skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python is slowly catching up. For example in JS/Elm/Rust you have a clean approach with:

* a central package registry

* a file to describe dependencies

* a command line tool to install, build and publish packages

In Python things are more fragmented. You have:

* a central package registry

* a file to store some of your dependencies (Pipfile)

* a command line tool to install packages (Pipenv)

* a file called setup.py in which you need to specify your dependencies again (in another format). You can execute this file to build/publish packages.

It think it would allow for a much nicer user experience if pipenv/pipfile would handle packaging/building/publishing as well..
Surprised noone has mentioned OnlyOffice here: https://www.onlyoffice.com/.

We use it via the integration I wrote for Alfresco: https://github.com/cetra3/onlyoffice-alfresco
#deleteFacebook is not going anywhere. In 2 weeks, people will be outraged at something else and move on.
I'll bet money that accounting & finance teams at Google use Excel.
Interesting! I didn't know about the indicator tree.
Yep, my brother decided to join Facebook in a non-tech role (admittedly, right before the #deletefacebook movement began), and it was purely for the compensation. He even joked he had joined "the dark side". I've been off Facebook since 2011, so it was a bit disappointing. But, the compensation was the highest out of the companies he got offers from (Google, Stripe, etc.), so I don't blame him.
That was their entire value prop. That has gone down the drain, even their old slogan is no where to be found
well gmail does the same.

At least with username@facebook.com, you could contact friends on facebook without actually logging into facebook.

Actually I'd like more social networks to be "federated" like that. ActivityPub is one such protocol, whereby users on different networks like Mastodon and PeerTube can communicate.
Libreoffice and Sheets are both dead in the water non starters for all of the finance guys that I know.

The ability to open a million line csv file with 75 columns and execute a search and replace without leaking battery acid out of every orifice in your machine.

The hundreds of long complex well vetted plug ins that are drop and play with Excel which serve niche hard to reason about corners of regulation legalese. There has been so much cross pollination between the major firms that everybody has these tools and implements their own little tweaks.

The ability to quickly spin up a VBA macro to do some heavy lifting in a client provided 250 worksheet workbook each with 50000 line items (none escape quoted so every address with a comma in it malformed the data on client export).
ICO Law and Compliance
I'd agree with you if people were forced into prostitution - and of course what you say does apply correctly to victims of human trafficking who are forced. But I don't think that's always the case.

Take a young woman who doesn't like school, doesn't like being a cashier or waitress, wants more money than she can get with the jobs available, etc, and she doesn't really connect promiscuity with indignity in the way that you're implying. Why should this woman be barred from what might be a lucrative and pleasant career just because you and others think it's undignified.

I might suffer from dignity issues if I had to work as a birthday clown, but some people enjoy it and that's great because some people want to hire birthday clowns. I think the same logic applies here.
About the TeenPup magic scripts, maybe have a look at LegacyOS.
The latest (and last/final version) is LegacyOS 2017

Those scripts are also on there, but those distros are made to be OLD
is there a mathematical solution to a pipe wrench?
Interesting use case. What exactly are you extracting from email that you’d need a python script for computing?
Perhaps not more mature, but I laughed.
I use it in my personal projects a lot, it's very easy to code up an i2c master and/or slave on pretty much any microcontroller. Very handy for abstracting different sensors or actuators by hiding them behind a microcontroller that bridges them to a common i2c bus. Not to mention that boat loads of sensors use the protocol directly. SPI is even simpler, but it requires more wires and also is lower level (SPI is basically just a fancy shift register) so it usually ends up taking more boilerplate.
i'm personally interested to hear why you think it's so different. i don't use fb or ig and don't understand how they're different, from my understanding they both seem to be feeds of photos and memes from your friends (minus the new stories feature)
Well, an option, as an option on Model 3, yeah. Can't quite buy it.

In any case, yes, it seems that it is more available now than I thought. Now if it only felt as a 70K+ car...
Foxconn Buys Belkin, Linksys, and Wemo
MS LinkedIn seems like a pretty strong competitor to me. Seems like their logo/like buttons/messaging/user experience is converging that direction. Perhaps they will offer Office-Ville or Kanban-Crush-Saga.
A cataclysmic event around 11,600-12,800 years ago is absolutely what the evidence suggests and nobody covers the topic better than Graham Hancock. Though he seems to think there were both hunter and gatherers and an advanced civilization based on the discovery of Gobekli Tepe and other megalithic architecture located in Peru, Easter Island, Bolivia, China, Egypt, Mexico, & Japan.

