skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope Apple takes this as a reason to upgrade the default Python version installed on OS X, otherwise this could be a needless headache.
i'm sure that bundy supporters[0] will show up for an armed standoff for this as well

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
They're comparing the age of the universe (on the order of 10 billion years) to the expected lifetime of a red dwarf (on the order of a trillion years).
Investor accreditation makes sense (for now.) Giving poor people free access to untested-investment-vehicle-X is basically the same as giving them over-the-counter access to scheduled drugs. Mistakes will be made, and the people making them—lacking resources as they do—won't be able to recover from them.

Right now, we're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to get people out of these ruts. (Free housing seems to be helpful.) Creating more ways for people to get themselves into them seems ill-thought-out.

On the other hand (to pile tangent upon tangent), something like UBI would neatly fix the "problem" that investor accreditation addresses, because it would mean that even the poorest people would have a cushion in case their investments don't work out.
There is no reason to believe that the universe has a meaningful end, but it appears to have had some kind of origin less than 15 blya. Even if you posit proton decay and use heat death as and endpoint, you’re still talking about many more orders of magnitude of “future” than “past” and... well... what else do we mean when we say young?
> I've spent the last 5+ years doing nothing but develop data-heavy visualization apps.

Those aren't what this article is talking about though, For a huge client facing desktop web app, you can load things up front, expect the user to wait a bit, and then off you go.

But imagine if every page on HN took ~15 seconds to load. Heck the reddit mobile experience right now is that the comments section takes 4-5 seconds to load, and sometimes it doesn't load at all. Of course it is instant in their mobile app, and also instantaneous in their legacy mobile view. (Which makes me seriously question what in the world the modern mobile site is doing.)

Most content is temporary and short lived. Caching a script does next to no good if I only ever visit a site once or twice a month, I'd prefer there not be a script at all!

In regards to content, HN is one of the most valuable sites I use. The JavaScript is so tiny as to be inconsequential.

Give me a CNN.com that is as responsive.
If this is the case then wouldn't re-naming it Python 4 shake the negative view of it? Guess it's too late now for Python but I've seen it done in other open source projects and it worked pretty well.
Until you've used them for a while, you won't believe how pleasant f-strings are. It's worth the upgrade.
I definitely believe ICOs are the future of funding. We are at a premature stage, but as the ecosystem matures we'll see a lot of great things come out of it unless the SEC and whatnot decide to nuke it.

For instance, until now ICOs have been able to raise money without a prototype in hand, this I believe will change.
and there are a TON of themes available for FF here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
All this started with the first ad scripts and invisible pixels.

It got really crazy with google analytics and then all social beacons. Now the only limit are the CPU and RAM available to the browser.
Unfortunately, the real alternative to C at the time (1970) was not Pascal (just published) but PL/I.
And 2 vs 1 is really only a licensing issue. Python 1.4, from 1996, is not so different!
I don't really have any data from the 90s and I wasn't very old back then so I cannot really say anything about it.

And stop putting words into my mouth. I wrote that I believe immigration is the main cause of the most extreme increases not the main cause of rising housing prices in general.

The difference is that the number of people Sweden has recieved is so much larger 2013-2016 so basically every system we had failed and all municipalities was forced to buy apartments.

If you have stable immigration that are predictable it's easy to plan ahead and adjust the society for it but when it comes like 160k people in one year to such a small country as Sweden everything fails. Of course this will have economic effects such as in the housing market.
The 2013 edition of that book (updated with the latest source code) is available at Wirth's website: http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html
Please tell me where my math is off here.

They bought their house for something like $600k and now it's probably worth $1.3M. They pay 20% capital gains taxes on $200k, so $40k, and they lose 3% if they use a broker. That's another $40k, so $80k total. Let's make it an even $100k. So they have $1.2M to throw around after the sale. Subtract $500k to pay off the existing mortgage, that's $700k free and clear.

$700k is a hell of a down-payment, even in the ritziest areas of Marin. They can buy whatever they want.
This feels like a fight we're going to lose eventually.

Proposals come up.. most fail. I admire those responsible for putting up resistance. But.. some succeed. Others partially succeed. Limited to stopping pedophilia, piracy, nazis... Those are bridgeheads.

The direction is monodirectional. Eighty six proposals can fail, but if the eighty seventh succeeds that's just as good. There is no going back. Win, good. Lose, try again. That kind of dynamic guarantees a certain result.
I do now :) Thanks.
And what's driving zoning?
Including Sibelius and Jansonn.
Clojure + going through all of the problems on 4Clojure. It's brining a bit of fun back into programming after years of C++ and Python.
League of Legends rank predicts IQ
Yes, I don't quite get EFF's point.

So they are saying that anybody should be allowed to scrape anything found online, and use that data for any purpose?

