skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say something more 2015-ish, but with Donny's revealing of the wizard behind the curtain, yeah, you are right.

Why do they care?

I mean, they have enough cash in the bank to never let another student in for 200 years, and still be just fine. They have more good-will built up than anything else out there. They make advances in human knowledge comparable to almost nothing else besides another University. They have it all. So what could they want then?

The only thing I can come up with is that they do think Fox would be correct in that assumption. They aren't worried about the money. Maybe they are worried about the woman herself and just are using the Fox stuff as cover? Nothing else really makes sense.
"At the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, which prepared intelligence officers for the Russian military and KGB. After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Soviet military intelligence service as a software engineer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kaspersky
I guess many people won't contribute then.
It's not nearly as flexible as bc overall, but GNU units has lots more constants built-in and also trig functions.

I checked and it has all of the ones that you mentioned, sometimes under slightly different names. I was surprised that e is defined the elementary charge rather than Euler's constant!
Not interested in ever joining a union. Absolutely not interested in being forced to join one...ABSOLUTELY NOT.
The US->Ireland->EU thing is exactly what's going on now, and exactly what proposals like this are trying to address.

Thats why gave this example to show that it does not work as profit remains the same.

Lets assume there is no US Co. Ireland Co is parent company and its only doing business in EU. Then either Ireland [1] allows low tax rates to attract business in which case profit is low and thus UK/France share is low. Or Ireland is high-tax, then business move to another low-tax in EU.

This only work if there is single tax rate in EU. But if there is single tax rate, then why even go this complicated tax calculation route.

[1] Estonia (and in near future Latvia) does not tax untill profit distribution, reducing effective tax rate to 0%.
I hope this leads to a reduction in legal costs, especially for start ups that have been sued for frivolous patent law suits, by patent trolls.
Being a constituent doesn't necessarily mean anything. Eg., Eric Garner was a constituent of New York City. NYC is democratically governed, and he had an equal right to vote. It didn't help him very much.
Which is the right reaction, but you can read up on them; what other source of knowledge can we depend on other than that of people articulating their cause and others who substantiate those claims?
You can get a "FAKO" score from CreditKarma.
My expectations were pretty low. I was expecting it to be doing something with the user's consent or using some sort of UX anti-pattern to trick the user into doing it. I was pleasantly surprised.

As far as performance. It didn't do enough to spin up my fan. My CPU only went to 30% (inclusive of all the other apps I have running (using Chrome on OS X).

I was under the impression most browser limit how much CPU the Javascript thread can use because of the good old days when writing a tight infinitely loop in Javascript could freeze someone's computer.
Just last night, I was thinking about what data and stats tooling would be like if NumPy had been, say, NumRuby instead.
Yes, all kinds of secondary effects may come of this. Such as price increases, (and from that then tertiary effects such as reduced consumption). A reasonable effect is also companies moving around somewhat to get closer to business rather than close to low taxes.

In this example Swedish consumers would potentially see price increases - but on the other hand they could see tax reductions if the increased tax revenue from corporations gives some reform space for income or consumption tax cuts. Potential for jobs moving in from Ireland has the same positive effect on the bottom line.

The losers in the above scenario is the Irish because they'd see increased prices, lost jobs, and potentially raised taxes to offset lost corporate tax revenue.
Just because something is considered "unethical" doesn't necessarily mean it's illegal. My guess, is that by building software no one is really going to question the ethics... In one sense the legal system should be devoid of anything but facts. So as along as a machine doesn't intentionally falsify information (which idk how it could), then it's not unethical.
You raise an important topic with somewhat unhelpful framing: "viable" is a boolean label for a continuous variable, the value of storage, which is context-dependent today and an important feedback element in ever-shifting complex systems.

Here's the frame I'd suggest: batteries, demand-response (to which efficiency contributes), grid management, and rate schedules are mutually supporting tools which allow us to continually improve our use of power along several axes, including GHG emissions, efficiency, end-user price, and reliability. There isn't one accurate and stable perspective from which to consider the "value" or "viability" of, say, compressed-air storage. Instead we have a web of complex local, regional, and global situations and concerns, and varying sets of goals to pursue within those situations.
Maybe by the time they get their 600 BTC and go to cash out they'll be able to buy a used motorcycle. Or else a small country.

One never knows.
No. The union leaders have zero interest in making any company succeed. They have a ton of interest in themselves succeeding. In fact unions work very hard against innovation and in keeping status quo.
It is common for them to refuse to give you the legally required annual credit report because the data they use to verify your identity is wrong.

Presumably, if you had your record from the dump, you could type in the wrong answers they are looking for and get your free equifax report.

