skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter whether it is a "currency" or not.

> The test is whether the scheme involves an investment of money in a common enterprise with profits to come solely from the efforts of others. If that test be satisfied, it is immaterial whether the enterprise is speculative or non-speculative or whether there is a sale of property with or without intrinsic value. [0]

Thus if the ICO's are sold with the expectation that profiting from the purchase of those token depends entirely on Telegram completing work on their network and integrating that network with their app, then the Howey test seems to apply.

Telegram currently restricts the sale of the coin (via contracts) and heavily marketed the value coming from "200 millions of Telegram users will get a TON wallet making it the world’s most adopted cryptocurrency".

I don't really see how you could see this a not being a security under the Howey test.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co.
Sure you can, buy mining equipment and wait. Localbitcoins also didn’t involve KYC AML last time I tried it.
That applies to every living thing ever, though. You're not focusing on the camel at all, or elevating it, unlike joshred's formulation.
It’s the most currently socially acceptable way of agreeing with the argument. Which is in itself a wonderful way of highlighting what you can and cannot say, not to mention the punishments doled out for doing so.
Density of cars, not necessarily density of people.
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576093
I still think the most notable thing about this story is that the owner of a New York City bookstore is married to a US Senator from Oregon. The last time this came up people said she's usually in the store when they visit.
That's not consistent with other reporting. From the FT:

https://www.ft.com/content/ee4246ea-5729-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c...

Four seconds later — and only 35 seconds after the nose down problem first occurred — the co-pilot suggested they initiate the emergency procedure recommended by Boeing, and disable the MCAS system by flipping switches in the cockpit.

“The pilots diagnosed and executed the procedure within 35 seconds — that’s lightning fast,” said Jason Goldberg, a spokesman for the pilots’ union of American Airlines, one of the biggest US operators of the 737 Max aircraft.
African Americans consist of only 13% of the population yet commit over half of the crimes.

Asians and Whites score much higher on IQ tests than African Americans and Latinos.

Women have innately different interests than men.
String.format is slow compared to normal string concatenation (i.e. "foo" + "bar")! Bit me once when using String.format in a hot path.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/513600/should-i-use-java...
Using string doesn't allow reuse, so you are leaving significant performance on the table.
I think this is where Rob Pike got it backwards (in terms of one of his stated goal for Go).

Go is a very effective tool in the hands of experienced programmers, without having to pay the cognitive load price of 'Mommy' languages. I am reminded of Bryan Cantrill's rant regarding threads in this context.

Writing solid software is hard. It takes skill, experience, and serious battle scars. Tools and languages can help, but at the end of the day, it comes down to the team that writes the code.
What moral taboos are enforced by straight white males?
Sure, but New York is not only for the property owners. I think it's good that we have a say in how our community develops.

Think of it this way, without New Yorkers, this building would be worthless.
“It’s ok to be white” is racist hate speech. Does that count?
I'm a big fan of Cloudberg. His writing style is consistent, clinical, thorough, objective, and contextual. I highly recommend his analysis/timeline of the 2018 Camp Fire.
They have a 30 day eval that’s pretty decent for testing.
> you've already constructed that barrier between you and them in your language toward them and describing them as though they aren't you they are different from you, according to you.

I didn't get that at all. He said there are other people who would disagree. He didn't say they were inferior in any way.

The jump from someone acknowledging a group exists to assuming that person feels superior is a logical leap I am struggling to see. You clearly have an axe to grind (although after reading your comment I have no idea what your point is) but it really seems like you're the one looking down on everyone else.
> “The time has come to rethink wilderness,” Cronon begins his essay. He goes on to challenge the widely held and decidedly romantic notion of environmentalists that “wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected the earth.”

The article doesn't contain many facts to support or refute this idea. For a lot of them, check out the books 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann.

Spoiler: the lands we think of as having been pristine prior to arrival by Europeans were in fact heavily manipulated and in some cases densely populated.
I don't like Libra but I wouldn't dismiss it just yet.

- Governments: We'll ban Libra.

- Facebook: Let us do Libra and we'll give you access to the financial transactions which otherwise would go dark with Bitcoin or Wechat.
If it could even be called a joke, it's the fact that security paranoia has made people today far more likely to blindly trust something from an anti-freedom centralised walled garden (despite them often containing malware too) than a community of inteligent long-time users.
It looks like a lot of people think the presence of the oxidizer perchlorate is the cause of the false positive, but there isn't consensus yet.

```

On August 2008, the Phoenix lander detected perchlorate, a strong oxidizer when heated above 200 °C. This was initially thought to be the cause of a false positive LR result. However, results of experiments published in December 2010 propose that organic compounds "could have been present" in the soil analyzed by both Viking 1 and 2, since NASA's Phoenix lander in 2008 detected perchlorate, which can break down organic compounds. The study's authors found that perchlorate can destroy organics when heated and produce chloromethane and dichloromethane as byproduct, the identical chlorine compounds discovered by both Viking landers when they performed the same tests on Mars. Because perchlorate would have broken down any Martian organics, the question of whether or not Viking found organic compounds is still wide open, as alternative chemical and biological interpretations are possible.

...

In a paper published in December 2010, the scientists suggest that if organics were present, they would not have been detected because when the soil is heated to check for organics, perchlorate destroys them rapidly producing chloromethane and dichloromethane, which is what the Viking landers found. This team also notes that this is not a proof of life but it could make a difference in how scientists look for organic biosignatures in the future.

