skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this better, or different, than just helping Venezuelans obtain and use the USD that they already want [1]? If it's a matter of government controls, the government will surely apply the same policy to BTC.

I realize that he tried to address this in the article, but the reasons are contrived. And the "$5 wrench attack" simply won't stop when you only give up one wallet.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/03/24/293874845/...
What system?
After writing to tmp, I pipe to pbcopy on Mac and pipe to xclip on Linux.
I do this enough that installing this might be worth it.
I'm surprised it's that high at all given the likelihood that a child will ever be in a school shooting. It's not quite in lottery-winning territory, but as a child you are more likely to be killed by a vehicle than a gun by several orders of magnitude. It's not even close.

It's a good example of the media shifting our fear to the wrong thing.
And yet as an EMS responder, I've seen and heard personally of the challenges that come with it.

There are cases where shooters have been brought down by "a good guy with a gun".

There are others where there have been plenty of armed security around, even police, and it's done nothing to stop things.

And there's been cases where now you have a bunch of inconsistently trained people running around an active shooter scene, confused and terrified, possibly injuring bystanders or each other. "Hey, are you the shooter?" Shooter: "no, i'm just like you, hunting him too!" (if indeed the reaction is not "see gun, shoot").
> if you want better protection for your data than the US provides: do not send your data to the US.

You don't have a choice. A citizen of Brussels who doesn't have a Facebook account could be surfing a website that Facebook doesn't own and Facebook will still be tracking and recording that person's activity without consent.

So the situation essentially becomes similar to a phishing scammer in India making fraudulant phone calls to U.S. Citizens pretending to be the IRS. Did that person break U.S. law? They sure did. Did they break Indian law? Maybe not. Should they be extradited to the U.S. to face our jurisdiction? Of course, because they were taking advantage of their geographic location to undermine our jurisdiction.

It wouldn't be that hard for a global company worth hundreds of billions of dollars to implement some sort of geo-fence that properly identifies EU citizens and complies with local laws on a local level. Facebook wrote their own hard drive firmware for their data centers. Why do we care about the feasibility or financial repercussions of asking Facebook to comply with laws to protect actual people?
Apple cider vinegar works similarly, too.
Your comment is tragic and funny because it's almost exactly an onion headline:

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

We aren't the first nation to have a problem with mass shootings, but we are the first nation to not respond by banning guns. For case studies, read up on mass shootings in England, Germany, Japan, and Australia.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/15/so-america-t...
Agreed. It also makes me think, at a glance, you're teaching gunners how to do more damage. But I have no idea how shootings play out.
for people downvoting, what's the actual reason?

>Fleeing with your money was not the problem.
This is an example of the (probably universal) human bias that some things, like human lives, are sacred. When we see sacred things treated as even able-to-be-compared to mundane things, flouting their sacredness, it provokes a visceral kind of revulsion, like seeing one's religious icons spat on.

Like most biases, this sacredness phenomenon is not all bad; it's an important heuristic allowing us, as it allowed cavepeople, to make complex moral judgments at a moment's notice. But in the modern world, constantly faced with the need to make evolutionarily-strange types of judgments, it's important that we recognize this feeling as what it is: a tool for instantly making reasonably-accurate decisions.

Comparing the scale of horse deaths to the scale of human deaths isn't an attack on the value of human life; if the author had to save a human or a horse in a snap decision, I'm sure they'd save the human without thinking. They are not a sociopath with a broken sense of sacredness, they're someone who has learned to do an unnatural thing: put aside their gut instinct and speak rationally about these important issues.
Yeah, that's like 40% of the internet, including almost all news.

The argument "just don't participate in society if you don't want people tracking every news report you read" doesn't really sit well with me.
Quickly tested it on our OSS repo [1] and based on several averaged runs, 1.10 is both faster to compile (even not taking caching into account) and produces smaller executables, a welcome reversal of the past trend.

Compile times on Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820X CPU @ 3.60GHz:

Go 1.9.2 7.2sec avg
Go 1.10 6.1sec avg -15.3%

Binary sizes:

Go 1.9.2 50,727,552 bytes
Go 1.10 49,604,128 bytes -2.2%

[1] https://github.com/gravitational/teleport if you want to try it yourself, run `make clean` followed by `time make`
Perhaps I've missed the point here. Couldn't you set VISUAL to your editor of choice?
Yes, now thinking about it I think they had been asked about inventions of the 1900's.
How are they going to securely store those USD?
My experience from a host of language experiments of late: ranging from F#, to Rust, to Nim, to C#, to Go, to C++

Is that it just doesn't matter very much. F# has very powerful generics, and there are particular circumstances where that saves me a lot of typing. But you can still get it done in C# with less powerful generics, or Go with none.

