skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government was deliberately not set up to be a direct democracy. Those writing the Constitution looked at the historical examples before their time, and concluded that direct democracy was too prone to degenerate into mob rule. So they didn't do that - they set up a republic instead of a democracy.

Yes, you could replace the US House and Senate with a web site, at least in theory. In doing so, though, you are changing the form of our government. You'd better think hard before you decide that you know better.

And, if you conclude that your idea is still a good one, then to actually implement it, you have to amend the Constitution. Unless you have a plan for doing that, the answer to the "can" question is "technically yes, politically no".

(In fairness to the idea, though, Congress has been showing a clear trend toward increasing dysfunction and uselessness for the past few decades...)
Okay. If you only have $100 to spend, what other option exists?
For those who say it's OK to be a president for life because he's a competent person: he's 64 years old. Brain deteriorates rapidly with age. The most reasonable person today can suddenly start rounding up Chinese who post memes on WeChat a year from now simply because of a normal biological process. That's where you need a system in place that strips them off power very quickly. History has had plenty Mad Kings.
I'm using this, if I don't touch my account for a while it gets nuked.
We faced the issue of building CV models a lot as grad students but at that time reliability wasn't really something we had to solve for. Once we had to implement them for industrial applications we found we had to ensure there was reproducibility and versioning throughout the process. Now that we have put a few computer vision algorithms into production we decided to architect our code in the following way.

1) training code is written with normal packages (we tend to prefer keras with a tensorflow backend), these are trained on our own GPUs since this is often the cheapest and are done in bulk --> side note is that TPUs/GPUs may one day be better but certainly too expensive currently.

2) prediction / inference code will also be written in the similar packages but will be tied with the final weights files that we get from the model

3) deployment code -- in order to enable a reliable system we have used celery for distributed queueing and converting our prediction functions into celery tasks which can then me passed to workers that can process and return the result to an API endpoint. This allows us to scale our workloads as needed with throughput (depending on request requirements)

This architecture allows us to test during training time using our training code and validation sets, while also enabling testing of different models versions through our prediction APIs. We often would just write scripts for testing that we then run via our CI/CD workflow.

Tip: keep your code as simple as possible and don't rewrite your code unless your throughput requirements mandate it. good error handling will go a long ways here and likely will be easier if written in a language you're most familiar with.
Crazy if you compare this with Raspberry Pi Zero at $5 - you get: better CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, display, 2 cameras, GSM, GPS, microphone, speakers, battery, enclosure and a charger... if this continues, in 5-10 years you will get a solid machine for $5...
Happy to take feedback/questions.
> "I decided to become a Prolog programmer because it was the only thing installed on my machine."

if only..
A language is a language, and pretty much all aspects of computers I like.

The hiring process is something I would be totally alright with never doing again. Along with the hours at some places and with the feeling you need to take a job. I haven't had options when it comes to work. I'll take it if you give it to me.

I did RoR development back in the day, and worked on interesting challenges shoehorning that to scale for a fairly successful game. Worked with node and a smattering of mobile.

How do you break into other fields?

Tech around me is mainly medical and then aerospace.
And Russia can apparently influence world opinions and politics to a major unknown degree. Cyber security tends to get the short end of the budget stick, but Russians seem to excel at it.
Years ago, my father was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and given a 55% chance of surviving six months. The immediacy pushed him and my mother into writing out the book they'd been thinking about for years, a book on manhood for their sons.

He ended up surviving it, and actually being declared cured--chemotherapy+radiation worked really well for him. It was a terrifying time, though, and I was really glad that they took the time to write down these things for us in case we lost him. They ended up publishing the book and it's sold tens of thousands of copies, but for me it's still the book my father wanted me and my brothers to have if he wasn't there to talk about it.
This is a pretty click baity title.
Devices with LineageOS are still stuck on old kernels and can't run mainline Linux.
Google makes its AI and machine learning courses available to all
Can you elaborate here a bit? What are the steps to get into it? I could use some sales skills, I'm currently running a consultancy and keeping the deal flow steady is a pain in my ass.
Just posted 16 new projects to GitHub
A comma could also be an invaluable tool in that situation. Properly used. And Walmart has them on sale in one dozen packs.
It's hard to find any written information on that though. What does it mean "support" and "a long time"?
I mean, tell that to South Korea, Japan or Poland.
You're confusing cost with savings.

Method C provides 5x greater savings on the cost when compared to Method B. It does not mean that the actual cost is 5x less.
> I found that many people consider me wrong when I judge a hacker by his/her hacking when he/she is accused of sexual abuse. But apparently they are okay with someone accused of IP crime.

Yup! Why do you suppose that might be?
When you receive a money transfer does your bank send a truck out to your remote mountaintop cabin to drop it in your mailbox?