In this case it can be argued they use the data against the physical's person about who the data is.

So they wouldn't object if banks or credit companies would use the data to reject non-desirable people.
Read The Three Body Problem trilogy and just hope we’re alone.
Nah, I'm sure you will be able to get commercial support for at least another decade.
Likely because they’re giving other users who happened to start using 1Password later, new features for free.
I am tired of this worldview in which every personal behavior that we don't like is actually a secret manifestation of power dynamics. Nothing ever means anything except as endless jockeying for social position. Nothing is good or bad or true or false or beautiful or hideous: only advantageous or disadvantageous. It's a terrible way of thinking about the world.

This nonsense is not conducive to building or maintaining a civilization. It doesn't create shared understanding: instead, it supposes that any shared understanding is actually some kind of ploy to reinforce privilege or something. It's an endless grievance machine that magnifies our worst mental impulses: suspicion, ingroup-outgroup double standards, and of course fundamental attribution error. This crap shouldn't be part of respectable discourse.
The math on UBI doesn't work. It simply resets $0 to some higher amount set by UBI. It's a means of inflation and hilariously, it will make the rich even richer, because it will remove some incentives to do what it takes to get rich - learn skills and information that make you wealthy.

The story that comes after UBI and other forms of socialism is that humans are greedy and terrible to each other and institutionalized theft only makes greed and corruption worse.

Oh, and the funniest part is it will look initially like a good idea because it will probably improve the lives of those who are given money in small and rare cases, and the positive effect will dwindle the more universal it becomes.

A wiser move would be to teach others how to compete more effectively, but that doesn't sell as well as free money. The people doing these programs aren't stupid and I think it is our generation's "Let them eat cake!" moment. It's certainly good marketing to do so, and I think they believe it will truly make a difference.

One last thought on my silly little rant, "Do you think Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet should get UBI paid out to him?"
Thank you, that is the kind of serious response I was hoping for (although a bit less snark would be nice, but, of course, without morality, what does it matter?).

I agree with you: without a higher power, there is no logical reason for objective morality. The closest that one may come is a purely utilitarian argument that society benefits as a whole if people refrain from actions such as murder, and that such societal benefits then pass to an individual who chooses to refrain from them. But, of course, that does not necessarily preclude an individual committing murder in a certain case if he calculates the benefit to himself to exceed that of refraining, if he thinks he can get away with it.

So, then, my question is this: if a person wants to commit murder for purely selfish reasons (e.g. revenge, financial, power, etc), would it be acceptable to you? If you were the only witness, would you turn him in and testify against him?
Big woop, what are they going to do with that information? They can "target" me with an ad meant for males in their 20-30s (which again, is just a very crude guess). Which will guaranteed to be a much worse fit than just targeting to the content of that site.

No tracking needed. Much better accuracy and return.
Web performance: How high a cost if your website fails high traffic situations?
Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film and Television
Either way, the "correct" way to spend BTC/ETH doesn't seem to be via a series of transactions made via a VISA, does it? Why would go not go directly via an exchange?
The chemical intervention is only sufficient to get the excess of CO2 out of the atmosphere, which would get the surface pressure down to maybe 3 bar of mostly N2. From there, we'd still have to cool the atmosphere down far enough to support thermophilic autotrophic microbes in the new surface lakes. They would produce oxygen, but slowly, so there wouldn't be any appreciable free oxygen available for a long time.

The primary concern would be that Earth-gas would not be a good enough lifting gas in the CO2-depleted Venus atmosphere to keep the floating habitat at a cool enough altitude. Hydrogen-filled chambers would certainly work for that, but you would have to bring that hydrogen with you to Venus. By the time atmospheric oxygen becomes a risk, you would just land the dirigible and burn the hydrogen in a controlled fashion.
From "The Oberon Programming Language"[0]: "Capital and lower-case letters are considered as being distinct....These reserved words consist exclusively of capital letters and cannot be used in the role of identifiers". So it seems that keywords do need to be in all-caps, at least if your compiler is compatible with Wirth's description (the standard?).

[0]: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf
If you went from asm/c/c++ to js, and you didn't use a half dozen other languages including Python, Ruby, and even Java back in the day, then it's no wonder you're happy with JavaScript.

That's like saying that chalk tastes so much better and is so much easier to digest than gravel. However, it's good to be happy with a language... so if it works for you, great!
Which is a pleasure, because I can go all the way down to OS APIs if needed and don't have to bother with browser rendering engine quirks and differences in how they understand the whole Web stack, sometimes even on the same browser just different versions.