F# has sum types, and replaces null with an option type - great ideas, but you can approximate these ideas in any language if you need to.

Similarly, Nim's metaprogramming has let me do some really clever things, but again, it just saves some typing.

I've found that language features and properties are often given more weight than they deserve. The really hard problems I've had when coding are just the actual problems. And while a particular language can be life-changing in particular problem domains, its rare that they are life changing in general.

Go is maybe the language I think is least interesting of all of the ones I've played with but I currently prefer it over the others because

1. stable, mature language and tools (unlike nim)
2. fast compile times (unlike rust)
3. compiles to native executables

F# might be my favorite if it had fast compile times and native compilation. Rust might be my favorite if I ever grok the borrow checker. But if someone said I had to use language X to do project Y I would almost always be fine with it, unless there were insurmountable performance problems caused by the language.
From what I understand, this wasn't considered a mass layoff because each site only lost a handful of workers. The definition of a mass layoff according to the law is that the "mass" applies to each site that experiences layoffs.
In elementary school and middle school we had "lockdown" drills, which as a kid I did not associate with mass shooting. No teacher mentioned guns, terrorism, or anything scary. It was just "lockdown".
> I'm simply pushing back on the idea that there's some obvious low-hanging fruit that clang did that rustc didn't. [...] magic bullet

I didn't suggest low hanging fruit or a magic bullet. If anything, incremental compilation is being promoted as that kind of thing, and I just wanted call it into question.
Wait, so if what the article says is true, for several months both FBI and DNC knew what they think is Russian intelligence are reading all their (DNC) mails, and then when Russians, after many months of having unfettered access with the full knowledge of FBI and DNC, finally publish their loot, they're all act surprised "ah, we were hacked!"? That sounds like astounding level of negligence from both FBI and DNC - effectively, DNC could be just CCing Kremlin on all their correspondence with the same result. And FBI knowing about a hack for months and doing nothing to stop it?
The author seems to be ignorant of some real facts related to Bitcoin availability. Lightning Network going live on Mainnet was against the advice of the LN developers who feel that it's not ready for prime-time usage and admit that the network cannot scale very large without some core difficulties being solved.

Additionally, the transaction fees have dropped not because of the introduction of LN or batched transactions or SegWit adoption, but because of the decline of Bitcoin transactions in general. Enough retailers have stopped accepting Bitcoin that there are fewer transactions and the fee-market pressure has lowered. Adding in an entire nation of people using Bitcoin multiple times a day, even with some of them on LN, will bring usage and fees to unseen-before levels.
I like it! Including the name! Should wait until I fill out my Kismet profile before sending first intro though.

Clipboard copy link did not work on iOS/Chrome, had to go back and copy manually. Profile edit fields were hard to edit in iOS/Chrome, they don't scroll horizontally.

I'm fine with auth-by-email, but should be time limited, I feel a little odd about permanent-link-for-auth.

Auth-by-profile-edit should include an "X-Kismet" tag or something, to prevent another service using similar auth style but actually grabbing a Kismet token and serving that to the user without their knowledge that it's a Kismet token, see what I mean? Or maybe I'm just being overly paranoid. Which is an achievement, since I'm usually pretty cowboy about these things. :-)
> But it's been years now and they've got drivers, so they can't possibly be paying too far below market rate.

Sure they have drivers still...a whole lot of people who are basically just cashing out the equity on their cars today to make a couple bucks on the side.
>In general, focusing on transit at the expense of drivers is simply the smart thing to do

Light rail will not reach Snohomish County until the mid 2030's. That is not an acceptable answer.
I have no advice to offer but for myself I wrote a project of few hundred LOC and it like a manageable version of Bash/Python/Perl etc. One benefit I see is it can be used on windows. mac, linux machines without any special setup , once I generate binary for specific platform.

Since it is structured code, I keep adding more features without much breakage. I know people can do it so many other languages and ways. My point was that Go can be used for variety of person or single developer projects. It is more tuned towards making new/interesting things in boring language vs learning interesting language to reimplement existing things.
If you grant that, then getting a "hard" tech job should be similarly discouraging for women (many would argue it's often much more so). How does this add up to an "anti-male" society?

We're not talking about someone having a harder than average time finding a job, but about guys staying home playing videogames instead of working. I submit that if someone thinks anti male bias is the reason they're on the couch playing call of duty all day, they're mistaken.
You might like tinkering with something like the Macchina[1].

https://www.macchina.cc/
The main problem was that you couldn't sell your stuff, were forced to sell way below market price to Nazis [1] and countries wouldn't take you in [2] So many people didn't even have money because they couldn't sell at market prices or were murdered because they could not flee outside of Europe. Of those that could flee and sell their stuff, yes, those had to pay a lot of money to get away. But they were only able to get away legally after paying the "tax" and have a certificate.

