skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what's the business of this company and its CEO? Other than trying to collect subscribers to his blog.

Also really confusing name considering there's the Finnish security company called F-Secure who also have a technical blog:
https://labsblog.f-secure.com/

And now also run a security course in Helsinki University: http://mooc.fi/courses/2016/cybersecurity/
It was sluggish for me as well. Seems to be working now, though. Alternative link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161026214120/http://www.deanwe...
I'd argue Python 2.7 counts as no longer produced.
The 2.7.x releases with their bugfixes are akin to an electronics company still honoring the warranty of tape recorders and still repairing them.
That doesn't mean tape recorders are not obsolete, especially since the company is not making them anymore. I consider the parallel 'making software' to be the process of

feature proposal -> patch -> review -> merge
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I don't know if HALs in the kernel would have been the smart thing to do here (I'm not familiar enough with the problem to comment; generally, abstracting hardware access behind a HAL is a smart thing, but "generally" is a really bad snare trap).

On the other hand, I'd really love to see the Linux team getting the same treatment that Microsoft gets whenever they encourage lack of portability, even where portability would be irrelevant. A whole thread about this, and not once was the word "EEE" uttered.

I'm sure business had nothing to do with the Linux team's decision here, I'm just a little pissed at our double standards ("our" as in the open source/free software community of users and developers). AMD's criticism is not without valid points. Getting drivers to work (let alone in upstream) while the hardware is still relevant is difficult and requires a lot of maintenance, hacking and testing due to things like API changes, undocumented/shifting ad-hoc conventions and so on. Driver development on Linux is very much unlike what you expect with a Windows background; the sheer fact that they managed to convince a largely Windows-only shop to let them do it, with an eye to the future, is amazing.

I'd have expected to see questions like "why did these guys write the whole fsckin thing, all 100,000 lines of it, and only found out it's not upstreamable now". I've been hearing of AMD trying to get their Linux drivers in good shape for a long time now. "We don't do the thing that is most fundamental to your architecture" looks like the kind of problem that could have surfaced within, I don't know, two emails?

Edit: I do think that the LK maintainer was right not to merge this. What bothers me is that everyone's focusing on everything except the examination of the technical issues and what would benefit Linux users.
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Actually Valve no longer make these "hats". Most of items that included in content updates are created by the community.
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People in China were, until just a few years ago, still using Windows XP, too, though.
Or we invent compact powerful batteries.
Although French, I tend to agree with Google. Bu what does this mean:

> Aside from anything else, it’s plain common sense that one country should not have the right to impose its rules on the citizens of another, especially not when it comes to lawful content.

Lawful content? According to whom? By saying that, Google seems to agree that there is such a thing as a universal lawfulness, which is the point the CNIL is trying to make.

If there was a country that considered child porn to be completely ok (and there may be), would Google let American citizen visiting that country search and find child porn on the local Google?
What happened to EEStor?

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I think that the models are quite advanced and where the money goes.

It does not mean that you just can't take a couple of web developers and make it usable, but as the market is small it might pass the price point with a supersonic bang...
The problem with fixed price as a developer is that rarely are requirements exactly understood or detailed enough to actually be able to bid the job. "Export to PDF" ok.. no problem -- that then turns into: "can you add page numbers? Can you support A4 - and US letter sizes?" And you have scope creep-- one more little thing isn't reasonable to say no to, however it quickly becomes a death by a thousand paper cuts. Ok, so now you price in that enevitable scope creep, so now your price is much higher. "$5000 to export to PDF? That's crazy!" -- yes but I am anticipating the fact that you don't know exactly what you want. "But we do, we made it clear!"

You see how that goes. Project pricing leads to a guessing game. Billing hourly is fair for everyone, at least in software. If I am more efficient, I pass that onto the customer. I don't 'lose' money -- it usually results in more work.

Imagine charging $80 for some corn because I want to make the same money as if I had guys hand-picking and hand seeding and doing the entire farming process without machines. That corn only cost me $0.10 to produce but I am charging a price as if I didn't have modern efficiencies. I would sell a lot less corn and actually profit less due to both competition and price elasticity. People would look for alternatives to corn.

