skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you give some examples as to the benefits of building a killer PC?

What interesting things can you do with it, that you previously couldn't? Or is it simply the speed and the ease of use?

I'm also thinking of building a desktop PC, but I'm afraid that I won't be needing it. I don't game, I mostly write programs and browse the web. Does it really change things in terms of latency and if it does, does that have an impact on the relationship with your computer?
The Press Secretary is the "Official" voice of the White House, and thus is accountable for WH's actions. Now, if nobody knows what was officially said, the WH can deny it and there will be no record of it.

I understand that the current press secretary/briefings are pretty much useless. But they are officially recorded as being useless, which is very important for accountability. Seems like another stunt for the current administration to play fast and loose with facts.
As a non-American, it fascinates me to watch the mental gymnastics indulged in by Trump supporters to justify behavior that's clearly harmful and indicative of more harmful behavior to come.

Does it not seem like a bad thing that your president is excluding media that are critical of him from press briefings? Doesn't that seem like it might not be a good thing for the general well-being of the nation?
That's hardly equivalent.
I just can't get worked up about this. Had these "news" organizations been doing their jobs I might be more concerned. As it stands this is just elevating one group of propaganda orgs over others.

The difference between what Trump has done here and what prior administrations did is the publicity and brazen transparency around it. I find it amusing that people think this is somehow a terrible, ominous event. This is a trifling thing compared to the egregious ethical violations and corruption, especially around information dissemination through the press, that has existed in this institution for decades.

The most interesting and concerning thing about it is the apparent weight given to these briefings. Except in very rare circumstances (e.g. killing of OBL, some attack like 9/11), these things are basically just PR displays by the administration. They serve no newsworthy purpose.
Still limited to a measly 208gb of RAM? That was pretty good back in the day, but now my desktop workstation has 128gb. AWS offers up to 488gb on their latest R4 instances, and 2tb on their X1 instances released a year ago.
It makes sense. I didn't about that API, thanks!
Penn Station (both Amtrak and LIRR) is moving across the street to the Post Office building. It looks like it's going to be pretty beautiful when they're done:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/nyregion/penn-station-new...
I don't recall the NYT, CNN or Politico refusing to attend when Obama kicked the Washington Times and NY Post out.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6156794&pag...

Shame on them too?
They have 'control' but can't get past a filibuster without risking having all their changes revoked the next time they lose control.
Wouldn't you rather just do that as a precaution? Then you won't be constantly worried that they might have had their data leaked.
Not that I'm aware of. Obama clearly disliked Fox News[0] but never went so far as to ban them.

[0]http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/obama-shuns-fox-news-at-p...
New York has TONS of options for you. Don't despair! Take a look at http://www.builtinnyc.com/. You might also consider working with a recruiter.
Can you send me the screenshot of the business account type part of the screen to my email sergey.sambros | gmail.com?
These press briefings provide direct, multilateral, and unmoderated access to the Presidential Administration by the Press Corps. They are incredibly important to holding the administration to account for policy.

Can the administration spin their own narrative? Sure, but they can't directly control or audit the questions asked.
Title is misleading. Press was blocked from a single press briefing. I do not see anything in the article about briefings going forward.

Can someone change the title so it's less sensationalized?

Edit: thanks to the moderator for removing the "s" and making the word "Briefing" singular to accurately reflect the article.
You are right... these rankings are as manipulated as the S&P with HFT. The FBA'ers use clever marketing, pay per click and paid reviews to get ranked higher. Has ZERO to do with quality.
Communication platform Layer raises $15M and acquires messaging startup Cola
When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart
While I agree that the OS package should be used first and foremost, it just often doesn't have the required software. (Even after adding extra repos that it might support)

You are picking on the useless details. Those are all commonly used package managers in production environments. They often provide software that simply never gets packaged with the OS. They likely always will, because they have more focused design goals.

A better way to argue this would be point out that specific ways to use the package managers better. For example: bundlr supports saving all the required packages offline. This provides the opportunity to do a security review and save the packages locally/internally rather than always trusting the whatever is on the Internet.
Do you have diabetes?
And the 1% of users it doesn't deter will be the ones who were previously manipulating results and can now do so for much cheaper.
You're right in that this does not significantly block NYT, etc.'s ability to gather news (btw you can check the transcripts online: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings) but it's an important symbolic gesture by the White House.

Here's a cool post of how the 49 seats assignments have changed over time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/25/ho...
Completely unacceptable!
Long-time bash guy, I used to use just git-bash-prompt + a few dozen aliases and functions, but recently got some shell envy after seeing a coworker with powerline on fish. I checked out ooh my fish and it was really hard to get it to do what I wanted; things like saving a function (since aliases are defined in one with ooh my fish) took a few hours to figure out because of how homebrew installs fish on Mac. It was also overly difficult to get ^r rev search working, $(foo) didn't work, the random one-liners I'd type didn't work half the time with fish.

