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Numpy drops new feature support for Python 2 at the end of this year (but will continue bugfixes for that last Py2-supporting feature release past that point), and all support for Python 2 at the end of next.

>SciPy, similarly, has announced it will drop Python 2 support by 2020.

And there's the reason I needed to convert, thank you.
I've been fascinated with the story of the original olivier salad for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad#History
How do you go about finding a good HW guy for a side-project?

Asking because our analog layout guy with decades of experience really needs help with the discrete parts.

Nothing fancy just some rotary encoder work.

This is the kind of stuff I remember doing in my FPGA class a long time ago but I figure I'd be fumbling around in a real hardware land since I usually do embedded software.

There must be gotchas that an expert would know in a real hardware that are not present in a simulation.
> I really love this system

I would much prefer to just have a username and password. Now I need to carry two devices (scanner and chip) and enter my PIN every single time I want to do anything. This gives it a huge amount of exposure for shoulder surfing, especially since this scanner thing has touch buttons (how are you ever going to enter anything on a touchscreen-like device without looking at it? The old device had buttons which you could press under the table or so).

This system is good for most people, but not for everyone. What I mind is the inflexibility.
In addition to the other suggestions, Horace Dediu does a nice job with technology firm analysis (as he says, using Apple as a lens). http://www.asymco.com/

I admit I've been paying less attention over the last couple of years, but historically his content has been well worth reading. I was fortunate to catch one of his talks in person in Chicago, was quite interesting.
People are bad at finding out what is important and what is not. Most of the time I have to cut through not relevant stuff that others thought would be important for fixing some issue. Lot more than some insightful commit saved my day, but maybe that is just my environment.

Anyway good luck fixing anything trusting commit messages from long time ago. Code is truth and if you won't investigate you still don't know how it works.
Where does it say that? All I see is the (free) MacOS App.
Music also has much more replay-ability than movies.
You're ahead of most people then, because I would say the vast majority have no idea that arrow even exists(sometimes it doesn't).
Probably the only Lambo you can buy from crypto currency ATM
At least half the reason I got a 23andMe test was so that my data could be used in research, including by pharma companies.
A configuration manager, Ansible for example. You basically describe your infrastructure with it.
Is having the UI layout and styling mixed in with the code considered a feature of Flutter, or is providing a way to specify them separately in a machine-readable or declaritive format just not done yet?

I'm a fuddy-duddy still doing UI in GTK and Qt, I haven't kept up in trends in web and mobile design, but I know that when our developers do the layout and design it comes out awful and unusable, but luckily with GTK and Qt we can just hand it off to our designer after the basic functionality is in place and he can do some layout tweaking with Glade or Qt Designer, and is comfortable with working with CSS to provide us with custom widget styling and images, and then he sends it back to us and we clean up the results and merge it.

All of the Flutter examples seem to have the UI written entirely in code, both layout and styling, and I don't think he'd be comfortable with that. You may note that we send it to him, he tweaks it, and sends it back to us to merge; we've never been able to teach him Git, but that's OK, because we don't expect him to teach us Photoshop and design.

So, I'm just wondering if Flutter is intended to always be like this, with the whole UI specified in executable code that needs to be compiled and run for each iteration, or if it is intended to add a way to separate out the design parts (layout and styling) in a way that they can be worked on at least somewhat independently of the code?

I know that there is IDE support for hot reload, which may be OK for a designer to work with, but I'm always a little skeptical of that since most developers I know use VIM or Emacs and not IDEs, so sometimes IDE tooling setup can break, and once a project gets complicated, the toolchain setup for running from within an IDE can get hard to install. The nice thing about Glade or Qt Designer is that they can work with purely declarative formats so that you don't need to worry about having to have your designer get the full toolchain installed.
I'm also a big believer of self-development strategies / tricks. However, I don't think it's necessarily the acts themselves that are so life changing but rather the mindset that you're going to do whatever it takes to be better is what's so powerful.
Python/Flask React. Hosted on a linux box (ubuntu) in the cloud.
It is worth noting that we can also see this at the police level, where a cop plants evidence, turns on the bodycam recorder, then "discovers" the evidence, getting caught at it only because he didn't fully understand what the record button did.

With retail store employees, there isn't even an expectation of trustworthiness when it comes to handling evidence. They are not officers of the court, and have no duty to act in the interests of justice. They likely do have a duty to the customer to keep their private affairs private.

