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Be aware of your underlying bias.

"This is exactly the behaviour you'd expect under a really oppressive system: given a low-risk way to protest the oppression, people take it." Welcome to 2017, where crying wolf has no negative impact on them if proved untrue.

"Women and those sympathetic to the cause" Because by default, all women are automatically part of the cause.

"Consider the contra: if this wasn't an oppressive system, if there weren't real causes for complaint, nobody would care-- and so nobody would delete their accounts over the story." Of course, there's never been a case where a person has been really offended, got loads of people on side only to turn out to be false?

Regardless of her respect in SV, we can only look at the facts. Why is she the only person to leave Uber over this? Why have there not been previous cases of this? What evidence is there that the events unfolded as she suggested? All these things and more should be considered.
tough times are coming and these accounts will become a liability, even if you have 'nothing to hide'

That looks like a major chilling effect[1], and it makes life that much easier for those instigating the toughness.

It's not obvious to me, therefore, that opting out now is the right choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
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Gotta love HK. In 2012, they also made too much money, and so they just gave every permanent resident HKD 6000 (about USD 750).

Mind you, there are many problems in the territory. But a government that actually returns surplus to the citizens - respect :-)
There's also accuracy.

Unlike a human, a bot will always "click" exactly where it intends to.
Good work. We'll never use resources sustainably if we can't properly account their usage.

> Plus, unregulated fishing boats often use incredibly dangerous equipment to fish, like trawlers. Dolphins, turtles, and seals get caught up in these nets along with the target species and are ultimately killed and thrown away. "It’s not like a guy with a rod and reel," Hammerschlag said. "Trawls are basically underwater bulldozers. When they take up shrimp or crabs, they pretty much bulldoze bottom of ocean and pull up everything. That creates an uninhabitable area for other organisms. You’re kind of putting salt in the fields, and it takes hundreds or thousands of years to grow things there again."

I'm curious why they focus on these illegal fishers being trawlers as if that's something unusual. Trawlers are very common in legal fishing, including in western countries. But I don't see much focus on curtailing their use there. Are they as bad as the article makes them out, or are these trawlers somehow especially bad?
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equality IS here, now it's when someone that isn't in the "in group" tries to get ahead it's different.
I think you're missing a very important point here - Elon Musk is a man on a mission. Some people are totally buying into that mission.
That's true, certainly in engineering, which is the main concern of Hacker News.

In other fields women are more powerful (than in engineering).

I was personally harassed twice by female doctors. Never reported it because honestly, what's the point?
> non-citizens don't have a right to enter the US...
Here's where I take issue, by obtaining a visa to enter the US for work/ travel you go through security checks and you were deemed safe/ not a terrorist.
So what changed from when you were issued a visa to when you landed in the states?

For me, this feels like China all over again. If requesting passwords becomes prevalent in the US, then the same precautions that travelers take when entering China will become the norm from the US.
I extensively use closures in Python, particularly jit compiled closures with numba. I don't really have any problems with that, why do you say it's unpythonic?
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Ask HN: Do you prefer to learn programming from books or video courses?
Serious question: What are the reasons people are still preferring Python2 over Python3? (No troll intended)
> Given any class of mutually exclusive classes, of which none is null, there is at least one class which has exactly one term in common with each of the given classes...

If anyone else's train of thought got wrecked by the proposition of mutually-exclusive classes sharing terms, here you go:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/ma....
And this is how people become ever trapped in their safety and comfort bubbles.

Also learning how to say please and thank you in the local language never hurt anyone.
> Numerical computations and plotting are also my prime use cases for Python. IMO it's the only real competition to Matlab in this area.

What about Julia and R? I have never worked with them, I am just wondering that they are not mentioned.
Many of the comments here are decrying including the cheater's name in the post. We live in the 21st century. People who do shitty things might have to deal with harrassment on the internet. Its the way the wind blows. Does that mean we stop outing cheaters, criminals, and generally bad people? No. The technological environment is their problem. Let them delete their social media if they have to.

