skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who worked used to work in tech in Woburn MA (30 minutes North of boston), and had a fair number of NH living co-workers, I would say this is true. Though a lot of tech is moving into the city proper as commutes here continue to worsen.
Curious: what's the best social media option at the moment against this? Maybe something like Telegram's new Telegraph?
It is an optional feature and it doesn't add much cruft in the UI if you don't use it.
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Packaging and the distribution network to go with it PyPI are one of the key underpinnings of the python community, and as such deserve more love from the PSF. It is in the best interest of the PSF to actively support and push improvements to packaging, and to put community resources towards its development.
>Soooooo to give you an argument ad absurdum

Don't know why it is absurd. Monarchies and dictatorships are forms of governments that either have been tried / still in power.

Longer terms is a possible solution. Think of house vs senate (2 vs 6 years). The house basically spends 50% of their time campaigning, because election year is every other year.

>Maybe donors should be more humble, and be okay with an aid-to-the-legislator calling them for money?

The largest donors aren't just humble, they're aggressively donating/investing their money into parties/people. Your suggestion to this is meant for people like Sanders who gains his donations from "normal" people instead of the rich.

There isn't a solution I can think of. To the first point, when we talk about gov't and politics, we talk about power. The pull that power has on people, the wealth that can be attained, and human greed. There are pros and cons to different types of gov'ts. Single decision makers can change directions quickly, get things done faster, but fail faster too. Democracies are made to be slow with checks and balances, but sometimes it's too slow, can't adapt quick enough, and just because there are more people doesn't make it immune to corruption.
Source on that claim?
Ok, end the war on drugs. Force the ACLU and legislatures to enact laws allowing for forcing adults into mandatory detox and/or mental/rehab programs based on their drug use.

Live in a liberal area sometime and experience the excuses and lack of action around heroin addicts and meth heads and their criminal activities for the next fix or based off their current hit...

Or the long term mental effects.
Pull a free credit report--you get one per year by law. It should have all your past addresses on it, or at least within the last X years.
Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual. Especially the "war stories" contained within.
I have a pair of shitty Sennheizer headphones. Apparently they dilluted their brand a lot.
I haven't failed anything. I am not an IT pro.

Also it's not just for the account of the terminated person, but for any passwords the terminated person has 'learned' whilst employed.
Except of course Python 3 isn't killing Python at all.

Just taking a look at the TIOBE, in July 2016 it hit #4, it's highest spot ever.
Glad to hear you're enjoying Mattermost. Group level issue boards are being worked on in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/928 for GitLab EE and .com
I've helped a few people learn Python. Nobody has ever gotten hung up on Unicode strings. We've even done string-y stuff such as talking to hardware via pySerial.

We've modified a couple of libraries ourselves, typically stuff that was written a long time ago and abandoned. Other than that, we've never really run into a problem where the choice of one version of Python over the other was an obstacle.
Why physicians? Because the proletariat still have a little bit of say on policy in this country. If you ask citizens with strong anti-drug stances why they support tough drug laws, very few (if any) will say "because I hate minorities."

So we've got to change the minds of the voting base. Physicians are highly respected in this country and to have them come out en masse and state that drug addiction is a health issue and not a criminal issue would do a lot to change the minds of voters...which could then slightly change the minds of our lawmakers.
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Awesome! Glad we got the timing right for you. Once you have them set up it is hard to go back to living without them.
I hope we can just call Python 2.8 -> Python 4 and do a bridge to import the good things about Python 3. Agreeing or not agreeing with the author points is irrelevant, Python is slowly and unfortunately dying because of this schism.
I am forever grateful that I happened to start with the Color Computer: the 6809 was the best introduction to assembly available at the time.

So far, I haven't done any Z80 or 6502 programming.

And as much as I love the 6809, I'm super happy to ARM machines to play with now.
> Female vervet monkeys manipulate males into fighting battles by lavishing attention on brave soldiers while giving noncombatants the cold shoulder, researchers said on Wednesday.

Title is basically the first sentence of the article.
> Can the conclusion stand if the arguments are not correct?

It can; arguing it can't would be an 'argument from fallacy', itself a fallacy.

Put another way, I can make up a totally absurd, incorrect argument that the sky is blue, but the sky is still blue. I can also make up a totally absurd, incorrect argument that the sky is green, but it isn't. An argument that doesn't hold water doesn't say anything useful about the conclusion either way.
You can also work in New York City and live in two neighboring states, which changes the stats somewhat.
As bad as it probably is, I've kept it in google sheets going back a few years now...
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Doctors, in my experience, are the biggest drug fiends on the planet, behind perhaps rockstars and crack addicts
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Also if you gzip the binary version and the json version, the gzipped binary is still going to be much smaller.