In software, not passing on efficiencies means that there would actually be a smaller market for software development. Imagine how bad the market would be for us if we wrote everything in assembly. A simple web site might cost $100m and there'd be exactly 5 people in the world building websites.
Ludo's fundamental, underlying lesson is that your actions don't matter at all. (The player has literally no agency in the game, it could be equivalently played by a RNG.) That doesn't seem like a good parenting lesson. A board game should be an opportunity to develop strategic thinking skills, rather than teaching the child that they're irrelevant.
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> the text model of Python 2 is a giant mess and makes it very hard to correctly deal with non-ascii text for any non-trivial software

There are counter-arguments to this. Armin Ronacher, author of (among other software) the excellent Flask web framework, thinks that Python 2's system of codecs and byte streams is better in practice [1][2]. Reasons include: You can do byte -> byte conversions with codecs that are no longer possible. You can better handle text encodings besides UTF-8 (and here he describes several embarassing failures of Python 3 to handle OS paths correctly). You can write single APIs that handle byte streams like gzip and text encodings like UTF-8.

[1]: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/7/thoughts-on-python3/
[2]: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/
> I've been working on Python 2.8 (not an official Python release)

It is very dishonest to call it Python 2.8 then.
In your eyes is anything that isn't getting more and more features added every few months necessarily obsolete? Can't something just become mature and fulfill its goals at some point? Do you consider T-shirts to be obsolete too? If they kept adding more and more attachments ("features") to your clothes every few months to prevent them from becoming "obsolete" you'd be walking around in really heavy clothing...
I admire AMD for even trying to work with Linux on a driver solution for The Kernel. I am very worried about the development, because since Nvidia fucked me over with utterly crappy hardware in the past, now, that AMD started making decent hardware. I use three different kinds of operating systems at the same time, an Linux is on the least position of being stable and useable. There's always something broken in Linux, not working, patched/made worse - it's a mess. I'm not trying to defend Windows or something, it's been a rough for Windows too. MacOS leads the way. But, Linux is existing as long as those two did, and it's a huge pile of patchwork. Maybe it's supposed to be that way. But then I understand why it never had a year of Linux desktop.
I agree. I'm just pointing out that if you want a toaster that takes fat slices they're available.

Maybe I should have linked to this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobbs-22400-Slice-Toaster/d...
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Without knowing about the "game" from the study and the "rigging" process in greater detail than the article provides it's hard to see how (or whether) the outcome is meaningful.
One solution strategy that works very well from my experience is to ask them upfront whether they want to play "for real" or to play to learn. [edit: A third mode is "for (silly) fun" where everything is allowed.]

This works for all ages... and for boardgames and physical games. It's their choice which mode they want to play in, and they trust and respect you more when given the choice. You treat them as a peer. You can beat them mercilessly, or you can join their side and practice the game together. And the thrill and confidence they get when they beat you playing 'for real' is just priceless.
There's a chrome extension trying to do just that, hopefully it will ported to other browsers.

>>
Kill Analytics[1] is a chrome extension that runs in the background while you use the web.

When you visit a website, it sends a little extra data to the server which breaks that site's Web Analytics.
<<

[1]: https://hello-kill.github.io/
This is exactly how I feel. I don't use Linux, I'm an outsider, and the whole thing just makes no sense to me.
AFAICT, the way these sorts of internet conservatives see it is if you don't spend the majority of your time complaining about Obamacare, claiming climate change is a hoax, and calling for the end of all government regulations, you're a heavily biased far-left liberal socialist.
"DON'T call it Python"
They shouldn't have called it 'Python' 3 in the first place when it's practically backwards incompatible
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Companies using the built in csv module would be better off moving to something like csvparser.

Python's a superlative language but it has a pretty terrible set of included libraries. urllib2 isn't the only library with a superior alternative on pypi. Pretty much all of them do.
This comment wasn't ironic
>And paying for sports is even more ridiculous.

Is it a problem that some of us like sports? I bet you have a "ridiculous" hobby or two that's a complete waste of money.

