skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my big fear. If people will shoot up pizza places over false accusations of pedophilia, any sort of algorithm that claims to predict it (regardless of efficacy), and people will be murdered.

America has a bunch of angry people with twitchy trigger-fingers just begging for targets.
I feel like the best thing we could do for everyone living in these expensive cities is to improve public transit and remove zoning restrictions.

Getting all the rich people to give up their nice houses is not going to have a meaningful impact on prices for most of us.

When I think of the alternatives I think of Soviet Russia, where if you weren't born in Moscow good luck moving there because (besides needing a permit) there was a years long waiting list for apartments. Which is essentially what you get when there is limited supply and no way of resolving competition: everyone just gets put on the waiting list. Which is what we see happening with subsidized housing programs in all major US cities, they exist, but there's a years long waiting list.
> I think it's quite likely that both sexual orientation and jaw size are influenced by the same hormones (e.g. testosterone), since both features are involved in sexual dimorphism

"Gay bears" would disagree with you: https://www.google.de/search?q=gay+bears
I don't think this is a huge step up over a standard phishing attack. A savvy user would notice that the redirected URL doesn't have an EV cert (it might not even have SSL at all). They would probably check the email address the link came from as well.

A non-savvy user would not check the email and would click any link they're sent, redirect, ssl or not. So you might as well send them a standard phishing link.

This means you're targeting users inbetween these two classes, so maybe it's effective for a very specific attack. And if someone is that determined they'll get in no matter what.

Plus 2fa is there on HMRC, if they request a fresh code before any major changes are made it would make it very difficult to do any serious damage.
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Supposedly this happened to Canadian diplomats as well.
How about forwarding password reset emails?
Unless you know someone on the board of Alphabet, there is no reason to use Google software for anything important.
You are talking about a function (at runtime), not a type, verifying the range. And you can do that in any language, regardless of its stance on typing.
Frankly, if the courts can't handle the load of the minor cases, those cases should be dropped in favor of pursuing the more severe ones. The courts should be damn well certain someone is in fact guilty before convicting him instead of copping out and allowing plea bargains.
As we all know, a DRM free version is available (or will be soon) from ahem other sources. I personally don't have any ethical problems with buying a paper copy then downloading the DRM free version.

It would be nice though to be able to buy it in an unrestricted format in the first place.

I sometimes wonder if DRM is more successful at turning potential thieves into customers or turning away potential customers.
Yes but there are no mainstream or production-ready dependently typed languages, so I didn't mention that. But I wouldn't be surprised if dependent typing really is going to be the distant future of programming languages. Perhaps not too distant.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Clojure tends to do surprising things in this area with taking Clojure.spec more to the compilation stage; some of the most interesting research into type systems has actually be done by lispers (i.e. Typed Racket, Core.Typed) and there is active interest in it among the Clojure community.
I'm just really glad Vue is now included in every "X vs Y" framework, or "choosing a js framework", almost every article for the past two years have only been for Angular or React.
Python is insanely fast at data processing and analysis because it has very fast libraries.

As a matter of fact, don't know if you've heard, but data processing it kind of like.. Python's thing...
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this is seriously fucked up

How can you still live there?
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Not the market. The FDA.

If people start to pay attention to the process and the corruption surrounding EpiPen, will it blow the lid off the entire FDA system?
This is just for people using that thing integrated to their Windows machines.
> You are not writing HTML when you write JSX, you are writing Javascript.

And why the hell you have to write code in JS that will be ultimately represented as HTML? Is it because it simplifies some processes for the React's VDOM implementation? Don't you make your life harder in order to make React's life easier? If you say it's because you get template code linted in the same way as a regular JS code, I say that other frameworks also validate the templates doing AOT compilation.
Don't forget about the OpenGL 'red book' - OpenGL Programming Guide

And the 'red book' of CD audio, the spec originally was in a red binder.
I hear reports of Google shutting down people's accounts with no recourse to get it open again. They have no way to access their emails or files and no way to speak to a human at Google.

