skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho, (good) Python code is so easy to read and inspect, that it can be better than documentation. Documentation is less exact. I often find myself reading the libraries that I use, to see what it really does. Once you get into the habit of that, documentation is only useful as a starting point and you can discover a lot more useful functionality. (And also get a good feel of the quality of the library, and learn a lot in terms of patterns)

Of course, this habit comes with the risk that you might have to do more maintenance on your code on library updates.

As documentation takes effort to write and constitutes a sort of contract with your users, it makes sense for library writers to only document the truly essential.
For that you'd need to know where they are.
PencilScale – Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad Pro as an Electronic Scale
Apple, Spotify Face New Rival in Race for Exclusive Music
It seems to me that one should be able to detect which features are actually used in a regular expression and choose one of multiple different underlying implementations based on that.
I tried using CloudFlare for my site, but they (or their CA partner) wouldn't issue a certificate for my domain (piranhas.co) because it contains the substring “iran”. Seriously[0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/matiaskorhonen/status/561063104596172800
I didn't say that they were totalitarian, merely that they had taken a step in that direction. Powers are abused, 100% of the time, even if you don't find out. Steps against free society add up.
I'm not sure if the Intellij Go Plugin is going to be made into a separate IDE, but it's already available for their other IDEs as a plugin and they have a team improving it constantly.
Notably, it also works with their open-source IDEA Community Edition.

https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin

So far the best "Go IDE", I've used.
> The best route up is hitching your wagon to your bosses wagon. So yes doing some of his work will make him look like a hero, which will get him promoted, and he'll think who is his most valuable / productive underling, which will get you promoted. Hopefully you doing some of his work free's up his time to be more productive in other areas. If your boss is a lazy PHB (Dilbert), get another job.

This is called loyalty, and it only really works in certain kinds of endeavors, and then only certain organizations doing them. TV shows depict loyalty a lot, the thing I notice about these shows is that the stories are always set in "meat-grinder" sorts of fields, and then at the tops of those fields. Suits, set in a high-powered corporate law firm. Entourage, set in Hollywood. Loyalty as a major theme to a show isn't interesting to watch otherwise.

Everywhere else, an interested ladder-climber will always find that it's way easier and cheaper to change jobs than it is to move up in one. Hence the perennial advice to move to a city, where landing jobs is like shooting fish in a barrel for the ambitious. When you run out of steam at one company, get a fresh start somewhere else. Rinse and repeat until you're tired of moving around, then you can start the loyalty path.

It's important to note that the skills you need to convince someone else that you can do a job are way different than the skills you need to convince a power broker to bequeath you with additional responsibilities and the commensurate titles and prestige. It so happens that years of experience working in organizations gives you those skills largely through osmosis.

I like where I am now, so I investigated the possibility of sticking around and trying to move up rather than jump to another company. Even talked to my boss about it. But unless you're at a rapidly growing company, the opportunities for advancement just aren't going to be there and you might be waiting years for your turn. My boss specifically used the words, "you're comfortable" to describe my head space when he said he'd go around and ask if anyone else needed anything to do.

You and everyone else can have the best of intentions, but opportunity is limited and it's hard to make more of it. There's only ever a limited amount of money and perks to go around, and its often politically unfeasible to start rocking a boat by democratizing something that was previously held feudally.

Making the decision to stay at a company is giving up easy access to opportunity in exchange for security and stability. You can always unmake that decision by leaving, often times you can even unmake it the other way, companies will take people that leave back if they like them enough, but you and only you can decide what you want more out of your time on Earth.
This also raises the question of who's making these decisions and why. It makes you think if these decisions could be open to influence somehow.

Say a rich tenet in a NYC penthouse doesn't want any drones flying around his building. How do you enact a geofence around his building and then enforce that?
You seem fixated on price. "Active consumer" (the words in the post you were replying to) means more to me than finding the best deal. It means allowing the consumer to ultimately decide what is best for them, where price is one of several factors.

As far as the specific price question, with respect to drugs I can easily get that information from my pharmacist, whether it is the cost difference between a name brand and generic or just the prospective cost of a medication.
It's not a matter of incompetence. It is a known (predicted, even?) consequence of the change of their algorithm to support dependency trees that are nested as flatly as possible.

And if that methodology is so inacceptable, just continue to use npm 2. The last release on GitHub was less than 24 hours ago, and until v5 Node still shipped with npm 2.
I think these lies absolutely matter. It's a war of propaganda that can lead to real legislation. I think the "PATRIOT Act" (and the "USA Freedom Act", for that matter) show that the surveillance state has a way of turning its will into law.

To borrow a cliche, if encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.

