that article, it shows that since 1947 no famines. I think the original post is making the argument that they started making progress later. 1950-1970 they really did make progress in almost every concretely measurable thing. USSR went tits up in the way that maybe a chilled out company (albeit with a weird corporate culture) would not compete well against a sweatshop with a culture of work hard, make money. The latter would just have more output, innovate quicker and maybe make a better product. But maybe also be better at cutting corners, or marketing or growing for the sake of growth like a cancer. I’m all over the place bc it’s a huge topic, but there is a reason why a lot of people miss the Soviet Union - and it’s not only because it was their youth.
Because a framework can't bring new language primitives, such as types?
I never did any web stuff—-considered it beneath me—-before Elm. Now I will do web front ends myself.
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IMHO stack overflow was meant to be exactly this.
It is a different kind of bubble because there is a lot of idealism behind it.

Idealistic bubbles can last many generations. For example, communism in Russia lasted about 70 years and it flipped the social hierarchy upside down.

Also, bubbles have the potential to shape reality and become self-fulfilling prophecies.

To me, cryptocurrencies are the next NASDAQ/NYSE/LSE... In a few decades, nobody will do IPO, everyone will do ICO. It will be much more fair and transparent.

It's all about network effects; will the next generation of talented young people invest in NASDAQ companies or will they invest in blockchain companies?

When I read stories about wealthy cryptocurrency people partying I feel OK with that... Many of them had humble backgrounds and they took a huge risk. They earned it.

In fact, I accept the wealth of the cryptocurrency community as more legitimate than the wealth of the traditional elite.

To me, traditional wealth is almost entirely inherited wealth so it has little merit behind it.
The irony; you can't find any illegal immigrants to hire -- which is against the law! -- so you have to resort to hiring people who have already broken the law.
It'd be more comforting to see something done by a psychologist.

A correlation between physical violence and negative verbal sentiment doesn't seem that surprising. That talk on an online forum precedes violence is plausible.

Claiming talk online /causes/ violence is a little surprising and has dangerous political implications, ie, makes a case to target speech of AfD, which polled a respectable ~10% in the last German federal election.
The Emoji reaction project
i did not utter a word I just waited a few seconds and clicked submit and to 65 american 35 brit. i tried again much longer before i clicked submit and got different results.
And yet, good readers, like the ones you can use as an external display are something like $600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1huyi7mgbzY
Suppose you have problems in your life, and you're suffering. You could drink alcohol or take opiates, and they might make you feel better for a while. But the effect wears off, and you're back in the same situation, except now maybe your problems are a bit worse, because the drugs made you sick, or made you do something you regret, or you become addicted, or you miss the feeling of them, or your tolerance has increased. You're flirting with a downward spiral. It's an unskillful way to handle suffering.

Well, same thing for trying to get solace from sex. It's like two drowning people trying to use each other as life preservers. Or two junkies who stay together just as long as they think the other person is helping them get the feeling they want. Love makes relationships safer because you will not purposefully harm the other person if you love them. You cannot love someone and use them to get a feeling to their detriment because if you love them their well-being is more important to you than your own.
There is also another point of view; the reason we have a concept of 'good looking' human faces to begin with is because, at some point, the human brain has to distinguish between looking at another ally (human) or a possible predator. So better looking people are just humans that look more.. human. It's not a stretch then for other animals such as chickens to also think this way, and they may get confused looking at less attractive human faces that resemble other predators that they are hard coded to run from.
So, it's not possible to criticize political figures?
Most promising project for larger enterprise I discovered in 2017:

Single SPA - a Javascript Meta Framework
https://github.com/CanopyTax/single-spa

>>Use multiple frameworks on the same page without refreshing the page (React, AngularJS, Angular, Ember, or whatever you're using)
>>Write code using a new framework, without rewriting your existing app
>>Lazy load code for improved initial load time.

Unfortunately also missing in lists like this one.
The sodium and oil quantities disqualify most places automatically.

It's also more expensive to provide healthy, fresh food and restaurants being famously low margin businesses can't afford to give this to you unless you're in a wealthy area with others who are willing to spend for it.
It mostly mirrors classic consumer protection law. It's a civil law issue and regulation in such issues is always a try to remedy imbalances of power. As law enforcement goes, there is no public office assigned to deal in behalf of a party in civil law cases. There's the courts, which are slow and arguably understaffed and with a much higher bar to access them in the first place. And regulation. Regulation does not always get it right and I'm not arguing that it did here. My point is that there was a problem and regulation tried to solve it. I don't see that bad effects were intended, which is the point I was trying to make. I think that the legal discussion in Germany mostly prefers an addendum to, not a revokation of the law in question.
This sounds a lot like Nim to me. Give it a go if you haven't already. It's a systems programming language that primarily uses a garbage collector.
Sergei witte basically saved Russia’s ass in the peace negotiations. He was one of at least two very good ministers fired by the tsar in a time when Russia really needed one.
> Personally I don't feel any regret in ignoring the whole thing

Too bad, because thanks to crypto I learned a lot about Dollars and Euros, what those numbers on the bank really mean, etc.

Bitcoin made it clear to me that you are always in some kind of game. Before bitcoin I thought I own those numbers on the bank. I also thought those numbers are backed by real value. How very wrong was I.

At this point, you can still ignore it I guess, but assume the following (possibly crazy) scenario: you go to a regular shop down your street, and that shop keeper says "If you pay in Bitcoin, you will get 5% off". At that point, will you still ignore it? And if so, how safe are those numbers on your bank account?
> By any normal definition these aren't criminal cases.

It is a decision made to limit your constitutional freedoms due to legal obligations towards the public. That is very much the definition of a criminal case.

> People don't end up losing jobs, going behind bars, gaining criminal records.

Parking in the wrong spot also doesn't lead to any of that, but it's still a criminal case.

> They simply cannot spread hate-speech.

So, Titanic was spreading hate speech then?

> The actual effects of this law in terms of possibly useful message lost are minuscule compared to the real culprits of goverment-enforced speech restrictions: namely copyrights ( and extras like DMCA) & libel laws. Those actually matter.

Which is relevant to whether this is a good law how?
No language that "compiles to javascript" really creates new language primitives - it would have to rewrite the interpreter to do that. What it does do - simulating new language features in javascript - could theoretically be done with a framework as well.
Daily code sketching in 2017
Their choice of executable name is slightly unfortunate in Dutch, where 'kak' basically means 'shit'.
The thing missing for enforcement was Facebook respecting our laws. They simply said „none of our officers is living in Germany, so fuck off“. Now we‘ve added a way to make them hurt. Financially.

And I see virtually everyone in the net freedom circles objecting to FB deleting illegal posts. Because our laws are unjust, you see. Only American laws count.

We really need to teach Facebook, Twitter, Uber, AirBNB and all those companies some manners and respect for our society.
Understanding iOS calendar colors by digging into the icloud JavaScript code
From the Vue.js information page on that site,
'The concept of single-file component that includes template, logic and styles in a single file .vue file is really nice.'

NO IT IS NOT!
There's a more comprehensive version of this story at linguist Dan Jurafsky's web site (it can also be found in the book by Jurafsky mentioned by aniket_ray):
http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2014/08/tea-if-by-sea.htm...
> and that all-important '&' gets lost in the verbosity

Perhaps some console colouring could help as well. I'd really like some type diffs on type mismatch errors (I think Dotty has this?). That could be super handy for quickly diagnosing errors - speaking as a reasonably experienced Rust user here.