skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You touch on a real concern and I'm not going to make any moves until I can put it to bed. Law would be a huge investment and I need confidence I could be happy in a variety of legal careers.

That being said, my motive has always been the work rather than the domain. Of course, law is very prestigious and sounds very impressive, but what really draws me is the chance to research, think and write in a way I haven't since university.

I originally wanted to be an academic, but the conditions and the realities of the work are quite depressing. Programming pays well, and I think I'm good at it, but my real skills are more verbal. I actually quite like the idea of combing through complex documents and trying to judge what's truly salient. For whatever reason it just seems my brain is wired to enjoy that kind of work. It's the same kick I got from literary criticism, poring over texts and slowly building an argument from a mass of details.

It's a hunch, anyway. Would you suggest any ways to validate it?
Call me selfish, but I personally don't worry about the future of humanity in thousands of years.

Well, how many years ahead are you willing to worry? 10? 100? It sounds like you might be saying that you don't put much weight on the future of humanity on any timescale, and worry only about things that affect you personally. If so, then yes, I'd say that is the definition of selfish.

I'm sure most people don't either.

It might look this way, but what makes you sure that this is true of "most people", rather than just some people in some societies?

We're all selfish bastards.

I don't think this is true.
Some metrics that assume long happy healthy secure lives are preferable.

* Life expectancy: this assumes longer is better

* Rate of suicide: happy secure people generally don't commit suicide

* Rate of preventable deceases: says something about health

* Rate of violent crime: secure people don't have to deal with crime
The rate the central bank sets is effectively a floor below which banks will not lend. The effective Federal Funds Rate in the U.S. is around 1.16% The one year Treasury rate is around 1.24%. People and banks are lending money to the government for one year for essentially .08%, and this is not entirely risk free. Rates went negative after the financial crisis, and German bond rates are below Treasuries. If banks could find funding at 0.1% they would make money lending at 0.2% (depending on and adjusting for risk). So central bank rates are probably keeping interest rates higher than they would be. All of this is controversial and no one knows for certain how central banks, interest rates, and inflation interact, it's a complex dynamic system and popular descriptions are simplifications that are probably wrong.
because there are still information sources besides google. And so far google did not cheat on me.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I wasn't talking specifically about the data in the article but about Python's growth in general. I don't believe the popularity of a tag in a forum is a reliable indicator of the growth of a language, it may simply be this forum becoming more popular among Python users.

Python's rising popularity among the scientific computing community is simply not enough to support the idea of a dramatic increase in Python adoption. As a long-time user of the language I share your appreciation Python usage in the industry has not dramatically increased in the past few years.

On the other hand, there's plenty of evidence suggesting Python is becoming increasingly popular outside high income countries.
>'“But, over all, would you say the temperature of the water was the key?” I asked.
“The water temperature’s a factor. The water chemistry would also have contributed.”
“So a combination of the temperature and the salinity?”
“But also the calcium content. That’s absolutely important.”
I added that to my list of drivers: “Temperature, salinity, calcium . . .”'

Of course... what is more important to determining the volume of a box? Is the height a key variable? Sure, but you also need to know the width. Not only that but also the height.

Surely irrelevant things like the color of the box, or material it is made of, will also have non-zero correlations with the volume. This is one reason why the NHST strategy of finding isolated "effects" will never lead to an "equation for cancer", but is very good at generating large numbers of red herrings.

You need a model of the process of carcinogenesis, and then to collect data allowing you to estimate (at least get some decent upper/lower bounds on) the parameters of the model (mutation rates, division rates, number of cells of each type, % aberrant cells that get cleared by the immune system, % that commit apoptosis, etc).

Armitage and Doll started this way back in the 1950s and had quite an effect on the current cancer paradigm (slow accumulation of genetic errors in a single cell lineage -> cancer), but since then it has been only a tiny minority of cancer researchers working on the actual problem.
You would always prefer to not have Turing completeness in your language, all other things being equal. Turing completeness isn't ever necessary to write the logic you want to write.

But all other things are not equal. There is a cost to giving up Turing completeness. The language must now ensure additional properties about the code, mostly related to termination and productivity. The two strategies for this are reducing functionality offered by the language until you can prove all programs are good and introducing tools into the language to write compiler-verified proofs about your code.

Dhall is an example of the former approach. It removes enough pieces that it can only express computations that terminate.

Language like Idris, Agda, and Coq are examples of the latter. They provide rich systems that allow you to express proofs of various properties as needed to avoid Turing completeness.

Both categories of language are currently difficult to use for general purposes software. Turing completeness is a sacrifice made to ease writing software at the cost of making certain bugs possible.