There are few reasons for any repair technician to ever open files containing customer data, and zero reasons for them to do it outside of a well-sandboxed, auditable environment, with specialized applications rather than the default OS tools. Rather than opening as a rectangular array of pixels, an image would display its bytes in a hex editor, with decoder plug-ins displaying the header information and metadata for that file type, and the results of a file integrity and malware scan.

It seems likely that Geek Squad is not set up for that kind of work. It's just too expensive to sell to consumers in a retail store. So if Joe Employee loads a suspicious image onto the customer's machine, then "discovers" it by opening it, and reports the discovery to the cops for monetary reward, that is indistinguishable from Joe Employee accidentally discovering genuine criminality, because it was not done in an auditable environment.
So China isn't playing with wto rules? I thought that would get punished promptly before this day, considering its decades since China joined wto?

On the other hand, if we look at the staggering systematic corruption in western nations, and suffering of the lowest rank citizens, I see no reason Chinese people, who are mostly poor, would want to move to a western system.
You might want to do that soon-ish, just because of the flakiness of most hard drives. Take a solid backup of the files and put it somewhere reliable.

Although it's hard to look through personal files like that, it's even worse if you had the opportunity to, didn't do it, and the hard drive failed.
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I think you can use C++ in code challenges in all major coding riddles practice sites eg. Hackerrank, Leetcode and TopCoder.
I looked up the first author on Wikipedia:

> Victor Haghani (born c. 1962[1]) is an Iranian-American financier,[2] one of the founding partners of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund which collapsed in 1998 and was eventually bailed out by a consortium of leading banks.
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for god sake, why it has been downvoted?
Biased because it's my own, but here's one in Javascript and React: https://github.com/ahuth/raycast.
Large parts of the standard library are designed badly. E.g. io streams are horrible, allocators are questionable.
You don't seem to have a very good grasp of this subject and don't appear to have read the article very carefully. The only viable alternative to PCM is DSD, which failed to gain any traction for good reasons. So for all practical purposes, sampling and PCM are the same thing. You also throw in Fourier (not Fournier) transformation for good measure, which is relevant to additive synthesis, but not to granular synthesis, which is the topic of this article.

> I don't agree with the statement that shortnening the "sound" changes pitch. It depends on your representation of the sound. If you represent it as a function of amplitude vs time then scaling the time axis does change pitch.

The only relevant "representation" is digital audio, which by definition is encoded as amplitude over time regardless of encoding technique. To lengthen time without changing pitch or pitch without changing time requires manipulation of the audio data. That manipulation is either done by granular synthesis, or by utilizing a Fast Fourier Transform to decompose the audio into its component waveforms, changing the frequencies or shortening the wave components, and recomposing them back to a composite waveform. This article is about granular synthesis, which requires far less computation than FFT.

> No instrument plays sound faster or slower to make it shorter or longer....

Irrelevant. We aren't dealing with physical instruments, but with digital audio.

There is nothing in the least fallacious or sensational about this article.
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I completely agree.

Not learning from books/teaching can make it hard to improve. I love reading other peoples code and thought processes because it often reveals how I'm missing something in my toolbox.

Studies have shown that one of the best ways to remember is to take a stab at a problem before learning the solution. So even quizzes on using libraries has helped me learn methods and concepts I would have not learned on my own if left to my own way of coding. I try a simple problem on my own before learning that there is a cleaner, more efficient solution. It's easier and more approachable to do that with small problems than trying to revise an entire document of code.

Lastly, I think a lot of experts underestimate the gap between novice and intermediate, where it's really hard and frustrating to attempt things that are a bit more complicated, requiring more background knowledge than just whats shown on the surface.
I don't think it is just that. In the dry cleaning example, the evidence would be extremely slight, it would turn into a he-said/she-said case, and either no one would get convicted or there would be enough evidence to convict the dry cleaner. And the dry cleaner can do this at most once before the police became suspicious. The cops will probably be suspicious right away: either the drugs are valuable and no one would actually leave them behind, or it is something like weed and the consequences will not be severe enough for the cops to bother.

In the case of the images, the evidence might be just as slight, but the police have essentially communicated to the employees that they won't be looking too deeply at the evidence and juries are ignorant when it come to technology and punitive when it comes to 'illegal images'.