Same with csv data, for download size it really pays off to preprocess and pack into arrays of binary structs before compression.

This is part of a bigger class of effects in preprocessing data before compression, it is often surprisingly effective. For example delta coding or columnar format (SoA vs AoS) can yield big improvements depending on data.
I sympathize with the OP, although my concerns are slightly different.

I worry that physician groups are trying to shape this narrative in a way that just shifts government-sanctioned power from one group to another. Physicians are not disinterested parties in this, because they have huge financial benefits to gain from official policy being that drugs are a "medical" issue. Once this happens, if nothing changes about the way that the medical system is organized, you'll just have a different group sucking up money and controlling individuals wholesale without sufficient justification.

I agree with you up until a very critical point. Doctors are better equipped to understand the neurochemical reactions being caused by drugs than criminal justice professionals. However, they are not necessarily better equipped to understand the neurochemical reactions than other scientific professionals, nor are they better equipped to understand the economic, social, or legal consequences than criminal justice and other professionals.

This is what is happening with the medical rhetoric: you have a group of experts in area X, who are currently legally designated as either the only people truly qualified, or in control of those qualified, arguing "drugs are an issue of X." In doing so, they put themselves in control of decision-making in this area, with all the financial benefits that accrue to them, and, more dangerously, simultaneously take control of discourse away from others, because then they become the ones who are only, or who are most qualified to make decisions about whether or not it is an issue of X. Once society deems drug use a "medical disease," then physicians become the people who are only truly legally qualified to make decisions about drug use, and also the only people truly qualified to make decisions about drug use policy. It's an entirely self-serving vicious circle.

This line of reasoning is also dangerous, because there is no end to its logic. Given that humans are fundamentally biological beings, any state of human suffering can ultimately be seen as "medical" in nature.

Reading this sounds conspiratorial, and I don't mean it to be, but it's frustrating to me that society doesn't recognize the ethical conflict of interest created by current medical certification and licensing systems.

Don't get me wrong: the current system for handling drugs is woefully broken. But I worry that labeling drug use as a "disease" will only shift the problems from one area to another, unless that system is also reformed to foster a more competitive, less hierarchical health care community. Drug use problems are a complex, social, biological, psychological, legal, economic problem set that is outside the purview of any particular professional community. The best approach is to just deregulate it, and treat it as a form of human suffering that requires a multifactorial approach.

I'm deeply skeptical this will happen, though, given our recurrent need to oversimplify everything.
The content of the article makes it seem like the question being answered is "what states are the best at attracting college graduates?" The actual answered question, which you state above, is an artifact of the limitations of their data.

Say that NY and NJ are equally attractive destinations for college graduates. But say NJ has no colleges, and everyone goes to school in NY. Under the methodology of the article, NY will show a huge out-migration and NJ will show a huge in-migration, even though they are identical in terms of keeping long-time residents who graduate college.

I think that phenomenon explains exactly what you're seeing with pairs of neighboring states. Is anyone going to seriously argue that NJ or CT are more attractive destinations for college graduates than NY or MA?
I find that claim very strange. Who is asking you to spend your money? Is paying tax or not taking bribes about mindsets? I save up and I pay taxes and nobody can force me to spend money I don't want to.
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I wonder what would happen to record companies and the RIAA if DAT tape existed before they really consolidated. (Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System)
Yeah even I am very curious how if ever this could be pulled off. It's a wait and watch for now.
"The riskiest group activity of all is warfare, and few animals other than humans and monkeys engage in it."
Private Prisons (through their lobbyists) are likely one of the main opposers of loosening the War on Drugs. We don't know clearly what they lobby for - they would never admit it publicly, but it is not hard to guess. Stopping the War on Drugs would be a cut to their profit margins.

Snopes dissected this a bit: http://www.snopes.com/drug-law-lobbying-by-corrections-corpo...
Willingness to fight seems to be a successful genetic trait for them. If you don't fight, your troop starves. I don't think "manipulation" has anything to do with it... if the troop doesn't pass on successful genes, the troop dies. So of course the fighters are the ones that mate!
I'd be doing amphetamines too if they stuck me on 36-hour shifts.
In order to determine which state is "worse" at keeping students, you need to know how many students were predisposed to leave.

State A has 10k students, 5k from out of state, and 3k leave.

State B has 10k students, 1k from out of state, and 2k leave.

