skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I do think there's an allure to things that have been banned or that are illegal. For example, how many young music listeners would want to listen to an album even more after Tipper Gore managed to push through that 'Parental Advisory' warning on the front of albums?

This is not exactly a completely relevant example, but Colorado did see a decrease in teen marijuana use after marijuana was legalized recreationally (granted, it has also recently seen a decrease in teen heroin use, so the legal status may not be directly causal, but I find it interesting nonetheless):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/follo...

Regarding Bitcoin, one incentive might be positive press coverage - a PR move, so to say, such as when APMEX, the popular online precious metals exchange began accepting Bitcoin in late 2017:

https://www.coindesk.com/major-gold-dealer-apmex-begins-acce...

Many of these cryptocurrencies have non-profit foundations that push for adoption by getting ad-space at major events and pushing for the acceptance of cryptocurrencies in certain companies. Litecoin has the 'Litecoin Foundation' and they managed to get advertising for Litecoin in some UFC events. More often than not, I think partnerships like these make for good PR for both companies involved - here's a piece on why the Litecoin Foundation thought that this particular partnership was useful:

https://litecoin-foundation.org/litecoin-ufc/
Yes, it's great. I know a few folks working on Go backends - I'm going to point this out to them. And I think like you, it raises the question of 'Is there a guide like this for what I'm working in?'

In my early React years, I had a lot of conversations about good vs bad as we got used to working in a declarative component hierarchy rather than the old imperative (tweak that DOM!) way. I still come across projects where people write html + bootstrap translated into a render method rather than using the power that is components.
System 7 skipped from 7.1 straight to 7.5. (And the pattern was repeated with 8.1 and 8.5.)
You need to spend some time familiarizing yourself with HoweyCoin, in that case.

https://www.howeycoins.com
Strup, the new Slack for College
I personally agree with you, but the courts typically don't. I'm merely explaining the legal mechanism which began the restrictive creep. Over reaction to the fires of 100+ years ago, plus some insurance industry lobbying.

Some courts have ruled the way you describe, but more have ruled that it's not a legal taking, since no real-property rights are actually lost via conveyance (in the legal, non-moveable property sense). The value of those rights might be reduced, but the right is still yours; it wasn't a legal taking. They view it as being not much different than a bad neighbor bringing down property values.

Personally, I don't think they should even be able to do it via the takings clause. If implemented at all, it should be strictly opt-in, similar to how zoning is initially adopted in new or annexed jurisdiction.

(Also it's not "public benefit", it's "public use". It's often interpreted by courts as public benefit now, but that's something else I disagree with.)
What If Your University Tuition Was Based on Your Future Salary?
Stepping into the Fray: Providing Moral Support to Hong Kong Protesters
Which is honestly a shame, because Telegram the messenger is freaking
amazing. Probably the best instant messaging experience of my whole
life. If only Pavel “Pashka” Durov decided to fund the company with
something less scammy. Like a premium version with VPN and maybe some
additional features like even bigger file uploads. I would be among the
first clients.
You might also be interested then in Reactance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)
Another example is where a product is banned like phosphate containing detergents which causes the market to go out and buy it all up.
It's going to take more than some new features to make $100/yr worth it over $0/yr, but I see your point. I don't shoot as much as I used to; if I buy a new body at some point, I'll bite the bullet and do it.
He is re-framing it to "when the times get tough the tough get going" mode. Its also a signal, that they are going to move forward what ever that is.

Good or Bad, its hard to tell for the project but at least you are left with the feeling that Libra team is formidable and preparing to weather the storm.

If I have to guess, something is going to come out it from this project, either a policy clarity from governments or while tinkering Libra team may pivot into some useful use case etc.
But it is eminent domain or seizure in its own way. Their autonomy has been stolen. I think the bookstore could make a compelling constitutional case out of it—if they can find a spare million or two behind the sofa.
Years ago I worked with Rogue Wave Software, which sold C++ libraries. There was a customer who wanted to sort a huge dataset, and RW's sort code took something like 15 minutes to sort. Perl took 15 seconds. I don't know if it was ever figured out why, but it was (is) just one of those signs of how Perl still can be amazing at some things.

Still have my O'Reilly 1st Annual Perl Conference bag around. Good times.
This is a security (according to the SEC) that went unregistered. Why can't they just register? With such a huge offering it's not so rich to just pay someone for filling the Form S-1/F-1.

It's not like the SEC hates Bitcoin/crypto on principle. Or Elon Musk (I'm referring to the 420 tweet). It just follows the securities law, a law that was established after the 1920s stock market crash and the Great Depression that ensued afterwards.

Again, it's not hard to follow the law. Fill the form, call it a day. Or don't fill the form and make sure you're only selling to accredited investors.

