skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, SECONDS is great. I just discovered this a few days ago to get a general idea of execution time for each process a script handles:

# At top of script

SECONDS = 0

# script commands

...

# At bottom of script

duration=$SECONDS

echo "$(($duration / 60)) minutes and $(($duration % 60)) seconds elapsed."
Second largest sector at 14.7%. Click sector breakdown in the top right.

http://us.spindices.com/indices/equity/sp-500

There are a lot of middle men that would get absolutely crushed or go out of business if single payer were passed. Others would have to slash margins in order to meet whatever cost cutting is needed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4uzev2/antergos_...
No they're explaining why Pandas was written in Python and why data science and machine learning projects choose Python over R or Java or Haskell, etc.
Again, these are opinions and in Huffington's case not disinterested opinions. She ran for governor in the recall.

The fact remains that the CA energy crisis was enabled by Republicans for the benefit of Ken Lay's Enron Corp. Then when it happened Republicans complained loudly and political advantage of their created crisis.
Thule Crossover

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XANKVO/ref=oh_aui_sear...

Also has 25 year warranty I believe.

The build quality is superb, and it works as a 2 day trip backpack. You can pack enough clothes for a weekend trip.

Plus water resistant :)
I have been through a few in the last couple of years and my favorite to date (and one of the two I still own and use) is Thule Subterra Backpack 30L [0]. Side zipper for laptop to get in and out easily with a large main compartment. Feels great and so far has been pretty durable. Doesn't have an easy access pocket, but the slide zip for the laptop makes it a win for me

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N0ZLG5F
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"This could go really wrong if we let non-tech savvy regulators dictate tech stacks, specific hashing/encryption tools. Could work well, but just has a lot of potential to go very wrong."

Engineers, capitalism, private business have utterly, completely, fully and in totality failed.

This is not a little failure. Not a medium one. Not a large one.

This is a foundational, cataclysmic failure of the most epic proportion.

I think the time for voluntary private action has passed.

If developers, their managers, their stakeholders, and their shareholders took security and privacy remotely seriously, we would not be here.

We are here.

It is time to admit the full and complete failure of private software companies to protect data and privacy, and time for government to create a criminal schedule for management and developers who perpetuate criminal negligence.

I believe only 2 things will solve this:

1) Massive financial loss for shareholders -- they speak 1 language, US Dollars. If we say a US Citizens data is worth $100,000, then the fines would be large enough to literally destroy any firm who dared play loose with security. If there is no existential risk, there is zero motivation for compliancy. Only existential risk matters to shareholders. The rest is Cost of Doing Business.

2) Criminal liability for management and developers of products which violate security and privacy due to criminal negligence

Without this, you can all but guarantee that your full identity is kept in plain-text and has already been stolen.
I use sublime for python development, don't use fancy debug features, just print statements
I've updated both my desktop and my laptop from 18 to 18.1 to 18.2 with absolutely no issues at all. Or are you talking about major versions?
It THE "protocol for file transfer", yes?

:)
The captcha thing is great. I'm tired of annotating Googles Machine Learning Datasets for them!
Banning 2 corporations is one thing and banning all offshore corporations another. Would citizens go along with this ? Never.
> All that beautiful meta-programming flexibility has come at a price

Scheme, Common Lisp, and Julia all have good metaprogramming facilities (i'd argue, for Scheme & CL, way beyond what Ruby offers), and they are highly performant, indeed much faster than Ruby, Python (even under Jython) and Javascript under V8.
But that's not the long term plan. The way the community is pushing is out with fiat. If that's the case then the government is going to still want taxes....The way I see it they're either going to lose revenue due to the new market or facilitate cryptos to be converted for payments of taxes and all things electronic....If Bitcoin is THE success it claims to want to be.
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Presumably if someone wanted to sell this data for big bucks they would have found a way to provide a sufficient and satisfying proof.
The 8% contraction would be concentrated in a single sector. The money unspent on healthcare would go elsewhere.

