skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really bad anymore. I moved to 3 about two years ago now, and haven't looked back. There was a brief period of working with polyfilled six hacks, but currently the community and momentum are largely behind 3.

There was a point where there was some FUD around the migration, painting it as a sequel to PERL 6. However, the community managed to turn it around. To their credit, orchestrating large breaking changes to a popular language with a diverse set of use cases is fundamentally a very challenging task.

The main holdouts for Python 2 are large organizations which have a lot of existing/working legacy code. The majority of new Python projects seem to be using Python 3.

Now that the work is nearly done, we can all enjoy a better Python.

I very recently moved to 3.6, from 3.5. There's a saying that a luxury once sampled becomes a necessity, which sums up my opinion on the new f-string syntax.
> In ancient Athens a plebiscite could exile any citizen. Do you consider that a legitimate exercise of democratic power?

Absolutely, it was part of the social contract and certainly understood by any citizen that their continued membership in the body public rests at the pleasure of the the public will.

Even today, it's the right of sovereign nations to claim or revoke citizenship as they please

> Believing the public policy ought to be driven by appeals to public reason

I agree that public policy ought to be driven by reason, but presuming that you have reason on your side, when 'reason' just so happens to also be nakedly self-serving, doesn't seem very honest.

Either it's ok to vote and agitate for your self-interest (including yourself), or it's not. You can't say 'it's evil for homeowners to want what's good for themselves', but then not apply that same standard to yourself.
from what I have experienced the Chinese have a totally different concept of humanitarian values and standards. I am not sure if this is related to living in high population areas or if it's a philosophical difference.
When the owner of Amazon it's the richest person on the planet I would say it's fair game.

Also, Amazon has amazing public perception, letting the public know how they can be so cheap and good it's worth doing, just like the campaigns of the past against sweatshop usage by famous clothing brands.
booyea
I think these optimizations are upstream, but they're not in the canonical 'python' docker image: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/160
Yep don’t get it either and British English is my native tongue. Maybe mistook for the phallic implication of “helmet”?
Damn it... I literally just wiped my iPhone completely because of this problem and am now restoring it from scratch. I wish I had read hacker news first!
So tax increases on other people are part of living in society and paying your fair share, tax increases on stuff you care about is a punishment and evil? I think this is a stupid rule change but you're not reaching across the aisle with that argument.
Snapchat is becoming the anti-Facebook
>> The question isn’t whether Twitter in general is subject to the first amendment—it isn’t.

> You throw that out so lightly. But it isn't so clear to me

It is clear to me: "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech."

I don't see where it says anything about private corporations.
Agreed, you can always optimize for size later... And conditionally load the polyfill, etc.

All that said: dropping all the fancy logic and just going with plain JS has some nice simplicity to it. In the JS world you can spend a lot of time on tooling.
Chalkboard Design Services
Cryptocurrencies: Bearer Instruments of Choice, P2P and Non-Possessory Control
Educational attainment is vastly higher than it's ever been in our entire history. Here [1] are some interesting data from Wiki. Today of Americans 25+, 59% have at least some college, 42% have some degree -- 32% with at least a bachelor's. And nearly 1 in 8 people have a postgraduate/professional degree!

If anything, an increasingly major issue today is 'degree inflation.' Ever more jobs that have no real necessity of college graduates are requiring degrees nonetheless presumably because there are now plenty of university educated individuals willing to fill low skill and generally low wage roles. But this action is really hurting the middle class and the efficiency of the US job market. The decision also comes with a number of paradoxically negative consequences for employers. The term I'm using, degree inflation, is borrowed from an extremely informative paper from the Harvard Business School on this exact topic: http://www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/Documents/dis...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
> Though restricting them from reading your content if those posts are in an official capacity is very questionable.

I think this is probably the biggest issue overall. If all of Trumps tweets were published on whitehouse.gov or in the Federal Register, I wonder if that might make this lawsuit irrelevant?

The EFF says "The president’s tweets are official statements and the public has a First Amendment right to receive them." But if you could read them in the Federal Register, wouldn't this claim be satisfied?
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
HTC Offers More Bootloader Unlocking Tools – Sim-Unlock.net Unlock Blog
Can we get "Ask HN" prepended to this? I was completely confused when this headline didn't navigate to a blog post.
There is also Duplicati https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati
Generalized personal observations:
Stability: startup, small company, bigco
Pay:smallco,startup,bigco
Personal growth: bigco,smallco,startup
Technical growth:bigco,smallco,startup
Hassle:bigco,smallco,startup
Hey, I'm all in for that, but how do we handle data breaches on small business where 20mil corresponds to, say, 100 years of profit?

