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>People on welfare have access to better healthcare than the richest person on Earth did 50 years ago. They have access to pocket computers and communication systems far more powerful than the military could have afforded 50 years ago.

Which doesn't really matter unless you have a time machine that can send them back 50 years. At least, none of the poor people I've known (including myself) have ever said "I can't afford to give my children better opportunities, let alone leave them something in my will, but hey! at least they'll have nifty pocket computers!"
When I emailed my Senator this was essentially his response. Whether genuine or not he said he wants to see a permanent solution that creates more competition. Who knows if he's being truthful but it is an argument I've seen for a long term solution.
That's a very good point! I hope you provided that input :).

Our team provides a free service for anyone to run Jupyter Notebooks on Azure. It's currently a big hit with the Edu crowd. We're seeing lots & lots of universities upload & teach courses on it. eg:

http://notebooks.azure.com/richie

There's also an Intro to Python notebook on the front page.

Hopefully the Excel team will consider Jupyter integration, esp for the web-app version! You're right that it's a killer combo. Check out xlwing's video on using Excel+Jupyter - it's brilliant.
The lack of patience seems right on to me. I get the feeling that a lot of these discussions where people feel afraid to speak their mind are issues where the orthodoxy feels it has resolved the issue and moved on to talking about something new. They're tired of having conversations they see as repetitive. And when someone questions some part of that perceived-resolved issue, there's a lack of patience to, as they see it, go back and discuss it in a rational and level-headed manner and, instead, a it's easier to apply a stigmatized label that connotes that the person is somehow behind the times and move on to talking about the subjects that interest them.

With more patience could come calm and reasoned responses that could help move other people towards a more progressive outlook. But I agree that our society and the somewhat-recent trend towards immediacy of everything in our lives has led to a desire to have the same immediacy in conflict resolution. We don't tolerate as many diverging opinions because they'd take too long to integrate.
here's my feedback: embed sqlite in it and you're done. Nobody needs any more servers, you can literally replace a hundred thousand dollar "big data" center and team of PhD data scientists with a business school dropout. And you will get prettier, more actionable results.
Ah yes spend that valuable engineer time writing type validation tests a compiler could do instead of new features.

Put me with Op. I'll use Python for prototypes and small tools but get past that and I want a statically typed language. Not just for validation but also refactoring.
'More recently, I’ve seen credible people working on ideas like pharmaceuticals for intelligence augmentation, genetic engineering, and radical life extension leave San Francisco because they found the reaction to their work to be so toxic. “If people live a lot longer it will be disastrous for the environment, so people working on this must be really unethical” was a memorable quote I heard this year.'

That's toxic? First, sounds very straw-man. Second, okay, someone said they think something's unethical. Maybe it is? Maybe they have a point they didn't articulate well? Maybe they're straight-up wrong! If you're arguing for free speech, then you're arguing in favor of people being vocally critical of ideas you hold dear. Hiding under the pillow fort of "California is so intolerant" makes it seem like what you're actually complaining about is people disagreeing with you.
>That is not why this is shocking. This proceeding is shocking because the legal basis for this change is dependent on a false statements about the technology involved. It goes beyond just, "Republicans prefer deregulation," or, "Republicans favor market-based approaches." There is plenty of room and a general need for debates about what policy approaches are best, but there is no room for debate about the answer to technical questions.

Haha. Try working in education or, gasp, environmental science, if you think that the contestability of simple facts is shocking.
Oh, interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I haven't tried in a week or two, and it's back! I was definitely getting redirected to m.facebook.com for a week or two, but apparently see they have restored access, for whatever reason.

Edit: does anyone know of somewhere I can be informed of changes about this by Facebook?

Searching for previous discussions about this on a Hacker News, I see other people say that the mbasic Does or doesn’t work for them at various times.
Bzzzt - not really. Quartz in BoA, and Athena in JP Morgan (both built by the same folks) essentially takes Python, connects it to a bucketload of C++ and Java that makes up the bulk of the banks services, adds on a GUI layer, a pretty crappy object storage layer (shudders at Hydra...) and a half-baked object persistence layer that was always so slow. Sure, a lot of Python scripts get written for those platforms, but the heavy lifting -- pricing, trading, order books, risk systems, market data, connectivity all ends up being C++/Java, maybe in a Python overcoat.
I've been told that the translation of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita that I'm currently reading (along with its copious translators' contextual footnotes) makes the novel eminently more reading than previous translation, which was apparently much more stilted.
Video is one of a few examples when a faster SSD could make a difference. Any non-trivial operations you do on the video will still be bound by the CPU. 530MB/s is enough to completely read a 5GB video into RAM in under 10 seconds. That's orders of magnitude faster than you can edit it and then render it.
The one where 5g is faster than my comcast connection.
That and there's a trust issue I'm sure, regarding hosting all your data with your competitor.
Can an incorrect prescription can cause permanent eye damage? What is requiring a prescription supposed to protect someone from, other than protecting the optometrists' business model?

