skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficulty is when you have to go hunting for the right die to use, and mistake, say, the d12 for the d20. Or get confused that, for d4s, you have to read the downward face instead of the top face.

That being said, I fell deeply in love with the classic D&D polyhedra the moment I first saw them. Platonic solids are cool! They're delightfully arcane and geeky. They complement each other in a set. I wish the weird d8 and d12 throws came up more often.

Perhaps there's a lesson here for UX in general: sometimes there's a tradeoff between being _simple_ and being _interesting_, and (particularly in the world of games) it's a tradeoff worth taking seriously.
> if we are forced to stop using python 2, we'll probably need to switch the project over to Java.

This is just silly. It will take at least 100x more effort to rewrite the project in Java than it would to upgrade to Python 3.

> at least the java community doesn't force developers to rewrite their source code when a new JVM comes out

Yes, that was an unfortunate, one-time thing for Python that happened almost a decade ago.

> My employer is mostly a java shop ... and their retort is that [python is] not really enterprise ready

Yep. That sounds like the kind of nonsense people say in a Java shop.
https://ius.io
> conda install matplotlib

Anaconda Python really should be more popular on OS X and Linux than it is. Homebrew is okay, but a little bit wonky for Python packages.
"We, like many others, have developed “subscription fatigue” when it comes to buying software. A single Vexlio license is available to purchase for a one-time payment of $25.99 USD. No subscription and no recurring payments are required."

I almost want to give you money just to encourage this kind of behavior.
I've had people get into hair spitting arguments with me over whether or not the clearly manipulative and distorted news reporting style in mainstream publications (NYTimes is a good example) ought to count as fake news. Personally I don't care for the term. I think the traditional term propaganda is on target and suitably broad that it applies to both social media manipulation (fabricated blog posts on your Facebook newsfeed) and traditional media manipulation (overwhelming biases at most news publications).
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Same article, not behind paywall: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/14/why-tight-lab...
The language would still have to understand all of that in order to write that kernel side allocator in safe code.
It is also a threat if your DNS is compromised.
...or v9fs... but the overhead might make the whole exercise pointless.
I'm not sure why "don't autoplay until tab focused" works but "don't autoplay on current tab" does not. btw, I use the "YouTube High Definition" Firefox extension, which allows you to prevent autoplay and tweak other YouTube parameters such as disabling overlay messages and forcing a default video size:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-high-...
> HP Mosaic takes the vector PDF file as input (also known as a Seed file), and generates a large number of variations on the file by transforming it — scaling, transposition, and rotation — randomly.

Okay, that's a little disappointing—I was hoping for some sort of image generation, rather than just cropping. But the output still looks good, so I'm not going complain too loudly.
gruber's brain-dead version _has_ been replaced. by better versions. the problem is these "better versions" are all inconsistent with each other. and each of them has an installed base which insists that the egg be cracked on their preferred end.

if instead of adopting markdown, people would have extracted a small subset of asciidoc (which predated markdown) or restructured-text (which also predated markdown) to serve the brain-dead use-cases that markdown claimed, those subsets would've been just as "simple" to learn, but also leveraged more cleanly when people sought to extend the light-markup toolkit to longer-form documents.

but the blogosphere thought it was hot shit back then, and took great delight in pushing things viral. ergo markdown. so now we're stuck in a bad situation.
It wasn't even an algorithm either, it was the basic Elo formula.

I do love that movie but it falls to a lot of the Hollywood Hacking stereotypes.
From: http://www.asmeurer.com/python3-presentation/slides.html#55

... why is this good:

def dup(n):
for i in range(n):
yield i
yield i

... but this one better?

def dup(n):
for i in range(n):
yield from [i, i]

... it would seem you're needlessly creating (1): another level of generators, and (2) creating a real list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCMhSzeGuA

this is the bit, I think.
Why isn't Fowler's piece considered criticism?
book publishers don't typically make many millions of dollars that can be thrown away on litigation, i'd imagine. perhaps with the exception of academic journal publishers.
Have you tried installing anaconda?
Resistance is not immunity.

Bullet proof glass for example gets damaged by bullets. The trade off is always in how much damage and how quickly. CD's will easily survive with even moderate levels of care.

What people forget is the covering is really designed to protect the data layer not the surface. And in that context the clear plastic is actually better protection than the backside.
Ethereum Classic is still a thing: https://ethereumclassic.github.io/

Ethereum Classic is a fork of Ethereum that held blockchain is immutable paradigm and let DAO continue to be drained.
Given the high rate of incidents that Europe is having with immigrants, the alternative is to close the borders. So at this point, pick your poison: let tens or hundreds of thousands die of war or starvation, or take away freedoms that they wouldn't have without having crossed those borders anyway.

