skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit dated now, but still a great read about a Python project done by Java developers: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

"So, the sad thing is that these poor folks worked much, much harder than they needed to, in order to produce much more code than they needed to write, that then performs much more slowly than the equivalent idiomatic Python would."
It may have been quite helpful in fact; particularly after the invention of the telegraph, remote amateur micromanagment by royal, tyrannical and elected HIPPOs (including Hitler and even perhaps even Lincoln at the start of the war) has crippled many a military effort.
Student loans are a bad idea. It's debt slavery, plain and simple. And most college degrees are less than useless these days anyway. $100k in student loan debt, and a liberal arts degree from Noname U? You've got a problem.
> Plenty of things we call programming languages take a "the implementation is the spec" view,

And do you think the implementation isn't a mathematical object itself?

> or simply can't be assigned any useful semantics in a way that's at all aligned with the defining characteristics of the language in question.

This is a contradiction in terms. By definition a semantics is a mathematical descrpition of the meaning of a programming language, i.e., the behavior of its programs. Sometimes a semantics exposes significant differences between the mental model of programmers and what a programming language really is, but the solution is not to turn a blind eye to reality.

> Python tuples are perfectly cromulent compound values.

So long as they have object identities, they are not values. Values are merely represented in memory - they truly exist in the language's semantics.
"Plane change maneuvers are expensive"
Oh god, yeah this will be the quickest way for my account to go from multiple uses per day to 100% inactive.
That the paid moderator of this site would respond like this is unsurprising.

And yet the position of moderator is one that could do wonders for setting a better culture.
Ruby is a lot more non-programmer friendly and has an easier syntax if you ask me
There's only one apostrophe in the name. It's not quote marks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua Or to be really specific https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/02bb/index.htm "typographical alternate for U+02BD or U+02BF
used in Hawai`ian orthography as `okina (glottal stop)"
Obviously, this indicates they're using technology far exceeding ours that's undetectable to our sensors.
Saying "you are unethical for doing this research" is very different from saying "I think there are serious problems with extending human life". One is a legitimate criticism and is vital to public debate. The other is name calling.
If people are being stupid I'm gonna call them stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDbXPBwOavc
I read a translation of Great Expectations in simplified English and it seemed pretty boring.

I wonder if the Count of Monte Cristo is even better in French.
Also, I'm the same way with shifting to more relaxing things like reading and dinner with friends so totally agree on that! I was writing more with what I think of as the average consumer. I would like to see the trend of more complex/expensive high quality shows (like Breaking Bad and The Wire) continue and wouldn't worry so much about reality tv being killed by viral content.
How much of that do you believe is simply taking the other side by democracy’s because they hate republicans? Versus if the dems has the WH and both houses they would appoint another telecom shill and have done exactly the same thing?

That’s the party that tried to bring us the Clipper chip my friend. Think about that.
In high school, lots of people get straight As without any of that drudgery. Just 1.5σ gets one so far out of range of teachers that one need only glance at the books at which one chooses to glance.

Then we get to college...
Or it is just a rock.
KPI of the Week – ANODPP (Acceptable Number of Drinks per Person)
I’ve described what the US model would be ideally. But that’s not what it is today. The German system was designed after the US system (due to WWII, and everything after), but improved.

Gerrymandering is a real issue (the German model doesn’t have that), the house seats are effectively arbitrarily distributed, etc.
Yes you need it for both contacts and glasses. The prescription must be current as well (past year).

It’s truly a racket. If you break your glasses on day 366, you can’t get a new pair without paying the eye exam tax.
So This Is How Liberty Dies... With Thunderous Applause
That's so much less fun an explanation.
Worse is their current policy. I've seen my wife watch Facebook videos and an ad will INTERRUPT THE VIDEO with a video of its own. That's completely unacceptable, to me.
IF Comcast had actually been legitimately trying to contact the customer via other means (phone, letter, email) AND it was a significant issue (end of life on modem), then it's not unreasonable.

I rather doubt that Comcast tried the phone route, and the article indicates that the modem was not EOL, so overall I think the injection was ridiculous.
Apparently it was the most common cause of death until 1946 in the US, although doctors usually didn't write "Syphilis" in death certificates for the sake of the family; just the final cause of death such as pneumonia.
Whatever the history, startups are fragile. Were California law different, it would definitely have a chilling effect on startups.

As for hiring a lawyer, most of the people who really need to know this don't know up front that they should negotiate such terms. And most employees, including me, don't really want to start off a new job haggling over the contract. It really doesn't make a good first impression.
I disagree entirely and vehemently to what you are saying.

> he made himself essentially impossible to work with

Who told you this? Im sure there were 100's of engineers, including female co-workers, at google that would have worked with him.

