skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a matter of resources. I donated, and I invite everyone earning money with Python to do the same (http://pypy.org/py3donate.html).

More generally, the Python community really lacks money compared to other ones. GO, PHP and JS all have bigs players spending a lot of cash on it. While some companies does invest in Python, they don't spend nearly the same amount on it, and the PSF has a very tigh budget.

One of the reason is that Python is "good enough", and so people don't invest on it because they don't need more from it. While JS was so slow that Google spent millions to create the V8. It's sad, but being clean and robust and strongly community driven leads to a lack of funding for Python. I wish we had a Mark shuttlework for the language.
Apologies, I forgot to include a link: The toolkit is now at https://github.com/att/ast since AT&T laid off the group a couple years ago.

About half the package consists of evolutions of traditional Unix commands. The parts I use regularly are ksh and tw. tw ('tree walk') is sort of a 'find --exec' replacement with a C-like selector syntax. It's a bit verbose, so for interactive use I generally set up project-specific shell aliases with selection expressions, e.g.

alias cctw=$'tw -e "select: return (type == REG) && ((name == \'*.c\') || (name == \'*.h\') || (name == \'*.cpp\') || (name == \'*.cc\') || (name == \'*.h\') || (name == \'*.hpp\') || (name == \'*.mm\') || (name == \'*.inc\'));" '

and then use those, e.g.

cctw egrep -w MyIdentifier
> The Corvus species performed on a similar level to the great apes, despite vastly smaller absolute brain sizes. A chimpanzee brain is roughly 26 times larger than a raven's; nevertheless, both species achieve 100% success.

I don't think that you can conclude from that that ravens and chimps have similar intelligence. Rather, you test was too easy. You need some level of failure to be able to measure a difference in performance.
Really nothing spectacular there. Probably just a new hardware generation getting implemented.

See alltime log scale:
https://kaiko.com/statistics/hash-rate?logscale=true&range=1...

The gain just plateaued out after the mid 2013 to mid 2014 rush. The current rate is note even half of that.
For more context, you may want to check out the first part in the series: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multi...
That's A LOT of bs to fix. And after each update I noticed it defaults some of them back to 'Enabled'.
> and you can't see how people draw the comparison?

Between collecting data on SIM card ownership and the Holocaust? No, I can't see how any level-headed person can draw such a comparison.

> As for your invidious attempt to distract from said comparison by slinging mud

WTH are you talking about?
So true. There was a funny skit on SNL where Tom Brady and another guy said the exact same things and Tom was welcomed while the other guy was creepy and hit with a lawsuit.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/sexual-harassme...
I think, for better or worse, people choose role models who are like them. If you're a white male, your role models end up being white males. If you're a black female, you probably look up to other black females. Not exclusively or consciously, but it's probably the first place you look. "Who should I be like?" "Well, maybe that person who's already a little like me except older and more successful."

When you combine that with the historical situations that people in positions of power have been white males, you have a much broader variety of role models for white males than for anyone else.

That's not to say people can't or shouldn't choose role models who are a different race or gender than they are, just that it might not naturally be their first instinct.
> "Numerous monetary crises could be addressed in serious ways by it, though."

To give an example of this, Bitcoin appears to be growing in popularity in Greece:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rollout-1000-bitcoin-atms-planned-g...

http://www.coindesk.com/has-the-greek-crisis-increased-bitco...
A faster horse is also very, very useful. It's not revolutionary. I can get 90% of the relevant information from my phone.
The deadline for the Lunar X Prize is next year, and according to wikipedia one of the teams has a launch contract with SpaceX. Does SpaceX have a rocket capable of making it to the moon?
Reason about the software as if it has already been compromised. Think about how user credentials and private keys the server touches can be used to attack other internal services, and try to limit the scope as much as possible.
Slides for the talk above: https://speakerdeck.com/srihari/on-the-building-of-a-postgre...
all the electricity burned to make bitcoins is a crime against the planet

Actually I'm happy to have a chance to say this:

Fuck the planet.
This is so misguided I can barely think of a place to start. Do you think the current financial system is optimal? The financial industry currently makes up 8% of the entire US economy. Do you realize that bitcoin mining hashes and the number of transactions they can process are not linked?
I guess it's political in the same was as encryption is.