I'm a libertarian at heart, I've been very sympathetic towards refugees, however seeing lots of immigrants misbehave in my trips to the UK and Germany, I'm beginning to understand nationalism and why people have a periodic tendency towards populism (e.g. Trump, Brexit, etc).

The whole purpose of fingerprinting is crime fighting. Nothing else. There's no such thing as "immigration purposes". And when you're going into somebody's house, you obey their rules, otherwise you're free to go elsewhere.
> 2-3% over 10 years adds up quickly.

So do those 10-50% raises over ten years.

> If you are career oriented and want to be successful you will be drawn to big cities as that's where the best jobs are and where you can get ahead a lot.

There's a grain of truth here. I'm able to work remotely, and just in the past month I've worked from a variety of different kinds of environments in four states. However, that's because I've built a skillset and a track record by working in close proximity with others at a bunch of startups plus a couple of larger companies. I understand that not everybody has that option.

However, even within a big city you have a choice of where to live. The crappiest place I ever lived was right in the heart of a big city. I've lived in crummy places, tiny places, places with awful commutes, places with multiple roommates to defray the cost. Those were my choices. You might make different choices, but they are still choices. People who make far less money than we do can still find places to live where they can come in every day to clean our offices, cook our lunches, teach our children. If they can, so can we.

It's amazing what you can do if you don't enter the rat race of who has the biggest house, takes the best vacations, knows the best restaurants. There will be time for that, after you've built your base. The first few years after college are still part of the foundation-laying stage. You shouldn't expect to be better off materially, and often you'll be worse off for a while. That's life. At least it's not a permanent condition for those of us in tech, like it is for so many others.
Planet Earth: Iguana chase scene was not faked, says BBC
Hm, not sure left leaning organizations would have any success on 4chan. There was an obvious alt right Astro turfing campaign for the past few years, though. 4chan used to be a solid seat of extreme liberalism, and it swapped seemingly overnight to hardcore conservativism. Same with /r/conspiracy
Installed by default.
Harder to read

Choice ultimately down to personal preference.
I don't think anyone is suggesting to chip in to reverse the annexation. The point is to have the military that could adequately protect against similar future encroachments.
Love it so far. Is there a way to make HTTP requests in the Lua code (or a way to add plugins)? I can think of a few applications where it would be nice to generate some diagrams off web requests using Lua-cURL and a json parser.
The next iPhone will have wireless charging, according to Apple supplier
The dependency ratio went up from 15% in 1960 to 22% today.

The GDP per capita, by contrast, has increased 300% in 2005 adjusted dollars.

This is the metric that answers the question "why are pensions deemed unaffordable?", not birth/aging/death rates:

http://retired.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/productivity.png
Bottom line is this...

At some point EARLY on, you're going to want to put some thought into casting a wider net for talent and wrapping your heads around the fact that people from different (age, gender, racial, ability, socioeconomic) backgrounds can be a strategic asset to developing a world class orgs.

Throw away the notion of cultural fit where you assume people have to like what you like and think how you think to "fit in". That's bullshit and extremely limiting.

Build an environment where everyone feels whole and contributes.

You WILL sacrifice some of the benefits of that frat boys club environment a lot of early stage startups have.

You will gain the type of insight that will allow you to navigate an increasingly divese workforce and (US and global) consumer base.

Be willing to make mistakes. It's a clumsy process.

Uber is going to have a hell of a hard time retrofitting a less toxic culture and the numerous leaks we're seeing points to an employee base that's begging for change.

Successful high growth orgs of tomorrow are gonna be the ones stumbling towards getting this shit right today.
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There’s another small tech IPO and we’re really just waiting for Blue Apron
No. Sane engineering can secure IoT. Like, don't send sh&t to the internets.
Trump to nominate FCC commissioner who backs net neutrality
@Brokenstein may have intended to reply to @mohamedattahri's comment
"Add <spice> to taste."

"Bake for 40-45 minutes."

"If dough is too sticky, add flour."

Many recipes contain decisions.
No, because someone MITMs your insecure channel and serves you a malicious page that steals your password and the unencrypted data.
> Governments are starting to recognize that fake news is something that must be actively fought.

That can be read in two very different ways. Sometimes the governments are the ones that are the problem.
What is an NTM? Google search turns up Nontuberculous mycobacteria and a French rap group.
Bill Hicks, was an excellent humanist.

>By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself. It’s just a little thought; I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they’ll take root – I don’t know. You try, you do what you can.
(Kill yourself.)

>Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really. There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers. Okay – kill yourself.
Seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good.
They are left wing examples, but I know that during 2003 during the propaganda campaign that got us the second Iraq War that there was an unacknowledged but very real effort of the same size and scope going on initiated by the neocons. I am absolutely certain of what I observed back then. No one--no one--would believe me, though.

