skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to target the high-end market, you really need better copywriting than this. From elementary typos ("an" before consonants, "it's" instead of "its") to some really poorly structured sentences, this really failed to impress as _the_ place for anything related to luxury goods.
I mostly just have a problem with the default behavior of ignoring errors and continuing (yes I know it can be overridden). This coupled with the fact that you'll be working almost exclusively with strings, and all the quoting and escaping rules (which can be a huge pain themselves), can easily lead to bugs like this one https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 .

I have written some bash scripts myself, but none that were longer than maybe 10-20 lines. Above that, I usually reach for other tools.
"Coils lets you build web apps using Clojure and relational databases, with SQL directly in the UI code"

I don't do web dev, but "SQL directly in the UI code" looks very wrong to me !
Talk about zealot...
This is what I'm afraid of. I know it will only get harder.
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interviewers tend not to test for shell skill even though your shell skills are usually more relevant to daily tasks. I'm debating whether to improve on my shell skills or algorithm skills.
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I would love to know this as well for a personal project. If you find out, please post an update.
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A VM, perhaps w/ a Docker image, totally makes sense for this, IMO.
1 bottle of beer is usually between 100 and 300 carrots, depending on what type of beer and how much alcohol is in it. Alcohol is a significant source of calories.

Have you tried not drinking for a few months?

The rule of thumb I've heard is that 1 pound of weight can be lost with a 3500 calorie deficit. If you drink between 10 and 30 beets a week, cutting beer could cause you to start losing weight.
Yes iPython is no longer the project but only the parts that actually deal with Python. So the kernel is now 100% agnosit. For users this means if your a polygot (I sort am one) you can now use Jupyter for Haskell or R or Julia.

I think that if people will let the name iPython go we will see an explosion of usage by other communities and see new features added to the project.
There are lots of times when in-circuit access is invaluable, including field servicing.
This sounds like a good model to start with, I hadn't heard of it before.
An the only conclusion we can draw from this data is that black people and immigrants are intellectually inferior, right (and how are black people and immigrant one entity you can just lump together like this btw)? It can't be that they start out in much worse position than most white, western people? And if we really want to apply your logic, probably the white man is much more greedy and brutal and hence can easily exploit the more peaceful races in Africa. But you know what's much more likely than all this bullshit, that is has 99% to do with nurture and not nature and the status quo is hard to change.
Thanks for the feedback. No budget for professional journalists right now so it's just me.
But how much time in the American 8-hour school day is actually spent on education? A lower student-teacher ratio (i.e. 1:1) can drastically decrease time required for education. (I'm ignoring time required for other things like social activities, etc.) It's definitely a tradeoff!
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>REST was born out of rejection for XML-RPC (and SOAP, which was its logical evolution once The Enterprise got involved).

Not even remotely true. REST was a re-invention of XML-RPC wheel -- for the web and using baroque HTTP conventions that were meant for documents and hyperlinks.

XML-RPC was never rejected because it never caught much on in the first place. On the enterprise they pushed for SOAP at the same time, and on the web it wasn't yet a period were anybody really did rpc (plain AJAX, REST or any other kind).

In terms of simplicity it goes like: XML-RPC -> REST -> abyss -> SOAP, with XML-RPC and REST both on the far "simpler" end of the scale compared to SOAP.
The statute may seem like it's drafted that way, but it's not up to her (or her boss, i.e., the Pres) discretion. There are rules and regulations that determine what is and is not authorized "unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material." See, for example, Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual (http://www.law.com/sites/jamesching/2015/03/09/hdr22clintone...).
yes, but that's it. be it the best UNI in europe or worst in most cases doesn't have any impact at all, in worst is a very minor disadvantage that can be easily overcomed by showing skillset.
I've seen a lot of tools I use migrate from using sh wrappers to python wrappers. My observation is that it's nearly impossible to read and suffers extreme featureitis because "batteries are included".
China released 3 big economic stats and they were all bad
I didn't say they are "unsocialized," I merely said it is more difficult for them to develop peer social skills. Let's not devolve the discussion to black & white thinking.
You can buy an original Tefal pan for like $15-20, if it lasts a year that's ok with me. I wouldn't trust the no-brand $5 stuff either, but I would think that Tefal pans should be ok?
I've found that as soon as bash script goes to more than a couple lines, or as soon as it needs anything modestly complex, like "if" statements or functions, then it is almost always more efficient to write it in ipython. If you know python, then ipython is really superior way to do any ops and administration tasks. I've also found it easier to use for server setup than alternatives like ansible or puppet. I can just use standard, reusable classes and functions to do all my various activities.
"It isn't an issue of being anti-social, it is an issue of being exposed to a vast and diverse set of different people with different biases, backgrounds, and abilities."