At the moment, the best times to use a non-Turing complete language are when you have a problem domain where you can be satisfied with a reduced power language, or when you want to go all the way in the opposite direction and write machine-checked proofs about your software.

As we study these things more, we find ways of easing the burden of using languages that aren't Turing complete. Maybe in the far future, systems will be good enough that most software can comfortably be written in languages that aren't Turing complete. It's a worthy aspiration.

It's not now, though.
Citizens United was a good ruling because Congress and both political parties have been doing their damn best to limit the number of ways money can get into politics unless it is to them.

How? Simple, donations under $200 per person do not need be revealed until they exceed that number. Also taking foreign donations without proper tracking and the ease of generating new cc numbers / names works as well. However the number one method they use is exploiting campaign fundraising events where they can rake in millions. With the clout and friends in business how can a third party or anyone compete against it?

So while there are issues with money in politics all attempts to limit it have simply been done to protect the two parties who hold near absolute power.
Well, first, there's law prohibiting foreign-sponsored activity of this sort, and prohibits assisting foreign parties in violating the prohibition.

And, second, they were channelled through false-flag accounts and pages, which violates Facebook's policies regarding authenticity.
Teaching Python Programming to Novices [pdf]
You're kind of making my point for me. Occupy protestors regularly got assaulted and arrested. To the best of my knowledge, none of them murdered a woman with a car.

As I say, it's not about speech. Speech is just a dog-whistle for what this is really about.
I agree that it doesn't have much a historical precedent and its important to have this debate, I'm not sure where I fall on it myself if I'm being honest, but facebook does have historical precedent in its size, in the past we've busted up corporations that have grown to this size into smaller individual entities but idk how you'd do that with fb, you could spin off instagram or maybe spin off its video hosting services but this all gets really tricky really fast.
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You indicated that you must have a PhD to be a data scientist. The world is full of people without Phds who are better scientists in every field than the typical Phd.
You can do this, but it's not as easy. The pipfile project is an effort to improve this.

The current standard way to do this is with a virtualenv and a requirements.txt file in which you specify the version of your dependencies, which you can then install with pip install -r requirements.txt.

Format is "packagename==0.1.0" (>=, < etc work too). VCS urls work too btw, e.g. "git+protocol://site/repo@tag_or_commit"

To get something similar (but inferior) to lockfiles you can use "pip freeze > filename"
You made a pretty contrived comment to refute the parent poster, considering how unlikely it is that someone would find it a fun and exciting thing to do.
I won't say the advice is good, but it's interesting at least.
> virtually never mentioned

I (anecdotally) hear this tidbit in every comments section relating to Russia's involvement in the U.S. election. Almost as if it's a common talking point.

Reminds me a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

EDIT: ... And so a conversation was effectively derailed and nothing was gained. Arguing about the validity of Whataboutism or who is doing it isn't the point. It's a deflection technique that works in spite of you calling it out.
What about bagging your goods? Does this actually speed much up checkout given that you still have to serially process the stuff in your cart at the exit?
Amy Wax said it, quoted by the author. It's in the article. 7th paragraph down.
In the context of the 2016 election 100.000 usd is a tiny amount.
My prediction is that everyone will be fine just like every other time a new thing came around, and phones won't finally be the one "it's different for real this time super seriously" thing.
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and if that Russian company was an agent of Russian government ( 101 chances out of 100 that it was, i.e. any reasonable person would think so :) then FB doing that company's bidding was acting as an agent of Russian government, and doing so without registration as such a foreign government agent sounds to me (not a lawyer though) like a violation of another item of the federal law. At least it looks like doing such thing was a violation before the current administration - now they seem to accept "retroactive" registrations, at least from their own folks - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-trump-campaig...
Not op and not exactly what you ask for.

Welfare is structured so that single moms get more money if they stay single. It is bad for the kids to grow up without a father and it is bad for society to encourage it.

Source: Wife worked in a homeless shelter.
Right, nobody is arguing that facebook doesn't have a right to do this. It's just alarming that eg the NyTimes portray it as facebook's responsibility.

EDIT: apparenty people do talk about free speech, but they seem unaware of their rights.
This is true. Even the Le Cunn group has switched to PyTorch I think.

It's also because no one can work out how to use matplotlib properly, so you need to look at about 1000 StackOverflow questions per line of code.
Eh, at least for me chess didn't play in dreams, the way Tetris did back in the day it was new.
JS isn't typically compiled, obviously, but if you're using "compile time" as a synonym for static analysis, then it looks like that's not what this does. He specifically describes it as being dynamic, not static, analysis.
Decorating ASCII progress bars with decorators for Python
In layman's terms, it is impossible to determine certain properties of an arbitrary program written in a Turing-complete language. Properties like "will this program finish within a reasonable amount of time?" or "does program X do the same thing as program Y?"

