skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that this has to be one of the corniest things I've seen since the 90s. From a tech side it's interesting, but from an end user side it's something I would make fun of with my friends. I wonder how much of that is some kind of uncanny valley esque problem. I laughed out loud with I saw the screen shot.
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The electricity costs you mentioned are externalities and not really relevant here. Otherwise you will start blaming everything for every little action you take. If you don't want to browse that site, you can stop at any level from going to that url, starting your browser, buying your computer, living in that country, etc.

When you go shopping, it will likely cost you gas, time, wear/tear, etc just like anything else but do you tally that and ask for a refund on the purchase price?

I also hear this "potential" value argument a lot - why are you continually going to sites that you consider to have no value? Just doesn't make sense. And either way, ads allow you to not lose anything monetarily if you feel that site didn't give you what you expected. It's very a fair and low-risk trade.
Never looked at the source code for Eclipse, but I'm guessing it does a lot of parsing and linking on source code and reads the same file multiple times while doing random access to other files. So a decent SSD with good random read speed makes all of that basically instant, while on a slow 5000 rpm laptop hdd it's going to take minutes.

In the long run everything will be using SSDs so maybe it won't matter in a couple years? Can see it now: Developer headlines in 2019. "Have you checked out this never before seen IDE called Eclipse? It's blazing fast!"
That second one confuses me, Eclipse as of the three days ago I last opened it absolutely does warn about unused imports, methods, and variables. And this is with the bog standard out of the box configuration.
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A 40W CO2 laser will not cut metals, period.

Save yourself the wait and spend $395 on eBay to get a much more sturdy version shipped to your door. It's not perfect but at that price, imperfection is forgivable.
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The whole problem is really just the age old issue that if you track the wrong metric, people will optimise for something you don't want.

It's like paying programmers per line of code written and then getting bloated and shitty code.

You need to be doing CPA (Cost per Acquisition) deals not CPM or CPC.
Do you realize that some people are coding Javascript (sic) in Notepad (sic)?
So please, let's be serious.
Eclipse (and IntelliJ, and Netbeans) are f.cking AWESOME productivity tools !!!!
I was trying to be polite, not weasly.

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2014/09/googles...

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/247982/google-...

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2924309/malware-cybercrime/...

http://readwrite.com/2014/05/15/app-redirects-mobile-spam-ad...
Needed emergency services two times and I nearly stung myself on a needle while cleaning out a pissoir because it was stuck with a condom and cigarette butts. Also, two (known, but not to me) heroin junkies smashed gambling machines.

edit: oh, forgot the occurence of a junkie shitting into the pissoir. God, what a smell, it was horrid to clean up that mess. And a suspected mentally ill dude smeared feces over the wall.

The gambling addicts were mostly harmless but I had to kick out a couple of them because they tried to sell stolen gear to other customers for cash to gamble.
It will by interesting to see what comes from this, I think it's really interesting how far things have come... once we see python and node running on this, there will be some significant proliferation of projects that can target it.

Hopefully direct sales orders are coming soon, I missed the boat on this... then again, I've given away a couple of Raspberry Pis over the years mainly because I never got around to doing anything with them.
> You do know that the private prison system is literally leaning on state governments and threatening them with breach of contract for not keeping prisons full, right?

Assuming you are correct, I retract any sympathy my other comment displayed toward these kind of work programs.
Yes... it seems very different than the activity shown on the project page... 108 commits in the latest four months is not that bad. Why such difference in data?
Most adblockers these days get rid of those messages as well. And asking you to unblock is not the same as stopping you completely - the only way to do that is paywalls.
> I like the linear algebra interpretation, where the DFT is a basis change

Yea. Maybe a loose analogy would be transforming from RGB to HSV space - the difference in how we can interpret the numbers in one versus the other is what's great.
Yes, dumping cookies makes it much harder to track lookback conversions. Some networks will use fingerprinting (IP, user-agent-- panopticlick style stuff) to supplement their data, but it's much less reliable and a determined user, like someone blocking or dumping cookies, is going to defeat it.
This is a promising therapy and one that shouldn't be 10-15 years away.
Suppose you have a hard requirement that your tools are free and open source. What IDE would you recommend as a replacement for Eclipse? (JetBrains is out, it's neither free nor open source). The worry I have with Eclipse dying is that there isn't a great completely open alternative.
Actually I believe it is you who misread the article. To pull a quote from the article:

> "Both nicotine and alcohol are strongly linked to violence."

