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Most other OO languages can pass self implicitly

That's not an hack, it's a conscious decision[1]. It actually avoids having to implement hacks, in the case of decorators; for example, @classmethod and @staticmethod can be implemented in pure Python thanks to that. It also avoids all the crap that litters JavaScript code, like "var self = this" and bind(), since you can just use different names to those variables.

Implicit "this" works in Java and similar because the language is so restricted anyway that an explicit version would be useless.

and don't distinguish between initialization & construction.

Fair enough, but are they able to do what __new__ does?

This is the part I disagree with. So much python I read in apps, libraries, web frameworks, and pythonista tweets is needlessly clever.

But compared to which languages?

[1] http://neopythonic.blogspot.be/2008/10/why-explicit-self-has...
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Thanks for the rant!

Norway is usually held up as the singular exception of the Resources Curse of oil because of its long-term commitment to a Sovereign Fund. Interesting to see that this is true, but kind of exists within the boundaries of the welfare-state-in-an-aging-society system.
If the scam is very well executed, it will thrives for a bit longer even with laws against scams, as your link shows. However, once publicly exposed, the scammer's bad reputation will ensure no one will trust doing business with him again in his field, much more so than any anti-scamming laws that punished him with those 22 months in jail.
>It makes me wonder, what if the chat bot were able to browse for information, in addition to using table look-ups or supervised training? This would allow the bot to be flexible in unfamiliar situations, or ones where the company policy has changed.

That requires actual intelligence to be able to interpret what it browsers -- which we are nowhere near close.
> BTW, Foucault is actually readable. Who knew?!

He is, indeed, even though I've read him in Romanian translation and the translator seems to have done a very good job, because when I skimmed through the English translations of his works the flow of words (or whatever the English term is for that) seemed a lot more complicated and convoluted. It also helps that both Romanian and French are Romance languages, so that maybe helped.

What is indeed really tough to process is anything written by Deleuze and Guattari. I've read Deleuze's "Cinéma I: L'image-mouvement" and "Cinéma II: L'image-temps" in original French and at many points while reading it I was feeling like I was riding a boat on a river, I was just going with the words/phrases without really processing what they meant, if they were really meaning anything. Though "Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?" (written by Deleuze and Guattari) is a lot more readable.
Do you bill those hours also?
> The SEC hasn’t made a firm move in the U.S. yet — despite making announcements

What they've done is very gentle soft-touch stuff. They've been calling ICO promoters and strongly suggesting they get their legal ducks in a row.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/01/the-sec-told...

Protostarr - who hadn't consulted a lawyer at all - shut down and returned the money; BenjaCoin went "actually we're good" and has argued such to the SEC.

The SEC's approach is considerably softer-touch than most people expected - but despite the rantings of crypto paranoiacs, the government is not in fact there to harsh your mellow. Point 3 of the SEC’s mission statement is "facilitate capital formation" - they explicitly see their job as helping you get rich! But of course, point 2 is "maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets," and point 1 is "protect investors".
Ah I'd define affordable for headphones as < £50/$65. I see Beats X are still $150 :/

But I do see the advantage in paying more, then making use of the typically better warranty/guarantees to keep them going for years, rather than accepting breakage as I do now.

I'm still only prepared to pay that much if they really do solve the 'device switching problem' though, otherwise I'd rather stick with multiple pairs of budget bluetooth headphones (1 for gym, 1 for desktop machine) ...
ripgrep's gitignore support is more complete. ripgrep also supports seamless UTF-16 search, and can be made to search files of any number of other encodings as well.

