skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned antivirus software, because often performance issues, and quirkiness when installing/uninstalling Apple software, is due to antivirus software getting in the way. To be fair, it is also true that emulating large swaths of MacOS frameworks under Windows slows things down (especially where iTunes is concerned). See my previous comment for the trade-off there.

I mentioned drivers in relation to Apple software for Window in general (ie: iTunes and Airport Utility). I have little idea if Quicktime Player required drivers, I suspect not. Unlike VLC, it did need to install some system software though (such as codecs to allow Windows users to interpret Apple MOV and CAF files)

It doesn't make much sense to compare Quicktime Player 7 with VLC. Quicktime Player is very much a product of 1991. VLC was created in 2001. Also, they were created for different reasons. Part of the reason a Windows version of QTP7 exists was to extend Apple's state-of-the-art (for its time) codecs to other programs on Windows, so it would make no sense for it to be self-contained.

Also, one can't complain about Quicktime's GUI and then use VLC as a counter-example! I've seen pro video editors reduced to helplessness while trying to figure out how to transcode video on VLC. Just open the preferences - does anyone aside from the VLC dev team understand what the dozens upon dozens of options actually do?
This happened at an interview? I find this highly unlikely. Maybe I'm just in my own bubble but I just can't imagine this scenario.
In a uniquely American way, the teenager doesn't have access to a doctor, may not have access to a car, almost certainly doesn't have access to public transportation. How then, do they get drugs?

Via slightly older drug-dealing friends from school, which is different enough from a mom who goes to the doctor, gets a prescription, and simply fills it from a pharmacy.
You gain access to continued language support in 2020. New features involving strings will have less risk of bugs. The "range" function is more memory efficient. Integer division automatically floors, reducing bug risk. Dictionaries with guaranteed ordering. Thousands separator in string formatting. Bit length on integers. Combinations with replacement on itertools. New, faster I/O library and faster json. Concurrent futures module. Ability to define stable ABI for extensions. New CLI option parsing module. Dictionary-based logging configuration. Index and count on ranges. Barrier synchronization for threads. Faster sorting via internal upgrade to Timsort. Async I/O. Support for spawn and forkserver in multiprocessing. Child context in multuprocessing. Has collision cost reduced. Significantly faster startup. Type hints. Faster directory traversal. Faster regular expression parsing. Faster I/O for bytes. Faster dumps. Reduced method memory usage through better caching. Dramatically less memory usage by random. Faster string manipulation. Faster propert calls. Formatted string literals (interpolated strings). Asynchronous generators. Asynchronous comprehensions.

How much faster might your code run just by upgrading to Python 3? How much memory might you save?
Do you think you will ever have to move to Python 3?
Yes, because it's a free society.

Society tells you the consequences, and you still have the choice to do it if you want to.
Even if they think Nazis' symbol is bad, ideally they should easily be able to see the difference between that and the Indian symbol which is almost always red, vertically upright, and with four dots.
How do you think that refutes what I said? Go absolutely makes that decision at compile time (of course it does -- Go does not have a VM). Is your point that they say that you shouldn't sweat it? Because of course you shouldn't, and ideally it is making the right choice, which most of the time is the stack.
I'm in the midst of upgraded a 1.6 project to 1.10 and Python 3. Wish me continued success :-)
Or maybe Friends was a statement on the fact that just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you're smarter, more of an "intellectual" or more deserving of attention based solely on your education.

Maybe Ross was simply boring and annoying.
If enough people wanted fresh food, more would be grown.
Throw in a prior car not paid off, paint/tire/oil protection and an additional warranty - it isn't hard to get up to or over 110% of the car's value.
5 Best JavaScript Frameworks in 2017
...or use ElasticSearch as your store of durable record
If your considering applying ( which you should be ) I would implore you to relocate, while its a major sacrifice you will be more effective in person that you could ever be remotely
People have known about Optionals being better for decades.
People here aren't the only pessimists.

If you check the 2005 vs 2012 suicide stats for iceland you'll see that in the same period substance abuse might have decrease, however suicide rates in Iceland have significantly increased...
Bidets are the way to go, aside from being harmful to the plumbing system, soft wipes still require you to, well, wipe which is kind of barbaric once you get used to cleaning your bum with a jet of water and simply drying yourself after. It also saves a lot of money on paper costs if you use a towel to dry off.
In most cases this will boil down to:

n := defaultVal
if expr {
n := otherVal
}

Which I think is easier to understand, and not that much more typing. YMMV of course.
Mostly Xcode, but issues with compilation speed in the Swift compiler also means some of the problems are harder to pinpoint the issues.
Rosenhan experiment: pseudopatients in psychiatric hospitals (1973)
They changed the download link to https. The warning and block is from Opera itself. See http://help.opera.com/opera/Windows/1781/en/private.html