Encryption makes it difficult for the government to make certain kinds of decisions as well.
Flatmarket: A free, open source e-commerce platform for static websites
Is this one of those true things we all agree not to talk about? Because I sure don't see anything wrong with it: if a guy's wife is unhappy with his job, then he'll get a new one.
You're correct. The problem is that bitcoin exists due to holes in the regulatory structure. People mine because people need anonymous value transfers. If you allow people to purchase drugs/gamble/capital-flight/etc with credit cards, then this externality cost will go away :)
Secure Packages: Securely deliver secret keys during automated deployments
Sending an archive of YouTube would be much more useful for any aliens that happen to drop by. YT comes far closer to The Sum of All Human Knowledge than Wikipedia.
Dupe; discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542664
a) it's hard enough to demonstrably prove anything in real sciences, data from social sciences rarely reflects anything other than the author's bias. One's ability to contrive a desired result with opaque language should not be used as evidence contrary to the easily observed, near universal reality. Don't let someone else's agenda send you into denial.

b) a loss of interest as a person matures does not necessarily imply that loss is artificial. That unique psychology may emerge naturally over the developmental / maturation process, just as some physical features emerge.
I'd go for the de Havilland Mosquito:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito
Ah changing the world here we go.

A lot of Quora answers look like this nowadays:

By Johnny Johnson - Chief Ninja Growth Hacker at SaaS HQ

Disclaimer: I work at hip SaaS business.

{ fluff about how there are multiple choices and everyone is friends with each other }

{ pitch, keyword SEO and links }

{ pretend you are oh so genuine }
If you're on Chrome, there's this plugin to deal with the sign-in prompt: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-quora-login-...
Why Has the Number of NYT Headlines About Trump Fallen by a Factor of Two?
Blockchain pilot to test decentralised solutions for crisis response [pdf]
I've already sent it to a good friend who works at 18F
Same.

I was born and raised in Ireland, left for Scotland about six years ago. We'll be abandoning ship if this Brexit madness proceeds.

EDIT: now that I think about it, I'm kinda looking forward to a swarm of bright Irish ex-pats returning home from Britain if the political situation goes bad, as it'd be a huge boost to the Irish economy, and would go some way to reversing the classic brain-drain Ireland has suffered from.
Better yet, why don't you not? Surely there are much more important problems with the government's computer systems than that some websites "look old".
Why is this post hidden from the front page? It was there moments ago.
The tech industry has demonstrated supreme amounts of power in the political sphere.

I'm not crying for the political ills of Zuckerberg or Apple or Google. Furthermore, the tech industry is far removed from blue-collar middle class America, with an average of twice the wages and relatively insulated from the ills of globalization.

Just remember: Technocrats are a political group just like any other. You and I may be part of them, but remember that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka: EFF) is a lobbying group funded by technocrats, with ideologies that don't necessarily match the average (non-technocrat) American.

Again, I'm a technocrat like most others in this site. I am a programmer by trade and generally agree with the issues brought up by the EFF. Just don't get trapped inside of the "bubble" that is Hacker News or even Reddit. There is a big world out there.
You can read the actual reports here:

http://fas.org/spp/starwars/ota/

Actually, I can't, for all the links are dead.

So I don't know how they scored success. I score it:

Integral to winning the Cold War, which we did.

Deterring a first strike, because the Soviets couldn't choose which of their warheads would get intercepted. This is very important because the triad made a successful first strike, that is, one with minimum retaliation, extraordinarily difficult in the first place.

Preventing maximal damage to cities and infrastructure while civilians huddle in their shelters (which we could have built, and stocked with a years worth of food, for 1/3 of the annual DoD budget of the period).

Failing our building shelters, preventing all civilians in their cities and such from getting nuked. That one is iffy, especially since:

At the other end, you could define it as none of the 40,000 warheads in their inventory hitting us, but I know that's not what the proponents of SDI claimed it was capable of.

Note, I was something of a player in this arena during the period in question, including editing the Arpanet ARMS-D mailing list in the 1982-3 period, debating it with the best anti-s MIT had, you're not going to convince me by a raw appeal to authority, especially as filtered through such a notorious organization as the OTA.
Because this lovely customer I'm working in MITMs the HTTPS. You know, it's so cool to read gmail on the phone.

BTW, shame on Chrome for allowing it without a warning :-/
Firefox totally refused to connect.
There's a form of this point that could be correct--but the way you've framed it is pretty problematic.

1. Your examples of "Black Culture" just reflect the biases of the people who select examples of "Black Culture" for white people (and I'm pretty sure Hot Tub Time Machine, at least, is firmly a product of White Culture--did it have a single black writer?). I think you'd be better off looking at Blackish, Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce, and ahem Barack Obama.

2. When you set up an argument like this, I suggest you also explain why you think "Black Culture" is "broken." Because its easy to read what you've written as bottoming out in the claim that black people have created a broken culture. Why? Well there must be something wrong with black people! Lots of people do seem to make this argument (accidentally, of course--its often an attempt to make a racist attitude sound socially acceptable), and I doubt you'd want to be associated with them.
Even then, you'd still need a fair way of distributing the initial value. Mining provides censorship-resistance and transparent issuance.
And /opt for self-contained packages.
Your first role models are pretty much always going to be the people you have contact with from a young age. So we start with your parents, Extended family and Kindergarten teachers.