The argument here as the defending attorney is ridiculously obvious: the employee has both motive and incentive; but I'd still give high odds of conviction (or worse, a plea bargain) and even if acquitted the accused will be marked for as long as people remember.
I was thinking about this in terms of building a product.

Even with that, a clock generally runs for months, even years, on a single battery. Not exactly phone territory, but might be feasible on the ESP8266, depending on how the oscillator behaves in deep sleep mode.
Well, Flutter has been at beta 1 for just over a week now.
https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-buil...

I can imagine they haven't had the time to flesh out docs yet.
IIRC modern operatings systems use counters in the CPU for timekeeping instead of directly accessing the RTC
Yes just be reasonable, whatever it means in context of change/team/project.
IMHO, for normal people like me, who do not have lots of money in trust fund, I have to work hard, acquire skills and obtain luck to succeed. :-)
Although its an older story, its important, because in the future with the erosion of privacy by design, and ubiquitous surveillance you can be damn sure that the FBI and others will be paying/coercing more companies to proactively Report "Crime" - Best Buy Style.
I was taught or picked up this sort of self-deprecation thing as a child and I think it hurt me more then it gave me any sort of advantage.

Me, too. It's a cultural clash. I had a really fragile up and down ego as a kid, and I tried to cover it up with the most normal, boring, appropriate modesty I knew, which in my family meant self-deprecation, but at school it didn't seem normal to people at all.

In retrospect the irony seems obvious. When I felt self-conscious about my problems I tried to use self-deprecation as a cloak of normality to hide behind, but everyone else saw it as using deviant behavior to intentionally draw attention to my problems.

It's weird how long it takes to realize how many of the assumptions you inherit from your family aren't shared by everyone else.
Off topic, your screen shots look pretty but kinda funny: one is advertising TouchID integration on an iPhone X.

That said, quick glance at your website and Narmi looks good! Good luck to you, and I hope your product does well but also encourages the rest of the market to adopt some things like stronger auth.
Please add ", D.C." to the headline :-).

(The headline would not be out of place describing Washington state, which sees a large amount of Chinese real estate investment.)
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"The problem is getting paid to actively search for it"

But, they aren't. According to the article, GS claims (you can believe this or not) that it's employees specifically do not search for it.
> postmodernistic "throw your hands in the air and give up ever being able to determine anything, and then go study something else instead"

You're arguing against a strawman understanding of postmodern ethics
Depending on the direction you want to go in your career, it's still a major need.

Any complex or high-performance computing relies on C/C++ pretty heavily still.

It's also a good tool to have in your box for building well-performing cross-platform native apps with Qt.

I say this as one who's probably at the same stage as OP. Know some C, and reasonably comfortable with the basics. Application of C++ is a little more widespread outside of strict embedded environments, however. (Another space I personally want to immerse myself in)
"Hmmm, that cake recipe doesn't seem to like humid days. "

I wouldn't even know to pay attention to this, as someone who cooks but doesn't bake (at least not anything more complicated than a batch of cookies). Ironically, now that I think about it, my mom has a thing she bakes that she won't make on humid days...

I also majored in chemistry and stopped doing it because everything I did in actual labs (as opposed to lab classes where the details were a little more worked out ahead of time by people in charge of the class) failed. Sometimes because water got into the reaction vessel that wasn't supposed to.

There's probably a connection here.
Wow, I had the same! Alarm and oven clocks were off by five minutes from my phone. How strange.
Parallel construction?
Better have US in there
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You can tell this is not "serious shell" by just this part:

1 #!/bin/sh
...
6 local arg arg_safe

`local' is a bashism. You should not entrust teaching shell programming to
somebody who can't tell the difference between #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash.
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This is sensible. China has played the West, by using the unmaterialized promise of access to its markets to motivate technology transfer to it for its own strategic advantage. It's never going to let a Western company provide the technology to power its critical systems, so there's no reason the US should allow a Chinese one to do the same.
I agree with you, I don't know why you've been down voted.

A will to live is actually one of the most important factors in surviving any injury or even any psychological upset. It's a really strange phenomenon if you think about it. Conceptually you'd think you would die from a fatal injury whether or not you wanted to live, or that you would survive if your injury was not fatal or if you had no injury at all, but that psychological component of wanting to die vs. not wanting to die can tip the scales to the other end, miraculously. I suppose the most extreme example is suicide in otherwise healthy adults.