Providing basic banking services at a post office is not nearly as big a proposition as delivering mail to every address in the country.

Plus banking services are touched less frequently than mail. I get junk mail every day. I don't know the exact logistics of what they're suggesting, but I have a hard time seeing how it could be as expensive as mail delivery.
"The majority of responses fell into this category; lots of developers don’t see the benefit of writing unit tests or even believe they’re harmful."

If the majority see no benefit, how do you come up with "a lot of people said they should write tests but either don’t know how or don’t feel like they have enough time."

In a response cohort of 30 I doubt you have much to go on, but consider that in practice, formal code reviews, baseline acceptance testing and large scale beta testing are far easier to manage and are far more useful for finding issues.
I personally have experienced that often testing is harder and more time consuming that the actual code. The benefit is marginal at best. Testing code is objectively MORE code to maintain and debug.
You REALLY should look into who the author is...

Here's a hint: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hook-3743861
> and how you would deploy it in production environment

We're talking about learning a new language, not deploying to production.

> By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows.

No, that's not what anybody said. This is about learning languages, not even using them. Using a language is different from learning a language in so many ways they aren't even comparable.

Millions of people could be learning a language for millions of reasons. Simple portability is useful - knowing a language that is preinstalled on a huge portion of computers worldwide has massive advantages for a huge number of people who are learning new languages today.

Dismissing the values that others might place in how they learn a language is being close-minded. There are lots of reasons to learn to program, and learning based on the language available to you first and most readily is certainly a reasonable approach.
Exim Off-By-one RCE: Exploiting CVE-2018-6789 with Fully Mitigations Bypassing
On the other hand, rising disposable income is supposed to be a good thing (annuities for lottery winners etc). Cost of living tends to rise with age, too (kids, healthcare...).
How can one truly be sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
Why the recommendation for Learn Python 3 The Hard Way? Not only the author was against Python 3 for the longest time (but his Python 2 stuff would be outdated, so less money, right?), his persona was controversial at best here in HN. Don't support Zed Shaw or Terry Goodkind[1], folks.

Instead I suggest Real Python[2], which is extensive but to the point, or Automate the Boring Stuff[3], that also has practical examples and free.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/26/terry-goodkind...

[2] https://realpython.com/

[3] http://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter0/
"If you're all online anyway" is a reasonably sized caveat. I often don't bother buying in flight WiFi because you can't do all that much with it.
I've DJed since I was 16 and know "The Industry". There isn't a ton of money in it, but it can pay rent.
Yes. But Japan has been mostly, um, "inert" and peaceful since WW2. China's history since WW2, to this day, has been one of one atrocity after another. Things seem to be getting worse with Winnie the Pooh declaring him eternal president.

Also, if Japan was Asia raping in WW2, China is China-raping now.
MIT license makes this great for WebAssembly!

Looking forward to benchmarking this in a wasm context.
I don't think cutting corruption to zero would impact people's lives as much as having a progressive tax system.

If you look at overall tax burden, the lowest tier pays close to 50%. The highest tier, a bit over 25%. Trump tried to lower corporate tax to 15% and not even his party thought it was reasonable. In Brazil, corporate tax is zero.

One of the richest people in Brazil, Steinbruch, was caught trying to evade an estate tax of only 4%, when food is taxed at near 20%.
One of US SOC’s Newest Spy Planes Are Hunting Terrorists in Libya
Expenses are also lower, right? Basics like housing, food, utilities. Even in the west few actually need the bloated budgets they say they do. "Oh I can't live on 60K/year!". Give me a break.
I never really understood the relationship between the party and the state in China, but this article cleared up a lot. Having a better grasp of that relationship also makes this development all the more unsettling:

> No less important, the parliament will approve what looks like a new administrative branch that merges elements of the party, government, police and judiciary into a powerful organisation called the National Supervision Commission. This will incorporate the party’s discipline-enforcement body but work closely with the courts and report to the legislature—ie, there will be no separation of powers. It will be able to interrogate, search, detain and punish any official, whether from the party or the government bureaucracy, in cases involving corruption, violations of ethics and ideological deviation.

It sounds like any state check on the power of the party that existed before will be effectively neutered by this commission.
Indeed typo'd in the first paragraph. Fixed. Note the ratio is correct in the second one.
That's all fine, and you're right: Sam Walton was talented and it was a smart investment. You've interpreted my "average hard-working chump" to mean "not a talented businessman" which is not what I meant. I just think that if you got a bunch of money from your father in law and were part of prestigious society that needs to be part of the story. If it's omitted, I have to think that the author is intentionally pushing an alternate but equally-inaccurate view of how success happens.
My family is being persecuted for exposing corruption and pedaphilia - Video
$20 porn-unblocking fee could hit Internet users if state bill becomes law
I kcouldn't get Antergos to work properly on my XPS 15 9560 so I had to go with Manjaro with i3. The battery life is amazing. 8 hours with the GPU disabled vs 4 on Ubuntu 16.04.
I don't think this is true, as a python user at Google. There's momentum that has to be shifted, and that can't happen overnight. But it is absolutely a work in progress.

