skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - I have also moved (a holdout library was ported recently). I even liked it. But here I am thinking about moving backward again after having crossed that rubicon.

Three's problem is that even if 95% of stuff is on it, basically 100% of stuff is on 2.7, including brand new stuff. Let's say you use 10 libraries on average and 95% of libraries have been ported. The odds of having one library missing are still 40%! (1-0.95^10) This ratio goes up the more specialised your work, or the greater your investment in legacy, which is why most 3.x people are generalists/web where they cannot understand the 2.x position. For me this Tensorflow library transports me right back into exactly that 40% problem. That problem does not exist the other way around unless you at all costs need to use Asyncio instead of something that's already been there for years.

In my case I'm going to persevere and put 2.7 back into a virtualenv or something but it's really not ideal and my point is still that if 3.x gave science/engineering people something properly compelling (@ operator is not enough in my view) then the above problem would not be happening.

For example a difficult-but-possible megawin would be to put GPU computing natively into Python. GPU is more than 50% of the compute silicon in most computers nowadays (Iris 6200 uses up 50% of die size in recent Intel core i7). If you include multicore and discrete GPU then standard Python is only targeting about 10% of the available compute silicon in a modern PC! Imagine how very rapidly everybody would move if there were a GPU-enabled Numpy array in 3.6.
a) I disagree still... let's put it this way, on a forum like r/zizek where people discuss Zizek's positions, it's patently obvious who hasn't actually read Zizek and who just watches YouTube and the Pervert's Guides, which is what a lot of Zizek fans do because they find the reading intimidating (it certainly is, at first). Don't read his entire work, just Less than Nothing, or one of his self-proclaimned important works.

b) We can like and appreciate both (I do too). They are compatible to an extent, but some facets of behavior described from a pure evo psych or cog sci perspective conflict with a Lacanian-Hegelian one. My friend is a Steven Pinker fanatic, and we are in constant debate anytime we meet up for beers.
Interesting, but the paper doesn't mention speed gains

It is definitely promising. Even though fp operations today are "cheap", integer ones are still faster
What People Said About Snapchat When It Was Just a Startup
"Left" and "Right" are better thought of as maternal versus paternal authoritarianism. Neither has any use for rational, independent thought.
When I parked my motorcycle in the garage at my old job, occasionally, the mechanism did in fact fail to "see" my bike so the low tech solution was that the attendant had a hunk of metal with a handle that he/she would set on the pad when the gate failed to open for my bike.
Comcast resets passwords after logins posted to dark web, but denies breach
I have no idea, sorry. I just happened to see it when someone else re-tweeted it and it looked perfect.

The service was provided by JT Global (website here: http://www.jtglobal.com/jersey/) and Purple WiFi (http://www.purplewifi.net/) so you might try following up with them? I don't know any of the people involved, I just showed up for my talk and left soon after.
Not going to lie, wasn't expecting an answer. I really like your explanation (if not the direction it may lead society)...

Edit - your language was fine. I still like your explanation. Provocative language belongs in discussions like this regardless, even though I didn't take your message that way.
You can favourite your friends on Facebook, and get notifications whenever they post or change their profile picture.
There's a little bit more to it than that. Someone watching that transaction between you and your friend doesn't learn anything either, since your friend could be colluding with you and placing a printed out piece of paper with waldo on it when your friend would say "show me you know where waldo is" and the book when he would say "show me there's a book under there"
I wouldn't consider him heroic, I recently watched Citizen Four and the impression he gave me and the way he put it was that he was just fed up. That being said, I'm not sure I'd have it in me to do the same, though I haven't found anything I truly believe in to the deepest depths of my core...yet.
A few year back, I read about their sells process are 100% user self direct into their websites.

I wonder if they stay with that model or do more of the "enterprise sells" now.
Maybe WebAssembly and WebComponents will finally fix this.

However I started to feel the same way a few years ago when the HTML 5 wave started, after several years of doing web development as well.
This is the right approach.
Consciousness, and complex unconscious processing
Fears of immigration in ancient Rome and today
The use of poisoning language is what has given them power for so long. Luckily their overuse of labeling everything to be problematic/racist/sexist is going to be their downfall. When air conditioned offices began to be labeled sexist [0], reasonable people began to see through all the bullshit.

It is sad that the absurdity has been allowed to go on for so many years before the average person decided to be reasonable and push back. I'm glad that people are finally waking up and realizing that a culture where dressing up for Halloween is "potentially offensive" is absurd [1].

