skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will repeat:

>"I have flagged your comment for moderator review, as you are using a throwaway account and spreading racially charged rhetoric in lieu of engaging in civilized discussion". I hope that makes things clear.

You've moved on to civilized discussion - which is why I've started engaging with you - but the racial slur and your insistence that it's `totally just a prank brah context brah cmon` is precious.

You seem to understand the idea that this phrase can be used in at least some context without it being a slur, so I ask - does the above thread, where you jumped in to an existing conversation to use 'Uncle Tom' in a one-line comment lacking any substance or nuance- seem like that sort of context?

I am completely comfortable with your assessment of the value of my feedback, throwanem. (Food for thought: not all vacuums are physical. I'm sure you do, as you seem to assert, run into POC when you're on the train and the Orioles aren't playing; this doesn't have any bearing on your use of this term, or your presence or absence in a monocultural thought vacuum.)
I'm confused... isn't saying "Hillary was fired with extreme prejudice from the WIC" a political issue? You're trying to make a political point by using a mistruth as evidence of the fact?

Could you explain a bit clearer?
Please, don't take me wrong. I am the first coming from a rural part of Spain. The joke is on me. BUT, this is how the world sees the rural parts of USA.
Concede? Like how Al Gore conceded? Yes, perhaps Trump would have challenged the results.

However, that won't be necessary, as Trump can now honestly attest that the elections aren't rigged.
> when the press become political activists we should all yell foul and reign them in. The first thing totalitarian regimes do is take control of the press.

We should take control of the press, like totalitarian regimes!

(Sorry for the snark, but there really is a big contradiction here which both sides are struggling with. The American press aren't especially left-wing, they're just tremendously unreliable - story template first, facts second.)
Free SSL for everyone
From my personal opinion just porting a project from 2->3 we will get there. Python 3.6 offers to much to let is pass.

Ecosystem has moved far enough its just a matter of time when big frameworks etc. deprecate python 2.7 and this mostly happen around the real EOL of it.
I think in the financial industry, particularly in the US, MM is often used to signify millions. MM is also one million in Roman numerals (1000(M) x 1000(M)).

See also:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/181917/mixing-us...

I don't think there's any hard and fast rules globally how one specifies "millions":

https://www.quora.com/What-should-be-the-abbreviation-for-mi...
presto: the top cap gains rate is 20% once you hit the 39.6% tax bracket (for income).
These are literally the first ones listed on the tracker.
It's pretty questionable actually...it will hopefully improve.

It's a bit like their economic reporting...too good to be tru ed.
This answers zimpenfish below as well: whatever you believe, to the Alt Right, Snopes is dead to us for all things political.

And what isn't political nowadays? Although the demarcation is pretty clear, falls along the line of a particular person who does their explicitly political stuff. But who trusts the rot to stay there?

And it sounds like you don't believe in, or have never heard of Robert Conquest's Second Law of Politics: "Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." See Fox over the last few years, first the top dog explicitly said they were moving to the left, now he's been ousted in a coup and the writing is on the wall for the remaining figures on the right who are still under contract.
It doesn't? I've ran into UnicodeDecodeError exceptions literally every time I've had to deal with external input in Python 2. It was a nightmare, and it made me hate Python.

With Python 3, that simply has never happened to me. Never.

I don't know why. I don't know what the change, what the secret sauce was. And what's even better: I don't have to care. Python now simply works for me.

So yes, Python did remove Unicode issues.
Nix derivation and nix store managed artifacts is a superior model to many language specific package managers (though the learning curve is non-trivial), we use it with Haskell extensively, for instance.
Because unicode is default and the byte-type is single-byte adressable (rather than 1 character in <encoding>) it makes it more straightforward. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot.
How true. Someone should tell them to shut up, and start talking for the people, not to the people.
Do not underestimate COBOL. The latest version is from 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#COBOL_2014
Downvoting, really? Are upvotes and downvotes a popularity contest?
If someone isn't going to accept a source, responding only that they should accept your the source because it's trustworthy isn't likely to convince them. Unfortunately I don't have a better suggestion for supporting the reliability of a source.

