skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slack's approach could be very good and the "7 or 8 percent" figure is not necessarily a bad thing. That figure could mean that most of the time, regular Slack channels work well for them. This feature helps address the 7-8% of the time where it's worth splitting off a thread.

Contrast that with a tool like Zulip where every message requires a topic, and you have a much more structured paradigm. Percentages mean nothing because it's simply mandatory. That forces more organization, but perhaps part of the appeal of Slack is that it doesn't have to be so organized. You just engage with your team, and the only structure you have to think about ahead of time is which channel to use.

So I can see the case for "spot-threading" like Slack is rolling out, while keeping the core organizational structure very simple.
GraphQL for your APIs
Actually, as long as they don't revolt, it's great for the economy. (It's unethical to dupe a whole generation into indentured servitude ... but great for the economy).

These people will have to work. No sabbaticals to find themselves, or time off to spend with a newborn. They'll have to put up with every pointy haired boss and dysfunctional workplace they encounter (at least until they can find another job).

Every day of their lives will boost the GDP. (But it sure sucks for them that their culture didn't steer them down a smarter road when they were 18 and didn't know better).
Reflection is pretty predominant in java, even if you don't use it yourself. Many frameworks (like spring) rely on reflection to do their magic.
> if we got to Python 3 through progressive deprecation and evolution via python 2.8 and 2.9, we wouldn't be where we are now.

You mean exactly like Django's progressive deprecation and evolution that you're complaining about in your parent post?
I fully agree with what eonil wrote, but remember that environments like Unity also come with a lot of tools and samples to simplify your development.
I think Zing has always had safe points.
I sit ~10 hours daily, including 2+ hours driving. I'm naturally skinny but haven't done much physical exercises in recent years ("busy"). Now, at age of 34, I'm starting to realize that my body won't last forever and finally started to exercise few times per week, after I found motivating enough guide¹. It amazing how much more energized it makes you feel.

[1] https://www.julian.com/learn/muscle/intro
I wonder what will happen with his project "MORPHiS". It looks like he devoted his entire life to this project. Someone should come forward to make this project successful.
Getting only 90% of the votes people make doesn't even matter.
Because Apple, who created a much better connector (Lightning) than both Micro-USB and USB-C, years before the latter was even invented, prevented other companies from using it.

So the answer to your question is: GREED
> I was astounded at the how banal and low brow most advertising is these days. I seem to remember a time when ads were clever and creative, but the ones I kept seeing with monotonous regularity were nothing more than quick sound bites ordering people to go buy junk or watch more crap.

No, the ads were bad 8 years ago, too. You just remembered the clever ones because they were your only reason to tune in to the Super Bowl.

I blame the news organizations. Self-appointed gatekeepers of truth. I stopped watching mainstream news many years ago, before I lost my TV, because it was so bland and distorted and a tremendous waste of time. Not in a fun way.

And after experiencing several horse races, I decided to stay away from the election news cycle, too. I voted in both the primary and the general, and my choices for both lost, but it was so pleasant to know everything I needed to know about the presidential candidates such a long time in advance.
Jack Ma: a guy whose success can only be attributed to the existence of China's Internet firewall. I try to avoid reading about his "insights".
Assassin's Creed Unity Tribute by MaDonna New Tab Page
the nearest analogue to swift in the android ecosystem is kotlin - give it a look if you haven't.
Probably an Access database that was used waaay beyond when it should have been put out to pasture.
Yes, but that's because it's only really large heaps where pause times become problematic. On small heaps even dumb algorithms can give tiny pauses (a few msec or less) on modern hardware.

It's true you'd need a JVM on the platforms where ntpsec runs but that's also true of having a port of the Go runtime.
No, it had quotes from the start.
I'm not sure it should be Apples job to build a best-in-class text editor. I haven't used XCode in a long while, but last time I did it worked pretty well with external text editors, and you could configure the UI in a way that really facilitated using it just for just compiling/debugging.

Every single IDE I've used, I've always used another text editor for doing actual programming. It's nice to have a half-decent text editor in the IDE for debugging (see value of variables in the code, looking up and quickly fixing compile errors, etc).. but I don't expect it to be as powerful as vim, emacs, sublime, et.al.
Hi! I'm the core maintainer of Kur. I've also been intersted in altcoin trading, and I agree that Kur will be a great place to start. Let me know what progress you make (on Gitter)! Excited to here!
D was always Open Source and free as in beer. It was not Free Software, which is a problem for inclusion in Debian main et al. You get the package from a third-party repo.