School is a homogenization factory, by design. I'd be more confident in homeschoolers meeting people with different "biases, backgrounds, and abilities" than in traditional school.

It's worth remembering that schools are an incredibly artificial construct that are barely a hundred years old, and school as we know it is younger than that. It's cognitively tempting, but wrong to treat schooling as the obviously-correct "default answer" against which everything else must strive to be measured... in reality, it's a fairly new idea with at best a mixed track record, and if viewed with historically-informed perspective, one with a lot of serious problems, not least of which is the observed fact of systematic squashing of intellectual curiousity.

And remember, when observed fact and theory clash, observed fact wins. It doesn't matter that theoretically school shouldn't do that. It does.

(In fact, to the list of school's crimes personally I'd add that it has created an entire society trained to trust academic theories over observed fact. But that's another discussion.)

Further, there are plenty of people who come out of school exceedingly poorly "socialized", which can also often be traced back to the artificial social conditions of school itself, combined with the cohort system's effect of requiring each new class of kindergarteners being required to construct a new social system from scratch, which is, of course, inevitably a very childish and immature one compared to one in which younger children are folded into a richer social structure formed by children of many ages. I reject the idea that schooling as we know it produces "perfectly socialized" children. It produces school-socialized children, which isn't the same thing. It's a great deal of the reason why we seem to be infantalized at an older and older age and this failed "socialization" is one of the major reasons I believe the current school system needs to be fully replaced... the "socialization" the current system produces is not a triumph but one of its major glaring flaws.
I'd love to read that! I'm new to errand but found your method of teaching erlang by fixing a real bug in a real project to be incredibly interesting and useful!
Also consider image search (e.g. what Google does). You'd base64 the image on the GET query string?
Confession: The horrors of bash set back my programming hobby until high school. Even then, I didn't actually like interacting with my computer programmatically until I found a comfortable set of tools sometime in college. I'm lucky that my day job lets me use the tools I like and avoid systems like the bash shell.
The crazier thing is that for negligence torts (cars would be products liability, which is different), that's exactly how the law works.

It's called the "Hand Formula" and you are only liable for negligence when PL > B, where P is the probability of loss, L is the gravity of loss, and B is the cost of avoiding the risk.

In practice though, it can be hard to argue that sort of thing. It's a little academic.
In Economics, the Coase Theorem[1] predicts close to this outcome, although it speaks to efficient outcomes and not necessarily harm reducing outcomes. When strong property rights exist (and it is feasible for all parties to negotiate), then parties may reach an efficient allocation of resources regardless of how the resources were initially allocated.

To use a typical example, imagine a train track runs through a farmer's land and sparks from the train sets the farmer's wheat on fire, causing monetary harm. If the train company owns the tracks, then the farmer should be willing to pay to put spark guards along the tracks to protect his crop. Alternatively, if the farmer owns the tracks, the train company should be willing to pay for the damage to the crop to ensure that it can continue to operate.

In practice, there may be costs associated with negotiations (e.g. lawyers), it may be infeasible to negotiate between all parties (e.g. if there are many farmers affected), or property rights are not sufficiently strong for one party to bar another from producing negative externalities, all of which can lead to failures of the theorem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
"But changing gameplay from 2D to 3D had a major impact on overall development cost (we found out a little too late)"

Not to pile on, but this was very surprising to me... how could you not know that this would have a major impact?
Thanks for the comment. I didn't cherry pick the timeframe, the data only goes back 10 years and if I looked further it would most likely look better.

I did adjust for cumulative inflation in the analysis and excluded outliers, such as very rare watch models that sold and would have skewed the data.
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A moderately inquisitive person would think from the title of the article that this would be related in some way to the movie.

One could then ctrl-F just in case, to see if it's referenced, and still get away with pretending to be interested in this stuff without spending your time actually reading.

I can only assume you've also not watched the "amazing" documentary you've cited.
Long error messages: Yes, they can be a little strange at first. If they annoy you (or you want errors to cause a little less scrolling) you can set the "error view":

$ErrorView = "CategoryView"

(unlike bash, whitespace is not significant)

As for learning PowerShell, if you lean towards online training, Microsoft Virtual Acedemy has a really good series of courses, even featuring Jeffrey Snover - who is surprisingly good at explaining stuff.

