skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "definitive data" is a meta-analysis of economic studies and hidden behind a paywall[1]. The linked article doesn't have any data or charts.

[1] http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/689575
Even with blockchain it would still be "secret ballot". Each person would have their own encryption key they use to lookup their own vote. No one could check how I voted unless I allow them to, just like no one can get into my bank account unless I allow them to.
meowface said "A better method might be 'get 5 people infected', _regardless of payment_."
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I think this article vastly underestimates how hard many of the successful startups worked to get there. And arguably there are more startups nowadays with long term ambitious goals (nuclear fusion, energy storage, immunotherapy, drones/robotics) than we've had in the past. A decline in startup culture would also lead to less of these ambitious startups as well.
Think of Reddit as a quarantine or a honeypot. The people who don't value decency have to go somewhere.
The musical part of your reply is interesting.

As I read it, the idea occurred to me to learn a new instrument along with your child. My experience is that kids learn to play an instrument faster than an adult; even given that, they'll only progress along with you by practising, and it's a pretty cool way to spend time with your kid.

Thanks for the inspiration.
That said, it sounds very appropriate a name for an IM service, and if people were asked to guess without knowing about the site, that would probably be their first guess.
Since you can be terminated for any reason or no reason at all in pretty much every state in the US, I'd be surprised if any state considered this "duress". The expectation is that you can simply quit if presented with a contract you don't like (or, for that matter, if your salary is cut in half).
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Really loved the book as well, recommended it to friends and family.
No, I am not. Victim's right to remember doesn't have anything to do with the person's right to be forgotten unless they are in the same social circle. The question is not to erase memories out of people's mind but whether to continue creating those memories in others.
If these games say they need "*.dll" to run, you can copy it from Wine into the game folder and the game will run. YMMV.
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Is Uber getting too vital to fail?
I believe the article author is aged around 21, so the dot com boom would not have been within his living memory.
I've read some pretty horrifying stories about Apple (this person had a cracked screen, Apple bricked the phone while attempting to repair it, replaced it behind his back, then charged him 3x -- they also have a required replacement device "security deposit" you must pay up front in order to even get them to attempt a repair):

https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/apple-support-honey...

There's a reason why third-party repair shops like Rossmann Group exist and make a killing doing component and board level repairs on iDevices.
I am working on doing this. The project is called cadwolf. The MVP is up now and I will coming out with a full version in January. If anyone has comments, love to hear them. If you are interested in collaborating, let know too.
Funniest piece I've read in a long time. And there are many lessons in there, too.
> It's actually really simple. An ability to see the world accurately was never a necessary condition for survival, so long as the model in your head was good enough to assure you could eat and reproduce.

Did you just read this in the latest Scott Adams post? I also agree with the way he is framing these issues. The Guy is a master persuader after all.
Many people do. Take a stroll through 'Ask HN' and you'll find some of the (and lots of the not-so) successfully bootstrapped businesses.

VC funding is all about eating the world. That's a high bar.

But a burning passion, persistence, a virtual server - and some luck - should be enough for anyone to take a bite out of it.
Regarding laziness of map() - lazy is a good default, because you can always make eager out of lazy, but not the other way around. Lazy is also more general, because it can handle both lazy and eager inputs, while eager will always force a lazy input.

This has been the general trend in mainstream languages lately, not just in Python. E.g. in C#, all LINQ operations are lazy. in Java, the new stream API, to be used with lambdas, is lazy.
Naw. Just wear crappy earplugs (that is, that don't do a great job of silencing).

When I wear earplugs I can understand conversations better. Like many others in this thread, I have uncommonly good hearing but find it difficult to hear any conversation in a loud environment.
Well, that's one opinion--unique, judging by the other responses. Someone asking for help and insight is "fake", "self-promotional", "nauseating" and manipulative? And downvotes on such a judgement are somehow out of bounds?

Dude. Take a pill. Get over yourself.
I see "build it to last" as better for society at large. Steve Jobs, for example, believed in the importance of putting things back into the stream of human consciousness and built Apple. They didn't build it to sell.
Cloud computing makes bootstrapping cheaper too. I don't understand the rush to get funding, unless you see it as a mark of status and a temporary means to a lifestyle.

Many people want to work in startups for the wrong reasons. A desire for social cachet or the lure of quick riches are bad reasons to work for startups. You can make more money for less work working at an established corporation. And who cares about what twentysomethings think of you.

Good reasons for working in startups include wanting to build, rather than maintain, products, learning faster, gaining experience faster, working on the cutting edge, and dealing with less bureaucracy. There is also a contrarian or rebellious streak in some startups that can suit certain people.