Usually, only one or two of the big three have a poison record that blocks access, so I guess this would only reliably unlock equifax reports.
If this is feasible, the great thing about it is it’a entirely passive, basically getting cooling for “free”. (I suppose you still pump a coolant through it but that’s fairly negligible energy cost.)
Do you really think their image wouldn't be compromised by selecting a convicted child murderer for their PHD program? I can't imagine the US would majority poll in support of that, and I doubt it would differ across party lines all that much either.

To put in perspective, we're still at 60% support for the death penalty in this country.
The elimination of child labor was NOT a result of increased productivity, in fact it grew during the onset of the industrial revolution. it came about as a result of a series of fierce union battles.

https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/a...
Apple sold over 200 million iPhones last year, and they make up a relatively small proportion of the overall smartphone market. I don't think there are very many people like you describe.
The risk isn't "running out", it's that the cost of extraction becomes prohibitive. As a rule of thumb, asteroids are generally much richer with heavy metals than the Earth's crust because heavy things sink on Earth but they have no where to go on asteroids. These metals persist in small quantities in the crust mostly when they are bound to light elements. So the density and types of ores on asteroids are completely different, vastly changing extraction costs.

Whether the benefits of asteroid composition outweigh the costs of space mining is complicated and time-/tech-dependent, and cannot be guessed by just noting that in principle there are sufficient atoms in the Earth's crust.
Without wanting to stand up for YouTube—I don't—this complaint:

> While Villa Antropoff contains a few short scenes of cartoon nudity, Youtube makes clear exceptions in its policies for works that are presented in “artistic contexts.” The fact that a Youtube employee could have reviewed this film and not recognized the film’s artistic context illustrates a serious breakdown in the company’s ability to police content based on its own policies.

seems a bridge slightly too far. To be sure, it would have been nice if the YouTube reviewer had recognised the artistic context to the piece, but the failure of one reviewer to do so seems to be evidence of a mistake, or at worst of misapplication of policies, not of a company run amok (although there is plenty of evidence of that elsewhere). Since there is a process for appeal, that seems like the step that should be taken before, or at least in parallel with, public complaint (although the author mentions that Lunohod has decided not to appeal).
To play devil's advocate -

>> I thought crypto-currencies were using encryption to ensure that no one can create more currencies like a fiat currency.

Well, you can't just create more BTC, but if you fork it, sure, you can create a parallel currency called BCC where everyone who has BTC gets BCC too. The challenge is persuading people that BCC has value. Which apparently happened.

And you can conjure up whatever altcoin or ICO token you like. But again you have to make people think it has value. Such things are not interchangeable with BTC.

>> I thought crypto-currencies were meant to be immune from government interference.

Bitcoin is immune to government interference. The government haven't been able to mess around with the supply, or take anyone's bitcoin away or prevent people sending each other bitcoin. What they've done is tank the value by stopping exchange with other currencies. Arguably this isn;t much to do with bitcoin.

Of course if you're only interested in bitcoin because of 'investment' which you hope to turn into dollar or yuan gains, then that's something different...

>> Hopefully people haven't bet too much on this.

Well, there are quite a few dollar multimillionaires who have got there via cashing in BTC, so somebody has been paying in to the system!¬
Purism CTO here.
I will not comment other but I can say for ours - you get it preinstalled with coreboot (which will also get updates as it progresses), all works out of the box with Free software (we preinstall on it PureOS but you can install any distro out there). Touchpad was an issue in past but we changed now and have quite a good touchpad that just works. The case is anodized aluminum.
All Purism Librems have hardware kill switches - which means you can disable physically mic/camera and wifi/bt. Backlit keyboard is now on all models if that is something you like.
Also with every buy you support our ongoing development such as neutralizing entirely ME, reverse engineering missing bits, creating our own firmware, developing PureOS as well as having better and better product (also if suddenly there would be thousands and thousands of orders, it would put price down).

P.S. because there is no Free software for Bluetooth (for WiFi/BT module) we have it disabled by default which means you would not be hit by latest Bluetooth exploit :D
You're the one who said unions lead to tire slashings and house burnings. Obviously, no they don't, but when that's pointed out, you retreat to "unions sometimes cause strikes" as if that was your position all along.