This is a good starting point:

https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/en-US/training-cours...

I usually prefer books/articles etc where I can set my own pace, but those online courses are really that good.

Otherwise links:
* https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281945(v=sql.1...
* http://learn-powershell.net/

And let's not forget the very friendly community at
http://powershell.org/
with articles such as this one:
http://powershell.org/wp/2015/07/31/introduction-to-powershe...
There is so much wrong with this comment that the only thing I can recommend is visiting the local library and get some History books, start with the Ancient History ones; Etruscans and such, you know. History matters.
Indeed, which is why I said a combination is the best solution. The benefits of each can be emphasized, and the issues of each can be more effectively mitigated.
Yep. My first "proper" smartphone was a Palm Treo (made by HTC) and after that I had a couple of HTC phones running Windows Mobile back when your options were generally PalmOS, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry.

Those things completely suckered me in and won me over when I found out I could stream Shoutcast stations in the car via my phone or download and install 3rd party apps or turn my phone into a turn-by-turn GPS navigator. It was like I had all the phone/calendar/email stuff plus a TomTom and an XM Radio without any additional subscriptions to pay for.

For all of their flaws (and there were plenty), HTC really was making some of the most capable smartphones on the market. Outside of some high-end, several thousand dollar micro-portable PC, it was the closes thing I had seen to having a full computer in my pocket.

But then the iPhone came out and despite lacking so many of the "smart" features in its debut version, it was oh so much more appealing to the non-techie, consumer market and the rest is history.

HTC never really seemed to come near being an industry leader ever since. They've at best kept up with Samsung and Apple and Moto and LG, etc. but they've never really bested any of them in an undeniable way. I'm left wondering if the resources of their company just weren't sufficient to compete when larger companies with more product diversity came to take on the same market.
> This is because it doesn't distinguish between a variable that is unset and a variable that is set to the empty string.

Yeah, this is insane and the default settings of bash are quite horrible. You can set some bash options in the beginning to avoid such problems. For the StackOverflow problem "set -o nounset" can be a good safeguard. Other options to look into to safeguard bash scripts from some insane behavior are "errexit" and "pipefail". Even though setting these is good practice, it doesn't stop some stuff that could be expected to be stopped by these. These options are not inherited to subshells invoked by command substitution and the likes. They wouldn't have stopped this nasty steam bug [1] for example. There are other nasty quirks too, it's really hard to unfck bash.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671...
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The argument that the only way that children gain exposure to people with different backgrounds/ideas is to attend public school is dubious. Contrast that with public schools in the U.S. which are highly socially stratified. (Kids from wealthy neighborhoods attend schools that are populated with kids from the wealthy neighborhood... Not really the perfect ideal of "diverse".)

(edit: The argument that children educated outside of the traditional school system find it more difficult to acquire social skills is also dubious.)
This guy officially has no life whatsoever.
Public/private schools provide environments and situations that are important for social growth, and which are hard to achieve when homeschooling: unplanned and uncontrolled contact with peers, diverse student populations, etc.
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Yeah, that is a huge issue in itself. Public office should not be a career but something you take time out of your career to perform.
I really hope we get a postmortem for the outages on Monday. S3 has historically been one of the most reliable AWS offerings so it will be interesting to hear what happened.
So you registered to HN just to spew your hatred? And you blame people for being to PC and not doing proper discussion but all you are doing is throw around racist rants without any substance?

If you actually had a bit of sense what's going on in Europe instead of blindly listening to whatever right wing party puts those ideas out in the country you are living, it should be clear to you that how Greece was handled and the German and French banks bailed out using peoples money has much more to do with the state of Europe right now than immigration. It's such an old, tired trope to divert blame like this, but apparently there are still enough people ignorante enough to not see through the simplest of diversion tactics.
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All of these points go against both my personal experience and the results of research I've seen on these topics. I encourage you to find and post evidence for these claims.
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I just ordered yesterday and did a wire transfer for a thinkpad L450. Hope thinkpads are not concerned by this.
Every city wants to create its own Silicon Valley. This is bad for innovation
That's why when you use them you get a message:

> /.../site-packages/IPython/nbformat.py:13: ShimWarning: The `IPython.nbformat` package has been deprecated. You should import from nbformat instead.

You are supposed to use the new modules for new notebooks, but this way it won't break any old notebook you have.
It is important to note here that Einstein was not being translated from German properly into English. 'Spuk' has a meaning akin to spook in the sense of a remote observer; Rather than 'spooky', which is an adjective relating to ghosts.