But yes, the feature sets are very similar.
To be fair: there is no YouTube Red in Germany yet and the author is German. So he couldn't pay YouTube even if he wanted to.
The big question is why is this person trying to learn programming. Is it because they hope to spend the next 20-30 years of their career as a professional programmer or is it because they have some problems in their chosen field of study that they hope that knowing a bit of programming will help to solve.
I am a freelancer doing exactly this. Drop me a line if interested.
From going through this whole thread. Best bet Tomato rankings are as follows:

1. Homegrown (in good soil)
2. Italian
3. Albanian (heirloom)
4. Spanish

Smaller, darker and more aromatic are generally better (cherry a good bet), and they're all best in the summer. Did I forget anything?
It's just the way I chose to style them. Any of them could be written with a space, Mac OS X was for a while. The point is that in the US, as you mentioned, they would be pronounced as "Oh Ess", but in the UK, it wouldn't. Just to ram home the point, people will frequently write "OS" as a stand alone, and 99% of my work colleagues here (we are all hardware engineers and programmers, UK based) would say "OSS" not "Oh Ess". I promise you. "What OS do you run on your computer?" the "OS" would be "OSS" not "Oh Ess". I would literally only say "Oh Ess" is it was written with full stops ("periods" in US usage.) So, "O.S.", as an example.

The only exception I can think of is OS/2. But that is because it was heavily marketed on TV here in the 90's circa OS/2 Warp.
Interesting! Why the US government punishes trading drugs with my own money? I mean that is my lawfully earned money! Why? Why? Why?
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The clue is in the name government.
Personally I don't want to live in a society without a safety net, or the other niceties of a modern civil society.

I also don't really consider it a trade-off - regardless of a social safety net, we ought to be restricting borderline scams. A lot of people aren't very smart, or are only smart in very specific directions. And they don't know they're not that smart. They can be taken in, scammed and fleeced, and this creates a problem not just for them but for lots of others too. This is why we restrict things like pyramid schemes.
He didn't do that. He asked permission to do it. It takes a particularly shitty mindset to respond to that by sneaking around behind someone's back and complaining to his boss.
I apologize as I wasn't trying to be negative by suggesting your project might fail.

You should always use the best technology choice (for a lot of reasons). There was a recent HN post about over-engineering side projects, and the top comment was (paraphrased) "Over engineering is the point of a side project!".

I think there is a counter if you want your side project to be successful, and that's to leverage as much technology as you can to make your MVP. Licensing costs don't change whether or not it's the best technology to solve the problem. That's why I wouldn't worry about it. There might be another promising JVM language you could use without the legal hassle, but if you've already determined Java is the best choice, the development costs of using something else will outweigh the legal costs.
Heh. This guy here thinks people are rational actors. Even in groups.
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Outside of Ads the only people I see video chatting typically use Skype on a laptop, live video seems kind of bothersome when you can just record videos or take photos and share them for later viewing
A guy who has his own garage would have some assets... which would be a step up for most ICOs.
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> What will I do? Install their dependencies.

Good luck when you want to have multiple projects installed on a single server.
I partly agree with you. Banning ICOs will affect lots of potential disruptive and genuine initiatives. Albeit, it also safeguards the people's hard earned money, which majority of them are going to lose out on.
IMO, education and liable regulations for the benefit of both the parties is a much better option, but to speak in favour of a governing body, is a lot more tedious.
The GPLv2 has an implicit patent pledge:

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Of course, whether it is enforceable may be a different question (IANAL).
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Whether it is an art or not (which is debatable) the point is that it needs to be ergonomic and usable, possibly in an intuitive way.

The article measures what would otherwise be obvious, more visible whatevers are seen by users easier and faster.
* Solid linear algebra

* Probability theory

* Statistics (bayesian if possible)

* Optimization (this is less important but extremely useful)

If you know the mechanics of multivariate calculus you'll be fine learning the above. The course that personally have had most payoff was functional analysis. Purely theoretical course that will give you no practical skills and at first glance seems unrelated to ML but it (subtly) gave me a much deeper understanding of what ML is all about.
Or a company called Wells that produces time machines, like Tesla produces cars and batteries.
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> By far the most common way is chain of command, which means that you always flow communication through your manager. The problem with this approach is that, while it serves to enhance the power of the manager, it fails to serve the company.

Is this common at a lot of companies? I've only worked in one company and despite its many flaws I've never hesitated to contact the relevant person directly for anything, regardless of hierarchy and geography. I do make sure to keep my manager in the loop for anything that will take up a significant portion of my time. So he knows I'm not slacking off :P
Bill Gates was reputed to work that much as well, and I don't think anyone disputed it either.
Literally. Bitcoin politics is goldbug politics with the buzzword changed. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/the-conspiracist-gold-b...

