skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you're learning about the story, you might hear a few things "on background, off the record." That means that you can't really act like you were told that, but you now know that you have a story. So, you start reporting, and over time you get employees asking for anonymity from 10 hospitals to say such and such, and from 12 hospitals to say another thing, and you heard some of this on background. So you can say "at least" but you can't say the full number. If there is a libel or defamation lawsuit, your sources can be reviewed under seal, but since you don't note the source of your background information, you can't state that those sources exist.
You probably could mention where "here" is.
"I think the argument here is that stability is gained from having code shared as closely as possible with the Windows codebase".

HTH.
They also say: "you are as good as your last trade", in finance.
> I don't know what recourse the PSF has

They own the Python trademark, so they can make him stop using it.

In fact, I really hope that they do. This project does no good.
Well the OP explicitly mentions that he has been looking at the timeline between commits, so that point is moot. Even if some commits are missing, you can see the rate of change of the project - "invisible" offline commits would have a noticeable impact on the productivity of the "visible" one s in parallel.
Option 3: play games with substantial elements of chance and strategy.

Card games are particularly good in this respect, but there are a wide variety of games where a completely unskilled player can occasionally win against a much more skilled opponent.
Ask HN: What is your experience with 'doing something' daily challenges?
I'm curious what are results, your experiences with daily blogging, taking photos, drawing etc. challanges. How long have you tried it, any suprising results, did the end results of this process met your expectations?
Customer service people aren't experts (even the higher level ones). They have scripts, list of defects and how to help you resolve them. This "bubble" is obviously something they have never seen before, unless a 1% of the phones start having this issue they will just blame you for it.
They did mention: .au
> Maybe the 2 should ask Intel for some pointers on how to contribute to the kernel the right way.

Intel is not waiting for them to ask:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Decemb...

> This is something you need to fix, or it'll stay completely painful forever. It's hard work and takes years, but here at Intel we pulled it off. We can upstream everything from a _very_ early stage (can't tell you how early). And we have full marketing approval for that. If you watch the i915 commit stream you can see how our code is chasing updates from the hw engineers debugging things.

(More specific advice follows.)
> What scientific value does a drunk post on your exes facebook wall after a bad breakup exactly has?

More than a historic record consisting only of favorable "truths" worded as carefully as an obituary, because everything else has been erased in a race to spotlessness.
It sounds as though a customizable CMSm or DMS would be just the thing to take care of the fiddly bits that trip up developers of de-novo solutions (ie. accessibility, internationalization, usability, binary format document storage and indexing, access control, etc.). My personal favorite in this space is Plone[1] which has an excellent security record and happens to have many EU developers, but most of the popular contenders will do as a starting point.

Enterprise intranet/extranet apps often start out small and then spread like kudzu, eventually prompting a major project to replace them wholesale with a huge consulting-ware solution (like Sharepoint) that never fulfils the promises made (The exception being the specific niche you're asking about, compliance, which does have proprietary solutions that work, but are incredibly expensive).

To avoid that fate, try to pick something that you know can start small but you have evidence that it can also easily (ie. without a huge consulting engagement) scale to an organization-wide solution with 3rd-party as well as in-house extensions.

Good luck!

[1] https://plone.org
Australia, judging by TLD
86 upvotes over 9 hours and no comments yet, maybe I'll post the first one.

I must say that I enjoyed the read, but the introduction was a little bit too short for my taste. Opinions ?
Submitter here: Leaving aside the question of whether or not this constitutes learning, which may be as good a word as any, I posted this in hopes the HN collective mind would offer other explanations for the observed results, perhaps even shedding light (no pun intended) on the mechanism. As stated in TFA, our findings raise some obvious questions about the underlying physiological/molecular mechanisms by which plants can integrate environmental and internal cues and coordinate complex patterns of information during associative learning, so that a more effective, even adaptive, behavioural response can be expressed.
I use the word "incentives".
Behind the financial maneuvering at Hostess
> I don't see why they wouldn't attempt to do the same with "illegal" data (even if data is orders of magnitude less traceable).

They do. Warez/Pedophilia/Drugs/Exploit sites are regularly shutdown and seized by the police.

It's just not possible for Google/Amazon/Facebook. The police ain't gonna go there, seize the datacenters, in a simultaneous operations where they arrest and charge the 1000 people at their national HQ office at the same time.
I think the point they were trying to make was that even though the kids had benefitted in earlier games from helpful advice and received no benefit when given unhelpful advice that by being allowed to then succeed in the rigged game the kids failed to acknowledge the value of the earlier advice. This shown by the kids not having a preference for the more helpful person. Though I think the conclusion they are drawing would really depend on the sample size of games a kid was given in order for the kid to be able to distinguish good & bad advice from the game simply being pure chance all along.
Common sense is decidedly uncommon. Sometimes science affirms a widely held belief, sometimes it refutes common knowledge and sometimes it leads to a paradigm shift. All these discoveries are equally valuable.
> If they had have called Python 3.0 v2.9 instead everyone would have been clear they had to migrate. [...] The reason this happend (and is still happening) are human not technical.