Hancock gave an unbelievable presentation on the topic last week. This is well worth viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhSun9_SYs

edit: Down voters should leave a comment. I'm curious what you have to say as I've spent a lot of time researching this topic.
What exactly do you miss out on, going forward its only likely these trucks will be cheaper and more in abundance. If anything its better to wait.
Also, at the end suggest 'what to do if you're not OK with this:

Options for:
Organising and running groups

Communicating with friends and family

Sharing photos

Keeping up with the news

Other social media options for Business

Also need an associated site for 'Sign Out of Facebook'

How to:

Provide contact details to important people to keep in touch,
Communicate with non-users (for group admins),
Set up and use email/IM groups (for users and admins),
Download your data,
Share photos, Keep up with news,

etc

Keep that traction going :)
I think the context you're missing is the qualitative differences in the uses of the data.

The data in both cases was used to formulate campaign strategy and target ads. This use, by the way, was a blatant violation of the Facebook Developer TOS at the time, which stated essentially that the data obtained could only be used for the purpose of operating that app. Further, Obama's former campaign director has recently said in a series of tweets that they had the entire US social graph, were assisted by Facebook in getting it because Facebook was "on their side," and that their use of that data (in violation of developer TOS) significantly contributed to their victories. How is that not scandalous?

So in both cases, they complied with the TOS in the collection of the data (although Obama was given special permission to blow through data collection limits enforced on all other apps). Then, once they had the data, in both cases, they violated the TOS by using that data for purposes other than operating their apps. The only difference between the two is that Obama did it on a much larger scale (about 4X), and he was assisted in violating FB's own policies by FB itself, where Kogan (not CA, who never had an app) was not.
This will be for the upcoming flood of SEC registered security tokens, not the existing ICO tokens which the SEC frowns upon
This happened yesterday,.. here it is being launched:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=asHduzmYiEs
i hate facebook but this is an exaggeration. every social network has 60% overlap in features and it's pretty hard to say that fb is uniquely useless
AOSP is crippled/barely functional due to parts being abandoned in favor of Google Apps. And as far as sideloading, where are you supposed to get the apps? The Play Store won't let you download them off the web, because that would let them out of the walled garden. Most companies won't link their APKs, they just link you to the Play Store.

You might get lucky and it's popular enough to be on APKMirror, but there's really not a "good" way to sideload.

Oh, and most apps require Play Services to run now, and won't work even if you do sideload them.
Between this and the North Korea thing, feels like we're on the brink of some real chaos.

I thought NK wants to talk about giving up it's nukes?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/asia/north-korea-summit-intl/...
I think if the most important aspect is compensation, then the company is arbitrary. Not to suggest that compensation is an invalid priority, but I don't think it's the same as wanting to be associated with a company for an inherent quality.
There's many pages here that explain in detail the problem with the existing solutions. Read all of them. https://research.swtch.com/vgo

If you read the minimal version selection algorithm, it's clear that the proposed solution solves the problem in a novel way.
They're one and the same. In fact, when Obama made his bans, it was unprecedented and it went unchallenged. I could provide you with more examples, but this one is illustrative of the fact that you choose the facts that fit your narrative and ignore the rest. You are fake news.
Congrats for being honest with your customers. Enjoyable read as well filled with a bunch of golden nuggets. Thank you.
That was a failure of fact-checking, not fake news as it's typically understood. It has happened occasionally in otherwise-respectable publications. The network fired a number of people involved including Dan Rather not because they intentionally crafted a false narrative but because they claimed they had done fact-checking when they hadn't.

"Fake news", as typically understood, is news that is known to be fake by the publisher.
> In some regions, 10% of Facebook useds don't realize that talking to Facebook is using the internet. And Facebook is directing millions of people into having no internet access except to Facebook.

I've seen people think Facebook is the internet.
Experience. It's the same reason I'll try out a new language on a throwaway prototype: real experience helps you think more clearly about the future.
If that operation happens more than a couple of times a year, the organization should have figured out an Excel replacement a long time ago. One possibility is that a human is doing something to each of some significant portion of those rows, in which case more data entry should take place earlier and closer to the business. If that isn't the case, then just write a damn report already!

Actually there is one more possibility, that one or more goofballs in accounting just like to waste time "looking over the numbers and getting a feel for them". This generates lots of spurious questionably-motivated inquiries to business and IT people (who always blame the other party, when only accounting is to blame for their own vague feelings). In that case don't worry about fixing anything at the company, just get a different job somewhere else.
>If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale?

