skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I casually switched to Atom for a week or two and although i think it looks a lot prettier out of the box, it just feels HEAVY. Launching can take awhile and it freezes up a decent amount. I've also seen it suck up quite a bit of memory at times. Atom has made some strides in the past couple releases but I'll be sticking to Sublime for the time being.
Very sorry to hear about the burden you and your family are bearing.

I hope we can devise an alternative to the current system, as $25,000 is more costly than just buying everything up front!

I did some research and found that an apendectomy is one of the most important things insurance can pay for, as it is sudden, life threatening, and generally not easily controlled by lifestyle choices.

The quoted cost of an apendectomy from a variety of different countries and hospitals?

"Between $3,000 and $150,000 USD"

It might as well be "blank check", if this price gouging is allowed in the US.
Each agency has their own credit score.
In addition they will compute a Fair Isaac score on demand because FICO charges a royalty to compute the FICO. The royalty is the reason they dont giveva FICO with the free annual report.
So what? Their point is that cash has other uses as well besides the illegal ones. I would argue that bitcoin has some additional uses besides the illegal ones, but they're extremely niche.
I say all the following as an avowed Rubyist

1) Computational Linguistics libraries

2) Machine Learning libraries

3) Still one of the blessed languages internal to Google? and BFDL was employed for a while there

4) Jupyter Notebooks

5) Coder Dojo approved language

I used to think that all dynamic languages (Ruby/Python/Javascript/Perl/…) were of a par but I have to admit that Python has an awful lot of mindshare and it's beginning to exhibit strong network effects.
Alternative syntax for short one liner functions (e.g. As recently added to C#, always in scala) can reduce a lot of this friction without sacrificing formatting guidelines. However, I'm not sure if it's in python's philosophy to explore such things.
RedHat is working on it, you can signup to be a tester:

https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/18412.html
"the cost of extraction becomes prohibitive"

You're implying that the cost of extraction is going up. It's not, it's going down quite steadily because it's tech-limited, not resource limited.
Can you provide a link to these any of these utilities?

Most are so focused on reliability they are quite resistant to pushing the limits. There must have been some cost savings such as avoiding building or upgrading a substation
> Individuals are banned from using computers when prosecuted

Who is banned from using computers? You mean, in prison?
There are a lot of possible explanations as to why Soylent gets a different type of coverage than Slimfast (most obvious to me is "it's marketed as a long-term meal replacement with adequate calories, not as a short-term weight loss solution with reduced calories".) Jumping straight to "because sexism" is premature and alienating.

That sort of conclusion-jumping has been normalized to the point where it is frequently used to marginalize those of us on the autism spectrum. For a long time society was making progress towards acceptance, but recently I've noticed a steady uptick in people being unwilling to bear with my social struggles because they write it off as "mansplaining" or similar. When people choose to see everything through a single lens, and to be immediately accusatory toward those who don't share their exact perspectives, it hits those who struggle with social conventions quite hard.
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My take is that any kind of fair renegotiation removing the regulatory capture and the anti-competitive behavior allowed (and in some cases, required) by decades of lobbying would improve the situation. Single payer would work, free(er) market would work, but we're currently reaping the fruits of generations of entrenched political class for sale.
> Once you grok the virtual environment thing

it's incredible how hard it is to get some people on board with this. I've gotten used to good project-local package management in other langauges, I can't imaging working with anything that depended on stuff happening to be available in a global namespace ever again.
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> (sort -R sorts by hash, which is not really randomisation.)

I looked at the source code for GNU sort and what they're doing is reading 16 bytes from the system CSPRNG and then initializing an MD5 digest object with those 16 bytes of input. Then the input lines are sorted according to the hash of each line with the 16 bytes prepended.

Although they should no longer use MD5 for this, I don't think we know anything about the structure of MD5 that would even allow an adversary to have any advantage above chance in distinguishing between output created this way and an output created via a different randomization method. (Edit: or distinguishing between the distribution of output created this way and the distribution of output created via another method!)

The output of sort -R is different on each output and ordinarily covers the whole range of possible permutations.

$ for i in $(seq 10000); do seq 6 | sort -R | sha256sum; done | sort -u | wc -l
720
Probably more importantly, the idea of landing a rocket was basically impossible until computer control got good enough to handle the descent and landing.
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The tech labor force skews liberal (simply as a result of demographics), but if you see it as being dominated by either political extreme, that's much more likely to be an observer effect than reality. Contrary to the impression you'd get from message boards, there aren't that many "radical libertarians" or that many "democratic socialists" working in a typical company.

