skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck, I'm 40, did I plateau already?
Basically, Mercurial is migrating away from Python as its primary and core programming language. You don't say Git is written in Python even if Git were to have a few Python code (I actually don't know, never read Git code), would you?

The Python community agrees that in order to combat performance, Python developers would write C extension and/or compile code with Cython before considering a language migration. You can no longer say Hg is written in Python. You can't cite that in any of your conversation unless you say "was written in Python". This migration is to show that while Python's flexibility and dynamism are great, especially in the context of development velocity, Python is no longer Hg's first-class programming language of choice whenever possible. There is a limit as to how much you can get from Python. That's a blow, a temporary crying moment. I recognize this is cynical or entirely an ego thing. I am, again, to be clear, I am not criticizing the decision to move away to Rust - because I have an equal respect for Rust, but this announcement is nonetheless a sad moment to see another Python project moving away.

Sometimes improvements to a programming language stem from the limitations observed by a popular project (and equally by the large number of users).

P.S. On the other hand, moving CPython devl workflow from Hg to Git was a blow to Hg.
so...firebase?
I'm not sure I'd give it the title of the Best scifi story, but it's definitely very good, so I'll at least second the recommendation.
True enough, but often times these embellishments were completely unnecessary. (it might have helped bootstrap a prev job, but now is an unnecessary appendage in the resume which they should have cleaned up).
So the problem wasn't my english, you already had understood the question. Now your reply doesn't help me. It is not logical to ask why put more people that don't enjoy hang around would improve something? So I'm asking why should HN actively change itself to be more engaging to women? And how?
I'm guessing that pay scale would cover base salary, but not necessarily equity/bonuses?
Of course these are just guidelines and you can make the passive voice work. However, I found the example given in the article pretty convincing:

> Instead of “The factory was bombed by an F18,” military professionals would say, “An F18 bombed the factory.”

That also rings true with (5) of George Orwells advice on good english writing [1]

(1) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(4) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(5) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(6) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

===

[1] George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
The ability for their users to discuss it - the exact same thing that HN adds to articles - plus an opinion piece to start the conversation. Although the direct link to the article is better for the HN discussion.
What makes you think it's not protected speech?
Fortunately you're wrong. In reality, the US is one of the 20 least corrupt nations on the planet, on par with Ireland and Japan and less corrupt than France. It has very strong property protection laws, which is both why the judge returned the money (naturally that would happen in a nation with no rule of law huh), and why the Obama Administration took important steps to neuter civil asset forfeiture abuse. Can more be done to fully end the abuse? Of course.

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...

The US also has rare universal Congressional support for ending civil asset forfeiture abuses. Jeff Sessions undid some of the fixes the Obama Administration made; it turns out that might have been ideal, as Congress is now going to put it down for good by law.

Sept 2017:

"In Surprise Vote, House Passes Amendment to Restrict Asset Forfeiture"

"The amendment passed with a voice vote, meaning it had overwhelming support."

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/12/in-surprise-vote-house-p...

Nov 2017:

"A bipartisan group of senators wants to defund Attorney General Jeff Sessions' expansion of the Justice Department's civil asset forfeiture program, following similar efforts by libertarian-leaning and progressive members of the House earlier this year."

http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/08/senators-press-for-defundi...
As much as the obvious reflex is to think that "oh we should move BACK to a more austere, toy-less environment." It is important to remember, that children that grow up in nature are surrounded by thousands of "toys". I remember camping by creaks as a child, and finding there far more "toys" than in my play box. Rocks, sticks, bushes, leaves, mud, bugs, animals. Somehow, I still managed to focus for hours trying to damn the creak. So I don't really believe that more toys = shorter attention span. It must be something about the nature of these artificially created toys that makes them less engaging.
Good points, but I don't think we need assumptions that strong. For example, if democrats donate to the republican party as an anti-charity and republicans donate an equal total to the democratic party, then probably democrats and republicans would all agree that that's strictly worse than nobody donating at all.

But more to the point, I'm just viewing it from the individual user's perspective. From your point of view, you're actively harming the world by donating to an anti-charity. It doesn't matter that those other wrong-on-the-internet people think your donation is doing good. :)
I think the article makes it clear that a 'purge' of Python is desired:

> In addition to performance concerns, Python is also hindering us because it is a dynamic programming language. Mercurial is a large project by Python standards. Large projects are harder to maintain. Using a statically typed programming language that finds bugs at compile time will enable us to make wide-sweeping changes more fearlessly. This will improve Mercurial's development velocity.
> Stop right there. Repeat after me: Dwarf mongooses are not people.