Besides, the way DC works, there would be plenty of time for markets to adjust, short-sell, etc.
I got this one[0] which comfortably fits my 15" MBP, chargers, display adaptors, umbrella, notebooks, cards, headphones, etc. and is very durable. Sometimes I walk with it for 10-15 kilometers and it is very comfortable to carry around.

I got it for ~$100 at a Costco sale. The retail price on the website I linked is so much higher but I recommend checking Costco to see if they still have it.

0: https://www.luggagepros.com/kenneth-cole-reaction-back-stage...
I've had the Timbuk2 Spire (2 maybe?) for about a year and a half. It's fairly slim, can hold 13-15" laptops, can also hold some gear like chargers, powerbanks, a set of clothing, and smaller stuff like you mention. Also does well in rain (at least not torrential rain, but decent rain).

I think it's usually marketed as for bicyclists, but I've found it works really well just for walking/commuting.
Become – How I went from selling food in the street to working in tech
"Plasma Mobile has been going slow but steady. There's no company to pull off the resources."

Then there's also no company to dedicate resources, and do the unfun work that still needs to get done.

"Their agenda is only software freedom and privacy."

I hate to say it, but I don't see the phrase "works well" and "stable" in there. Which, while fine for a desktop, is not fine for a phone.
CommandLineFu
Since I use fingerprint authentication for the vast majority of authentications with my iPhone, I set the actual pin to a complex alphanumeric password. I only have to enter it a few times a week, so it’s worth the hassle. In this sense fingerprint authentication has significantly improved the security of my phone, because it’s so much more difficult to shoulder surf that alphanumeric password that it is a 4/6 digit numeric pin. Biometric authentication definitely seems like a win to me.
Schneier covered IRATEMONK [0], as did others.

[0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/iratemonk_nsa...
It's here now. Blue River makes LettuceBot, which is a machine-vision system for killing weeds in lettuce fields. The machine is towed behind a tractor, looks down at the lettuce and weeds, and zaps weeds and too-close-together lettuce plants with targeted sprays of concentrated fertilizer.[1] It's a full neural net vision system, with many cameras and software borrowed from face recognition. They train the system with pictures of weeds and pictures of good plants, and as it rolls over the field, it targets the bad stuff and sprays it.

This isn't experimental. It's now owned by John Deere and is currently doing 10% of the US lettuce crop. Next, cotton. There's no problem with plants becoming resistant to weed-killers. Unless pigweed learns to look like lettuce, it's going to get zapped.

It's sold as a service. For $220 an acre, Blue River comes and zaps your weeds. Now available in the Salinas Valley and Yuma, AZ.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCa8RntsRE
I think the comparison to other developed countries suggests that the 8% is inefficiently allocated, and with a more efficient system that 8% spent elsewhere would have economic growth elsewhere.

I don't have the figures in front of me, but I think public health indicators (maternal mortality rates, for instance) suggest we aren't getting great ROI on the extra 8% we spend.
I've used the same timbuk2 backpack since 2011 for both travel and daily use (including train & bicycle commuting) and am very happy with it. The most similar current model is http://www.timbuk2.com/spire-macbook-laptop-backpack/306.htm...
I'll take my 5GHz i7 and Intel Management Engine over software freedom and an ARM processor any day.

I don't think it's living the dream unless your dream fits in the constraints of its limitations
Might as well scrap AML/KYC laws now that everyone can open any account anywhere with someone's ID
Professional grade cryptocurrency quote app, CoinHub, set to launch Sept. 20
The iPhone X proves the Unabomber was right
Why is Python So Aggravating?