There are also a lot of assumptions in the no-cloning theorem regarding the nature of quantum operators: that they absolutely must be linear and unitary. This is certainly not the case for research into invisibility or stealth technology, where non-linear optics are standard.

Lastly, the epistemological nature of hidden variables is the property which rules them out. They are referred to as extraneous variables in every other field of science. This has caused problems of overfitting; Biologists can hold excessive faith in Hidden Markov Models. When you dissect Bell's theorem in terms of raw mathematics, it is technically a restatement of the triangle inequality within probability spaces; So it just ensures that the transitive property holds for the variables of a functional system.
Look up HTCCY. Large international companies can be traded in the US via ADRs.
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In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius comments that he was glad to not have attended public schools.
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Lawyers put the money up for a cut of profits. If legal claims could be sold then someone else could buy the claim itself and class action wouldn't be the only recourse for the poor.
The key principle in Thor development is doing it in the IETF process. Theora is much more like VP8 and VP9 in approach (it was based on VP3). The technical approach, basically use fairly standard approaches while avoiding the patent landmines, is similar across all these projects, it's doing it in the IETF that's different for Thor and may aid acceptance in some quarters, and help avoid some patent issues.
Actually you most probably have /bin/[ on your filesystem as a standalone 'test' executable or a link to 'test'. [ is a shell builtin in bash though.
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Interestingly my experience has been opposite. My first programming adventure was automating some file validation using bash. I agree though that the silly and inconsistent syntax made me really appreciate python when I started learning it.
Those watches may have been a good investment before, but I'm skeptical they're a good investment now. That first watch rose almost 400% in value, but if you bought it now and expected that kind of appreciation you'd need the price to climb to $120,000 which seems pretty unreasonable.

Maybe it's possible? I don't know much about luxury watches.
edited to better explain

So...

If the variance of a particular implementation from run to run is significant then one has to question how real any gain vs the bottom result obtained is? In the old days we used to do things like cross validate 30+ times and give results x vs y vs z with some confidence interval.

I believe that any implementation of a particular algorithm should be almost exactly the same as any other implementation if it is correct. Therefore, over a number of runs the results should be the same.
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> Not even remotely true. REST was a re-invention of XML-RPC wheel -- for the web and using baroque HTTP conventions that were meant for documents and hyperlinks.

Not even remotely true. REST is an architectural style inspired by the then-existing web, describing an idealized structure based on it, and developed in parallel with and guiding HTTP/1.1. It does not mandate HTTP conventions, though HTTP is itself an example of the style.

REST only involves HTTP conventions to the extent that one decides to use it over HTTP, and only because HTTP involves (obviously) HTTP conventions.
Ask HN: What legal mumbo jumbo does my startups website need?
I am running a typical web startup. A website about my favorite topic. Running on a LAMP stack. Using Analytics, Adsense and affiliate links from Amazon and other retailers.

Users love it. I get over a million monthly pageviews now. I am very happy that people like what I build. Life is good.

I do it all completely based on what people want me to do. I run user surveys all the time and talk to users directly.

One of the things nobody ever asked for - and therefore is absent on my site - is legal mumbo jumbo.

Somehow I feel that might cause problems at some point. So what should I put up?

Lately I got an email from Google saying that users of their services shall put up that annoying "This site uses cookies. Click here to get rid of this popup." message to european visitors. I don't know any local european sites that do that. But when God^Hogle says so, you better comply, right? So looks like it's time to implement geotargeting.

That probably also implies putting up a privacy policy, as the full message in that popup shall be "This site uses cookies. OK|MORE" and MORE linking to the privacy policy. If I understand it correctly.

Similar with Amazon who wants publishers to put up an "Ad Disclosure" statement on their site. It's unclear where that has to go and if you have to link it from every page and if that can go on the "About" page or on a separate "Ad Disclosure" page or whatever Amazon wants. They don't give any more info about this requirement.

And then there is the local law. Sites in my country have to carry the information who runs them, the owners address and an "easy way to contact the owner". So either email or telephone I guess.

Can these 3 things (Address, Privacy Policy, Ad Disclosure) be put on one page? Is it enough to link to that page from an "About" link on every page of the site?

Anything else that I have to put up? How do you guys handle this?
I see some tests, but are there nay public comparison tables/charts? (I.e. same data, but different algorithms, or different packages.)
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Regular schooling isn't that diverse in most places. When I went to public school my entire class consisted of white lower-class children all within a year of the same age. That's not diversity.