For a non-turing-complete language, it may be possible to test such properties.

It's crucial to understand that this distinction is not one of how practical it is to determine properties; once you open the door to Turing-completeness, all ability to reason about a program effectively flies out the window. You might be able to come up with rules-of-thumb that determine an interesting property of a program in a Turing-complete language some of the time, but there will always exist programs for which your rules-of-thumb are insufficient.
For that matter, what do you suppose is the effect of hours and days spent focusing on intellectual abstractions in school and work.

In my experience it is extremely consciousness-altering. And the effect sticks. It can become "reality" for a person.

In the meditation scene we have a technique for altering your consciousness through prolonged concentration. The Buddhists call it "Samatha". It is potent.
You sound like a modern-day Marxist denouncing Leninism as nothing but a "perversion" of socialism.
The thing I've realized is that my short attention span solves for all of these issues.
Can you give us more detail about how different the two domains are?

I assume it's not something like switch from web development to mobile or to dev ops. Something like from programming to data science or quant analysis?
Don't want to get into Trump vs Hilary debate, but don't you think it is a bit strange that nearly every rich individual has their own foundation? A foundation that most people don't know what is responsible for. Most of the time you don't hear it doing much either.

Why for example some political entities donate large amount of money to these foundations instead of the ones that are proven to do something (like red cross).

It feels like perhaps those foundations are there just to exploit a tax loophole, and that they donate once in a while to specific cause to satisfy their legal requirements.
would you say there is no such thing as black culture?
Right, but you're describing the implementation, which doesn't imply anything about its use. I prefer to name by the latter: the implemenation is just a detail on how the filter does its filtering.
Or, if everybody is affected the same way then nobody will know the difference.
There is a good general synopsis of the Voynich manuscript on wikipedia:

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

Interesting stuff!
> Anecdotally it doesn't seem to me that python usage in "industry" has grown that dramatically in the last five years, but there could be other factors involved such as education. Or my biased gut instinct could be completely off.

I actually was looking at these numbers just a few days ago, trying to decide on what language to embed in something I'm working on (CPython, Duktape Javascript or Lua), and came to the same confused realization - the number of Python questions on Stack Overflow had increased significantly over the last few years, but I couldn't quite correlate why. I put in a bunch of different related tags, but none of them could account for such a large jump.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cdjan...
Apple Developer Site Down, Perhaps Due to Accounts Being Hacked by Russians
But an advanced economy is embedded in and affects the surrounding culture.

I see this statement as a tautology, or at the very least as an ill posed question.
Chess in the 19th century is my go to example when trying to deprogram someone from anxious preoccupation with whatever moral panic is currently fashionable. I use the word 'deprogram' in the sense of helping someone recover from a cult deliberately.

You can often find an article from some newspaper of the period decrying chess and its pernicious effects on the youth, the mind, morals, et cetera. Change the instances of 'chess' to 'video games,' 'violent/sexy movies,' 'dungeons & dragons,' 'smartphones,' or whatever item is the focus of a moral panic. Maybe change a few of the sentences in the article where context demands it.

Have your pearl clutching friend read the modified article. Then show them the original.

Fear mongering rhetorical devices become impossible not to notice.
Those settings are irrelevant in this scenario. The point is to maximize the throughput from a single server without backing up the queue.
Well, both Putin and the US have good-to-them reasons to interfere in each others elections. And to interfere in Russian elections.

On a serious note, the reason you don't hear about it is because US interference in Russia, whatever that was, didn't come even close to turning Russian elections.
...which are again on Sony for signing in the first place.

I mean it's their right to be a purely gaming console, but they should also accept blame for tanking their reputation with the open source community.
I think a lot of people can relate to this. I was always afraid of asking questions when surrounded by people more knowledgable than myself. I didn't want to appear stupid, or ignorant by not knowing something I assumed I should have already learned. I later realized that it makes so much more sense to bite the bullet and ask the question the first time. The longer you go pretending to know something, the more embarrassing it becomes when you have to eventually ask what it is later. The people who do this are the ones who appear knowledgable in later situations.
> It ran on several machines, but not the ones that mattered.

And why wasn't it ported to the ones that mattered? I keep hearing about how easy it is to build a (simple) Lisp compiler. Why wasn't it ported, or a fresh one built?

> The existing code was irrelevant and not portable.

Why was the existing code irrelevant? In ten years, nobody wrote anything in Lisp that mattered to anyone?

