skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible, albeit onerous, to submit credits for yourself on IMDb. I'd be very interested in a dataset with better completeness. Not aware of any, but we do have some half-baked ideas around this -- feel free to drop me an email.
Why do Google searches return Python 2 docs instead of Python 3 docs?
Usually the Python 2 docs are displayed above the Python 3 docs, but both are displayed. Today, I was searching for "python set operator syntax" and the Python 3 results didn't even show up.

This is incredibly annoying, as 99.9999% of the time I want to see Python 3.6 docs. I'm sure that I've compounded the problem in the past by not reading the actual URL and clicking into Python 2.7 docs, but I've been better at it in the last year or so and I still am overwhelmed with same-title content that leads me to old docs. Any ideas / help?
> Which is also what the Obama campaign took advantage of.

I was refuting an alleged difference.

> The victims of the Obama campaign - those that did not know that their data would be used in this way and did not authorize it - approximately 199 million people - all have causes of action against Facebook if this lawsuit is allowed to proceed.

Well, no, even if we assume otherwise identical material facts, the state law in this case has a three-year statute of limitations for private causes of action.

Also, the Obama 2008 and 2012 campaign committees presumably were dissolved years ago, so other than suing Facebook, there's no one to sue, even if the statute of limitations wasn't an issue.
Given that it killed someone in such a violent and (at least in retrospect) predictable way, I would certainly hope that it failed to conform to "basic design standards".

That said, this definitely falls into that insidious category of failures, those that hurt people consistently, but not enough to raise any unlowerable eyebrows. That is, until something like this happens, and someone dies.
I read it as definition #4 on your link.

Basically, it's saying that SV likes to keep both it's very very good things (new life-changing tech) and it's very very bad things (these Superfund sides) under wraps.
Phone Farming: Earning Passive Income with Smartphones
I can only share my personal experience but I was lofted into the air and then slammed down so hard I was worried for my safety on one of their rides in Galveston. It's too bad they didn't swallow their pride and acknowledge the fact they were successful enough that their newer rides needed engineering oversight instead of layperson guesswork.
So you'd rather remain unlucky than acquire anything that could reek of privilege?

Maybe those unlucky people you have in mind, once they make it out of their misery, will wonder what to do, and find themselves interested in going to luck school.

Ultimately, it sounds as if when you are not privileged, under no circumstances should you try anything that could change your luck. If it would work, it would prove that you were never underprivileged to begin with, which is a big no no. Self defeating logic at its best.
I'm a bit worried they will soon enough go the route of AT&T, Comcast, the Telco mafia, Airlines, etc. and embrace their suck, then just lobby for survival.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40520529/big-tech-lobbying-spree...
As usual, this is a baseless conspiracy theory that doesn't even make sense.
Well a decent part of the most recent furor is that it affects people the do care. The Cambridge Analytica data was scraped from customers that had enabled it, but extended into their own friend networks, including those that had not chosen to make their data accessible.

I am sorta of the opinion that nothing on FB should be considered private, but even with that noted, and the fact that I don't particularly care what personal FB info on me is scraped, I'm a bit annoyed that any random friend could expose data that I have marked as private by allowing some random BS app to access to their own account. According to FB, this was solved years ago (but the data already scraped from the previous state was never successfully recalled), but I hardly trust them to give a shit about this or other issues popping up in the future, barring another mass outrage.
I'm no expert but this was posted on HN several weeks ago and has a decent review of the literature. Might be a place to start:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407170
Right, dictionaries everywhere is a reliable way to slow down every language to the speed of dynamic languages like Python or JavaScript.

My understanding is, by “heavy OO” they mean custom container-like classes implemented by encapsulating a list or dictionary, but exposing non-standard APIs for get/set/erase/replace.

By the OO books that’s the way to go, because object state encapsulation. Practically, exposing raw lists/dictionaries/vectors/iterators at the class API boundary is more flexible because it makes the collection compatible with lots of other code, both in standard runtime and third-party libraries.

Another thing, if the only state that container holds is the collection of items, maybe you don’t need any container class at all. Just write global functions / static class / static methods that directly process lists or dictionaries of these items.
We’re going to be in no position to pay to “address” the problems. Relocating people, changing cities, etc will be expensive.

Do we save the expensive real estate or buy people out?
If you don't target EU customers and you don't have an EU presence, sure.