Also, filling form S-1 will help you getting professional investors on board. A whole lot of them trust the SEC data in Edgar.
Curious. Under "Returning Slices and Maps" they use it in their "Good" example.
Ask HN: What Jekyll theme is the best for a blog with code samples?
I am using https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now as the base, but source code looks weird in it. See http://sharpy.blogs.losttech.software/Roslyn-Constructor-Magic/

Apart from unnecessary space wasted on shadow boxes, the contrast is very low.

What Jekyll base/theme do you use for your blog?
If a for-profit company is running the currency, the users of the currency are in a loosing position. Remember, the for-profit company wants profit, so good luck fighting with them about the currency.

"hundreds of global currencies" sounds like a good idea to me too, as long as they are out of the hands of for-profit companies.
I agree that it is mostly theatre. I understand not allowing an exe, but if you have to download the file and rename it, how much of that would be unintentional?
Of course it's a terrible idea, but they're gonna do it.
How else can facebook prevent people from moving on to wechat with its internal payment system? Why should people stick to facebook if wechat can offer a whole bunch of services that need (micro) transactions?
When you're at Visa and Mastercard scale you can happily spend the relatively tiny amount of money and man hours on something you're 99.9% sure isn't an existential threat to your business, just to have that warning and that hedge... and that ability to propose that Libra follows exactly the same expensive compliance processes they do to guarantee it doesn't have an edge on transaction costs.
Concur, especially on mobile is pretty good. It’s a lot better than every single project manager tool that I have ever used.
The better alternative to skim-reading the news
These are actually very durable great planes, often found on island routes with short runways like St Barth’s

Well written analysis of the failure
A couple of misconceptions about open distro that Amazon seems to be advertising to overstate what they are doing:

1) It's not a fork. There's no such thing as an Amazon specific fork of the Elasticsearch git repo in the opendistro github account. There are no Amazon specific patches to Elasticsearch.

2) Instead, Amazon redistributes a vanilla OSS build of Elastic. As is and unmodified. Producing these builds is and always has been a feature of the elasticsearch build scripts. With every release they produce OSS binaries and OSS docker containers (both without the closed source plugins) in addition to the ones that include their x-pack components. All Amazon does is take those builds and bundle their own OSS plugins.

3) What is and is not open source is clearly documented in the Elastic repository. There is zero ambiguity here (legal or otherwise) unlike what Amazon implies in their marketing. If it's in the x-pack directory, it may be closed sourced (some plugins are OSS). If that bothers you, use the before mentioned OSS builds. Everything outside the x-pack directory is OSS. OSS here qualifies as Apache 2.0 licensed or compatible. It's that simple.

The OSS plugins that amazon provides are of course nice if you need them. Less nice is that they seem to be perpetually several releases behind Elastic with both the plugins and opendistro. So if you use this, you are running with known & fixed bugs that may or may not affect you. You could argue that Amazon maybe does a lot of testing. If so, those tests don't appear to be part of their OSS repos. The other explanation is of course that they only update their cloud service a couple of times a year and simply ignore bug-fixes or even patch releases to what they shipped, other fixes and improvements that happen upstream, etc. Or even any documentation for that (refer to the Elastic official release notes and documentation for what was actually fixed). If these bugs happen to affect you, you are on your own. The release notes are "whatever Elastic said a few months ago". Refer to the Amazon release notes here if you don't believe me: https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/version-.... The last few releases were basically "bump the version number" and absolutely nothing else that Amazon considered worth reporting.

So, if you are comfortable running that in production use it at your own peril. I'd argue it's probably better to take the latest Elastic oss build, fork the amazon plugins you actually need (if any) and simply bump the version numbers to match the current elastic version. Amazon seems to do little more than that between releases; so you are not really missing out on any meaningful QA, support, or other stuff Amazon implies they are doing that they are clearly not doing.
But the cost of providing full backup for 5 days has got to be pretty significant. Likely it means diesel generators the size of locomotives, sourcing fuel in what may also be a fuel shortage crunch, maintaining and testing this plant.
Netflix open sourced a similar tool that watches API calls for a Role and then suggests minimum privilege changes to the attached policy document: https://github.com/Netflix/repokid
Why is anyone using AWS Elasticsearch anyway? AWS is a first-mover and is great when you need managed services not available elsewhere, but it's usually not the best product.

Since most vendors have finally caught on to the demand for managed offerings, I don't see much reason to go with AWS for services like Elasticsearch. The cloud hosting plans directly from Elastic are much better. Easier to manage, same cost, better performance, and more reliable. And support is included.
Well, I don't know about that, but it's certainly good for the world. :)
> There's a black market for drugs because people like taking drugs.

