skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are stable. Both will continue to be stable for a long time.

The main difference lies with third party library support. There are a number of third party libraries that don't work with Python 3 yet. They will get ported eventually. If you want to use a library that doesn't support 3, then the choice is made for you.

The second difference lies with Linux distributions. On most distros you can just install the "python3" package and everything works, on a few distros you'll have to install Python 3 yourself or hunt down the right package repository (my info may be a year behind or so, I'm not sure). This also applies to third party libraries -- even if the library supports Python 3, your distro might not have a package for it, even if it has a package for that library for Python 2.

It's fairly easy (most of the time) to write code for Python 2.x that converts to Python 3 code with the bundled "2to3" converter. I do this for any script I might ever want to give to someone else or run on a computer that's not mine. Otherwise, I just write straight Python 3 code. Assuming, of course, that I don't need some library.
The Man Behind the Dreamscape
Rumsfeld was replaced by Robert Gates after the mid term election in 2006. Rice was secretary of state for the entire second term.
Ok, if you feel it is not a dichotomy, you are right.

I only ever interpreted the dichotomoy as 'there are zero deities' or 'there are one or more deities'.

Perhaps I like Pascal's Wager more than it deserves because it reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/525/
Got bitten by a snake
Roughly half the kids with attention deficit disorder outgrow their symptoms by early adulthood. The rest is condemned to a life of mediocrity or worse without proper treatment.
I think it is a valid question, and maybe it would answer why they are not studying.
It starts off by using the abbreviation DAG, SHA-1 hash, and object. If you know all three of those without looking them up, you're probably some sort of computer scientist.

I'd especially draw the line at DAG. At that point, we're talking abstract mathematics, not programming.
upvote you I will! for the Karma is my ally, and a strong ally it is
Sorry, I don't know what you mean. I just left my comment, which was just a joke about tipping over the vending machine, a common practice when you want to find out whats in it. Sorry for any confusion.
I ran into stuff like this all the time when I lived in Japan. Governments and businesses have a long time to go before they catch up with the realities of globalization.
My suggestions:

1. You will grow out of some of this, even without therapy and/or medication. At least I did.

2. Exercise and eat right, try cutting down especially on caffeine, sugar and anything else that seems to have a weird effect on you.

3. Take up something you are bad at or that you have never done. Such as learning a different language, guitar, etc. Reason is that you are skimming the cream off the top of your abilities - I think if you choose something you can fail at, then you realized you failed but are still alive, it will give you a better perspective.

This world is very tough on non-conformists. Hang in there.
Read up on Mastery by George Leonard. You seem to be describing a "hacker". I highly doubt that you truly master skills so quickly. Mastery should not be taken lightly. The actual process of mastery is consuming and immensely rewarding.
"go against the grain"

Right now on the front page there's a linguistics article stating that it was the British-English that diverged more, not the American version.

So, let's talk who 'changed' when you drop received pronunciation.
If you have to ask, I would highly recommend 2.x ! Nobody of note is using 3.x in production. It's nice, but not backwards compatible with the huge pool of existing code / docs; which is one of python's strongest suits, especially if you're coming to the language fresh.

The IRC /topic: ;)

"""
Topic for #python: NO LOL |
Don't paste in here: use http://paste.pocoo.org/ |
http://pound-python.org/ |
Include Python version in questions |

2.x or 3.x? http://tinyurl.com/python2or3 |

Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/ |
FAQ: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/ |
New Programmer? http://tinyurl.com/thinkcspy2e |
#python-fr #python.de #python-es #python.tw #python.pl #python-br #python-nl #python-ir
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> In the early days of UPS, the United States Postal Service was their biggest client. UPS handled delivering all USPS special delivery mail in Seattle.

Bet USPS regrets that now!

Just kidding :)
Interesting. Thanks for the response.

If one obtains answers to a number of questions (meaning, morality, afterlife, etc) by postulating the existence of God, is the nonbeliever exempt from having to answer those questions?

In pursuit of the answers, the nonbeliever must make new assumptions outside of simple nonbelief because simple nonbelief doesn't provide answers. Doesn't Occam's Razor then side with belief in God? I am not referring to simple belief in some higher power, but Biblical Christianity.

I believe that those questions (meaning, morality, afterlife, etc) are essential to a coherent worldview and are human questions rather than religious questions.
I'm a big fan of estimation:

If you've ever seen the guys refilling the machine, you know it's got a slot for every drink button. There are about eight buttons on the average machine, and I'm guessing that each row holds about a case of soda -- 24 units (cans or bottles).

So, that's 192 refreshing beverages per machine.

Now, they don't just wait until everything is empty to refill, and not every customer is going to pay with two $1 bills. So, let's make a couple of assumptions:

1. They refill the machine when it's about half-empty, so you only need change for about half of what the machine holds.

2. If you put in $2, you get back $0.75 in change (if the soda is $1.25), but we don't need to do that every time.

3. Given the usage patterns that I've observed, I'm figuring that we only need to provide change for about every third bottle, so we need about a quarter for every drink unit that we sell.