Other businesses who want to be GDPR compliant might not be able to use your service either.
I’m not sure why this doesn’t come up more but the EU does not have any authority to force non EU companies to do anything. Please stop pretending that GDPR effects US companies not operating in the EU.
Logging in once a year is meaningless from a network effect standpoint. They might have an account and even use it to talk with grandparents, but without daily use FB has little pull.
If you have to pay a lot for food and shelter this month it helps if you're not already significantly in the hole?
Not an hour goes by these days without a service forcing me to enter information for security. It's so out of hand. Same basic tragedy of the commons as every app thinking it belongs in the systray. Except now every service thinks it needs to ask me questions, text my phone, check my ip, and send warning emails every 15 minutes. And I'm not talking banks, here.
Companies have so much fear when it comes to email. We've been on Rackspace Hosted Exchange for almost a decade. The plan is to move to O365 this year. And to get it directly from Microsoft, and roll our Office licenses into it.

We get Office + email for just a hair more than we pay now, and we don't have to deal with the dinks at Rackspace when we have issues with it. I'm sure Microsoft support isn't perfect, but why go through a middleman.
JOHN THOMPSON: Tesla is 'on the verge of bankruptcy'
> Do we want a society designed for people who like to interact or do we want to design it after the desire for limiting interaction as much as possible?

How about a society designed to allow people to choose the level of interaction they want dynamically?
I am using a lot of open source (e.g. Linux) and if I have the choice I mostly don't use Microsoft software. Nevertheless, I don't really care if Microsoft will sunset at some point in the future.

In fact, I care about being able to keep my data private and be able to use my services independently. As long as that is possible I am okay with Microsoft/Google/Amazon selling others their golden cloud services. It is more a live and let live attitude.
Common Cause is a radical left-wing group? Since when? And by what definition?
Thank you for clarifying, it's easy to conflate government agencies with opaque operations.
The rather small claim of 500m probably accounts for that. I had a similar problem at a job: Eating the food that had to be thrown away was called stealing if not payed for. I argued I wouldn't pay that much under normal circumstances and just don't want to waste food, but the next day I found myself willing to pay in my shift for a snack at least while the food was still good, postponed it for a while because I didn't have the time and then even went the last stretch of the shift thinking the snack would be free if I just waited. It's the famous slippery slope.

On the other hand and more topical, after receiving a cease and desist letter and claims from a well known law firm I ignored them thinking I never directly payed for TV before and still indirectly do because advertisement is prised into the products I buy on the one hand, and because of bad availabilty I would have to pay a premium for DVDs which is not even in my budget nor my idea of my money's worth, but you might argue that I am just missing the incentive to work for it so there's indirect economic damage, as much as I hate to say that -- just playing devil's advocate. Ironically, if I had to work for it, I wouldn't have the time to binge watch as I did.

My biggest gripe is probably that media players are full of bugs, so it's unhygenic to load from unknown sources ...
A civil engineer is responsible for every tolerance, specification, and design they put their name on. I imagine they would be verifying those before they sign off. She also has to have a lot of knowledge in math and certain sciences to do that job I'd consider that engineering.
Agreed. But it’s every major player in tech. I wish the political desire to regulate markets existed. We have these huge corporations, and few else. They just don’t employ enough people, and their products leave people wanting.

As far as seeing anyone sunset, I don’t. But I do hope to see the end to homelessness and needless brutalism.
> I hear this from my friends in technology. It is not supported by the data: Facebook’s net favourability is down 28 points [1].

The question is whether that is durable, or just something that hangs around while this is in the headlines with a focus on FB.
Also, the Obama 2008 and 2012 campaign committees presumably were dissolved years ago, so other than suing Facebook, there's no one to sue, even if the statute of limitations wasn't an issue.

There are exceptions that vary between jurisdictions with regard to the Statute of Limitations, but you may be right that it has expired and there may be nothing that can be done. If that issue can be overcome, you may also be right that the Obama committees are gone, however Facebook has plenty of money to go after.
Don’t forget that as you use your machine for visiting other sites, your usage is being tracked using Advertising ID that most platforms expose. You don’t need the same browser, the ID is stable until you reset it.
Not only a financial fortune, but I suspect a fortune in human lives too. There will be conflict. For instance, when a river over here dries up and a new one over there is formed due to changing weather patterns, or some land over there is no longer productive agriculturally due to desertification but your neighbor has new productive land that just opened up.

"Surviving" and "prospering" (and even "maintaining status quo") are completely different things.
dep is still the officially recommended way to go for now. Russ Cox has mentioned in his blog posts on vgo that they will be working hard to ease the transition from dep to the built in versioning tools.
This is a great summary of the advantages, as I see them. Would you mind if I add this comment as a testimonial somewhere in the docs?
I'm a JavaScript / typescript guy, so for me these past few years VS code has been leaps and bounds ahead of WebStorm w/ extensions,etc.

But lately I've been using Datagrip for SQL stuff,and geez, did Jetbrain crush the competition w/ this product.