```[0]

It's funny that perchlorate is likely what confounded the LR experiment, as the discovery of perchlorate in the soil made a lot of folks less optimistic about life being able to survive on the Martian surface.[1]

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

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500590/
Noice :). I apologize for the somewhat aggressive/sarcastic tone at the start of my reply. Reading it back, it sounded so much "more" (in every way) than I intended.
tl;dr Author used Windows+Kali as a teenage webdev, then discovered tiling window managers and Arch.
And a horrible trackpad without real buttons. Made using the trackpoint impossible. Replacing it with the x250 trackpad was a two hour job involving prying glued parts apart
Show HN: RoboStopper – Get paid by spam/unwanted callers or block them
I've heard similar complaints about John Muir. People get very, very touchy when you say bad things about John Muir.

Having read Tending the Wild, I'm inclined to think that at least some of their complaints have merit. California 'wilderness' was considerably curated by communities that moved back and forth from foothills to shoreline with the seasons (are you 'semi-nomadic' if you keep moving between the same handful of locations?)
Onky the x240. Before and after have real buttons.
Engage with and Shovel money into are subtlety different, aren't they?

We are talking about lobbying groups and a company with operating profits to rival some GDPs. If Google wanted to support a cause, it can do that without also subsidising climate change deniers.
Was this the actual product used by law enforcement or just
the same software workflow used for a study? Those are entirely different environments and there's no reason to expect the final offering to behave like the academic setup used in a specific report.
"Air Moorea didn’t know it had both types in its fleet, it replaced all its control cables on the interval specified for carbon steel cables — about once a year."

Did they just ordered the replacement parts per catalog without looking at what exactly is being installed? I mean, they would have noticed that one plane has a different part number.
Learn a Little Network Engineering
In other words every actual payment company didn't want to get a colonoscopy from every regulator on Earth for Zuck's Spruce Goose hobby.
Quote from the actual article: "Your first developer hire needs to be a $10MM/year hire. Don’t pay them that much, of course"
Kurds have never been massacred by Iran.

There has been clashes with the governments(both pre and post revolution), but nothing like what you see in Turkey and Iraq where government targets civilians en masse based on their Kurdish ethnicity.
My laptop works every day. without fail. It's technical correctness gone mad. We have lots of people at work who are technically correct, it's sooo annoying, like just let me design my 737 how I want man/woman/neither/both.

Seriously, why would you want correctness in every other aspect of your life, but not wish for members of a society to be correct (to whatever your definition) about issues of society?
It's a weird cultural thing to some degree, IME. I spent the last couple years either on sabbatical or in a (regrettably) undemanding job, and I've now come back to a pretty challenging high-pressure work environment, where I'm almost getting more responsibility and difficult work thrown at me than I can handle. I absolutely love it, and I do deal with some level of stress, but I've grown to expect a certain amount of me time, and I work a hard 8 hours a day. I know there are people whose workplaces explicitly care about butt-in-seat time and expect after-hours availability, but I know many, many people whose workplaces don't but that still find themselves working all the time. I really don't know how to account for this: all of my friends who do this seem pretty miserable about it, and none of them are in a position where they're so resource-constrained that they need to squeeze more dollars out of their income.
HTTP is the standardized interface. If you wrapped it in a prettier DSL, people would still have to take raw requests and figure out how to make them in the DSL.
Search. I could instantly search basically my entire inbox in 2005. That was the power of BES. I still can't do that today on Android or iOS. If I'm looking for an email from 6 months ago or last year it takes FOREVER to find.
While I understand the outrage and fully understand it, I'd like to offer another reason why child faces are in use - sex trafficking. My previous research was in face recognition and mostly in artificial face aging algorithms. One of the trouble areas in that domain was predicting how child would look after X years. This is due to the elasticity of child faces. The DOD offered grants for this type of research to help thwart child abduction and sex trafficking.