But lets play along, lets say that effectively no single person at google would voluntarily let himself work with Damore. Why do you think that is? Because 99.9% disagree with his essay? Or because he became a target for scorn in the public eye that overpunished him?

He was not fired because he wrote a shabby essay. He did not get fired for writing the essay itself. He got fired because the public asked him to be fired and punished, and google complied for PR.
> the trust that was growing at that time and the hope we all began to take for granted

> my kid

You can't make this shit up.
I'm weirdly outraged at the author:

It's a confused kind of outrage because on one hand, if she actually believes she's doing a public service by pointing out how lax the law is and how loose this company is being with public health, then maybe I want her to know civilised countries let you order contacts online without a prescription! It's a non-issue; nobody is going to lie about contact lenses, it's extremely low risk, and honestly, maybe the company should be praised (she just doesn't know it).

On the other hand, if she's just into clickbait and doesn't care about public safety; that she's actually willing to hatchet-job a company, potentially ruin those employees lives, and cost anyone who needs contact lenses more money (which is wow! expensive in the US! A box of 30 lenses is like £8 here!), then seriously, what a jerk!
If your last glasses broke somehow you can get new ones just buy measuring old lenses and making new ones same.
Modelling Homogeneous Generative Meta-Programming [pdf]
Even if that’s accurate how does that negate what I said about all of the Russian BS is just that BS. No proven election fraud, no voter fraud, nothing provable to russians.
> It's not democratic. It's republican. Remember that America is a republic, not a democracy.

"Democracy" and "Republic" aren't part of a formal system where they're mutually exclusive.

America is a Democracy, and was meant to be without any question. It's a Republic, too. If a programming metaphor helps, it inherits traits from both. It's democratic republic with elected representatives. It's a lot of things. Including some mistakes which we've eventually recognized with official amendments and court rulings and other forms of change. One of the principles of the American system is that any part of the system is open for review, criticism, and even rewriting.

Maybe the way we elect the executive branch is one area that needs change.

> Each state has 2 senators/electoral votes because this country was founded as the United States. It was supposed to be more of a coalition of states united under a federal government, than a single nation.

The "coalition of states" thing was tried first, and it wasn't working out super well, so we got a new system that actually made a single nation and it's worked out better.

Giving states 2 senators and electoral votes wasn't done just because it was Totally The Best Ideal Thing Ever For Everybody. It was done in large part because it had to be done to get buy-in and make the actually working single nation happen.

Now, the practice does have some other merits. Rural areas shouldn't just be resource colonies for metropolises and regional voices are important and hiding 100 extra electoral vote easter eggs around the country could help everybody get attention and in principle be part of ensuring the POTUS is a reasonable representative of a plurality across the whole country.

But the thing that's manifestly un-representative (and doesn't serve any clear purpose as far as "Republic-ness" goes) is the whole winner-take-all approach to awarding electoral votes.

We could fix that as a country and have a more representative presidential election by requiring states to award their electoral votes proportionally to how the population votes.

If the principle you care about when you say "we're a Republic" is something along the lines of avoiding the tyranny of the majority, awarding proportional electoral votes to the candidate that came away with the minority state-by-state is right in line with that.
Could be. I have no idea of the legislative history.

But I am certain that it has done a lot to help maintain our startup culture.
Which leads me back to my original point that we need leaders who will govern by listening to ideas, facts, counterpoints, and making tough compromises and decisions based on that.

Good luck raising billions of dollars or marshaling millions of volunteer hours to elect candidates that may or may not follow through on promises on any given issue. Where are these wise leaders going to come from that they're immune to the vagaries of party politics and voting blocs?
I don't understand what the time scale is here. Bitcoin is down by 18% ... over what?
Resource intensive stuff can be done server side, possibly resulting in better performance than most desktops. We do that for some tasks on https://clara.io, a 3D editor.
"NO! I prefer VBA to Python!" Said no one ever :)
Depends if you define popular by most used or most liked.

Most used: everyone pays taxes. Paying taxes is popular!

A more practical example is javascript. I write some javascript, not because I like it (I hate it), but because that's the only way to make things happen in a browser. Javascript is popular. Does it mean it is liked / a good language?
I hope we can agree HTML is used for text content first and foremost. A format that changes all the time at the whim of an ad company is basically useless for long-term preservation of legal documents, or documents in education, etc. Do you think having the latest web app fad is more important? Especially when the format has been around for 25 years now. "Innovation" on the Web is only happening so that Google can keep an edge in search tech, and for similar reasons.

Wake up.
You can't make easy analytics with 'piracy reach', but I bet you could probably make some estimates by monitoring bit torrent.
Yes you do need a prescription and it has to be dated in the last two years.

