skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it matters. It can easily be a hindrance because the thinking required by large business, consulting and wall street is quite different that that required to get a business off the ground.
What a tortured analogy
Well, in his web app example above, it's not - but these days more and more clientside apps (which remain on the client - e.g. mobile apps built with React Native) are implemented fully in JS.

Also, installed browser extensions are download-once and may need cryptographic functionality.
I've never even heard of such a thing. Suggesting that "butthurt" is homophobic seems way more homophobic than the term itself ever could be. Like gay people have a monopoly on butts?
Check into PyPy-STM, they were able to remove the GIL. This will eventually be merged back into PyPy4 (the 2.7 compatible version).
> Probability theory tells me that a single number like this is meaningless

That is true. But when considering that the ten warmest years since 1880 all have occurred since 1998[1] it is no longer a single number.

I'm guessing after 2015 that the eleven warmest years will have occurred after 1998.

[1] http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2224
Right, it's like game ratings. Is the minimum rating an "F" or is 60% an "F"? Is a rating in the middle good or bad?
Shareholders do not provide value. They provide a 1 time infusion of cash in exchange for a future return of either increased value of their stock or dividends. They only infuse cash when the stocks are released either at IPO or later offering of new stock.

The reason stocks are sold is due to cost of capital. A company can make money in a few ways. First is they make a product or service and receive money from customers. Second, they can IPO or some other form of shareholder investments. Third they could finance their needs either with a direct loan or through bond issuance.

Now, most bonds are considered junk if they are from a small company, especially one where people are working out of their garage. This means the debt has a rather high rate (because people think you're going to default). So now you've got to find a buyer (requires middlemen and their costs) that's will to bet on you. Good luck (no seriously I'd prefer this over opening my company to an IPO).

Bank financing is hard to get for pretty much the same reason that bonds are junk. Unless you can show positive cash flow for a few years (you know with your just formed startup and a dream), you probably not going to get a loan. It is due to this that often people, including Elon Musk, self-debt finance via credit cards. Again, ridiculously expensive lending terms.

Let's say you are making money. That's great, you're in the top 40% of startups. You are now constrained by the amount of money you make. If you make 100k a year, but need 1mil to bring a new product to market, we'll see you in 10 years (probably more like 13 with taxes removed over those years).

This brings us to stocks. Find people that are a) suckers, b) chumps or, and good luck o' bearer of dreams, c) actual believers in your product/service. They buy at the IPO price. Your company gets a percentage because the financial house that offered your stock takes a chunk. VCs might cash out after their sale moratorium ends. But after all of this you have a pile of money. That 1mil product is probably doable now. So is an office complex with open floors, and a coffee machine and free lunches and a dog kennel for when your employees just need to feel something that proves they're alive.

You also have an asset to back bonds. So you can, after a small period of time, issue bonds.

At no point did the shareholders add a penny in value to your product directly. They are just there hoping to the FSM that they can leave your stock at some point with a gain. They DO GET TO BITCH. They can have you legally removed from your own company because you have a long view that says in 10 years doing X, Y, Z will increase this companies value 100 fold, but it won't help (probably will hurt) the next 3 quarters.

As a stock holder I can say this about other stock holders. Fuck'em. They get 10-50% return for literally parking their money. As they have more capital related income, they should be taxed as income (outside of reasonably tax-protected vehicles like retirement plans).
We have a HTC Vive at work and it's pretty impressive, like no latency at all and very reactive.
So you don't consider PoS systems blockchains?

PoW literally has nothing to do with what the blockchain is only in deciding who can add the next block and there are a lot of ways to do that when you know all the participants.
Numpy is great for dense multidimensional arrays of (edit: fixed precision) floating point numbers. Most problems I face need to deal with richer, more complicated, less uniform data structures than that. Similarly Cython is way better than writing a C extension by hand, but it feels very tacked-on (why are you writing libraries in a different sub-language than you use them from?), what you can do in nogil mode is pretty limited, and the choice of supported compilers is depressingly limited for when you need C++11, inline assembly, Fortran, linking to libraries that build with autotools, etc all to work cross-platform. If absolutely everything in the Python ecosystem were written using Cython then Python would have less of a performance problem, but there's a productivity, distribution, and difficulty barrier there.
> Indeed, the Python 3 Unicode string object is fascinatingly clever. Code worth reading:

Clever is relative. The Python 3 unicode string objects makes very little sense given real world situations. It wastes enormous amount of memory in many common scenarios for no reason at all other than to facilitate O(1) access to charpoints which is completely inappropriate for text processing anyways.