The article makes it look like everything would have been fine if people could transfer money with a password in their head.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryanization_(Nazism)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
> Seattle’s public transit system and transit policy are just plain good. Buses are clean/new, frequent, and on-time; trains (while they don’t yet extend as far as they need to) are reliable and have good coverage along frequented routes...

Did we live in the same city? This is the exact opposite of my experience with Seattle transit.
Is it possible to even view the usage policy on one of these sites without hitting a page that loads one of these like buttons first?
Where are you going to move to? Every big metro area in North America that is significantly geographically constrained has horrendous traffic: SF, NY, Boston, Vancouver, ...
Yes, lots of actions. I'll name just a few but this is FAR from exhaustive:

- They have eliminated car lanes in favor of bike lanes that are typically not highly utilized - even in neighborhoods far from the downtown core, street parking is being eliminated for bike lanes, and is making even simple tasks hard and hurting quality of life (e.g. taking the kids to the dentist but not being able to park anywhere nearby).

- They have reduced speed limits in many places and therefore added travel time everywhere. This includes thoroughfares obviously designed for high throughput (e.g. WA-522, Lake City Way).

- Next month, the main on-ramp at Mercer Avenue onto I-5 will begin to be metered, which is going to be incredibly painful given that traffic is already super bad on Mercer (as always they are claiming it will "improve safety").
Dockers are probably my fav. Containers make it really easy to share projects
I'm not advocating for random people with guns, but law enforcement officers.

>There are others where there have been plenty of armed security around, even police, and it's done nothing to stop things.

Just because a small number of bad cops haven't done their job, doesn't I mean I think we get should get rid of all cops.
> don't you need reliable electricity

Electricity is only needed to send a transaction.

> and internet first

You can send a transaction via sms.
> but the general idea isn't "price below what is sustainable by taking in massive amounts of funding until all of your competitors are sunk and then increase prices."

so there shouldn't be any startups then?

because every startup is unsustainable at the beginning. every startup wants to beat its competition and emerge as the sole winner. every startup wants to raise prices and make more money.

capitalism is an economic system where individuals own (and deploy) the means of production, not the state. capitalism employs competition to ensure those means of production are put to productive uses for the whole economy, not just the individual. profits (or more directly, the accumulation of wealth) are non-productive until redeployed.

that's exactly the way capitalism is designed to work.
Oh, I see, thanks!

It kind of defeats the purpose, since now the third-party will be able to read all my outgoing emails, and have control over them.
But those skills have nothing to do with computer science as a field of study - wouldn't they be more useful to teach in general education like K-12?

Like I remember in middle school, we had an elective option between woodshop and CAD. The 'CAD' class was really more about performing simple automation in programs like MS Word/Excel, but that sort of thing is still useful in just about any job these days - not just programming.

I really like the idea of starting to call 'CS' something like 'Informatica' so people might stop looking at the field as just a valuable career skill. Google tells me that there is now a startup called 'Informatica', but that is also what the field is called or translates to in some other countries like the Netherlands; I think https://www.cwi.nl/ could probably claim prior use.

Speaking of, it seems odd to try to use an existing commonplace phrase as a trademark in the industry that the phrase was born from - it seems like it'd be impossible to argue that anyone was infringing - but I guess I'm not a corporate lawyer.
So what, we don't invest in light rail at all? That's why we're in the traffic mess we are now — because voters 30 years ago didn't prioritize long term improvements.
> We're also continuing to pump psychotropic drugs into our children by the millions. Add to that the environment of public school: raging hormones, toxic bullying, dehumanizing suppression of individuality.

Whilst simultaneously both decreasing mental health funding, AND increasing availability of weapons to people with mental health issues.

It's not just that we're "not doing something good" for the problem...

We're _actively_ making the problem worse, in some of the most obvious / blatant ways.
You're absolutely correct. The West is entirely evil, and non-Westerners are entirely good.

If I am misrepresenting your political philosophy, then you should say specifically what it is.
It is already turing complete!
:D
I use Suave, because I'm a cheapskate.
Free & Clean also works if you're on a budget. There is literally nothing in it but surfactants and detergents.
What Matters in the Mueller Indictment
By implication it is positive for the Trump campaign and means there was no conspiracy with these actors- if there was a broad conspiracy there would have been no need for these Russians to hide their identities from their Trump counterparts.

This means that any conspiracy must be limited in scope rather than broad (i.e. Mantifort)- it doesn't completely clear Trump (and proving a negative like that is of course impossible anyway) but it is unambiguously more positive for him.
How to make recurring revenue as a freelancer
You forget to add A and B scenarios to your conclusions....

A) Criminals/Bitcoins-enthusiasts/elites leave the country for the next unregulated paradise.