In fact, there were Lisp compilers for the PDP-10, which (I presume) could run on the PDP-11, where C began to take over the world. Why didn't those Lisps take over the world? You can't explain it just by C existing on the right machines at the right time. (There wouldn't have been C on the PC if it hadn't taken off - at least to some degree - on the PDP-11 a decade earlier.)
Missed optimizations in C compilers
Thanks so much! I worked ultra hard on the design so it's incredible to hear that! Please stay in touch :-)
.. or 32 bit systems.
Right, to reiterate, we're saying there _were of course_ business cycles before the federal reserve, just like there was _of course_ monetary intervention then as well.

The OP and I are saying that the federal reserve _exaggerated_ the depression. Your pointing to much smaller prior events is a non-starter.

And yes, biology is not free of observation, my point was that it is more closely associated with deduction rather than statistical inference - but yes, mathematics would be even closer an analog - if I had said that a mathematician would have argued that some economists use statistical inference - goes on ad nauseum.

Still not sure what you're trying to say, but yes, there was a business cycle before a necessarily large increase in mal-investment and there were necessarily larger cycles after said investment.
Not a stupid question. Nude mice are one way of doing this, though without an immune system to interact with a tumor, results need confirmation in other model types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_mouse
That's really interesting that affordable healthcare for minimum wage workers sounds like enslaving wealthy corporate overlords to you.
So if you are a parent you are setting your kids up to fail and their kids and so on.

What a great parent, theres nothing like over population to strain finite resources, plus it seems like a logical survival strategy or not, and in a way its a form of child abuse considering the Flynn effect, but Dunbars number is an indicator of intellect.

Call me selfish but some people dont worry about ensuring the stupid dont survive. For thousands of years clever people have been manipulating the stupid en masse sometimes called society, simply by putting the fear of god or whatever one's chosen sky fairy happens to be, into them.

Reap what you sow.
> After a lot of lunacy including running around in the backyard and driveway looking for a spot of coverage, we finally settled on a system of handwritten IOU notes, and most people had to buy in twice and have an appointed stranger promise to send them BTC later.
>
> I would argue that there were few people savvier than our group when it came to Bitcoin, and we were having this experience? I realized I was maybe a little too immersed in the hype to see where Bitcoin was falling short in usability.

Ironically, this is not too different from how the financial industry solved the problem of having trouble moving large quantities of precious metals. Lots and lots of IOU notes. Eventually, the IOU notes were so ubiquitous that the underlying precious metals could be dispensed with entirely, and we got fiat.
For what is worth, Dhall lets you check if an expression is already in normal form: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-1.6.0/docs/Dhall-Co... so one could use Dhall as a "data-only" language without bothering with evaluation.
> Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.

Who are these "persons"?

It can't logically be the foreign nationals who are attempting to help a campaign. They're not under the jurisdiction of US federal law.

It also can't logically be the candidates. Otherwise, the obvious tactic would be to provide overt, unrequested aid to the opposition candidate(s) and send them all to jail.

I'm not sure it can be Facebook or other Internet sides. It is true that Facebook is a US company, but the content on their sites is protected under the DMCA safe harbor exemption. And then the law wouldn't handle the case of sites not under US ownership.

FECA dates back to the 70s, and it doesn't seem to do a good job of handling the globalization of the Internet. If someone from overseas looked at the facts themselves and, without talking to a candidate, just plastered Google and Facebook and YouTube and Twitter with endorsement of one candidate and criticism of another, is it reasonable to try to stop them?
Linux kernel has a lot of goto in its code.
Show me hard proof of "anti-assimilation" ideas, not one obscure student group in California. I want real evidence. This whole passage reeks of a manufactured justification for racism.
I care about others because I care about the person I am.

> A kid born in the year 10,000 is a stranger to me.

And if treated with a modicum of attention and love, it will be much wiser than you before it even enters school. Rationalizing having given up, and pretending everybody has, comes way after that.
Artificial Colorization of Grayscale Satellite Imagery via GANs: Part 2
> Only the insane write code without tab or space indentation, and if you are doing that anyway then an OCaml-esque language like F# where that serves as your grouping syntax is the saner option.

Instead of making disparaging remarks about people's mental health, learn some basic parsing theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-sensitive_grammar
I'm surprised by the decline of C#

The graphs are for # of views to questions on SO involving that language. What it likely means for C# (and PHP/Java, etc) is that the user-base is maturing and stabilizing, and not as many questions need to be asked (or found). For C#, it could also have something to do with the fact that the MSDN .NET docs have vastly improved over the past 3-5 years.