skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what you are saying is that some humans are tigers and some are their preys.

Humans: the first massively cannibal species.

In fact, most developed mammals develop societies and specially in many apes these are quite egalitarian. In the same way as developing tools and understanding nature in order to adapt to it was key to the success of humans, I believe that the ability to cooperate and to feel for each-other via empathy is key as well.

Your mechanistic view of evolution and nature disregards all social aspects of human existence. It is unscientific and and excuse to support oppressive systems and the predatory behaviors that are putting the planet and humans themselves at risk.

Nature does not "disrupt", nature adapts and evolves. It creates symbiotic systems that enable long processes in which life, this weird mechanism constantly energy into movement, can happen. It created humans, with the abilities to discern, associate, help each other and pursue happiness. Your cannibalistic view of society is not gonna remove our "natural" thrive to build societies worth living in from the rest of us.
No, I meant it that Go already felt like the right tool, so unless he could get into Rust really quickly, the decision was already made.
Imagine if you had invested just $10,000 in Apple
I'm somebody you previously paid a lot of money to write Django code for you, Jordan.
If you don't care about the Python 3 features, then don't migrate. I suspect that the issue is that you want at least some of the features, but the cost of moving 10+ years of Python 2 to Python 3 just aren't worth the benefits of those new features.

While I do believe that your point is still valid, one also have to accept that Python 2 will be a legacy platform at some point. In the long run I don't view that as much different than people complaining about Visual Basic 6 being deprecated.
No, not at all.

The only difference I noticed with respect to rube goldberg (what you call "microservices") systems and coupling is that tight coupling between components of rube goldberg systems was much more painful: particularly debugging across multiple service boundaries.
A minor correction but some "Netflix originals" are bought content, some of which are produced by the BBC.
Not many people make decisions today based on what's best for them in the long term.

Certainly society could impose choices on people that would be better in the long term, but is that compatible with freedom?
I think Go and Rust are interesting languages because both tackle the "C successor" problem and both feel like good solutions, yet so different from each other that it almost feels like they aren't meant to be used for the same problems. How could that happen?

I think it's largely because C and C++ has been used in such a wide variety of applications as "good enough" languages but where there were so much room for improvement, for modernization. We're talking about an old assembly language layer and an object orientation cludge on top of that layer. As soon as you do improve on these, you observe that the application space to cover for successors is huge, so huge that there is plenty of room for two different languages.

Developing in Go doesn't feel like Java or C# to me. It feels more like C (and definitely not C++) and I love that. It's so simple, yet producing native code. It's like what you'd get if you took C and from the very start decided the productivity vs performance problem favored a garbage collector, prefering productivity. Then looked at how common and underutilized multicore CPU's are, while at the same time how synchronization is hard to get right. If you then move from these problems to solve and realize the GC is your Achille's heel and simply try to optimize the heck out of that, I guess you get something like Go.

Meanwhile, Rust during the design phase must have been in such a similar place as Google engineers were when designing Go? Once again, C / C++ were flawed and unsafe, cumbersome to work with. They took the very same productivity vs performance problem and this time saw that, no, we don't want garbage collectors, we prefer performance supporting time critical systems above all in the spirit of C, yet safety. Then looked at common crash issues and went by that, and then they got Rust.

Personally I prefer Go. It's the most fun for me to work with and feels like a very pragmatic language. Rust feels more like an academic language to me: ideas and exciting concepts allowed to materialize. It also has its place, but seems like more in niched scenarios like real time systems and device drivers, low level, critical stuff like that.
IMHO, this whole idea of "you live in $COUNTRY so you only get to communicate in $MAIN_LANGUAGE_OF_COUNTRY" doesn't belong on the internet.

As a Belgian, I can assure you the majority of the internet does not even get that part right. I get websites in the wrong language all the time.

PSA: The majority language in Belgium is not French.
I love these mistakes in gothic cathedrals

https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/great...
I listen to all of my music on Spotify. Even though both the Windows and Android apps are pretty terrible, they work well enough, the search works and it has 99% of everything out there. I pay £10 per month but would happily pay double if they put the price up.

I've never been content with any video streaming service, I even have Amazon Prime for delivery reasons and that includes videos, but I don't use it. I just Google for something and stream it illegally. The few that I've tried just have such limited selections I find it frustrating. I also find the "you might like" suggestions almost always terrible. Also Amazon Prime Video's search is so abysmal it's always easier to steal than work out if you already can legally watch it.

I'll happily pay £10+ per month when someone makes the Spotify of video, but unfortunately at the moment Google + illegal is better.
How we build a blog for our Rails App in less than 30 minutes
If you think something important is missing from the docs, please open an issue. Steve Klabnik is very keen on making the documentation as useful as possible.
But as you said, fresh food is available in farmer's markets. And if the price of fresh food has risen, it should be possible to make a living growing and selling it.