I fear a world where I can no longer purchase a kimono because it has been labeled as "potentially offensive" and "cultural appropriation" of the Japanese people by a group of disproportionately white "progressives". While ignoring how the Japanese people feel about it, of course. Also - even if you were Japanese you wouldn't be allowed to wear a kimono. After all, it is possible to appropriate your own culture [2].

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11760417/Air-co...

[1] http://www.geneseo.edu/community/show-your-true-face-2015

[2] http://www.mrctv.org/blog/ontario-high-school-halloween-cost...
I agree and disagree. On the one hand, General Mills, Wells Fargo, and Target are never going to be as cutting-edge as Google. On the other hand, most jobs at Google aren't cutting-edge, either. The two guys I know at Google are doing stuff that's not that much different than your average line-of-business programmer.

I'd say availability of tech jobs in the "sort of interesting" category is great in MSP, but the truly amazing jobs are still rare.
You may want to play with a functioning (still early and being debugged) implementation:

https://github.com/REX-Computing/unumjl

Disclaimer: I'm the author
I've always been interested in seeing a statistic that shows how often the top comment is a negative comment that attempts to controvert the original story.
Methadone Maintenance
> a generalized, native runtime designed explicitly to run dynamically fetched untrusted code.

You mean like a browser?
You mean like Flash and Java?
Leaked Comcast memo admits data caps aren't about improving network performance
While I completely agree, since it will never happen, why not strip javascript out of a browser (FF?), come up with a new catchy name, and market it as a safe browser. Just need a catchy name..., hmm, maybe Lynx? ;
Netflix Hack Day – Autumn 2015
> universities are in it for the money

Which is why a lot of college are pandering to these people. They make them a lot of money.

> and there seems to be a market for students who want to learn and not have to deal with this BS.

I don't think colleges would necessarily brag about it, just not pander or do anything. Maybe I am wrong, but I haven't seen any engineering colleges do stuff like this. People just go, learn, and come out.
Fullstack+Academy
Yes, computers broadcast their MAC address when they first connect to a network so that they can, for example, obtain an IP address via DHCP. However the MAC address isn't forwarded beyond the LAN to which the computer is connected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol
> This accusation is very vague and it could mean anything.

Oh, it's pretty bad. Basically all television is state-controlled. All major papers as well. Any opposition site that becomes prominent is quickly banned. Unsanctioned street protests are banned even if they are as few as two people with banners. Lone opposition protesters are routinely attacked by pro-Kremlin "activist" crews which are promptly released even if they are ever detained by the police.

> Russian parliament consists of 4 parties, 3 of those are oppositional.

Those 3 "oppositional" parties have been tamed and groomed by Putin's administration since he came to power. They never criticize Putin, they vote for every law introduced by his administration, they never stage any protests against him. The true opposition leaders, in the meantime, are either spending their time in jail or exiled/dead.

> Notice they don't arrest people for being a political dissident?

Of course they don't, but that doesn't make them democrats. They sentence political prisoners on made up charges all the time - see Navalny, Savchenko, Murtazalieva and hundreds of others across Russia.

> Russian government's policy right now is as progressive on LGBT rights as possible in Russia

This is not true. Homophobia of its people is the cornerstone of the Russian government's anti-Western propaganda (especially anti-EU).

> ... that Russia is a ' state [which] holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.

Not yet, but they are getting there, or at least trying to. Russia is still an authoritarian state which is rapidly transforming into a totalitarian one.
>Sometimes I just wish I could point a finger and accuse someone of attempting to kill people and/or destroy civilization.

Funny, that's what anti-wind/solar/nuclear people say!

I think it comes down to a lack of science education and a fear of the unknown.
If you honestly believe this premise of risk-free profits, then why not toss your life savings into a residential leasing firm?

An example stock is Equity Residential (stock EQR). Easy way to put money where mouth is.

(For the record, I don't agree with your premise and would never invest solely in real estate).
"6	bootload	4212	28759	Peter Renshaw, British creative learning consultant and researcher"

A quick inspection of user id would have confirmed this. Should read:

6 bootload 4212 28759 PR Programmer, Melbourne, Australia
Inmates must pay a fee for each night spent in jail
The problem with this article is that the author is claiming that all this outrage is over one email, and thus the reaction is disproportionate and damaging.

The outrage might be over the top for a single email, but that is not the context experienced by the students protesting. As a white guy with a good job, the Atlantic author and I share the privilege to experience race if and when we choose. From that perspective, it's easy to call this "a fight over Halloween costumes"

For the women who say they were turned away from a "white girls only" party, and for many others, it's not a fight over an email about Halloween costumes. It's about having administrators who acknowledge the reality that they experience on an ongoing basis:

It's worth reading another side of the story before jumping to conclusions:
https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/what-s-really-...