File Stream no longer downloads all of your files... Does that mean that if I use Drive File Stream and Google shuts down my account, then I'm just screwed?
Slack threads are... terrible.

Let's just add another layer of indirection, and a layer of depth to the streams of information you manage!

Ugh.
I haven't dug too deeply into this, but a defamation claim under state law would probably be pre-empted by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. You mostly can't sue them unless you can prove they defamed you with malice or with willful intent.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1681h

In this case, maybe you could have a shot by arguing that since the bureaus know that like half the population's information was stolen, they are acting with reckless disregard for whether their statements are true if they don't now do additional investigation to confirm the identity of the subject of their statements in order to mitigate the effects of the breach.
RDS failover still uses DNS and you still need to be aware of client TTLs:

"Because the underlying IP address of a DB instance can change after a failover, caching the DNS data for an extended time can lead to connection failures if your application tries to connect to an IP address that no longer is in service."

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_B...
Apologies - I was amidst edits when I was called away. I've addressed this by suggesting removal of the LPF.
Wow that sounds awful - but thankfully this isn't typical. I'm going to go digging for a case-id/issue and see what's going on myself (please e-mail the case if you have one). Re-configurations are routine and graceful.

From your description it may be that you have long lived connections that build up over time, at a rate that targets can easily handle, but that the re-connect spikes associated with a target failure/withdrawal are too intense. This is a challenge I've seen with web sockets: imagine building up 100,000 mostly-idle web sockets slowly over time, even a modest pair of backends can handle this. But then a backend fails, and 50,000 connections come storming in at once!

Another scenario is adding an "idle" target to a busy workload, but it not being able to handle the increased rate of new connections it will get. Software that relies on caching (including things like internal object caches) often can handle a slow ramp-up, but not a sudden rush.

We're currently experimenting with algorithms that allow customers to more slowly ramp-up the incoming rate of connections in these kinds of scenarios.

Anyway, those are guesses, so I may be wrong about your case, but hopefully the information is still useful to others reading.
I'd agree with all the complaints you list, and I love Python, but it is definitely kinda slow. I'd put the speed of python below several of the items on your list in terms of priorities I care about.

I've done a lot of image processing in Python using libraries like PIL, numpy and opencv. Doing per-pixel operations is extremely easy in PIL - improving my dev time, but CPU wise the slowest of the bunch. I love prototyping that way, but I have to move to numpy or opencv or another language to speed it up. A recent program to do a slightly complicated color transform on a 512x512 image was taking me over 60 seconds with PIL. It was 5-10 seconds in JavaScript, and less than 1 second using numpy.
That idea is old enough to have entered the original edition of The Mythical Man-Month.

That said, I have never seen any study like this where I didn't have some serious disagreement over methodology or conclusions. (Ok, except for that one on Peopleware.) It is a hard subject, and running a study over "the population of GitHub" is problematic by itself.
epoll on linux. Other apis on other oses.

More reading:
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When they have no clue on what they are conveying about them to the people, these kind of clueless incidents do happen.
I have once gone so far as to write a preliminary claim for defamation and libel, and put the brief to clerks for barristers to indicate interest and availability.

My issue was swiftly resolved, but I felt the cold chill as replies came revised to note that overnight instructions for a separate matter were being notified to reflect the possible conflicts of interest the association rules require disclosed.

Barristers chambers can be used by opponent litigants, but with leave from the Master of Court, if not the Justice or Judge. I am thankful for my memory fading, and I actively discourage mistaking me for a authority. But I am not unwelcoming to inquiry from any request for anecdotal vignettes of IP and Companies Court cases, should be there need and understanding of my limitations. Laddie, LJ, was the solitary Lord Justice to ever resign the Queen's Bench. He was protesting the woeful incapacity of the Higher Courts to try specialised and particularly IP cases.

It was Laddie who handed down the scintillating condemnation of Manchester United soccer club for suing fans who knitted scarves in club colors.

Closer to home for many, Laddie is the one loss lamented by Patry, who wrote both testaments and the dead sea scrolls on US copyright and became a instrumental counsel to the growing young Google. Be unaware of this two names at your peril, in a litigious world of degenerate law for inventors and artists, and all who de novo create.