Perhaps this is somewhat pedantic, but I think it's more accurate to say that there's a black market for drugs because governments have passed laws to make certain drugs illegal and some groups of people have accepted the risks that come with supplying the demand for this particular market in order to make a profit.

> On the other hand, people only like receiving cryptographic tokens on the assumption that they will be able to exchange them for something in future

It may not be exactly this simple, although this is mostly true. There are those out there that purchase cryptocurrencies to make foreign financial transactions in a way that may be considerably more difficult with their country's accepted currency. This doesn't necessarily have to be an exchange, it could simply be sending said cryptocurrency to a wallet of a relative in a foreign country.
Right, and Firefox and Chrome both have "Copy as HAR". That should save a step, right?

Plus, you probably have a text editor that knows about JSON, so it's easy to (say) remove keys from a JSON file, or even just keep the keys on separate lines and add/remove entire lines. I haven't seen a text editor (even Emacs!) that was as good at editing shell command parameters. It's a lot easier to quote special characters for JSON, too, compared to quoting special characters for my shell.
It's the only IM app that does notifications right. I get a message and 'unread messages' notifications pop up on both my computers and my phone - the moment I click to focus the app on one of them, the notifications on the other computer and phone go away. With other apps it seems there's always a risk that a notification marker is just a leftover from before that they forgot to clear - that's never the case with Telegram.
Once people become accustom to using a piece of software, it doesn’t matter. I witnessed this first hand, we wrote software for field service techs running on old Windows CE based ruggedized devices. The techs could navigate through the Windows with the keyboard, 5 deep without waiting on the screens to catch up.
post-dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228254

Note that they found an ancient transcription of one of the known chapters, not a brand new chapter.
0.5mg of melatonin is a perfectly good dose. For many people, anything over 1mg means sleepiness on the next day. I suggest doing some research, including how to taper it down once you no longer feel it's right for you.
Haven't used these tools in a long time but (WinPE 10-8 Sergei Strelec (x86/x64) 2019.10.02 4.1GB) is a good alternative since Hiren removed all the "full software". Also there was an Hiren's BootCD Reloaded somewhere.

That said, all the legal software is usually good enough for any need.
Don't forget about drafts being synced between devices. I remember
the first time I've noticed that: “Wait, didn't I write this on my
phone? Why is this in my desktop client?”
I lived in a very nice north shore suburb of Chicago for about 10 years, and we had one power outage that lasted four days. If I had critical stuff going on at home, like some key medical equipment, or other such process, I would make an investment in finding out how to cover for a multi-day outage.
Do they?

There is a tremendous amount of conservation effort from many privately funded, non-profit organizations. One could make a convincing argument that The Nature Conservancy, WWF, Sierra Club, et. al. do more work protecting our wildlife and wilderness areas than the government's neglected BLM land.

Perhaps small government advocates prefer philanthropy over authority?
I think your view is very interesting. How does one go about destroying a threat to the current currency system?
Right and the big question is whether unix was first to have stderr, or if it was predated on other OS’s.
> extremely high levels of air pollution. Particularly since [...] exposure to PM2.5

Pun intended? If so, this was brilliant IMO!
What is scary about this approach is that it tends to favor conservatism.
Any change achieved politically can easily be dismissed as a moral fashion (immigrant's rights, racial equality being ideal, same-sex marriage, women's rights).

This is much more of an issue when you use the methods outlined to argue against an idea. If instead you use these methods internally, this is less of an issue.
Another consideration is the amount of money you can take on loan?
So if Trump runs an ad stating "Vote for me, Donald J. Trump, I made the economy boom and the stock market reach all time highs" then it should be banned by Facebook (it's after all provably false)? Is that what I'm hearing?

That would be utterly terrifying if Facebook said their policy was to take down political/campaign ads which contain "misinformation". Ripe for abuse.
Uncertain, but I checked some portrait images I took on my older iphone (with the back camera) and preview.app says:

orientation 6: 90 degrees CCW
I wonder if my version from F-Droid would also be taken down (assuming they would bother sending a letter to F-Droid LLC).
Thanks! Yes, HTTPS is not supported right now, as I'm experimenting with various caching/routing. Once I'm done toying around, it will be the default option.
This will probably confirm your point. I write software professionally for 20 years. I’ve written professionally in: perl, php, java, cfml, actionscript 2 and 3, javasctipt / node, c#, java, erlang, ruby, scala, python and golang. The last year almost exclusively golang. I work full back end / distributed systems and infrastructure automation.

I find golang simplicity liberating, especially now with GO111MODULE.