The key book nailing down every dot of this is "The Politics of Bitcoin" by David Golumbia. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1517901804/
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Precisely. The fact something is yours is irrelevant. If it's your gun, i still want the state to make it illegal to shoot your kids with it.
I would love voluntary safety nets. I just don't like compulsory ones paid for at the taxpayers expense. It reduces choice, breeds corruption and unaccountability, and does not offer people the option to opt-out. But this is not really the forum to debate that, as it can get quite detailed.

As for those not capable of fending for themselves in a free market: maybe it would be a better idea to have a new class of citizen that, after passing a rationality test, is allowed to buy/invest-in whatever they want, while making the rest of the population in some sense wards of the state, with safety guards on their smartphones and PCs, and a state-appointed counseler greenlighting all of their financial transactions, or at least all of the entities they are allowed to transact with.

As for token sales, you can't categorise them all as borderline scams. It depends on the token sale.
Well, for one, this trend is widespread on desktop/mouse interfaces as well. Also, even in touch interfaces that's not so straightforward. You must take care not to introduce so much whitespace that the information density is too low to enable practical use. If you don't then your usability is wrecked.
Upvoted this submission because it contains three very important lessons for technologists:

1. Never, ever accept a cofounder arrangement where you deal with the code and someone else deals with all the money.

2. If someone starts trying to exploit you, get a lawyer. The last thing you want is for the law to be on your enemy's side.

3. If this is your hard lesson in the first two rules, and the bad guys offer you a substantial chunk of cash to walk away (and $300,000 is a substantial chunk of cash), take it. It's by far the least bad outcome for you.
> Trig is artificially hard in calculus. When you get to complex numbers it all gets easier. But they don't teach that until later.

And if Clifford algebras were introduced, it would get even easier. But they typically don't even teach that.
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Effectively many countries do allow this to some extent.

E.g. a significant portion of private care in the UK is provided in NHS hospitals by NHS staff either outside of their normal shifts arranged by private companies who pay the NHS for access to operating theatres and the like, and by NHS trusts themselves who are allowed to provide private services on top of their socialised care.

A market exception is Norway, which as one of very few countries have very strict limitations on what private services can be provided at all on the basis of an argument that as long as healthcare resources are limited (e.g. there is a practical cap on number of doctors - train too many and they don't get enough experience on real cases to gain the necessary skills), it is seen as immoral to allow people to queue jump.
As I see the main reason to use this switch is to be able to use Java Flight Recorder.

Any references that this switch is a paid 'feature'? And what other options are behind it?
My understanding is that within the scientific/academic community that taking time to write good code is considered to be a black mark as you are "wasting time" which could be better spent on your main project.

So writing bad code every day, means you are serious about your main line of work!

Can't say I agree with this sentiment, but it is slowly changing.
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I disagree. I have grown up in Poland, in 70-ties and 80-ties. We were agricultural but poor country with communist economy. The meat - ham and sausage were rationed, so were sugar. Some of largest strikes in 1976 broke out when government attempted to raise the regulated price of sugar. My mom's salary equalled to 8 USD per month at black market exchange rates.

But the quality of basic food stuff was amazing. The real black bread with honey (razowiec) at every shop, good white bread, fresh milk delivered to your door by 6am every morning, cheese, cottage cheese, butter, potatoes, tomatoes, apples. Most people were first generation city dwellers and they knew how to select good potatoes and tomatoes. And it was all dirt cheap.

Now tomatoes - imported or grown in Poland are tasteless and potatoes are just a commodity - you cannot find any tasty variations. Sausages are mostly disgusting and unhealthy - few years ago it had been discovered that multiple companies are using chemical salt (for de-icing roads in winter) in sausages. Ham is mostly water.

The comparable black bread, good cheese, real sausages etc. one can buy in fancy, hipster, organic shops but at prohibitive prices. Prices that lower class cannot afford.

The income levels in dollar term over last 30 years had grown expotenially in Poland, farms are heavily subsidies also through EU CAP.