That's a question that bugs me. I can't believe the level of obviousness of the things that are wrong. That is because we write complex code. Things like direct access to data members (which is 'pythonic'!) are cruel blows to software productivity for complex code. Ugh, Ugh, let me count the ways: No compiler to check the code. The other day I dumped 800 extra lines into a file as a typo. Many, many duplicate functions. Of our whole test suite, how many tests failed? One!!! Ugh.
This is not even to mention the topics of Black.Holes.In.Your.Code because you can't tell what types the functions receive. I really think python is driven by non-programmers who consume rather than produce complex code and the teachers who teach these people. I believe the problems will increase over time. Does anyone know the story of Hack at Facebook? I heard the lead developer give a talk once. Be afraid.
That's a major bummer. Nestle is one of the most evil companies there is--their CEO once said water isn't a human right. Nestle uses cocoa from slave labor and bottle water in drought stricken communities and national forests on expired permits, and do shady stuff like hiring the regulator who gave them their water license. Very few companies are as vile and amoral as Nestle.

Unfortunately, this will taint Blue Bottle's 'premium' experience for me. I guess I'll go to Philz instead.
I mean that limitation makes sense when optimizing for diversity.
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Haha, it's a running joke in our family that American cars are made from TNT. Cars on British TV just crash, they don't explode.
I can't make heads or tails of that graph. Which is supposed to be the independent variable?
Perl just lost the plot. I think BioPerl was ahead of the game before the Python scientific libraries stole the show so they only have themselves to blame. Perl's successor Ruby seems to be headed in the same direction by failing to diversify which is a shame because Ruby is much better language than Python.
I bought a North Face Jester (2nd Edt) six months ago and love it. Fits a 13in laptop comfortably with a padded sleeve, padding on the straps and back (great breathability), lots of pockets and space.

The only criterium I think it fails to meet is a pocket accessible without taking the backpack off your shoulders.

Mine was £55 on sale at Christmas but it's possibly the best bag I've ever had.

Edit: here's the link https://www.thenorthface.co.uk/shop/jester-2

I'd also add that it's fairly lightweight, so on days I'm not traveling with a laptop I'm happy enough to throw it on my shoulder with just my normal daily essentials (kindle or tablet, phone charger, USB battery, notebook, wallet, pens, keys, etc).
‘South Park’ Messed with Your Amazon Echo in the Most Vulgar Way Possible
For most industries, definitely. It may make it much harder for startups in the medical space (if it becomes more difficult to get that single payer to pay them).
I'm a big fan of the Osprey Daylite. Simple, lightweight, small and low profile, and durable. I've had mine for years.

https://www.ospreypacks.com/us/en/product/daylite-DAYLITE.ht...
Ok, we reworded the title above using language from your comment.
Seriously? Arch has always been "works now, breaks every couple of weeks in a spectacular and time consuming way" for me. It reminds me of my Gentoo days when I was a student and had time to burn on endless sessions of configurations and debugging. Every few years I let some avid fan convince me that it has gotten really better. Always ending in the same time consuming nightmare. When I was a freelancer, that time was precious, and I used Ubuntu on my laptop to have a modern and stable desktop. Sorry, but I can only shake my head in disbelief at the glowing praise I read here.
"There is nothing wrong with choosing to put chemicals in your body as long as you aren't hurting anybody else in the process.

"There is something horribly wrong with torture and murder of a 4 year old."

I know plenty of people who disagree and feel there is no great difference between the two. Why are you right and they wrong?
This is just stupid. The value of water in space mined from asteroids comes from it not being on a planet. Compressing water is just stupid and water weighs a lot and thus is very expensive to get to orbit. On a planet like Mars which has water ice available transporting water ice from space is just stupid.
by well off you mean 11% of the population? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Krankenversicherung

You can choose to take private insurance if you make more than 60kEUR ;)
I just had an incredibly similar thing happen with a slightly misleading headline. My legal tech company[1] was in the WSJ[2] on Monday, and the byline was "A nonprofit has developed an online program designed to help people prepare a chapter 7 filing without a lawyer"... which isn't quite what we are doing. We are actually licensing a product to legal aid clinics that do bankruptcy. The process is actually: legal aid clinic directs people to our software, we guide them through an interview, then we populate a PDF bankruptcy petition that we send directly to the clinic for a final review. So, while we have largely removed lawyer time from the process, we deemed that final review essential. The article did explain this by the end, but the headline got some communities pretty alarmed.