The reference compiler backend is still only free as in beer, so there seems to be no way to include "DMD" in Debian. However, LDC (reference frontend + LLVM backend) is practically in sync with DMD today.

The advantage of DMD is faster compilation. LDC gives you faster programs. So, for development I prefer DMD for the faster iteration.
Lightning is a more convenient alternative to Micro-USB, but that's it. It's only USB 2, it is not a USB-C replacement.
It's difficult to sell an item when you have no ratings at all or very litte ratings and a competitor has hundreds, so I can understand why they give products away for ratings. I think Amazon are looking into marking those reviews more clearly.

When I am looking for something, I go by the amount of reviews, too, so I really can't blame them.

Personally, I just ignore those reviews. Reviews in the 2-4 star range are more useful anyway.
Front page does indeed take that. But many links (comment pages) take around 3 seconds as I mentioned (generation time, has nothing to do at all with my browser) and pages with hundreds of comments (like most links in the default subs) can easily take over 5 seconds to generate.
I never went to college, I'm too dumb, poor, and undisciplined, but whenever I would visit friends at UCI, UCLA, UCR, etc, I would often be shocked at how nice many of the housing and general facilities were. Even the dorms, which I had always imagined as being run down were actually very pleasant. Some of the common facilities were down right luxurious, I imagine some high end resorts would be jealous.

I certainly don't think students should be living and studying in squalor or unsafe conditions but I wonder how much of the increased costs in education are a result of the kind of spending that goes into some of these facilities. Have universities, particularly public universities, always spent this lavishly on their campuses or is this a more recent thing?

And have any studies been done on how much of the increased costs are due to increased administration numbers and nicer buildings?
Maybe I'm not a 'normal' user so it wouldn't have mattered to them, but I used to open loads of tabs at once, and slowly make my way across all the stories, then more often than not, I'd close the browser where all my cache, cookies and history and whatnot are cleared.

This would mean none of my votes would ever have made it to the server!
And now it's changed to something that looks rapidly scratched down in paint :D
Or if they had called Python 3 a different name, and let both branches evolve freely and compete.
I don't see the reason for the critical review of this. It's a helpful site that runs through data and pulls out useful/actionable information.

As someone who has also considered creating a static site builder, my (hypothetical) service would benefit from such a lookup.

IMO, An affiliate link is not an AD, not tracking me, and is probably the least intrusive way of monetizing a useful service.
I've never seen this unit nor anything even remotely this complex in a public toilet. The vast majority of toilets I've seen are the basic washlet features and a few give you the added option of spray pressure. The pressure options I've only ever seen in hotels. Not only that, but the vast majority of public toilets are auto-flush.

Having said that, the "bidet" label on the "ladies" button is highly misleading ;-)
Some of it is price of oil, sure. But if you're going to compare to Venezuela, you should be comparing PPP GDP, and not just GDP at exchange rate, which is kinda meaningless. Scroll down to "GDP at parity" here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=venezuela+russia+per+c.... As you can see, price of oil alone doesn't guarantee that the economy will get any better. And Russian economy did get dramatically better under Putin. I go back every 3-4 years, and the country is barely recognizable now compared to how things were 15 years ago. I could now actually imagine living and working there.
So google the title in an incognito window, or alternative and preferably, stop using that site all together.
> “All PR will let me say is that from an initial investment of $40,000 it has returned, over the four years, tens of millions [of dollars]. That’s as specific as I can get.”

Tens of millions USD sales should map into tens of thousands of laptops. Not ground breaking but still a great ROI.
Oh, oh, and let me guess: A home FTP account with curlftpfs and cvs is just as good as Dropbox.

Please stop blaming the user for UX issues.
It's nice that these companies have come together to standardize their icons.

I don't see the intrigue in this story, though. Can someone explain it to me? Is it the iconography design? The "wow Japanese toilets are complicated!" reaction? People just upvoting anything that has to do with Japan?
I really wish TFaS had chosen actual names for the two systems. Maybe it would have introduced bias into the reader's understanding, but it would have made discussion of the concept much easier to read.