That said, all these good things can be had, and had more of, in a bootstrapped company rather than a funded company.
According to the by-line, this was not written by "Terry Gou, the man who makes your iPhone", but by Tim Culpan, a Bloomberg writer. If Culpan is implying that his own opinions are Gou's (even satirically), it's misleading. (If, in fact, this is actually Gou's letter, they should fix the attribution of the article.)
The worst is when there's some kind of "ground loop" and you hear audible harmonics of 60 Hz background hum the entire time during your call.
Is there something more general?
See, going about it rationally makes sense if you ignore human impact of such decisions. If that officer already got punished for his crime and learnt his lesson, why do you want to hold it on his head forever? We want people to learn and we want to give them a second chance.
I would love to see that as well. I have a project with similar goals (posted above). I would like for users to be able to simply call built in functions to do the normal tedious stuff like stress in rods, beams, etc.
> Like what am I supposed to pass to sort(key)? And incidentally, this tuple unpacking problem comes up when sorting frequently...

I suggest you look at namedtuple: https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collectio...

I think you should watch some Raymond Hettinger's talks, he is discussing many little things like this.
Honestly, I was more thinking about the layer of abstraction above individual communities like OrganicMothers.com and AnythingGoesMothering.com - the one made up of shared services like Reddit and Facebook that are used to establish communities, since they're harder to avoid. But even at that level, speech-restrictive websites can certainly be worrying. For example, anti-vaccination ideas are likely to be popular with your hypothetical organic mothering community, and obviously they are also likely to attract a lot of anger. So the community would certainly be a lot friendlier if they banned criticism of mothers' choices not to vaccinate their kids. Can you perhaps see how this might not be socially desirable?
Oh, people are considering that possibility very much. But the notion of Python 2.8, with new features backported from 3.x, is kinda the opposite of that approach, and is very much "developers messing with my favorite language".
The water sensor one is a good use case but the others seem a bit weak.

They seem like the kind of technology I could have developed or even bought off the shelf in 1980. I was talking to one guy who says the security sensors to detect footfall were better decades ago.

These are the kinds of use cases I'd like to see:

1. If my house is broken into, I want intruders isolated such that they have to break down every door before they can be in contact with me. Bizarre that my internal doors should work for my ax-murderer/burglar.

2. I want my countertops/bathroom to be given a targeted UV wash. Same with handles of doors/fridges etc.

3. A complete inventory of all food in my fridge and cupboards. I could then try out new recipes depending on what I had in stock. I imagine this is within reach with present day technology.

4. Funnel daylight into fibre optic cables and into my lights so I don't use electricity for light during the day. Full colour spectrum too, can't beat free.

One smart house application I liked was smart glass which was able to alter itself depending on whether you wanted to accept radiant heat or reject it. I think these are still prototypes.

The other one I liked was the Toto Intelligence Toilet which analyzed your health from your stool/urine. Having an intelligent cupboard/fridge controlling your inputs and the toilet analyzing the outputs could genuinely put a dent in Western lifestyle diseases. I see no progress on this front except for one presentation from Toto in Japan. They don't appear to sell this anymore.

That magic mirror shit is very visually impressive. The commercial interpretations I've seen are frankly unimpressive. The hobbyists we see on Reddit and HN are doing a great job. Every bathroom and hallway mirror ought to have those abilities.

To date I don't see much that is 'smart' about smart houses. I hope to be proven wrong!
Next step (unless it is already there) could be affiliate marketing (pay 25% of the ransom to people who distribute the malware). If people start getting smart with backups, the response could be to switch blackmailing (pay or we'll distribute your files).

I find this whole thing quite scary. We all know how difficult it is to protect yourself from a determined and skilled adversary. Now that there is clear business model and opportunity to make hundreds of millions[1] this thing will probably attract more and more people. Building botnets was a mass market operation. Ransomware could become more targeted, since the value of single infected machine can be much higher.

[1] http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/cryptowall-ransomware.html
I mean that it is not widely used. There are solutions for ad blocking on mobile. But while it is quite widespread on desktops, the rate of adaption on phones is still relatively small.
Hell-- even some types of Muslims in places where the other type of Muslim dominates.
I agree with your thoughts about HomeKit and Google Home. I also can't help but include the relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/.
oh shoot, that is way better than what I was doing!
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Valve / Steam thought that, until their fraudulent refund policy had its day in court.

