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> "Ahhh device developer only provides example code for Labview and Matlab!", "Ahhh python isn't even supported for this device/application!").

What kind of devices or libraries do you use from LabVIEW but there isn't Python support or examples?

If its an NI product, some are starting to get Python support

DAQmx
https://github.com/ni/nidaqmx-python/blob/master/nidaqmx_exa...

XNET
https://github.com/ni/nixnet-python/blob/master/nixnet_examp...

DMM
https://github.com/ni/nimi-python/blob/master/src/nidmm/exam...

FPGA Interface
https://nifpga-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/basi...

EDIT: All with Python3 support.
What was the winning bid? :)
Just like how cigarettes were completely fine for a few generations, or added sugar took over fat in every food product? I mean, if everyone does something bad, does it make it fine or only invisible?
The top seven or so shipping ships produce more air pollution than all the worlds cars combined ...

So one could say yes to your question, depending on what you call "major".
Even if they did use '+', that should still definitely be allowed. I immediately get turned off when a service actively disallows a '+' because then I start to wonder why they don't want me to be able to filter their messages in my inbox.

It's the only sane and easy (but obviously not bullet-proof) way of catching spammers out.
One thing I've also seen recently is pirated content being hosted on .blogspot.com urls.
Your link says 5,500 kg for the Command module, which is the only part that re-entered.

And of that 5,500kg, maybe 300-400kg was actual payload (astronauts and samples).
On the one hand, a better beef for Russia would be the US military intervention on Soviet soil for the anti Bolshevik forces in 1917, on the other hand, that's a incredibly long time to hold a grudge/cold war, though Iran's theocracy looks like it's going to milk US interference in their country for a couple more generations, too.

The other side of this is Russian involvement in the US/Western Europe seems to follow many of the key points of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics where Putin has already though direct military action or political involvement, accomplished the goals of distancing the UK from Europe, made progress on retaking Ukraine, allied with Iran, gotten a windfall with Turkey being run by an authoritarian and distancing itself from the West, and diminished the US in the eyes of the world with the election of Trump.
This goes back to what I said about using pointers as implementation details. If you put unique_ptrs in to a _global_ then you're doing something stupid already. Just think about it. Why does something that can only be pointed to from one place need to visible globally in the first place?

My point is all Rust does is force you stop and think, and while C++ lets you do dumb shit, it's hardly fair to blame the language when almost-safe C++ is actually cleaner and easier to read and write than dumb C++.

Build your own handle types with well-defined ownership semantics, use explicit move() sparingly, pass objects by value, use references, utilize the stack and temporaries. Only put pointers inside the guts of classes and your data structure implementations. These techniques go quite far.

And Firefox as an appeal to authority is hardly compelling. As another, I've seen bug fixes in Chromium where the original code quality is so poor it was hard to believe it came out of Google. Of course, since then i've learned most C++ out of Google is total crap.
The fact that some values are forced by nature tells us very little about how to prioritize those which are not.

For example, what is the best color? Many people have strong color preferences, but the question doesn't admit of a single objective answer.
Works on my Android. You do have to press the "start demo" button at the bottom.
Both. All in one print!
> I have to focus on my shoulder muscles and get them to move my arm elliptically and drawing then simply happens.

Pro artist here. For what it's worth this is a pretty good habit to learn, as it's more likely to keep you safe from the carpal tunnel syndrome fairy if you do a lot of drawing. Good drawing form involves keeping your wrist static, and doing all the motion with your arm and/or fingers.

Learning this feels weird but is well worth it. The best way I found to pick it up is to work with a pencil; instead of holding it nearly perpendicular to the paper, hold it almost parallel to the paper, with your fingers on the far side/top and thumb on the near/bottom; you should get a big fat line from the side of the point touching the paper. This is a grip that all the grizzled old pros swore by when I started working in that industry, and it's helped a ton.
Appreciated all the same.

Poor policies that leave people in poverty traps (e.g. having a single mom find a job that pays barely above her welfare benefits shouldn't be stripping her of benefits, but a much more gradual sliding scale instead) should constantly be brought to light and fixed.

> It is bad for the kids to grow up without a father and it is bad for society to encourage it.

Absolutely, but to fix that we also have to look at why the fathers aren't sticking around, not only why single mothers aren't remarrying and/or getting out of poverty quicker.
My understanding was that by packing the parts they could do 144 parts in one print, and that one print took 36 hours. By using SLS they don't need support structures
That’s what Facebook self reported that it discovered, not necessarily the whole operation. It’s also direct evidence of non-hacking related attempts to influence the election.

