skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chart makes a pretty compelling case that this is the right answer. The top trending libraries are pandas, numpy, and matplotlib (both flask and django are probably trending at the same baseline rate of any top 10 popular language). These are all libraries heavily used in data science.

We also know that ML and AI are new macro trends in the tech industry. Python's elegant syntax isn't really evidence for why Python is trending now as opposed to any other time in the last decade.
You are mixing up capitalism with anarchy and chaos. Capitalism requires the rule of law and property rights. An unregulated market is one where any voluntary transaction can take place and no involuntary transaction takes place. It is not a voluntary transaction if I put a gun to your head and tell you to hand over your wallet, and a "market" in which that is allowed is not even a market. It is illegal for me to pay you to deliver a letter to another house. That's not a free market either, because the transaction was mutually voluntary but it is disallowed.
Have them try Pipenv!

https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv

While virtualenv management isn't that difficult, Pipenv is VERY intuitive.
I also believe that TouchID + FaceID would be a good combo as well for the vast majority of users. Both technologies seem to be relatively foolproof and user-friendly. Upping the ante from a security perspective would be a good thing. Unfortunately, that won't come to fruition.
"Wang Jianlin meets Hong Kong’s ex-chief executive Tung, quashing talk he’s barred from travelling"

http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/2110610/...
I'm not sure that Touch ID can come back in its current form. Phil stood on stage and told us Touch ID is 50,000 secure and Face ID is 1,000,000 secure.

I think the only way for Touch ID to come back is for it to cover the whole display, so it can authenticate every touch.
Indeed, the categories are "Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners" (predominantly female) and "Janitors and Building Cleaners" (predominantly male).

That said, I'm not convinced there's a significant classification bias.
OCT BTC trading is legal in china.

The issue is with the exchanges not being fully regulated according to the desires of the PBOC. This was the problem earlier in the year. They are tightening the screws.

But you can sell BTC to people you know face to face and it's legal.
>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.

Ruby is a wonderful language with a really unfortunate standard implementation. It's easily 5 times slower than Node at practically anything, which is sad because Ruby is infinitely better than Javascript. I really think this is what it comes down to and why Rails has been dying off.
Economies of scale. Pulling a credit score costs about $.30 and takes two seconds. How long will it take to search public court records?

Besides, it's not only the bankruptcies that count. Good tradelines are also important, and those are not public.
I wouldn't either. Luckily, since organization hasn't really happened yet, if we get involved now we can make that a principle for the field. Tech is unique among professions in how open it is to people that aren't the product of an academic feeder assembly. That's something I think is worth preserving about the industry, and something a labor organization should help preserve.

Don't assume that a disorganized workforce will keep that from happening. Look at pretty much all cybersecurity regulation from the last 10 years to see what could happen if labor rolls over and lets it: professional certification, run by commercial firms that specialize in selling themselves as efficient authorities.
Python is what BASIC was in the 1970s and 80s, in a good way.

It enables people that normally would not program to do things that they otherwise could not be done with traditional software with a GUI, that being web based, apps or desktop applications.

It is a stepping stone into computing that otherwise would have been inaccessible for many. Unlike BASIC, the design of the language is good enough that it can be used in professional applications, and not only being a stepping stone.
I always figured the people complaining about the whitespace thing are people whose code I really don't want to be reading anyway
I have read that the US spends 18% of GDP vs. most other countries spending around 10%. That means the health industry is at risk of losing 8% of GDP which at 18 trillion GDP is around 1.5 trillion.

People say this money is being wasted but it's going somewhere and these people will fight for keeping it.
Just one example. The canvas API can grab the image data on the canvas. If you could rasterize arbitrary DOM nodes then you could very easily fingerprint users by, say, checking which fonts are installed. You could also load external resources such as images and iframes bypassing same-origin policy, so if your bank's website was configured incorrectly, a malicious site could steal information by taking screenshots of a canvas.
Nothing I said could be reasonably interpreted to mean that you're not allowed to disagree with Harvard's decision. Stop trying to be argumentative.
Blisk browser released version 6.0
Had to? No. Chose to.
Again for comparison, Germany has free tuition even at university level. And it doesn’t cost the country a great deal. These sudden rises in tuition in the US Zaire a relatively recent phenomenon too.
I think if anything the SO stats underestimate the pervasiveness and popularity of Python, even outside the data science world.
> ...your reply demonstrates

What did I demonstrate? It seems clear from the conversation (and, indeed, in plenty of other cases) that there are people who take exception when someone says "everyone has a religion" or "everyone has faith".