They say this several times while continuing with their inappropriate immigration allegory.
> this is an unfortunate blow to Python

Just as unfortunate as how Python turned its back to Mercurial
Scam artists have been around since we developed intelligence. These ones are just a little more high-tech.
No it isn't. You can create an ICO with a github account and dodgy php. To create a company and list it, it is a wee bit more complex.
In my opinion people have forgotten how artificial life has become in the West specially in places like the US.

Cities are not designed for walking but for moving with a car. In Winter streets are cold and depressing without light.

People have no friends, they eat fast food, could not sleep because they need the time for commuting or stress anxiety.

This as a whole makes people miserable.

It is not being alone. I go kayaking in Argentina with very few people and it is just amazing experience and you are almost alone in nature.

It is just the need to reconnect with the basic essence of humans and nature. Friends, sleeping what you need, love, not just sex, eating well.

We tend to postpone the basics and say "I will sleep well, or eat well, or spend time with family, lovers and friends when I made it". The business deal, the loan is paid but as a result the inner self becomes void, and life flies by.

We have to live an artificial life, there is no other way to feed an exponential growth population, but we have to be careful not going too far.
It's not a (sufficiently) clear request because it doesn't contain your recommendation. If you're asking them to provide their opinion, provide yours as well.

That e-mail should have been written in a style where "yes" could be a sufficient answer to the "lemme know" if the supervisor agrees, and currently it's not.
Hey, I am the founder and developer behind this app.

Aside from joining the app because you love podcasts, it may interest you because it has some cool tech behind it. ie) Echo is not a podcast player, but we connect to your podcast player. We give every user their own unique podcast feed, generated with a list of every episode that they want to listen to. This feed can be added to your podcast player just like any other podcast feed. When a user finds an episode on Echo, they just have to tap a button and it will be ready in their podcast player from them to listen to it. Try it out, it's pretty slick in my opinion.

Similar solutions have been built, for instance, Patreon generates custom feeds for podcasts which include episodes available only to paid users. However, this is the first time users have the ability to generate a custom podcast feed, for themselves.
needs moar synergies!!
Because they are US ;).
How were they able to bring down btc-e, owned by foreign citizens, employing foreign citizens, registered in a foreign country?
US are playing by their own rules, and so far they have made the world to just eat it.
+1 for Kryoflux. I used them to backup all my old Mac floppies. Once you've got the raw images, you can even use an emulator like Mini vMac to use the floppies on your modern hardware. I've done so successfully.
No, that is wrong. Fakes are cheaper for two reasons: they are less well made - which may not show on the new item without a lab. Like how do you check the quality of the metal compounds used? And of course it infringes on all the IP of the creator. The fakers don't have to spend any R&D expense, they carbon copy.

Yes, there is a large markup on luxury items, but in most cases when you buy fakes, you don't get the same quality and of course, you are just pirating the original design. This is as legit as "buying" software for $1 a piece.
a precise wireframe could be as precise as a fingerprint... If it has a very high mesh count, it is just a high resolution 3D model of your face... much more information then what is required to face-id you

look at this model for example, it has medium amount of mesh: http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/279553/1...
It's been a while since I played around with it but I recall having to increase the number of write nodes to load data at a reasonable rate, then drop the number back down to avoid overpaying. And there were limits on how often you could lower the number of instances so I had to be careful not to reach the limit.

Maybe I'm misremembering or that has changed?
holy cow. I remember doing this on Turbo Pascal back in the 90s.
"a country torn apart by foreign occupiers"

Actually Vietnam was torn apart by Vietnamese Communists bent. No reason to blame the firefighters for the crimes of the arsonists.
> Chinese people have English first name as well as their Chinese first name

I've always been intrigued by this. I assume they do this when they decide to travel to the West for work or study (in order to make it easier to communicate with locals), as opposed to being given dual names at birth?
It was really never their money to begin with?
You gain nothing from achieving goals, v.s. you lose money if you didn't

One solution to that would be having the app share the money from the losers between all the winners (less a fee for running the app if you wanted to monetize it).
>> but attacking people's character is a quick way to polarize people

You explicitly state all criminals intentionally demonstrated poor character, and implied they should be judged for that in perpetuity without legal protections. And I said that reflects on your character. If you've changed your mind, great, but I hardly think your comment demonstrates good faith at all, let alone compared to your issue with mine.
It has nothing to do with being a corporation.