Another fun one: you can get and consume 3 x 200mg ibuprofen tablets over the counter (Costco sell jars of 500 200mg tablets as a two pack so you get 1,000 pills at once!) However to get 600mg pills requires a prescription.
It does matter as they live a healthier, happier and more productive life. I think the point is that people are better off now than 50 years earlier.

So in 50 years what used to only be available to billionaires will be over the counter.
In a related move, Facebook disabled embedded videos from youtube/vimeo/etc last month.

https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:291071

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1963535797258090/?hc_lo...
How is that fraud?
They mentioned that they're scanning a frequency range from 1 to 12 GHz.

Why that range? And what if it's transmitting at 0.5 or 13 GHz, or 500 GHz? Would that show up, just weaker or..?
Why Facebook is doomed to eventual irrelevance
> I can't imagine that 5 years from now I'll be watching 1 minute viral videos all evening instead of professionally produced long form content.

What's the youngest person you have the chance to observe the evening routine of?

Both my girlfriend and my sister will go to bed every evening, pull out their phone, and spend an hour watching 1 minute short viral videos on Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. Endless stream. 1 minute bits of content.

My girlfriend has gone so far as saying Snapchat's serious channels are the best service to catch up on the news.
You need it for glasses except reading glasses.
I think the best defense of this rule is that (1) visiting the optometrist for time-to-time has early-prevention benefits that outweigh the exam costs and (2) requiring a new prescription when people get glasses/contacts forces people to have this exam. Not exactly honest, but plausibly net good.
The Unforgotten Quest Kickstarter Has Failed
I moved from Paris just over a year ago. We were regular users of Autolib almost from the start, 2012. It has been working very well. The Autolib network has been extended to Belib. Private BEVs can use the Autolib chargers, which are practically everywhere.

I think in a city like Singapore it should be even better. One of the downsides of Autolib is the condition and cleanliness of the vehicles. Some drivers simply don't care and it can take a bit of time before the vehicles are serviced. If the streets of Singapore are any gauge of cleanliness I imagine their vehicles will remain spotless all of the time.
Shirky cites Joseph Tainter. If you want to hear from Tainter directly, which is the podcast that has kept me up at night, listen to this:

podcast (en) – omega tau science & engineering podcast
184 – Societal Complexity and Collapse

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From what I understand, autoimmune diseases are a mix of genetic predisposition and "learned behaviour" by the human immune system, i.e. some stressor making the immune system mislabeling a part of the own body as hostile. Once this is "learned", would removing the genetic predisposition even have an effect? Do we even know how the immune system "remembers" previous illnesses?

If not, gene therapy can only be applied pre-emptively, I guess, unless we somehow manage to isolate the mechanism of how measles resets the immune system, and apply it selectively to the part that has learned the autoimmune behaviour[0].

[0] http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/6168/20150508/measles-w...
The author says that it's safer to discuss "controversial" ideas in Beijing than America, but I wonder if that's partly because the ideas in question aren't actually controversial in Beijing. Presumably the ideas the author has in mind are those that might be interpreted to impugn certain disadvantaged groups. But if I found it more easy to say "gay people are degenerates" in Beijing, I don't think I would take that as evidence that free speech norms are more robust there--it might just mean that homophobia is the norm.
So far today I've learned that a two year old policy being repealed is anti-gay, will stop women from getting abortions, will stop the black lives matter movement from speaking freely, and will prevent the #metoo movement from growing. Yes, all because the internet before 2015 was completely censored and prevented free speech.

If anything, I've seen a significant rise in censorship since NN was passed.

The hyperbole today is just off the charts sad.
You should have a little bit more experience with Python and you would see how huge systems can be written in it with no problem. It needs a bit more discipline, but above 100k lines software written in any other language would need the same discipline also. (I'm working with 100kloc codebase right now and seen almost 300kloc. That was messy because mostly juniors wrote it :D but still bearable and profitable.)
Honestly that just means the website sucked and it went down because it sucked. Making it not suck is the solution, persecuting the people who stumbled into your suckiness is not.
> How much of that do you believe is simply taking the other side by democracy’s because they hate republicans?

Approximately zero; the areas of partisan difference, and the details of disagreement in those areas, have drifted a bit over time, but were largely similar 25-30 years ago, when, despite campaigns being hard-fought, relations were much more collegial then today. It's not personal hatred driving the policy differences.
It is a strong liability in a project contract if the standard with respect to which you implement the code changes under your feet.
I'm certainly not 'overlooking' it. I just don't find it particularly compelling of an argument. A business can certainly charge on both the downstream and upstream ends of their own network if they so choose. As long as they aren't operating in an anticompetitive fashion, of course.