Secularism is another one of those tricky words with multiple meanings. I'm both for and against it depending on which one someone means. I'm for first amendment protections for people of all dispositions. I'm against people (again, of all dispositions) feeling like they have to closet themselves in an ever-growing set of contexts.

I hope everyone else feels the same way, but apparently not since things seem to be regressing as time goes on.
I think you're reading the article wrong—pandas is a symptom, not a cause.

That said, it seems foolish to ignore the clear data science use case. But that's also been a theme for at least five years now.
How Better DevOps Processes Could Have Saved Equifax from Data Breach Fallout
Except, she actually did kill a child in a way that was undoubtedly agonizing and terrorizing. She did not suffocate him in his sleep, and she did not poison him, she beat a small child to death. Can you imagine the terror and pain they went through?

To the extent I believe her backstory (we are only hearing her account of things), I am incredibly sympathetic about the damage done to her, but I am also sympathetic to the child she brutally killed. I don't know that something like that is ever forgivable to me.
That's absolutely true of any programming.
Now that you reminded me of the name, I could search around. (Package names were plasma-mobile-* and plasma-active-*.) KDE/Plasma Active was packaged last in 2014 for major distros, but no release since then. The old packages are not installable any more. Feels quite dead from the end-user perspective.

Version 6 is not packaged anywhere AFAICT.
Come on, we all know a language and its library ecosystem go hand in hand. Trying to separate them from the standpoint of adoption is pointless. TFA comes to its conclusion by looking at libraries. In your hypothetical where Perl or Ruby take Python's place, that would manifest as Perl or Ruby having better data science libraries. The causality would probably be just as cyclical as it is for any "best language/library for task X" question.
Watch out for conflating abstraction level with speed. Coding at a low level of abstraction means sweating the small stuff, but it's easy to fool yourself into thinking you're making things fast - when actually, you're micro-managing.

Painting with broader brushstrokes with less concern for micro-efficiencies lets you block out a solution faster. Another part of the problem with C++ is that the components come with so many rough edges that need to be filed down that you can't help getting swamped in a certain level of detail, unless you start with a large toolbox or framework that lets you work back at a higher level again.

You ought to have the equivalent of Java's file stream, buffer and text decoder as three separate bits that you can compose, so that putting a whole file in a string is never even a temptation. But if you start out with a sparse toolbox, it's a slog.
KDE community is awesome and all they needed to revive things around plasma mobile effort is to have dedicated device and with Librem5 they would get exactly that.
How do you feel that MIDI is still with us today, and still prone to mis-use!? I mean, in the context of the original article, its quite clear that there is a deeper lesson to be learned .. especially when compared with a near-40 year old technology which is still in use today.

(If I could return to Cakewalk, I would. Wrote some of my best tracks with that little ISR of yours!)
Agreed. If you used medical services in any significant way before 2010, your SS and birthdate was all over the place in insurance and medical records.
You don't even need single payer. Most European countries don't have single payer either. what they have is more rules on pricing.
> How are you encumbered with normal currency?

A simple example would be if I want to pay someone a large amount of money (>$10,000) privately. Using credit or a check creates a financial record. Cash is the only way to keep the transaction completely private. With such a large sum, it can become non-trivial to transport that much cash, especially internationally. There's also the obvious issue of securely transporting that much physical currency. With cryptocurrency, I can transport arbitrary units of value over the internet with the security of cryptography.

You may argue that there's no legitimate transaction that would occur at that high of a dollar amount, but I think that's a matter of opinion, and that individuals should be able to transact one to one without involving any third parties to transfer value.

> And how are you able to avoid taxes with bitcoin in a way that is legal?

This is a bit of a gray area. At the most illicit end, it's a total tax dodge by laundering/concealing income. At the legal end, I understand that there are cases where the taxes you're supposed to pay on bitcoin gains works out better than if you had made that gain through a stock or other type of investment. I haven't converted large amounts of cryptocurrency to USD or vice versa, so I'm not totally familiar with the IRS reporting for crypto assets.
I highly doubt this would be possible for a long time, but it would be interesting if Apple could equip the entire display a TouchID sensor. If you could scan all of our fingertips, then you could theoretically "sign" every interaction with the display.
"Protecting its sovereign borders" by stealing from others' sovereign borders? Sorry, not buying it.
> What you appear to be arguing is that it would be better for tech workers if they could be fired for organizing.