You know, as a strong proponent of Python 3.* (it's a significantly better Python), I started to write a withering critique of your statements here (and I do strongly disagree about naming it Python v2.9). But then I started actually looking at the evidence.

For example, when you go to download Python at the python.org website, you're still presented with a choice between Python 2 and Python 3 side-by-side, looking for all purposes like equivalent choices (Python 2 should be much less prominent and toward the bottom and/or the download button should be much smaller than the Python 3 download button)[0].

And then, when you follow the link for "Wondering which version to use?", you get a full page worth of hemming and hawing, and cost-benefit analyses and so on[1]. In fact, they should be saying something like:

Always use Python 3 unless you have a strong reason to do otherwise.
This typically only applies to people who have large legacy code
bases and are for some reason unable to upgrade, or else need a special
legacy library only available in Python 2 (most libraries are
available in Python 3)."

So wow, having read the official python.org statements on the Python 2 vs 3 issue, I'm pretty appalled. No wonder some people who are relatively new to Python are confused or surprised. I'm on Debian or Ubuntu mostly and so download Python via package manager or PPA, or build from source. So I had no idea.

It's also been a huge mistake for GVR to have allowed so many new and attractive features to be backported to Python 2.7. It's taken away a significant amount of incentive for people to make the move. Python 2.* should have been bugfixes only for a long, long time now.

That said, if you're in charge of significant amount of Python code for a company and you've not seen for years that Python 2 is a deadend, you've either been engaging in wishful thinking or oblivious to what's happening in the Python community.

0. https://python.org/downloads/

1. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
Ask HN: IT sales
Hi HN,

I'm a sales manager in a high-tech company, though not in IT. Please help me determine a scope of knowledge to enter IT sales to make a difference. Do I need to have broad superficial knowledge about many things, or rather profound knowledge in some specific area of choice? What would be the crucial things to know?
A natural question would be why I want to enter the IT industry without knowing the first thing about it. The answer is: what I do has to do with a cutting edge technology with some complex physics behind it but with not much job market available due to the narrowness of the field. IT on the contrary seems to be abundant with
job opportunities and directions for growth.

Thank you so much.
In QFT, fields are everywhere.

The fields in quantum field theory are mathematical tools, they are not physical entities.

But to support a field, you need a mechanism that allows causal propagation - which is exactly what isn't allowed across an event horizon.

But that is only a one-way thing - the future light cones of events inside the event horizon are contained inside the event horizon but the future light cones of events outside the event horizon certainly overlap the inside of the black hole.
I did break a phone scene once by dropping it. But, running the numbers replacing it was actually cheaper than buying a new case for every phone, so IMO they are simply not worth it.

A simple plastic screen protector might be, but those always get bubbles.
Would you rather have advertising that you might be interested in or for soap powder ?

I assume we'd both rather have zero advertising while trying to watch television. I do find a real difference between general broadcast TV adverts, which I just mute, and the advertising on Eurosport (I subscribe to it online though it is on cable/satellite) which is usually more tailored e.g. when I watch cycle racing, many of the ads are for cycling equipment, travel, & sporting goods i general. When I watch motorbike racing it's tyres, motorbikes & equipment etc.

It's like when buying a magazine. I actively look through the adverts in my interior design magazine because they are all interior design releated. Whereas the ads in the TV guide, to pick an example, are actively avoided.
This is the best thread I've ever read on HN. It's like going to a conference without the time and cost spend. How about a product that does this thread once a week. Half therapy half happy hour.
It's a persistent story: Google reliably has the worst customer support of any large company, to the point that Comcast or your local DMV starts to look good in comparison. It's impressive, in its own way.

And as long as their consumer facing products were things like free webapps, they could get away with it.

...but if they want to sell a premium-priced handset, they can't get away with it. It's a USD$750 phone, come on. Telling the user that it's probably just a non-existent screen protector?
Again, this has absolutely nothing to do with the original and inaccurate idea that Archive Utility waits around doing nothing on purpose to give you the impression it's doing something while it's doing nothing. It just means AU is implemented in a way that is slow and inefficient. Which is what I said so hey, we agree!
> What I would like, is to come in from a long day in my shop and have a house that works. I have grown weary and no longer care how smart it is.

Here, I think we find the problem.

The author doesn't know the system, he didn't build it, and has little use for it.

