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> This appears to no longer be the case in Python 3:

It was fixed in Python 3.6 specifically, the error still occurs under 3.5.
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> Read the wikipedia page, FFS.

Indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Agent_Orange_on_the...

Relevant quote:

"Agent Orange is a chemical weapon most notably used by the US armed forces during the Vietnam War, classified as defoliant. "
Perhaps because it was spurious traffic "leaking" over the bus that wasn't actually intended to be there, and would be removed if anyone in the flight control systems department were told they were exposing it. And yet, that leaking data was the only way to build a cute view of travel-time or somesuch to differentiate their software for their bid, so they had to use it, and had to not mention it or request assistance with it.

In software terms, it's a bit like Windows software that relies on OS-private APIs or registry keys. Sure, the data is there to use, but it wasn't intended to be used by anything other than the OS itself, and if they could (without impacting performance), they would have made it inaccessible to userland.

But, in both of these scenarios, the platform owner always seems to be happy to see the program using "their API" once the app is released and gains traction and draws attention to the platform. That doesn't mean they do anything about the API; if it's private, it stays private; if it's deprecated, it stays deprecated. But they don't tell the company to stop once the app is out, and may even feature them in advertisements about their amazing platform.
Here is a Chrome extension that claims to be able to prevent it: https://joshbalfour.github.io/disable-scroll-jacking/
Fair enough, just checking. I don't think the guy's very widely known, but from what I saw the other day people who have opinions about him seem to have very strong ones.
> I guess there's some piece I am missing, though, because while interesting, I am also underwhelmed by it.

I'm a relatively new member of SDF, and I can tell you my experience and rationale.

From the "underwhelming" perspective, SDF and anything like it is what you make of it. If you aren't the sort to see a system like this and question the possibilities, then really nothing other than the relatively sparse (but very colorful) community will hold your interest.

The actual kinetic experience is humorously nostalgic. I need a .kshrc file and a .profile. I need to remember how to work with terminals that still assume in some universe ^H is useful. I need to be careful about structuring and writing data because SDF sometimes has pretty bad I/O issues.

For me, not only is it interesting to see this sort of social media platform (loosely bound by legacy services and shared hardware, not a more manufactured theme park like this website), but it's a challenge. I'd like to host some writing content and I'd like to do that from the ground up in a way that is possible from SDF.

Maybe that's just an exercise in nostalgia (certainly it reminds me of the first blog software I wrote in 2001, a series of perl scripts using the file system as a database, to share stories with my university classmates). Maybe it's a technical challenge worth walking through (we're so used to... you know... unlimited space and hardware dynamically scaled and readily available to first world budgets). Making something work on SDF demands consideration to the system. If it breaks anything you'll be thrown off. That used to be the norm for shared computing when I was a kid (and I was nowhere near the programmer I am now; I got thrown off a few systems for tight loops without backoff), and I'd like to see how capable I am now.

So maybe you'll also like watchbuilding. It's a nice change of pace from tankbuilding. And one of the locals is talking to me about how they're a hobbyist radio operator working on mesh networks via radio and the entire subject is fascinating. So there is that.
Well, in case you are interested in "Enterprise Software", the Wikipedia
page you provided link to starts with all the things that are usually bought
off the shelf in enterprises, including the ones that operate in IT, contrary
to what you wanted to say.
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I believe that was the point that your parent was trying to make; clarify that "Humans are social creatures" doesn't mean that all of us love interacting with people, but that the quote implies that we can come together to do things in a way that others cannot.
Actually, the government (NNSA, https://nnsa.energy.gov/) trains for that on a pretty regular basis.

They scan cities for known sources of radiation (hospitals, certain types of industries, natural sources) and map it all out. They'll also go back and conduct drills using those maps to see if they can locate planted radiation sources.

A real-life thriller...
I would say their search engine definitely has improved to the point you no longer need "google-fu" and can just type in a question as if you were asking an all knowing Oracle. So yes, I think they now have a deep understanding of how humans think and articulate...
Did you know hotels take up space that could be used for housing as well? It's crazy, but I looked it up and it's true. Using urban space for hotels, stores, and other amenities absolutely reduces the number of housing units thus potentially driving up prices for renters.

In fact, this is a major factor in urban planning. Assuming that this is unique to AirBNB is poorly thought out.
I am dead serious. If you don't understand this:

>The only technical requirement for you to follow the functional paradigm is immutability.