Which state is better at keeping students?
Alright. Point by point (although I'm considering both the beginner and "advanced" arguments for each point simultaneously):

> You Should Be Able to Run 2 and 3

That makes no sense. The whole point of versions is that they are different. Maybe he means 3 should be backwards compatible. That is potentially valid criticism. That said, AFAICT, the breaking changes are pretty reasonable [0][1]. Also, I'm not sure what world he is living in, but interop between Java and C/C++ through the JNI is not easy. As a math major I'm not sure what the "solid math" here is. I think it is ironic that the CLR is referenced here so extensively - it has made some pretty big breaking changes in the past (unlike Java, it decided to break backwards compatibility to have reified generics).

> No Working Translator

Translation is tough, _especially_ in languages like Python that don't have good static guarantees. The real problem here is probably that the code you want to produce with a translator should look as much like the original code when possible. That _is_ tough. The point is it isn't just what the program does in terms of inputs and outputs that you want to preserve. You still want it to look more or less the same.

> Difficult To Use Strings

This is not an incorrect point. I think Python 3 wanted to have both the performance of byte strings and utf8-by-default strings (finally!). The intention behind that seems reasonable. As a proponent of strong static typing, the error message he shows seems quite benign. That said, I understand how one might be unhappy about this.

> Core Libraries Not Updated

This may be the case, I'll defer to someone else. That said, this is yet another claim the author makes without much backing (this alone could be the subject of a blog post given the right backing). The quip about the Python community liking bad design seems a bit gratuitous.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.0.html
[1]: http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_dif...
Perhaps a good way to explain the bias that you mentioned is "tunnel vision"?
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Trump also said an American-born district judge was unfit for his job because of his Mexican heritage.

The Latino demographic isn't just judging Trump based on solely on his 'illegal immigration deportation' plan.
While the official war on drugs was started as a means of suppressing and discrediting blacks by the Nixon administration, the reason it won't end any time soon is that it has long been and continues to be both a revenue stream and a tool of political disruption for the CIA and DEA. (Not that this changes the fact that it still today results in the suppression of poor and minorities.)
> one small mistake on their end can prove fatal for one or more parties involved

This right here is why I respect the hell out of doctors. Every morning, they wake up with the knowledge that today, they could kill someone through inattention or ignorance. I'm sure that they don't think about it that way while brushing their teeth or whatever, but that's an awesome responsibility.
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The one I remember besides LOAD "" is

RANDOMIZE USR 0

Also come to think of it, my ZX Spectrum (a Soviet clone of it really) was probably the reason I learned English. All the games and programs were in English, wanted to devour all that info so I learned a new language as a side-effect.
All stable versions of the big ML frameworks are still 2.7.
Yeah, way to quote out of context.

"Most doctors (especially surgeons, etc.), along with firefighters, police, etc. derive their respect in "educated circles" not from their pay (that's some of the worst nonsense I've heard this week) but from the kind of work that they do: saving other people's lives, esp"

Ah yes, the 'everybody deserves a medal' mentality. Let's not forget the garbage man, without whom we'd be choking on our own garbage! Praise his selfless sacrifice!

In the mean time here in the real world, those firefighters and policemen you talk about are (in the case of firemen) replaced with volunteers, and paid a very basic wage (yes yes because of political/union dynamics some of that group in some US states are paid well with early retirement yadda yadda yadda - I'm talking in general). Way to show status and respect, society!

In the mean time you're spinning a straw man of how I supposedly look down upon doctors, where my actual point is that doctors aren't that special intellectually speaking. Most people reading this could be doctors if they wanted to. Does that mean we look on them? No. But it does mean we don't put them on some pedestal as if they're so smart - which is what used to happen when the majority of people had no or very little education.
> A conservative essay full of interesting anecdotes where liberal scientists have stifled businesses with regulations that later turned out to be debunked.

Did we read the same thing? Your TL;DR completely mischaracterizes the article, you don't even begin to capture the points made.

>I appreciate that the author spent the time to construct an opposing viewpoint, but it never answers one lingering question. What's wrong with solar, or wind farm investments? Why shouldn't we switch to battery powered vehicles? The left gets shamed for believing in renewable energy, but there's never a compelling argument against it.

What does any of this have to do with the article? Since it's not about climate change, why would any of those issues be addressed?
> A censored [favorite service] with state surveillance is better than no [favorite service] is the new normal. Really?

This is nothing new, it's been going on for a very long time in China and not part of some new global trend. Also, I do think that in China, a "censored [favorite service] with state surveillance is better than no [favorite service]" and so do nearly all the Chinese. Otherwise, by reductio ad absurdum, you'd be forced to conclude that China would be better off without the Internet. This has nothing to do with endorsing censorship/surveillance by the way.
Don't worry, I'm not being bamboozled by the word "neural". My argument that there is a definition of understanding that you can derive from a well-known thought experiment that looks like it is met by this implementation of "highly parameterized reconfigurable weighted networks of logistic classifiers".