Put those together, and you get $24 in change.
If you are building a startup, I seriously recommend starting out in two data centers, even if you just have a vps or two in one or both of them. While operating at crazy scale may or may not be a Maserati problem, it will pay dividends early for your code quality, and site stability.
What exactly does it mean to be a computer scientist? I'd say if this article is accessible to you, it's reasonable to call you some sort of computer scientist, even if you don't have a degree, or aren't necessarily an authority on the subject.
I think some articles lately are too "news" and not enough "hacker". There's very, very little information in this article, and Wikipedia being down for a little while isn't especially intellectually stimulating.
No credit

Not as much of a problem as you think it is. Canadian companies can pull US credit reports -- like your bank did -- and do so on a regular basis. Not so regular that every car salesman will know how to do it; but any large company will have figured out how to handle this, even if not everybody at the company knows that it's possible.
TLDR: Marco is not a big fan of choice in the market place.
Curious what you're using httplib for? 80% chance you're reinventing a wheel.
Sorry, yes, you're correct, Rice remained Secretary of State.

But Rumsefeld's firing was a repudiation of his "Light Footprint" strategy in favor of the "Clear, Hold, Build" strategy being championed by Rice.

http://books.google.com/books?id=dhff3C6xhvkC&pg=PA271&#...
and urllib3

http://code.google.com/p/urllib3/
There are a lot of life outside US.. ^_^
You have presented the only religious argument I can't actually argue with. I can only humbly say I haven't had the same experience as you, and if I did, I would freak out.
Australians tend to use a funny mishmash.

Cars have boots (not the American trunks), but they're smaller than trucks (not the British lorries).
Can't believe I missed that, but you're entirely correct, that second %d doesn't map to anything.

Guess loops aren't the source of ALL evil.
I agree that's probably true, but I don't understand your point. I was just observing that Buddhists are likely to also be atheists, since the OP seemed to consider overlap unlikely.
That is a classic philosophical question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_movens
Aha, here's why it hasn't been squatted:

Strings shorter than four symbols long are to be registered directly under .ly ONLY through Libya Telecom and Technology in the upcoming period to guarantee that registrants have Local presence.

http://www.nic.ly/lyregistrars.php
I imagine a world where everybody would be forced to use a Newton, an Apple TV, a Mighty Mouse and an Apple keyboard...

Apple makes great phones and great computers but saying that everything they create is great from day one has gone too far on the fanboy dark side.
My father did this for me while I was in high school. If you have the opportunity to do this for your kids, do it. It's a hundred dollar jump start to life.
I think it will help if you would mention what skills you're looking for in a developer and your contact info.
Google sent that to me via e-mail.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means or measure, but I can't help but agree with this post.

I had the original iPhone and every feature just worked from day one; I didn't need any updates or anything. And yes, I could live without cut and paste.

I now have Nexus One, and although I love and do not plan on going back to an iPhone at any point, I still think the iPhone is just a more complete, more polished phone. It's a perfect mass market device because 99% of the consumers do not care about tweaking their device or changing ROMs.

I had Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron, but I have gotten my MBP back from a friend. MBP is better. Things work together better, and I don't need to tweak a million things or change themes. I just want to do my work.
I'm not familiar with this contradiction. Could you explain further? Where does it mention it's important to "feel" love? I've always thought it says "have love" - as in your pious nature is pointless unless you are capable of loving; as in it serves no purpose because it will not be acted upon. Similar to the idea that knowledge is pointless unless used. Or ideas are pointless unless executed...
This assumes that the change dispenser is emptied at the same time that the machine is refilled. This is a reasonable assumption, but not a self-evidently correct one.
Sounds like you need some momentum to get the wheels turning again. Your mind sounds a bit claustrophobic - that is to say, lots going on that's making you go crazy. Go find some adventure and get off the road you're on. Go do something that 'crazy' people do. One time I was really really frustrated, so I traveled around the world (sounds absurd, but that's basically how simple my thought process was and how little planning i did. I just convinced myself I could make it up as I go). Getting on the road will distance yourself from a lot of things on your mind, provide some clarity on things that are important, and make you focus on immediate problems - like where to sleep so you don't get robbed and how you're going to get from A to B because the bus route in the book or on the website doesn't exist anymore. You'll learn a lot about yourself by dealing with things as they come, by meeting cool people, and by seeing new markets for your ideas everywhere you go. I was dead broke when I got back, and I slept on my friend's floor for 2 months before paying him any backrent - but hey, what're friends for. It didn't cost me a fortune, just most of what I made working summers in college.
can we get by a week in HN without fanboy posts?
Wikipedia is down, so I'll tell the story as far as I remember it:

There was an infamous knot called the Gordian Knot. It was an actual knot, very difficult to untie. There was some prophecy or other that the person who was able to solve the Gordian Knot (by presenting the two separated ends of the knot) would rule all of Asia or something. Anyway, Alexander the Great faced the knot, carefully considered the problem for a minute or two, drew his sword, and cut it in half.