"If you are browsing on an encrypted connection (https://), Opera checks to ensure that all parts of the site are encrypted. If Opera detects that any live elements of the page, for example scripts, plugins, or frames, are being served by an open connection (http://), it will block the insecure content. This means parts of the page may not display properly.
Opera advises against allowing insecure content to load into an encrypted connection. The best way to protect your sensitive information is to interact only with secure content. When Opera detects insecure content and blocks it, a warning will appear in the right side of the combined address and search bar.
If you do not care about the security of your connection with the site, you can click the warning to show an Unblock button. This button will allow the blocked content to be loaded onto the page, and the security badge will change to show an open padlock, reminding you that you've allowed insecure content to display on an encrypted connection."
They changed the download link to https.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428662
> If you just had an issue with their content, you could have said so

I did. I did not think I needed an argument to ask you to stop bringing such an incredibly negative attitude to the table.

> You don't know what I've paid

I was referring to Django, to be clear. And whatever you've paid, it's in donations -- that's great! But if you want to see support, you'll need to directly pay people to maintain that support. I believe in fact you yourself said that before, here on HN, about other tech.

> The community of a language's users can, and do, have an opinion on its progress and the changes that happen to it

"as long as that opinion is the same as mine", right?

I mean, here is one of your comments for example:

> Some of us have 10+ years of codebases to maintain, and we don't care for Python 3 features

This is basically saying "I do not care for python 3 features, therefore Python 2 should continue being supported even longer [because I have an old codebase to maintain]".

The argument in a nutshell is that because the transition is hard, the Python team should just give up on the transition and support both. It's an argument I've heard before. The reason it doesn't hold water is because doing so would completely kill the language, for good.

We all, as the python community, collectively admitted that the Python 3 transition was awful. It still is pretty bad, although it has improved a lot. Could still be better! But now, we're on the final stretch and the remaining complaints are from people in similar situations as you: Large Python 2 codebase to maintain, therefore can't switch, therefore "please give us more time, and by more time I mean just forget Python 3 ever happened and come back".

Another place I've heard that argument is back when IE6 went EOL. And went EOL again. And a third time for good measure. And then MS had to declare it dead for good. It was holding the web back and we've been better since. We had the same sort of people back then, asking for "more time", "more leeway", "more support" and "please add ActiveX back to the web we promise we'll switch eventually". Do I need to give an argument why that didn't hold water then either?

I am sorry that you have to deal with that. It sucks. I've been in this position before (different language) and back then, FWIW, we bit the bullet and we migrated. It sucked for two months, and then it didn't. The longer we'd have waited, the longer it would have sucked. I can only recommend you do the same; it's a good long term investment.

At the end of the day, you can try to pull all the numbers you want, the Python team isn't going to suddenly go back on the plan they've been making very clear and insisted on for several years now. Because it would be a betrayal to the rest of the Python community and would severely harm the language and its future. I do believe it's extremely selfish of you at this point to ask that they cater to the group you happen to be a part of, rather than the overall good of the community.
Probably just an oversight or a typo. They've now changed the link to https.
> for Free Pascal to implement WebAssembly support

I'd be content if the major browsers could move wasm out of Preview (or worse) Status for starters.. ;)
This is a fun tongue in cheek read until it turns into tropes about the persecuted intellectual.

Intellectual bullies exist, too. Much of the backlash against intellectualism today is due smart people telling other people that they are stupid. As though people who prefer chess over football are somehow inherently better and not rife with the same flaws.

Maybe stop putting to put people into boxes. Stop assuming your tribe is better.

The piece ends praising Bill Gates. His business practices were exactly what a bully would do! Just because the nerdy kid turned the tables doesn't mean he wasn't a bully.
If you cannot play games just for fun, then I definitely see how it can feel like a stressful affair and an unhealthy addiction. And if that's your relationship to games, then not playing them does sound like a very reasonable choice.

On the other end of the spectrum, I myself see video games as my big passion and it's a large part of what I do to unwind and have fun. I would estimate that I typically play 10-20 hours of video games a week in my spare time.

In fact, I'm passionate enough about games that I decided from a young age that I wanted to dedicate myself full time to game development and, consequently, that is what I do for a living as a Software Engineer at Ghost Games. So, that is another 40 hours a week that I spend on games.

But I do play games simply to have fun and there is the occasional week when I simply don't feel like it. And then I fill my spare time with other activities I enjoy.
If you think nerds started getting bullied in the 2000s, you didn't grow up as one.

Revenge of the Nerds was in cinemas in 1984 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Nerds

And even that depicted us as rapists and idiots.

Still, I wasn't put up against a wall and shot

1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_killing_of_Bengali_intell...

Mao Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Suppress_Counterre...