Furthermore, considering there is a criminal investigation going on over whether or not the Trump campaigned colluded with Russia on such activities, the dollar amount is pretty meaningless.
>Did you actually read the article?

I did, but I also read the comment: "While this is an interesting statistic there is no additional analysis that it correlates to python's usage growth" -- which is what I responded to.

>There are many possible explanations of a more indirect correlation that could be skewing the numbers in unexpected ways but none are discussed in the article.

Like what though? Aside from some kind of bias on SO I can't think of any alternative explanation that actual growth.

Now, what that growth was based on, that can have many explanations, sure.
Can I ask you, why does FB login bother you/make you feel like they are violating basic privacy?

Somebody creates a disposable HN account to question somebody else's privacy concerns? No irony there.

Anyway, everything Facebook does violates basic privacy en route to productizing you. User data is their entire business model.
Major, yes, top 20? LOL.

Each passebger jet flight you take likely puts out more pollution than you will do in your car in years, as will a campfire. The hippies are a bit backward these days.
I know. I am a long-time fan of your Perl work. And I know how to get them dynamically via an API which is done for example in https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Trepan::Deparse

What I don't know how to do, if you could help is register in Perl that I want my routine called when Perl hits an error, so that I can do the deparse and spit out a more detailed location message. Thanks!
This was a pretty gutsy move on Python's part. The presence of a single emoji in an English string will blow up memory usage for the whole string by 4x. And because graphemes aren't 1:1 to code points, the O(1) indexing and length operations you bought with that trade-off will still confuse people who don't understand Unicode.
Not only that, but the media, especially the washingtonpost, strong-armed google, facebook and other social media into turning over the news to them recently.

Visit news.google.com and check out how many WaPo links there are.

Now use waybackmachine or another internet archive and go back 3, 4 or 5 years and check out how many WaPo links there are. None.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140319161446/https://news.goog...

It's even worse in the US and World sections ( which unfortunately isn't archived ).

Now a WaPo or NYTimes article is almost the top story 24/7.

Also, the hypocrisy isn't just with russia. The media's insane coverage of NK, China and everything else. It's just opened my eyes to the fact that our media is just propaganda like anything else and they are spinning a narrative.

They got away with it when the world was bigger and people weren't as connected, but now I have family and friends living in Europe, Korea and Japan and I can interface with them in real-time and immediately know that the media is just full of it.

Are they just getting the population for a war that the elite are planning? I don't get this non-stop fear and panic inducing nonsense. Every other month, it's a war with NK or China or Russia or Terrorists. It never stops.

And so what if FB sold ads to a russian company? How much ads did they sell to everyone else? How much did canadian companies spend? Chinese companies? Israelis? British? Or most importantly, american companies?
I implore everyone alarmed by recent Russian assaults on Western Democratic institutions to get their hands on an English translation of 'The Foundations of Geopolitics' by Aleksandr Dugin. Dugin is a Russian academic and the book is essentially a textbook on how Russia should seek to subvert and destabilize Europe, the US and other Russian rivals in order to forge a new empire for the explicit purpose of ethnic Russian domination of the world.

Dugin is not some fringe academic and the book is well known among the elite of the Russian state. According to the Wiki page:

>"The book has had a large influence within the Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites and was allegedly used as a textbook in the General Staff Academy of Russian military."

More on the book's approach towards destabilizing America:

>"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

We must unite in the face of division, both for the sake of unity and because the Russians are actively trying to divide us.

I haven't been able to find a copy of the English translation online. I was only able to get my hands on one because of a connection that works in DC. If anyone knows where to get one online please post a link.

Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics?wpr...
> We can also imagine an inner city black who has a choice between two value systems

Far too many black families do no have the luxury to choose a new value system. Extreme generational poverty is bad enough, but many are not allowed to even start on a path towards self improvement because 7.7% of adult black men are currently in prison. How, exactly, does "pro-family culture" improve social mobility for the 1-in-9 black children with a parent in prison.

> It may be that bourgeois values are hostage to other social, economic, and cultural factors.

Exactly - it wouldn't surprise me at all if the "benefits" attributed to marriage are actually a proxy for race.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/26/ameri...
An aside, I grew up in a small Midwest town. There was one black family in town. One of the sons was in the grade above me in school and people would joke that he wasn't really "black". This was because he had been raise in a small Midwest town and had small-town values and habits. He and his family were an accepted part of the community because they had the same values.