Worse than that: it can blow up by another 50% the moment someone encodings it to utf-8 as the encoded version is cached around.

The object is too clever for its own good.
Randomness looks like white noise. You can't distinguish computer randomness (provided that it's a proper PRNG) from physical coin flips. Computers don't "even out spectrum". The longer the coin flip run, the less likely it is to happen, e.g. you would need on average 2046 coin throws to get 10 heads in a row.

TL;DR probability theory

(If you have free time and want to have some fun, throw a coin and draw a picture recording throws. I once generated a password by throwing a coin for more than hundred or times — each bit taking more than 1 throw to avoid biases — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_...)
When you (or the recipient) don't want the recipient to be able to read the data, but only to store/transfer it somewhere.

In some cases its impossibly/impractical to create a direct connection between 2 computers: you must use some kind of relay. If you don't want the relay to comprehend the data then you can use client side crypto on the payload. TLS still matters because it prevents 3rd parties from peeking at the communication.

Imagine a secure chat app where you want to guarantee that only you and your friend can read the communications, but want to be able to send offline messages to each other that get delivered upon connection.
I hadn't heard of DSC before and wish it was available in Europe. Would be interested to know how much of a streisand effect they are experiencing. And given the season that's in it, a year's subscription to this would make a handy gift.
> For starters, there is nothing random about it.

Yes, since the original post wanted seedability:

> > For games, the most important features (other than the features of an RNG that all applications desire, such as good performance, high period, etc.) are being able to seed the state, and save/restore the state (required for save game support if you need seeding and want that to work after they save and restore the game).

Given that restriction, what's wrong with the generator I suggest?
So what is going to replace miners? What incentive will people have to verify the integrity of this new blockchain? Is it still vulnerable to 51% attacks?
I'm a big fan of Instapaper (www.instapaper.com) myself.
You obviously are not a trek fan because TOS was always and will be a space western. If you go back and watch TOS, almost every episode is kirk beating up some aliens and getting the girl. What part of action/adventure do you not get out of that.
Seattle is the Next Detroit
I find that the thick lather isn't really the issue. The issue for me is that I need something slick directly on the skin. A good shaving soap will have fats in it that do this job, whereas a cheap shaving foam/gel will not. You can spend 5 minutes (cannot imagine needing 10) getting a good foam from a shaving soap, or you can be lazy and slap some moisturizing lotion directly on the skin and then follow it up with some cheap gel. If shaving short stubble, you might not even need the gel. It really just helps lift the hair. You can also replace the lotion with a shaving oil, or hair conditioner, or anything else that will keep the skin slick while you shave and won't be lifted off by the gel.

I prefer the shave I get with a brush and shaving soap to the shave I get with lotion and shaving gel, but I prefer the lotion and shaving gel with a safety razor to any shave I can get with a cartridge razor. The lotion and shaving gel doesn't take me any more time than just using gel, either, because I can shave more efficiently.
Thanks. That makes more sense. I didn't initially make the connection between "Page Turner" and book review.
It seems to me that you can reverse the sense of the author's conclusion by changing the initial conditions:

The change in utility by going from 2k up to 10k (~ +1.3) is significantly more than the change in utility by going from 18k down to 10k (~ -0.55).

In the simple model provided the change in utility caused by a change in wealth, positive or negative, depends on your starting wealth. This is different to the "pop definition" of loss aversion, which seems to be making a claim that the ratio of the change in utility between gains and losses is approximately independent of your starting point.

I should point out that I don't know what the correct formulation of loss aversion is, it just seems to me that the argument presented is a bit weak.
It's is not seedable.
To add to that: O(1) indexing into strings outside of the ASCII range is completely pointless and makes absolutely no sense. A language should disallow that and not encourage it.
But Dorco sell them in the US[0].
[0] http://www.dorcousa.com/
Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to be stupid[1]. This is kind of the point of having a free society; the people that do helpful things that you approve of don't need to have their activities protected by law and constitution. It's the people that do things you don't approve of that need those protections.

To test if people are actually free, you study how the unpopular people and unwelcome ideas are handled. If they are restricted "for their own good", then any claim of being "free" are jut marketing.

The solution is better education and more communication (and better healthcare, including a lot more funding/availability for mental health services). Going after guns doesn't address the actual problem.