Here is a rather long article on the subject in humans:

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-24/edition-1/survi...
What systems do you use to keep up friendships when building a business?
I figure folks on hacker news would have systems - how do you keep up your friendships when you're in startup mode? Do you use spreadsheets to track friend interactions? Do you have regularly scheduled friend meetings? What are your methods?

(My current method has to be rather terrible at seeing friends if they aren't for a work-related meetings...)
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I'm not sure it's the scale that's dishonest so much as the implication that the historical results might possibly predict future returns.
"Screenshot" is a very odd word to use in this context.
In my experience these assertions are untrue. Also the tickets are often the over arching context and will have nothing to do with the code. My product owner doesn't care if I had to try three different algorithms till I got it right; but my colleagues and my future self sure would love to see that and all the stack overflow links during a git bisect!

Not only that but the ticket is a full feature. Maybe it took 5 commits to get there: "Fix bad indenting", "Extract base logic to command object", "Update I18N entries", "Add missing tests for current behavior", "Add the feature asked for".
Kaliningrad oblast is clearly labelled "Russia" on the map so it seems unlikely that anybody would make the mistake you're implying.

Looking at the map it's clear that OP means Białystok.
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>>So, if you look at the world as repetition of bets, under condition of survival, then mental accounting is not only not irrational but is necessary. Any other strategy would be effectively irrational.

No, it's still irrational and it doesn't matter if there is repetition of bets or just one available. Depending on your total net worth, living conditions and values you have there are good bets and bad bets. A good bet is a bet which maximizes expected utility of your money. It changes depending on your net worth of course. It doesn't matter if you have just won or lost (this is mental accounting) it matters what's your total net worth is at given time.

>>Actually, what I’m saying is even stronger. I am saying that even if you have the edge, in the presence of the probability of ruin, you will be ruined. Even if you had the edge … If you play long enough.

He wouldn't pass 1st year college math course with that one.

>>Unless you engage in strategies designed by traders and rediscovered by every single surviving trader, very similar to what we call, something called the Kelly Criterion, which is to play with the house money

He doesn't grok what Kelly Criterion is either. Kelly Criterion determines a size of the bet which maximizes utility of money modeled as a logarithmic funciton. That's it. It doesn't matter if there is string of bets available or just one bet. If you have just won or lost doesn't matter either (only your total net worth at given point).

>>And this is called, playing with the market money or playing with the house money.

It's called being confused about basic math and economic concepts and then criticizing people who worked on those.

Typical Taleb: confused, wrong, having no new insights to offer but making up for those with new terms (absorbent barriers, really?) and a lot of words.
Can you PM me the names of the books. My wife does a lot of that stuff and she'd either be very interested or insulted that I gave her more work to look at.
I think there are lots of factors that can make it easier to remember certain facts. Building associations with existing knowledge helps a lot especially when attaching it to something that triggers emotions. Tying spacial information also is very powerful at least when you can access the information via the spacial association. I recently learned a lot of Kanji vis SRS and tried different techniques to beat the memory curve. For example mind palaces worked incredibly well for remembering a ton of new Kanji in order. However, when they came up out of order I frequently couldn't remember them or only remember where in my mind palaces they belong, but not their meaning. A better structured mind palaces could have probably helped. I think you might be able to remember the arrow in the car because you spend so much more time behind the steering wheel than filling up the car and have a easier time putting the arrow in the context of the controls you look at frequently. It's much easier to connect to existing memory.
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This is awesome. React is so slow compare to Radi
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And yet all implementations of communism has failed so does this mean technical progress eventually leads to societal failure? Also I believe we will end up with socialism, not communism.
There's a recipe my mom got from a friend of my grandmother - that friend had to actually make the cookies to figure out the recipe, because the whole thing was phrased in terms of a green bowl full of flour and a blue bowl full of sugar and of course my mom didn't have the same bowls my grandmother's friend did.
I bet if I google I can find the BBC refuting this statement in the past.
I think they are making an equivalence to digital files. With digital files, you can copy it over and keep the original. In his example, essentially the plumber only took a picture of the weed, handed the cops the picture, and took the weed home with him. At least that's how I interpreted it.
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Yes it is. As somebody above said, the news here is that they can’t keep anything secret.