Jane Seo exploited the race for social status. Shes a Huff Post editor and was recently posting sponsored material on instagram, she got paid for it. Her trip was also paid for. Now..why should she not suffer socially if she tried to exploit socially? Fuck her, she deserves no sympathy. The people crying about the fact that Jane cheated at a public race, publically accepted the 2nd place trophy, and publically writes for the Huff Post, yet shouldnt be publically outed, have some contradictory logic. If I'm reading an article in the Huff Post by a pedophile I should know..so I can be wary of bold claims and moral claims. Same with a cheater. She shouldnt even be writing for them anymore. A cheater doesnt belong in journalism. Integrity is huge in journalism.
The other week I've learned a bit of Python history I didn't know about. After listening to Steve Pemberton's talk ([1]), guys in the audience with ties to CWI (Amsterdam uni) pointed out to me that the language he and his team were developing at CWI was the precursor of what came to be Python. Specifically, they did usability studies with non-developers (but still engineers) to come up with ABC/Python's syntax (see the linked talk). So I guess that's something to keep in mind when comparing Python to functional programming languages/idioms. Another language coming out of this line of thinking and generation of programming languages, for me, is AppleTalk (or was it AppleScript?), so it could've become much worse I guess.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpqh98e9RgUcEmbXmI6R...

Edit: obligatory "what were they smoking" responses aside, anybody to chime in and complete/correct these early Python tidbits?
“It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it”

This is not a new thought. The problem with it, however, is that such a description would have to be very precise or else leave room for different interpretations which in turn could lead to very different programs being generated. In particular, as programmers know, it's often the edge cases that pose the main difficulty not the typical case.

Describing what your program should do in sufficient detail will probably end up being not very far from the actual program itself.
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Because almost all movement trackers end up in the back of the drawer after a month, and because we can track our movements with the cell phone just as well, if we wanted.
Either way, when you can solve the problem with an extra DNS entry it's a better solution.
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Great reply but you are mispricing Tesla stock by comparing it to other car manufacturers when it should be compared with tech stocks. If you read this article (http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-driverless-ridesharing-...) you clearly see that Tesla will be competing for the same on-demand transport market of Uber and Lyft but with the big advantage of having a proprietary hardware platform.
Yes and no. Community can continue, but only under different name. So only fork is allowed.
Video courses. That's how I taught myself Java at 12, and why I never touched my Objective-C book until college.
UNIX also not, since Sun decided it was a good idea to sell the SDK separately, thus leading some companies to sponsor the until then largely ignored GCC.

The *BSDs and GNU/Linux variants are the exception to this.

In any case, Visual C++ and the plain command line SDK are a download away.
something happens to metabolic rate too. you keep burning more calories even resting and sleeping. After camino, I lost another 7kg in 10 days doing mostly nothing, sleeping a lot.
Yes, I know. The question is if this decision is correct, given that apparently a lot of people and companies just doesn't plan to switch no matter what.
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LLVM is coded in C++, and C++ has higher-level constructs to which Rust constructs should be relatively easy to map safely and with a readable end result.
The podium is all about attention. She put her face and name out into the public before the blogger did.
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I'm not saying they are, I don't think I've used the language enough to be able to tell what's pythonic and what's not. It's just that I think the language support could be better: why defining a function and calling it right after? That's what lambdas are for.
It's especially interesting given that P vs NP is suspected to be unprovable in ZFC. Waiting for further development!
Please settle down.
It's a loaded question, sure, but let me play devil's advocate here for a sec. You're basically using the same argument that NSA engineers use to validate the creation of spy software.

I'm not saying FB is inherently evil, or that it's immoral to work there. Just pointing out the similarity in your specific base of argument.
Thanks for your advice, but if all I wanted was to chat and see people that are "right here at home," I wouldn't be on social media in the first place. It actually provides value to me beyond that, and yes, I would miss aspects of it :/
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I know Python since the 1.6 version, could never convince myself to use it for anything else other than plain scripts, specially when I can get better performance and overall workflows out of Lisp and ML derived languages, without having to rely on C.
> tnones :That's a really oppressive patriarchy we live in, when a single blog post with no evidence and only hearsay is enough to spike a massive protest and boycott...

>
jonathankoren : What was his point?

It's an insinuation that the patriarchy doesn't exist, or is toothless based on the fact that one woman's story sparked a protest against Uber.

Which is of course a stupid point. One swallow doesn't make a summer, one exception doesn't disprove a rule and of course any complex system can have exceptions, contra tendencies and still have a dominant character.