You do have a right to say you have a guaranteed cure for cancer -- if that is in fact true, definitely.
This is exactly how you kill innovation and it's exactly what should NOT be done.
It should be regulated, exactly what happens right now.
Broadcom is still going for Qualcomm with a hostile bid
It will be accessible via HTTP, just like all of Amazon's APIs. Doesn't matter if you are in a VPC or not.
Yes, I think they are not useful against point targets. In practice, it seems scud missiles have mostly been used against area targets, particularly terror bombing of cities. To get military effects you probably have to fire a lot of them, e.g. Wikipedia mentions

> During the mujahideen attack against Jalalabad, between March and June 1989, three firing batteries manned by Afghan crews advised by Soviets fired approximately 438 missiles in defense of the embattled garrison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud#Operational_use
Yeah. The question is WHY is it not protected speech.
I just put them in the closet.
Yes, plus integrated branched control flow using simd masks.[1]

[1] eg, random ggl link: https://gain-performance.com/2017/05/14/umesimd-tutorial-8-c...

https://github.com/AdamNiederer/faster
https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon
Same experience. Commercial background checks as used by companies today are useless except as checklist liability-limitation.

If you actually care about finding out what a person might not be disclosing with any reliability, that costs a fair bit more.
He has money therefore let's worship his every word. /s
And if you're interested in building 3D models from multiple photographs, try Helicon Focus. You take a focus stacked set of images (basically get a macro lens, open it up pretty wide, and take a picture with the focal plane 1cm (etc.) apart until every part of your subject is in sharp focus), and it will look for the sharply-focused parts to infer depth information for the stack. It can then build you a 3D model.

Pretty neat stuff, though I've never found any actual artistic or practical use for it.
Last I knew it worked fine, but hg doesn't tend to run long enough for the JIT to warm up enough and be an unambiguous win. Fijal complemented us on how good our C was.

I think it does work if you do chg with a commandserver in pypy.
U.S. Supreme Court Lets Trump Travel Ban Take Full Effect
Same things apply to adults.

Less open tabs, less open windows, Less monitors, less projects tend to make one focus better.
High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables
Up until recently? In Vampire years you mean?
Aurora, Colorado, shares a boundary line with Denver. Denver is at the bottom of the most expensive, Aurora midway in the least. But Aurora is a pretty big city these days, I think. I wonder how much the rent varies between places right on the Denver line and those way out east.
When I looked at firebase it seemed like the fact that it's designed for client-side access meant the security model got in the way for the type of stuff I was trying to do (server-side access only)
This is the best idea I've heard all day. My kids have some toys that desperately need to be taken apart screw by screw.
I like reading, so I'd guestimate most years I end up somewhere well north of 100. For me the key has always been in binging. I might read 6-7 books in a week and then not again for 3-4 weeks.

Two caveats being that a) I naturally read pretty fast and b) I'm not trying to reach any given number for the year. I read when I find something interesting
Here's what I have so far:

var p=document.createElement('pre'); p.textContent=document.body.textContent.replace(/[ \t]+/ig, ' ').replace(/\n[\s\n]*/ig, "\n\n"); document.body.replaceWith(p);
The "how to choose a good password" part is dreadful.

The source is "Google Support" but the link does not point to any such recommendation.
Tick: Trait introspection and concept creator for C++11
I believe this is a behavior trait human beings will carry all along their lives.

I'm not a kid anymore and the more programming languages I try to play with, leads to me the same state of lack of creativity and problem solving.

I could say that about overloading one with books, games and movies as well.
so you're saying that you should never have a second chance at life if you have criminal history?

better answer from the heart... what you despise today, you could become tomorrow. all it take is a moment for your life to change.
And if the previous visitor was on a Skype call with someone while in that bathroom, dropped the phone on the floor, and walked out, and you walked in and picked up the phone, you would have the same issue.

Many privacy-conscious settings that I've been in prohibit phones entirely.
Those are first on my list for disassembly per the sibling comment.
I think there is an Oracle problem here with trying to bring in data from external services

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/InfoQ/blockchain-the-oracl...
You are conflating class, as in a stratified privilege hierarchy within a society, with the more usual use "a group of items with a thing in common."

For example, in a class-action lawsuit, the "class" means "people who claim to have been wronged in the same way by the defendant."