Yes, we pick up other role models in our teens, but I think a lot of the "damage" is done by then. The expected roles have started to be processed and internalised.
I'm not arguing that it's a very dangerous slope for public liberties. I believe the checks and balances against executive branches are increasingly broken in most western democracies, and that robust online privacy pushes in the very desirable direction of re-establishing a bit of that balance. I'm really concerned that most citizens don't see this as a major voting issue.

However, this was neither the OP's point, nor what I was answering too. He described the measure as ineffective, because most criminals would be able and willing to acquire an illegal SIM before using a phone. I believe this to be false and I explained why. Being dangerous for liberties is not the same as being effective from police forces' PoV; actually, these two qualities are negatively correlated most of the time.
Dublin seems to be the only worthwhile location for tech-related business, which is a shame as I prefer cities like Galway and Cork.
I applaud the people who managed to stay calm and helpful in a thread created by someone I perceive as a troll. Ignorance, ad hominem attacks and hybris are countered with useful responses. Respect.
20GB of disk-space would be very restrictive for video.
A couple of things:

1) With electric heat you have to account for the energy production and grid transmission being around 30% efficient. Even though an electric heater or bitcoin miner is converting electricity to heat 100% efficiently, a majority of the thermal energy released in the power plant was already thrown out as waste.

2) Even using electricity, a heat pump beats the electric heaters. They're 2-3x as "efficient" in terms of how much heat it pushes into the house vs how much electricity it takes to do it. Technically this is measured as "coefficient of performance" instead of efficiency, since it's a ratio of heat transferred / energy consumed, rather than energy released / energy consumed (and efficiency >100% wouldn't make much sense).

3) Gas furnaces can be >90% efficient, which also beats the bitcoin miners. Even the lowest efficiency allowed by law (78%) is better than resistive electric.

4) There's more "embodied energy" in building a bitcoin miner than an electric heater, and it has a very short life as a useful miner before it's obseleted by newer chips.

Resistive electric heating only makes sense if you're looking for a low cost solution in a climate with a very minor cold season. And I highly doubt anybody's going to buy a bitcoin miner with the intent to only run it 3 weeks a year when it gets chilly outside.

Bitcoin is basically a giant scheme to extract as much value for the miners by dumping a bunch of externalities on everyone else in the form of fossil fuel subsidies and greenhouse gas production. Not a fan.
You've missed peers.

They are likely more influential than teachers.

(That they aren't "further along" doesn't mean that their behaviors and attitudes will not be adopted)
In other words: you agree with Florian Haas.

* https://plus.google.com/+FlorianHaas/posts/4xjQP1q6DEN

* https://www.hastexo.com/blogs/florian/2016/02/21/containers-...
I've seen someone put this into action, and open communications with his subordinates' wives. Instead of getting mad at her husband for being paged in the middle of the night, or having to work weird hours, she can angrily text the boss directly.
Doing some back of the envelope calculations..

Hash rate is about 1,200 PH now. The most efficient ASIC miner today is the AntMiner S7 [1], which does 4.86 TH at 1.21 KW. This gives us a power consumption of the entire Bitcoin network of at least 300 MW. Actual power will easily be double that, given that not everybody is using the latest miner. So let's say total power consumption is about 600 MW. This is the output of a small power plant.

[1] https://www.bitcoinmining.com/bitcoin-mining-hardware/
I think you're confusing cause and effect. In open source world, you can't charge for something that exists. It needs to be a need to do so. In order to push PyPy into putting significant effort from a core team - we would need exactly that. A big chunk of money dedicated to just that. We've spent all the money we got and we did get something out of it. But it needs to be more seriously supported in order to kickstart that. Obviously people are free on whatever they want in their free time, but unless there is enough to push the PyPy3 support to a significant postion, it's unlikely to move at a higher pace.
Unfortunately IV purchased all the patents of a company I used to work for, General Magic, after it died. Several of us wanted to open-source Magic's source code, but we'd potentially face prosecution from IV if we did. So much cool stuff there, it's really a pity.
As a mainland European, I'm starting to root for Brexit too. The sooner we're rid of the toxic influence of England, the better. It's a shame though, as England was a huge proponent of necessary EU reform as well.
Open-source app combines JavaScript and noise
Microcopy: improve UX with these 10 examples
> it's likely the final chapter of that system because the new power holder/grabber would wreck the house beyond repair thinking that he's instituting reforms when he's really undoing all the hard work done by his tyrannical but savvy predecessors to keep things together.