So a Gordian Knot is something that seems to be a complex intellectual puzzle you can spend a lot of time and effort meticulously working at, or you can just "cheat" and get the same result out of it, and it doesn't really matter in the end. There's a similar joke about a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer finding the height of a building--the mathematician measures the building's shadow and the angle of the sun and derives the answer with trigonometry, the physicist drops a stopwatch off the roof and derives the height from the time on the stopwatch when it hits the ground and breaks, and the engineer steps inside and asks the superintendent how tall the building is.
> Atheism is: 'There is no god' ie, Richard Dawkins

You have just misquoted Richard Dawkins.
Both are utterly different - one makes a knowledge claim (atheism) while the other is in a position of neutrality or indifference (agnosticism)

Sure, but making a knowledge claim doesn't make it any less objective or wise than being neutral.

I can say that there is definitely not a red 1982 Chevy Silverado orbiting Jupiter and that's a "knowledge claim", yet someone who says they're not sure or are neutral about my claim don't hold a superior position in any sense and would, in fact, look a little silly given the lack of evidence against it.
this is again a case of old generation blaming new generation. Come on oldies, let us live our way.
Vending machines in Ireland(my home country) don't have a change button, they have a return coin button(no notes usually). And once you have bought something, if there is no change in the machine it won't give you any back.

Some vending machines have small lcd's that say no change when out, most don't. And a can that should have cost Euro0.80 has now cost Euro1 or if your unlucky then Euro2(if you used the two Euro coin).
Thanks for the links. Right now I'm in the position where finishing college has been a 7 year ordeal and I still don't 'know what I'm going to do'. Started off in CS but it required way more singular focus than I am capable of (was at CMU), so I switched to creative writing, which allows a lot more flexibility in terms of what I decide to put on a page, but not particularly clear career paths...

I have what I think are some pretty awesome web/software ideas, but I only ever spend a few days in a row working on them because coding requires that sort of singular focus that I can't maintain for much longer than that.

And then now there's potentially (probably) a girl in the mix, so who knows what's going to happen...
Oh good. I read the Mammatus overview and from the resolve=self option I was under the impression it was returning only 1 A record.
I have said this 3 times on here already, however, it has been so effective I feel its worth sharing again.

This is the only thing that has worked for me and it worked fantastically:

1) Start with some Black Tea. In my experience the caffeine in black tea causes less of crash than coffee.

2) Hemmingways Hack: http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-...

3) And the Pomodoro Technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com This has hemmingsways hack built in. If done right (read the PDF) it is amazing.

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As far as that last paragraph, it sounds like your depressed.

Depression is the most common mental health concern in our culture today. The main reason for this phenomenon is our dysfunctional lifestyle. We have stripped away supports such as family and community and replaced them with material objects, larger homes, entertainment centers, and more time at work for money and success, rather than interest, meaning, or passion. The lack of support, connectedness, and meaning leaves people feeling empty, lost, and depressed. These negatives feelings are symptoms trying to tell us that we're being deprived of essential human nutrients: to be seen, heard, and understood. Thus, depression is a healing crisis.
-- http://www.wholenesstherapy.com/public/anxiety.htm

Like everyone else has said go see a counselor. You should be talking to some one about these feelings.

To me it sounds like you depression is stemming from a feeling of a lack control and a feeling that you don't have the power to make a change. If you can, I recommend reading this book http://www.amazon.com/Transformation-Understanding-Levels-Ma...
Here's the visualization of the current poll snapshot (as of 11:47pm EST): http://hackerpolls.heroku.com/polls/44

Disclosure: I created this awhile ago and almost forgot about it until I saw this poll
Yes, but Little Bobby Tables is an inside joke for the HN audience. I love that comic!
It was a valid legal question, resting on the distinction between "is currently" and "has ever", as I recall.

On the other hand, once you're on national TV saying "it depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is", you've lost 95% of the audience.
If more atheists thought that way about theists, and more theists thought that way about atheists, I think we'd all have a better time on this planet.

Message boards would be a dying business, though.
That's an excellent point. I'd agree that I have a somewhat Kantian conceptualist worldview, in that I consider that I have access only to my own experience of the world, not to the world itself, so all knowledge is inherently subjective and particular.

But thinking this way, "there is no truth" is only a synthetic claim of truth, not an analytic one; that is, it is "true" because the terms are logically consistent with each other given the rules that define their context (i.e. language), not because it expresses an objective representation of reality.