I've been making up my own prescriptions for years. I had the astigmatism measured, but I like to set my own reading power to focus on my screen in the most comfortable position.
This is yet another example of why Comcast could not pay me to use their service.
Excel spreadsheets are cool because if you update data somewhere, it'll update all the formulas and products elsewhere.

How do you get that kind of "watch" behavior with `xlrd` and `xlwt`? You don't, you have to re-run a script. Sucks.
I never read status updates as I only use messenger/messenger.com. I'd like to ditch that too, but I have a lot of friends who I only have in messenger and who literally live on the other side of the planet. I suppose I should just make international txts instead.
No, it's still using Valve's fork of that old library (Ipion Virtual Physics) that's referred in the documentation to as VPhysics.
The big 3 were BlackBerry, Windows Mobile & Symbian (Nokia)

Android was built a lot like a BlackBerry/Window Mobile competitor in its early stages. Nobody knew Apple was making a phone, there were heavy rumors of course, but people weren't expecting the impact it would have.

Google obviously had to know something about it, as they provided maps apis for the first iPhone. But Apple probably kept as much secret as they could.

But none of them were really prepared for iOS's leap in touchscreen UIs. Android was the fastest to adopt, took about 2-3 years still though. BlackBerry & Windows Mobile waited to late for a reboot and Symbian just died silently.
Amazingly good news!

The argument that net neutrality protects the little guy, the small startup, etc is backwards. Internet giants like Facebook, Google, Netflix et al. only want net neutrality so that their current business model is protected through government force.

There are plenty of mechanisms in place to keep telcos in check. (e.g. FTC, customer choice).

If we really want to reform Internet policy create more competition in the marketplace by making it easier to start an ISP not harder.
I am 90% certain that MS has abandoned its EEE strategy from the nineties.

But the scars from that era are so vivid in my mind, that I feel the need of a confirmation.
Do you not vote at the local/state level either?
Neither one of those is a true solution. For one, we currently do not live in a climate where competition is happening. Every NN supporter would love for that to happen, but for now it's not. Second, not every place can support competing ISPs. Do the people who live in the inner city or out in rural areas not deserve a neutral net?
This administration and the direction we are heading reminds me of the movie Idiocracy.
I don't think that is far-fetched. The gut contains about 70% of the cells of your immune system.

I have a genetic disorder. Working on my gut health has gone a long way towards reversing my symptoms.

I don't talk about it as much as I used to because it was a constant shit show from people being completely dismissive, outright calling me crazy and asserting utterly illogical things in the name of their "scientific" bias, like "Your 13+ years of steady forward health progress in the face of your degenerative condition is merely wild coincidence and doesn't prove that you know anything at all. Stranger things have happened!"

Cuz, yeah.

People who see themselves as scientific and logical are very often not remotely objective. They just have college degrees or whatever to justify their ugly personal prejudices, and don't confuse them with the facts.
I agree that Ajit Pai is really hard to separate from how enthusiastically he defends his actions.

Like, there's three options, none of which I like:

1. NN is actually as unnecessary as he says and his memes are doing the country a service.

2. He genuinely believes the above statement despite most of the internet disagreeing vehemently with him.

or

3. He is really capable of shilling out for ISPs in such a in-your-face manner.

He certainly doesn't fit into the typical politician/regulator mold. It's baffling.
I actually reject the idea of story points as a unit-less number, mostly because people can't help but think about them in terms of time anyway (whether they want to or not) [1].

Rather, I like to use a discrete list of story point values as scalar value that represents a probability distribution for how long the task might take. As the story point gets bigger, not only does the mean time get bigger, but the variance grows as well.

For example, a 1 is 2-4 hours, but a 13 is 2-3 weeks, and a 40 is 1-2 months. The idea is that not only do more complex tasks take more time, but the precision of our estimates goes down.

This makes engineers happy because they get to be more honest about estimates, and it makes managers happy because they only have to deal with one number.

[1] Unit-less measures might be easier in an environment that is more concerned with true productivity than with deadlines, but that is not most environments.
Sam doesn't do any of that. I do, so you should take it up with me.