The Khmer Rouge especially targeted ... Western-educated intellectuals, educated people in general - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

The execution of Ahwazian intellectuals in Iran - http://ahwazna.net/en-461_The_execution_of_Ahwazian_intellec...

The clandestine execution of thirteen Jewish intellectuals in the Soviet Union under Stalin, was one of Stalin’s last acts of persecution. - http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/galle...

etc.
As opposed to what, conducting surveillance on basically every citizen in the nation? That was just dandy. But a Muslim registry, now you're going to get all uppity about that?
I think I know the chart you're referring to, but I can't find it. I remember Python 2 was in the majority in that case. Do you have the source handy?
We Can't Let People Work from Home Because
Additionally there is a significant link between Nazi Germany and Japan.
It's really not. Intonation, posture, attack, phrasing, proper breathing... technique in general for singing or any instrument cannot be taught without being right there with the student. If you are at all serious about learning to play an instrument, YouTube and MOOCs are not a solution.
> The issue may be that it works a little differently than your standard ad-blocker does: instead of just blocking the advertisements and trackers from rendering on any site you view, it also virtually “clicks” on them — all of them.

Oh, so it's click fraud. Yaay. I think as tech people we're so obsessed by our ability to do things we don't consider whether we should.
>I would often be shocked at how nice many of the housing and general facilities were.

UMD would like to disagree. The facilities look nice on the outside, but on the inside they just stick two students into a space smaller than the average apartment living room. Bathrooms are floor shared, no kitchen appliances, laundry is in another building. No AC. $700 per-student. The commercial housing right next to the college, which is the highest cost/quality in the area, is $1400 for two bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, balcony, a full gym, pool, laundry, its a nice living.
Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?
I would argue for the accessibility, yes. Swimming requires going to a pool, which means it will never happen. Pushups can be done anywhere with enough room for your body.
because they use HN as their ad space. Not posting news, just teasers which imho are ads; almost as annoying as the cloudflare blog posts.
Guidance for the rocket, guidance for the shooter, and activation of the round.

Rockets generally get activated by the force of their launch, somewhere about twenty meters from the launch position. Simple tech. Many just have a physical button on top, pushed down by the crazy speed.

Guidance systems can be insanely complex.

This however, appears to opt for two quite separate systems.

As payload and launcher guidance is separate, the shooter can easily abandon the launcher to move quickly. The rocket can also home, correcting for a poorly aimed firing.
Yes, it is isolated with interaction through IPC and intents, although Google Play Services have a lot of permissions, it is a normal "app". To communicate with it, you use a Google-provided, obfuscated library which potentially could be malicious.

However, the "real backdoor" mentioned is in a component that is loaded dynamically when Signal prepares a MapView. The dynamic load means that Google can change what is loaded into the Signal app in the future, unlike the Google API client which while potentially malicious, is static until OWS updates it.
Also factor in halving the on going QA, testing and environment dependent bug fixing efforts.
That's from Opera. See http://help.opera.com/opera/Windows/1781/en/private.html

"If you are browsing on an encrypted connection (https://), Opera checks to ensure that all parts of the site are encrypted. If Opera detects that any live elements of the page, for example scripts, plugins, or frames, are being served by an open connection (http://), it will block the insecure content. This means parts of the page may not display properly.

Opera advises against allowing insecure content to load into an encrypted connection. The best way to protect your sensitive information is to interact only with secure content. When Opera detects insecure content and blocks it, a warning will appear in the right side of the combined address and search bar.

If you do not care about the security of your connection with the site, you can click the warning to show an Unblock button. This button will allow the blocked content to be loaded onto the page, and the security badge will change to show an open padlock, reminding you that you've allowed insecure content to display on an encrypted connection."
My point here is that most people will never go to the gym, even with a gym membership. Ability to do exercise anywhere is key.
People with no money can't buy things. Who will employ them if there are no customers?
If enough people like Python 2 that much, I guess someone else can take over maintaining and developing this language version past the official EOL date.
36 years on, you can play Bill Gates’ crappy Donkey game on Apple Watch
Matt, are you not concerned that the USDS could be removed with the transitioning of President Trump. If I'm not mistaken it's part of the executive office so not only could it be undone, but it could be undone swiftly with the stroke of a pen. Seems like a risky move at this time!
Because it fundamentally breaks their advertising model?
I use Swift every day and appreciate it a lot, while I have only cursory experience in Go, mostly because it didn't have any real debugger support in the past. But any comparison is rather shallow because at the moment they don't really address the same target usage, and Swift is only minimally supported on the server side where Go is generally used. Give it a couple years and the comparison might be more meaningful.

