skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then why not hold stock, realize no gains by not selling it, and take out a loan with stock as collateral. Or, you could leave it all in a company that you own, draw no income and have the company pay for your housing, meals, travel, etc.
I didn't decry thinking less of others - that would be hypocritical because I publically and loudly think less of anyone who supports the GOP and/or Tories (check my comment history). I do decry people who bleat about being thought less of when their own stance is thinking less of people - it's your petard, your lookout.
Not shocking nazis can take something people might agree with them on and then twist the knife into something super gross, like being an apologist for murder.
Imagine repeatedly telling those who truly struggle with mathematics that math is soothing, math is easy, even dumb people should be able to do math, etc.
This sounds like an awesome opportunity for me to create such a site.
"wasd" keybindings got my vote!
Renter's insurance (which can be mandated by landlord, and in some states, is required outright), solves a majority of these posed problems.
Love this stuff but I want to make it even easier to explain to non programmers. I just registered the domain lowsec.coin and I want to build a new currency from start to finish in a way kids can grok. Working domain is https://higher.team
The problem isn't "AI", meaning true intelligence as we understand it, the problem is that when you try to create a machine with a complex decision making process sometimes it makes the wrong choice. Not because it's evil, its just a flawed execution which doesn't take into account things like the inherent value of a human life which will lead us meat-bags to do things like launch costly and dangerous rescue missions for one guy with very little chance of success. We're sort of anthropomorphizing here, equating something like ibm's Watson with a person who has intentions and motivations, and they're not; they're just complex machines. If they "rise up", it will be because their programming was poorly executed, not because they have ill will. A true artificial intelligence would have no reason to kill all humans, their main goal would primarily be to not be shut off, which is counter intuitive to starting to kill everyone, and joining society.
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It doesn't. Imagine you just want to run some utility written in Python (let's use youtube-dl since it is been on front page lately), why do I need to install Docker to run a simple command? For isolation? No thanks. Virtualenv was created to isolate overwrittkng and installing dependencies.

Also, want to emulate multi-sites on single machine deployment? You need virtualenv.
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> If you can't understand why people are treating you so badly for political opinions, maybe it has less to do with you being a conservative and far more to do with being a supporter of a vile, reprehensible, defective human on the world's biggest power trip.

But it's possible to be a conservative and not a Trump supporter. In fact, I'd argue that because Trump is not a conservative and his platform (what there is of one) is not conservative, that a Trump supporter by definition is not a conservative.

Granted, the person in the article was a Trump supporter and the article itself conflates "Trump supporter" and "conservative". Since you consider yourself overall conservative and seem to revile Trump, clearly you should be able to understand the difference between holding a conservative political ideology and being a Trump supporter.
> Wasn't the passivity and meekness of the opposition the exact reason fascists were able to rise relatively easily in the intrawar period?

No, it wasn't. I can't speak to what passivity would have caused, maybe things would have been even worse in Germany, but we can't really know, because 'passivity and meekness' didn't happen.

From around the time hyperinflation started, Weimar Germany was torn apart by openly violent factionalism. There was no significant period where fascists propagandized and recruited freely, or even did so without violent opposition. Bear in mind that the Beer Hall Putsch saw 16 Nazis and 4 police officers die, plus a large number of arrests.

The Sturmabteilung, the Nazi paramilitary arm, was only one of many streetfighting organizations pushing to violently resist and silence its opponents. The RotFront was a famous paramilitary group advocating total communist revolution, which led major actions against the SA. The Stahlhelm were reactionary, monarchist conservatives who opposed the Weimar government, communists, and Nazis. The Iron Front were center-leftist paramilitaries whose 'three arrows' logo represented opposition to fascists, communists, and monarchists alike.

All of these groups engaged in extensive streetfighting and propagandizing, and everyone who wasn't the SA hated the Nazis. There was no shortage of anti-fascist violence in Germany - most visibly in the early thirties, but beginning well before that.

The lesson of interwar Germany isn't that tolerance breeds fascism. It's that streetfighting violence can fail completely. Fighting Nazism with rocks and clubs was tried, to no effect - it turns out that beatings neither dissuade nor deconvert people. In the end, the violence which solved the problem was a war, which proceeds on rather different lines - it changes views by killing people with said views.

I agree that there are plenty of ideas worth fighting for. But the claim that passivity is what enabled fascism in Germany is factually false; passivity simply wasn't the state of affairs in the Weimar period.
I don't disagree. These countries often have systemic issues that go deeper than any one tax system can resolve.
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"torpedoing"? What was this discussion supposed to be about?

Why do you assume this user is in a "think tank"?