If a member of the Bloods had moved in town, they would very much have been rejected because they would have been acting with very different values. Further more, they probably would have starting acting in ways that were contrary to cultural norms.

Is it racist to say that I think small-town Midwest values are superior to inner-city black values?

Is it racist to say that I think that the lives of inner-city blacks would be improved if they adopted small-town Midwest values?

What if I switch the statement and say that I think small-town Midwest values could improve the lives of all poor people in the inner city. Is that "dog whistling"?
> ...the tiny amount of pollution they produce in comparison to greater polluters

A quick google search found this article with numbers pulled from a 2012 US Energy Information Administration (eia.gov) report: https://www.c2es.org/energy/source/oil

Transportation is the main consumer of petroleum, accounting for 70% of usage, of which 58% is light vehicles alone - so that's 40% of total - that's still far higher than "industrial" use of 25%. Tack on medium/heavy trucks which I assume includes F-150 trucks and giant off-road dump-trucks alike and it's more than half of total petroleum consumption.

So no - eliminating fossil-fuels from personal transport alone, while leaving industry alone, will still have a huge beneficial impact on greenhouse gas production.

But you forget the halo and knock-on effects: as the market adapts to service non-petrol consumers (e.g. fast EV chargers, battery-swap stations, etc) then industries will adapt to take advantage of them too - it wouldn't surprise me this meant the introduction of an EV John Deere tractor powered the same hot-swappable EV battery pack that might power a hypothetical Ford truck.
If we are to accept the 'Clinton Foundation spokesman' as the definitive source of truth, then in fairness we would have to accept the administration's claims on Russia with the same merits.

As to why, there seems to be more of a corrupt veil that obscures Saudi Arabia's true role in the world vs. Russia.
For example

https://news.vice.com/story/saudi-arabia-is-the-top-sponsor-...
the aggregate effect of a category 1 hurricane on credit score was a reduction of 16.2 percent. For a tract with an especially high rate of unpaid bills (arbitrarily set a 5 percent), the effect is strikingly larger in magnitude at -81.2 points. The median (3.09 percent) yields an average reduction in credit score of 46.4 points. Thus, half of tracts affected by category 1 hurricanes saw an average reduction in credit score of more than 46.4 points. This result would drop an average credit score of 700 to just over 650
so, uh, if I send you a pull request, do you CRISPR it into your genome?
Isn't this just proving Python is the language that people need the most help with?
I don't think anyone is trying to make the case that their side is morally superior. The issue at hand is how to prevent and punish what looks to be serious, efficacious interference, not how to perfectly avoid being biased or hypocritical. Like, pointing out "liberals would be arguing less vehemently about interference if it had produced an outcome they wanted" is pretty meaningless, don't you think? And "they did a bad thing, but we do it too, so guess we can't do/say anything about it" is nonsensical in a world where we aren't all competing for moralistic brownie points.

Not that humanity would be better off if we were less biased, of course. <30 percent of Republicans and >70 percent of Democrats believe Russia tried to influence our election. Disheartening.
Hi there,
We've been using Tendermint over the past 3 months for our company's project and the experience has been very smooth so far. As a developer, I believe that tendermint embodies a very powerful way to start coding your blockchain in a very simple manner. The ABCI protocol is quite straigh forward and depending wether you want to create your own private blockchain or a sophisticated public one, it is already quite robust at this point. The range of things that you can do is pretty wide, you can digitalize your assets or setup a proof of existence blockchain for your documents. Definitely the best framework out there, I believe.
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It's not fair to compare a 747 (which produces a lot of pollution) with a family car when the 747 carries 300+ people and travels far more miles.

If you look at pollution-per-passenger-mile then jet transport is now more efficient and less polluting than light cars: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2014/07/dri... and https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-clim...
VPP has amazing performance, but it's mostly limited to switching, routing, NAT, and VPN at this point; it doesn't have (finished) TCP and porting a Web server like Nginx is a ways off. It's also questionable who needs something like serving 500 Gbps of Web traffic from a single server.
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Decisions and choices have consequences. These are not made in a philosophical vacuum, they are made according to the values the individual holds - which are largely influenced by the culture from which the individual comes. Indeed the term "culture" arises from the Latin "cultus" which is a religion or value structure.