Then you don't understand functional programming. I can't take you seriously if you claim otherwise.

Obviously, you highly disagree with me. Feel free to elaborate rather than waste my time with obviously rhetorical questions.
Exactly. And to further your point (in case it's not clear) tenants renting out on airbnb allows landlords to increase rent at the inconvenience of the tenant. So if a landlord allows this and the tenant gets extra income part of that extra income is passed on to the landlord as extra rent or the tenant finds a rent increase acceptable if they are able to rent out their unit.
Of course, a hotel also has some amenities that an AirBNB rental does not, like cleaning up after you. But the price difference is often large enough that I'm willing to do my own laundry.
> As an added bonus, instead of all that money going to a large corporation, it will go to an individual.

Give it a couple of years and professional landlords using AirBNB will look no different to a corporation.
Whenever people say they don't need backups because they are 'cloud based' I always wonder what they'll do when their precious cloud provider messes up. The chances of this happening to Amazon, Google or Microsoft are small but they're not 0, if it can happen to Cisco it likely could happen anywhere.
Looking only from a customer's perspective and ignoring everything else is the only myopic statement I've seen in this discussion so far.
I don't use either hotels or AirBnB very often, but I have young kids, so when we do travel whole house is significantly preferable to a hotel. Kitchen facilities, washing machine, fridge, freezer are all things that are indispensable with young children and not that common in hotels. Hence AirBnB is usually what we end up with, even if it's more expensive.

Also, 2 bedrooms. 1 single shared family room for 4 means we have to go to bed with the kids at 7pm. Yeah some hotels have those interconnected room things, but until you see it for yourself it's hard to know things like is the door handle in the second room high enough that the kids can't reach it and get out into the hall in the middle of the night.
Extended stay hotels will offer rooms with a kitchens, and can accommodate a family of 5, maybe just not for a price you like.

Just be honest and say you like it cause its cheaper and you think your vacation is more important than the needs of residents.
Related: Yonatan Zunger's response to this. [1]

Yonatan has worked at Google for a long time, and was an incredibly respected through it.

[1] https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
Gmail in my opinion was powerful because it was used search vs. painstakingly moving messages into folders. It also had auto-threading so you would not have the clutter of re:re:re:re: ad nauseum... And most of all it was very fast.
Put me in the camp that's very anti-AirBnB as a resident who doesn't want where I lived turned into a hotel. I live in NYC. It's a problem.

The real problem here is not Airbnb, which is a symptom; it's zoning, which forbids market-clearing prices and a sufficient number of units to satisfy demand for living in and visiting the city.

For more on this, see e.g. Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High: https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B... .

When we have sane zoning, we'll have sane prices. Today there was an NYT opinion piece that comes at the issue from a racial angle: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/opinion/sunday/zoning-law... but I don't think we even need the racial angle; we can come at it from a position of fundamental justice and human flourishing.
Link to HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939636
> The level of myopia here is staggering.

Yes, it really is. /s

And what will you do to stop that individual from spending their 'saved' money on big corporations?
The big problem here is really market distortions caused by zoning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942019
I really don't know where this class of triggered ppl get their energy though... to do it day in day out. They seem to be waiting for the next trigger like addicts or something.
Even worse sometimes. But don't tell these privileged little cunts who haven't had anything bad happen to them ever.
Sounds intriguing! If you have any examples of projects where you've tried that out and how/why you felt that worked, it'd be interesting to read about.
One's cloud is someone else's hardware sitting on a basement.
Seems like the culture prunes back some languages and starts up new ones.

The only language that I think will escape this is JS due to the browser - unless we make a new sandbox app container designed to run scripts (a la java plugin).
A fair amount of where tcl went wrong was the initial string type that couldn't handle binary data. They did fix it, but the inability was a showstopper for early adopters.

For strings, if a null was in the data, it truncated at that point, and there wasn't an alternative type that could handle it.
I think most people in my situation are with me when we say shut it down, entirely, in any city with a low tenancy vacancy rate. It's hurting society at large to the benefit of a precious few.