Oh, and "take some pills"? That really depends. You may survive, but hours of hypoxia from an overdose of respiratory depressants can be incredibly damaging, especially to the brain. If the overdose wasn't strong enough to cause that kind of damage, it may not even be a fatal dose. There is going to be a lot of variation, and "backing out" only apples some of the time.

[1] As someone who strongly supports the right to die, suicide is a complicated subject, and is not "stupid" in some cases. However, for the purposes of this thread, that is really off-topic. The "stupid" subset certainly exists and they would be the people who would benefit form the "backing out" you mention.
Good to know they provide such option! Is it shown anywhere on Mozilla sites, or it's just a hidden option one has to know about?
"I think he thinks I’m some powder puff white guy CEO that’s got too much money."

No, you really are a powder puff white guy with too much money. You think because you can hire some goons to watch someone that makes you 'tough'? That's the very epitomization of some powder puff rich white dude that thinks he can buy himself into being a tough guy. Let's see how tough he'll be once he's sharing a jail cell.
Childcare Is Hard to Find
Because the % of people that have a VPN configured on their phone, among 100 millions users, is likely to be very small.
Although very minimalistic

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~aty/index.html

is the best presentation I know about the effect.
In some places I know of, a lot of the poor are hostile towards education because they see it as a cultural affront to their values and self-sufficiency and as a form of counter-culture of sorts. This is something that Bill Gates may not have observed much in his travels because this is something I think may be perversely unique to the United States, but I have seen it for myself and it's one of the things that makes me wonder whether encouraging people to do anything beneficial is of value nor even a morally correct choice when they don't want help and would literally rather die than go to college or leave their impoverished communities in search of self improvement. These are areas where even public education is considered "brainwashing" and while maybe somewhat approaching cult-like societal tendencies they're still aware to a degree of what their situation is.
No paywall: https://torrentfreak.com/cox-is-liable-for-pirating-subscrib...
PG sues DSC for using Dorco.
Dorco is available directly in the states.
Why doesn't PG sue Dorco?

(I didn't read the article, but that's the point I think GP was trying to make.)
> from __past__ import str

As the past did not contain the __past__ that is not going to work.
> Please, tell me what you actually think is correct behavior. It is far, far more useful than pointing out that something is "wrong" on purely semantic arguments.

You say "wrong" as if that's a quote from me. But it's not. Yes, strings have to be arrays, but how they work depends on the semantics of your language.

I'm not entirely happy with Python 3 because I don't think they really took their time to improve on the warts. I doubt there's a one-size-fits-all solution.
I concur entirely. You had ought to be ashamed of yourself.
That is absolutely false. I graduated with a BSEE and worked as an electrical engineer for over four years without ever attempting the FE. Nobody I knew, regardless of discipline, who graduated in the mid-90s or later has done so either.

An FE is required in order to be hired at a firm providing engineering services "to the public", such as a civil engineering or architecture practice. It is not required, or in some cases even valued, at product companies.
> I'm still writing valid 2.7 code that could be migrated to 3.x at any point

Well, that's kinda true, although there is somewhat of a learning curve doing 2-to-3 migrations. Depending on your situation, this may or may not matter, but if you need to "move fast" on this at some point, it'd at least be beneficial to know what's involved (even though it's not that onerous IMO).
What's easier? Outlawing idiots or outlawing guns?
Same here. I'm really excited about what these people (and others) are doing in this space, but the lack of an open source code and the service lock-in (mostly) are huge turn offs for me.

I've started building a prototype of this idea using PouchDB/CouchDB (data is stored locally in PouchDB, synced to your own CouchDB server or Cloudant). As with most of my side projects, it remains abandoned waiting for some love.
In the Reddit discussion of this, someone linked to this criticism [1] of Python 3's Unicode handling written by Armin Ronacher, author of the Flask framework.

I am not competent to say whether this is spot on or rubbish or somewhere in between [2], but it seemed interesting at least.

[1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/

[2] Almost all of my Python 2 experience is in homework assignments in MOOCs for problems where there was no need to care about whether strings were ASCII, UTF-8, binary, or something else. My Python 3 experience is a handful of small scripts in environments where everything was ASCII.
We currently terminate Infer after 25 sec of CPU time.