Their TBD fine could be up to ~$900k US per person they stole from.

http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-loses-australian-legal-battle-o...
As I said, it's my understanding working with Python as well as seeing what others work with in the community and so it could be wrong. Do you have data to back up that people aren't?
I don't see the really insalubrious stuff on reddit unless it's via people being outraged by it. I fairly often see people being unnecessarily rude, eg. professionals on r/filmmakers are often scathing towards amateurs, particularly if they mention working for free or low wages.
In 2008 and 2012 respectively, neither the McCain nor Romney campaigns were associated with rampant fraud, demagoguery, and indecency. I didn't vote for either of them, but I didn't believe that they were terrible.

The Trump campaign earned a certain image not because it was the Republican ticket but because of its unique properties. There's a price to be paid for that, period. Such as, a lot of communities won't want to have anything to do with it.
I suspect "children" here may be a distraction: under the same artificial constraints, adult players might show the exact same behavior.

From the article (and abstract), it's hard to imagine a game where the 'bad' advice is really 'bad' if (1) the player always trusts it; and (2) they then always succeed. In such a case, the forced-success may retroactively make the bad-advice 'good'. (At best, maybe the bad advice forced a slower completion? But that requires assuming some more complicated game.)

From playing the game of interpreting this article, I have concluded that neither the article author nor the researchers (via their original abstract) can be trusted to summarize such research in sufficient detail for unambiguous interpretation.
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UK is too expensive to start much of anything, anyway.
> When someone says something really stupid, often the best response really is mockery.

That's not working for climate change, brexit, the Us election, etc etc etc.

Maybe it's time to accept that mockery is a sub-optimal tactic that makes you feel good but is counter-productive.
> I don't want the CPython core devs to do anything different

It's not just CPython, it's the Python specification of which CPython is the reference implementation. The specification couldn't move forward in significant ways without making some of the changes that came with Python 3.

> All I want is for people who I think have a huge blind spot to stop calling me ignorant

The level of vitriol in 2vs3 threads has been way too high from the start, because people always hate change. You are obviously free to do what you want, you always were. Don't mind the haters, but please don't be one either.
The intermediate step here is what Candyland does.
1) But free speech doesn't entitle you to an audience? Not sure why you're making that leap. It's free speech regardless of the existence of an audience.

2) Sure. And people read the fraction of the NYT they do want to read. And they pay for the part they don't want to read too, because it is happily packaged with the rest. There could also be other business models that involve other third parties than advertisers. Who knows?

Edit: Engrish.
I sometimes wonder though if the pendulum has swung too far from the big corporate, big science model that dominated when Silicon Valley was born. I don't know if a decline in startup quantity or even quality would lead to fewer innovations. Maybe national or corporate labs could pick up the slack. I think the low rates of entrepreneurship among young people these days (it's true, startups are flashy but entrepreneurship is declining on the whole) speaks to something being broken with the current model.
What would you do in real-life? Would you make a mockery of them? Or would you simply ignore them?

I find a lot of people (on both sides) will do things online behind the shield of anonymity they wouldn't otherwise in real life.

I find this behaviour cowardly.

Would you confront these people in real life, and mock them to their faces? I suspect a lot of people who do it online wouldn't in real life (if for no other reason than they'd get punched in the face).

I'm not saying we can't argue with people, or be direct - however, there are lines you don't cross (and I feel Reddit often crosses those lines). You can be upfront, and honest about your beliefs without being a jerk.
Brilliant game! I'm really enjoying it. I usually don't play computer games, so I didn't expect to spend several hours on this. Tons of fun, thank you for making it!

Such a beautiful blend of tactics and strategy. Elegant, simple, and extremely engaging. Makes me think, and keeps me on the edge of my seat.

One suggestion - I think it would be really cool to be able to talk to other players using microphone. Chat doesn't work so well, you can't get too distracted on it, the game is pretty fast paced once you get the hang of it. But it would be really awesome to have a conversation while playing.

Thoughts on strategy so far:

- Sending out small groups of "scouts" at the beginning of the game, finding and capturing others, before they've managed to gain any resources worked really well for me.

- It comes down to finding the opponent's "king", and hiding your own. Once you know his position, defeating him isn't that difficult. Therefore, there's a lot of value in exploring as much territory as possible in the fewest amount of moves.

- And that really reminds me of Go game. You want to find balance between protecting your territory, and exploring. Start by exploring as fast as possible, then - gather resources and build an army. Once you have a sizable army - venture into enemy's territory, and explore as fast as possible, trying to find his king.
>be a lot friendlier if they banned criticism of mothers' choices not to vaccinate their kids. Can you perhaps see how this might not be socially desirable?

Yes I do, but only because you cherry-picked an example that seems to be an obvious benefit.