And I love the mentality of "TV is trash and I can hardly stand it...but I'll steal it anyway."
>The site enumerates the pitfalls of cloud-hosted solutions and then proceeds to link to their own cloud-hosted solutions with no explanation of why they're any safer, better, etc.

perhaps they don't track
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The player has literally no agency in the game

A bit of a sidetrack, but Ludo does have decisions: which disc to move and how many spaces. Chasing vs rushing to complete. Whether to move a disc when a 6 is diced or to bring a new disc into play.

Chutes/snakes and Ladders is pure luck.
I don't think it's honest to post this without context, and without mentioning that in the five years that passed most of these things were remedied, and indeed, some things were already remedied at the time of his writing.

Some points Armin makes are valid and remain valid for Linux-ish systems, but have been shown and refuted countless times for other operating systems; Python is not a Linux-only show. I won't re-iterate all that here.
People don't seem to be considering the possibility that a stagnant python 2.7 may actually be a reason to like that version of the language. I must admit it is nice to not have those oh-so-keen python developers messing with my favorite language.

However, I recently had a gig working in py3. Apart from screwing up every single print statement for a long time, it was entirely drama-free, and actually pretty great. There really is a difference between living and dead languages I think. 2.7 is the latin of python.
Well we guess, when it comes to small companies that are trying to make their way people are more demanding ? Do you ask WhatsApp and co source code ? We have absolut no interest in user data. Thats why you can use Dikalo without even signing up. The messages never reach our servers in clear and we dont even save users emails in clear. We will have security audits. For sure. We are just getting started. Just give us a try :)
Yeah, so for them it wasn't obsolete. For other communities it was. I don't see the problem. Obviously obsoleteness (word?) isn't a property of the product; it depends on the context (how much it's used, what else is available, how much the alternatives are used, etc... however you want to weight them).
Georgia went nominally Trump. Atlanta, Savannah, and smaller cities are still predominantly blue.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/georgia
Completely agree. I should have better worded my post.
> Armin Ronacher, author of (among other software) the excellent Flask web framework, thinks that Python 2's system of codecs and byte streams is better in practice.

Armin Ronacher works in a very specific context of having to deal with byte/text interfaces in pretty much all his projects, and while I can see where he comes from I work at a different level and at the level at which I work the P2 model is a giant pain in the ass.

> [1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/7/thoughts-on-python3/

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/11/5/be-careful-about-what-you-...

Armin is no foe of Python 3. And as noted in the essaye Python 3 has undergone several improvements or features reintroductions e.g. PEP 461 reintroduced C-style formatting to bytestrings, making generating binary data (especially ascii-based formats) significantly more convenient than it is between 3.0 and 3.4.

Also note that Armin has repeatedly praised Rust's text model, which is much more similar to P3's than P2's (except with static types and no messy legacy).

> and here he describes several embarassing failures of Python 3 to handle OS paths correctly

And (fucking surprise) the issue with that is the text model of FS paths is an embarrassing pile of garbage, Python 2 is convenient because it doesn't try to touch that mess at all and just hands the flaming bag of shit to whoever comes next.
>There are traditional shows on services like Netflix, but then there is also Twitch, YouTube, etc.

This article is about ESPN, which is a live sports network. Cutting the cord is difficult for a sports fan. None of the services you mention are a replacement (yet).
> And if the fight continues and you run out of money, what then?

How does this work?

I always hear the "sue you until you run out of money" type of bullying. Why do you need to pay lots of money for a lawyer if you are in the right?

* I worked on my project at night: here is my git log

* I worked on my personal laptop

* Your business is automated cars and my side project is a T shirt sale website
Or even better, give us an open source out-of-tree driver, and wait. Someone in the community will do the cleanup and get it upstream eventually. For free.
See the AI hype? this is going to happen to gene editing and biology.

I think that lots of dev's are already interested in the human genom, biochemistry and life science but it's somehow too far away, it's not predicable enough for us, that's because we (humans) haven't understood it yet.

But there will be a time were all those topics will be more predicable for us developers, we will gain more interest in biological programming ?

There will be coursera/pluralsight courses about 'Extract your own DNA and make it blink' courses.

Biology is going to be programmable like a microcontroller.
We will order Do it yourself kits like Arduinos and Pi's from Amazon.