I don't see any particular difference between training a classifier and teaching rules; the rules are just encoded in the parameters of the classifier. If it helps, you can just replace "taught" with "trained on" and "rules" with "data", but there's no version of the Chinese Room Argument where you're sitting in a room with boxes full of unsupervised learning datasets and a book of sigmoid functions.

Perhaps this system works similarly to previous ones, but not having been taught (trained on) any rules (data) about the specific language pairs in question seems to be a strong argument for some kind of semantic representation of language. You might have seen that before, but I haven't and the article seems to imply that it's new. Again, I'm talking specifically about the similarity between this result and an example of something "machines can't do".

The point is that the non-magical argument goes both ways. If a brain is just a complicated and meaty computer, then we should expect sophisticated enough programs on powerful enough hardware to start displaying things we might recognise as intelligent. That's not going to look particularly impressive – our machine translator isn't going to develop a conscience or try to unionise – but it might do something that qualifies for some definition of understanding.
I have found few things to be bad about gitlab, and I am serious, not trolling:

1. When I am already logged in gitlab and I go to gitlab.com, it shows me the landing page and doesn't automatically show me the dashboard.

2. I do not get notifications from the projects that I follow, I get only the "todos". Either this, or I haven't figured out the notification part.

3.The UI is good, but it can have some improvements. I can not put my finger on it, but Github's UI/UX feels more approachable than Gitlab's.

Also, on the landing page itself if you can have a login form like Facebook does, it'll be a small but great change.
Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world

- Serj Tankian

(on another note, I am happy this is the second time I have quoted System of a Down on HN and it was 100% pertinent to the discussion)
But what if I want the complete contents of war and peace to be my password?
We have been calling for audits for more than a decade. I've piloted these audits in about 20 counties, published the methods and results in peer-reviewed journals, worked with local and state election officials to make them logistically efficient and to draft laws, etc. But this is the first election in a decade in which there seems to be the political will to do what we should do after every election: double-check the paper to ensure that errors, bugs, misconfiguration, or outright hacking did not alter the outcome.
Univision is not a super-PAC, no matter how many times Breitbart says it is.

There's irony in reading your comment in a thread about fake-news.
On a related topic, a number of Bitcoin wallets have moved to hierarchical deterministic (HD) addresses and they market that as a positive.
And that's why you PCA before clustering (for normalization).
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Three monkeys walked into a bar... I mean humans.
You're fucking insane if you think that's going to happen.
> to try to squeeze iid information from stuff that's not iid. So you can use regression.

I'm not sure I understand your last sentence here - so you can, or you can't use regression for non iid stuff? It would seem that you cannot.
The methods were tried in various contest from 2008 on, but not on the presidential election in 2008 or 2012 because we could not get all the local election officials in any state to do it. Believe me, I tried to get states to do it. This time, there might be the political will.
>I doubt the Scala community worries about exactly the same things.

Why do you single out Scala as being particularly different to Python and Perl?
> By the same token, doctors are better equipped to understand (to the extent we can) the neurochemical reactions being caused by drugs and how they act on the brain.

I'm not sure how true that is. The amount of knowledge of (bio)chemistry required by most doctors in their day-to-day work is actually quite limited. A few years out of medical school, and many of them have already forgotten most of what they were taught in medical school, and the medical school curriculum really only gives a high-level overview of the topic.

I'm not a doctor, but my mother and brother are. My mother despite being a doctor will admit her chemistry knowledge is quite limited, but to be fair to her she doesn't need to know much chemistry at all to do her job–you don't need any detailed knowledge of biochemistry to prescribe an antidepressant or perform a caesarian section. My brother by contrast knows a lot about chemistry, but that's not due to medical school, that's due to majoring in chemistry as an undergrad.
Even if your statement was true (it's not)[1][2][3][4], how would that be a sign that Python is dying?

[1] http://www.deeplearning.net/software/theano/install.html

[2] https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/get_started/os_set...

[3] https://keras.io/#you-have-just-found-keras

[4] https://lasagne.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/installation.h...
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Perl is alive and well, thank you.
Okay fascist.
Most voting machines are connected to the Internet or to a machine that has been connected to the Internet in some point in the lifecycle of an election. But even absent hacking, there are sometimes configuration errors (e.g., swapping candidates or contests) that don't get detected in pre-election testing, procedural or equipment failures that result in not scanning some ballots or scanning some more than once, etc.