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You can, but you very well might not. And your desktop computer is a far, far more valuable target in terms of computing power and network connectivity. Should we be regulating that device as protection against your choosing or forgetting to not follow best practices?
For anything non-trivial, 95% of the value is in the library ecosystem. So long as most prominent libraries kept releasing new features for Python 2 and 3, there's inevitably not a big pull factor to upgrade. That's changing as a number of major libraries start to make releases that require Python 3.

From a library maintainer POV, I do want to use Python 3. There's no one killer feature, but rather a bunch of small ones, like more specific exception classes (FileNotFoundError etc.).

But if you want to keep using Python 2.7, no-one will take it away from you.
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Delaware is considered a southern state by the Census? Weird! It seems to have more in common with the New Jersey and New York than, say, South Carolina. Is it just an arbitrary Mason Dixon thing?
Maybe I'm missing something, but is the only differentiator for this product line that "they are cheaper than the competition"?

Are they manufacturing it themselves?

It appears that buying sheets of similar quality (300 thread count egyptian cotton) straight from China is almost identical pricing.

How does this disrupt the home textile industry?
It could help the market. It wouldn't be that hard to scan your local network and gather devices and firmware versions (if supported) or fingerprint them if all else fails, and compare against a database of known bad versions and provide weekly or monthly reports by email. I could see this being offered as a selling point of routers. AT&T and Comcast would almost definitely include support in their modem routers just for the extra protection it provides for their networks (and the extra data it gives them about every customer... I'm sure Comcast would love to know the number and types of Rokus and Fire sticks people had, if they aren't already doing this).

Edit: To complete the thought, it's not generally that hard to flash devices that support it, so a report that says "X,Y and Z have exploits, here are some options" could go a long way. Making devices support some minimum standard of local upgradability would help immeasurably.
May end up in a situation where the network layer of hardware and their respective wrappers/software is monopolized by a group of compliance savvy folks who have done the necessary audits, certifications, etc. In theory it is not necessarily bad, but regulations have a bad reputation because of how poorly these things are generally implemented.
Seconded for Photopia, really amazing.

I think somehow the act of playing in your story (The puzzles are super gentle in that one,'it's the antithesis of Zoek, but it sets the stage for an interactive exploratory novel) makes you connect more closely than just reading alone.

Though I say this as ironically I just finished the draft of my first novel, which is not interactive at all.
Bails in most major cities are a scam.

I had a $0 bail for a misdemeanor (first time offense). Then two former federal prosecutors got involved in my case and had the Judge revoke my bail and set it for $75,000.

I spent 5 weeks in LA County jail trying to fight my case until I gave in, brutalized by the conditions and the endless fake court appearances (dry runs). The people that work in that industry are dangerous, deluded and wreak havoc in communities.

I feel so much empathy for the hundreds of thousands of LA inmates who are unfairly subjugated to such a system. It is perpetuating chaos, gangs and fractured lives.

The FBI has video surveillance cameras in all the jails because of police abuse and the former Sheriff is heading to federal prison.

I commend any group trying to fight for reform. LA's problems are directly tied to malicious and excessive policing, bails and boilerplate plea deals.
It seems I am one of those in the tarpit.
I think the problem for us engineering types is that there is so much bullshit around marketing, that it's offputting to us. That's the case for me at least. If I spend time/money on a feature, I know how long it will take, how much it will cost and when it will be ready. Compared to this, marketing seems like burning money with voodoo rituals.
It doesn't help that marketing efforts are only meaningfully measurable on a larger scale. If you're bootstrapping something yourself, you don't have 12k to spend on marketing this month. You have $300. It's easy to burn that $300 on adwords or facebook ads and get zero signups, with no meaningful data whatsoever.
The usual advice goes: hire a marketing expert. But how do I hire a marketing expert that a) isn't full of it, b) will even listen to me if my current budgets are in the hundreds of dollars?
I think the article is right on point, but I wish it pointed me to a way to deal with the marketing problem.
I'm currently learning React Native [0]. It's interesting that it is in such active development, as the course I'm taking (from a few months ago) already has some outdated lessons.

However, I've enjoyed the experience so far and look forward to building other apps with React Native.

[0]: https://github.com/zanedb/learning-rn
> Becoming a university professor, however, is a pretty good way of exempting oneself from suspicion of outright or base stupidity.

I dunno about that...
Since it's now open source would it be possible for HAXM to be made to work with AMD CPU's?
> Across the pond, when you go to university to study X you study X (and if X requires Y as a prerequisite also Y). Nobody prevents you from walking into a lecture hall in comparative linguistics if you are studying biology, you just won't get any credits for it. Experiencing a large range of topics, helping you understand what you want to do, and teaching you to think is supposed to be the role of high school around here.