Similarly, I don't know why people use the terms "Type 1" and "Type 2" errors when "False positive" and "False negative" are available.
The only thing I'm worry about is Digits. I hope Google won't close it
The parent is saying that the blame lies with humanity rather than any particular site's methods of operation. The fact that HN is virtually unknown to trolls is probably the only thing that keeps it solidly on the good side of the temple/cesspool gradient.
plus, the OP talks in the third person "should use their serivce", so it is a little misleading.
Can you please some give examples to developer tools and services Google abandoned that frustrated people? I can't seem to recall any but Google Code Project Hosting and Code Search.
Things I learned creating my own Messenger chatbot
My wife is Chinese but has lived in the UK since 2001 and is a British citizen. In the early days she talked about us moving to China some day, but now feels much more at home here. She absolutely loves WeChat and uses it all the time. She uses it to keep in touch with old friends in China and new Chinese friends in the UK. It also keeps her connected to contemporary Chinese culture. So even outside China, WhatsApp's reach through the broader Chinese community is almost total.
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn deep learning from the ground up
Assume someone has no coding experience what so ever. How would they go from 0 to deep learning novice
>If we actually had equality of opportunity, it doesn't seem like we'd see the kind of disparity we do.

But we don't have equality of education, equality of upbringing, etc. so it's natural that given the equality of opportunity we get unequal results.
How do you think these micro-programs work? They haven't got a publicly published API, but they don't need one.
Telegram has much lower numbers though
3D map of Solar Neighborhood using three.js
One of the best things to come out USDS / 18F is their design guidelines [0]. It's very comfortable to read, and completely accessible! I think my only complaint is that the components are all a bit gigantic. But it's understandable, since they have to cater to so many people.

Considering the government and tech got me wondering: what software do our leaders regularly use? What measures are taken to ensure it's as safe? How much of this information is readily available? Hopefully this won't land me in an FBI watch-list :).

[0] https://standards.usa.gov/
Caddy, a fast HTTP/2 webserver with automatic HTTPS, written in Go
Can somebody provide tl;dr of what was wrong with their tests and how come they got this far if the tests were flat out wrong? Did they just used low precision tests and pass them as high precision or some such?
It's not something you'd think needs standardizing. And yet here we are.
Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards
It's not that great for the economy.

Economies go great when people are spending money. If a large part of your discretionary income goes to paying off student loans instead of spending on other things, and you put off buying a house or having children due to financial insecurity caused by student loans, then the economy suffers.
In the U.K. certainly we have the problem certainly that developers are building 'luxury' student accommodation to serve wealthy foreign students - with universities then outsourcing their accommodation to them.

Part of this is economics. It's easy to build and subsidize accommodation knowing that you can make the subsidy back on private hire conference guests if you're an Oxford or Cambridge. Less so if you're Bath or Coventry.

Students who used to have reasonable, subsidized accommodation now have a choice between the relatively unregulated and unsubsidized private rental market and these overpriced palaces with flat screen TVs etc.
Tabela de preços dos modelos mais recentes de iPhone
I think whatever goodies Django 2.x will have, they'll be backported to 1.x by somebody.

At my last job they were still using Django 1.6 when I quit last year. Updating to a new version takes a lot of manhours. Rewriting the codebase in a new language (which basically what Python 2 -> Python 3 transition is) would be completely out of the question.
Fixed - thanks for the support :)
It is unfortunate marketing bs but I hope they would do something creative with this so called moz: protocol

https://github.com/mozilla/moz-handler/
Am I the only one to foresee that such changes can do way more harm than good?

As comments went on a previous post on a similar topic: Genetic changes are a lot like assembler software changes.

The best part? In living things there's very little documentation, based on "poor" reverse engineering (as we know little about it).
Good. I've been getting into python a bit because i have an interest in datascience. I'm mostly a Java dev. I have to say the python2/3 divide is a real turn off. Many of the science libs want to use seem to be in 2.7 with no signs of moving.
This sounds like a fork. Nothing need stop someone from forking and maintaining CPython 2.x. Open source is a do-ocracy.

But I doubt it'd be worth it. Python 3 is getting great traction and is a fundamentally better language.
This use case (use by people who are not literate) is one of those few circumstances where worse-is-better, because public toilets (like one might find in a train station or department store) are typically either mechanically operated (trivial to use) or the lowest-scale models.

That said, this is not a rare, exotic toilet in Japan; it's something which would be unremarkable in an office building or a restaurant that you could reasonably use for date night.
Indeed. Another article quotes his lawyer as saying "Zuckerberg has no intention of contesting any co-owner who can prove their interest in any of the land parcels."[0]

For some of us though, the historical context of the US invasion and overthrow of Hawaii means that this sounds quite distasteful, although reasonable.