I don't think encryption can be outlawed, but it can be hamstrung by weakened implementations and requirements to decrypt for "lawful requests".
I don't get it. Why go to a University then? It used to be they went to get access to those tools, rational arguments and pointing out logical fallacies. Now it's... have a party for four years and then go back home to your parents?
Vietnamese Man Repeatedly Banned from Facebook Because of His Name
All your submissions are autokilled. I think that's because you only submit from a single source, (and you appear to be the only person submitting from that source) and you only have a single comment, but you'd have to email mods to find the real reason. hn@ycombinator.com

I think it's a shame that your submissions are being killed because this one, while short, seems interesting. (Actually, they're all really short. A few people complain about long-form articles not getting to the point, so they may like this site.)
According to the Shift Payments FAQ you must reside in one of the following states to spend bitcoin via Coinbase:
AL, AZ, CA, DE, DC, GA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MS, NE, NV, NJ, NC, ND, OK, PA, PR, SD, TX, VT, WA, WV

[1] https://www.shiftpayments.com/faq
I wouldn't say it's quixotic, because they do win many fights: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eff%20wins
The word isn't being redefined. Endurance is the ability to continue exerting physical force over a long duration.
I had the a similar problem, they refused to issue a certificate because the domain had a trademarked word in it. Seems strange they would be the ones to enforce trademarks, but I guess it could be considered as an anti-phishing measure or something.
I've got a few of these Anker Kevlar cables. I purchased them because my USB cables most frequently fail by the cable fraying where it enters the USB port connector, and I was hoping these would protect that connection more.

The cables do seem to be significantly less bendable than your standard Apple, or Amazon Basic cables which impedes high angle exits from the port they are plugged into, and that gives me hope that these cables actually will have a longer mean time to failure for me. We'll see.
Great, more DRM is always so nice.

There was a talk at defcon this year by a Chinese researcher (I forget her name) where she A) spoofed the GPS signal so that a GPS-restricted copter (which I guess already exists in China) could fly in a no-fly zone and B) convinced a bunch of copters flying in a park that they were, in fact, suddenly in a no-fly zone, and so they promptly crashed.

It is not the job of my machines to police my behaviour on behalf of the government. If a machine is physically capable of doing something, there should always be a way for me to do it. A warning (e.g. A restricted airspace alert) is fine, but the technology should not presume to override my commands based on its (easily confused) interpretation of the law. Users should control machines, not the other way around.
Don't forget at a random exchange rate chosen by Coinbase.
Does this EFF post say anything new, or is it voted to the top of the site because (a) anti-surveillance and (b) EFF?

I find EFF to be a deeply cynical organization, even though I for the most part share their policy objectives.
Yes, but that's not what we use in vernacular (in finnish, that is) :)
That's almost literally what happens. (comp (map inc) (filter even?)) when applied takes all even numbers from a collection/channel/what-have-you and adds one to them. Filter and map normally take a collection as their last argument, but when none are supplied, a transducer is returned instead.
NVidia launches Gameworks VR SDK for virtual reality development
They were blocking ICMP on United last time I checked (4 days ago). If I pinged a website, the ip would come back, but the pings would timeout.
That list doesn't tell us much, because what counts as the official city limits is completely arbitrary.

There are some parts of London for example that are very suburban.
This does relate to the second part of your comment above though -- "tech media" is simply sponsored content benefitting the investor groups, and nothing else. Hacker News is similarly inclined (to a lesser extent though) for YC.

But yes, I agree with you that it's better to focus on actual cash generation in a business. It's not a relic of the "old days" though, plenty of us do that, we just choose not to participate in the microcosm of "startups", "investors", and the rest of that shtick.
I don't get it: what is "dorm style" here? What is communal exactly?
You have a point. We don't know how well he would do "in long-term memory, reasoning, attention, and problem-solving tasks" used in studies. He might have particular difficulty with the attention tasks as his mind keeps wandering back to physics.
> we French don't have a bicycle culture. For us every day bicycling (not sport) is for people that can't afford a car (and the rare idealists that think they're going to save the planet).

Have you been to Strasbourg recently? There's definitely a bicycle culture there...
I keep looking for the version of this simulator where you get to draw your own car, and then you run it and see how well it handles the terrain. played with it many years ago, never found it again. maybe someone here can help?
Why do they wonder so much after that tasmanian devil's cancer? There you have a contagious disease that's not bacteria or virus but canine.

There's also a culture of some woman's cells that is used for I don't remember what. Makes it a new genus of Homo!