[1] https://upsolve.org

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-struggling-consumers-a-chea...
Thanks, it worked fine with the gcloud command.
SailfishOS isn't dead yet.
They are making slow, but steady progress.
This is a good thing. You end up with cultural ghettos if too many people from one culture move to a place too quickly.
> interest is probably older than agriculture

Offtopic I know, but quantitavie economics and bureaucracies were both borne out of agriculture; before that value was subjective.
Yes, both.
> This is assuming we can even get a person to mars, which has not been demonstrated as feasible. Let alone a whole community.

Landing per se shouldn't be impossible. We landed people on the Moon a long time ago. Recent advances in magnetic shell aerocapture are really exciting and make landing on Mars more feasible. The real question is whether we can learn how to do it in an economic and sustainable way; unlike Apollo.

> It would be better to colonize the moon

I agree with this. Going straight for Mars seems unwise. We should expand slowly out into the Solar System, step by organic step. Even better than the Moon would be Low Earth Orbit. A colony in LEO would have same-day access to Earth in either direction, and would benefit from being inside Earth's magnetic field, which would allow the designers to cut the mass needed for shielding significantly. Big savings.

A LEO colony would be close enough to Earth that people on Earth could teleoperate robots in the colony in real time with minimal lag, allowing it to circumvent the bootstrap question of "Where do people live while it's being built?"

A LEO colony would also have to built using bulk physical resources from the Moon or the Near Earth Asteroids, building up our manufacturing base there, and serving as a "shore leave" destination for people working further up in Geosyncrhonous Orbit or elsewhere Cis-Lunar space.

Once we have a basic torus capable of holding, say, 10,000 people, it could serve as a staging area for venturing deeper into the Solar System, such as Mars. But personally even then, I wouldn't advocate for Mars. After all that work of moving humanity out of a deep gravity well, why climb into a new one? Space is where all the solar energy is, and all the resources of the asteroid belt and the moons are (gravitationally speaking) close at hand.

> It’s a massive waste of resources which could go towards making earth better, where we’re all stuck anyway.

Now here's where I disagree with you.

1. In no way did colonizing Australia or North America prevent England from improving the homeland. You can do both! Heck, Elon Musk is already doing both. The whole point of Tesla/Solar City is to move humanity off fossil fuels.

2. Space colonization can be part of the solution. Imagine industrial processes that have very polluting intermediate steps; they could be done on the Moon where you don't have water or air to worry about polluting. Earth could be cleaned up by exporting those industries to space. The Moon could also serve as a much better repository of high-level nuclear waste than Yucca Mountain.

And of course in the very long term, the Solar System has the energy and material resources to support a human population 10,000x bigger than Earth does. As much solar energy as Earth receives, space receives a lot more. As much iron and PGM and carbon and water as Earth has, space has more. Europa alone is estimated to have 2x as much water as Earth. And so those resources can support more people who have more ideas who solve the very problems you want solved.
> python is so fun is because it is slow

C++ pushes you to conflate optimization with the higher level meaning of what you're trying to implement. In Python you can write the higher level meaning in a more 'pure' way, which is fun of course. The really interesting question is if you can program at the higher level while still running fast, perhaps by specifying optimizations separately?

(BTW, for Python code that can be as fast at C++ see https://kratzert.github.io/2017/09/12/introduction-to-the-nu... - it doesn't sacrifice clarity, but is limited to a subset, for now).
> Mostly, I see this is as a lack of compilation and types in Python. How do others overcome this and enjoy large Python projects?

Divide code into modules.

If you are worried about types, use object oriented programming to define the classes you want and then use the assert() instruction to check variables to comply with said classes/types.