I want to emphasize again that true free speech includes everything you don't like and all stupid opinions so you can't isolate good examples and ignore bad ones.
And what happens when you don't get a choice about what strings you are digesting?
This is a silly myth. The privileged upper class don't get a special better-designrf education, they get a professional network that puts them in power regardless of their education. There's no special high school class that teaches "skills for becoming a CEO or a Congressperson".
I'm sorry if my comment came across as lacking respect, I meant no disrespect towards the author as a person. I would like to apologize if I insulted the author in any way.

It's just that given the title (i.e. corp->startup) I expected something different from all the other, similar articles.
Thanks again to both you and mswen for the kind words and encouragement.

Sorry to not offer more specifics but I need to be careful on what I reveal about our workflow and ops since my employer guards those things pretty seriously but we have quite a large array of CNC, milling, lathes, spin forming, autoclave, welding, 3d printing, and other machines. The building I work in is a couple hundred thousand square feet and is constantly overflowing. We definitely have software tracking uptime/downtime and things like that.
It may have been the title, so we changed it to the subtitle.

Switching titles based on flags doesn't sound like a very efficient approach. Maybe you could add a text box or a pulldown for a private comment to the moderators when flagging? Requesting a reason for a flag doesn't seem like too much of a burden, and seems like it would make you much more productive when reviewing. And as a user, it would be nice to have a way to clearly flag "dupes", "broken links", "typo in title", etc. without worrying about being misinterpreted. Would also be nice to be able to suggest alternative titles or URL's in some easy "out of band" manner rather than in a comment or email.
> And yet AMD releases far more of it's specification for its chipsets than Nvidia does (which releases next to none).

That is only relevant if any third-party has any interest in taking up the challenge of developing an alternative driver.
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Python programmers and companies with python code should the time and effort delivering new features for their customers instead of spending that time and effort forward porting stuff to python 3 because python 3 isn't delivering enough additional value to justify switching. I think people and businesses with python 2 code would be better off continuing to improve their code bases with new features instead of doing things like this.
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Why is not the FBI actively targeting those criminals?
I have a persistent problem that does almost exactly that.

The resulting file is not readable, and it makes me want to kick puppies and punch kittens.
Completely evil and terrifying, yet also somehow brilliant psychologically. Tricking people to install it thinking it's the Popcorn Time streaming app has a bit of irony involved.
It is one of the most eye-opening experiences in the career of software development to be thrown into your first non-trivial codebase. Helpful colleagues provided, this will get you further than any course-based training, and much quicker. The condensed mixture of best-practice and this-had-to-work-quickly is very instructive.
> That might work if someone is overweight

We know it doesn't.
Julia can be a good competitor to Python, but far in the future. Now it's just not there yet.

Go is interesting, but really a different (and perhaps smaller) use case. What, for instance, I do in Python? That little one-off script that converts one thing to another or calculates something - I am not sure why I would even bother thinking about Go.

I have no doubt that at some point, Python will be replaced by something. But I don't think it will be any of the languages that are currently in widespread use. Heck, C is also not based on solid foundations (I mean like type theory or something), and it wasn't fully replaced yet.
People often bring up the unicode thing but tons of Python code is backend glue code that really doesn't care at all about unicode.
The stigma on Mensa is that the Mensa is an org of people who have accomplished nothing so they just brag about scoring high on a test 10-30 years ago.

There's no stigma around getting together with people to "make" or hack or do math or write an intelligent blog or do whatever smart thing you enjoy.
> After about 30 to 40 minutes of a vigorous aerobic workout – enough to make you sweat – studies have recorded increased blood flow to this region, which, incidentally, is associated with many of the attributes we associate with “clear thinking”: planning ahead, focus and concentration, goal-setting, time management.

I wonder how HIIT stacks up against running in this regard. When done properly, it's impossible to do it for the said 30 minutes, yet it makes one sweat no less than that 40 minute run. For example, the routine I follow daily takes about 15 minutes and consists of series of calisthenics a minute/half a minute long with 20 seconds of rest between them. By 15 minutes mark it leaves me breathless and drives every muscle to exhaustion. If it's all about blood movement, then I assume HIIT should compare well since the routine quickly drives my heart rate up and keeps it relatively high for hours afterwards.
>Not sure why you're making that leap. It's free speech regardless of the existence of an audience.

To clarify, I'm arguing the way others argue so if doesn't seem logical to you, I totally agree!

When you tell people who are censored on places like Facebook to just go make their own website, they'll respond with the analogy: "freedom to shout opinions in my own living room where nobody else can hear it is NOT FREE SPEECH!"

Using that logic, that's why they insist putting the "public space" label on Facebook/reddit/twitter. It's not good enough that DNS+ISP is the "public space". Instead, it must be somebody else's website that already has an audience of millions.
Metafilter has a similar model, and the community there is fairly orderly and respectful. I have however detected a reduction in ideological diversity over time.