Or not. I think we can conclude that genetic similarity is not everything and such derivates should be considered separatrely.
Looks like a regular flat to me. Has America just discovered flats? Can't see any floor plans under "floor plans": http://www.thealderflats.com/floorplans.aspx
I understand, but I'm speaking more along the lines that the authorities wouldn't know of the crime in the first place, unless it was reported by the victim.

Now, if the government happened to be conducting surveillance on the transaction, then what you describe would come into play.
Just a reminder to Bitcoin newbies:

This card looks like an OK product (still open questions about how much coinbase is gaming the ask/bid spread) but just realize that this card does NOT use Bitcoin, it uses "Coinbase Bitcoin"[1] which is Bitcoin for which the coinbase company is managing your private key: You only truly own Bitcoins if you own the private key for the account (users of MtGox learn this the hard way last year)

I do think Coinbase also offers a safer multisig account where you own an independent key and no one, including Coinbase, can withdraw money without your permission (was it called "Coinbase Vault?") If you put the majority of your funds in that independent system (or just keep them off Coinbase entirely) and put money in peace-meal to load up your coinbase Visa card you will greatly reduce your exposure to third-party risks.

[1] Reading the documents, it actually uses "Coinbase USD" which is the same difference.
Perhaps we can quash the notion that financial privacy is "bad". Anyone who deals with international finance knows that KYC compliance is a joke and the required submission of sensitive personal documents to third-party companies is a major contributor to identity theft and fraud. Indeed, identity fraud is in many ways a product of policies that force companies to collect this data.

Nor is there any sensible moral argument for why companies should impose burdensome and disproportionate identity checks on customers who value their financial privacy. It is unfortunate to see this sort of comment on a site devoted to entrepreneurship.
I concur with dangrossman, you need to think through your process & systems.
It certainly does matter to me, and your comment makes me wonder if it might matter to you and you don't know it. If you read it, the articles's thrust isn't largely about encryption, it's about mass surveillance.

The reasons it matters to me:

- The government shouldn't have the right to wire-tap all citizens at once. We already established that for analog telephones, but digital has become an excuse to undo the annoying requirement of establishing probable cause. If they have the right to listen to you through mass means, no encryption will help you.

- They are spending our tax dollars doing this. The money matters, and they basically taking our money and using it against us. At best it's a waste of that money.

- If they establish the right to curb strong encryption, you may be right in the sense that it doesn't matter to the criminals who use illegal and strong encryption. But it does matter to the vast majority of the law abiding world who get stuck with "encryption" that is readily readable by anyone who expresses an interest, and allows the govt to keep collecting mass surveillance unhindered.
A 50 Watt device that gets 1 Watt to your phone is only 2% efficient. That 50 Watt continuous draw translates into 50 * 24 = 1200 Watt-hours daily, or 438 KWh per year. That's a lot of money to keep that one phone charged, multiplied by the number of phones in operation the power waste would be enormous. They recently banned incandescent lights here for being too inefficient, I wonder how a device like this would get a pass if all it does is replace a small piece of wire at enormous cost. And besides all that your phone draws quite a bit more than 1 Watt so it would function as a charge extender rather than a charger.

And that in turn does not take into account the real efficiencies involved, I would be highly surprised if a device like the one you described had even a 2% efficiency.
Coinbase is likely clearing the transactions internally. They have control over the coins in the wallet (I just went and checked, they call their multi sig product something else), so they don't need to trust the user.
Asrock's X99 boards can accept Xeons and ECC memory.
The extra heat and power use is offset by my replacing incandescent bulbs with alternatives, so that's fine with me.

But the only time my phone drains 1 watt with the screen off is when it's doing cellular data transfers with a terrible signal. It has an 8 watt-hour battery and it lasts more than 8 days when I toss it on a shelf to wait for calls.

So if my phone's sitting there using 1/25 of a watt, a 2% efficient maintenance charge only costs 2 watts. And we can do much better than 2%.
Probably Shift verifies that the correct key on the blockchain (ie correct coinbase user) holds the correct amount of bitcoin, then fronts the USD and does the bitcoin transfer on the back end.

Edit: downvotes don't tell me why I'm wrong, would appreciate counterexample, I don't see any docs on the Shift site, and there's no way in hell they're using zeroconf transactions at this scale, which means instant payments must come out of a USD account somewhere
Well it mentions all the nice articles about how various talking heads wanting to expand surveillance in one place. But yeah, if you are up to date on other news sources its nothing new.
> A lot of the growth of suburbs isn't necessarily due to people wanting to live there, but because it's literally the only option for folks with children.