A culture that passes on default values of industriousness and a high regard for education will generate individuals that are more motivated and perhaps more resilient than one who does not. A culture that values consistent parenting of children will likely pass on more deliberate traits than a culture that does not value active parenting.

One should not be surprised to see different distributions of outcomes from different groups who hold different values. One of the advantages of living in a multicultural society where people live together peacefully and actually listen to one another is that we can learn which choices lead to the best outcomes and encourage our children to emulate those and to avoid choices that lead to dependency and addiction.

The Brookings Institute can hardly be considered a right wing think tank and yet they published a well reasoned piece on the behavioral aspects of poverty [1].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-behavioral-aspects-of...
python is beautiful. period.
> When I read this I thought that this is what the US press does every single day wither it's WaPo or Limbaugh

WaPo, and even Limbaugh, generally does not invent false flag news stories on both sides of divisive issues purely to drive division. WaPo may perhaps distort coverage to favor one side of divisive issues because of editorial biad or focus on existing divisive voices because conflict draws eyeballs, and Limbaugh may generate outright invented propaganda on a particular side of divisive issues to favor a preferred outcome, but neither of those behaviors are at issue, and even if it was the same behavior, neither actor is an outside interloper.
I think my post agrees with your first paragraph, but your post reads like a rebuke.

I disagree that conservatives are more likely to believe that C(slavery) was better than C(now), but I agree that conservatives are more likely to process an absolute morality position (with liberals it seems more complicated--most would say they support moral relativism, but they seem to view other moral systems as fundamentally racist and thus evil, which can't be far from moral absolutism). This is more an elaboration on your point than a correction, I think.
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The prices of all goods and services in the economy are determined by the intersection of supply and demand. Central banks exert enormous influence over the money supply, and therefore the price of borrowing money is influenced by central banks.

In the absence of central banks it's likely the world would eventually settle on a single commodity to be used as money, and it's unlikely to be a commodity that's inflated into oblivion like fiat currencies. Additionally it's unlikely that people will somehow start loaning out money for a rate of almost 0%, why would people loan money (and therefore risk losing it) for a return of 0%? They'd be better off just holding onto it.
How does that compare to writing tests and checking code coverage?

The docs says that it tries to explore all the branches of the AST, isn't that what coverage is doing?

I might be missing something.
>I'd just note that the US pretty openly interferes in Russian elections

Ah yes, the famous counter-point from the Eastern-block. I'd just politely ask, what Russian elections exactly?

Is anyone going to claim with a straight face Russia has open and fair democratic elections? I'm the first to laugh at the pointless US 3 letter agencies' misguided operations, but even they are not so naïve as to believe Putin would allow any actual legitimate political opponent, much less a foreign sponsored one. Any such individual, there friends and family would immediately be under investigation and then the individual placed on house arrest...and obviously that's if they were lucky.

Putin does this with journalists, businessmen and certainly political opposition. It's like when I used to tell people Lance Armstrong was doping in the middle of his 7 championships and people would ask how I knew that, all I did was point to every Tour de France winner since the 70's, and they all popped positive, then people believe out of nowhere a cancer survivor comes and wins 7 straight while clean...it's a nice story, just like Russian elections.

As dumb as it sounds just watch the Anthony Bourdain Russia episode where he has dinner with one such individual under house arrest and then visits Russian intellectuals in Siberia who live like so many sardines packed together.
Neither does the US really, in the sense that no matter who wins, you lose.
It's fun for a demo. But if I ever find it used on a web page I visit, I shall track the owner down and place them in isolation for life.
I think we agree, poverty traps need to be fixed.

I think there are a lot of reasons fathers aren't sticking around. I think a lot of those can be helped if there was less drug use and gang violence and more enfranchise on education, family planning, and marriage.

I think there are both structural (welfare, education, ect) and cultural changes that need to be made before all of those areas can be improved.
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Professors are supposed to present the conclusions they've come to from their studies and work with no "self-awareness" filtering to avoid hurting anybody's feelings. Doubly so in an article, which is not a scholarly paper, and is meant to represent a broader picture with broader strokes.

And being a professor is not about only presenting raw factoids. It's also about drawing conclusions from the data and pointing to the bigger picture the way you interpret them -- a bigger picture that no data are going to give you by themselves alone. Informing the public opinion is not about being a glorified statistician.

Of course nobody would have batted an eye if a processor had done exactly the same kind of "stating of facts" for opinions they like (and that goes for "righteous indignation" both sides, left and right).