Edit:

And that's something I'd really love to see, there is so much potential once real hackers try to solve problems in biology, if we take a closer look at the open source community and how many amazing things they (we) have created, all that awesomeness could also become true for biology.

A few links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_editing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself_biology
Your logic assumes that young founders/developers are very proficient in many languages (including lisp) and they have perfect information for choosing. In reality, they use whatever crap they picked up hacking in high school. On top of that, the tools are only a part of the ingredients. However bad your platform is, at least it works, while most of the screw-up is hidden in business decisions - that's why every startup incubator's job is to help the youngsters not screw up business-wise. Tech is normally something up to the founders, most of whom have never heard of lisp.
The article makes it sounds like investment gains by a factor of 15 or more are magical and limited to venture capitalists. There are plenty of stocks that anybody could have bought at a stock exchange that gained by this factor. Apple is a famous example.
>but so many of my friends are put off by blacked out games which make random games unavailable to watch.

It isn't random; it's an outdated approach to getting butts in seats. Generally, it will be the local team that is "blacked out" in its home market. The blame goes to the team ownership, not the networks. But I agree, it's stupid.
A lot of athletes are black. They are becoming more vocal about the racism and brutality in this nation. This is causing a lot of white conservatives to feel uncomfortable. Who'd rather they shut up and continue to crush in each other's skulls.
Tape recorders are not still being made; verdict: obsolete

T-shirts are still being made; verdict: not obsolete

Python 2 is not still being made; verdict: obsolete
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Will check it out, thanks. I could imagine an OSS based business model working here. I'd gladly pay for support and perhaps sponsor feature development.
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Literally the first time I've heard of python-future. How is it that you claim it supercedes six?
Python 2 is still being "made" in the sense you consider T-shirts are still being made, though. it's still provided for download, and people are downloading it and using it, and even using it for new things. Heck, it's even getting bugfixes which is a plus. It's just not getting features added, and it happens to be software so reproducing it happens to be trivial compared to "hardware" like clothing.

So, do your comparisons correctly. No matter how much you insist, Python 2 just isn't dead (or obsolete, etc.). Lack of new features doesn't imply obsolete.
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Yes totally agree. In the end this won't matter because the momentum of the ecosystem is so great at this point but it just baffles the mind that someone would think this is a good idea, especially with the "can't run on 2.7 or 3.x" situation.
Now you're just adding on more technical debt for users of Python 2. Who's going to maintain your Python 2.8? What happens when there are conflicts between your Python 2.8 and Python 2.7?

This is just a really bad idea IMO.
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> Literally the first time I've heard of python-future.

So?

> How is it that you claim it supercedes six?

Its `future` library goes further than Six and it provides CLI tools to convert both Python 2 and Python 3 code to 2/3 code.
> Without any conflict, uh?

> Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with.

> - Linus

This had nothing to do with the kernel and everything to do with the lack of optimus support (years later, its still shit).

> Kernel devs are antagonizing the only two GPU makers that matters

Maybe the 2 should ask Intel for some pointers on how to contribute to the kernel the right way.

> Open source devs are immature men who do not understand the word compromise.

I suspect that's part of the reason the kernel is stable, and for that I'm thankful. Not compromising on code quality is something I wish more projects would do, if they had the well-earned political/social capital the Linux kernel has.
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> Or are you saying that customs officers could torture citizens as long as they are outside the US without any consequences for them?

The US government and its courts have ruled that yes, that is exactly the case.[1][2]

Eight years after Mr. Meshal’s rendition, his case ended up before a three-judge
panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The
questions hanging over the proceeding were: can the United States government
allow, or even facilitate, the rendition of an American citizen to another
country for interrogation? And can United States officials themselves conduct
rendition and interrogations of American citizens, including threats of torture,
on foreign soil?

According to a decision handed down last week, the answers appear to be yes. If
this decision stands, it will mean that an American citizen overseas who is
unlawfully targeted by the United States government for rendition, interrogation
and detention with the help of a local government will have no form of redress
in the courts.

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This quote might as well be false.

(In fact, most quotes are a form of marketing, not for products but for ideas.)