B) Criminals/Bitcoins-enthusiasts/elites overthrown the government due to strict policies regarding free trade.

The government can't enforce a laws by itself it needs his citizens to abide by those rules.
It could be targeted attacks on important targets.... a bit like drone strikes, but much more precise ...

Reminds me a bit of the Slaughterbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
Do you executables run faster, or slower?
Was this an experiment you ran out of desperation? When these companies responded to you (as 'Joanna'), did you proceed with the interview process?
Please provide some of this evidence.
> Teaching these skills in CS curriculum would probably be a good idea.

This is the one thing I don't agree with. A better placement for these skills is a generic course required for any degree, or an optional course that anyone could take to shore up these skills (and you could recommend it for your CS major). Importantly though, this isn't part of the field of computer science, and so it doesn't really belong in that curriculum.

Now, if we had more of a "software development" or "software engineering" major, or even trade school, I think that would be a perfect area to cover practical aspects of tooling that are required to work in the field. There's a large gap between what you need to learn to become a reasonably competent programmer at most organizations and what you learn in a computer science major, and it really shows if you've ever interviewed a lot of fresh graduates. Great algorithm and theory skills, but no idea how to set up a build system. There's definitely room for a more practical education that transitions more directly into industry.
that was my opinion too, I even thought what a stupid name Go, is another Google thing shoved down our throats, but then I worked with it and from node.js where you install a few packages and you see npm install saying 1201 packages installed, from java where you do a change and wait 30 seconds to recompile, just to see you got it wrong, and you get a huge stack trace and you need a huge frameworks for basic web stuff, from net core that I can't get it to work on mac for the love of good, I can't think of a better language at this moment, it allows me to go to machine language go without any VM or interpreter.
In theory the users just need semi-reliable internet access (the ability to broadcast transactions, and periodically check the balance of their wallet).

Semi-reliable internet only requires semi-reliable electricity. If you have neither of those, then crypto is pretty much useless.
That is the active ingredient in antiperspirants, so it's exactly the same, yeah.
As a European, here's a question to our American friends in general, and American Republicans in particular:

Does it disturb you at all that apparently the Russians plan to mess up with you is to impersonate accounts to post stuff which is indistinguishable from what actual Republicans post?
lots of negativity here. i think it's a cool idea, and i hope he runs with this. if you're problem with bitcoin is "it's not quite perfect enough" then that's a bad reason to not attempt this

it has obvious benefits (and some cons) over the bolivar or a foreign fiat currency, but ya know, baby with the bathwater

i look forward to seeing where this goes

but i do agree about LN mainnet not being appropriate to use yet
This was the only saving grace for Seattle's various bus systems. Thank you for your work, and linking to where I might contribute too.
> Enough retailers have stopped accepting Bitcoin that there are fewer transactions

That's one theory. Another theory is that bad actors were spamming the mempool and have stopped.

A quick look at historical mempool stats: https://dedi.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1y

Makes it look far more likely certain people with an agenda were spamming the network.
Whether you like it or not, Bitcoin is here to stay.

"will soon be outlawed."
>> You speak like it relies on any ones countries laws and a law would vaporize it. Anyone who read the SEC announcements, understand that even they seem to understand that.
This is a hilarious re envisioning of how a young Einstein would have been graded by his boss...especially enjoyed these nuggets:

> You wrote that "A storm broke out in my mind" this year. Let me remind you that our Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) covers up to three psychiatric treatments, should you find them necessary.

> You seem to lack a flare for self-promotion. Lucky for us our PR department stepped in and changed your L/c2 equation into the much more marketable E = mc2."
Their implication was that the problem was fleeing with your life
That would be kinda like opting out of the internet for the most part I would think.
for me what is great about Go is it removes BS and incidental complexity, & is just really well-designed and pleasant to work with. i happily choose it for personal projects.

semi random, but for another example of someone enjoying the hell out of go for personal projects, take a look at:

https://github.com/fogleman

that guy's amazing, one of my programming heroes.
Getting to my house. I got tired of people ending with a "you have arrived" more than a mile from my house so I went to open street maps and fixed it. (the automatically imported data for my street had the street name wrong - I'm guessing google imported the same data instead of actually driving the back road). While I was at it marked a few of the roads as requiring 4 wheel drive (legal roads, but only used by farmers going to the fields along it), thus preventing people from getting directed to a road they can't drive on.

I checked the "I consider my work public domain" box, 6 months latter google started giving better directions around my neighborhood. I doubt this is coincidence. However the ability to fix directions to your personal house is something OSM does better than google today.
Do you think there's anyway that something like that could be shipped by Microsoft these days?
I'm doubtful of that statistic. Many americans hate the government knowing what guns they have.

Ghost guns are hugely popular for this reason, and only increasing in popularity

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/law-enforcement-struggling-to-c...