The only way to achieve something similar on the Web is to stick with canvas and WebGL.
How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction [pdf]
Didn't know that. Super interesting, thanks.
I mean being able to :

- use chrome on Android (with chrome tabs and autofill it is a pretty nice experience)

- firefox on the desktop

And from any of these two, access a common list of opened tabs on all my devices.
Actually, since Chrome on Android does not support extensions, no way to do this both ways, bummer.
Of course string encoding is the most painful aspect of migrating from Python 2 to 3. The backwards-incompatible fix to how Python handles string encoding is literally the reason Python 3 exists.
virtualenv plus virtualenvwrapper makes this really easy... using a virtualenv can be as easy as

workon #{projectname}
I violently disagree, it was pictures like this, in particular the "Cylces of Fire" book that created this live-long longing for a far away place i could never reach. Yes, they are tourist posters for a unknown world. So what?
If we dont dare to dream, we dont dare at all.
Pardon me while I refuse to indulge in your war over definitions. Meanwhile, the meaning of the phrase "I don't talk politics at work" is perfectly clear.
> No one is saying Peter Thiel is guilty of anything, but the article is about the fact that he gave money to officials probing Google's activities, which seems, if not illegal (not familiar enough with American law to judge on that), at least highly immoral.

I was trying to point out that even though it is immoral, that's how things are done in US. The article went out of its way to paint this as some kind of freaky evil thing, even threw "Trump" in there for a good measure a few times. But sadly, that's how business is done. This kind of lobbying has a pretty good ROI as others pointed below.

It would be better and it could be worse. It could all be completely hidden. Here at least we are talking about it, they have to disclose it and so on. It could a secret bank transfer to a cousin who lives in a tax haven, which is how "business" is often done in other countries.

> which ends up sounding a lot like basic whatboutism and, as such, like some form of blame-shifting.

What he was doing is not that unusual. In other words I didn't see much blame to start with. There is blame to be shared across the whole system of influencing and buying power, and is not really isolated to Thiel. Single Google was mentioned, I used them as an example.

> When Bloomberg writes an article about Google's shady business, then by all means, let's discuss that at length.

Like you said, the article is a bit light on details and I think Google lobbying and influencing exceeding those of what we traditionally think as "evil" companies is an interesting side conversation.

> about the reason why Peter Thiel would care so much about Google and hurting Google specifically

Well now we are talking. Not just Google but Amazon as well. Officially he talks about being a libertarian and he thinks those two companies are huge monopolies, they control what is bought, sold and read, searched and seen. But he is also an investor in Facebook and was founder of PayPal which is now part of eBay. Those two companies compete with Google and Amazon so it seems he also has purely financial reasons to support some companies and lobby against others.

Also I am personally worried about Google as well and I think many still believe it is this cutesy startup-y little underdog so pointing out that it lobbies and controls the government to a greater degree than even traditionally "evil" companies.

> relationship between money and elected office in the US has taken a turn for the worst in the past 5 to 10 years.

Agree. A clear manifestation of that is people voting in candidates like Trump and Sanders - a TV personality or an unknown old white socialist guy from Vermont. Even though traditional candidates have had billions more in funding and the backing of large media conglomerates, Wall Street and so on.
> The only true “write once run everywhere” is ANSI C,

Sure, until your pointer size varies from platform, or LONG is 64bits on one platform and 32bits on another.

Don't forget compiler support, which version of C are you using? Does the compiler support it everywhere?

C runs everywhere with sufficient #IFDEFs.
So how hard is it to DIY development? It seems like every couple of years I read an article like this one that gets me curious, because if I'm going to use physical rolls of film, I'd might as well develop it myself without waiting/paying a lab and to get that sense of pride when you do finally get a good photo.

I'm not someone that takes pictures much on my phone or anything, but reading this makes me want a cheap film camera like this where pictures aren't just throw away, you have to go through a process to even find that the picture turned out crappy.
To preempt the inevitable discussion of which version to use, please refer to the amazing FAQ created by Eevee: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/31/python-faq-why-should-i-use-p...

As a library writer, I cannot wait until we get rid of this self-inflicted handicap of writing in a subset of two incompatible languages. I'm glad the heavyweights are joining the cause.
I think the amount of Python 2 source code existing in the world is too large for Python 2.7.x to stop working. A lot of that code is just never going to get ported to Python 3. Companies don't have the budget to do it. So, somehow there will still be a Python 2 interpreter to run the code, even after 2020.

That said, when nearly all of the Python 3rd-party library developers are targeting Python 3, do you really want to be stuck on 2.x? I think that's going to be the ultimate death of new Python 2.x development. The NumPy example seems typical. I.e. the cost of supporting 2.x is very soon not going to be worth it.