I think this issue of mutually acceptable information sources is really problematic. How do we rebuild this? How do we get people to start trusting each other again?
His voters were mostly middle income. They rightly feel that the benefits of trade have mostly accrued to coastal connected elites and not them.
Oh, I agree that Trump's politics are horrifying. Since I identified 4 groups of Trump voters, I'll try to explain why I think they stuck with him, even though he said terrible things.

* Traditional republicans: A lot of them couldn't stand his rhetoric, but they're worried about the Supreme Court. I think a lot of these people felt horrible about voting for him, but they're playing the long game.

* White supremacists: They loved his rhetoric, so no explanation is required.

* Anti-corruption advocates: It might sound like a cop-out, but I'm blaming this one on the media. According to exit polls, 70% of people who thought both candidates were terrible ended up voting for Trump. I understand why a lot of people didn't like either of them, but this is a classic false equivalence. I think the media spent so much time talking about Hillary's emails that people started to think it was as bad as Trump's talk about nuking people, killing the families of suspected terrorists (war crime), bringing back torture (many troops won't like that), and so many other disqualifying things.

* Working class people: Despite being stalwart democratic voters (this election notwithstanding), many of these people aren't very liberal. LGBTQ rights aren't something they think about much, and I don't think they're big on feminism, environmentalism, or animal rights. They're worried about their jobs, the health of their unions, and off-shoring. Trump promised to punish companies for sending work to other countries, and to gut environmental regulations for the sake of creating new unionized gas/coal jobs.

Also, it's important to point out that voter turnout was terrible in this election. Trump got fewer votes than Mitt Romney did 4 years ago, but he won. Hillary severely underperformed Obama in almost every state. Roughly 50% of eligible voters exercised their constitutional right on Tuesday.

1 in 4 eligible voters went to the polls and voted for Trump, 1 in 4 voted for Hillary, and the other 2 didn't vote at all. That's the real story here. We failed to get people excited about voting for Hillary, so they stayed home.
No. I believe that we have globalization but basically we don't know much about culture from other parts of the world, or what worries they have. We swim in a sea of misconceptions and archetypes.
Ask HN: Any good books on the economic impact of automation?
Within my tech circles I keep hearing talk of a "universal basic income" in regards to the oncoming wave of AI and automation where not only blue collar but also white collar jobs are made redundant.

Are there any economists who are writing on this topic? Politicians keep talking about bringing back "manufacturing" but no one is talking about AI and what the labor market will look like a hundred years from now.
The only thing I haven't liked when comparing 2 to 3, is how 3 is even slower.

CPython is so slow, they really should start taking performance more seriously.
Then again, continuing to add backward-compatible changes to Perl 5 would have made it an even bigger pile of mud than it already is. Its refusal to make backward-incompatible changes is both the reason why Perl 5 was so ubiquitous and why it's so very ugly. So I can certainly understand the desire to start afresh with 6, in spite of the costs in terms of adoption.

It does seem like take-up has been low so far, but it's probably still too early to call whether it will turn out to have been the right choice.

I'm less familiar with Python, so can't really comment on there, but it does seem that Python 2.7 had fewer egregious faults than Perl 5.
Final Outing of 2016 for LCR Honda at Valencia
RTR Sports Marketing website:
The MotoGP World Championship comes to a close this weekend at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia, after what has been a pulsating 2016 season, featuring two glorious victories for the LCR Honda Team and their British rider Cal Crutchlow.

To celebrate his excellent performances this year, Crutchlow attended the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan this week to spend time with several of the LCR Honda Team’s sponsors and meet hundreds of his adoring fans.