A good IDE like PyCharm will take advantage of such assert() statements.
It's worse than that. With the biologics on their way to market today, and with guidelines changing, we could be treating relatively common diseases with absurdly expensive drugs, and insurance companies will have no choice but to cover these therapies. That will in turn cause premiums to skyrocket.
> How are these other nations providing all of the functions of government, including universal health care, for what Americans are paying just for insurance?

by america subsidizing their defense spending
Tom Bihn gets my vote. Great bags, high quality, reasonable prices, American made.
>If we allow that conflation, it then becomes more difficult or requires more words to express what "begging the question" really is.

By analogy with Huffman coding, the meanings that are used less often should require more words to express than the more commonly-used meanings. And if you really want to express the meaning "assuming the premise", then you could just say "assuming the premise", instead of insisting on the "precision" of using a 16th-century mistranslation of petitio principii.
It could, but the Deep Space Network is the bottleneck 100kbit speeds and hours round trip makes getting the data difficult in best conditions, eg. orbiting out by titan
Try Clojure and I promise you will have even more fun.
I'm still at a loss as to what type of science there is that doesn't have data.

"Data science" to me seems like a buzzword that has connotations of a field or industry starting to use science where they previously didn't. Over here in academia it's just "science", or possibly "data analysis" if you want to emphasise that that's the part of your project you're working on right now as opposed to data collection.
Can anyone think of a good reason that something involving the Benelux and either Paris or Berlin isn't considered?
I was being kind. :)
> And if we do, let's deport the murderer to the middle of the Pacific ocean.

Why should other countries care for or suffer your country's criminals? Of course, unless you meant some uninhabited island or dropping him in the water... Other than that, keep him.
This was the same way with managed IT services 10 years ago. Most companies now are not billing based on time, but based on the value of the services they provide. Changes started with smaller companies first.

Smaller law firms will handle some things on flat fee now, bankruptcy, DUI, and other transactional issues. It is going to continue to increase when appropriate.
StarSpace: Facebook AI Research's open source, general-purpose embedding system
The genetic & cultural differences between two random Indian provinces is probably far larger than between Sweden & Norway.
Seems awesome. Hope Firefox does something similar.
And hope they're biased against the middle finger
Assuming that it were to happen all at once, yes. But instituting these types of changes would probably take the better part of a decade, or at least several years to phase in.

Based on my understanding, that contraction in the pharmaceutical industry would put money back in the hands of the middle to lower income brackets who are currently impacted most. And given that the velocity of that money is higher for them than it is for the upper classes, it would theoretically lead to higher consumer spending, and growth, for the economy.
> One of my clients recently replaced a major chunk of their C++ code with Python and achieved a speedup from multi-hour to sub-millisecond.

Code rewrites are often more than a literal translation. They often eliminate old code, and allow to rethink the architecture. So it's really not a surprise that Python code would be faster here. A rewrite to C++ would probably be much faster still.
Doesn't matter - they're interchangeable

Just keep it consistent in your app/service/tool/etc
Cryptoassets move 30% in price any given week.

CNBC will call it a crash. The network continues to function as well as it did in 2011 when it traded for $1.
I'm with you.

I cut my teeth on Slackware, then Debian and was a happy Arch user for years up until the systemd transition. I'm negative on it in general, but the upgrade completely borked my system. For the life of me could not find a way to recover it. And I know my way around the system...

Switched to OpenBSD and haven't looked back since. There's not all that much to tweak, mainly because I'm always in console. If I need to browse websites I can use my company issued mbp or my ipad.
> Kinda off-topic, but, isn't Linus basically a Microsoft here? Does it matter if Linux's forkable and open-source, if nobody ever forks it to do what the community wants instead of what Linus wants?

Not really. With OSS, what matters is whether the community wants it badly enough. Forking a software project is fundamentally hard, and the payoff has to be big enough. With Microsoft, it doesn't matter how big the community's payoff is. If Microsoft doesn't benefit enough, it ain't happening.

I think the threat of forking is one of those really serious threats that still matters even if no one ever really comes close to doing it. It comes up more often in geopolitics, where military capability still matters even if no one wants to get anywhere close to a war.
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Don't forget pushing "free" baby formula on new mothers in developing countries, so their milk supply dries up.