[0] http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/34289685/facebook-ceo-sui...
I wish that worked for me, I don't solve much while on a bike, possibly because my attention goes to traffic. Walking works much better, I can zone out and think about stuff. Biking does make me feel good afterwards though so I would say the net effect on cognition is still positive.
Oh boy. And here I am still using Py2.7 with Django 1.6
I was recently looking to get one, and cheapest I could find for Europe was Korean Quoss (model 5300) brand. Don't know however if you want to go for cheap stuff for this item (there are risks, like being electrocuted). On the other hand, I think lifespan is also very limited, even for the top of the line stuff, so you would need to get one say every 5-10 years.
Well, this change will limit what Samsung is allowed to customize, maybe thats a good thing? But everyone else with get more powers.
At least the science libraries have a better reason for staying. They often require bigger fixes of the modules compiled from other languages. Still, it's good to see larger projects moving on.
in japan its not super cheap either unless its already installed.
Men and women aren't equally incentivised to seek high paying jobs. Dating site statistics show a strong correlation to success for men and how much they earn, but not for women. Their correlation is with attributes like age and self-care.

The social ladder and ranking is also attached to the same incentives. A mans ranking is (mostly) based on his ability to support a family. A womans ranking is (mostly) based on her ability to raise a family. As sad and depressing that is, the message it sends on a cultural level is that no one wants to be near a poor male or infertile female. On the flip side, women are not punished by society for not focusing on maximizing earning potentials, and men aren't punished by society for not focusing self care and longer lifespans.

Going even darker when looking at incentives for earning and lifespans, we can look at the link between low income for men and suicide. About a factor of about 1000% according to some studies when comparing high vs low income. Suicide is also the most common cause of death for men at ages 15-50. The negative impact from unemployment (and low income jobs) effects men more, and a natural conclusion would be that the incentives to avoid it is thus stronger.
Just for fun, check out these 2 carpentry projects he did for his family:

https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/736237407016607744
https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/818499400313909249

How he had time to work a director-level job at , develop a new programming language, oversee/participate in the OSS work for LLVM/Clang/Swift, and build things like these I'll never know.
Python 3 is a seriously misguided project. It's got tons of newer-to-Python fans (your HN downvoter demographic), and tons of silent-majority "real-world" users especially in scientific programming who just don't like it. I moved to 3.4 a year ago and, as a data scientist, I have to say I find nothing in 3 to be better than 2, other than the extremely marginal default float arithmetic. I may be wrong for web development etc with asyncio whatever, but for me all I get from 3 is Unicode and xrange cruft that simply complicates my code for zero benefit. Personally am hoping that something new emerges that will take over from Python altogether as the default in data science, or that some big entity will sponsor a fork of 2.7 to shutdown this ridiculous "eol" dictatorship.
Yet killing these 8 billionaires and taking their wealth would do almost nothing when spread across the bottom 50% you are comparing them to.

You don't raise civilization by chopping off the top.
I disagree, I think Django dropping support for 2 will actually push more open source projects to do the same. This will create the momentum and incentive necessary to nudge people over the edge and upgrade.

There is an awful lot of hyperbole around the difficulty of upgrading from python 2 to 3, however with the latest changes in 2.7 and 3.6 the gap isn't as big as you expect. I converted our (admittedly not massive) 35,000loc Django project from 2 to 3 in about four hours, starting with with 2to3 tool then working though test failures it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. Most of the issues were as I expected around the new string handling, but as soon as something broke, I knew before looking at the code what the problem was.
Which libraries do you have in mind? Numpy, SciPy, Pandas and packages based off them all support Python 3.
Nowadays outrage is all the rage, I guess communicating early and briefly could nip some minor drama in the bud. This doesn't seem likely, but you never know...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28database_server%29...
Easy to say when you don't depend on C extensions only compatible with 2.7.
Is this really the case? Watches and small mechanical things are an interest of mine so I watch the market pretty carefully but I can't readily think of any $1k and under watches that appreciate.

New watches in that price range will be very unlikely to appreciate, even in the high end segment appreciation is unlikely outside of maybe Rolex or some low production pieces, but those are all significantly over $1k. Prices have gotten pretty high in the vintage market as well, and that is fraught with risk since fakes and partially original watches are so common.
It doesn't have to be an old idea...i.e loads of apps already doing it out there.

It just needs to be better than what's out there :)
Making the transition more "progressive" would just decrease the incentive of developers and companies to move even more.

Ultimately, they are the ones who maintain, care for Python and have grown the community to its current size. I totally respect their decision. Even if py3 was complete useless, I would just stop using python, not complain about how they are not doing things the way I like it.
The main thing is that Digits is free. We are using it in our products. I hope Google doesn't have plans to earn money here
Turbo Pascal Compiler (2013)
> forces [...] to offer two versions [...] the same is happening for Django!

That's not what the announcement is about. Django worked with python 3.x for a long time already. Now they're actually going to drop 2.7, so back to one supported version.