skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heavy. Reminds me of this performance piece I saw in Kiev. It was about 30 men in a large cage in the middle of the room, sitting at a long table. Each was blindfolded and holding a semiautomatic rifle. The man at the end of the table would slap the table for the next step, and in lockstep, they disassembled and reassembled their weapons in a matter of seconds.
/rant/ So another hit piece on someone that supports Trump. This is the new left-wing extremist strategy... ie, destroy powerful voices fighting to safeguard our country and improve American lives. The Mainstream Media wants to be taken seriously with this tactic. Never heard of cnsnews.com either. Went through it and it's rather right-wing conventional. Nothing like this over-the-top ranting lunacy of an "article" disguised as journalism.

The author made sure to paint another Trump supporter in a bad light by using words like antisemitic, islamophobic, scary, brainwashing, disrupting the MSM, extremist sites, creepy, propaganda, amplify particular political narratives, playing to emotions. These words and many others have become their divisive talking points. I was surprised that I didn't see Hitler, Fascist, Racist and Sexist too. It's laughable if they weren't so transparently vulgar.

There's also stuff about tracking and usage habits but not a word about Google, Facebook, Twitter, George Soros (and his countless disruptive sites) and the REAL power (the MSM) - all engaged in extremist misrepresentation, censorship, outright lies, news coverups, blacklisted topics, paid rioters, banning users, manipulation of trending topics, physical assaults on the public by paid thugs. He mud-slings terms like "ethical regulations" in regard to Mercer when the real power has been documented to have long crossed the line and hold the details of our lives in their data-sharing databases with NO accountability.

He segues into "playing the victim". The privileged elite that has long held the reins of manipulating public opinion is (laughably) the victim now. The MSM, which has engaged in massive coverups to support their candidate, that has used fear-mongering through misinformation, that holds ALL the keys and power is now the victim. I would borrow the following from the race-baiting left... "check you privilege at the door", in response.

I started off as a fairly objective person during the political process. I liked Bernie, grew to despise Hillary and her divisive rhetoric (and noted how often the MSM media blacklisted explosive stories about this corrupt politician who was selling our country away, piece by piece). I wasn't even a Trump supporter and NEVER visited anything right-wing. I was long sold on the idea that the right-wing was racist. I got ALL my news from the MSM. They betrayed my trust and continue to do so daily. The author has learned nothing.
I also worked for Reuters tho' not on chat and for many of us it was very obvious why we kept losing to Bloomberg. Reuters would send its sales people into a bank's IT department and say things like "our product uses standard TCP/IP networking!". Bloomberg would go into the front office and say "here are some ways you can make more money!".
I don't use my mouse for navigation if I can help it. With Alfred (similar tool to this) I can navigation to any folder on my system, any contact, search on duckduckgo, translate words/sentences/currency, navigate my clipboard, restart/shutdown/lock my computer, open any app with just a keyboard shortcut and a few letters that specify what I'm going for.

It's like a very precise search engine for your personal machine.

It's amazing how great it works, and not having that available when I'm using a computer ruins things for me.

If that is not enough, Alfred also has lots of other awesome features.
To focus on just one point you made:

>A lot of economists have a vested interest in pretending that the following policies are generically, speciously "bad for the economy", because reasons

This sounds like you're saying that the broad consensus among economists from different backgrounds and theoretical stances described in the article I linked can't be trusted because economists are unreliable in general? That doesn't sound like a useful position to take, nor does it actually reference the position outlined and defended in the article.
Conspiracy of Suspending Political Opponents' Twitter Handles Using Fake DMCA
Agreed that this is essentially the "Atom of Alfred" with the web container. Seems interesting but Alfred is also an extremely polished product so many years in the making. As an existing Alfred user, it doesn't look good enough to make me switch.
PCIe is a parallel buss gone serial. As a result of its history all its routing mechanisms are tree based. Sadly no rings are possible...
This is a very sad way to view the world.

Everyone doesn't need to stop simultaneously. Some people need to stop and convince others that it's worthwhile to do so. People who refuse to stop should be shown the consequences of what they're doing and be forced to make a decision that they otherwise might not have been aware of. Some people will still make that decision and will be able to justify it completely, some people will change.

Your part in all of this, even though you don't believe change is possible, could be to be less dismissive and condescending when it's brought up.
I can relate to how having print be "special" becomes a habit - but I think on balance, print() is simpler.

Now, going down the rabbit hole of "no syntax" in the end one walks by lisp/scheme and end up at lamdba calculus (or brainfuck...).

Smalltalk has very little syntax.

I've been thinking a bit about how simple is is simple enough for useful computer languages, with an emphasis on reading and writing. The Apl people claim dense notation is good, while I think that "pseudo code" should be enough - syntax is for communicating with humans, the machines have machine and byte code.