Obviously this was before all of these types of stories began to emerge, but I like to bring this up as an opposing ethical debate.
You could progressively increase the snapshot duration persistence. Very similar to database backups
I wonder how Sweden (also Germanic) turned out so differently. (AFAIK, with the old Viking/premedieval laws giving women inheritance rights etc.)
There is an HN dataset out there, you might take a look at what's in there. Google BigQuery has it available to explore.
64 bit cpu. Which is the case for basically every computer made in the last 10 years, even if it's running a 32 bit OS.
We have gone at most 580km/360mi with an undersea cable 95.8% efficient, €600m, 700 MW capacity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorNed

Repeat that cable 9.6 times over 3,459 miles from London to New York would be 66% efficient and cost €5.8b.

If energy is $0.05/kwh in London and you can sell it around the retail rate of $0.12/kwh in New York, your cable will make around $20k/hour ($0.028/kwh,after cable losses). Your cable will pay for itself after 33 years of complete capacity saturation.

With free energy at one side and retail prices on the other, the payoff time narrows to less than 8 years.

This calculation leaves out so much but it was a fun thought experiment.
Sounds like the platonic ideal of a Brit, or an American, or any other nationality.
Is the DOD generally involved in civilian criminal investigations?
Having seen many articles on this topic show up on HN, and this one in particular recur like a comet every year, I’d like to note a trend I feel like I see in the HN comments every time.

First I see a highly upvoted top-level comment talking about how tragic it is that thoughtcrime is such a capital offense these days, and lamenting that surely the HN thought police will be coming for their head, but they still feel the need to speak their mind about this because it’s true despite the surely inevitable downvoting.

The most upvoted reply concurs with the GP, adding a corollary about how the current social justice climate is particularly nasty because of “X”, and of course this miasma is so thick in the Bay Area that you simply can’t escape it. Then their most upvoted reply is also someone shaking their head about how no one is willing to question the SJW status quo.

Soon, a crystalline structure emerges: layers upon layers of contrarians agreeing with each other, reflecting forlorn looks and awaiting the scythe of politically correct criticism that is surely coming any minute.

Folks, let’s take a breath.

To be sure, there exist people on HN who hold liberal or leftist beliefs, and there exist similar people in the Bay Area. But you know who else lives in the Bay Area? Paul Graham, the guy who wrote TFA! Peter Thiel! A veritable army of libertarian crypto enthusiasts!

I won’t deny that political conflict exists on HN, in the valley or elsewhere. I just wish people would stop acting like no one agrees with them.
I could touch type on blackberry far faster and more accurate than swype. Swype is better than nothing but it's not as good as the bb keyboard was.
Are they demanding that Blizzard "censor content" or is Blizzard trying to stray away from politics? I don't think there is anything wrong with Blizzard stepping in to say "no you can't use our platform, our company to promote this message" a message that's REALLY divisive amongst their user base.
> But of course, the paper says nothing of the sort; it makes an aside about how an earlier design of the Go runtime was less scalable than the current one, and that's it.

The paper makes two references to Go: one to talk about split stacks, and one to reference the FFI (specifically, cgo). Cgo absolutely still has large overhead. That was true when the paper is written, and it's true today. It's inherent to the M:N small-stack design that your FFI calls that require big stacks require switching from a small stack to a big stack. You cannot get that overhead down to zero; it's a fundamental tradeoff of the design.

Go's solution here is to try to minimize the amount of FFI usage. As the paper points out, that may work for Go, but will absolutely not work for many other use cases.
Given that there are generally more women than men in a population, and that I don't see a reason why that trend would be lessened or reversed the farther back in history we go (I imagine it actually gets more pronounced), what happens to the women that can't be married off because there aren't enough males in a culture that doesn't support polygamy but is like you describe? I imagine some small amount would become concubines/courtesans, but could that actually account for all of the discrepancy?
Re: Start Enums at One. As explained, it is to avoid making the first enum value the default when making it the default is not appropriate.
From a quick Googling of BCG salaries for Principals, I'm a little shocked at the (relatively) low rates that people are willing to sell all their leisure for, esp assuming that they're generally talented white-collar workers. Though the caveat is that this was a cursory search: the data could be bad or hiding details like TC vs salary.
The US is extraordinarily skewed to the right economically, so healthcare for all is a controversy and outlets like the NYT are considered leftist.
What about the people who aren’t afraid to provoke their peers? They seem to neither fall into the “stay silent out of fear” or “you just believe what you are told” categories.
Funny. The USA seems to have the complete opposite view to yours! :D

The Federal Reserve is just about as close to a private company as any, running your entire economy. Certainly it's a for profit venture. But then that's profits funneled away from public coffers, and not to it.

Sure, the Fed has a pretty clear mandate from the Congress, deputizing them into a certain public role, but other than that, they receive little to no ‘advice’ on how to do things, and stand free to make private profit for a small cartel of privately owned banks.