The only way organization will happen is if it's done for the benefit of the median tech employee. That employee might not be totally apolitical, but they are more worried about the practical realities of their career than they are about tech's place among the great labor unions of US history.

My point is just, it's pretty clear that there are plenty of industry-wide grievances that not only could be fixed, but could be fixed to the betterment of the entire industry, making companies stronger, more efficient, and more survivable.

Given the opportunity tech workers have now with market power and large employers presenting clear targets to organize against, I'd argue that conditions are pretty good for organizing today.
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I mean, the value of bitcoin has gone from ~$7 in 2011 to almost $5,000 today. So a momentary dip due to bad news isn't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
Killing and blowing stuff up I suppose. That’s most video games anyway. Some strategy too.
Pandemic Legion pretty much.
What does not make sense is letting someone out and then not treating them as normal humans again.

Because the current criminal "justice" system has very little to do with actually preventing and helping society recover from the effects of criminal behavior. It's about generating false appearances of "retribution" (or making people "pay" for their crimes, whatever that means), and the (deeply) false appearance of some kind of "moral balance" in the world, generally. And reinforcing systems of (low-key) terror and control on the general population.

It only encourages people to revert to evil.

You got it. That may not be the stated goal of the current system. But it's certainly one of its inevitable outcomes.

The tragedy is that it's not just the offenders - or even those wrongly accused - who suffer from (and become morally corrupted by) the current order. It's all of us.
Yes, with nixos it's easy and _safe_ to install packages from unstable while running a stable system as default (installing stuff never breaks your system).

There's also a fairly new feature called overlays which are used to fully track upstream releases (there's overlays available for rust and Firfox Nightly for instance).
Because it's easy for people to learn with no prior knowledge in programming. It's taught in many intro classes now and as time goes on the simple fact will cause the language to be used more in production environments as well.
This is but a battle in the oncoming monetary revolution.
EU lost ? or the governments lost ? It is a big difference actually.
Pretty sure they are still going up
No, his numbers are correct. The drops always settle higher than last "crash"'s peak. How long it will continue is anyones guess.. I think It goes on for quite awhile longer. BTC will eventually get expensive very to create but if the network is being used those creators should have lots of fees to help cover their work. If they don't then they're going to stop mining.
Why? Mind citing some sources so we can make more informed choices? I've heard this accusation a few times, but there's not a lot of info contradicting Apple's word on how they are using the data they collect.
I think there are two forms of readability: localized readability and whole-program readability. Python only satisfies the former. Your statement about readability being one of the most important qualities I believe is true, but more for whole-program readability in my experience.
Python has a reputation for being a good "beginner" or "scripting" language. Describing it as such is really a disservice.

One of things that makes Python a killer language (apart from its readable syntax and straightforward programming model) is how it enables you to jump in at any skill level and be immediately productive, without hampering your ability to get things done quickly and elegantly as your skills grow.

There are faster, trendier languages out there, but I suspect Python will still be thriving when many of them have become footnotes.
They don't want to be a negative target of DC. DC is currently Republican led and Republican politicians most definitely care what Fox news thinks.

My guess is that the profs saw this as such a perfect shitstorm that, if it becomes a major story, DC would feel they have no choice but to do something about it.
Not really. I got freelance jobs when I was at about your level.
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This just about sums it up for me: https://xkcd.com/353/
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Being a constituent of X (in this context) means means X is expected to advocate for you.

Thus Eric Garner wasn't a constituent of NYC, he was a constituent of his representatives, who may or may not have done a good job advocating for the safety of those interviewed or detained by the police. I don't see how constituency doesn't help here, because now we can hold reps responsible for advocating for better protection, whereas if no representative power structures existed in the US, what happened to Garner would happen all the time and we would still belong to Great Britain
Ah, good point. I should have checked better on things before commenting!
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This. Most schools are moving away from C or Java being their primary language. Most comp sci professors acknowledge the usefulness of a scripting language and so when they need to pick one, they pick one they have the most familiarity with. Due to numpy and scipy this tends to be Python over Ruby.

Also many things about python that I don't like such as `len` being a function rather than a method on a list are very trivial when coming from a language like C which has hordes of tiny inconsistencies.