This. For example, every post-Stalin U.S.S.R leader. The watering down started with Kruschev [1] and culminated in Glasnost. What followed was the period of humiliation, poverty and looting at "the end of history" ie the 90's.

This is key to understanding the popularity of Putin.
Katch will be shutting down on May 4th, 2016
So you just adding a user program to a REPL/Parser and cramming it into a JIT?

You can do this in Javascript, or LLVM-IR just as easily.

The main blessing is also its biggest curse. You are writing a language to move fast, and change often. Its a good learning tool, but a constantly changing language is next to impossible to build value upon.
Let's hear it, then, what's the relationship between banning anonymous SIM cards and genocide.
Wife, or job?
The "detail" is so vague as to not deserve that name. Give me a ten minutes description of the described environment and I will give you a dozen alternative explanation to the especulation presented in the article.

This is no more than coach psicology.
There are always going to be problems. There are always going to be people to help fix them. There will always be arguments over the priority in which to fix what.
There was an issue in the beta where the installer would not recognize ZFS volumes for the boot installer. Will be verifying if still an issue as soon as I can.
We are talking here about the Tesla S P85. It goes from 0 to 100km/h in 3.5 seconds and easily handles 220km/h. Sure acceleration from 100km/h to 200km/h is pretty slow at 12 seconds but does the average family sedan really have 700hp?
Yeah, I don't know. The whole thing is a cringe-fest but a good part of that was recognizing myself, wife, parents, and co-workers in there.

His VentureBeat article was pretty horrific but that pdf seems to reflect a certain ground truth. Not saying it reflects a reality anyone should be happy with, but if I was paying him to consult on recruiting and sat through that presentation I wouldn't be asking for my money back..
It looks like a falcon 9 can get payloads to TLI: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8511/how-will-the-f...
But shitty websites are still a problem. Not everyone can work on the most important problem at the same time.
Ask HN: Coders - what do you listen to while coding?
Feel free to post links to your playlists here!
(Oh, I meant to say 3 major releases since 0.10, which I arbitrarily picked as what seemed to be the earliest version still in any significant use today.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542664
Well, that's an issue with the REPL, not the design of PowerShell. No reason you couldn't make one that does this.
Where's the JavaScript REPL on iPhone Safari?
As someone who has used Arch for 4 years, the bleeding edge got boring. I haven't had a major breakage in at least a year, probably longer, unless you count KDE 4 -> 5 being a breakage - one any 14.04 to 16.04 upgrader will also have to contend with.

The last major show stopper I can recall was when Arch dropped security hooks from the kernel and I had to get rid of my MAC.
Hence furnaces. Unless someone's managed to create servers which become cooler upon load, I'd assume these boxes wouldn't be able to substitute for heat pumps.

But in general, I agree with you. :)
Private state, no?

class Bar
def foo(baz :: Baz)
...
end
end

def foo(bar :: Bar, baz :: Baz)
...
end

could be in this hypothetical language that the former would be allowed to access private member variables on bar = Bar.new, while the latter wouldn't.

The questions then are:

a) Is private state something we want?

b) Could private state access control be implemented in a different way (Lexically? Package level? Additional annotation?)
BBC's Own Virtual Voice-Over Tool for Multilingual Journalists
Tron Club[0] is a monthly subscription service that delivers a bag of parts, including battery and breadboard, and a very nicely done booklet that shows twenty odd circuits to build that month. Each circuit page in the booklet shows a real life photo of the completed breadboard next to the schematic diagram for the same circuit, which is amazing for connecting the abstract to the physical. After a year, they promise to have delivered 350+ circuits. Each month's kit has an area on their forum for help if you get stuck. I'm planning to do them with a nephew.

[0] http://tronclub.com/
I disagree. The UK helps provide balance to prevent France/Germany agreeing in private on deals and then presenting them to the rest of us for approval. Also British instincts on some of the business side of things are very useful.
I don't know, it only takes jason chaffetz 3 tries to say COBOL

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4541987/cobol
They can still show ads on pages people hit from search results where they show a single answer.
I'm mildly confused by your comment. It seems that you're implying that the Super Tucano is a personal airplane.

Just checking to make sure that you know it's actually a warplane, and that countries are buying it because it's downright outstanding for ground support.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow
Yeah, suspected terrorists are the same thing as everyone's' wives C mothers, and daughters.
Don't just tell people why it is different. Tell people why it is the same. What is timeless about it? How do I implement the Gang of Four's singleton pattern? [well maybe that's not a good place to start].

How about composability as an organizing theme?

Good luck.
It might, but it also might be more typing/visual noise for little benefit.
maybe it hit the flamewar detector? maybe people were flagging it?