Except that the majority of people don't seek out fresh food.
I was baffled when I realized in Netflix Spain most shows and movies only offer spanish subtitles, and not [CC] subtitles in their original language.
ASSISTÊNCIA BAXI ROCA
iTunes doesn't have a workable interface unless you have an Apple TV.
No core Python dev will support Python 2 after EOL. Some corps may continue to do so sure, just like there are Java 1.4 codebases still in production. I will work on a Java 1.4 codebase if you are prepared to pay for my accrued personal obsolesce as well. If your Java 1.4 job is the last job I'll do it has to pay for the next 15 years lost income as well. The same will go for Python 2.
There's nothing imaginary about fairness. It's an evolved response to resource misallocation in herd animals, including primates.

http://www.livescience.com/26245-chimps-value-fairness.html

What's imaginary is the idea that competitive advantage is always a good thing. The reality - as you say - is that too much competitive advantage leads inevitably to logistic collapse.

In humanity's case, the logistic collapse regularly leads to cultural extinction, and it's not impossible now for it to lead to physical extinction too.

The real problem is that competitive advantage is a very poor substitute for collective intelligence. we have an economy of competitive individualism, but we've yet to imagine an intelligence economy where growth is explicitly measured in increased collective insight and foresight.
The people vote for representatives. And then....?

The next step is to watch what your representative is actually doing, let them know if you disagree with it, and vote them out if they consistently act against your interests. Most people don't call members of congress very often, and when they do, things do happen.

You can look at the recent news about the House Ethics Committee for an example: “I can tell you the calls we’ve gotten in my district office and here in Washington surprised me, meaning the numbers of calls. People are just sick and tired,” Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) said of the simmering outrage over the proposed change. “People are just losing confidence in the lack of ethics and honesty in Washington.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-to-start-on-amb...)
Here are my thoughts on learning to run:

http://quandyfactory.com/blog/167/what_you_need_to_know_to_s...
But it's not static. Pre/postcondition runtime checks can be implemented in a static language as well.
There was a Chinese blog site I wanted to get sheet music from, but the blog host used IP to figure out I wasn't in China and just sent a page saying a translation wasn't available and redirected to the front page. I tried accept-language headers and everything but they insisted that I couldn't read the sheet music.
Started with Bush... they should acted before 8 years ago.
We are not being dishonest here. Even if Born's rule was postulated, WMI would still have the most technical merit. Physics can never have a proof anyway.

And the Born rule is just assigning probability to the norm-squared of the wave function, so I'm not sure why you think it's assumed in a derivation of the Born rule itself. That would make the proof a tautology. The assumptions are laid out explicitly for the various proofs throughout the series of papers and critiques.

QBism is all about belief of agents and if you think that's a valid approach than the decision theoretic proof from Deutsch and Wallace shouldn't be hard to accept. Actually a derivation of the Born rule in QBism must take the same form.

A superposition of two different states is two copies after decoherence. They occupy different parts of the wave function and they share nothing, so can't interact. In configuration space (not classical space) they are separated "wave packets".
Right. Using Python 2. Don't go to the dark side. :)
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At my new job, yes, but I solved the hideous problem by installing Babun, which is a package of a fairly good terminal emulator (mintty), cygwin, package manager, and my beloved zsh :-) I can use vim, grep, ls, find, sed, shell scripts, and much more. Like on Linux but without the possiblity to choose fluxbox as window manager.
This is the article I read to learn what had went on last year and it is quite thorough. I'm looking forward to the movie mentioned in the article, seriously, I think it will be fascinating. There are scam companies and people embellishing the truth all over the place but they are usually found out fairly quickly, the fact that Theranos received so much investment and entry into various speaking engagements and clubs is what makes this so interesting. I wonder if it had not been medicine related and putting peoples lives in danger whether the show may have continued for longer.
maybe men on average get paid more because they need to be incentivized to take jobs because they're more likely to die on the job (20x more likely than women).
Wage-Based Selection of H-1B Visas Could Cut Out the Lowest-Paid Positions
a. That logic may apply to equilibrium in zero-sum games (I'm not sure it does), but in cooperative systems a rising tide is often helpful.

b. "Fairness" is a man-made concept, like "democracy" or "government" or "money." I'm not sure that disqualifies it from being of value to people.
Yep - the "reach the comedic stratosphere and you'll get an HBO special" is being replaced with Netflix or Amazon specials for every comedian who can make a profitable special. As a comedy fan it's great.
Ask HN: Single Person Companies – Do you act bigger?
I'm curious how all the single person companies portray themselves. Do you use 'we' in your language? Do you answer support emails as 'founder' or 'lead support specialist'?