I would add that the comedian Dennis Miller was also drafted into spouting pro-war propaganda on late night tv.

It was all very deliberate.
I like the idea, but I find the site a bit confusing. What is a "pre-subscription"? Are people paying their suggested monthly fee up front? It says that the site makes money from the first three months, so when you sign up are you already subscribing to a nonexistent service?

And as for "solving", what if they fail? Is it no commitment? Is any of the funding up front, or is it just built on the promise of possible future subscriptions?

I think the idea could work, but directing the balance between both sides is going to be the problem, a lot of the "buyers" are wanting to pay an amount that will work at scale (like $5/mo) but not really if someone is trying to bootstrap a solution.
Why can't we? Doesn't this extreme overreaction simply encourage the terrorists?
Thanks for the compliment! Vexlio itself is written in C# (the Mac version in development uses Xamarin.Mac). I'm using the open-source NLua library to provide Lua hooks to call into the application.
No, he clearly meant Bill Hicks. Easy to confuse the two because they both have a segment that could apply but context indicates it isn't Carlin.
I think it would be nice if, when drawing shapes, it would generate the Lua code and the program mode text would persist when switching between modes. I definitely realize that would be quite the task.
Consider the following contradiction: Supposedly, fake Facebook accounts (which appear real) engage with "fake news" in order to fool real Facebook users. Then, the engagement of such articles is measured. That is, these articles are spread by bots so that it appears like the articles are being read by a wide swath of the population. Then, analyzers like Buzzfeed measure the activity of the fake news articles and count the total number of "engagement" activities, which includes both the fake and real engagement. They claim that this is evidence that people are spreading fake news -- but how can we know how many real people actually read (or believed) the content?

Next, they mention that fake news results in a change in people's perceptions. They say:

> It can be considered a form of cognitive hacking12—except that the modification of a user’s perception is the goal of the operation, not a means for gaining access to a network.

Serious? They think that people reading an article are going to immediately believe it? This idea sounds a lot like the beliefs in the 1920's that media could "inject" false beliefs into humans:

> Hypodermic needle model, or magic bullet theory: Considers the audience to be targets of an injection or bullet of information fired from the pistol of mass media. The audience are unable to avoid or resist the injection or bullets.

However, we now know that people are not passive consumers of media: they are often very critical. If we were to categorize the engagement of fake news in order of proportion of observed engagement acts:

1. bots (not real people, not influenced, largest proportion)

2. curious but critical people (real people, but not influenced)

3. people whose beliefs are changed (real people, real influence, smallest proportion)

Finally, to prove that fake news can be damaging, they use examples where Spirit Airlines and American Airlines were damaged by real news:

> For example, shares in the American ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) Spirit Airlines fell 5% the day after videos of passenger fist fights due to cancelled flights15 made the rounds on social media. When United Airlines forcibly removed16 a passenger from a flight in April 2017, its stock price fell17 as well.

If you're going to claim that 1) fake news is a huge problem, 2) that fake news affects people's perceptions, and 3) that fake news affects the organizations targeted, then why do you:

1. not show concrete examples of fake news?

2. not show that people's beliefs are affected by that fake news?

3. and show that targeted organizations are affected by people's beliefs?

Sorry, but this paper isn't really rooted in fact. I'd go so far as to say that it's more or less fake news.
I don't think print() is what I'd call "compelling", but I for one am quite glad to see this go:

print "Text",

For those not familiar with Python 2's syntax: that trailing comma is significant. And it's pure syntax; it's not the creation of a tuple either…
I agree with your comment.

I'm coming at this exact problem from the opposite direction, making a Markdown-based static-publishing CMS intended for corporate use (aimed at official documentation, standard operating procedures, handbooks, etc) and weening people who are used to it away from Word is the most difficult part of the entire process.

On the other hand, Word falls short when it comes to a large number of related documents, with inconsistent styling, flakey 'hyperlinks', ridiculous attachments and lack of good version control (something Simul appears to be tackling).

There's plenty of room for innovation in this area and props to the OP for actually tackling the harder challenge head on. My fear in trying to sell this to businesses would be that letting their confidential docs leave their network is going to be a hurdle. A self-hosted version would definitely be onto a winner, and anything that's not Sharepoint is a good thing.
Go through the basics, and then install the flynn-cli and create a cluster.

You may additionally want to purchase a cheap domain ($0.99 special is enough, doesn't need to be fancy).