You know, I've heard about some crazy cutting-edge technologies like steel frames and elevators that can allow us to raise the vacancy rate by increasing the total number of usable units in a given metro area.
Dang loves to cultivate the privileged cunt mentality here if you haven't noticed
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Just when EC2 was leading the charge of on-demand cloud services, coincidentally.
Maybe you missed it, but there's been a distinct trend in America lately to suggest that violence can be OK in political contexts. I would not assume that the author was apeaking figuratively, because many authors who would likely agree with the author would not be.
It's a shame that people (especially propertarians and "classical liberals") seem to be more concerned about property rights than fostering individualism.
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We have to signal our virtue somehow.
Remember the AWS S3 outage a few months back? There is a lesson to learn from that.
You can think what you want. The people who downvoted me for simply asking why the parent was downvoted can think what they want. The mods can think what they want. It doesn't justify anyone for downvoting the parent's comment which was his view or mine for calling out the unjustified downvoting. This is where the mods should step in, find out who was downvoting both the parent and me; and remove their ability to downvote for a time.
There are companies that use PoW functions as a deterrent against scrapers. Similar but not mining Bitcoin exactly.
It depends on the discussion.

If you would like to civilly promote your notion that black people aren't really human and are only fit to be slaves, then no, we can't do that. If you bring it up I will tell you are an asshole, and if you persist, I will shun you and tell everybody else to shun you.

You are free to say terrible things. I am free to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of association in response. Your freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.

If you are scared of that, then maybe take some time to think about the opinions you're so excited to share. Maybe they're harmful to others.
Uncapped rent will lead to people getting priced out of their homes by the first person willing to outbid them. Nothing unforeseen about that.
Thank you for the very interesting correction! It looks like I was the one who was wrong on the facts... :-)

Just to clarify one point I made poorly, when I said color CRTs don't have a native resolution, what I meant was that there was never an attempt to precisely match up display pixels 1:1 with the phosphor dot grid or stripes.

Of course, if you tried to drive a CRT with a resolution that exceeded the dot or stripe pitch, you wouldn't be happy with the results, so that did set a practical upper limit on the resolution you could use, even if the electronics otherwise could have supported a higher resolution.
My own personal anecdote:

I moved to San Jose last year and could not find an affordable place to live long term. I got incredibly lucky finding a place on craigslist for $600/mo but discovered one month later that it was because the landlord was kicking everyone out in another 2 months so he could give the house to his mother.

There was so much competition for places to live that I couldn't find another apartment for under $1000.

I ended up moving to an Airbnb that was $25/d. At any time I was living with 6-12 other people, host included. 14 beds total -- 4 bedrooms with 1 or 2 bunkbeds in each room and the host's (and gf's) room with a double bed, which he would occasionally share with a guest. I would have never expected that to be a good experience and would not have signed up for long-term housing like that, but I actually loved it and stayed for a year.

Point is, Airbnb lets you cram more people into a small living space than someone renting might be willing to do, so in big cities you can make the argument that though Airbnb reduces supply of housing, it also reduces demand for housing so there might be a total sum of more housing available
> there's no distinction between args/kwargs

At the python level, all named args[0] are kwargs. The reverse is not true in Python 3, although it is in Python 2. At the C level, arguments can be exclusively one or the other even in Python 2.

> at least when it comes to a function's __defaults__ attr. An arg can be turned into a kwarg by messing with the __defaults__ attr.

No, an arg can be turned optional by manipulating __defaults__, that is a different (though not quite orthogonal) axis, especially in Python 3 (which supports python-level required keyword arguments).

> - since True/False are aliased to 1/0, you cannot have both 1 and True as dictionary keys.

They are not aliased (`True is 1` will return False) but they are equal and hash identically.

[0] *args notwithstanding
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The discussion here reminds me of this:

"We have an ingrained anti-profit bias that blinds us to the social benefits of free markets"

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/08/04/we-have-an-ingrained-an...
He may be a good psychologist, but he frequently speaks on political issues in which he appears to be consistently misinformed, especially his conception on postmodernism, Marxism and the nature of proof[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/40520012623631155...
You might want to read up on Poe's law[0] before spending too much more time constructing clever ironic posts for threads like this.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Granted. Still, I think there is a fundamental difference: In theoretical physics, a good theory of how things work (or how they definitely don't work) is enough as the result of your work, you don't need a working product in the end. In practical engineering, you do!

Let me also add that I am serious about theoretical engineering, actually that's one of my favourite occupations, together with practical engineering.
Explosives, gunshots, etc. are outside the normal sensory experience of most people and they are not accurately perceived. Even stimuli such as fire alarms which are intended to produce action frequently leave people standing slack-jawed wondering what to do.

For instance, when under attack from long-range gunfire, it frequently takes multiple shots, possibly even seeing multiple people get hit, before people understand what is going on. In eyewitness accounts people often disagree about which direction the shots came from, how many shots there were, etc. In fact, sometimes people get shot and don't know that they were shot until later.