So how can one explain that the economy cannot deliver relatively cheap and tasty basic food products (at much higher profit margins as the consumers are now more wealthy and more health conscious) - a task that ineffective, communist economy fulfilled with relative ease.
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You're intelligent and thus should be free. But the law can't create multiple classes of people with different sets of rights, so to protect the stupid, who can't handle that amount of freedom, your rights need to be limited as well.

^ I assume this is how supporters of such laws think about the issue.
Almost a decade ago, I invited Elon to speak at a conference I was helping to organise at Oxford. Would've been very on-topic for him, but he declined with a pithy one-line reply. Was a solid enough opportunity that it was probably worth wasting a minute of his time. Had I come to him with something more trivial, I suspect the response would have been pithier and less polite.

The impression I've gotten is that Elon likes to work with smart people, and that part of being smart is being able to make good calls about when to escalate something and to whom. Escalating an issue too high (or too low) is probably not a mistake one gets to make very often.

It would be impossible to impose a discipline like this on a bunch of worker-drones. But amongst reasonably intelligent people, with honest leadership at the top levels, it seems achievable.
I doubt all that time is 100% focus - that number probably includes business lunches, driving to PR gigs (during which he might read something work related), etc.

If you count all that stuff then the average person is probably working more than 8 hours too.
Obviously you didn't have to teach to a lot of young kids. Cause teaching them the basics as you say won't keep them interested long enough.
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The penalty is not that slight. As said in the article, Google TPUs struggle to feed themselves data, while their big convolution units simply ends up being a waste of die area
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Aren't qt and qt5 the same package nowadays ?
Maajid Nawaz would disagree with your assessment of Islam and Islamism.

For Christianity politics and religion used to be as inseparable as they are for Islam today. Not so long ago most heads of state were subject to the Vatican (whether ceremonially or literally) and granted their authority by divine privilege alone.

The separation of church and state in the Christian world is largely a relatively new phenomenon and ultimately dates back to the Peace of Westphalia (the 17th century is much closer to the present day than to the birth of Christianity) which established the counter-intuitive idea that it's okay for other nations to have other religious beliefs than your own.

For many Muslims today, Islam is Islamism, with varying degrees of urgency, but that doesn't mean you can't have Islam without Islamism or that you shouldn't make the distinction. Islam is just lagging behind Christianity when it comes to holy wars and acceptance of other faiths (even other sects of Islam itself). There are plenty of explanations for why that is the case and not few of them at least partially blame the West, but it's an evolution that's still happening in Islam and that needs to happen for Islam to peacefully coexist with other religions and the non-religious.
> Any of them could be written with a space

And then "Amiga OS" would be "Amiga O S". As a lifelong British UKian, I don't know many people who would say "OSS" instead of "Oh Ess" for standalone "OS".

> "What OS do you run on your computer?"

Literally do not know a single person who would say "What OSS" in that sentence - they'd all say "What Oh Ess".

But now we've devolved into Gladwell-style anecdating and neither of us want that on our conscience, I think.
That’s an interesting interpretation, because when I asked the ULD, they had quite a different interpretation of that.
Because when the whole system collapses due to gigantic bubbles explodind (caused by the lesser financially educated masses) the government will likely use your tax money to keeps thing afloat and you won't like that either. Your money only has value in an economically stable context.
I don't think voluntary safety nets work - it's precisely the people who wouldn't pay into one that are most in need of doing so.

Almost all citizens are badly informed and easily taken in by one thing or other. We look after each other in various ways. Civil safety nets and criminal law are part of those.

>> As for token sales, you can't categorise them all as borderline scams. It depends on the token sale.

Indeed, and many of them are without substance, riding the wave of interest in ICO tokens, and are borderline scams. I did not say all are, but enough that regulation in this space is more or less inevitable, and will be warmly welcomed by many.

There are a f*ckton of laws around IPOs and share trading, for good reasons.
> The ACA ("Obamacare") did a lot to make the US system look more like Germany and Switzerland.

It did not, because it still kept private insurance companies in control and still made it impossible to negotiate drug prices. It seems better than what came before it, but I'd argue it may have even done some damage, (in terms of the debate towards universal health care), since its failures are now ascribed to 'socialised healthcare' by its opponents and equated to a single payer system, whereas in reality it is in may ways the polar opposite.