Docs:
https://flynn.io/docs/basics
https://flynn.io/docs/installation
AWS GovCloud (US) Heads East – New Region in the Works for 2018
If you work with international users full unicode support is very compelling.
Ok, we'll spot you an indefinite article above.
A security company commenting on these matters suggests undue interest in manipulating the infosec community. I would be interested to learn who paid/funded for this slanted whitepaper. The absence of commentary on left-wing disinfo actors (Media Matters, Correct the Record, Shareblue, etc.) and principally those that operate according to yesterday's mainstream media methods is most telling.
Intent is important, but mechanism is important too. If you're running a directory and doing nothing else that should not be illegal[1], even if your intent is causing the sun to explode.

[1] as far as contributory crimes go. A directory could directly violate something like privacy laws and it would be fine to take that down.
Intel commits $178M to build a ‘smart and green’ R&D facility in India
Isn't Python 3 installed by default on most distros, as well as Python 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M

that's the Hicks' bit. similar in tone and content.
That would not be wise since it would not be true. The law is written by dumb people and executed by autocratic bureaucrats with a career wish.
Ironically, it's not just pirates applying "clever hacks" - in fact, it's mostly anti-piracy outfits who do but when they do it we call it legal engineering. Both legal engineering and clever hacks eventually result in updated or new legislation.
On both occasions, law is effectively written by the willing and not so much by democratic entities and the rule of law in general.
I don't know how Ruby handled it, but Swift and C++ have the advantage of being a static typed language, and most breaking changes can be detected by the compilers. When you transition from Python 2 to 3, you never know which line will explode when you run it.
> The Paris attack was coordinated via sms.

Coordinated, yes, but I seriously doubt they texted their intentions and purpose.
Please provide evidence of "voter suppression" campaigns from the right versus what I consider healthy "positive voter identification" which is a legitimate need given the number of illegal immigrants allowed into the country during the Obama years. Or don't you really care about the integrity of the voting system as long as blue wins?
"11. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." from the Zen of Python. Somebody intentionally misread it as, "There should be only one way to do it." They obviously made a grave mistake. Same with many 2->3 changes.
Photoshop version 2 was given away for free on the adobe site a year or so ago. It works great and does most things fine.
It's also a contested one as it can open one up to issues. Some of these are detailed here, for example: https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/1001

It seems prudent to not support something like 0-RTT until the consequences of it are well understood and an informed decision can be made on if the increased speed is worth its trade-offs and how best to protect the data in transit from its potential issues.
agreed. The headline is misleading. If it said "algorithm designs patters on the background of the label" it probably wouldn't have gotten as many hits.
And if Python simply used utf-8 everywhere, those ASCII expecting code would continue to work fine when unicode inputs are provided.
I especially like the creativity in the "related questions".
U.S. Army commissions $2M study to research injection to treat PTSD
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You're dangling 100 dollars for problems that is solved could be million dollar solutions. Come on.
One can draw 30 objects in Trial mode. Pretty nice. I might have it on my computer for years and never have a use for it. But if I have it I might learn it and find a use for it.
Agreed. I would just like the OP but since you can't see the like count, it is valuable feedback to see how many people find the name confusing.

I also assumed it was python focused.
From the source code I was unable to deduce what KDF and Block mode is used with it. Does anybody know what does it use? crypto-js seems to support multiple different KDFs and Block modes.
Army Announces Study of One-Time Shot Used to Treat PTSD
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Yeah at the very least this should be a tuple rather than a list:

yield from (i, i)

It does use fewer lines, but if that's the point then this would work:

yield i; yield i
Plugins are definitely on the roadmap. Much of the complexity there is just exposing the API, which is already done for program mode.

Your idea of generating diagrams from web request data is great! I'll definitely keep that one in mind.

On a related note, it's also planned that you will be able to invoke Vexlio from the command line with a Lua script to programmatically generate diagrams from the shell. That is not yet implemented, however.
Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems
A lot of people don't know this, but before Steve Jobs's keynotes become famous not every software application was described as "beautiful."
Ethereum will eventually be about more money, power and influence than Hollywood thus impossible to take down.
can't say I'm thrilled about this sugar (override division operator in another context).
It does not seem to work for me on multiple machines. I just get an incomplete HTML file that ends abruptly after the "border-top" CSS line. There is no closing semicolon to the line, the file just ends in the middle of the style element.

My input doesn't seem to matter, but I used:

<html><body>Hello</body></html>

Password: abcdefg
Army to study if neck injection is key to defeating PTSD
That is definitely satire.
I'm not advocating for a screeching echo chamber circle jerk, but please take your FUD elsewhere. Bitcoin's a wild ride, has been for years and years.

And yes, the price is obviously a popping bubble. That's painfully clear.
Then they'd have to hire developers that dare to venture outside the garden of JavaScript.