I haven't read the law but the faq does not mention the 20mil figure
Tools for profiling Rust
The pendulum swings back and forth. It's not the end of the earth, it's not going to bring utopia.

Can we please use Hacker News for technical issues?
Completely agree. This tax code change is clearly the closure of a loophole. Universities should make changes to reflect that and decide what their priorities are. If they choose not to support grad students, that's on them.
> at this point there is no reason to not use Python 3 for new projects

Sure there is: Python 2 isn't going to change on me again. Python 3 might.
Can the Vasa be "tightened"?
> You could avoid the whole for..of problem by writing ES5 JS code, but for many people that's apparently a worse option than dealing with Babel.

The big reason I'm so excited about web assembly is that now we can escape the albatross of JS/ES. I've started playing with rust targeted to emscripten and it's such a breath of fresh air (both the language and toolchain).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15830149
Compromised key at Apple?
> Reality is heavily biased to the left, or at least certainly the USA's version of the left (which is really more centralist).

From what I can see, it is not.

> It should tell you something when institutions inhabited by some of the most intelligent people on the planet, producing some of the most ground breaking scientific work in the history of mankind all lean a certain way.

It tells me that OPs assessment is correct. Universities in the USA have become left wing indoctrination centers

> climate change is a fallacy

The left has it's own problems with science : http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-dem...
Not everything you do is futile. Refraining from distributing your data is very effective.
Don't use antivirus firms linked to Russia, cyber security chief tells Whitehall
You give everyone smart cards/tokens with bruteforce-limited PINs on them. That's where the private key will reside.

The "only" other problem that will remain is that you will need a secure supply-chain, otherwise this will happen:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/id-card-security-spain-is-facin...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gemalto-cybercrime/hack-g...

If you do something like this you actually need to be serious about it and establish a rigorous vetting/auditing process -- not just hand the contract to whoever donated the most to your election campaign.

Maybe set-up a 3-year long NIST competition or something, like they do when choosing new crypto standards, and establish the winner this way.

The other side of the equation, allowing services to interface with these cards securely, is already being solved by the FIDO 2.0 spec.
Actually, he addresses it quite clearly, and points out that there are also attempts to reduce universities' other source of income, the "overhead" portion of grants.

FTA: Note that the Trump administration has already ("already" links to: https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/22/trump-budget-research-gr...) made tightening overhead rules—i.e., doing the exact opposite of what would be needed to counteract the new tax—a central focus of its attempt to cut federal research funding.

The point is that this is the system and it has been for decades, and everybody involved knew it and knows it. And the tax changes are a deliberate attack on the system i.e universities.

If you think the system should be attacked and US research Universities defunded and destroyed, well, you're free to believe that, but this is not some kind of swindle universities have been getting away with, it's the system working as it was designed to work.
Not if you only consider salary though right? I assume MBAs also get bonuses and the such?
Isn't it? I mean, I know there's no hard data on it since most journal subscriptions are bought in bulk, but the journals are using their impact factor to sell those subscriptions (case in point: [1]). Likewise, if they charge publication fees, authors will be most willing to pay large sums of (their funders') money for journals with high impact factors.

And do you really think Nature would still get sexy results if there are sexy proposals? Or would your proposal (which I do agree with, for the same reason the traditional publishers won't do it:) lead to better research but fewer "sexy" results? After all, journals with a high impact factor are also known to have more retractions.

(The traditional) publishers are going to keep doing what is bringing in the most money - or at least, what they believe what will. At this point, they don't believe that your system would lead to higher income.

What could change that if authors are no longer incentivised to chase high impact factor journals. But that means there will have to be better ways to evaluate them that will actually get adopted (i.e. not require evaluators to comb through every applicant's research [2]).

This is a difficult problem. And yes, I realise I'm not coming up with a solution. The only ideas I have on that front have a really small chance of success, but it's a bit too much to elaborate on that here. (Although in time I will write about them at [3].)

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/simoxenham/status/235698457124425...

[2] https://theconversation.com/why-i-disagree-with-nobel-laurea...

[3] https://medium.com/flockademic
bigco - There's going to be a fair amount of project management and process (which is absolutely needed). Part of the learning curve will be learning how to effectively work across teams/departments. Also you will probably see a reorg/layoff at some point. It won't be as bad as you imagine. Expect at least some training and formal learning opportunities.

old smallco/startup - Can be very ad-hoc. Someone needs a new computer? Run to the store. Some things you might expect may be missing such as HR or tech support. You may not receive much if any training.

startup - Generally longer hours, generally exciting as you're creating something new. product, client launches.
Why does every space camera/high altitude camera seem to have a massive fisheye effect? Is it deliberate deception to make you think "woo look at the curvature of the Earth" - when it isn't?
Ah I see, that makes sense, thank you.
Women's visibility in academic seminars [pdf]
it isn't so clear to me that Twitter can act like a public forum, and then block citizens from using it

IANAL, but the relevant case law seems clear to me - the First Amendment doesn't apply to private property, even when that property is used like a public place, e.g. a mall.