In other words, given the subjective and particular nature of my experience of the world, I have no basis on which to construct a universal understanding of the world, so I am therefore incapable of making any analytical claim of truth in any universal sense.

More practically, I'd say that ideas, including the idea of God, and including the processes of science, are useful tools that enhance our experience of the world, not objective and "true" representations of the world, and are best judged on how useful they are, not whether they are "true".
Thanks for the link. I am considering visiting the school shrink.
to clarify some misconceptions of this post

1. great since day 1. Well no copy and paste for 2 years? and great since day 1. Contradictory?

2. Hold Different? Great since day 1?

3. Needs iTunes desktop software.

4. No external storage options.

5. No background (until pseudo support in os4, clearly not day 1)

6. no open app store.

the list is never ending really. i sure hope the poster realizes despite these significant shortcomings, he thinks the iphone is great since day 1
I'm only bringing this up because no-one did but read up on bipolar disorder and see if any of it clicks with you.

There's a wide spectrum of bipolar disorders (it's not all just super mania and super depression) and what you're saying sounds like it could be connected to this (the flip flopping, the doing OK one moment, not so good the next). Of particular interest should be bipolar II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_II_disorder

Bipolar is, IMHO, a significantly bigger deal than having ADD or a mere lack of willpower. It is a commonly misunderstood condition and one that a lot of normal advice regarding depression or personality disorders will not help. Unfortunately it can also be a very difficult condition to "admit" you have, especially to yourself, so it's worth at least reading up about it ASAP "just in case."

Disclaimer: I have a bipolar disorder that's self managed (no medicines) and over the last few years I've come up with a lot of techniques and tricks to take advantage of it and reduce its negative effects. Before that, though, things were.. not so good :-)
I can easily install new libraries and "apt-get source" allows me to tinker with existing software easily

you can do the same thing on a mac, in a elegant way, so what's the advantage to do it on linux ?

I use vim

you can also use vim in a elegant mac terminal, what's the point here ?

And stop comparing its competition negatively

who was doing that ?
Appreciate your kind words and the links! Thank you.
Your description of agnosticism is also wrong; you described apatheism.

Agnostic: Unsure.
Apatheist: Doesn't care.
Atheist: Rejects theism.
Of oily water. That's very different from 500,000 barrels of oil per day.
Yeah I've read up on it and it's one of my default "jokes" to new friends("dude! you've no idea how bipolar I am")--only they don't know that I am not really joking.

Still I have a lot of stigma about officially getting tested for this stuff.
At $0.99 for Kindle, I have to check it out.
oblig. Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Fred Brooks, p. 184 The Mythical Man-Month 2nd ed.

It's interesting to me that several people I greatly admire in comp sci/technology are religious: Fred Brooks, Knuth, Larry Wall and Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma).

To me, one aspect of the idea of God is as a workable label for all the things I don't know (especially those questions I know not of; the doors I have not suspected exist; the things my philosophy does not dream of; the unknown unknowns). Also helps me to seek questions (define problems) even if I can't imagine knowing the answer (finding solutions). It helps me to just let it be.

Another aspect is political: human beings, like other apes, tend to organize around a dominant male (and even chickens have a pecking order). When groups grew in size due to agriculture and civilization, this scaled to super-dominant males - gods embodied in persons (I'm thinking ancient Egypt). This was dangerous. The next innovation was to transfer that "super-dominance" to a person who doesn't actually exist. This is safer, and of course this imaginary personage can embody all those ideas an actual human can only move towards but never attain. Although wars were still fought in the name of a God, there was a separation. That's a theory of mine anyway. Feel free to poke holes, build it up, tear it down (esp with evidence).
The only way I know about to get started is to pray which is hard for anyone. Say hi sometime. If God is there he'll say hi back.

You know what freaks me out? The idea of seeing an angel. No idea why but it freaks me out good. I hear kids often say they see them and it freaks me out whenever they tell me that. I am no one a kid would ever try to impress mind you. I just hear these things because kids are so free to share with you. Weird I know but I don't want to see one till I am dead.

This whole crazy stuff started while reading GEB if you are familiar with that book. I really was minding my own business.
Though techmeme is guided a by a human hand, I'm pretty sure much of its power and intelligence is via machine learning (for determining related stories, and their basic order).
I didn't say it's essential for other source control systems. It's only essential for git.

This is why git is so annoying to learn and I'm reluctant to recommend it. Unlike, say, a filesystem where you can understand it at the POSIX level and there's no reason to understand disk sectors, the internals of git are exposed and there's no simpler model of how it works. Many of the commands don't make sense unless you start to understand the internals.
Really? Is Farmville working on Android?
"Wikipedia is down, so I'll tell the story as far as I remember it..."

Your introduction warmed my heart. An air-conditioning plant fails in Florida and the art of storytelling from memory is rekindled.