The whitespace thing in python is pretty gimmicky but does also hold a certain amount of pedantic appeal.
If you think about it from the bank's perspective though, why would they lend you any money if you were likely to default and they would have to sue you to get money back. That would mean that the cost of your loan would go up for them and therefore, your borrowing rate goes up tremendously.

Humans don't have an innate right to borrow money. It's a service provided by financial institutions for a fee. I don't think credit reports are the best solution (far from it) but they definitely improve your ability to borrow money, at least if you have a good one. :)
In eastern Ukraine and Crimea, that is almost exactly what happened.
Startup wants to replace lawyers

Startup wants to replace doctors

Startup wants to replace gym instructors etc etc

I think any kind of job which involves referring to established practices/information can be automated in the near future.
Part of the reason is same side network effect. It makes sense to create new libraries in languages having great existing libraries.
So that's a nice optimistic vision, and if I had any faith we could keep it to that, I'd be for it. My vision includes scope creep and lots of greedy ambitious good-at-politics less-good-at-actually-doing-work types grabbing the show once it's successful.

Most organisations meaningfully described as unions has a non-trivial element of excluding people from the trade in one way or another. I will never be a part of any organisation that will prevent any person from (trying to) make a living as a programmer in whatever way.
It started the year under $1,200. He's not being sarcastic, this is a very volatile currency.

The reason is, it's not so much a currency as a store of value that is simultaneously benefiting from global bad monetary policy and the cycles of technology adoption.

I don't even think Bitcoin has crossed the chasm.

It's a new asset class.
Well, KDE uses QT, which has a good bit of support, and is developed by a paid team. Plasma Mobile's original goal was to support GTK/Sailfish/Android apps[0], so I have a little bit of hope. After being let down by so many privacy-oriented phones, I'm still doubtful but will back up this project.

[0] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2953812/operating-systems/kd... under "An inclusive platform that supports many apps" section.
Yes, but why tear up our planet to get at its metals and minerals? Better to move mining and heavy industry into space, and avoid the environmental damage to Earth.
How would you rank sabotage of Verizon equipment by their employees against, say, a coal company transferring all their pension and health liabilities into new company and then letting it go bust, while they retain all the profit making parts?

"Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen." -- Woody Guthrie "Pretty Boy Floyd"
I don't work at Microsoft, I just like that the Windows works more than I do Linux. I use Linux because that is what we release on so I guess I don't fall under "Linux Nerd"
Absolutely, except for the wealthy private interests like pharmaceutical companies and insurance.

Polls show the majority of Americans have favoured a single-payer system now for decades. This was the case under Reagan even, and still is today.

This shows the degree to which the US is not in fact a true democracy, but more of an oligarchy. However things can change if there is enough public pressure. People just need to be organized.
> It is stupid fun to program with Python

Around 2009 I started questioning if I even enjoyed coding anymore. I was primarily using PHP and Java. Rather than quit the profession I tried Python and suddenly it was fun again. 8 years later, it still is. Python just spoke my language.

My career is based around using Python because it's the way I enjoy the work. Everything else, like the actual properties of Python relative to other languages, is irrelevant to me if using another language would make the work unenjoyable again. (Though if Python didn't measure up very well compared to other languages it wouldn't have become my go-to in the first place.)
> I just don't understand why more sites don't embed the reddit comments.

1. You can't leave comments after an amount of time has passed on Reddit. On even my blog, conversation will spark up 1+ years later. Why would a website want to inherit that limitation?

2. Users have to have a Reddit account. Some of the best conversations in my comments section are anonymous.
based on Stack Overflow question visits

Is Python use really growing? Or is this a Stack Overflow thing? I thought it was being displaced by Javascript Everywhere.

Python had a 5-year setback from the Python 3 transition, but we're now mostly past that.
You still have to explain why python is the premier language for that.
It is a bit more of a pain to work with than similar features in other languages. Like as far as I know you can't just move a venv, you have to rebuild it in the new place. Whereas `node_modules` is just a dir. Also, there is a weird layering where venv abstracts away installed eggs/wheels/whatever they're calling them these days, but then since that's still painful to work with, you need another layer on top like virtualenvtools or burrito or whatever it is. (Sorry, it's been a couple years so my memory is fuzzy)
ML plus Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, Jupyter Notebooks, etc.
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Wow that put me off. A bunch of kidults who need to get a grip.
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Ironically, this is not the most intense bull run bitcoin has seen. It is a strong bull run for recent years, however, but Bitcoin is getting less volatile over time.
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We raised $10.5M for our legal technology company, Legal Technology Services (LTS). My cofounders of LTS who are lawyers, Augie Rakow and BeBe Chueh, started a firm called Atrium LLP. Atrium LLP is LTS' first customer, and allows us to reduce our development cycle on building that software. I am not a partner at Atrium LLP (and am not a lawyer, nor do I give legal advice).