I've done my best to explain why the NLRA and "labor unions" (as asked in the original question) are completely orthogonal to professional associations (which you mentioned in your reply). I've explained why the rights that the NLRA grants are relevant to labor unions, but are different from the ones that professional associations require and use in their operations. I've explained why bringing up professional associations in a thread specifically about labor unions is a red herring. I've mentioned some of the history, and I've proposed a thought experiment to try and illustrate this difference better.

If after all of that, you really, genuinely think the best summary of what I've said is "it would be better for tech workers if they could be fired for organizing," then I don't know what to say. That's an unbelievably uncharitable way to twist the things I've said in good faith.
This is a really important question. I wonder how insurance companies would price this as well. If the machines have access to all written legal data then are they allowed to pick and choose which information they include in their legal good or legal service? Will machines ultimately be depended on to develop laws which could then benefit the machines over the humans?
I've been following AMD's efforts, and I think what you say obscures the practical points.

In fact, I prefer OpenCL to CUDA. However, that it is not only a matter of "a few people"'s effort is that AMD had a few people on BLAS libraries since forever, and their stuff is almost unusable for DL, let alone a match for CUDA. Add to that that Nvidia provided cuDNN that everyone uses. That it is not a matter of just a few people can be seen from the fact that AMD still does not provide an alternative, even a toy one, that works. Everythinig in AMD/OpenCL world relies on a few 3-rd party open-source efforts. Some of those work OK, some are cool, some are great, some are garbage, but there is no ecosystem anywhere near Nvidia's.

They have HIP (and they have OpenCL) but these are only general purpose compilers. They have nothing when it comes to the libraries.
I like the fee structure!

However, I'm curious how they measure and ensure quality in their work. It seems like the fee structure (fixed bids) will incent them to reduce the time spent on work, which could be good or could be bad, depending on the answer to that question.
Thanks for the reply, that makes a lot more sense than how the story was portrayed in the Post.
> Can somebody explain what will happen if U.S starts to feel the pressure from Bitcoin and kills it at the point of exchange?

Can you explain how they would? To me this sounds like saying the US would ban World of Warcraft cash.
Ask HN: Opportunities in the EV market?
There have been reading a lot of news recently about growth of EV:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224578
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219469
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15208565

While this change/growth has a lot to do with car manufacturers, what kind of opportunities will it present for companies outside the auto or ride sharing space?
DailyPay Helps Workers Make Ends Meet in Between Paydays
It does cut a large chunk of issues off. Also helps "canonicalize" idioms. That said you can still have mess from time to time. But that's alright.
Headline: asteroid mining is our best hope for colonizing Mars.

Body text: after people start colonizing Mars, asteroid miners can sell them water.

It looks like circular hope to me. Hope that asteroidal water will be useful to people on Mars. And hope that there will be people on Mars who will pay for asteroidal water.
Most European countries don't have single payer. They just have better regulation.
She beat a child to death and killed him in a torturous manner. I don't really give a fuck about her "good behavior" in prison, she should die in one.
Spotify talks to TPG over future of its investment
tl;dr, but in essence we cannot completely ignore "misdeeds", because the circumstances are essential in your example, the case not withstanding. That the same circumstances wouldn't be comparable to the monkey's action in the case is either a baseless assumption or showing the hole in your analogy. That is, unless you alleged you were a monkey :P

I mean, you weren't specific so I may assume you stole the camera. And I'm sure monkeys have a concept of stealth, too.
Talking to the title for a second - (what they are actually doing seems quite different.)

This is funny, I think we might be underestimating the recalcitrance of human beings, and negentropic characteristics of life itself. (to say nothing of lawyers). After all there are still people operating the barriers at parking structures where I park in the morning, and they certainly cost more than a robot...

It seems that behind the recurrent question of automation and the anticipate crisis of salaried employment is a question of entropy and negentropy, not of autonomy and automaticity.

Law is distinctly negentropic and so is not the best candidate. Avoiding legal recourse would be a different matter ...
The case of this article is unfortunate, but it's actually missing what I think is the more serious problem with YouTube for independent artists right now.. This is just a problem of an unfortunate strike against a video - I imagine that it will be fixed under appeal. These things happen, as a great great number of videos need to be evaluated by staff against a complicated set of criteria and precedents. It doesn't actually speak very much about any kind of systemic bias against independent artists.

What DOES create a problem for artists is the tuning of the algorithms to be highly preferential to long form frequently posted content E.g video game commentary. This is a big problem for creators who work in short, high effort, highly polished media - E.g animators.

This really really bums me out. I was an employee at YouTube during their period of great growth and I absolutely loved the platform and potential for compensation that they gave to niche and indy animators and musicians, and had great hope for a future where the democratization of video distribution would lead to a flourishing of art and entertainment that caters to a higher common denominator than the over-polished, focus group approved, mass market creativity that passes for main-stream.