The icing on the cake for the team this year would be to secure the position of Top Independent Team rider, and with a 17-point advantage over his nearest rival, Crutchlow knows that an eighth place finish or better in Valencia would be enough to take the trophy back to the Isle of Man.

#35 Cal Crutchlow

“Valencia is always a difficult one to try and win, because the Spanish are always so strong here, but I’m looking forward to the last race of the season with the LCR Honda Team. There is talk of some rain for Sunday, but we have to approach things the same whatever the weather is.”

“I think the LCR Honda Team has done a good job this year, I’m so pleased with the way things have worked out, but I do look forward to getting to the off-season and having a bit of a break!”

“It was good to go to EICMA yesterday, despite the extra travel, because we got to see lots of our team’s sponsors and show our appreciation to them for backing our project.”
http://rtrsports.co.uk/motogp-final-outing-of-2016-for-lcr-honda-at-valencia/
I'm not associated with it but that's a good point- It might be able to find more combinations if it could interpret what's being entered a little more.
Let Them Eat LinkedIn: Microsoft's Advice for the 'Left Out and Left Behind'
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Interesting data-point, but what is the trend? We already know 2.7 is a victim of its own success, right?
> Mass media probably could stand to tone down the commentary and go back to facts - it would be nice, and we do occasionally get some really good pieces of journalism as a result of an editorial/opinion piece, but some more bare facts info would probably be better.

Actually, I really like that different newspapers have different opinions, and it's even better to see those opinions defended with passion and emotion. What riles me is that the newspapers are hypocritical and choose to mute their stand on an issue when it goes against another narrative that they've chosen to project. If you, as a newspaper, have taken a stand to say, bat for freedom of expression or women's rights or whatever, then go the whole way and be passionate about it. Just don't throw that under the bus and fail to call it out when another group who you think needs your voice for another cause is also guilty.
> most voters were actually #WithHer.

No, they weren't. According to the latest results, Mrs. Clinton received 48% of the popular vote: that means that most voters didn't vote for her.

More voted for her than for Mr. Trump, but neither earned a plurality of the popular vote.
> Your comment implies that the commentor was axe-grinding with women in general. The complaint was about two particular women writers at the guardian using their own sex and feminism as a shield against criticism and fuel for their own click bait.

So it's okay for you to infer what other people mean, but not okay for me to do it? Where did I say "women in general"? Why would my post imply what he said, when everyone can read exactly what he said and interpret it for themselves, just like you did?

He's grinding an axe (completely out of nowhere) about "feminist clickbait", "female writers", the "dogma" that "women have it worse", and singling out two women (and "people like" them) as examples. What am I supposed to do, pretend he's talking about men?

Likewise, why should I pretend that he said "some women" when he didn't? I have no idea what proportion of women he has a problem with.

None of this is relevant to my point though, which was that his rant about women (however many it may be) had absolutely nothing to do with what he was replying to, and was simply an attempt to inject this particular hobby horse of his into a thread where it doesn't belong.
This may be satire, but I actually like this idea. In all fairness, I was very surprised to run into his "contract with Americans" only after the elections. A lot of people attacked him on the basis that he didn't have any proposition other than building a wall. You may disagree with some or even most points (I certainly do), but they are there.
Python and Go aren't really mutually exclusive though. Some things will better be done in Python, others in Go.
Even on a GTX 670 these examples crawl. They seriously need to optimize.
This post-election narrative that liberals hate Trump out of elitist bigotry is killing me. People hate Donald Trump because they're afraid they'll be deported, or their friends and family will be deported. This is very real and very personal for a lot of people, I think it's lame to tell them "calm down, why can't you be nice?" and other platitudes about uniting the country.
It's not engineering problems. It's assumptions about how humans will behave!