I switched to zsh + prezto with powerlevel9k ( https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k ) and within an hour, I had something awesome. Here's a guide on installing it: http://www.codeblocq.com/2016/09/Pimp-up-iTerm-with-Zsh-and-... and I'd really really recommend powerlevel9k. Nothing against fish, but after a few weeks, it was just too hard to unlearn all my bashfulness, whereas in zsh it just works as it used to + had the extra functionality I got with fish + now is even more awesome and useful thanks to powerlevel9k.
I agree its not optimal, but at least the president gets challenging questions from time to time and his reaction will be analyzed by the press and people. If they choose not to answer that is also an answer. if they choose to ignore hard questions, that is also an answer. in case of Trump he gets tripped up and starts blatantly lying and blaming everyone else. it works
A great junction of all of these things is creating games.
This article also mentions another case:

> no such similar steps by any president since Richard Nixon’s retaliation against The New York Times and The Washington Post during Watergate
You're not wrong; but you are not right either.

Of course, most of the revenue today is generated from selling cars. But we were talking about the value of the company. And this includes expected _future_ returns. And, obviously, Tesla has more than just aspirations. They have built a large part of the Gigafactory already.

Honda certainly is not a car company - but much more than this as well. This was not a good example for your case.
Same with GM. I am not sure if your intention was to list companies that are much more than car companies? You were just making my case.
You know, zsh without fish is like fish without a bike.
Does anyone with a strong understanding of internetworking, peering and transit contract negotiation actually believe that "net neutrality" is possible? traffic shaping of saturated links seems like a necessary outcome to not undermine the smaller users (i.e. low bandwidth communications) that are impacted by heavy users (i.e. video streaming) if two peering parties can't come to terms on cost sharing for link upgrades.
Right, which usually requires press people to show up to do the reporting.

I mean it may not be as much of a requirement now in the age of live TV and internet streaming, but if we're going to argue about norms then certainly the norm of sending reporters to actually report on stuff is kind of important.
I have been using MobaXterm for a while on Windows. I don't see it mentioned very often in lists like this. It could probably fall under multiple headings in this list.

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
As a former Speaker commented, "there's a reason it's called Question Period and not Answer Period".
Also: DO NOT WORK FOR A RETAIL COMPANY. I'm a front end dev and worked for half a miserable year as an "Associate Developer". The pay was horrible and I quit as soon as possible.
From the November post [1]:

> You'll be able to use the new processor with Compute Engine’s standard, highmem, highcpu and custom machine types. We also plan to continue to introduce bigger and better VM instance types that offer more vCPUs and RAM for compute- and memory-intensive workloads.

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-G...
The Affordable Care Act wording on Whitehouse.gov that said you can keep your plan, your doctor, etc. disappeared shortly after the bill was passed. Nothing new here.
That's a good point, and I suppose that I did so because the blog post focused on the impact on the women of the team. It is also possible that I have some subconscious bias, and framed it as a 'women's issue' because of that, but I cannot be certain.
yeah, there's no reason to sort, you can just hash. but I'm not sure I can improve the asymptotic complexity of a comparison
Anyone know if there is any terminal + server side piece that, like terminology or iterm2, lets me inline plot in R, python over ssh? Linux or mac.
> Obama did the same thing

FYA:

> Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain.

> The campaign says that a limited number of seats forced it to make the tough decision of which journalists would be permitted to follow the Democratic presidential candidate in the last four days of the campaign, but the papers are calling foul, claiming they were targeted for their editorial-page positions and kicked off while nonpolitical publications like Glamour and Jet magazines remained on board.

This action is about the press briefings. What are you talking about? Do you have something specific in mind?
This article was an interesting view on the Putin's annual press conferences. Similar flow to what you described.

https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-medi...
This bothers me, too. Terminal lacks some features I really want, but it's implementation just feels polished. It's just so smooth, reflows text nicely and renders fonts perfectly.
Fair Use: Journalism Can’t Succeed Without It
"Have you ever needed to flatten a list in your career outside exams and interviews?"

I had to write this function to flatten a tree of expressions, so I could sort them by precedence, etc and fold them into a tree. I already had a bunch of higher-order primitives for constructing a parser and that was basically a lazy hack for me to get expressions parsed. I eventually implemented a proper expression parser, that was basically the same thing, but produced a flat list from the beginning.
you're right.

Trump should have just reduced the amount of chairs available and warned the folks he liked, like Obama did.

Right?

God forbid a president do something straight forward without making up reasons as to why it is a noble action.