...once I switched the shortcuts to match VS Code's, that is
You miss my point, which is that ZeroNet could fall under this idiot blanket law.
That sort of thing is common in industrial controls. Start the big ass air compressor and if the oil pressure doesn't hit 100 psig in five seconds the interlock trips. That's handled by a controller on the pump itself.

Also really common or required that the interlock be totally separate from the control system.
Myspace actually did keep a niche going with musicians for quite some time after its general popularity had waned. No idea why that was or if there's even any of that left.
They have over two billion monthly active users - not sure the DAU stat, but hundreds of millions would not surprise me.
I think by Cloud Services he means mainly SaaS (O365), email, calendars, excel, yammer, etc.
Office 365 and Azure AD integration. These are probably huge money makers.
My take? Skip business school. You can learn nearly everything a biz track would give you by reading "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman.

I admit it. I'm an outlier here. Unless you're going to be a doctor/lawyer/engineer, college isn't worth the time or money.

You can get the business acumen without the hefty college tuition bill. I'm a business grad. If I had it to do over, I'd have skipped college and went all-in on learning to code. (I code now, I'm self-employed, and I'm making the best money I've ever made.)

If you want to be a creative, steer your educational pursuits where can get you what you need much cheaper.

It pains me to see people go to school, graduate with a huge bill, and then get a crappy job.
As it's impossible for me to convince anyone in this thread of anything on this topic, I'm just freely making some points. People have already picked a side to stand on and the line has been drawn. Case in point, you've already gotten your pitchfork out.
> means a few sexual deviants get what's coming to them, who cares

Yeah, I too hate people who make different life choices than me. We should round all the gun owning, drug using, sex having deviants up, and put them in camps or something. Wouldn't the world be a better place if my vision for society was enforced by the government? /s

Seriously though, when did authoritarianism make such a strong comeback?

Edit:

The fact that people think they have a right to tell me what I put in my body, or how I use it, absolutely blows my mind. And then they wonder, "why are you so concerned about gun rights?". You, you are why I am concerned about gun rights.
A journalist writing about the subject should do their research and due diligence.
The UX/UI is very poor in my experience, since I'm a heavy user of Firefox Containers, know about the feature, need it, and never use it, but if you click the Containers icon and have some container tabs active, it will display a right arrow indicating there are more actions available where you can hide the tabs of a specific Container group so that you can unclutter the browser and access them later.
The right people are getting the credit, at least: the team that originally built bundler also created cargo.
1. Ask them if they saw this HN post.
Android Studio has such a fat ass. Every release it, and gradle, want more memory to do the same thing. I'm hoping that the tools devs improve or review the resource usage of the gradle plugin, etc. VS Code and the flutter tooling are svelte in comparison.
Unhappiness Is a Palate-Cleanser Why it’s impossible to always be happy
Ask HN: Would you pay $10/month to eradicate homelessness in SF?
This is for people that live/work in San Francisco.

There are currently ~7.5k homeless in SF and the number is growing each year. I'm curious if it's possible to build a startup that tries to eradicate this problem in the most efficient way possible that is not non-profit. Or does something like this already exist?

I know that the city is spending $241m/year to try to tackle the problem. However, as I understand it most of the funds go toward providing housing for the homeless. This might seem counter-intuitive, but I don't think providing housing today is the best long-term solution. I think the best solution would be to do everything we can to enable the homeless to start generating money for themselves again. The fundamental problem arises because the healthcare and social welfare system are so bad in the US on a federal level (and not primarily because of the increasing housing prices in SF, like many think it is). But I think we can build a for-profit, hyperlocal system that helps a city's population.

I also don't think that non-profits are the solution. With non-profits, often there is no pressure to make the best possible product because income is only loosely coupled with how good the product is.

Unlike other social causes, this is something that touches SF residents every day and makes their lives worse. This may sound harsh, but it's the reality. And therefore I think people would pay even they have zero altruistic tendencies.

How would I solve this issue and is it possible to get enough subscribers to tackle this issue quickly? Who knows.

I think it must be possible to provide an "anti-homelessness subscription" to the SF population. Half the price of Netflix and it helps to eradicate homelessness. I know that I would pay $10/month in a heartbeat if it would help solve this issue. What about you? Would you pay or do you have ideas how this could be approached?
It will be very volatile for a while, with people looking to get out, and others looking to make a quick profit.
If you read the indictment, it’s clear they always knew about this flaw.
The liberal media refers to them as "Left Center," [1] however I think by most reasonable individuals' definition, they'd be considered "left wing". Regardless, they are on the left side, as in, biased against the right.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-cause/
You will always see both side of the coin - after all if your interpretation was any more certain than parent, the stock would be worth 0 today.