Sadly, it looks like the prime goal of increasing return visits and raw view time has lead to algorithmic optimization of that same mass-media race-to-the-bottom in quality and diversity in search of a broadly palatable and compulsively consumable product. It saddens me and I still feel that they could have it both ways if they took a more aware approach to niche content. YouTube offers monetization - the fact that artists even need Patreon means that GoogTube is ignoring a need, and thus a business opportunity. Just because a piece of work may only appeal to 50,000 people world wide doesn't necessarily mean that it has less value or merit than one that appeals to 10 million.

I support quite a few animators on Patreon, and the impression I get is that they are all struggling to keep working on it as a primary job.
I have an Android phone without a Google account or Google services. It's a pain, and it became more of a pain when local voice dialing went away. But it does work. Mail via IMAP, web via Firefox, SMS via SMS, maps via ZaNavi.
What do you mean? When faculty uncovered more information about the crime (it strongly implies she minimized it), they refused to admit her. That sounds right to me.
Well, let's say my project's in C:\Development\Projects\MyAmazingProject

I can open bash there (WSL), or start a container

docker run -v C:\Development\Projects\MyAmazingProject:/mnt/project --net=host -it ubuntu bash

Though i usually do this only when I need to debug something. (WSL can't spawn additional threads, which breaks for example Delve, the Go debugger)

Need to connect to a cassandra db? docker run -it cassandra cqlsh mycassandraaddress

Docker compose works well too. And because WSL has unified network interfaces with windows, I can easily start a process in WSL and access a DB which I've run in docker.

I use docker from PowerShell, just saying.
Killing in Kansas Bar Put Victim’s Widow at Risk of Deportation
If you would stop citing the NLRA and constrain your comments to just unions, we wouldn't have an argument. But you keep implying that the NLRA means unions, and in fact the NLRA is the law that prevents companies from firing their employees for any kind of organizing. It does other things, but you don't have to engage with those other things to get the protection I'm talking about.

So when you cite the NLRA as a bad thing, you are literally making the argument I just suggested you were.
The community is very welcoming, in my experience.
Sometimes I think other nations should be a bit more pragmatic in generating revenue from the huge costs of healthcare in the US.

In the UK we can charge foreigners for use of our NHS. I believe that using this private service, is significantly cheaper than the equivalent in the states. Flight costs are trivial when looking at US healthcare costs. Of course this can only deal with non-urgent and (relatively) well off people.
Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawyers use, and not creating the Uber of lawyers or a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now).

Atrium, the law firm founded by two of my LTS cofounders, is putting that software to use to help startups now.

We are hiring engineers (http://atriumlts.com). Some reasons to join: learn from experienced founders who have done it before, and you can build on short iterations for a customer that's very thankful and you can just walk over and talk to.
If they have the data, and can supply the data in readable form, they may be legally obligated to provide it. Not much else you can do at that moment, if you're Tim Cook trying to stay out of prison.

Apple is clearly working toward securing that data so they can't supply it in readable form. Hard to reconcile that with excellent usability & UX, but they're solidly heading that way. Encrypting that iCloud backup such that it [mathematically] cannot be used without the Secure Enclave is surely coming. To wit: "here's all the data we have, only the defendant can unlock it, and no we're not building backdoors in."
One thing to note: It's at least five times, not exactly. Just click that side button until your phone vibrates a bit and it's locked. I mainly see myself using this feature in high stress situations, like going through airport security or being pulled over, so not needing to count is a small plus.
My android phone forces me to re-enter my passcode every 24 hours.

I think that strikes a nice security median. If someone does get procession of my phone, I only need to stall for less than 24 hours.

The rest of the time, the fingerprint scanner works near perfectly. It's actually faster to use the fingerprint scanner than the standard slide to unlock, which is all I ever had setup on my previous phones.
It's dead simple and people complain about speed but I use it for massive distributed backends handling hundreds of messages each second and scaling without problem.

And this was way back when twisted was the only asynchronous game in town. So I'm not surprised it's growing.
"Scuttlebutt is slang for gossip, particularly among sailors. It is also the name of a peer-to-peer system ideal for social graphs, identity and messaging. ...Secure Scuttlebutt is also different to federated social networks like Mastodon, Diaspora, GNU social, OStatus. Those technologies are not peer-to-peer, because each component is either a server or a client, but not both."
https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html

It's also a system with a clear, although niche, use case that adds value in a way that FB wouldn't.