I agree it's wrong, but I'm not willing to give a pass to another president because he worded it differently and achieved the same ousting.
Well, on the other hand, some (relatively) honest reporters should be there to record the latest alt-truths spun by this administration. I don't want to hear "Nah, that's totally not what Trump meant yesterday, despite he literally said that, and if you've been listening to Breitbart you would understand it. Oh and there's no other source!"
I mean, I once wrote a python script called unearthed.py that took all the files in all subfolders and put them into the parent folder, then deleted the subfolders, but I'm pretty sure I just used a simple os.walk for that.

Came in handy when working with rom archives that liked to put everything in its own folder, and a couple of times when I just had a bunch of crap that I didn't want to have to manually dig up anymore.

Other than that? No, not really.
Yes, but this isn't about improving on press briefings, it's about making them even worse.
The complaint isn't that it's contrived in general. The complaint is that it's a bad question if you're interviewing Java developers (because Java's type system is impoverished, but that's really beside the point).

If you're going to ask this question of a Java developer, you should carefully indicate what form the input takes. Heterogeneous collections are canonical in dynamically typed languages, and also in reasonable typed languages as recursive sum types. But in Java you're stuck between awkward subtyping / dynamic casting, or coding up your own definition of a heterogeneous collections. And in particular, the wording of the question suggests List<Object>, which is terrible style in Java land.

The real take-away is that Java's type system stinks for this sort of thing, and the standard libraries don't offer much help. But if you're interviewing Java developers, you shouldn't start off by asking them to writing terribly non-idiomatic Java code.
Lyft is a company that exists, and has a lot to gain.
I don't think it was right, but it's not nearly the same. Obama was a candidate then, not the president.
What multiple? I honestly haven't seen it. What I did see was this, however:

> Those terms gave Lightspeed the right of first refusal to invest in a future round of funding and the ability to increase its share of the company in that round. Lightspeed could also take 50 percent of the future round.

That is the issue and that would make a target less desirable for VC investment.

By multiple, do you mean the voting leverage? Because note that this happened after Lightspeed invested and allowed the VC to invest, rather than blocking it. To be very clear: the 10:1 voting ratio was decidedly not what blocked outside VC. The ROFR blocked outside VC. The 10:1 founder voting ratio was the solution.

Typically, "multiple" in this context means a liquidation preference - if one existed here, it was not detailed in the NYTimes article. My bet is you could probably find this information in the S1, (located here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517... ) but if you want me to read that, you will have to pay my hourly.
I'm finding I'm having a hard time reconciling the current climate - not necessarily at his supporters (or the opposite), but just at how polar opposite everyone seems to be on this.

For me, I see these organizations as not treating him poorly, but actually willing to call out things he is not being factual on.

But at the same time, maybe I'm being biased against him.

I want the discourse, but I'm just struggling to understand how the views can be so strongly split from one extreme to the other, and what that means moving forward.
What about setting the specific update time to something like 3 AM?

I was just in the windows update settings and there was a way at the top to check for updates right then. I didn't use it so I'm not sure if there's some other gotchas involved with that.
> The campaign says that a limited number of seats forced it to make the tough decision of which journalists would be permitted to follow the Democratic presidential candidate in the last four days of the campaign

That seems like a much more limited kicking-out than what our current administration is doing, and the constraints of an airplane seem much more limiting than those of the white house's press room.
Now if only an actual Press Corps existed in this country.
In that case, definitely DigitalOcean or vultr. I have WP sites on both and cannot complain. For $5, you get to control it all. The only downside is that there is not too much magic and you need to install things if needed on the server end.
I view press briefings (in almost all contexts) as a platform for the speaker to get their message out. That the press gets to ask questions just helps advise the speaker on where there is uncertainty/ambiguity in their statements.

Under a "normal" administration, they are a pretty good way to get the official story, but journalism still requires investigation.
much ado about nothing. press access has always been limited to a select handful. even making it into the room doesn't guarantee you'll be acknowledged or, if called on, have your question answered.
You comparing the actions of a non-sitting candidate for President to the actual President. I don't think they are equivalent.
Sounds like he is getting desperate.
Saying the parentheses are optional in Python 2 is kind of inaccurate. "print(thing)" is just "print (thing)", and "(thing)" is just an unnecessarily parenthesized version of "thing". So basically it's just redundant syntax that happens to make it look like a function.