"Censorship" and "moderation" sometimes refer to the same thing from different points of view. The basis of HN moderation is not ideological agreement or disagreement, but the site rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Most of the time when people complain that they've been censored/moderated because of their "controversial positions", they're unaware or don't want to admit that they broke the site guidelines. Of course we also make mistakes.
I wasn't convinced by that article when it first came out, due to it's using several arguments in bad faith, and simply mischaracterizing many things (you can check back to the HN thread when that article was released for examples). I'm less inclined to believe it now.
> This is called an overbuild and is rather wasteful given the capex involved.

Wasn't the original phone system vastly over built and that is the reason that things like DSL were possible without having to run new wiring in many homes?
> Yes, please do. When you do, take into account that "per default" means "as long as no other information is available", which only applies to people that you are completely unconnected to and have never interacted with.

You have two resumes and one last interview spot. They're fairly equal but one is Asian and the other is White. You pick Asian because Asians in general are better at technology and mathematics (that is abstract though). At least, that's the stereotype.
The entire world is made up of divisive politics. Unless you want this to be a place where nothing of substance is discussed, ever, then you cannot escape it.
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There's a microwave based ISP in SF called Monkeybrains. From their about us page:

"Monkeybrains is primarily a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider). What this means is Monkeybrains uses microwave technology to create a wireless network covering much of San Francisco. We deliver internet service to individual locations by placing an antenna on the roof. This antenna picks up an encrypted wireless signal from one of our network access points which can be found on over 1000 buildings city-wide.

From the roof, we run a Cat5 Ethernet wire either to the unit, telecom closet, or the property's Ethernet patch panel. We are happy to comply with any building wiring guidelines or work with the building's riser company if required."

https://www.monkeybrains.net/how-it-works

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a1...

They are pretty responsive in terms of customer service.

*Don't work for Monkeybrains but my company uses their service.
Yeah, I also want to bet that they're straight.
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I've probably mentioned this before on another news article. Not like it really matters.
Python is nice as a beginner scripting language since it's (to my own judgement) the most easily readable language to its function set.

When working with software like office, you are going to have a lot of users that don't exactly spend their days programming, or studying syntax.
Excel is a little different in their own regard. The functions system has a lot of depth to it, and makes sense to a cell system, but for some it can be a but overwhelming in terms of how its written, since everything has to be written exactly as a function.
I guess you also have generic office macros, haven't used them since high school.

In saying that, could this somehow be a reason why the office team have decided on a python interpreter, instead of say JavaScript or Microsoft's work on Typescript.
Because python is easy to write, fast to learn, therefore users or even really employees in large data management positions don't have to worry about their time input?
On the other hand, you have the Democrats, whose default position seems to be "we want to do whatever the Republicans do, except only half as much." Who appointed Ajit Pai to the FCC in the first place?
I got "Banned" for pointing out that he's a middle eastern man mocking western culture, has infiltrated our government and is attacking our core consumer protection regulations.

So I'm not surprised, but y'all need to wake up. This is why we have a 2nd amendment.
It's not comparable to concrete though as it has completely different physical properties (ie. much lighter and weaker). It's more rigid insulation made with natural fiber and a lime based binder to hold it together.
As long as the range object works in the same way, I don't care. Would be nice to have proper objects instead of having to use interfaces. It would also make a nice sandbox for beginners to learn python.
If a Senator says he wants to see something as an alternative to a concrete option that exists (either as status quo policy under threat or a concrete proposal under debate) he's making excuses for not supporting the thing you care about.

If a Senator says he's actively working on something and points you to specific legislation he sponsors or supports, well, that might also be political theater, but it's at least possible that there is real substance behind it.
This legal complaint is not about resources used; it's not a "They criminally DDoSes us".

This lawsuit is an attempt to stop competition by curbing access to data, not about ensuring reasonable use of apis and rate limits.
> works that lead and inspire all of us?

Here we go, gentlemen. The cattle take as their own the pablum the owners feed them.

(Cheers.)
Fair point. This is a very clever way of looking at it, thanks.
IETF protects privacy and helps net neutrality with DNS over HTTPs
Forget about Net-Neutrality, it's gone, it's a dead horse. Let's see some competition.

I cannot believe that I live in the middle of the infamous Silicon Valley and only have a single choice when it comes to fast broadband, and that one goes down every other month for 3-8 hours.
I agree and I would add to that that many users of these scripting tools in Office are novice, and dynamic typing makes the language non self-discoverable. Static typing lets the IDE give a lot more feedback on invalid syntax, what can be done from there, etc. So I think this is a disservice we make them.
Actually I used that as Linux alternative to Photoshop. I've used Chrome to export it as stand-alone app.
There’s a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bs9jRFUIlM
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IMO YC could legitimately respond to that one like Odetta did when Joan Baez said "you taught me how to sing": "Oh baby, don't you blame me for that".
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Useful for emergencies to non-daily users like me.
I think single entry/single exit is very valuable, and worth a bit of clunkiness for. And the branch version is also pretty clunky: either the long-winded "return ", abuse of "and"/"or", or the weirdly backwards expression version of "if" that Python has.
Also noting: Ophuls explicitly supports the view of limits. But he does a very good job of treating both sides of the argument, particularly in his bibliography, and favours steelman rather than strawman opponents.
I think it's fairly accurate. If you have a couple dozen (or 100) friends scattered around the world, it's a lot easier to see pictures of their kids or new kitchen on a Social Media platform than to try to call them every day.
I’ve had similar experiences. And yeah, being told your work is unethical over something so arbitrary is depressing.