No one said that patriarchy works like a totalitarian state, crushing anything and anyone which doesn't adhere to a strict set of rules.
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> it's not a fundamental need

Reducing an argument to "needs" or "rights" is circular. Even across well-accepted cultures and moral systems, the lines between "needs" and non-"needs" is diverse (e.g. duty to god(s), duty to family honour, securing one's life, securing one's happiness through artistic expression, et cetera).
Extensive training and adjustment is required to use this, and that will likely always be the case.
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Your questions are making presuppositions that I'm not sure are true.
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I hate websites like that.
Quit using terraform as a complete monolith and modularize it.
How does this list get updated? Do users manually upload the credentials or does it pull them automatically from the currently connected WiFi of the user?
Not when by helping one understands working together with the people on those counties and provide them the means that they need to fulfill their goals.
Strange article. The analytics ecosystem is not the main object of preoccupation of DL researchers. Most other predictions relate to frameworks and standards, also not big issues for the DL community.

What is important in DL now is:

- reinforcement learning and games

- generative adversarial networks and unsupervised learning

- advanced NLP, especially dialogue, QA

- better architectures - residual, inception, attention, memory

- better tools - parallelization, running on weak hardware, knowledge transfer

In short, we're advancing from simple recognition to complex generation or synthesis.
- Byte/Nibble transpose/shuffle for improving compression of binary data (ex. floating point data)

- Scalar/SIMD Transpose/Shuffle 8,16,32,64,... bits
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- more efficient in most binary data files, up to 6 times faster than Bitshuffle

- more robust worst case scenario than bitshuffle
Most important note to policy makers: encryption is a reality we can't limit or forbid. It's maths.

Deliberately weakened encryption, special "master keys" or legal restrictions on the use of powerful encryption are not even remotely feasible.

The bottom line is: everyone, especially those we wouldn't prefer did, can communicate securely when they want.

A policymaker who still thinks that there is some kind of "pragmatic middle way" where the intelligence community can listen to potential terrorists while the rest of us can still do secure online banking, is delusional and needs to be told as much.
I hugely enjoyed a survey article by Scott Aaronson on P ≟ NP. Section 3.1 contains a discussion on the possibility of the question being independent from ZFC. (He doesn't believe this possibility to be likely.)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf
> why defining a function and calling it right after?

Documentation.
Whenever I evaluate a language past the hello world stage, I try to do something more complex. Which is where the generics come in.
Imagine for a second that I may want a hashmap with a custom key/hash function (most often it would actually be a set) for my own datatype. I can't just use the built in hashmap _language construct_ (the hashmap is it's own, very special type), I either have to write a hashmap implementation myself or wrap a hashmap in it's own type and have custom getters and setters which would extract a key from my custom type that is intended to be stored in the map. It might be more go to do said things, but then it just means that it's more go to write code that is more likely to be buggy.
Okay so look at the two quotes "85 percent of all online advertising revenue is funneled to either Facebook or Google" and "85 cents of every new dollar spent in online advertising"

One proclaims that two companies take 85% of all online ad revenue, the other 85% of the growth in one quarter. So the first problem is the reference to the source is incorrect.

The other is the assumption that only news orgs and Google and Facebook are the ones taking a part of the pie. Disregarding the other hundreds of companies that are a part of the online advertising ecosystem as well as other types of publishers.

I would assert that the Atlantic misquoting a quote from the New York Times, which is a quote from a note a Morgan Stanley analyst wrote to clients the 7th of April 2016 is in and of itself not credible.

I don't know the real figures but one could calculate this by estimating global ad spend in 2016, take Google and Facebooks ad revenue minus the cost of revenue, ie money spend on buying ads from publishers (ie. news organisations etc), and compare that to other actors.

Bottom line, I refer to my previous point that the author doesn't know what he/she is talking about.
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This seems useful, but I have to admit I'm dissatisfied with the tech community's response to government efforts to cripple encryption, specifically the "but then the -bad guys- will also exploit the backdoors!" stance. While true, the better argument is that keeping secrets should not be a crime, but a fundamental right - the right to privacy.