Edit, "bible" was a redundant word; separated paragraphs for clarity.
> the rate of downward mobility among my young, bourgeoisie 20-somethings friends in NYC is shocking

i dunno, i'd argue these people aren't downwardly mobile because they were never upper middle class to begin with (bourgeoisie). if you have no saved money and your family can't just straight up give you money to live if you lose your job, you're lower to lower middle at best. better luck next time, etc.

and if the parents have the money but aren't willing -- then they are but a cleverly constructed socioeconomic facsimile of the upper classes, but aren't truly that thing. the upper classes will stop at nothing from ensuring their progeny maintains or outperforms their own status. to them, that's _the whole point_ of having money. by definition they will give their wealth to their offspring in times of need, barring exceptional circumstances like enabling alcoholism or something equally untoward.

upper middle and upper class kids can fuck off to do a phd for 8 years, or traipse around europe, or attempt to launch a business and fail, with basically no consequence whatsoever.

btw the 'classes' really are a [not quintile] system, like in economics. the interesting thing is the money is secondary, it's social status that really matters. and by this, i mean it is exceedingly unlikely for classes 4 and 5 to fall down, because their money is entrenched in the financial system. i.e. they own stuff and would literally have to work at liquidating and spending it all, in a sort of drawn out socioeconomic suicide.

1. lower class (poor people)
2. lower middle class
3. middle class
4. uppper middle class
5. upper class
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His public and constant grilling by the media. You certainly didn't hear endless stories about "Pharma Chick," who is the good senator's daughter.

I'm aware that the "Pharma Bro" was convicted of securities fraud after tripling his investors investments.
This is such a bizarre story, and I'd love to know the truth behind it - naturally, even if a full and frank report appeared, it'd still be highly questionable just because of its association with intelligence work.

I do recall reading, though, that one remedy against eavesdropping by laser monitoring of vibrations in windowpanes is to deliberately induce white-noise vibrations in them yourself. That seems like the kind of thing that could cause inaudible but damaging infrasound standing waves inside your own building, so I wonder: is it possible that this was an accidental self-inflicted injury?

All of this, of course, assumes that any of it even happened - and who can say with spies involved?
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There are a number of template languages that compile to hyperscript, I use jade/pug [0]. I haven't had to change my templates in years but I can still take advantage of virtual DOMs like React.

Before hyperscript, there was Templatizer which also compiled templates to JS functions. There are numerous good reasons to be able to manipulate templates easily as functions. Nevertheless there are numerous good reasons for templates (e.g. my designers don't need to know JavaScript, template languages last longer than JS trends, etc.).

[0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/gulp-pug-hyperscript
This sentiment is the reason for almost all software (especially on the web) beeing a load of crap.
It's slow, it's buggy and developers always give the same excuse: CPUs and memory are cheap, therefore we can waste our customers time.

Imagine what we could do with the amazing hardware we have, if people started to do the sane thing and actually use the hardware to do things efficiently.
Our legal system is a giant pile of shit, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either woefully misinformed or trying to line their own interests.
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> A mentor of mine who used to work for a government agency once told me something that I hadn't really appreciated until recently. To paraphrase, sometimes the best way to change a system that is flawed is to work from within. It's harder, sure, since it takes time to get enough power to make effective change, but it's an idea nonetheless.

I believe this is formally called the "SLC Punk Maneuver"
Misdemeanor trials cost $20,000 in an exemplar US county [0]. And that's only for the prosecution... take into account the salaries of court employees (judge, steganographer, etc) and utilities and things add up. Whether that is cheap or expensive depends on what you're comparing it to.

Cost of pleading? Maybe a couple hundred dollars.

Cost of ruining someone's life over a drug charge? Maybe worth tenz of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Direct link to the survey:

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The intro reads:

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Lets not forget the lobbyists that "asked" the Federal Government to put these limits in place, so the airlines could point their finger and say we're not allowed to offer more.
Misleading title and some people have already taken the bait. This isn't s deprecation of Drive. It's a depredation of the Drive desktop sync implementation, being replaced with an on-demand desktop integration.