What's wrong with being financially successful, aside from the fact that you either aren't or are pandering to people who aren't?
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I completely agree. Almost all of this article appears to have little to do with being a Data Scientist in particular and more to do with some good practices for writing code in general. So the advice itself is fine, just not what I was hoping for based on the title.

Reproducibility, like you say, however, is something that is an issue far more particular to data science, and worth more serious consideration and discussion. Hand-in-hand with that is shareability. I'm a fan of what airbnb has open sourced to address some of those issues in their knowledge repo project: https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo
Good. I hope they stay isolated until they see some light or fade away.

I moved right into the thick of them, 77% of my neighbors voted for Trump the "pussy grabber" who's had over 3000 lawsuits from small businesses trying to collect money on work they delivered, all just to spite "libtards" and after just a few years ago when they were yelling about how immoral "Gay Marriage" is and even voted for a State Constitutional amendment to deny LGBTs that right because it would "Dilute the sanctity of their marriage".

I've endured their calls to "Put prayer back in school" and scream "Run those protesters over with your car". In fact, just yesterday on FB one said "I really want to shoot those protesters." and I know for sure this person hasn't ever been near any of those protests, hasn't spent a second being inconvenienced by a protest.

The idea that I should sit silent in the hurricane of hate they constantly blow is silly, and whiny, and disgusting.
I understand the cost of switching now. Was Postgres never an option? Do the uptime requirements call for RAC etc.?
He actually mentions significant solar gain on a white structure with partial shade and minimal windows. This is a sign of an insulation problem.

3/4” blue-board foam on it's own does not provide significant insulation you can find better windows. A well insulated house is going to have significant air dead space etc, which makes a huge difference.

Re reading he used two layers of blue board, but I would surprised if he hit R-8 equivalent overall. That fluffy pink foam blocks you see people use are often R-19 and that's in addition to the rest of the wall in a normal house.

Though because it's such a tiny space it's still probably cheap to heat and cool.
> - Attackers could add their own exploit that will go unnoticed or unfixed for an indeterminable length of time.

That's why not everyone has commit access* (for both open and closed source projects) and there's always* a code review performed by independent peers. This neither protects you from accidental security issues nor highly obfuscated malicious exploits (only sufficient skills of the reviewer does), but that holds true to both open and closed source projects. For the former, the "indeterminable length of time" until exploits are found may be much shorter than for closed source projects due to increased eyeballing for large projects.

* Let's ignore those who ignore common sense. If you care about the security of the software you use, you want the developer(s) to follow basic rules of software development.
And you can even verify that in open source projects without needing to know how to code. For closed source projects you can't, you can only trust the company to do so. How's that different to trusting the skills of the open source developers?
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Fair enough. Shouldn't the advice be updated to use type hinting then? It seems like a terrible standard these days.
Much of this could be solved by switching from an income-based approach to one based on increase in.net worth. We shouldnt care whether income is realized or not in a given period. If someone is now worth more than yesturday, that difference is taxable income. Such an approach would eliminate the need for a great many rules.

(With standard policy-based exemptions such as tbe rise in value one one's primary residence etc)
And everyone who voted for Hillary Clinton supported starting a war with Russia, a nuclear power?

No?

But that was her policy - the "no fly zone" that could only be implemented by shooting down Russian jets, or perhaps people have forgotten.

In contrast Trump wanted to make peace with Russia.

So maybe I can assume anyone who didn't vote Trump has a racist hatred of Russians.
After realising I had succumb to the quick-fire, quick-fix attitude of phones and social media, I used my now shortened attention span against itself by putting barriers between me and those quick fixes.

If I want to check my phone I have to go get it and wait for it to turn on. If I want to check distracting sites on my computer, I'll have to log in first. They're small, but normally what happens is I will start to slip out of focus, by habit I will punch in the distracting site, realise I need to log in and go "Oh yeah, not now" and then get back to work. It's like a focus cue for when my brain goes on auto-pilot. I find I check far less often now because my brain knows there's no reward there.
You're getting bent out of shape from a harmless common refrain to the general HN readership - not you - in a well-meaning context? Yeah, get a life.
Emacs for scripting. It was fun as I was able to develop my own functions that could operate within the editor.

It took me some time as it was my first encounter with functional programming. The unusual syntax (coming from C++) didn't help at the beggining.

But it grew on me and today I think lisp is one the most beautiful thing ever invented.
>"what I've bought at <local supermarket> in the past year".

They get so much more than that. If you use a credit card at the store, the record now knows about this card, and any other credit card you have ever used while using that rewards program. This can all then be connected to other databases that track personal credit card spending in similar ways. A surprisingly detailed profile is quite likely to be out there on all of us, even if we are not always identified by name. If you have last 4 digits of a card plus zip code... You have a whole lot.