The writing is on the wall for py2 at Google, and in some ways it has been for years.
> US is a big bully with its Monroe Doctrine, dictator or not. This is China's version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

> The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." .... The Doctrine was issued on December 2, 1823 at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved, or were at the point of gaining, independence from the Portuguese and Spanish Empires.

Doesn't sound very bully-like.
These losses are primarily the fault of congress, not the USPS.

ridiculous things like ePacket: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...

combined with lack of control over their business model and having to meet requirements that other businesses don't:
https://blog.boomerangapp.com/2016/10/whats-killing-the-post...
Title should include a (2016).
Slightly unrelated to this: I've always wanted to play with simple demoscene graphics that make use of sine waves (think scrollers) - what would be the simplest programming language to give this a shot?
Why does the USPS need to make money? Why isn't mail (and possibly other services that the USPS could provide) treated like road maintenance or police or whatever else?

(I have a vague idea that this may be a politically loaded question, so I just want to put this disclaimer here to say that I genuinely don't mean for it to be. I don't know much about the past of the USPS and why it is the way it is, so i'm asking)
A very sudden decline in Chinese manufacturing, that's what. With such a bold action, many if not most US and EU businesses will pull out of China, this would be no joking matter. Still not sure there would be a WW3 over Taiwan or any other small country that is not is some sort of bigger union.
Thank you for taking the time to shed some light on this. I understand your point about a multi-year project. I actually worked on a debugger before (to support a proprietary complier) so I know decisions in that area are far from random.

As a note for myself, I should check out llvm in greater detail.
Erlang Battleground: The Missing Testing Tip
The Story or the Internet as Told by Know Your Meme
Ask HN: Best screencast series for mid/senior that aren't about specific langs?
> So at minimum labor costs could halve... Sounds like a huge productivity boost.

It's not a change in productivity at all.

Also

> Truckers generally get paid per mile, not per hour.
I once played with the idea of some dead man switch triggering an event where it gathers a pool of pre-designated friends from Facebook into one group chat. There would be a bot guiding through opt-in to receive dividends of my wealth into their wallets/bank accounts. The idea was that if I'd have any side hustles, e.g., projects which are mostly autonomous, those would run their time and pay dividends until they deplete or become obsolete. Same would happen to my crypto assets and whatever holdings my sole proprietorship still has.

The idea to gather the group chat was that tech-savvy people could help those in need of technical help and people could conglomerate together to reach out to people who are not active on Facebook. I imagine it to be fair that people who've helped me during my life would be offered an opportunity to receive tangible value for their positive effect in my life.

As for online accounts in general, I think those should die with me.
Concerning Steve Wozniak’s Blue Boxes
That said, you can (and Google has) invest in things that make porting easier. Enforce future imports, use six, etc.
>> Why the recommendation for Learn Python 3 The Hard Way?

Specifically because even Zed Shaw - probably the most vocal and longest time objector to Python3 has moved on from recommending against Python 3. Thus now that he supports Python 3 then I think he should be supported - history is past.

Everyone with a significant industry presence has moved on from recommending against Python 3 - except Google.
F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
Words like "unconditional", "universal", "everyone", "all", etc. absolutely imply that personal responsibility is not a factor.

Give me an example of a liberal stance of one of the above issues that factors in personal responsibility. Hint: none of them do because universal healthcare* (*except for obese people and drug abusers and other people that didn't take care of their bodies) would be very unpopular. Ditto for all other services/stances.
Nice, thanks for the reply. Looking at their site, it looks like they now support a true headless mode:

https://docs.slimerjs.org/master/release-notes-1.0.html

"With Firefox 56 and more, SlimerJS can be trully headless by adding the –headless option on the command line"

So that could be an interesting thing to play with. I've thought about just having my sidekiq jobs spin up a docker container with the browser in it and then just limiting the amount of jobs at once for resource constraints, and now seeing your comment I think I might just give it a shot.
You're not really countering what he said by naming something in the 5%. Yes, there's slightly different string behavior when working with unicode, most things return iterators instead of lists, and print is now a function.

Going from knowing Python 2 to 3 is far easier than going from not knowing Python or programming at all to knowing Python 3.
Thank you! I have a ton of fun doing the development for that site, calculators and all. Definitely one of my flagship products over the years, great client -> great product =)
I wasn't aware of these, frankly, very disturbing trends in American society.