Have you intentionally done things to appear larger than one person? or just been absent of any titles that suggest size?

Thanks!
How Android is used in IOT
Blog seems to be down, and cannot find a cached version in Google :(
I really do not understand what this fuss is all about.

I started working as a software engineer back in 2001. It was a no-brainer to steer to higher-paying areas (from Perl to Java, and then to software engineering in banking, then to quant finance). I didn't get my diploma until 2014 (when I thought it would be a good idea to eventually get a PhD).

For all these years and career steering, I've been asked about my degree _once_. When applying at a position in a huge telecom company, not even my first (or second) choice. The rest of employers were happily ignoring the lack of degree.

Ironically, I was never good in managing personal finances. However, if someone told me back when I was 18 that I had to spend tens of thousands dollars to get my degree, only to get zero work experience and start with a junior position, repaying my debt for many years — I would have laughed in their faces.
On their website [1], they make it look like WhatsApp, Slack, and Instagram are all using their service, when in reality it's their own implementation of "similar" services.

Seems fishy.

[1] https://www.cloudboost.io/
Yeah, the weirdest thing is that HTTP Accept-Language has been around for decades and is usually configured correctly (to the OS system language). No idea why people use geolocation for language at all, on the web.
I'm sure running would work but it's fairly high impact and if you're skinny already then perhaps the high intensity cardio is not what would benifit you the most? Although anything to get your heart working and blood pumping will work!

I'd strongly reccomend regular yoga as an antidote to the compressing forces of sitting at a chair all day. It's amazing how good I feel after just 20mins of stretches and body weight balances post chair sitting.

There's loads of great instructors on codyapp.com, I reccomend checking out 'office therapy' and building up to some more intense ones
It's a cool concept - but surely there are a lot of regexps our there that will now trigger in vain.

Also search engines will index "moz://a" as a different thing than "mozilla". Likely, the first will be indexed as ["moz", ":", "/", "/", "a"] and the punctuation likely be thrown out, resulting in matches for "moz" and "a".
Same here, I'm looking for a movie or a series that I can watch in english but have subtitles in Romanian. If you know any...
Slack launches threaded messaging
> With a quick Google image search for “ballot boxes,” he landed on a shot of a balding fellow standing behind black plastic boxes that helpfully had “Ballot Box” labels.

Do ballot boxes actually look like that?

Is it a coincidence that the labels are all identically sized, aligned with the picture and perfectly clean/unscuffed .. quite unlike the boxes they're "on"?

Curious where the pic came from, in any case.
That's why it's always good to have several VPNs with different locations.
The Post-Snowden Cyber Arms Hustle
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OSLZXIu... works for me (better use text only version as Google tries to load css from the server apparently)
First shark recorded to change from sexual to asexual reproduction
Why Designers Struggle to Sell Branding to Startups
3 Things Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Ignore in 2017
Wait, was that real? I thought Stephenson made that up...
I'm using it at work and it's a pleasure.

Use whatever fits your workflow and try not to be put off by comments like this that offer no useful information.
Actual university education. When public it transforms in debt (Europa) else private in student loans (USA).

The debt of the countries are growing up.

The quality of research papers is a measure of quality of the teaching that is decreasing, since both reproducibility and relevance diminishes (Signal = ln(relevant / noise)).

The over qualification has not resulted in improvement of lower paid works or the raise of wages and it has put kids in situation of disarray whereas they would have survived otherwise hence the word "pro-net-arians". This generation that cannot save money is a generation barred from entrepreneurship, favouring conservative business models.

We are also seeing the first wave of homeless educated and competent coders. Education is also failing at protecting the educated one.

Education has also failed at achieving a fairer society and have resulted in the opposite leading worldwide to a ghettoisation of poor (public) vs rich (private that is often publicly funded).