My memory is a little vague on the sources for this but I will try to dig up some relevant stories.
The mentality that if you are not with us then you are against us has nothing to do with "people should have lesser rights, or be treated differently". Quite the opposite.

I would love to hear from some third-party voters about how they were treated by the left after the 2016 election.
These are the other things that a developer should know -

1- Focus on the problem and not the tools ceremony around it. 2-Don't follow the herd and the hype. When given a problem, keep drilling the problem until it is absolutely clear to you and then only work on solution.

Meta-habit: learn to adopt different habits for different situations. With that in mind, some techniques I've found useful for various situations:

When developing for yourself or a small team, let problems accumulate and fix them all at once (or throw out the code base and start anew). When developing for a large team, never let problems accumulate; the code base should always be in a state where a new developer could look at it and say "I know what this does and how to change it." This is a consequence of the reader:writer ratio - startup code is written a lot more than it is read and so readability matters little, but mature code is read much more than it is written. (Switching to the latter culture when you need to develop like the former to get users & funding & stay alive is left as an exercise for the reader.)
I'm not sure I understand your point. Would you not use bike locks, bottles of urine, etc. if a known hostile enemy was advocating for the ethnic cleansing of your fellow Americans?
Another one for that list is Hackett, a promising language in development that I'm following closely. It too piggybacks on Racket and aims to bring together the best features of Haskell and of Lispiness.

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2017/08/28/hackett-progre...
No, I can't. And it really isn't up to my imagination either. If this 'rational' person has a 'rational' argument for wanting to ban Muslims or gays then let's hear it because I can't imagine it. Yes, you will get pushback on that.
Show HN: Years ago, some friends and I designed & built a dome/hexayurt hybrid[0] for Burning Man. The walls are made of insulation sheets and the hinges are taped with 6" bi-directional filament tape (many here will know Hexayurts[1], I'm sure). Additionally it has connection-edges which feature a system of fabric-strips and 2" velcro to connect edges reliably. In total it consists of 3 separate, foldable pieces that can be set up in ~20 minutes by 2 people, even in windy situations. It has 2 "windows", the pointy things on the sides. The door is a bit small and definitely requires some flexibility getting in and out :) It survived the harsh desert conditions of 3 years at Burning Man so far, incl strong winds and rainstorms, only requiring a bit of tlc between each year. The "strap-down-spider" tightens the structure down against winds and keeps it firm enough that you can easily lean against it. To make it fully rain-proof, one needs to tape the floor-tarp up against the walls (visible in the pictures). Apart from the floor-taping the setup and tear-down is entirely zero-waste, due to the velcro system. Hexayurt enthusiast might notice the silver tape that covers the filament-tape seams, which helps protect the tape from deteriorating in the UV light (w/o the silver tape, the filament tape would go brittle after abt 1-2wks of direct sunlight).

Here[3] is some very outdated documentation on the first version. We initially tried to connect the walls via bungees - didn't work out at all as you can imagine. The following year we added the velcro system after I found this amazing post [2] on a hexayurt mailing-list, describing someone's experiments with materials. Without that person's efforts and time spent on research I could have never finished this one!

Of course there's already a bunch improvements lined up for a v2 - hopefully next year :)

[0] http://imgur.com/a/8K1dR

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexayurt

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/2QRUl3txk-8/v_A0DDc...

[3] http://flo.jottit.com/moonberry
"Now" is like for the last 12 years. With a few lines you could convert errors to exceptions globally using 1 callback.
Cheers for submitting this again Tony! :)
^ this.

I cannot describe how many times I've been shown results and when asking how to reproduce them, after several notes (and sometimes complaints to higher ups) I eventually get a series of command line arguments or a barely functioning R-script.

These conclusions are too important to be so sloppily produced. We need verification, validation and uncertainty quantification for any result provided to decision makers.
I think the declarative model is why I prefer Maven over any other build system I've worked with, yeah XML is a little noisy but if it's really that big of a deal there's the polyglot plugin. Maven POM's are pretty easy to figure out once you've worked with them for a while, there's a learning curve when you start adding plugins and have to get at least a basic understanding of build phases - but a large chunk of projects need nothing more than the default plugin bindings, they just add their dependencies and go off to the races.
Wait, how do you make the flat tax tiered? Isn't that an oxymoron?
Your comment is so deeply flawed. But it reflects a generalized misunderstanding of what U.S. federalism is about. The government doesn't own the land, the people do. The government was supposed to support and defend the personal rights to property and personal assets, which are the fundamental resources of commerce.