And while Google is much less public about their special peering agreements and CDN setups, Netflix is pretty public, so let's talk about Netflix Open Connect. Netflix Open Connect boxes are hosted "at no charge to the ISP" at various ISPs, as if it's a charitable offering. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

But essentially, Open Connect boxes are colocated. If anyone but Netflix were to ask for free colocation, they'd get laughed right out of the room. A startup trying to compete with Netflix could never get what Netflix gets for free. Net neutrality effectively removes Comcast's negotiating power to demand Netflix pays for the service, because things like throttling their peering traffic isn't allowed. The irony is, in this instance, net neutrality is actually granting Netflix an exclusive advantage (by the nature of their size and customer demand for them) that smaller players can't hope to match.

Once again, net neutrality regulations help big monopolies and hurt smaller players.
What if it's shields are up?
But look at the form of the statement quoted. To paraphrase, 'I disagree with this idea, therefore any proponent of it is a bad person'.

The underlying assumption (or one of many) is that all perspectives have moral judgements attached, and the offended party is the sole arbiter of that judgement.

In other words, it's one thing to question progress, it's another thing to say 'I disagree with this form of progress, therefore the person working towards it is evil'. Judge action all you want, but assume good intent absent concrete evidence to the contrary.
True, but given Obama's stance on NN, if he had a theoretical third term I don't think Pai would be Chairman.
> harden rent control

So price controls...

> eliminate no-fault eviction

"no-fault eviction" is, quite literally, a made-up magical concept.

A landlord that chooses to not renew your lease is not "evicting" you. Both parties have fulfilled their contractual obligations.

>any new housing production be allocated to existing needy residents by government lottery

OK. Sure, and how long does this go on? Do you really think that this is a feasible long term solution? If the social science and economic literature points to "Yes" then I'm all ears, but I don't think that this is the case.

>Optionally add downzoning to reduce landlord incentives to let buildings die of neglect (no opportunity to build anything more profitable).

This one was just painful to read. I mean....this is the exact OPPOSITE of what you want to do. The entire issue boils down to supply and demand, and their solution is to further reduce density and the supply of housing!?
I don't disagree that branching on bits is clunky. That it's still less clunky than using Church or Scott-encodings speaks volumes of the practicality of the latter.
Since that trait can be viewed as the double-absence of the statistically "normal" gene, I would guess yes. The near normal protein levels in this trial (despite the fact that only a small percentage of cells were likely altered) are a very positive sign.
He left NYU Shanghai earlier this year to move back to NYU Manhattan.
Question: are these EVs a custom built by Bollore Group or a rebadged Renault Zoe?
Do they have an agreement with the local city, or is it a natural monopoly? It's unclear what causes that condition of a lack of choices in a given area.

https://www.wilmerhale.com/pages/publicationsandnewsdetail.a... (March 5, 2007)

>In streamlining the franchising process and preempting (Local Franchising Agency) LFAs from taking action inconsistent with its reforms, the FCC relied primarily on its statutory authority to carry out the Cable Act’s mandate that LFAs “may not grant an exclusive franchise and may not unreasonably refuse to award an additional competitive franchise.” The FCC interpreted that mandate to cover not only the unreasonable denial of a cable franchise, but also unreasonable delay in action on a franchise application and the conditioning of a franchise on unreasonable terms.

Now local cable/isps do mess with the process of permitting and right of ways as much as they can when competitors arise, and local governments are susceptible to both corruption and being overwhelmed by the large corporations deploying such tactics. Just maybe not in that specific way of signing monopoly franchise agreements. So I'm under no illusions that this prohibition of monopoly franchise grants goes very far...
It sounds like you're not happy in your org. Which is unfortunate, but a lot of what you said doesn't resonate with me.

* The hiring freeze is nothing unusual - ask any yellow (>5 years) or red (>10 years) badge - We grow fast and sometimes too fast and need to slow down. There are times for invention, and there are times for optimization.

* You still can and should provide feedback to managers, and ask for feedback on yourself.

* Vocally self critical got rolled up into Earn Trust. It's still a huge aspect of it, especially during hiring.

* The chromecasts are back on the site! The cold war with Google is thawing

* I won't comment about metrics - if your business team is fudging numbers, that's on you.

* It's CORRECTION-of-error not cause of error. The entire premise is to figure out how to avoid it in the future, not use it as punishment or to point fingers. What orgs do you know that are abusing this system? Name and shame them, if not here then on Blind.
>" I think they were racking their own stuff and even running their own routers etc."

There is nothing "extreme" about any of that.
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To begin, you should state what you mean by the NET NEUTRALITY PROBLEM. Once we understand and agree on the problem, we may be able to comment on whether a "technical solution" exists.