If you try to do something like "print(thing1, thing2)" in Python 2, you'll find that "(thing1, thing2)" is interpreted as a tuple, so Python prints it as a tuple (instead of printing thing1 and thing2 individually).
I agree. Also, both with video games and with sports, it is possible to use the challenge as an opportunity for self development. At the very least, learning to play the games without getting repetitive stress injuries would be a mild physical accomplishment for GGPP.
Totally irrelevant, but (assuming you don't have a tame vampire) I'm amused that "bloodsugar" gets autocorrected to "bloodsucker" :-D
They weren't kicked out from the normal White House press briefing. I'm sure you know that from reading the article.
I normally wouldn't respond to any comments that are merely a link to someone elses thoughts without something original of your own. Because it means you likely don't know what you're talking about and merely attempting to speak through someone else because you think you agree. So I will respond not to your benefit but for anyone else who is new to Python and may come across this.

I've read that before and the author is ignorant. He's parroting GvR & the CPython core development team's line that unicode strings are codepoints. Sure, but he's arguing with himself and note the argument is Python2 vs 3. That narrow focus is what results in his tunnelvision. As a result of the argument as he frames it, Python3 is not better than Python2 in string handling, it's merely different. One favors POSIX (Linux), Python2. One favors the Windows way of doing things, Python3.

There is an outright better way to handle strings. It's what Google did with Go. How do we know it's better? Well, it is because it makes more sense on technical merits and members of the CPython core dev team have admitted that if Python3 were designed today they would go down this path. But during the initial Python3000 talks this option was not as obvious. Bad timing or poor implementation choices. Take your pick, given the runaway feature-soup that Python3 has become I'd assume both.

So like all tech, let Python3 live or die on its technical merits. That's exactly what the PSF has been afraid of, so we have the 2020 date which is nothing more than a political stunt among others. Python3 is merely different, it favors one usecase over another, but did not outright make Python better. To break a language for technical churn is and was a terrible idea.
Apples and Oranges.

Plane Seats vs Press Briefing

Campaign Trail vs Whitehouse
I wonder if this is the 'standard' thing to do when you have a broken hash function. I took a introductory course in computer security a year ago and we had to create MD5 hash-colliding documents for homework[0].

[0] https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs461/sp2015/static/proj1.... (see part 4)
You're comparing seats on a campaign airplane to the White House Press Corps?
Yes, that might be good, but it's a pipe dream at the moment. Further, having congress deal with such issues is open to far more political manipulation.

Having people who are competent at their job in regulatory positions seems just as important as having Congress do their job for them.
I'll save everyone the click: It's a false equivalence. Three reporters (total) were dropped from a plane flight, once.

Being held here by yummyfajitas as equivalent to barring whole organisations from a press conference.
Yes, its an offensive dick-move by Trump but rather than get agitated, I hope that more people will try look behind this.

This has been a relatively slow news week, I get the feeling someone needs a little attention?
What's the difference between a "video game" (1% fee) and a "digital video game" (10% fee)?
To me, this smells like:
* Required before: I only ever code at work.
* Recursion: I didn't get any/much theory in school
* Type checking: I don't know my language very well.
* Going beyond minimal: agreed- try not to hire them.
and also ping by the same author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Muuss
AP and Time magazine.
If you can't tell the difference between presidential candidate Obama and President Trump there's no helping you.
Only thing that might be off is the radius there, as it'll vary based on the phase that each planet is in it's orbit, which will make it go even lower at points.

Also WFA will do the units too, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=G+*+6e24+kg+*+6e23kg+%2...
To be fair, I probably still have a bit of C-stink in my python code. I don't know the idiomatic way to do everything, and I don't try to put everything into list comprehensions by default, but I still think it's an excellent, and fast, language, and have been using it for many years.
> Oct. 31, 2008

> Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain.

Yeah, totally same thing.
The kind that's also too cheap to buy jackets for all their SREs, apparently.

This sort of penny-wise-but-pound-foolish shit is depressing, but not nearly as rare as I wish it was.
Mars Needs Lawyers
Attending an airplane?
Kicking them off the plane is not equivalent to kicking them out of official Press Briefings.
what job are they not doing?
I know many won't actually click through to read the linked article, so I think it's important to cite this here in the comments:

> The effort hasn’t been a total blackout; White House press secretary Robert Gibbs still calls on Fox News reporter Major Garrett at press briefings, but the Obama White House is clearly targeting the network that it believes is biased.

> In a weekend interview with The New York Times, White House spokeswoman Anita Dunn said the administration would “treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”

A similar situation, and not "completely different", but not exactly the same, either.
> What am I missing?

Resonance over a few million years.
Yup at least I haven't found anything incompatible yet, there is this lib: https://github.com/developit/preact-compat that solves a bunch of things. Don't get me wrong I'm sticking with React as well. But for making widgets, landing pages and PWA's (where you need to cache the assets ) I think using Preact it's a good call since it's lightweight and you get most of the good things of react.
Unix philosophy
Im praying for 4 years of slow news.