Thanks for bringing them to my attention.
Seems like the culpret was a gigantic algae bloom using minerals liberated by newly evolved land plants that were breaking up rocks with their roots. This was exacerbated by poor ocean circulation from a highly circular orbit around the sun (but what about the tilt?).

The same effect you get when fertilizer runs off into a stagnant pond or lake, except on a global scale.
Running Linux on a Modern MacBook Pro
The only hint of something that might constitute a reference to the current media discourse is the following grossly defensively toned paragraph:

> Although, according to CBS News, "the AR plays an oversized role in many of the most high-profile shootings",[41] most killings by guns in the USA involve handguns rather than rifles.[42][43]

The statistic on handgun shootings is irrelevant as the paragraph is quoting CBS on "high-profile shootings". Only a single CBS article is referenced (there's tonnes out there), with two counter-references accompanying the irrelevant handgun mention.

Even ignoring all that, the very fact that the paragraph starts with the word "Although" belies its intent.

Funnily enough, the mentioning of the school shootings in which ARs were used actually seems superfluous. A balanced, unbiased article might exclude that section completely, but instead have a Controversy heading with something like:

"In 2018, following a, b, c events, this model became the subject of widespread pubic controversy in the US and worldwide due to x, y, z. {insert arguments espoused on both sides of media discourse}"
If democracy is"contemptible" by the kinds of people that run oppressive, autocratic (soon dictatorial) Orwellian surveillance states that disappear people at the drop of a hat, I'll gladly keep my "contemptible" method of governance please.

At least we can (and do) peacefully and easily vote out our leaders for someone we'd rather have.
The S&P 500 is the best reference index for US equities, but I'd be wary about using its history as a base case for retirement planning. The 60 years that its existed in its present form have seen the US economy grow consistently in a way that's almost unrivaled in human history. There are lots of good arguments for why the US will not grow as fast over the next 60 years, but for me the best one is just regression to the mean. Probably the US economy will grow at a rate closer to the lower rates common in our countries throughout human history, and over a long time frame the S&P 500 cannot grow much faster than the really economy.
> A concurrent GC spends CPU cycles on different cores to do its work, which means it will not cause latency outliers in the threads processing the requests.

That makes sense, how about GC for single-threaded languages, e.g. Nodejs?
The Perfect Man Who Wasn't
> >saving 10% of your salary

>impossible for most people

Part of me is tempted to look up statistics to make the point but if you are making more than 150% of the poverty line in the US, you can save 10% of your income, it is a choice not to.

> >spend <30% of your gross income on housing

>impossible for many (most?) places with jobs

It all depends on where you are willing to live. Also, if you move to somewhere to get a job, before you accept the offer you should check to see if it is possible to move there and follow this guideline. If you, you shouldn't move there because you will become worse off.

> refusing to borrow and cutting minor expenses is not a road to any kind of wealth for most people. it's a road to retiring poor. most people are on that road.

Depends on what you count as minor expenses. If I cut out $100 a month of expenses starting at age 25, and put that in an index fund that grows at 8% until I retire at 67 it will be worth $412,077.88. If I want to retire a millionaire I need to save just under $250/month, which is 10% of a 30k a year job. At $30k I am a little sympathetic if you cannot save $250/month. If you are making $50k, it is a matter of choice.
Lessons Learned from Running Student Hackathons
Ah.

So first, commercial aircraft typically start their engines immediately upon leaving the gate. An extended period of time without A/C is extremely rare, and nowadays regulations require A/C for any tarmac delay over an hour.

Second, the reason you can't have A/C in a failed hyperloop is that there's nowhere to discharge the heat. As long as the pods are moving you can discharge heat into the tube (because it's not a hard vacuum) but as soon as they stop you can't do that any more.
Wow, you're right, I vastly underestimated the exhaust velocity.

You'd still have to account for its interaction with the atmosphere, but my point is moot.
Indeed... the whole point of representative democracy (or republic) is that one has a class of informed elected representatives of the citizens. These elected representatives think deeply about the issues at hand and construct coherent policies, something that a sequence of majority decisions are not necessarily able to achieve.
What you are suggesting is possible. But IMOP just not very likely. Where's the motive? Is the potential reward worth the work?
How do you have multiple short term stints? Do you flat out say you are only looking to join for a short period of time? Are they looking for experts in a particular niche or is there a market for generalists?

I also really need to step my marketing game up.
What Aaron Swartz did with http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity seems kind of relevant. Of course what he said he wanted to have happen and what the people who had access decided should happen weren't the same thing. Would have been interesting if he had of automated it.
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