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=662984

The danger of education is that it is essentially present in public debts that by nature is hard to bankrupt; thus countries (like Europe) may bankrupt as a result of this bubble. Remember that right now debt are obligations that are the safest investment ... if obligations disappear, the market will be explosively volatile.
Yes, that is my impression as well. In hindsight, it is unfortunate how much it ended up fracturing the Python ecosystem.
The rise of self-aware bidets will end poorly...
It might be possible to make a living growing and selling it, but it is actually quite unrealistic that a sizable portion of the population could choose to start doing so. %100 of the land in the US is owned now. Its not like the fronteir days when anyone who wanted to start a farm could just go out west. If 1 million americans wanted to start a fresh foods farm within driving distance of a city, that wouldn't be possible. The price of land would skyrocket. And that would only be one third of one percent of all Americans. Not even a significant shift. What if 20 or 30 million Americans wanted to make that transition. Is that economically possible in todays world? What if the government were to give anyone who wanted to start a familly farm a million dollars to buy land. Would it be possible then? I don't think so. I think that it isn't about choice. I think that it is litterally impossible for our society to change without the fundamental ideas regarding property rights or urbanization changing.
Localization is easy with javascript. Just look at navigator.language or navigator.languages[0]
This should never been an option. But you can....leave.
In fact I have met several Americans in China with 6 fig student debt that seem to have chosen this option.
While true, I think you're nit-picking. They've clearly put a ton of effort into the project (code, docs, website), why is there something fishy or malicious?
Yeah, you are a bit condescending here. Part of the topic was multicore. If you're interested in actually cutting down the data transfers without resorting to explicit shared memory, GIL and threads are very much on topic. Whether it's an overblown issue depends specifically on your workload and reasons why you're still using python if you care about multicore.
Analysis of 10,000 studies on marijuana: only 3 affirm medical benefits
None that I know of. A combination of adjusting yourself and using the forward back buttons usually works. There are also some with pulsating streams for extra scrubbing power.
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Eliza bot simulating Rogerian therapist
I thought this might help, but it doesn't give actual transcripts, just the ability to search keywords.

http://podsearch.david-smith.org

Which bit are you interested in? If it's a <~10 minute section, I'll transcribe it for you over the weekend. Contact details are in my bio.

Edit: duh, Patient0 notes it below and it's one of the chapters of the podcast! Drop me an email so I have your address; I'll also post it online somewhere and drop a link here.
Your comment is full of assertions, but not evidence or explanation.

My own assertions:

(1) GDP measures production. If debtors are incentived to produce more, GDP rises.

(2) The spending of debtors doesn't fall. It is just directed toward different sectors (education and financial products instead of housing, etc.).

(3) Every dollar lost by a debtor is a dollar earned by a creditor. These dollars don't disappear from the system. And even if creditors tend to churn money less than debtors, inflation targeting by the Fed should fully counter any changes in the aggregate velocity of money.

Now, it's possible you're right and I'm wrong. But I think it takes a much more sophisticated (and justified) argument than what you are asserting.
I don't think you can avoid meta-debugging. That is, debugging your asserts or tests that you hoped would detect bugs instead of being the bug. Sometimes because more realistic tests unveil a bug, sometimes (as in your example) because underlying code functionality has changed. This is unavoidable but also often enlightening. To my mind, it's even okay if most of your bugs are meta - because these are usually very fast fixes, and it probably means you have a lot of checks. But by the same token, I would agree with you that all such tests have to be well-written, not mailed in, for just the reasons you give. It's too easy to assume that writing tests is somehow a fairly trivial task. Until you end up debugging the test.
AFAICT, all of the health benefits of running come in the first 5K or 10K. Running longer distances becomes detrimental. Save your joints, preserve your muscles and keep your body fat at a healthy level (especially important for women). Rather than increasing your distance, concentrate on increasing your speed.
Unless there's some misunderstanding:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mercury+delay+line&ia=web
We did this - Cancelled Sky in favour of Netflix + Now TV's Entertainment bundle.

Not looked back, despite the many, many calls from Sky.
Ha I binged The Crown while I had the flu before Christmas
> Some of those countries have culturally homogenous well-educated populations smaller than the United States illegal immigrant population, so there's a demographic difference.

Dogwhistle for "can't have nice things because blacks". Notwithstanding the relative homogeneity of their populations (the US is well down the list BTW), what difference should it make?
> Rust and Go are not readily comparable. Rust is a systems language aimed at the same domain as C++ and, to an extent, C. Go is more akin to Java and Python.

In a sense yes, although Go compiles to native code and offers completely different performance compared to an interpreted language like Python, and no JIT warmup periods of JIT compiled languages, and no dependencies on runtime environments or virtual machines, and from the outside runs confusingly similar to a native C application.

Also, C/C++ is such huge languages that they are in use in _far_ more scenarios than low level systems programming. Maybe that was the intention when they were designed, but usage exploded on e.g. Windows before the days of .NET and many still prefer it over .NET due to performance. Even if these are then desktop applications using Win32, Qt, or even MFC. C is also heavily used in development of e.g. GNOME applications with GTK+. Also a huge field of non-system level desktop applications. C / C++ is also usually preferred for games development.

This is why I think there's room for Go even in the context as a C/C++ successor simply because of the field where C/C++ is used is just so darned huge, although I do agree that if the application here is a close-to-metal application where you don't have time to wait more than a millisecond on a garbage collector or need complete control over memory use, Rust may be more useful and in this sense yes, be more like a spiritual successor to C as well.