It’s only one anecdote as part of an article so I don’t understand your complaint. I suppose a thorough study of attitudes would be better.
I think that the main reason of Facebook's failure is that people need someone to listen to them. Facebook is just about sharing. People will hear you but you want someone to listen to you, eventually.

So,this feeling of being heard can only satisfy you temporarily until a certain point, meaning until you realize you need something more. Facebook has failed iked at what their main purpose is: communication.

Is there an alternative? Yeah, it's called life, listening, opportunities, etc.

My 2 cents.
Check YouTube, you’ll still find him around.
Perhaps you should spend a little of time reading about the US form of government because what you described is very similar to the purpose of the House and the Senate. Barring gerrymandering issues, the house members are populous elected representatives with each state given weight based on its population. Then each state gets 2 senate seats which are elected within the states by popularity as well.

Tldr; you've essentially described how the law making arm of the US is already elected and have pretended it's something new.
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Have you used MyPy? I'm currently looking to adopt it, but the feedback I've been getting is that it's a lot more painful to use than Typescript (which imho sets the gold standard of "optional typing").
Since I am always trying to decide between various side projects to work on (and gadgets to choose from), I built a simple website that help me decide: https://HelpMeDecide.today

Not really finished because I got distracted with some other projects, but I will finish it one day.
"He certainly doesn't fit into the typical politician/regulator mold. It's baffling."

He's a shining example of Trump's promise to evict the political class in exchange for the corporate class. Seems to make sense that he'd be so obvious about being a shill, that's what we (as a country, not me or probably you in particular) asked for when we elected Trump.
Yes, you can open your own fonts using File - Open. See the last part of https://www.photopea.com/learn/text-layers
I'm actually more concerned with good tools for working with code than the language, but Python would be an improvement over VBA, and conceptually allow them to use Python tooling they've developed for other uses in Office.
They could but they won't. VZ/Comcast/ATT/etc of the world throw fantastic fundraisers
Hard to understate the possibilities that IBM brings to Stellar, IBM has relationships with big business and governments that have taken decades to establish and no amount of money can buy.

Stellar just popped 25% today on the back of a Russian bank announcement of tie up with IBM for blockchain tech.
This is really sad. Makes me want to start a lean, open source social network that keeps the good stuff and does away with the bloat. I bet it could be popular with intelligent people! Anyone interested, email me (see profile) :p
I know.

I'm pointing out that the Portuguese non-neutral mobile carrier is no different than our US non-neutral mobile carriers.
Transparent access to Excel tables as Pandas Dataframes would be so, so very awesome.

I mean, MS implemented these really nice Tables in excel, but then left us no way to easily query them with something like SQL.
What do you want confirmation of?

That MS is now a gentle, caring beast? Large organizations are not like that, they are money making machines that adopt strategies to maximise profit. EEE is no longer such a strategy, though it worked very well for a long time.

Will MS ever go EEE again? In a heartbeat if they felt it would maximise profits.

Does that seem likely in the short to medium term? No, the industry is different now, and they have to play nice.
As you suggest the genes/piano is sort of the hand you are dealt (you have the gene for certain disease or not), but the microbiome is what will typically unlock those diseases or not given the gene set.

The way I used to describe it was that your genes are like the blueprints for a house and what you eat is like local building materials. The blueprints may specify 2 bedrooms, one bathroom, but exactly how that will look will depend a lot on the vernacular architecture. Is it adobe brick because you live in the American Southwest? Is it made of blocks of ice because you are an Inuit? Etc.

So, different building materials have different strengths and weaknesses. This will significantly impact things like ceiling height and room size because what shapes the material supports will vary, depending on the material.

I'm sorry some people are reflexively downvoting. I hate it that so many people who imagine themselves to be scientific are so incredibly dismissive of stuff like this.
There are a ton of uses for old-style <font>, <b>, etc tags. CSS is both more verbose and more abstract. When I do not care about the "reusability" of a given code fragment, give me presentational markup tags all day long
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