A person getting injured by a small bomb in a theatre might understand they were injured, and not know how. Maybe they got shot, maybe they got stabbed, ... Everybody was looking at the screen so it is not clear. That person might go out to get help and people will focus on treating the injuries rather than understanding the situation.

It's actually pretty hard to make homemade bombs that reliably kill. It took the Unabomber more than a decade to figure it out, and that is why they have terrorist training camps. It is not very dangerous to make small pyrotechnics, simply because they don't contain much energy. If you were screwing around with those cough lozenge detonators and were making bombs big enough to be really hazardous, you would probably blow yourself up before you blew up anybody else.
The second order effects to whats happens to those people, and to the neighborhoods where they lived is the unforeseen part.
Thankfully, they didn't lose/delete existing data during that outage.
>Put me in the camp that's very anti-AirBnB as a resident who doesn't want where I lived turned into a hotel. I live in NYC.

You're simply demonstrating NIMBYism. You get to stay in one of the most geographically desirable locations in the world and in order to pay lower rent you want to prevent others who live in much less geographically desirable places from renting units in your locale so that they can get to enjoy something you get to enjoy year round, for a few days of the year.
The fact that this happens, no.

But the fact that they are kept that way instead of reverting to regular residential renting means that they are indeed more lucrative.
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Imagine for a second that, controlling for all environmental factors, the average IQ of men was shown to be 3 points lower than women. (Totally hypothetical.) Additionally, women in this world outperform men at chess by a noticeable margin.

There is a valid argument in this case to be made about how the reason women are better than men at chess is partly biological, and that chess diversity programs should be cognizant of this. How would you propose this be brought up in today's climate without offending people?

I don't know if you haven't read the manifesto, or are happy making simplifications for the sake of making conclusive moral statements, but it is wildly dishonest to claim the manifesto argued that "women are genetically inferior." It argued that on average, looking at various traits and preferences, men and women are better at and care about different things, some of which make them better suited -- again, on average-- to some professions than others.

You can disagree and that can be a fun internet argument, but judging by the reaction to this manifesto, the sheer outrage while misrepresenting the manifesto's content, sort of demonstrates the author's meta-point about ideological homogeneity.
Well no big difference today. Its just moved online. If you want to find gullible people you cant really do that in secret I would think. Vids, tweets and gifs instead of pamphlets.
> a person should be able to do as they wish with what they own.

Even if it affects others? I should be able to turn my apartment on the floor above yours into a nightclub, because it's my property?

If I choose to Jailbreak my iPhone so I can tweak it the way I see fit, that's a decision that affects no one else.
And an international regulation avoidance service.
Thanks for writing this out. It effectively communicates many of the underlying reasons for the state of technology in regards to race and how it affects accessibility.
Right, but AirBnB ignores the zoning laws that were established as part of the urban planning of cities.

I think there are only a few cities, like NYC, where it creates a significant problem. Where it is a problem, laws and regulations should be enacted in response and companies like AirBnB should be cooperative.
You know what really sucks about this, beyond the obvious?

He's right that ideological diversity is low at companies like this (I say as an employee of another large tech company). Try saying that you're opposed to gun control at a major tech company and you're likely to similarly have people shout you down or deride you.

He chose such a poor central thesis (innate biological differences) that it completely overshadows what's actually a poignant argument: That we're effectively unable to have rational conversations about a wide swath of topics relating to modern politics.
Does this only search the English translation? I tried the famous 'yada yada hi dharmasya' but it was showing some random results.
NIMBYism isn't inherently bad.
> The manifesto argues that women are genetically inferior and that most women developers shouldn't have their job.

Can you please substantiate? Link for the manifesto: https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...
Extended stay hotels require an extended stay, don't they? It's been 45 years since I stayed in a single place for 30 days while on vacation.

And please let's keep this civil.
The gate agent can do that. Flight attendants can't. Same for the ticket counter.
dumb question from someone who's written a ton of scrapers and scraping based "products" for fun:

at what point does it make more sense for companies to just start offering open APIs or data exports? Obviously it would never make sense for a company who's value IS their data, but for retail platforms, auction sites, forum platforms, etc... that have a scraper problem, it seems like just providing their useful data through a more controlled, and optimized, avenue could be worth it.

The answer is probably "never", it's just something that comes to mind sometimes.
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