I don't think a smart house ever made sense for him.

The only places it does make sense, to me are:

* Health. Monitoring health, or enabling someone to better care for themselves.

* A project, by someone who wants to control and automate parts of their house, but will never truly be satisfied.
I have no idea why Lisp didn't work for Reddit. But Common Lisp has exceptionally good library coverage today, and with Quicklisp, getting access to it is virtually seamless.
> Only for the specific case of input bytes already in the language's internal encoding (which granted will be common as most inputs would be ascii or utf-8) and with the same ownership constraints as the input, and that's mostly enabled by Rust's ownership model.

Except of course on operating systems where text I/O is done entirely in UTF-16. Say, Windows.

Since Python strings have no fixed encoding, but choose "the most efficient one" (heuristically) when decoding, they can cope better than a fixed UTF-8 encoding in these cases.

>> Python does not.

> Python doesn't generally do no-alloc/0-copy operations so that's not overly surprising.

Indeed. Even when the encoding is not changed, the string will be always copied. One could think of an API that does that, though, to optimize all those cases were memory is already owned by a shim in the runtime.
Not saying something like this would be impossible, just saying what I saw. However, the line of reasoning could be slippery. For example, they could say "1000 lawyer hours at X dollars an hour." When questioned, the company says "we could of had them trace all the documents with a pen to copy them by hand. Instead we used a photocopier, so we're billing you for the awesome technology." Seems like it'd be a hard sell and possibly unethical (in another way than it already is). I do think things might be able to be changed in terms of mentality, though.
Kind of with you on that one, but if "United Breaks Guitars" is an indication, sometimes large corporations don't learn on the first go around.
Still from Ukraine
> not all censorship is bad

I don't dispute that. I'm just saying that France should not be allowed to censor beyond their own borders.
Which would be exactly the opposite of even the most optimistic "right to be forgotten" scenario, because enforcing that right would certainly be a rather expensive luxury.
Reading a thread from the last time something like that was proposed (although the only change in that proposal was that 2.8 would, on Windows, use the C runtime from a more recent MSVC compiler), I found a relevant argument (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/1...) against this "Python 2.8" idea:

What if more than one person did that? (paraphrasing Raymond Chen's "What if two programs did this?")

There can be only one official Python 2.8, but since it will never exist (see PEP 404), there can be many unofficial mutually incompatible "Python" 2.8 implementations. Therefore, calling it "Python 2.8" is a bad idea.
Those $100-330m college stadiums are going to look pretty stupid with 20k people in an 80k stadium too, if RL audiences shrink the same way.

http://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/college-foot...
funny side fact, on some OS'es (which switched to python 3 as default comparatively early) `/usr/bin/python` links to python 3...
I've read and paid attention to less news than ever before this past year, and it has been great!
This is how aws trying to re:invent ...a lot of stuffs from them this year is trying to crash those smaller saas provider and the open source world like chalice... It seems like they are reinvent the wheel and try hard to grab every single tiny piece of market. I am moving to gcp...at least they handle oos better
Lovable dude does 30 min or less coding challenges
IANAL, but, for comparison, in Spain the right to privacy may be superseded if there are good reasons of public interest. For example, the daily stories of the average Joe’s life are covered by the right to privacy, but the same details for a major politician might be not, in the proper circumstances. It’s not always a black and white issue, but something to be decided at court.

Regarding the article, I’m not familiar enough with the "Right to be Forgotten" directive to question the choosing of the examples opening the text, but to me it seems biased. These examples are arguably the kind of information which couldn’t be legally hidden because of public interest.
This looks like a problem we recently solved for driving schools in Luxembourg that needed to track a lot of data about students for legal and internal reasons.

I'd be very interested in discussing the needs for a compliance and documentation tracker system and see if there is a market for it.

You can reach me at clement@clement-weyer.lu
Handy if you're already serializing case classes to be consumed by a TypeScript frontend, but otherwise I'd suggest looking into Scala.js.
No, that's in the text I quoted and I referred to it in my original comment: the CA courts have historically sided with the employees over the companies except when it was pretty unambiguous that the employee was going into the same business as their (former) employer, e.g. Avant! -- which typically includes actual taking of source code.

On the other hand stories like google's self driving car team departing to start their own self driving car company, or the tons of people who have left Cisco to start routing companies are legion.
Presumably, in most systems, the loser pays all (legal) costs for both sides at least.
I'm arguing that compensation and profit are actually the same thing.

They are both economic benefits from providing a valued product or service. Saying that the one is evil while ignoring the other doesn't make any sense at all. It's the opposite of being beside the point.