It's a complex story that has been a little misinterpreted and simplified.
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The most interesting part of the post is the conclusion where the author says that he's a data scientist who uses R and doesn't feel the need to switch to Python!

He also has very good thoughts, and very important for beginners to know, about how there isn't a single right way to learn programming.

> In any case, data science is an exciting and growing field, and there’s plenty of room for multiple languages to thrive. My main conclusion is to encourage developers early in their career to consider building skills in data science. We’ve seen here that it’s among the fastest-growing components of the software development ecosystem, and one that’s become relevant across many industries.
I graduated in 2009. Tuition has passed double what I paid, and today is approaching 3 times what I paid.
They appear to have pretty good design, could see how this is useful for people who can't afford expensive flights but not sure how they're making money in the long-term when they claim to have 0% apr. Booking commissions maybe? Isn't that how expedia/kayak makes money?
No cop is going to work in new york for 40k a year unless you want a huge spike in bribery. I don't know where you could even live in the city on that much. 400k is a tad excessive, but complaining when public employees make a decent salary (100k in a high cost place like NY) is sad
"What the government probably doesn't like is the other way around, when normal people buy BTC with yuan and then sell them abroad, exporting capitals."

Don't they also get some type of currency back when they do this? which is probably then spent inside China too? I don't see how this would be different from the first scenario. Maybe I'm missing something.
If they ban it completely and the demand remains, it'll disappear underground, while if the government embraces it and puts AML/KYC (and most likely cash-limits) in place, they can control (and tax) it.

Local bitcoins is already out there and if those get blocked by the great firewall of China, alternatives will pop up soon enough.

Also the ICO environment is littered with complete utter garbage and I can see lots of people getting burned when jumping in uninformed, which seems to be happening on an accelerated pace these days.
Because the price you can pay today is lower than the price someone else happened to pay a few days ago. It's purely psychological.

Most people who claim BTC is discounted now at $3500 probably also believe that BTC is a long-term good "investment", which would imply that they also think it's "discounted" at $5000.

I guess this is obvious to all, but there are no well-understood "fundamentals" yet for BTC.

The most charitable thing you can say is that buying at $3500 now is a better deal than buying at $3500 previously, given it's now been revealed that someone was willing to pay $5000 at one point.
My python grows quickly.
> Single payer would work, free(er) market would work, but we're currently reaping the fruits of generations of entrenched political class for sale.

Single payer or similar universal coverage systems would be the safe (dare I say conservative?) bet, since we have tons of examples of systems like that working well in countries similar to ours while saving lots of money per-capita over our system. Looks like an easy win.

Messing with our regulations and hoping the market fixes things might work, but it's more of a gamble.
The problem is, we wanted to do Iraq and Afghanistan and get out. If we had done a Marshall Plan in Iraq, we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade, but it would have been stable when we left.
In first wave we plan to have couple of working apps such as dialer, mail, browser, audio/video player but gradually community will hop on and port/create apps for it.

Sure, we start against millions of apps in other ecosystem but on average people don't use more than 20 apps often and I for one dislike that every website out there has created their own iOS/Android app when I can simply use one app for all them - browser.

Also never underestimate the power of GNU/Linux community - it has by far most of hackers on it and it is doing their thing for decades already without slowing down at any single point.

Also, we will try to help and support any community that will work on getting their OS/app on Librem 5. It would be phone produced by Purism and supported by us, but it would truly be one from people for people. :)
You could always install Antergos. It's basically just Arch + sane defaults
Javascript programmers base a lot of their choice of framework on where the hypetrain is heading, which blog posts can have a lot of influence over.
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>Is single payer the answer ? Frankly I don't know

I think so, it works for European countries, and Canada, which are comparable in wealth to the US. I don’t see why not.
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Single-payer is the most startup-friendly system available.

It moves variable health care costs entirely out of your HR and payroll systems. You can get more experienced employees when they aren't afraid to risk their family's health care on a job move. By reducing risk exposure there, the risk of salary vs equity becomes more attractive.
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