But if anyone is interested in trying it for lager examples, I can recommend their Docker file: https://github.com/facebook/infer/tree/master/docker
I'm a fan of the Siskel & Ebert system instead of five stars: two thumbs down (bad), one thumb up/one thumb down (okay), two thumbs up (good).
Probably not days. I won't be the one to write it so I can't make any especially reliable predictions here. If enough people ask for this, probably some time in January.
Why not? They can complain all they want. You might be more likely to dismiss their complaint when they don't follow the local laws, but it doesn't make their complaint outright invalid.
When was that and why should anyone believe you? you could just be a shill. Just saying.
James Fallon (the researcher) gave a good TED talk[1] regarding this. What was interesting is that everyone around him (including his wife and children) weren't totally surprised by his findings that he was less empathetic, and that, as you note, he found that he could be a better person (and he wanted to be) by making an effort to do the things that come naturally to others.

1: http://www.ted.com/talks/jim_fallon_exploring_the_mind_of_a_...
That's partially true. One important difference is that a lot of electronics had schematics available. I know for a fact our TV had one, taped to the inside of the chassis. I was deeply fascinated by the intricate schematics at the time. I could spend hours designing my own, copying from the symbol language, but putting them together in ways I thought was beautiful.
No, what does it mean?
"Back in the day math was slow and error-prone and we created the computer. Now, it’s software development that is slow and error-prone."

I'd argue Math is still slow and error-prone. Ask any math PHD candidate. Computation is fast, but Math itself has more layers, and more branches than ever. Sound familiar?

That said, some smarties are trying to remove unnecessary layers in programming.
I feel like rump/Uni-kernels are looking to simplify the stack. [1] The clear linux project is removing some pieces from the stack. [2]

TL;DR Math is about as noisy as programming :/
I don't buy the premise. But, I enjoyed the read!

[1] http://rumpkernel.org/
[2] http://clearlinux.org/
I can name exactly one. Cyph (cyph.com) accomplishes secure E2E encrypted messaging by pinning a bootstrap in the browser that validates and executes cryptographically signed packages.
There are text descriptions under the stars, which are coincidentally rated out of 4, not 5. 3/4 is "Solid" for someone's technical skills. If someone does below average or amazing it's unlikely that the interviewer is going to select 3/4, regardless of their internal idea of what 3/4 means, when it says "Solid" underneath that.
Riot Games bought out by Tencent
> Unfortunately creating a good thick lather can easily take ten minutes.

Is it possible that you have hard water?
I used to spoof user agents, randomly mutating. Then last month I started to run into sites that refused to load/render for incorrect strings. It appears the Google and other large companies are now sending customized versions of their page based on the user agent which I can only speculate is an attempt to save bandwidth. By taking advantage of implementation specific features, they not only eliminate all of the extra JS and browser workarounds, but they also can take shortcuts.
https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode
It wasn't a good movie because it wasn't a good movie, not because it was not Trek. All these people that say this need to go back and watch TOS and the animated series. This guy also wants say bad things about Enterprise, when arguably season 4 could be considered one of the top seasons of Trek ever, but just like everything else... everyone has an opinion.
There's more to the buproprion HCl fiasco. The active ingredient produced by the generics manufacturers was the same. The delivery mechanism was different. The approval for the 300 mg XL version of the pills was extrapolated from 150 mg XL pill data, rather than compared with the Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. There wasn't even a check for chemical equivalence there.

You could have dropped the pills into an artificial stomach and measured concentrations at 20 minute intervals. That tests chemical equivalence. You don't need to test bioequivalence until after that. If your synthetic stomach setup does not show chemical equivalence, that's when you need to get the animal test subjects.

Part of the problem here is that the FDA bundles several different tests into one.

- Does the molecule do harm to a human body? What are the side effects?
- Is the drug effective for a specific medical condition?
- How does a higher or lower dosage affect the observed results?
- How effective is a given delivery mechanism?

Those questions should really be answered separately, and in that order, for initial approval. Generics would then only need to re-answer question 4 if the delivery mechanism was different.

Take a look at this article about how manufacturers extend exclusivity by tweaking the delivery mechanism: http://www.pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/index.php?pg=manufactu...
I can't wait to see what kind of cool technology comes out of this. It's unfortunate there is no R&D funding provided. As someone who works in the underwater robotics industry, it's fairly simple to make something that will work at 100m. 2000/4000m is something else entirely. This essentially precludes anybody but existing organizations with already developed capabilities from participating(i.e. WHOI's REMUS 6000, which is my early favorite), If anyone has some money sitting around and wants to form a team, just drop me a line!