Maybe the region where solar needs can be scaled is not in your country. Maybe you're at war with that country. Or maybe the company producing that power would only sell you the power at some outrageous price that you don't want to pay. Maybe you want to be the one selling not buying that power, you want to be the one making profit. Maybe your neighbor just considers you're an inferior race so he will not even sell you the power for the flood dams or the desalination plant. Or maybe you're the bad guy, but now because people won't sell you what you need at realistic prices you contemplate of... maybe nuking some sense into them, because if 1mil of your people might die of hunger, why not have 2mil of theirs die burned and irradiated?

Any solutions that assumes people working well together in some "perfect world order" are very dangerous. Humanity ain't "a giant organism". We're a bunch of warring tribes with carefully disguised racist, xenophobic and even purely sadistical tendencies just waiting for an excuse to come out!

We need more technologies that just work and can be used SUSTAINABLY in any random place and at any scale regardless of how bad we fucked up or we're planning to fuck up.
> I don't understand how thick headed the mainstream media (MSM) seems to be in not getting it. This "upset" win of Trump (upset in the sense that it didn't play by the MSM's wishes) was not an isolated incident - it's happened in India (2014), it happened in UK (Brexit), and it has been repeated in the US.

Hubris. Hubris, to a hilarious degree.

Here's a story published 72 hours ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/election-day-things-look...

The first sentence says Hillary has a "98.2 percent chance of winning the presidency". It only gets better from there.
Where I work we're just waiting on Ansible. Everything else we write and use works with Python 3, except the tool we use to deploy it all. Frustrating.
We tried to implement an LLVM based JIT compiler for PHP. There's basically two problems: First, LLVM is excruciatingly slow. If I remember correctly, it took more than a minute to compile all the WP functions for a front-page access (this is something like 100k VM instructions translated to LLVM bitcode). Second, LLVM is not great at optimizing the kind of IR that a JIT compiler for a dynamic language emits. It is much more important to perform language-specific optimizations prior to lowering. HHVM basically came to the same conclusion [1]. They lowered vasm to LLVM IR and let LLVM perform additional optimizations and native codegen. The difference was basically noise.

On the other hand, there are projects that do successfully use LLVM for JIT. We now experiment with dynasm, which doesn't optimize, but is fast and much more pleasant to use. libjit looks like another popular option.
[1]: http://hhvm.com/blog/10205/llvm-code-generation-in-hhvm
000's,
MM,
Bn,
Tn,
- how to spot a banker :) (I interned at an ibank, not criticizing)
I have to disagree with the list. How we discriminate can't be put in a list because it is different for different issues. For one example, consider that the legal system discriminate far more on gender than race. In some areas your list is close to accurate (I would definitely put mental health much higher), but in general a list is a poor data structure to represent how discrimination occurs. It also ignores interactions between groups.
I am trying to generate a hyperbole to run my hypotesis. I am most certainly based on misconceptions and prejudices, but not cartoon misconceptions. But you might try to speak with any european and they will talk about how uneducated and backwards rural US is.
It is a bit more complicated to that. If you gift appreciated assets rather than cash, you can avoid the capital gains tax, but still can deduct the full current market value (up to the limit).
For the down voters please see [Petty Issues I have with PHP!](petty); and please reply.

I would really like to talk about this constructively.

[petty]: https://gist.github.com/Morabaraba/3e93d7d21e16b6eb8266ee1cc...

ps. can you not edit your comment anymore... could you ever edit your comment?
It was a big scandal at the time (late 80s), and a cautionary tale shared quickly with us Utah phd students. Cold fusion is (or was) synonymous with research break throughs promoted too early that are later found to be BS.
Is there an example of using data from Go in the application?
> I expend considerable effort that I am not obliged to expend to use Python 3 whenever possible.

Isn't that kind of a bad sign, though? Should it really require 'considerable effort' to use the latest release of a fairly widely adopted language?
> for the time being, all distributions should ensure that python refers to the same target as python2 .

> however, end users should be aware that python refers to python3 on at least Arch Linux...

That clearly means he will recommend /usr/bin/python migrates to python3 some day, and that today developers can already not count on it being python2.
Python really should learn from PHP7.