A "protected class" in US Law is a group of people you may not discriminate against based upon the "thing they have in common." For example, you if a job requires lifting a 50lb object, you may not eliminate an prospective employee for simply being female. But you may eliminate a prospective employee for being unable to lift a 50lb object.
there is no other way to feed an exponential growth population

There is no way to feed it in the long haul, it’s just society eating us to sustain maximum growth until inevitable implosion. We have to live an artificial life because nature is a nightmare of survival, parasitism, and stress worse than any artificial environment short of prison. The artificial life we choose to lead however, is a crazy and unsustainable one led for the benefit of a very few.
You are referring to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512 aren't you?
It could be argued that a student has lots of earning potential left in their life, so their risk tolerance is actually higher than someone, say, near retirement on a fixed income.

I get what you are saying though. For most people it is not an appropriate investment, hence the accredited investor rules.
You don't have to list it in order to scam people with it. They can buy stocks even in non-listed companies. At least not listed on major exchanges.
While it might be easier to make a compelling ICO, registering a scammy company is also relatively easy (1k-2k USD). Or perhaps a bit more if you want to come up with some questionable tech and defraud some VCs with experience. It has been done, it is still being done.
Up to this point it has been somewhat harder to get away with it though. Now hopefully it will be harder to get away with a scam ICO too.

The point is, if you are out there trying to invest your money, and you don't have any idea about how to judge people, how to judge business models, how to judge the underlying tech - you will loose money. Whether it's an ICO or a regular company selling it's equity using traditional methods.
As somebody who tried to find a community with religious adherence, I can sadly report making friends in that environment is equally difficult as it is in the real world, you still have to impress people, adopt their vocabulary, etc.
Another name for that is backdoor.
The fact that I don't remember my mom ever buying us toys (dad was absent) I can say that it does make you creative.

I remember getting a few broken GI Joe from my cousin, with those, I used a screwdriver to pick up the good parts of them, and make good toys with weird arms and legs. These were supposed to be garbage but as usually having less stuff makes you more creative and I ended up with a few toys that nobody else had!
Pijul: Patch Based Distributed Source Control (in Rust)
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30 million low-income students in the United States struggle with writing, and we aim to help all of these students become confident writers and critical thinkers. To see how writing instruction is a game changer for students, please check out this Atlantic article: https://theatln.tc/2aJnEfU

We are looking for a talented web developer with 2+ years of experience who is passionate about education and open source development. The developer’s primary responsibilities will be scaling our Rails services to grow from 30k to 100k daily active students over the coming year. You’ll be responsible for owning features by influencing the initial spec, building the backend APIs (mostly Rails), and writing the front-end code (mostly React), and maintaining the feature once deployed.

We’re a small team of nine working in the Financial District of New York City. You will be joining as our fifth engineer, and you will be directly involved with both building the app and testing it with students in classrooms. Fast Company recently featured Quill and explored how our automated writing feedback helps students revise their work and improve their skills: https://www.fastcompany.com/40458272/this-machine-learning-p...

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The link you gave gives a single line description of the issue. It isn't very helpful in understanding what conditions were required to exploit. Is this a Sandboxie installer issue or all installers?

If the latter, yeah that's a problem, but there are a lot of ways to fix it that don't involve crippling the flexibility.

Edit: ok, read the medium link at the bottom. This is an issue with Sandboxie's installer behavior, for which I think it is unfair to blame the way Windows searches for and loads DLLs.
It's not totally unknown in the U.S., though not very common. In some areas you can find shops specializing in "wild game meat". Deer hunted in the wild are probably the most common, but you can also find wild boar and a few other things. The commonly hunted wild animals are admittedly perhaps a bit less wild than in other places, since the Fish and Wildlife Service does quite a bit of monitoring for diseases, herd management, etc.
Managing Costs on Amazon Web Services – Kainos – Medium
A better solution would be for Apple to provide a decent photo picker that functions at the system level, and require a separate (special) permission to access all photos with the appropriate warning if that app needs a fancy dancy photo picker.

Why do I need to give snapchat access to all photos ever just to post from my camera roll?
An incorrect meme.
In a lot of areas public urination can be considered a sex crime, one advantage of this law will be that instead of the employer getting a box ticked that indicates some kind of crime, they'll be required to actually look up the criminal history and make a reasoned judgement.

I wouldn't mind working with someone who got hammered one time in their youth, alcoholism is pretty easy to pick up on and if the person is sane and level-headed in the workplace that's perfectly alright with me.