How do you figure? Last I checked there are children in cities.
It's kind of rediculous that the article ends with a picture of the apartment building and it is barely 4 stories tall, and on either side are 2 story suburban dwellings. Walk down any block of brownstones and in NYC and you'll note even the 100+ year old brownstones are 5 stories tall. At that height you still don't even need elevators or any of the other special systems that go into tall buildings. The owner simply prices the 5th floor walk up at a lower price, which actually turns out to be a win if your goal is affordability.

We're not suffering from a lack of space, just a lack of permissive zoning.
It relies on you having a BTC wallet with coinbase - where coinbase controls the private key.
Yeah, CloudFlare definitely deserves some praise for supporting SSL on all of their plans. It's just not a case of a free SSL cert for general use.

And indeed, no surprise. Competition causes companies to compete! Shocking. But good to see just the same.

How was your experience with LetsEncrypt?
Can you give examples of why you think the EFF is cynical? As a frequent donor, I would like another perspective.
I propose reading it, then you can figure it out yourself.
The whole causation / correlation thing is a big part of this, I think. Many will likely read this and think that there's brain power in your legs, when in fact it's most likely saying that leg health -> physical activity in general -> brain health.

I think the writing about the study should be more clear about this, as I'm sure the original work is.
Any runner? Sprinting is as good as anything for developing explosive leg strength. Of course, the best sprinters work lifting into their training as well.
> wouldn't the fact that we are also working on ways to generate more renewable energy and working on improving efficiency factor into this equation?

One of the most important questions of the early XXI century is whether we'll manage to switch the world from coal to green energy before we cook the planet and without starving big parts of the population for power. One of the talking points is the observation that renewables may not be efficient enough yet and we may not be able to pull it off without going into nuclear ASAP. We have barely enough energy, the third world is rising their living standards to the point they themselves will need a shit ton of power for things like fridges, washing machines and hot showers, and we're thinking of putting all our surplus into ridiculously inefficient things like wireless power?

I think if this idea gets into market now, I'll ask Copernicus to stop this planet and let me get off.

> It might start of as a luxury more than a necessity.

Yes. The kind of luxury like using up $30 000 worth of water in the middle of a drought in California, just because you can. Rightfully pissing everyone else off.
Its just a simple way to spend your bitcoins with merchants that do not accept bitcoins
What disasters are you talking about? It is possible to transmit value securely and safely with bitcoin so Im not sure what point you are trying to make other with this sort of vague statement.
Well, on a fundamental level, if energy were cheap enough you could just vaporize the stuff and condense it out as pure elements, so it's not really a technology problem per se. It's an economic problem.
What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
First of all, npm 2's infinite nesting of dependency was a terrible design from the beginning. It was always broken (This is why on our windows build servers we need to do all sorts of stupid workaround to make npm work). There is no other decent package manager that nests dependencies within dependencies like that, every other package manager out there has a flat structure with packages and their version, so 2 versions of a same package can co-exist with no issues.

By fixing this huge flaw in their design, I thought there would be an increase in performance! In the end, they made it even worse. It makes no sense that fixing their flawed design would result in a 3x worse performance for doing the same task.
I took it to mean that the thing being described by the word endurance is objectively different than the thing being described by the word strength when not being used in the endurance sense. In a way saying that the measurement of a muscle's ability to repeated do the same amount of work before failure is a objectively different than the measurement of a muscle's ability to output a maximum amount of work for a single rep. Or another way, the stat that lets you lift a 1kg weight 200 times is objectively different from the stat that lets you lift a 200kg weight once. Related, but different.

As to if the word strength is objectively different from the word endurance, simply consider that one starts with a 's' and the other with an 'e'.
Spoiler: wetransfer
Only one death threat? That might actually be enough to drive some people away, but I think the article was talking about people who get death threats on a regular basis. Sometimes just being who you are is enough to "attract that stuff".

The most vulnerable are the ones who don't have friends or a support system nearby. Their only options are to put up with being constantly harassed, or cut themselves off from their community entirely.

https://amazon.com/The-Internet-Garbage-Sarah-Jeong-ebook/dp...
Why would you use a genetic algorithm to solve a traveling salesman problem or vehicle routing problem? Get real. That's a very bad mapping.

Genetic algorithm thrives when you have a lot of variables that can be optimized to gain a favorable behavior and those optimizations are unknown.

Saying it's not brilliant because it's simple is like saying that binary search or merge sort is not brilliant because they are simple.
So with coinbase you have no control over your private key?
You can only spend your btc through coinbase?
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That's great. Soon enough there won't be any excuse to not offer HTTPS.
Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
Understanding Transducers Through Python
So 20 years later we are still stuck with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem ?
Free gift for a free services.. seems free?
Are transducers really stateless? Decoders and transducers that perform grouping operations need to keep some state.