Yes, it breaks a lot of things, but it's totally worth it for the performance gains.

Py3k solves problems partially like Unicode or async/await but it's a non-issue for skilled python2 developers.

People like incentives to upgrade. Period.
Side question, off topic: I am seriously considering switching to Linux (Windows slow, auto-updates outside my control). I'd start with a dual boot and see whether i will miss some apps.

My sticking issue is mailbox. I like local email storage bc of responsiveness, offline use, as opposed to web ui. Is there an email/calendar client that can work on windows and linux, and update the same file? E.g if i sent an email on Windows, and now i am on Linux, i'd like to see it in my sent folder. Any tips?
(DIPHLoW). sounds like Diplo, one of the most popular musical artists on the global top 50 (https://twitter.com/diplo)....
so I think the abbreviation already 'fits' into popular cultures vocabulary of pronunciation, it just has to now tie in a new meaning to the word instead of 'Hugely Successful DJ'
Python 3 doesn't remove all unicode issues, it's not magic. But the pain is 95% gone compared with Python 2. I write Python for a living, and my life has been a lot better since we switched.
Careful what you wish for. XAML had the whole "no code because we want designers to use it" thing going on and the result was a bazillion of converters with a SNR of <<1.
> Trump had a few groups of people that helped him win the election. I'd break them into these groups:

Don't forget:

* Minorities. Although Trump didn't win their vote outright, more minorities voted Republican this time than last. He even won the Hispanic vote in NYC.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/e...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/20/donald-trump...
but it will remember him.
How willing you are to take a chance depends on how desperate you are.
That's a fair point, and your remark about mental health is true (it might even be number one on this oversimplified list). I wasn't trying to be authoritative on the subject or list, but to present a general idea about who, practically-speaking, feels disenfranchised. Thiel, even if he was a fat, ugly, uneducated, transgendered black person, would still be one of the most advantaged people in the world.
Does this actually happen? It sounds like a total caricature of what someone thinks city folk are like. I mean, I spent the majority of my life in cities of different sizes and also have friends across the entire Northeast and I travel a lot. Nothing like this actually happens. My extended family are casual racists and complain a lot about Puerto Ricans. Hillary was widely unpopular with everyone I know, liberal, conservative, and moderate. I don't know a single minimalist but know a lot of people who complain they are poor while buying a bunch of junk. When my house was broken into by unknown assailants a friend of mine said "It must be niggers." Nobody really goes around talking about political policies very much, it's almost never a topic of conversation. We are generally just a bunch of normal people and none of us actually do that stuff. We have different culture and mostly different activities than rural Americans but we are not at all like you describe.

We do go to restaurants, coffee shops and bars a lot but never because it's trendy. Actually now that I think of it that wasn't big in one of the cities I lived in.

>They are mugged and then bend themselves into a pretzel to avoid describing the attacker as black

This is absurd and nobody is bending anything. People i know who got mugged said "I got mugged." I do admit i never heard "I got mugged by a black man" but probably because that information isn't entirely relevant but no bending like a pretzel. Unless you believe bending like a pretzel means "not bitching endlessly about an entire race because of the actions of on person."
[My Twitter feed gives] me all the viewpoints I need to form an opinion.

Given that hubris seems to be the theme of this topic I have to say this is particularly appropriate.
On 1st point, yes, you need Python 2 for Ansible (and Fabric) but it lives nicely side by side with Python 3, so your apps–the not-legacy ones at least–can use Python 3 no problem.

I think about Python 2 as Ansible's dependency, not something I have to use because it's there.
Once the comment gets to a certain age (an hour?), it's no longer editable.
No. It means that Arch did something that all the other distributions thought was so obvious that it didn't even need to be specified, and then they had to write a PEP to explain what is going on, write down what was considered to not be needed to be written down, and what users can no longer assume as a consequence.
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