Do you only get credit for X and its prerequisites?

In the US, it generally works like this. If you want to get a degree in X, you "major" in X. There will be four kinds of classes you have to take to get that degree.

1. Classes in X and its prerequisites. You will need to take a certain number of units of X. That will come from a mix of classes that are required for all X majors, and classes you can choose freely from the school's X classes. There may be things kind of in between optional and required, such as multiple sequences of related classes where you have to choose one of the sequences.

2. Specific classes that everyone has to take regardless of major. This set may be empty in some schools.

3. Breadth classes. For example, at Caltech everyone has to take a certain number of units of humanities and social sciences, equivalent to taking one humanities or social science class per term. 1/4 must be humanities, 1/4 social sciences, and the remaining 1/2 whatever mix you want.

4. The school may have a total unit requirement, that may be higher than the sum of the number of units required by #1, #2, and #3. You can generally choose these from anything the school offers.

So, over here you probably would get credit as a biology major if you decided to take comparative linguistics.
How can this be? BTC is deflating far faster than USD is inflating, considering USD purchasing power. So BTC can't be picking up USD's weakness, it must be a speculative bubble.

Were Beanie Babies good money driving out bad?
https://qz.com/114753/meet-the-family-who-lost-100000-when-t...
Torture only works if you are sure of the existence of such a thing. It's easy to order the police to go from home to home, confiscating valuables. It's a lot harder to know if someone has bitcoin, and if so how much they have. Even if you can get them to admit they have it, and give you access to n wallets, they may always have n+1
Give it time, and Snow Crash is going to look like a utopian vision.
Exactly. One I'd have a hard time explaining by this model is my comical ability to get lost while driving. This has almost always hurt me--occasionally others--but primarily me. I have the same problem navigating halls in a video game. I've worked at it and gotten better, but that weirdly specific deficit has always haunted me all the while Ive been perfectly adequate as a programmer, etc.
Black and white is fairly simple and straightforward but still requires a totally dark room (or bag) and a bunch of sort of expensive chemicals that go bad (and some of which are fairly toxic for the environment).

Color is similar but more complicated with more expensive chemicals and more room for mistakes. You're almost always better off paying someone else to develop (in money and quality) though it's not nearly as satisfying.

Of course after you develop you need more stuff to make prints or a film scanner to get something useful from your negatives. More investment here - labs usually do this for you for a very small fee if you get it developed there.

I can't recommend developing your own color film, but black and white is fun to play with if you want to get a better understanding of the process. If you're just doing a few rolls occasionally though then development is probably the best option.
If I claim something is pervasive, then I will tend to claim that it is everywhere, pretty much by definition.
Ironic that the site with the article about improving cyber-security doesn't utilize HTTPS.
thats an issue I considered as well for the gulf states. What happens when there is less oil consumption ? I’m very much hard pressed to think of a global company that has come out of these for all intensive purposes UBI countries. (Please don’t cite Aramco or Emirates etc. As they all are either started or staffed largely by Americans and Brits)
Bitcoin has increased so much in value that those tiny transaction fees that you paid are now worth a lot of dollars. It's a problem all right, but it's a comparably nicer problem to have than a cryptocurrency that isn't worth as much or that isn't as heavily used or both.
> Frankly, I still haven't seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That's it.

It seems pretty clear now that 3rd party library developers are going to stop releasing packages that support 2.x and target only 3.x. Isn't that a bigger problem for Python 2.7 hold outs?

Originally, I was not super excited about Python 3. I liked "print" as a keyword. I liked the space efficiency and speed of latin-1 strings by default. I did a lot of network protocol stuff and bytes() was a pain to use. I knew how to use the 'u' prefix to get unicode when I needed. However, after using Python 3 for a few years now, I find Python 2 clumsy. Print as a function is better. Unicode works better. The implementation is just as fast or faster than Python 2 and getting faster every release. If you tried Python 3 a few releases ago, you should give it another go. It has matured a lot.
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Then where is the inflation? 1 usd = 1 usd
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Do you pay online with wire transfer? My vision is a decentralised coin that is as fast as VISA is perceived but a lot cheaper to transact. Obviously that's not the vision of Bitcoin though?
Actually Zephan. Zephan Cochran is close to Zefram Cochrane but at least I can tell my wife I didn't name him after a Star Trek character. Maybe it is close enough get him through admissions at MIT or something... :)
One simple way to improve your security at home is to have a "guest" WiFi network which is separate from your real one and which all these questionable IoT devices can use.
After such a long and painful road from 2 to 3, I feel like the Python developers aimed too low in fixing the legacy problems that existed in 2.