Trust people with a chip on their shoulder against Google jumping at any chance to get angry about them though.
You're describing tools usable in writing new code.

What static languages thrive in, however, is maintaining old code that was written by somebody else.
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That's bullshit. The system is corrupt and should be burned to the ground.
You still haven't identified what hardware features you think can be emulated in software on a CADR but couldn't be emulated in software on a 68020.
I'm a Java dev (and the one you replied to) and in the past when I didn't work at my own company the real reason Python was often not picked was because it was considered "a toy language" or "scripting language" (ie hard to maintain) and also because it didn't have vendor support like Java did. Of course this was like 8-10 years ago.

I still program and sadly prefer writing code in Java over Python even though I have tons of Python scripts in my ~/bin that I have written over the years. Mainly because I just know the ecosphere better.

And thats what most people should just admit why they choose a particular programming language. As long as its good enough... better... is just what you know more of... the cost of learning something new just to replace something new for marginal speed increase isn't worth it.

So when people say Java is slow to learn, not cool or slow to develop in because the language is verbose... I say just like you: "I Dont' Care" because learning the whole ecosphere of another language is goddamn expensive (that is languages are relatively easy to learn but all the libraries, best practices and tools is another thing entirely).
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I think eliminating the black sides would actually make the 3D effect far less visible.
I was about to ask you what kind of statically typed languages you were using that gave you this impression. But... "boilerplate type defs".

Yeah, C++ typing system sucks. Just don't think this generalizes to other languages.
Not to say that there aren't valid reasons to think twice about relying exclusively on Google, but the title is slightly misleading in that Google isn't really deprecating Google Drive with no replacement, but rather introducing both Backup and Sync, which behaves like Google Drive (plus some new features), and Drive File Stream, which behaves more like a network drive.
Hiding the complexity is exactly the wrong approach. You want to reduce the complexity so that the average person can understand it just fine.
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Let's suppose that it is government's charter to make sure that those who need water get it in a time of emergency. Restricting prices does not do anything to solve that issue. It exacerbates it by removing incentives for the market to get more water into the area.

If this is government's charter, then government should seek to solve this issue by trucking in additional water to help alleviate the shortage and reduce prices naturally. Either directly, or by paying private firms the market price to truck it in and distribute it for free based on some criteria of neediness.

I still don't think this is an ideal solution, but it is far preferable to government restricting prices and falsely claiming that will have any positive effect.
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Or perhaps more controversially, the trump maneuver?
The Polymer philosophy appears to be more of "make everything a custom element", i.e. up to the entire app (e.g. "<youtube-app/>", "<comments-section video-id=''/>", "<related-videos video-id=''/>", etc.).
Control-x ( starts recording a macro

Control-x ) stops recording a macro

Control-x e replays the macro

They're no more obscure than the rest of emacs (which isn't a great starting point!) but everything comes down to keybindings in any text editor, you can map them to any key you want.
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This isn't unique to the USSR however. There are similar weapons in the US arsenal (M2 Browning for example) that are so well designed that is still in service 84 years after initial introduction.

Back when engineers had to use slide rules, and metallurgy wasn't as sophisticated, designers had to over-engineer machinery (and buildings, and bridges).
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I think another important point is can you even accomplish your goal in the first place? if not break it into smaller goals or find another one.
This. I had a problem where I needed to scrape roughly 20,000 html documents daily, which is normally a pretty slow task. You have to open the file, load it into memory, parse the DOM, and then run all of your selection methods. Sequentially, it took about 60 minutes daily. Multithreading slowed it down because it was CPU bound. Multiprocessing allowed me to run 12 processes across 8 cores. That took the total processing time down to about 4 minutes or so. And I was able to write the code in a day. Writing something similar in Java or C++ would have taken me a week.
> it costs more than Logic.

Are you talking about Logic DAW software? If so, that's pretty impressive, ballsy even.
Wouldn't numpy be the default choice for this type of work in Python?