When you see all the context that the Atlantic author, Mr Friedersdorf, chooses to ignore, you should think about the political agenda behind a piece like this.
I think this is great.

He says pretty convincingly that collectivity is bad for us as individuals. And that individualism is bad for us as society.

Then he suggests that we should abandon society so we could act as individuals. And abandon our individual habits to form dream society.

This perfectly shows that he is unable to really understand society or individualism. Which are also essential blocks of our existence. I feel I understand it better, but probably so did he. Maybe none of us understands it.
> Why don't you think that employment history predicts job performance?

Because empiricism: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/833-years-of-irrelevance

> Which group will have better average job performance?

The two groups are statistically indiscernible.
The only difference in meaning I see in those two statements is the original is more strongly worded (ie, less room for interpretation).

The second statement doesn't imply how badly the community is missed, the first explicitly states it's the most missed thing.

"most non-believers" also implies a smaller percentage of the group than simply saying "non-believers".

No one would say "christians believe dancing is immoral", but they would say "christians believe in God".

The reason is the implication is wrong. There are denominations to that do believe dancing is immoral, but it would be more accurate to say "some", or "many". Whereas the second sentence would be considered more accurate since you would probably be hard pressed to find a christian who didn't believe in God.

The short and sweet of it is that if he didn't mean to imply most non-believers than he should probably clarify that because the language, as is, very strongly implies it.
You haven't done the math. Even home engineers won't have recordings with noise floors below -90 dBFS. That's just absurd. Double-blind tests have shown that trained listeners in ideal listening environments with high-end, calibrated equipment can't tell the difference between 44.1/16 and 88.2/24.

Audio engineers don't have to "deal" with the issues of downsampling and dithering. The DAW just does it. It's a solved problem. It's not even a button you have to press, it's all automatically set up for you these days. We know what algorithms to use: band-limited interpolation with dithering, possibly combined with noise shaping.

Headroom is a different issue, but even the sloppiest home engineer is going to take a look at the levels at some point. If they don't, they can just check the "normalize" checkbox when they bounce. Or they can just ignore it and leave it checked. They're still not going to give you files with noise floors below -90 dBFS, and therefore, there's still no point in giving you a 24-bit file.

Even for remixes, you're not getting any benefit, since the noise floor is above -90 dBFS anyway.

However... you want to work on a project together? Let's keep things 24-bit until the final mixdown.
That's got little to do with what I meant.

Replace "Nutrition", with "Nutrition Science" or "Our understanding of the body's need for Nutrition" in my comment.
Ufora: a compiled, automatically parallel subset of python for data science
Why Our Startup Loves Bloggers
I do believe in right and wrong, but I do not believe that there are no bad tactics, only bad targets. Internet vigilantism isn't going to work out for anybody, it'll only perpetuate the cycle without resolving the core issues.
It's still not used by many poor/old patients here because mandatory insurance don't cover it.
Oh damn, super cool stuff. I wish I'd seen this before. Looks like I replicated a lot of your work, but yeah trends seem to have stayed the same.
I was hoping the article would include a map of the migration route.
> which is institutionally thought of as unacceptable

That's not it at all.

The goal of hiring is simple: maximize the effectiveness of the company by hiring people who are the most effective at least cost. Typically, the hiring manager thinks about what he needs and reduces the hiring question to: "For this role, we need a person with these skills or better, and we're willing to pay this amount or less."

Then you evaluate candidates to determine their effectiveness.

Many factors impact someone's relative effectiveness: if they take time off work for any reason, then they are less effective than someone who is equal in other ways but works full time. You simply get more weeks of effort out of them for the same pay - it's really simple. It has nothing to do with being "unacceptable" so much as a "bad deal for the employer".

Imagine that you're considering two candidates, one who you believe will work full time, and another who you think has 25% chance of working half-time (while being paid for full time) over some period. The two employees are equal otherwise. The expected value of the first worker is 100%1.0 = 1.0, and the expected value of the second worker is (25%)(0.5) + (75%1.0) = 0.875. Thus by going with the first worker, your expected outcome is 14% better.

Imagine that the second worker is 10% better than the first. Then his expected value is (25%)(1.10/2) + (75%*1.10) = 0.96, or still worse than the regular worker. The worker who is 25% likely to work half-time must be 15% better in order for their expected value to equal a normal worker.

The results change rapidly if they are more than 25% likely to take time off, and if they work less than half-time. If they are 25% likely to stop working completely, then they have to be 33% more competent in order for the expected value to equal a regular worker.