Other [ed: "real" languages with rather concise syntax] are Julia, Kotlin and Nim.

I find that using whitespace for blocks (or begin/end) is generally preferable to brackets - we generally only use parentheses in prose and poetry - typing []{}<> is invariably a little complicated with interfaces developed for typing text. @ is actually a little easier thanks to the rise of email (addresses).

I'm biased though, as I generally use a Norwegian keyboard layout - making room for the three extra letters "æøå" exiles [{'< somewhat, which in turn pushes the backtick and a few other "easily available" punctuation marks firmly into repetitive stress syndrome territory.
The rest of the world doesn't have Trump; only Americans do. The rest of the world is free to dis-entangle their economies from America's if they wish. Honestly, I feel the rest of the industrialized world has been too complacent for too long, letting America take the lead on everything from military defense (against the likes of Russia) to medical research to space exploration, and then whining when America doesn't do as well as they think it should. Instead of whining about how America does a terrible job with manned space exploration and hasn't been back to the Moon in decades, why don't they pool their resources and send their own manned missions there and build a Moon base or something? (Asteroid capture and mining would be a great idea with actual commercial potential.) The EU alone has over 500M people, and all of Europe has 743M according to a quick Google search. Japan has 127M people. The US only has 310M. So Europe+Japan combined have almost 3x as many people as the US. Toss Canada and Australia/NZ in there and the US is a clear minority. Instead of whining about the US's failings, everyone else needs to work harder on cooperating with each other and surpassing the US, instead of growing increasingly irrelevant in comparison to Russia and China.
> Uber drivers are constantly at war with taxi drivers

Currently living in Pretoria, South Africa (close to Joburg). Drop off and pick up points can't be where there are several cabs and when we went to Joburg directly there was even a police presence to prevent violence towards uber drivers.
Don't they use sales numbers as one of their primary sorting factors?

That's popularity, just like FPTP.
Another crazy idea. Why not integrate a soldering iron?

Soldering irons that are powered via USB with 1500mA and 5V exist and are basically just a heating element plus a 555 timer chip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8D5t6TJYU
Interesting. What online resources and books would you recommend to learn Perl6?
I suspect the debate about Python3 will never end. My thoughts on this are:

- Python2 seemed to enjoy some success because of its simplicity

- Python3's breaking changes seemed ill thought out. As an example, PEP-414 [1], which reintroduced explicit Unicode string literals to ease porting Python2 to Python3. The fact that it was removed in the first place suggests there was a lack of thought about or concern for the effects of breaking changes. It's almost like once the decision was made to make breaking changes then considerations about porting and libraries maintaining compatibility between the two were of no concern.

- IMHO there has been a shift away from dynamic languages that came at a rather bad time with the schism in Python land.

- Non-backwards compatible changes have often gone badly. Perl5 to Perl6. PHP 6. Python 3. I mean gone badly in the sense that it seemed to hurt adoption, at least for awhile.

- It seems like statically typed languages have somewhat supplanted some of the use cases for these languages. I'm thinking of Go as one specific example. The way I like to put it is that dynamic languages force you to have unit tests for spelling mistakes and typos.

If you compare the Python3 async stuff with Go's I honestly think Go is more elegant here.

- Lastly of course there's the GIL. I think this is increasingly becoming a problem in a multi-core/multi-threaded world.

The GIL design really does simplify writing C extensions. This makes Python pretty convenient and well-suited for certain tasks. I'm thinking specifically of things using Numpy.

Anyway I'm not saying you can't write, say, high-performance Web servers in Python with AsyncIO/gevent loops and the like. It's just not as... elegant and simple as things seemed back in the days when Python 2.7 was state of the art.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/
Looks really good. How much time it took from you, to do this work?
I actually don't know anyone who uses it. Any Linux users I know would just use the book reader from their distro's repository (in my case, FBReader).

EDIT: Also, holy s@@@ e-calibre, your advice (with a mild warning) if people get certificate errors is to pass in --no-check-certificate.
It is a supply and demand problem. Your house is only worth what someone will pay for it. If the potential buyers have several cheaper foreclosed homes to buy instead of your home, the potential sale price of your home will go down
Judge: Providing Web Hosting Isn't Same Thing as Contributory Infringement
Monopoly, 2 out of 3 ain't bad...
Sales numbers are more like approval voting, because you can buy more than one thing in the same category, but you can't vote for two people for president.

Say I'm a photographer, but due to Alt-Amazon's draconian policies, I can choose one and only one camera. And not only that, I can purchase one and only one lens! What do I pick? Compact or fullblown setup?

That's FPTP.

But most photographers have at least a couple options to shoot with, depending on the needs of the situation.