If your argument is that people have negative opinions about unions, well, respectfully, no shit. My point is that those opinions are not well-founded.
They didn't ban 'all cryptocurrencies'. They banned ICO's instead, and (afaik) it's a temporary ban until proper regulations are in place.
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Maybe they've fixed it, but it has definitely been wonky. Some folks got different responses on mobile vs. desktop with the same info.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/psa-no-matter-what-you-wri...
What you appear to be arguing is that it would be better for tech workers if they could be fired for organizing.
Antergos dev here. Come give it a try, that's exactly what our initial goal was (in cinnarch). If you have any questions, or run into issues, please try out the forums or file an issue in Github. The community and devs are super helpful (excluding myself in that statement).
From the article she was essentially sentenced to life in prison as she was given a 50 year sentence. The justice system actually brought this about by releasing her after 20 years or 40% of her sentence. There may be a discrepancy between what society sees as a just punishment and what the justice system feels it can impose.
I've started to use python a lot for 3d scripting on Blender and Maya. On Blender this is the only option.
I want to love Plasma Mobile. But development on it has always looked extremely dead every time I've checked on it since it has came out, and there are next to no phones that it's been ported to. I've never even seen someone mention using it online, unlike Ubuntu Touch or FirefoxOS or Sailfish (when they were all alive).

Honestly, it's felt like it's been thrown by the wayside ever since it came out, and that's not encouraging to the thought of running it on a phone that you'd use as a daily driver.
When searching in a city for a street name, the search results should not be a ranking that has a street in a city around the world as its first result.
Throw-away because I like to keep my financial details personal.

I'm self employed and have been for about 15 years. We purchase health insurance from the state exchange. Prior to this, I'd purchased it as an individual directly from the insurers, or used the plan my wife had through her employer. Those options are no longer available to us, so we use the state exchange.

My family's health insurance rates increased 17% last year. This year, my state has approved an increase of 27% for the provider I use and a 31% increase for one of the other providers in the state.

To insure our family of four, we'll pay around $25,000 for insurance before a dollar is spent on deductibles, co-pays or other associated costs. We're generally all healthy. Have no pre-existing conditions to speak-of. We earn more than the level where you qualify for any subsidy.

This is unsustainable.
Didn't know Stackoverflow is a collaborative blogging platform :-D
I doubt she's sitting down once a week or so and paying any bills. I imagine somebody else does that for her.
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I'm not saying it's not worth while, I'm just saying that it's not the goal (in general. Some academic exercises might have goals such as that because the point is to learn).

It's sort of like saying the goal of owning a store is to match inventory to sales as closely as possible. That's a strategy or sub-goal towards reaching the real goal at best, which is to make enough money that the store pays for itself and hopefully supports the owner. Some stores don't even have inventory, so that strategy doesn't even apply to them. Similarly, that programming strategy may not apply well to some problems (and some problems cannot be proven formally correct, at least in whole).

My original reply was really just meant to point out that what they viewed as the goal of programming, is really just one of many competing strategies for producing software, and many others don't care about that at all.
As someone introduced to Python and C two semesters ago, I'm not surprised at all. If I want to be really nerdy and crank some performance, I write C. If I want to test ideas, write to a text file, or basically anything else, I use Python. Python just makes it all super easy and nice. I respect the performance gains of C, but ease of use will always win.
Plasma5 has a mobile variant that works on phones, I used it for a few days and it was quite alright for such young project. No crashes and not laggy at all, but it lacks applications that I use daily and games.

https://plasma-mobile.org/
Oops, yes, same problem.
Golang forces readability; might want to give it a shot.
It's the libraries I think. that's why I started using it. I don't think it's particularly different syntactically from most other languages. The built in data types are nice, though why they insist on using different names from other languages (lists, dictionaries ...)

Better editors help too.
I have mostly left Python and moved to R, Racket and Lua for my needs. It is hard to see how Python won't stay the predominant first language for decades to come just due to momentum and the good reputation.

My first language was Basic and my second language was C64 Assembly and Pascal. I would have killed for Python as a kid.
The really interesting question though is how big of an influence meta-posts like this one has on the growth of one programming language over another. How would you model that?
I think the initial goal of Purism should be to make a working device with WiFi and GSM drivers and a minimal software layer on top. Even a command line tools for things like making a call, or sending an SMS would be enough for the initial release. Let then a small group of enthusiastic early adopters experiment with different UIs on top. It is not possible for a small organization to release a product that will compete with iOS or Android from the start. I think Firefox OS and Ubuntu Phone could have failed because they had too ambitious initial goals and targeted too wide group with they early devices.
Because programming in Python is great for productivity, has lots of useful libraries, is rather bearable/enjoyable depending on your view point and for 90% of people/companies you don't need the speed of anything more than PyPy or Cython because, believe me, you're not at Facebook or Google scale, and even those companies often use Python (Google most famously).