Once Jetbrains Gogland is up and running I will be playing more with Go.
> And the likelihood of a startup valuation increasing 10x in 4 years (typical vesting schedule) after dilution is extremely extremely unlikely to the point that it is time wasted even entertaining the outcome of such a scenario

You don't care about relative growth with options, just the difference between strike price and sell price. A '10x' growth of 0.01 to 0.10 only gains you 0.9 per option; a 2x growth of 5 to 10 gives you 5 per option.

Which is also why looking at your grant as '$100k worth' is silly. Look at how many units you have, and how the price might change, not what the strike price is right now.
I'd guess it's the opposite. Competitive games probably have a stronger positive effect on cognition because of the level and variety of challenge involved. Single player games are frequently (although not always) less challenging, and even when they are challenging, they can often be beaten via rote memorization.

People have a tendency to apply a Puritan-esque attitude to games, assuming that less 'productive' (read: violent) games must also be less useful, and games that are more artsy, or revolve or around building (Minecraft), or are more abstract/less gamey (brain training games) must be more useful.

The reality is that people improve their cognitive abilities more when under more stress, when they're challenging themselves, not because the activity is more of an 'art form'. Repeatedly going to the opera may have other benefits, but it isn't going to make your brain compute any faster.
And this one, 300 days ago, has a lot of comments (77):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354581
That doesn't explain how the cost of tuition has risen a lot faster than the cost of most other goods and services that people also pay for and demand (and receive) good quality of. Also, it assumes a previous state of not paying for the services which did not exist in the US in the same way it did in the UK.
I'll pinch my two cents into JetSpiegel's bowl when s/he suggests that "maybe you are paying the wrong kind of games? [...] other single player games are comparable artforms and only nominally 'pointless wastes if time'". Here are some games I enjoyed in 2016:

#1. The Witness, The Talos Principle, Her Story, Inside, Firewatch, Near Death, Event[0].

#2. Alien Isolation, SOMA, Grow Up.

#3. Furi, Thumper, DOOM 2016.

Why do I group them this way? #1 is "story/thinking", #3 is "immersion", #3 is "hard". I like games when they tell me stories (#1), much like a good movie. I enjoy the fact that being active in them contributes to making them sometimes even more immersive than a good movie (#2), and finally (and maybe this one is a bit closer to your feelings) I enjoy when they're so stupidly hard they make your heart pound when you've almost beaten this boss and gaaaaah no, dead again, retry (#3).

I'm not in any way trying to make you adhere to these categories (to each his own), just showing that games only have to be brainless dopamine-hit-based time-wasters if your let your choice of games make them so. The Witness is a remarkable adventure in learning and witnessing (gah) your own errors. Alien Isolation is the best Alien I've ever experienced in my body, regardless of medium. Firewatch is a human tale. Etc.

Remains the "they waste time" point. True, and so is watching a season of Black Mirror. On my side, I've

1. Come to peace with the fact that I'm not going to be 100% "productive" 100% of the time. All the time I played Witness was not spent learning Rust or taking an art course like yours. Alright.

2. Learned to consider what a game might bring to me and take from me before buying. I remain below a waste threshold (a. Bring/Take ratio too low, or b. Take obscenely high) by fleeing MMOs and CandyCrushes and rogue-likes and loot simulators like plague, and never ever chase coins/characters/achievements.

Can you expand on the kind of games you tried and why/how you consider single-player games boring?
how familiar are you with the contracting world?
I'm Nawaz from CloudBoost. 100% agree. The idea was when you reach a $99 plan, we install CloudBoost on your own Cloud. But a pay as you go service makes a lot more sense. If you want to install the service on your own machine, you can always check out our enterprise / open source options.

Thank you for your feedback again. This helped a lot.
> It so much better when you go to practically any Go repository and find that code is readable and clear. I've never had this experience with any other language before.

What languages did you have to endure before?

> Found one of the real examples of abusing ternary operators.

Yeah, the original code is silly, the binary search trees are not always balanced. They should be more like:

if (type <= 10) ? (if (type <= 5) ? ... : ...) : if (type <= 7) ? ... : ...
FWIW, Apple FaceTime worked fine for me three years ago (video calling between China and the US).
Never looked into Go? When I did, I felt instantly transported into the Pascal Kind of Flow!

In fact ever since I call it the lovechild (or offspring anyway) between C and Pascal, but one's that ready to party like it's the 2010s (with regards to networking, parallelism, graphics etc)

Certainly it meets your bullet points, indeed I was looking for the same back when I got into it
That's how you get to rent anything at all in Sweden. Every company has their own waiting list that you sign up for. You get one point per day you're on the list.

When you are interested in an apartment you apply for it, and if you are the one with most points you get it. It's all very structured.
It looks like Sheldon came through.
Sorry it sounds like the Stockholm syndrome.
>with a young overburdened workforce slaving away for their debt

this is already the reality for many americans. eventually they'll riot