Take the case of 2 doctors that have the same price list. One is better at doctoring and sees more patients. Because there is only the other doctor, their faster appointments represent a higher income than the other doctor. The second doctor still manages to provide competent care to all the patients they see, but they are capturing less economic benefit than Dr. Speedy. Is Dr. Speedy evil for charging the going rate?
> write so well

I disagree. He uses complicated words where simple ones would do and other words that are redundant. For example, read his sentence after removing "typically, in fact,". It conveys the same meaning but sounds less pretentious.
...hmm, you're likely right, but I'm actually quite curious to see if anyone's willing to challenge that in court if it happens given that Google doesn't really give anyone an easy way to migrate an entire life to another service.
Asked PwC whether a patch is available – Received a Cease and Desist
Thank you so much!

I have also recently started building https://liveoverflow.com, which might have a better structure than a YouTube channel or subreddit.

Also some people may have actually seen a video of mine, because my most popular video so far is the DirtyCow video which got referenced by news sites and on the dirtycow github repository.

My personal recommendation is to checkout the AngularJS Sandbox bypass series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhixgUqwRTjwJTIkNopKu...

Criticism and feedback is always welcome.
It's implicit in the argument I replied to that the side practice better not deliver excess economic benefits (profits!) compared to working in the public facilities.
They aren't free, no. But the algorithm creates one predictable domain per day.

So, the author of the code doesn't need to register all of them. Just one for each day he needs a backup c&c network.
I'm a pixel xl 128 owner too. As long as we're going down this route, has anyone else noticed weird 'refresh' lines drawing over top of images? They appear very briefly and very faintly (and only in chrome as far as I've noticed, may be a chrome(ium) bug).
Maybe this is why their net is negative; because they don't allocate money to the right things.
Nope.

They can certainly open the safe. They just can't compel you to TESTIFY to something.

The contents of your mind are sacrosanct. If they can compel you to divulge a combination, then they can also discern that you had access to that safe by virtue of possession of the combination. Not allowed by our laws.
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I never knew that despite Python 3 is called the future by PSF and has been around for a ling time, people still want to stick to Python 2. I mean it isn't the 2013 that libs aren't ported, most famous ones generally are ported. Don't know what the problem is.
Very strange though. I've had no problem getting advance RMA's on Nexus devices before. I call them, they give me an RMA number and just ship me a new phone with a box and label to ship the old one back. That's the best kind of service in my book.

I guess this problem looks a lot like user damage though. Unless it's a widespread issue, might be hard to convince them otherwise.
How does the project part work long term? I could put together something as a project, and probably maintain it a low effort long term, but what happens once I want to sell the house? Do I replace back all the switches back to dumb ones? Teach the new owner how to use it long term? (yeah, good luck) Leave it as is, potentially decreasing the value of my house?
5 Business Warning Signs Signal Integrity Slippage
This is an interesting comparison because web fonts have the opposite effect of HTTP/2: They introduce a huge delay between clicking a link and being allowed to actually read anything.

On 3G or shaky Wi-Fi, I've regularly given up on browser tabs because all I see is an empty page, even after half a minute of loading and when most images have finished downloading. (Maybe other browsers are better than Safari, but I won't switch just to see prettier fonts.)
When was that, and for what? 'Cos in my experience - including using it to run commercial Windows software on a Linux box rather than use yet another standalone Windows box - it's surprisingly good and works more often than not.

(The commercial use we were putting it to: part of a compiler chain for the red button functionality on satellite TV. Remember: if you're selling crufty proprietary vertical market software for $10k/seat/year, always put "Open" in the name.)

I realise this is anecdote wars, but nevertheless it'd be interesting to know where it falls down.
Voting machines are not a problem as long as they are note connected to the internet.

They are distributed, based on different standards and access to them rely on physical access plus 75% of them have a paper trail.

They are as secure as anything out there IMO even if the boxes can be easily hacked.
My droid Turbo 2 (with the 'indestructable' screen) is doing the same thing.

I thought it was a defect, but I had to replace the phone for a different reason(went swimming with it) and the new replacement is doing the same thing. It seems like the top layer of the screen is not adhering well.

I can make it go away for a couple of weeks by just pressing it back on with a fingernail and a good bit of pressure. Verizon told me to call Motorola, but I haven't bothered yet.
I'm sure you mean - those are two different colours. If not, oh boy do I have news for you.
I had this problem.

It doesn't "blow up". If it blew up and retired, I would have seen the problem. The problem, like several python 2/3 incompatibilities, is that Python 3 merrily did something different, without telling anyone, until eventually we track down what has changed. I spent quite a while on this very bug myself, and it, along with others, persuaded me to switch to a different language (serious I know, but I was just getting annoyed with python's general loose dynamic nature, in combination with the python 2/3 changes.)