All that time for Unicode. Not concurrency or type safety or static guarantees or better lambda syntax or anything fun like that. Just Unicode.
Because python3 is the new version.
"VCs would simply hate it. Founders and employees get common and are last on the liquidation preference list."

That's what should be changed, especially if you're asking someone to take a below market salary for something that, statistically won't make it.

"As a founder I'd never expect it from a VC nor would I ever give it to employees."

Why? Why should the people who are actually doing the work not receive that protection? Why should the value of their compensation go down over time, while the value of what they're doing goes up?
"Basically every personal behavior is a manifestation of power dynamics."

Would you mind expanding on this? I think I disagree, but I would like to know what you mean.
> Finally, on the claim "they only forget things that benefit them," be very careful about confirmation bias. I, for one, show up at meetings early not infrequently- but when this happens, no one knows because no one else is there.

Additionally-- that fuddy-duddy professor who left their colleague hanging to attend a conference may have done 100 other absent-minded things at the conference that were detrimental to their own career. These may include:

* being late to their own presentation because they went to the wrong building

* undermining their own presentation by forgetting every colleague's polite advice to not making gross sniffing noises or laugh like a hyena at seemingly random moments in their public speech

* being completely inept at getting their laptop to play audio/video excerpts or display a graph on a screen

* forgetting to exchange contact info with someone who would have helped advance their career

* give an earnest, brilliant, persuasive response in public to an egotistical and well-respected scholar on the hiring committee for a position coveted by the professor, who then silently takes offense and uses their power to keep the professor from being hired for that position

* forgetting to follow up with an appointment with well-respected scholar who wanted to help the professor publish something that would help their career, causing that scholar to silently vow to never again waste time with that professor

(All based on real events.)
How much might precompling to WebAssembly cut into that compile/parse time?
Yes, for 3 words :
Tree, Style, Tab.
Depending on your age, you may be able to not get dinged with the new home's taxed value.[1]

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When Cray and SGI were still in the game there was a lot more operating system diversity.

Apple's Xserve cluster was an interesting experiment but it never really went anywhere.
Sure. And if xupypd had said that originally, maybe it would have been clearer. But what he said was it'd be "wise to separate work and politics". That's not possible.
demanding opening the source code once security updates for the device stop

They probably don't even have the (usable) source code.
The better question I think is why wear a suit, ever. There are some people who genuinely enjoy wearing a suit (I know at least one), but in general it seems the only reason to wear a suit is to impress someone. (either because you want to, or the company who hired you wants to)

Who would Zuckerberg have to impress? And I honestly doubt Zuckerberg is impressed by someone wearing a suit. And especially with the latest generation where billionaire attire has went from traditional extravagance to show the world how well off you are, to comfortable attire where you tend to blend in.

And then there's also the social norms of suits, most of these have decayed outside of government and and fortune 500 C-level norms though. In our society right now, it would be not just "unimpressive", but also insulting if you went to a meeting with say, a president (trump or whoever) in shorts and a tshirt. And in the same way, it'd be insulting to most people if who you were meeting (the president) came to meet with you in a tshirt.
The correct solution for this concern is to make it legal to obscure the IDENTIFYING part of the license plates (but require that state and 'tabs' are still exposed) while it is parked.

Moving the obscurity would constitute modification of private property and should require either a valid documented probable cause or a warrant for the search.
Rent it and use the rental income to establish finance for the 2nd house.
I think the OP is looking for something a bit different, not oldest supported programming language but longest time between major updates to the language.

This is a bit hard to address because Python does incremental language changes, as well as major changes, while the languages you listed have formal specifications.

Python 2 from creation in 2000 to end of new development will be 19 years.

Fortran 66 was around for 11 years, replaced by Fortran 77 and then Fortran 90, 95, 2003, and 2008. I think those dates are what the OP is looking for.

C89 to C99 was 10 years. Then C11 12 years later.

COBOL 61 was followed by 65, 68, 74, 85, and then the poorly supported 2002 followed by 2014.

I think a better contender is MUMPS, made an ANSI standard in 1995 and ISO standard in 1999. It's still in use in healthcare and financial applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Another contender is Rexx, ANSI X3.274 / 1996.

Both Rexx and MUMPS are ranked in the range 50-100 on TIOBE.