FB lost a few months of profits and has a set of issues. All the rest are hunches, it could be the beginning of the end, or just shedding a bunch of investors that just want to cash in and have nothing to do with the drama. It could also be the time that the government step in, regulate the shit out of social network, locking anyone but the richest companies from competing and basically cementing Facebook as de-facto standard with a license to print money.
Deterministic A/B tests via the hashing trick
Sorry, if you have to take out 10- or 20-year loans to pay for even state colleges, college is NOT affordable. Unless you're working with a different definition of "affordable".

I agree with you that government-guaranteed loans have had the paradoxical effect of being one of the primary contributing factors to increased tuition costs.
That sounds like anti competitive pricing all over again. Bundling Windows with a cloud subscription. Will it call for anti-trust action?
The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France
You didn’t really respond to anything I said, just complained that people aren’t agreeing with you and some ad hom that those people are mob-like.
Always love to be in touch with like-minded folks. Let me know how to contact you. My email is in my profile.
Your intuition based on your finances, does not apply at the scale of a country. Remember, they can just go to war to take what they want. It's not the same.
Yes I think you are right that one reason for this is homeowners want their property to continue to skyrocket. But really, can you blame them for that? If you were a homeowner wouldn't you rather have your house worth more?

The second reason for skyrocketing housing prices is the rise in wages. If people didn't get paid so much in the city, rent prices could not possibly be as high as it currently is. So while we do pay a crap ton in rent, most of us who can afford that rent probably are still WAAAAY better off than the average american.
None of these subs contained "sexual deviants".

However braincels and theredpill do but they are still around. Both promote violence.
I'm was a long time Visual studio user (when it was called Visual C++), and Android Studio preview was my "gateway drug" into the Jetbrains IDEs.

If anyone uses Resharper, I highly recommend trying Rider.
One issue currently preventing our move is the lack of a true desktop app. Sometimes you just need the native windows experience instead of your browser taking up even more ram to open a spreadsheet.
A better title is "Project Upvote – multi-platform binary whitelisting solution"
Perhaps wealth can be described as a measure of being able to adapt to new market demands. Acquiring new skills or refactoring existing ones takes effort, money, time. Those considered poor are devoid of that, bogged down...
Someone with vested interest in TESLA share price dropping is hardly a reputable source. TESLA may or may not be on the verge of bankruptcy but this is obviously a play to affect the share price in favour of the guy making the statement.
I'd think the suggestion would be that each story would get one article. Reddit is a disorganized mish-mash of variations on a story, interfered with by biased moderators, and the "arguments" are rarely anything more than playground trash talk. To my knowledge, no one has made an attempt at making a truly as-objective-as-possible site for current events, I believe the idea has a lot of merit. Of course it wouldn't be perfect, but if it did get traction, I think it would improve things significantly.

I'm curious if anyone (who can see that Reddit is not what's being described) could point out flaws in the idea serious enough that it couldn't (as opposed to wouldn't) work.
China’s AI wizards want to entertain you, cure you, and dominate the world
This.

You want feedback now, on this new proposal?

Why bother?

It's patently obvious that our feedback on dep has been totally ignored.

What indication is there anyone will pay attention to any feedback now?

I can't be bothered any more.

I just want one solution to be picked, blessed, implemented and then not changed five minutes/months later.
we did a similar thing. nobody can figure out why.

gsuite is cool for a couple hundred people, when you dont want to pay for office licenses for everyone. it makes even less sense when you already do.
there is a serious productivity delta between gsuite and o365, especially if you are like 90% of the other companies where Excel is king (no, sheets is not a suitable stand-in).
I grew up a couple miles from the fairchild site. Back then it was an abandoned building with a fence around it. Our parents always told us to stay out, but my friends and I used to jump the fence and explore the building. Fun times were always had.
From what I’ve read, they’re talking about a cooling event. We’re talking about entire sections of the earth becoming uninhabitable by even modern day civilization. As someone who just moved from very hot to dry but cooler, you can always heat a place up easily but cooling down is never enough.
Sure! I'm actually quite interested. Now that I live in Japan it's basically the opposite of Spain, here it is one of the most strict countries.
Japan considers scrapping its fairness doctrine for broadcasters
Never under estimate the capability of the C-suite to create busy work for everyone in the name of corporate vision.
> For instance, the involuntary manslaughter charge is going to be hard to proof when the evidence that he was planning on going on the ride the same day is presented.

Often the safety of something for a particular person depends on their knowledge of the danger. For example there is a board that is failing on my deck. It is possible that it could give way leading to someone twisting their ankle or even breaking a bone. Yet I walk on my deck everyday--because I know to avoid stepping on that board until I get around to learning how to fix it and doing so.

Maybe he knew the places where it was more dangerous than well designed and built similar rides, and what to do or not do at those places to minimize the risk?