Btw, for those of you who dislike the dynamic typing (e.g. myself) of Python, check out Cython, it's really heaven.
Can you really say to your team that you've hired the best available when you hire PhD with prison when you had PhDs available without.

If you think hiring someone with rehabilitation is a greater social good, then you are effectively punishing people who don't have a criminal record.
I'm really not a fan of these "clever" hacks that rely on compiler internals. That doesn't even work on ecj.
"we're not running the entire crust through a separator and ending up with piles of its different constituents."

We're basically already doing that for copper.
You can achieve the same effect on some Android devices by exploiting the password lock from scanning the wrong finger repeatedly.
Mostly because the whole Data Science and ML stuff is catching on. Everyone and their grandma now wants to do something related to AI, ML etc. The easiest language for these is? Python. Hence the growth.

Once upon a time it was all about cloud, SaaS and building a webapp. Hence the growth of JS.
But significant whitespace means that I can't write code like this:

sub (@) { return map { "@{[ $_[0] . $_ ]}" } @$_ };

Disclaimer: The majority of the programmers that I have known in real life that have a significant (and very vocal) dislike of Python's whitespace requirements have all written code like that above (this is my from-memory reproduction of actual code that one of them wrote). Python sucks because it's "restricting" them from being "expressive" with their code.
Python has been continuously becoming the entry point of computer programming. I think the language reached that goal and now people who started with python are contributing in different fields.

Personally I met with python thanks to course assignments. It helped me to finish my projects way faster than any other language. I loved its simplicity and now even in my complex projects, I tend to solve my problems in "python way".

Also modularity, almost non-existent boiler-plate code, etc kind of things attract data scientists without computer science background.
Yeah, the homepage could definitely use some improvements.
Founder to founders UI/UX help
for whatever reason, the word "grok" annoys me to no end
Agreed about the hope for our species.

As a species and as individuals we're capable of such astounding accomplishments like this; yet also capable of outstandingly in(s)ane idiocy.

How can society be arranged/evolved to encourage the former, and limit the latter?
Is such a thing possible? Desirable?

The lack of societal optimization, or even moving towards the optimal, frustrates me!
Imagine that- paying workers more money!
As much grief as Python gets for significant whitespace, I think it really helps the readability. Not only does it enforce what should already be good indenting habits, but it eliminates the noise of braces.
> Just because something is considered "unethical" doesn't necessarily mean it's illegal.

In the legal profession it sort of does. Lawyers are regularly fined or disbarred for violating ethics rules, and the ethics rules are typically enforced by the courts.
What's up with the inflammatory title? What was wrong with the article's actual title?
Here, I took some screenshots for you. It seems like all you can do is make a project, add tasks, and then mark them Active or Complete.

https://imgur.com/a/AKWIq
the colleges and programming intro courses for my university are starting off with python now. When I went to uni it was a language called processing which is a simple version of Java. College started out with JavaScript moving into .Net. Some my teacher I kept in contact with moved over the courses to python which might also be a factor in python popularity. Not to mention High schools programming classes also starting with python or js instead of QBasic.
Cross-Site Scripting in Rails
Why do us engineers have a tendency to oversimplify everything to one big major cause like this? I see it all the time. Obviously in this case this is not the only reason. The real reason is a mix of many influences.
This is more or less the case, an article about someone who bothered to count is here, though it's a few years dated now (2014): https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...

Also, bear in mind while reading the rest of this comment, that Google claims it no longer scans Gmail account content for ad targeting purposes: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-gmail/google-to-...

The big question is, if you don't have a Google account attached to that mail, can Google still profile you with it? Does Google relate all of the emails people across their products get from you? If you aren't logged into a Google account when browsing, does it help them target you with ads? Can the government get a portion of your email by requesting Google give them a copy of all emails from your non-Gmail account to Google servers? These are probably the key questions on how much of an issue this is.

I also think there's probably a significant benefit from Google not having access to information in your email that wouldn't come from Gmail users. For example, if you don't have Gmail, Google can't know what you bought on Amazon or who you're friends with on Facebook.
Customs can do that anyway if you have a password.
In other words, you don't grok "grok"?
Operation Just Cause (we felt like it)
What about capturing heat form the sun in the winter? Bay Area is a good example for that with sunny but cold days. Would those pockets of warmth we find in winter from sheltered sunny areas and attic spaces be reflected away too? It seems to me that capturing power from the sun in the summer and storing in maybe possible in the future local batteries is preferable to reflecting away the power? Or both?
I think a big part of the answer for SO is the popularity and inscrutable nature of pandas. 'Popular, useful and incomprehensible' make for excellent Stack Overflow growth.