The reason for this non-public setup is so that Congress won't simply print more money at will, which would be far worse.
We can pretend to be outraged by it but he’s very likely right. We’ve arrived at a point where it’s unacceptable to say that people have different levels of ability or that some professions require more than others.

(And this comment didn’t go straight to the bottom this time, that’s a nice change.)
Hi, would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? I'm afraid your comments have already been breaking them quite a bit, and we ban accounts that do that.

The idea here is to post thoughtful and substantive comments, not aggressive ones, and to avoid the flamewar style, which degrades discussion quality and provokes worse from others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> So ironically, the only places that can still feel like wilderness are the places where the government takes some action to keep it that way.

This is really only true of places that are easily accessible. The are plenty of places that would feel like "wilderness" that have far fewer restriction and little to no enforcement.
Maybe the site should just automatically include links to past discussion. Perhaps hidden behind a little [+] next to or under the title in the comments view.

Then you wouldn't have to spend time posting them or feeling awkward about it.
HN's design was always just its own blatant ripoff of reddit anyway.

Here's what reddit looked like in February 2007 when HN launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20070202004002/http://reddit.com...
While CRISPR is great, it's no wonder drug. Immortality within a decade is a cool dream but has nothing to do with reality. Also, once you researched a drug, manufacturing it is usually cheap, so it would be a bad business decision from the drug maker to limit it to the ultra rich. But we are getting off topic. I agree with your general point though: with sufficient progresses we'll overcome the challenges of living in space. Of course, humans are built for earth, but it's no impossible challenge.
that is a funny comment :) thank you.
Everything Is Getting Louder
It's the same reason architects can't design biochemistry laboratories. And trust me, they're bad.
The official inflation numbers are useless. Cost of goods is flat, sure (after you include the hedonistic adjustment gimmick), but cost of other's people time has skyrocketed (daycare, teachers, doctors, waiter, plubmer etc.)
A bit of a double meaning here too:

Rust is actually just hematite (ferric oxide), which is a type of iron ore!
I'm confused about the comments section, maybe it's better to keep taboo comments to myself, or consider HN my confidants and enrich my belief.
>Is there training for getting out of mistrim at low altitude without the benefit of electric trim?

No.

>Is there training even for MCAS upset as distinguished from runaway trim?

No.

Remember, MCAS was dropped from the manual, and not included in the end training pilot's would be exposed to prior to being handed a MAX. It was nowhere in that presentation. That was covered in the 60 minutes expose.

https://youtu.be/QytfYyHmxtc

>Exactly how was it demonstrated that MCAS upset looks like runaway trim?

It wasn't. Take a look at the ET302 preliminary crash report. You'll see attached to it the documentation pages from Boeing even remotely related to MCAS. In fact...

https://flightsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Prelimin...

Check Page 30 for the memory item as written. The AD from Lion Air is in there too I think.

Note the condition description explicitly mentions a condition where uncommanded trim is running continuously.

Before the AD issued after the Lion Air crash, no one even knew MCAS was a thing.
Fully agree. Rather than digressing, change the way you operate, or adhere to standards. There is no magic box for all your asks, no cloud company does this. AWS is pretty darn good with customers IMHO. Companies have to trade off stability, elasticity, features. This is coming from someone who has managed a billion users, and has had to punt features for the other 2.
This is quite incredible!
>sure, there exist people on HN who hold liberal or leftist beliefs, and there exist similar people in the Bay Area. But you know who else lives in the Bay Area? . . . Peter Thiel!

Uh, he moved to LA " — a move his camp describes as a bid to escape the political hegemony of the San Francisco Bay Area":

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-peter-thiel-20180215-...
In this case, the author goes on to say the manufacturer had the same recommendation for both cables. Airlines that knew of the issue didn’t communicate with the manufacturer, and Air Moorea hadn’t identified the problem with the relatively new aircraft added to their fleet. The damage in the cable wasn’t visible in their regular inspections.
I found it interesting that Visa and Mastercard were actually on board in the beginning. Might have been some fear of missing out on something novel and important (especially since competitors joined Libra also). Now that the initial dust and Libra is a bit better understood they are seemingly jointly pulling out.
Interesting perspective there. Worth noting that Larry Wall trained as a linguist and "often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale" [0]

> On a good day this is nuanced yet clear and informative, on a bad day it is James Joyce.

So true. I think Perl golf could be Samuel Beckett.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
Unconstitutional? I am not aware of any part of the constitution that prohibits landmarks.
IDK, what would be the motive to hide that?
Singapore to Set World’s First Ad Ban for High Sugar Drinks
The TL;DR of this article is that you should have to pay for certificates and pay a lot for extended validation certificates because if everyone has a certificate the differentiation for trusted websites is diminished.

Its unsurprising that this is from an association of Certificate Authorities.