What does seem to apply is State law - that is, seems like a US State can force a mall owner to allow people to express certain speech, without the State itself violating the First Amendment (as per [1]). Which raises the question whether the State(s) where Twitter has a legal presence could restrict its control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
I'm an applied mathematician and a practicing economist, I'm afraid I wouldn't understand chemical reactions as being of one sort or another if they hit me on the head and set me on fire. I'm honest, I know my limits, and chemical ignorance is one of them.
The thirties may not be the most representative time for this.
True, I have. I've sent many hundreds of emails, but also some companies have reached out to me proactively. We're getting there, but it's going to be a slow burn.
> And that was not the value of the education either

Why not?

> Even in quarters where you are not physically in the school, with no
> classes, library access, etc. you would still be "charged" that magic
> number. It's just a way to allocate expenses between each department
> and the graduate school.

This isn't just for allocating expenses. This is what a grad student is assessed to cost an institution. Did you ever contact the PI of your grant while you were away? Did you attach the universities name to your work? Did you access journals with subscriptions paid for by your institution? Did you use your student email?
That's the reasoning behind data retention policies. Lawyers don't see data older than N months. Even if you're not guilty lawyers can be costly when they need to analyze large amounts of data.
As mentioned by the SF Chronicle, the story was originally published on the site Poets & Quants. Their article has more details: https://poetsandquants.com/2017/11/30/stanford-gsb-misled-st...
U.S. university students who feel that they are getting a bad deal should go to Europe.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678

Think twice about beginning a bachelor, masters, or doctoral degree in this country, as you will be crushed with debt.

With a lot of work, I was able to graduate in '94 with an E.E. degree with a total student loan debt of $1,500. That is not possible here anymore, but it is possible in Europe.

If I had to do it again, I would be gone.
> From what I can see, it is not.

Ok, cool, doesn't change reality though does it.

> Universities in the USA have become left wing indoctrination centers

Strange how places where you meet people from diverse backgrounds, cultures and countries while expanding your knowledge makes people more tolerant isn't it.

> The left has it's own problems with science...

"Reason.com: Free Minds and Free Markets" hahaha ok.

Trickle down economics

Right wing Christianity

Guns make people safer, who needs mental healthcare funding when you have them

Trump

Climate change isn't real! These oil companies assured me.

Transgender people can go to hell

Bootstraps not included.

Hey look at these brown people, not the blatent wage theft, tax doging and gorging we are doing!

Hardcore gerrymandering (admittedly not entirely partisan)

The southern strategy.

Give me a break. Feel free to argue that any of those are liberal issues by the way, I have a feeling you won't.
Paying higher wages doesn't create more housing. At best these people could displace some others if paid more.

The real real solution is to legalize housing construction in the area.
As a useful model, however, I think it works. Regardless of whether or not it's real energy, all I really want to know is if some things make it difficult to work (say social media) and some make it easier (working out). The battery is as useful a way to do this day to day as anything else, in my opinion.
Most Chinese metropolises don't make it "welcome" to migrants from outside administrative region in the fist place.

That said, it's a hard problem to tackle. You can't have 25 million people swarm your city and be able to manage things properly to ensure safety and proper services, but additionally, it's hard to economically engineer even economic development --which is the root cause of the issue. Migrants come because their prospects in the big megalopolises are better even while it being entailing administrative disadvantages.
This tax is still a ridiculous solution. If the problem is that university grant structures are screwed up (which they certainly are), then fix the broken grant structures. As I understand it, they're the result of a ridiculous arrangement between universities and the grant agencies, most of which are the federal government. So tell the federal government to stop issuing grants under stupid terms. Set an overhead structure, require grantees to pay their grad students, and require that all student compensation paid out of the grants go straight to the students.

Or tax the universites, not the students.
That's actually why I prefer to log in with Google; my passwords stay safely hidden away from whatever site I'm logging into, plus I can easily revoke that site's login if I choose to.
Swift, metal, bitcode / LLVM IR, CloudKit, XPC on iOS, all other new frameworks, machine learning on device, differential privacy. Maybe you meant user-facing features, but all the aforementioned help build better software for users.
94... Of course you'll find something interesting

(I literally only read the first two sentences)
Getting Started with Apache Solr 7
Unless I'm mistaken, the relationship between supply and demand is still a well regarded concept in economics - if the supply of labor doubles, the cost of labor will...