Then there's FORTH, with FORTH-79, FORTH-83 (both de facto) and then ANS Forth in 1994. But that might be cheating as I think (based on hearsay) most Forth users specialize their implementations rather follow ANS Forth.

Those are still in reasonably wide-spread use. I think something like ALGOL, last revised in 1973, is outside of what the OP was thinking about.
All: the title contains the word “political”, but if we cleave to the actual content of the paper we might stand to learn something. Partisan bickering is right out, of course.
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Woodworking videos.

A channel that HN might appreciate is Matthias Wandel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel
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Make consumers liable. They're really the guilty (by negligence) party anyway, right? Okay, that would be a shock to the system. So grandfather in old devices and/or slowly phase it in.

That's still quite a chilling effect though. Well, maybe it should be. Now we're really careful about what we buy. But maybe it's too much. Who wants to expose themselves to a small chance of high liability? Okay, so allow insurance against said liability. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose? Well, no. Insurance companies would only insure against liability for devices they've vetted and approved.

Boom, market regulation. It works for cars (see IIHS).
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Any regulation tends to select for companies that can appear to comply at the lowest cost.
Just stay away from the pyrocat. But after 40–something years since I first went into a darkroom, i’m Not really worried.
Infrastructure changes to PyPI made it hard to work out what the top packages are. http://py3readiness.org/ is another effort, which currently lists 345/360 packages as Python 3 compatible.
Could you elaborate? I'm being genuine here when I say that I have no idea what you mean by Open Source Regulation.
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A statistician went duck hunting. His first shot was a foot high. His second shot was a foot low. When asked about it he said, On average, that's a dead duck.

As I said, there are markets, large markets like ad auctions, where this approach makes sense. But for HR, I'd have to see this being a demonstrable success story before I'd touch it. I think there are better and easier approaches to retention like treating your employees well rather than looking at a statistics dashboard and following its sage if soul-less advice.
I think there were also more compatibility issues prior to 3.3 (when they started allowing u"") for libraries that did want to support both. It seems like the core team predicted that the most popular migration path for libraries would be `2to3` or something like that, when in fact the single-codebase-supporting-both strategy has been much more popular? Probably the transition would've been easier if everyone had seen that coming.
Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore?
Lots of good replies. I'd like to add that incentives seem a better explanation than power:

The professor's incentives are entirely towards thinking up and pulling off big long-term projects. The tenure committee is not going to know or care about whether you seemed on top of your diary two years ago.

The incentives are much the same for graduate students too, another group known for sleeping through 11am teaching commitments. They clearly don't have any power, but they know damn well they won't get a job by being diligent about the small stuff.

The incentives for (say) lawyers or management consultants are massively different. Hence the firm handshakes and neat suits and always knowing what time the meeting is. Are these people less dominant, somehow?
I too felt 7 bit ascii was a good thing, and I believe I know members of the original ANSI committee who worked on it.

But, I now live and work in the Asia-Pacific region, and I regularly interact with data and content which is not represented in 7 bit ascii. This has altered my perspective.

My comrades from 7 bit land also migrated into a world of homophones. It is entirely true you can get into some awful places regarding what things look like and what semantically they mean, but the one thing that has never come up, is what errors of handling it introduced into the code: the code, is doing what it does. It is how you interpret it, that has to change.

uStrings just work. Unclench your Undead fists, and accept the news from your brothers and sisters outside of paper tape.
With this add-on you can select multiple tabs. Since before chrome existed.

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From my POV all I can come up with that feels concrete is somehow trying to figure out a plan / system where we can ensure companies that should have a certain level of security can be held liable (no question) in a way that prevents things from being handled in a reactionary way. The problem I keep running into is that each and every scenario and company this type of system will effect will be a case-by-case basis.

I can't brainstorm many simple solutions that blanket cover many different types of businesses, markets and scenarios.
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This one single feature could potentially have the largest impact on my workflow in 2018. As much as I love async task management. Real-time collaboration with remote team members should be fascinating ;)
I think this comes across as a little too critical.

I agree with everything you have said. But to me it looks like this came from an industrial implementation which they decided to open source.

That means they weren't aiming for SOTA on standard datasets, but for what worked best on their internal benchmarks. The evaluation procedures for the published report looks like it was derived from how they train it internally.

That means they probably had to justify all the time they were spending on open sourcing it, and writing a tech report.

So while it would be great to see standard datasets tried, I much prefer seeing the code open sourced.

Also, nothing stopping someone else publishing a nice short paper on the CoNLL datasets using this software.