It seems clear to me now that there is not going to be a large faction of 3rd party library developers who refuse to move from 2.x. That is unlike Perl 5. As a Python developer, this is very happy result. The 2 to 3 transition was extremely painful but it appears to be mostly behind us now. Having two separate "flavours" of Python (2.x and 3.x) would have been bad.
I have always been interested in that cycle. We use 2 because NumPy supports it still. NumPy supports it because we use it. If a major library had dropped support earlier on, I am curious what would have happened.
People who bought previously (and profited) and need Zim fiat would sell to people who now want to buy to preserve Zim fiat.
B Roll. This is the behind the scenes footage Hollywood studios provide. PR for a film. Usually spliced in when broadcasting a celebrity interview to give "atmosphere".

But I find the mega budget production aspects fascinating. Seeing the million dollar DaVinci Resolve boards. The robotic Oculus camera cranes. As well as the intricate stunt choreography and wire work for Guardians 2. The massive alien ship interior sets for Arrival. The ballroom in Beauty and the Beast.

Another recent good one: Murder on the Orient Express. Istanbul's Sirkeci Rail Station. And a snow bound cliff outside Vincovci. All recreated on London sound stages. And shot in vintage large format Panavision 65mm analog film cameras ;)

Behind The Scenes On Murder on the Orient Express

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_R2OauWMk
Conversely surreptious cellphone camera use is also a big defense against police abuse of power.

Not sure I'd want to be unable to mask the camera and mic being active either.
You don't actually need a "warp drive" to get there in a reasonable amount of time. If you can - somehow - invent a drive that'll accelerate you at 1g without stopping for as long as you want, you can get anywhere in the galaxy within your lifetime due to time dilation. To an earth-bound observer, your trip takes approximately 1 year + the distance in light years.

Admittedly it's a big ask. But not as big as bending space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac...
For that I use Thunderbird or my Android email client.
Which version? Aren't we on Java 9 now?
Corporate surveillance is, in my life, a bigger deal than government surveillance.

I think Zeynep Tufekci described the situation really well with the title of her recent Ted Talk: "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads".
Physicists mix waves on superconducting qubits
Exactly. I meant Bitcoin or other crypto currency
Metallurgy, orbital mechanics, and rocket propulsion. Been bitten by the physics bug!
very small correlation between situ in Zimbabwe and price of bitcoins. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets Either a pump from Korea or China.
If you are interested in this, the AllenAI group has an implementation of their model for a very closely related task (semantic role labeling) online: http://demo.allennlp.org/semantic-role-labeling/
> Isn't it sufficient to explain the author's data to say that academia is an environment with a high tolerance for flakiness?

Yep. Other environments with a high tolerance for flakiness include online dating - there are pretty much zero repercussions for flaking on a stranger you decide you don't actually want to meet.

Many guys who've tried online dating have stories of girl agreeing to meet up then flaking on them. Does that make it a "female dominance behavior"?

I get it, it sucks to be flaked on, whether by a professor or a tinder stranger, but I don't think it's limited to one gender.
Body Hacking – Man Rejuvenating with DIY Gene Therapy
Please keep in mind however that many of the world's "supercomputers" are simply "bigger dick" projects where some government or organization slapped a few thousand blades into a rack and connected them with fiber crossbars so they could say they "built a supercomptuer."

And also that there's no standardized definition of what a "supercomputer" is.

My iPhone is not a "supercomputer" even though it has thousands of times more computing power than a Cray 1, which is considered a "supercomputer."
> .... but bitcoin frequently jumps 25% a day on NON-domestic news.... how is it a better store of value?

Z$ record inflation was 79,600,000,000% a month[0] before it disappeared. Bitcoin's short term volatility looks quite manageable in comparison.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe#Inf...
One thing that should be happening is that ISPs should have to monitor traffic to look for DoS agents, bad bots and perhaps some common vulnerabilities, with the ability to throttle the pipe or shut it off if problems aren't remedied.

Regulating IoT is tougher, but is analogous to licensing the airwaves.
It's a shitty system, thats why we also now have "Äganderätter" which basically means "owned rights" which means you cannot be forced to sell.

Unfortunately, not many buildings have that.
Show HN: A simple, file-system-based install utility
"everything of it makes sense"

No it doesn't. Because you are obviously not implementing something that is meant to be used by a human being.

That load times are measured in multiple seconds even on a 4G phone is mind boggling.
For upstream QEMU I think we're looking at patches that add Hypervisor.framework support for MacOS acceleration -- better to use the builtin support from the OS rather than a 3rd party kernel extension I think. The Android release notes (https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator.html) say it supports both Hypervisor.framework and HAXM, with H.f being on by default -- are you saying that H.f has poor performance compared to HAXM?
well, 'honor' is socially defined, so the animating context for a killing, so to speak, matters. Some are actual confrontations, but more often an attack will be based on imaginary consequences or implications of someone else's behavior or existence.[1]

Long story short: you're making category errors left and right.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Balbir_Singh_Sodhi