The poster specifically referred to alcohol in his/her post:

> "In one case it was someone raging on alcohol and being angry at the world."
Also, fuck Google Contribute. It's just an ad platform's way of realizing their shitty business is threatened by the pervasiveness of blockers, and so they find a way to make people pay for "their" space which wasn't their space to begin with. The internet isn't a walled Google garden, where they can come in and dictate rev-share terms. I'd rather give a site owner 100% of my money, than 30% to Google.
Yes.

I know a lot of iOS developers that hate development for Android and I think Eclipse is a major reason. Unlike Linuxers, Macers know that a good user interface is possible thus they can't put up with the crashing, slowness, pluginitis,...
I have seen both sides of teh argument.

ORM's win hands down over multiple insert and update queries. Complex queries are usually better in SQL.
> I don't, I said it is a threat, but the bigger threat is someone else getting them.

I see no reason to accept this as prima facie true. If you look over the course of history, most of the world's violence has occurred at the hands of a state, religion or combination of the two.
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People with money like cocaine. There is a correlation between class and money, but they are not the same thing.
I like to operate by word of mouth, sometimes online searches (and I'll take reviews over ads any day, even when searching) and by stumbling across things.
I was going to read your comment but I felt like I had a better way to do it so I just wrote my own. I think it's better but I didn't do any benchmarks because I have to ship it now. Oh well, onto my next comment.

-- Facebook dev
I'm glad to hear this, I have a pile of pi's and I haven't used them (plenty of ideas, no time). I was feeling really guilty..glad I'm not the only one.
The Workspace thing was a relic of the VisualAge background of Eclipse, IIRC. It made perfect sense for a Smalltalk project.
How about leasing it?
There is a checkbox that says "Use custom URL" - it's even in your screenshot. It is obviously designed to insert something else - a 1x1 pixel for example. That is not a "hack" and as it is there for everyone, it clearly IS the way Google designed it to function.
> I think this is far from verification.

How would you characterize verification, then? (and remember, most verification methods aren't proofs)

> I think Haskell's claim to fame is being a pure language

Sure, but why would you want to use a pure language? I mean, you could say that any programming paradigm is intellectually interesting, but some people seem to think that using Haskell actually has some real advantages. What are those advantages? Performance? Readability? Sure, some believe it results in more maintainable code, but I think that the most common praises are "helps to reason about code equationally" -- which is informal verification -- or "helps write more correct code faster due to the rich type-system" -- which is formal verification (BTW, I say "believe" and "claim" because unfortunately we don't yet have any significant evidence to speak with confidence regarding Haskell's benefits in large, challenging real-world software because it has hardly been used in any yet).

> Haskell's learning curve is usually also related to people not being familiar with functional programming as a paradigm.

Partly, but I was quite familiar with FP (Scheme, ML) when I started learning Haskell, and there's a very steep curve (steeper than going from Java to OCaml).
That's why the penalties for cocaine are historical less than for crack despite them being the same drug.

It's not racial per se -- in the original message I think "dominant mainstream culture" would be better than "white" -- though in the 50s and 60s those were almost the same thing. Back then the dominant culture implied white, English-speaking, and protestant Christian, and other cultures and ethnic groups were second class. That's much less true today but not totally.

I'm speaking to the historical reasons for the war on drugs, which are mostly related to racism as well as a desire to suppress subcultures like the 'hippie' movement. The original propaganda used to make marijuana illegal was all about black men seducing white women. Google it.

If the war on drugs were about health and based on rational health evidence, marijuana would be legal and alcohol would be schedule I.
There is a community edition of IntelliJ that is open source https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
Yes, Virginia, You Really Do Need a Schema Registry
"Nature" doesn't disallow anything. Viruses and bacteria can exchange DNA with pretty much almost any living thing. We actually have descendants of bacteria with their own DNA living inside each of our cells.

DNA, and nature, is a mess.
I made this 'mori clock' awhile back (used to have it at a url): https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html

It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80.

Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
Playing devil's advocate here, but instantaneous long-distance communication is also a very recent development, historically speaking. Traditional investigation methods relied on tracking people's movements, who they associated with and so forth. Digital communication has almost completely removed the requirement for non-digital criminal relationships. As we saw with the DPR hired-killer case, two people can collaborate to perform a crime with zero non-digital connections. How do you use traditional methods in a world where criminals can just go about their daily lives, pausing occasionally to send a message to someone who could be a co-conspirator or could just be their mother?

I don't think subverting encryption is necessarily the answer, but to say that law enforcement just wants to do things the easy way is to ignore the emergence of a very real problem that they face.
Similar to this I made! https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html
obviously, but the time of blocking on IO should be the same on all strategies + CPU overhead of doing that
No, it uses a Note 3 screen. An executive from Samsung corrected me when I said Note 4.

It's significantly lower res than a Gear VR, and you can tell.

EDIT: your link confirms it's note 3, not note 4.
Then educate people. Educate the people who are writing the "bad" stuff in the first place. Educate the people who are making the policies. Become the educator and the policy maker and be the change you want in the population. That's how you fix things.

But complaining about what people should consume because you deem it unworthy seems arrogant, draconian and irrational.
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If a judge's private key were compromised there are solutions. Treat the judge as an intermediary CA cert (I'm assuming there would be an actual root somewhere) that issues individual certs per warrant. The software on the phone (which holds the ability to decrypt the data) then verifies the entire chain of trust. If the signature appears correct and everything validates, but the certificate revocation list is too old/can't be updated, maybe it enters some kind of lock mode that only the carrier/manufacturer can unlock. But it gives the LEO nothing and prevents the user from deleting data.

All accesses must be logged. This way we can see what warrants have been executed and can track to see if they match what the judge has issued. Any discrepancy can lead to cert revocation.
Not necessarily. I'm not in the SEO or advertising game but intuition tells me that having the same person see an ad twice is less valuable than 2 people seeing the ad. Additionally, as a result "fake" accounts are likely to contain less information advertise to "target" so they're only hitting fake accounts with overly broad appeal and not really creating content that might interest the user on his/her fake profile.
Product strategy means saying no
Great link.

Taking the drug war into account, it does become painfully clear that the present system is morally reprehensible, arguably even amounting to a continuation of African-American slavery, in a modern form.

In my original comment, I only had the hypothetical scenario of prison work in mind. It should have been a lot more obvious that actual context summarily demolishes any argument for it.
And just like that, Crystal was uninstalled.

Didn't take long for the conflicts of interest to show up!

"According to Mr. Murphy, he isn’t adding the option for financial gain, but rather to make sure publishers aren’t overburdened by all-out blocking of ads on their sites."

My response to which is: "Who do you think you're fooling? You are taking money to allow people to defeat the core purpose of your application."

Secret Media plans to only work with “premium” publishers who don’t bombard users with large amounts of low-quality advertising.

Is there any other kind?
It's unique to Python in that most other languages used for more than just scripting have true concurrency via OS preemptive threads with no GIL.

Python is really decades behind in this area and no async hack is going to improve matters. I think it's safe to say that this is an obvious example of how Python is not really a general purpose language (disregarding the fact that it started out as a christmas hack and really has no design behind it). It should be used for scripting and quick prototyping but architecting anything substantial on it is not advisable.
I ue ORM's similary. I would basiclly go for the easiest to understand / maintain approach. I don't have much expereince with SQLAlchemy, but I have a pretty good idea of where its worth using SQ rather than the Django ORM. (Usually anything that involves complex joins or subqueries, or similar. "Normal" joins are usually better done in the ORM as it makes a lot more of the Django features available).
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This entire post has plenty of objective arguments. What aspect would you like to discuss?