All of this ignores the practical complexity of employees who take time off work unpredictably. The problem is that for the company to function, the job still needs to get done, which means burdening other employees, or hiring more employees - but if you hire another employee, then they won't be needed when the first employee comes back, and they are by law entitled to their same job.

A simple rational analysis shows that workers who work full time have a better expected value for an employer, and are a lot simpler to deal with because they're predictable and you can plan around their schedule.
Why you should drop out of design school (if working for startups)
Rumblr: The Fight Club App
> Otherwise the same thing will happen to the left as what happened to the right in the early 2000s

Well, the only disagreement I have is that you think that hasn't happened yet.
What gets me the most is that the poll near the beginning of the article is split almost 50/50 on whether people would download this app. Why is this an appealing idea?
What would help gum disease?
A question of ignorance, but people really worry about a wandering mind?
Yep, that's 90% of people.
As vezzy-fnord is arguing nearby, they're not unrelated.
An Assessment of the Economic Benefits Associated with Encryption [pdf]
Rightly so. Bitcoin (and subsequent crypto currencies) have captured the attention and sparked the imagination in areas completely unrelated to cryptography and the Internet. They've shown how trust models can be built through unknown individuals without organisations (like governments or private institutions), and how a truly global market is within our reach.
I have gotten that letter for startup accelerators, but never for an academic professor slot position.
I think the takeaway here, as with most data problems, is be careful what you are indexing and why/how. What file systems optimize their indices for is not necessarily what your data needs indexed. In this particular example, because (among other reasons) users tend to prefer folders with smaller numbers of files, most operating systems naturally optimize their indices for that use case rather than folders with large numbers of files.
Helm by Deis announced. A package manager for Kubernetes
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

Site search: A lot of bloggers have last few posts on their front page and rest is hard to find again. A search feature lets you discover all the content regardless of time.

Discover users: Agree. We will focus on the tool first and network later. Will remove that.

The idea here is to simplify personal blog setup, writing, and discovering efficiently.

If you start a blog on wordpress, you need to host it, configure via admin panels, go through options, install plugins. Select templates, then try to edit parts of it and fail.

Here you get one site that works, without any setup. Content is not dispersed. A visitor can efficiently find content.

I will revise the message to make it more clear.
If I was running to a yard sale for a couple minutes and there was nowhere else to park? Of course.
There's a fair chance I met you at a meet-up in the DC area, which smaller professional communities can be good for. I'm familiar with VividCortex and met a few engineers up there at DevOps DC. When there's less companies, it's easier to form tighter bonds and there's less chance for negative competition like in much denser areas of competing professionals.

Charlottesville, VA is a sort of Sunnyvale, CA in my mind - it's about the same mental distance as the craziness going on in the real urban area up north of it, and it has some history with some access to capital (UVA / William & Mary alumni really). Heck, I considered moving there but I consider it still tough for local jobs without the relative drop in cost of living. Granted, where I moved it sunk potential income harder, but the even lower cost of living is critical when bootstrapping companies, and cheap craft beer is a perk few areas where you can buy a great house for under $200k can claim.
Seriously... do we really need to invent yet another implementation of Python that runs on the web in Javascript? I mean it with heart. How about we just have one language and one implementation forget about it? Wouldn't that be super ideal?
I've just been cured from another sickness caused by the same bacteria. Only one or two years of suffering, not so much, but enough to make my life miserable in so many ways.

The explanation I've read at Wikipedia is that it's an extremophile (digestive acids), so it could never be cultured until very recently.

I completely agree with you about lack of perspective in medical knowledge. Pros get all defensive instead of doing a bit of self-criticism. Fortunately the scientific method seems to be stronger that individuals' biases.
Kubernetes 1.1 Performance upgrades, improved tooling and a growing community
Almost all cheating happened within groups with cultural ties.

I did not even want to think of being in my office behind closed doors with a female undergraduate student who is crying loudly.

More than 45 hours in completely unproductive discussions, when the total lecture time for the course was just 32 hours

That was painful to read. Why would any sane person want to become a teacher? :(
Show HN: Into the Sciences
The investment fidelity of this information is likely pretty high - not necessarily with this analysis ... but investment picks from topics popular on hn (ex: tesla, bitcoin, apple, amazon[ec2]) were ahead of the market.

Products, services, or companies repeatedly lauded in the comment section, in my experience, are remarkably indicative of future broader trends.

For instance, this user, in 2010, lamented about the rampant bitcoin discussions as excessively overflowing on hn like some irritating internet meme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998630 ... at the time of posting, bitcoins were selling for $0.06 each. Would it have been a smart idea to buy 10,000 after reading that? Probably.

I can imagine an arb-style subscription to the right sql queries could be packaged and resold for extremely good profit to the right people.