And the star rating system is classic score voting.
The banks use "comps" to figure out the maximum loan value. Assuming the housing nearby as similar, their actual sale price provides the price signals markets crave.
Because the market is flooded with similar houses for cheaper.
I suppose my point is the co-opting of the word "Democracy" by certain groups, to present a different idea of government than those they govern live under.

Which leads to the general population not understanding:

-Why there is an electoral college instead of a direct vote for the president.

-Why there are two divisions of the legislative branch, the House which is proportionally represented, and the Senate which originally was appointed by the State-Legislatures.

Companies like Facebook are pushing for more direct voting. Which should give you pause as the tyranny of the Majority is a very real thing, if you don't believe so look at California which voted down gay marriage despite being a liberal bastion. The average voter is not informed enough to vote on specific legislation, and find themselves easily manipulated by the mass media.

Removing another safeguard to prevent the tyranny of the Majority is never a good idea.

PS There is good reason when searching through the Constitution you will not see the Country defined as a Democracy, or even the word democracy used. Rather it is explicit in the fact that we live in a Republic
The United States has a total resident population (as of January 23, 2017) of 324,420,000 people (about 324 million). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

Thus, $4.1 trillion in consumer debt works out to $12,638 per person.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States was worth 18036.65 billion (about $18 trillion) US dollars in 2015. That is about $55,424 per person.

Note that the "consumer debt" is divided into several categories.

Student loans represent a long term investment and may be reasonably paid off over decades.

Auto loans are typically paid off in 3-5 years.

Ideally, credit card debt should be paid off immediately. It is difficult to evaluate credit card debt because credit cards have increasingly become the substitute for cash in the United States. How much of the debt is extremely short term and essentially represents what used to be cash transactions?

What is "other" consumer debt -- payday loans? IOU's?

The point is that $4.1 trillion in consumer debt in a nation with over 300 million people and a GDP over $18 trillion per year is neither unreasonable nor a crisis, particularly when that debt includes longer term items such as auto loans and student loans.
Stop conflating the term "democracy" with a (neoliberal) Constitutional Republic.
On what planet do you expect that the US at large is going to accept 1/7th of their economy seceding without a fight?
A used Tesla s1075 from eBay looks like a good bet. That's my plan, anyway.

Would require some modding to use more up-to-date GPUs (there are some mounting studs on the chassis floor that need trimming) but the forced airflow means that passive cards like the original Xeon Phis are also a possibility.
The best way to think about the Bloomberg terminal is a web browser that connects you to a private network. (Bloomberg actually is the largest known private network.) Once connected, you have access to thousands of "web apps" - which Bloomberg users call "functions". Instead of a URL, you use a short 2 to 5 letter mnemonic code for each function, such as "MSG" for email, or "TOP" for top news. These different functions provide all sorts of various functionality - most of them are of course related to financial information. Functions like "CDSW" are for analyzing credit default swaps, "SDLC" gives you supply chain data for different companies, other functions analyze or curate Twitter, others correlate news events with historical stock data, etc. There are also many non-financial functions as well that reflect the "social network" aspect of the Bloomberg terminal, such as "POSH" which is basically a high-end Craigs list, or "DINE" which is a high-end Yelp.

All-in-all, the Bloomberg Terminal is like a private Internet for financial professionals.
No. People in the current bubble forget that California is usually broke/in legislative crises, which might be about to happen again. Texas is probably the only state capable of thriving if it secedes, CA doesn't even have it's own electric grid.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9312_California_b...

* http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-400...
Everyone interested in female fashion buying should read this post.

I have a sister who made millions selling women's shoes. She's a horrid person, whom literally stole money from her mother, but she knows fashion. She knows what women buy. She once told me, "If I lowed the price, they wouldn't buy it. All they need is a somewhat sincere compliment, and their Mine. Ca--Ching!". She also told me if a item of fashion is pricey, it can't be called cheap, or trashy. She would point out "the easy breezy" women who sauntered into her shoe store. My sister, "Do you have any clue how much thought, money went into that casual, just rolled out of bed, look?"

The amount some women spend on fashion I still find mind blowing. I said some women, and I'm glad. I understand looking good, but there's a limit. Most of the high ticket items just look rediculious, but my opinion doesn't matter.

Look at those hideous fashion uniforms Hillary, and Elisabeth Warren ware. How much do those Star Trek uniforms cost?

I want to "out" the fashion industry.

I cringe when I see women shelling out $600 for shoes they don't even look good in.

I cringe when I see the disparity of prices between men's clothing and women's clothing.

I cringe whenever I think about how devious my sister became. She once told me if I was a man, "I would get a pat on the back?". I didn't tell her, but most men don't manipulate lonely alcoholic men in order to get business funds, and stealing family money is just wrong, especially when the family is middle class/poor. Yea--Sweet Heart took all her mother's money. In a weird legal way, but so immortal it's sickening.
Yes, we do. Border Patrol is even less accountable.