A) Be unaffected

B) Increase

C) Decrease

I'm not saying there is a fixed amount of work, I'm making a supply and demand argument to argue that the cost of labor will fall when the supply increases. Thus, I think my analysis isn't committing this fallacy, but if be happy to consider your reasoning if you care to explain.
> It's sad that there seems to be little internal critique coming from within universities of the complete takeover of schools by administrators

This is just patently false.

The criticism of admin bloat by faculty and students precedes the right-wing press criticism by decades, is far more harsh, and is still going strong.

The whole damn criticism, as it exists in the popular press today, can be traced quite directly back to academia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ginsberg_(political_s...

Or a more recent example, https://home.isi.org/sites/default/files/MA59.3_Seery_Sympos...

And from the student perspective, the recent votes at places like Chicago to unionize (and, more importantly, the justification provided by the student groups that organized those votes)

Far from complicit, faculty and students are leading the charge, and have been since the 1980s.

BTW, if you wanted to curtail administrative bloat/power in universities, there are ways to use the tax code and science funding policy to do so. and lots of serious policy proposals by the people listed above would very likely have great effect.

This policy targets students instead.
True, Red Hat have been awesome with my time. Lots of donors are sponsoring the hosting; including Amazon for the bandwidth. There's a link on the lvfs page if you'd like to throw some money in the hat, so to speak. Long term this hopefully gets transferred to the Linux Foundation, although we're still working on the legal niggles. More to share when I know more myself.
I'd like a citation on your first statement. All things considered, I don't believe either state is contributing more than they get back.

If you like to contribute to those services, you are more than welcome to, but they should not be mandatory contributions. My own view is the smaller the government, the better. Federal and State governments have their place, but it should be up to citizens to decide what matters to them.
It would be a rather different world if people's private data couldn't be used against them in some fashion or other.

So the problem is both that money isn't locked by a more secure scheme than lots of data AND it is a problem that businesses are allowed/able to accumulate massive data on people wind-up being negligent with it.
Writing a Brainfuck Interpreter in Rust (and WebAssembly)
The book is the best place to understand it, in my opinion. There's plenty of summaries, but the book is good.

But if you take nothing else: next action. When planning a list put the next physical thing you need to do (call, draft, debug a specific routine, etc), not abstract concepts.
It's my understanding that it's the local municipalities who don't let them build, fearing traffic congestion and losses in land value, generally being wrong on both accounts.
In what way would a private site (say, a self-hosted GNU Social instance) not allow Trump direct access to a large base of devoted fans, and allows him to state his mind publicly in a way that is not filtered by aids, media organizations, and the like?
Hiring people as employees around the world without setting up an entity everywhere. Stripe for employment.
BuckleScript: Write safer and simpler code in Reason, compile to JavaScript
Ask HN: How is a Yubikey “always-in” 2fa key a true 2fa?
I know the Yubikey 4 Nano is very popular and is designed to always stay in a USB port: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4-nano

Google, who is considered to have good internal IT security practices, gives these to employees.

They provide an app which lets your 2fa codes be shown on the computer as long as the USB device is in place: https://developers.yubico.com/yubioath-desktop/

Your 2fa codes are effectively always available on your computer this way. Is this considered a secure practice? Especially if you're using a password manager, this puts the password and 2fa device on the same device.
This doesn't make sense to me. If the "loophole" is having grad students pay tuition, then wouldn't the school still have to pay income tax on that tuition? If the issue is that they don't want this money going to tuition at all, then they could simply craft the rules around use that way.

It seems to me there are many ways around this. The republicans have always had an anti-university narrative. I wouldn't blame people for assuming that this tax bill is indeed just another part of that.
Would that help the problems described in the comment I replied to?
Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote
I think the EFF is dead wrong here, but I'm open to be convinced otherwise. Aside from the trappings of fame itself, is there any precedent where a public official has been restricted from certain rights that they previously enjoyed in their private lives?

Maybe once you become an elected official, you can no longer chase people off your front lawn. They have a right to speak so maybe that's more important than your private property rights. Maybe they can demand you charge their iphones while they're protesting on your street corner? The government is paying for their salary anyway, shouldn't a protested politician be required to support the protestors in the name of free speech? How far does this go?
I thought if you have a mortgage then you are grandfathered in, no?
There are Republicans all over California, in fact the only blue districts are the major population centers.

I anticipate they will vote with the party, as in either case once the Tax Bill passes their blue constituents won't be happy.
I don't say testing is useless, but it's highly unlikely that Apple doesn't test at all.

From a point on, extra testing won't help you. I kinda doubt that the main problem here was "not enough testing"