No need for stuff like node’s package.json, no maven’s project.xml (I have no problem with maven), no sbt, small native binaries (this is where golang, in my head, beats erlang), simple type system. Instead of focusing on designing the ins and outs of the architecture, it allows me to focus on the flow, like erlang! The structure, design, come later, with proper unit and integration tests.

I love it, it is so simple to switch from r&d mode into production grade system development.
When you go over after whales, they can fund your business without having to go after VC funding and you can milk them to go after smaller clients.
Thank you for outlining this.

Maybe someone from Mozilla's community outreach can comment and ultimately make some improvements.

Specific examples of said bug reports would probably help, though.
Hey Ovid. I'm curious...if P6 had been performant and production worthy enough for your tau-station game, how much easier would the project be than with P5 + Moose? Just curious...I remember you saying years ago that you would've used it if you could've at the time.
With all the prestige this award carries, the answer to whether the personality matters as much as the professional deed, should be: absolutely.
Those sorts of startup times discourage writing command-line tools (e.g. composable text processing things one might join with pipes).
This is a bold claim - proven to be useless for all practical purposes by whom? Care to provide evidence to back this up?
Google is evil
> links like this don't mean that the article shouldn't have been reposted!

I didn't say, or even imply, that. I just thought reference to past discussions would be useful.
point of interest: you roll an oil painting up with the paint on the outside of the roll - to do otherwise means you crush and grind the paint into dust. Obviously rolling the painting outside out means you crack it - but the cracks meet again when the painting is flattened.
And ... Banned 10k anti mainstream accounts from YouTube :))))
> I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.

Later, Paul Graham comes with the following variation of the above:

> What groups are powerful but nervous, and what ideas would they like to suppress?

Which I think is better. The difference is "weak enough to need taboos" vs "nervous". The group just needs to feel their power slipping away. This makes it a lot more applicable to your white males comment too. Whether white males' position is "weak enough to need taboos" is much more up for debate than whether some are nervous that their power is slipping away.
The must have a leftPad microservice.

Edit: eh, looks like I was not the only one who immediately thought of that :)
It's exactly where the hunger comes from.
>Unlike, what, my established credit card company which still blocks me randomly when I'm traveling overseas even when I explicitly call their 800 hotline, sit on hold for 30 minutes, and tell some unempathetic worker "I'm overseas, don't block me"? Yes, thank goodness libra is dying, otherwise there might actually be some innovation against the exact things you just mentioned which perfectly describe the current state of affairs.

You should just get a new credit card or bank, whatever you're using is really out of date. Most modern cards and banks have websites or phone apps you can submit a travel notice on. Takes all of 2m and prevents you getting blocked for charges in that country.
Nope. I typically wake up for a few minutes at a time and get a full night's sleep. Every few months, I have a bout of insomnia that reduces me to a couple of hours of sleep for a while. Believe it or not, I know what my normal is better than you.
Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?
I'm curious to see how many of you have been impacted and how you bounced back? I'm building a project around this and would love to hear about your experience.
This is the first time I've seen qbits confused with cubits. Talk about a huge difference in scale.
WOW such a big clickbaity title with no substance, generalization of one
“I’m all about HoweyCoins – this thing is going to pop at the top!”

Love it.
This is pervasive in society right now. It's rampant in politics, advertising, dating... and it seems to be getting worse not better. It's almost like we don't have time to evaluate honesty. Politicians win, not because they will answer a question honestly, but because they will repeatedly deflect and they get away with it.

Why do we allow it?
Copy Slices and Maps at Boundaries: https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#copy-s...

The suggested good clone is not very efficient: https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/How-to-efficiently-clone...

In fact, I prefer the suggested bad one instead. We should let the caller to determine whether or not a clone is needed.

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Start Enums at One: https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#start-... Any reason here? (Edit: I just missed the reason. However, I think there should be a default value for most enums and most of the default values should zero.)

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Local Variable Declarations: https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#local-...

Personally, I prefer "var x = ..." and think short variables should be used as limited as possible. I remember that Go team has a not-very-concrete plan to depreciate short variable declarations.

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Avoid Naked Parameters: https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#avoid-...

This suggestion has its own drawback. When a parameter name changed, all the places using it must be modified to keep consistent. This is one reason why Go team rejected named arguments.

If this must be done, I recommend to define and use some named bool constants instead.
That seems about right for a competent Python coder. It or Powershell or Linux command line tools would have very little code and be very easy to whip something up. Perl would be great here as well or honestly any dynamic language with great library support.
"In a statement, the Boeing spokesman Gordon Johndroe said “safety is a core value for everyone at Boeing,”"

If that were true, such a critical feature would have redundant sensors. There is no reason not to have them except costs. Even more so if one considers that other sensors ARE redundant, they even feed either the pilot or co-pilot displays, never both.