Government should not have infinite power to peer into the private lives of people.
All I got from this, besides from the grammatical errors and the fact that the author had to hire someone at $25/hr to help him fold is laundry, is that he wasn't happy in America because he wasn't maintaining friends. There seems to be no definable reason why he left, it is just how good his life was, but he felt empty, so he left.
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No reason per se. Just that lots of people have lots of Python2 code and feel that Python3 doesn't offer anything interesting enough to make it worthwhile to go through the effort of porting their code.
Oh, I'm not debating whether it's a need or a right - I take objection to the qualifier "fundamental".
If you want to hear of Friedman in real debate there is great discussion in the foundations of mathematics mailing list archives that are public. There there is real lively yet high-standards scholar figth of first rate experts from all viewpoints. I liked for instance the 'myth of second order logic' theme initiated by S. Simpson.

It seems to me that the article is wrong when it says that the spheres recompounded bigger are a problem of large cardinal axioms. I think it derives from Choice, the C in ZFC instead.
well, to be very technical about it, when you release energy in a chemical reaction, you DO lose a tiny amount of mass, according to E=mc^2. However, the change in mass is very small in a chemical reaction, as the energy released is very small in comparison to the total energy of the system (given by E=mc^2).
Probably momentum? The only reason is if they are supporting an app that they don't want to move to 3. As a professional Python dev, I can see no other reason. All my new projects are in 3, and as far as I'm concerned, the debate was settled years ago (and there wasn't much of a debate anyway.
The rocket equation is the biggest block. Getting a constant thrust of 1g for 7.3 years is hard.

It takes an incredible amount of fuel, and an incredible specific velocity.
Well, if you want people to switch to 3, you do need to apply some pressure by end-of-lifing 2.
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I'm curious why you say "P vs NP is suspected to be unprovable in ZFC".

What would make mathematicians suspect that (if you know)? I mean ZFC is not a toy system, it is obviously used in complex and deep ways to prove or resolve long-standing questions in ways that build on tons of deep results that themselves took tons of research. (By the way for anyone else reading, just so you don't get the wrong idea: ZFC is actually the standard set of axioms mathematicians work with every day. It's the normal way to do math.)

What would make someone suspect this one is impossible to prove/decide under ZFC? (Or what would make someone think it is independent under ZFC?)

"A lot of people have tried to prove it" doesn't seem a convincing argument. (Consider advances toward the twin prime conjecture, or the now-proven Fermat's last theorem, etc.) There must be something more that makes you say that.

Thank you for any answer.
Found [1]this while browsing /r/learnmath, it might be of some help.

1. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/micromass-insights-on-...
Haskell and OCaml are also 90's languages. The rise of Python at the expense of safer, typed, faster, more principled languages makes me very sad for the state of our industry. I do not even believe it is the best choice for teaching programming to children. It heavily mixes and conflates higher-level ideas like lambdas and list comprehensions with imperative programming and mutation (the assignment syntax "x=x+1" must be especially confusing to high-school kids). It also throws in "object-oriented programming" constructs into the mix too.
On Tuesday I contacted Uber about Fowler's account. (I've supported them in New York City and Albany, albeit informally, and wanted to know if I needed to make the rounds and recant my support.)

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Thanks bot. I request again. "I can’t speak to your concerns or questions regarding this issue."

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Minor detail, but CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) isn't a Dutch university. It is a national research institute, and part of the Dutch organization for scientific research NWO. Many members of the research staff teach at a Dutch university though.
HATEOS, and REST in general, is a lot more useful when there are middlemen involved. If I have some link relation type named "api.myservice.com/rels/access-controlled-by" and some content type for authentication policies, then I can build a proxy between my API and clients that looks for links of this relation to resources of this type and automatically implements authentication checks. Instead of writing code to check auth rules in my API, I link to a resource that the auth proxy understands in a common format. This format can evolve over time without breaking the proxy due to content negotiation, and API services written in entirely different languages can still rely on a uniform implementation of authentication rules.

There's all kinds of other directions you can take this including quota enforcement, monitoring, auditing, and other resource-agnostic concerns. More radically, you can make these sorts of proxies reusable services that other people rely on to implement these behaviors. One of the primary motivations for REST in the first place was a standard interface that would allow for insertion of caches at arbitrary points in the Web without breaking everything (in the optimistic case at least). There's even HATEOS in the Cache-Control header, as the cache channels extension uses links to external resources to define the cache channels for resources