There's nothing wrong with subjective - unless you're actively trying to say you know what's right for everyone else. That's not how we make progress in the best interests of everyone.
It's kind of ironic, but regular foot traffic is a bigger deterrent to crime than isolation. After all, no one is home all the time.
Power attacking (or planning to attack) its self to further it's agenda is not unprecedented. In the most famious case, it was the President that put a stop to the plan. See Operation Northwoods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods and the Strategy of Tension.
So much of the software world is turning opensource... and that's a good thing
What do you mean by "true multiproject/workspace support?" You can add other maven projects as modules into your IntelliJ project using the "Add Maven Projects" icon in the Maven Projects tool window. And you can also open multiple IntelliJ projects at once in different windows.
While I haven't had a chance to use 3.5's async/await syntax, I have used AsyncIO pretty heavily to deal with multiple sensor inputs/outputs on a Raspberry Pi.

The author is right. If you write a coroutine, any code that uses it must also be a coroutine. This is pretty annoying when you're trying to test something manually. It bubbles up this way until you eventually hit the event loop.

If you're trying to debug a coroutine in the interactive shell you've got to do something like this:

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# Blocking call which returns when the hello_world() coroutine is done
loop.run_until_complete(hello_world())
loop.close()

That's my main beef with it. Debugging can also be painful because when you hit an exception, your stack trace will also involve the asyncio library. Aside from those complaints, I'm a fan. It works fine and reads better than callback-style code.
I think the problem is more that there is not that much good stuff out there. I mean look at Netflix. I like it, but it's either films I have seen, often on tv, from maybe ten years ago, or it's really bad. Really bad.

But there might not be enough really good stuff out there. User created content is never going to be like professional globally top notch produced content - or if it is it will take as much talent and time to make. Once I have seen the new Star Wars film, it's not like I am going to be able to see another three hours of similar quality entertainment the next night and the next and the next.

For a thousand years humans have mostly entertained themselves by talking and jossing and laughing with each other. That's likely to be the future of content - just aimed at our niches.
Can someone who knows about these things explain what concrete steps we in the US could take when trying to lobby for the release of individuals like Bassel Khartabil?

EFF mentions contacting "the embassy in our country", I would assume they mean the Embassy of Syria, in this case. Unfortunately, I don't think that Syria has an embassy here in the US, as its operations were suspected last year.

Can we in the US do anything for Khartabil?

Edit: Actually, I see that the US officially recognized the opposition a few months back and that they will (or have) opened an embassy here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27287650

However, the article said that Khartabil's prison is on the front lines, and evenly split between the forces. Which side of the prison is he on, I wonder? I'll need to do additional research. In any case, my original question stands, which is what exactly can we do, what tone should the letter take, etc?
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On the bright side it does have a nice modular configuration in `~/.spacemacs`.
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Well you seem to have made your peace with it - enjoy
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And it's deleted. Thanks
I can't help observing that the major vendors of alcohol, tobacco, and coffee - all three of which I hope you'll agree qualify as recreational drugs in terms of psychactivity - somehow manage to stay in business without shooting each others' employees or attacking each others' distribution operations with violence. You could certainly say they engage in a sort of abstract violence through ruthless profit-driven corporate behavior or through selling products that are likely to damage your health to some degree, but they don't get engaged in shootouts the way some illegal drug dealers do.
The problem that python is facing (and pypy is not solving) is that in order to have a working async library ecosystem, everything, especially the stdlib has to be async aware. This is a far cry right now and I don't see any of the python devs really trying to address that. Otherwise you end up with the same situation as for twisted - it works and it's great, but every single library needs to be made twisted aware
Oculus owns a lot of the IP, and more importantly know-how. Evidently the Gear VR was the result of extremely tight integration between Samsung and Oculus engineering, with Oculus providing the bulk of the VR-specific knowledge. Samsung provided screens and phones.

Late in the game, the Oculus engineers pushed for major changes to the architecture to allow the phone to communicate with the sensors in the headset in a very low latency way -- something nearly bare metal. Evidently it took a lot of convincing.

(A friend heard this from Carmack in person, for what it's worth.)
This is like the cripple making fun of the blind man.

When your competition is NodeJS there is nothing really left to say.
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- Talk Python to Me

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Is it worth it though?

I have wrestled the Django ORM into doing some relativley complex queries, but looking back, I am not sure it is worth the effort. The code is more likely to be harder to undersatand by anyone except me, and I started with the equivalent SQL and tweaked the ORM version of the query until it worked. You still need to know the SQL that will be produced when you start using the extra clause.

Maybe SQL alchemy is better. I guess I'll find out soon as my new workplace is using it.