They've decided they have authority over 2/3 of the population on some absurd argument that anything within a hundred miles of a border and/or the ocean is under their jurisdiction. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

They can shoot and kill a kid in another country and not be sued or extradited: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/02/21/cross-...
I disagree. I can dislike a song. If I am able to talk to the singer/musician, I won't say 'You Suck', that would be rude.
While I love expedia, for my recent trip it was cheaper to book directly via emirates (it helps that emirates has a better site than expedia).
"multipolar trap"! I'm do glad to finally have a proper word for it. I've been describing this as "prisoner dilemma with a huge number of prisoners" which didn't feel 100% accurate and not terse enough. I wish our political debate would acknowledge this type of situation which seems to occur quite frequently. Being able to categorize the problem like this would help us elevate the discussion and come up with proper solutions. Thank you!
It is pretty simple: network effects.

Nearly every trader, sales person, and investment manager in finance has a bloomberg terminal which is guaranteed to own a lot of screen real estate on their monitors. If you need to get in touch with someone as quickly and efficiently as possible, bloomberg chat is the way to go. You are usually involved in multiple conversations at once so phones just don't cut it.

I traded two different products that were almost exclusively traded via IB (chat) or MSG (email like). There is nothing special about either of those communication channels, but market norms are incredibly powerful.

As others are mentioning, Bloomberg also centralizes a ton of different data, but this much easier to replicate than the network effects of the products above.
I have extensive experience working with Python 2, 3, asyncio and gevent so I'll comment on some of the points in this article.

Python 2:

def hello_world(name):
print 'Hello', name

Python 3:

def hello_world(name):
print('Hello', name)

> The language, which was once simple and elegant, has become complicated and clumsy

Python 3 is just as simple to use as Python 2 (simpler, even due to all the cleanup that happened - just think about the encoding mess in Python 2).

What happened is that new, powerful features got added to Python 3 that solve specific issues that people were having. It's entirely optional to use these, but they make life much easier if you need them.

Async programming is only really applicable to highly concurrent network programming or other applications that spend a lot of time waiting for IO. For everything else it's just unnecessary overhead. It is inherently complicated. In particular, the async/await paradigm is extremely powerful. I first encountered it in C# and immediately fell in love with it, and I'm happy to see major languages like Python and JavaScript adopt it. It makes clear where you hand off control back to the event loop and prevents all sorts of bugs where you'd accidentally block the main thread by invoking blocking IO.

gevent, in comparison, is an ugly workaround that hides all of the complexity behind async programming. By monkey patching all IO libraries to be magically async, it makes it impossible to reason about the execution flow and it's extremely easy to get it wrong. That is an affront to the Zen of Python (Explicit is better than implicit).

Type annotations are just a standardized way to do what large projects were doing anyway - documenting types. By moving it out of the docstrings and formalizing it, it opens the door to strict type checking. The resulting ugliness reflects the difficulty of typing a dynamic language and you only need it if you want strict type. You can write untyped code just fine.

> I'm not even debating the value of type annotations [...] And why do this when there are hundreds of other languages out there that are statically typed?

Do I have to point of the irony?
The debt is real, the wealth not necessarily. But a more telling measure would be debt per capita or debt vs liquid assets. The financial crisis showed us that 20 trillion can be erased relatively quickly.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/financial-crisis-co...
I asked about this in another thread. It seems like all the blockchain does in this scenario is allow colliding edits to be detected for a fast retry. In an environment with slow network I don't see how this would work well.

If that's the case, something like treedoc[1] is prescribed and it renders the blockchain part of this irrelevant unless we're concerned about sourcing edits (which treedoc or a similar CRDT would be entirely amenable to and even appreciate).

I was sort of hoping that there was something I didn't understand about the algorithm that helped here.

Also, what is "OT stuff"?
Are suggesting that the US does not have a minimum wage?
I love that this writer puts on no airs.

>As far as defense goes—would you want to fuck with a country with the world’s best drones, robots, tech weapons, missile defense systems, and cyberattack abilities? No one would dare attack California.

Most people try to sound more important and qualified when discussing something so radical.
That only direct democracy is actual democracy, and the BS different "types" were only sold as such.
Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9/11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn't there a taser incident and one (mentally disabled?) person being choked to death? There was even a Tom Hanks movie about a guy stuck at an airport indefinitely. All before Trump.
For this particular attack - what if you do not have write access, but have sufficient social capital to get a pull request merged with a benign-seeming file?
MA and NY have major economies and plenty of legislative cooperation.
I thought I was the only one. Thanks for taking off a load of guilt. It's okay to enjoy this stuff. Very sage comment. Never finish because of the fun of building.
Does the king work, rely on inherited wealth, or receive money through taxes?