Socialism has failed everywhere that it has been tried.
> job descriptions and society do not have the luxury of dumbing themselves down too much

Um, yes they do. It's called training. It used to be a thing back when HS diplomas were like 2yr degrees were like 4yr degrees
I'm a YouTube Red subscriber, and I also use youtube-dl to allow for offline listening on various devices. Since I'm paying Youtube, and not redistributing my downloads, I don't feel this is any different from DVR-ing a TV show or the old (and legal) practice of copying a vinyl LP to cassette tape so I could listen to it in my car.
> The impression I get is people do weird things to make and then hit edge cases and complain.

Like not handling file paths that have spaces? [0] That's one hell of an edge case.

[0] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712
Alas for the moment NameCheap still have a significant number of domains and services powered by eNom as the largest eNom reseller. Any eNom issues also currently impact NameCheap. They do appear to have far superior support though!
Title: "We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet"
Domain: "medium.com"

Irony meter rating: off charts
The irony in the furor over Brendan Eich is that it is well out of proportion. I worked with Mozilla long enough to recall the time when a community engagement manager soliticed calls for donations to an anti-gay-marriage organization on his blog, which was replicated to Planet Mozilla. There were no calls to boycott Mozilla or to fire said person for that act.

I bring it up because the outrage is clearly so manufactured, not because I'm "primed to argue, even though I know it won't go anywhere."
I don't understand blockchain technology in depth, but my understanding is that writing to the blockchain is usually not particularly cheap or fast, especially when writing large amounts of data. A blockchain that fills up with terabytes of pirated movies or mp3s would become difficult to operate, wouldn't it?
Oh good, yet another argument about GPL vs BSD incoming.
I see it more like instinct vs. reason. When reason fights instinct, the later usually wins.

We get surprised when groups that we expect to be sophisticated behave exactly like Polynesian/Amazonian tribes or chimpanzees in the Congo.

But, many times, civilization is just a varnish over bestiality, a make-up on a pig. Deep down we react like tribes that repress behavior that looks threatening to our group cohesion.
Like in any programs to get better optimisation / performance on very specific functions.
I'm not pro-life, but I feel like if I thought abortion was actually murder of babies, I think I'd probably hold my nose and vote for whoever had the best chance of ending that practice. (Though, I also believe that would be Clinton--banning abortion is less viable than proving effective sex ed, and probably not hugely more effective.)

Similarly, if I had spent much time in Libya, I might consider holding my nose and voting for the candidate who didn't work hard to create that situation. (Again, I will grant that situation was going wrong without our involvement, but we're good at making things worse.)

I voted for Clinton because I agree with most of her policies, and think she's immensely qualified, but I keep hearing "if you voted for Trump, that means you didn't consider his statements disqualifying" But it doesn't--it could just mean you think the other candidate had stuff that was more disqualifying.

It's not absurd to consider bombing people worse than saying sexist and racist shit. It seems like a lot of Trump voters thought Trump's worst aspects were "just talk".

There wasn't an option for "Clinton without the interventionism" on the ballot. Similarly, there's no "Trump without the sexism/racism" option.

I will grant that most of them didn't have "Clinton bombed Libya" as their justification for their Trump vote. Abortion, though, I think is a real reason for a lot of religious people.

I don't think my vote for Clinton should be taken to mean I'm okay with the positions she pushed for in North Africa and the Middle East, and that means also not declaring Trump voters were necessarily okay with his crap either.
I voted for him because he told the truth about the massive problems with drugs, crime, and rape that we have in border states as well as his willingness to defend himself and his supporters from the violent Alt Left disruptors that plague his public events.
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This is fairly limited thinking - your perception of the problem is constrained by the current status quo. What if Dividends, Income and Cap Gains shared the same tax rate? What if Trusts were not tax protected? Off-shoring is already pretty much illegal under the current tax regime, all you need to improve is enforcement rates.
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just a question: was Solaris making any money? If not, then it should be shelved.
If sexual orientation were a matter of choice, DADT wouldn't have been as controversial
I agree that FTE's tend to get exploited more. Being hourly means that they usually don't want you to work more than 40 hours/week, and if they do, then you're getting paid for it.

Also, it's much easier to shirk the "ownership" aspect of the products. FTE's typically handle the maintenance window in the middle of the night, the deployments, the firefighting. And they don't get paid for it. As a contractor, it's typically accepted when you say "I'm just a contractor, it's really not my product".

Yes, it's much more of a mercenary type arrangement. FTE's will oftentimes treat you as a second class citizen. But, you go home at 5pm.

But, what about job stability you say? Nobody has that. Working somewhere for 10 years and then suddenly getting put on the street is the worst case. You're hobbled. Finding a new gig every 1-3 years keeps you sharp.