People are in that situation where prostitution is illegal and they do it anyway. What's your alternative? To force the woman to do it in secret? To punish her and the John if they get caught? Should she be kicked out? The landlord made to accept no rent? The woman forced to spend another 20 hours at work away from her kids where she might've spent one or two?

It's a shame generally that people have to work for a living. I think that's one of the things "we" are racing to solve by improving technology and automation. I hope there'll be post-scarcity society with a basic income and nobody will be required to make any bad choices. We aren't there yet, so we should try to get there.
Let's say you have the following picture...

App

--> Dependency A --> Dependency C (at version 1.2.3)

--> Dependency B --> Dependency C (at version 1.3.4)

The latest release of Dependency C is 1.4.5. Which version would be used after running `vgo get -u`?

As you note it would use the newer version of those specified (version 1.3.4). The newer releases after those explicitly specified are not used.
I wouldn't want to be at a ballistic missile site for too long after a launch... I wonder if there was some kind of counter batt or air strikes. Saudi air defense must know the POO.
We've been using Dep for about 6 months. It's definitely production ready. The interface may change a bit in the future, and of course now Dep may be scrapped altogether, but right now it's very usable. We haven't encountered any bugs.
Contrary opinion, I hate LinkedIn's site and even though I'm connected to some colleagues and industry people on there I avoid using it as much as possible.

Some of this dates back to their repeatedly inventing new excuses to email me that I had to go and unsubscribe from, part is that I can't look at anyone's page without LinkedIn telling them about it, part is their finagling everyone signing up to give access to their Gmail contacts similar to Facebook's harvesting of user info.

I guess they're a competitor, but if they're not as bad as Facebook is it's only because they have less reach.
> essentially behaving like a banker and moving money around

Modern GAAP makes this impossible to hide thanks to Enron (shuffling cash between subsidiaries).
as long as they are not powered by coal power plants... (but I guess that those are typically in poor neighborhoods)
Hmm, another American who doesn't realize the US basically has choices between center-right Democrats and hard-right Republicans...
"ads [...] that target specific consumers" sounds like code for retargeting or custom audiences. But those are just two ad products that Facebook offers.

If you want to build brand awareness for bland, forgettable products that people buy offline as I imagine P&G does, you want to blanket ads to broad audiences, not relatively small lists of specific individuals.
artificial sounds (because they are too quiet)
r/SexWorkers seems to have survived, thanks to its long-standing policies against advertising/transactions, so sex workers can still talk about sex work, in theory and practice, for now.
You say:

> Social features are a great use case for Python

And then say:

> On the other hand around the time YouTube were acquired they struggling tremendously with the scaling aspects of their operation and large chunks of the site had to be quickly switched to C++.

I fail to see how python failed youtube here.

You use the right tools for the job. And the tools that got you 10e1 views per day may not be the tools that get you to 10e10 views per day.

I once worked at a place that supposedly "engineered" their backend to handle 1,000,000 connections at once. Only everything fell over at 10,000 connections in production, and they struggled for two years to get to 100,000 connections.

The point is, you don't know what you don't know, and you won't know the pain points are until you hit them. And the more groundbreaking your service (in this case internet video distribution), the chance of your architecture being 100% correct from the start is zero.
An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest [pdf]
I did buy it. should start paying off soon - fingers crossed.
Inside IBM’s Purge of Thousands of Workers Who Have One Thing in Common
Data Processing with SMACK: Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka
Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads
"Adverts were always so low yeild" - Maybe for large corps, but FB is by far the best advertising platform for smaller companies that don't just shovel money at ads.
This is what Mark gets for contemplating a run for President...
We have three main findings.

First, we find that—on both YouTube and Pinterest—content with affiliate URLs have significantly higher user engagement compared to content that does not contain affiliate URLs.

Second, we find that affiliate marketing disclosures appear in three distinct formats—which we term Affiliate Link disclosures, Explanation disclosures, and Support Channel disclosures—as opposed to one standardized format.

Third, we find that the overall prevalence of these disclosures is low: only ∼10% of all affiliate content on each platform has accompanying disclosures.
I imagine Amazon wouldn't be opposed to preinstalling the Play Store. But getting permission from Google to do that comes with a long list of requirements. You are either at the mercy of Google's requirements and conditions or you develop replacements for every Google App (which are way more than most users realize). Amazon are basically the only company daring to try the latter path.
This is essentially how I feel also about Computer Science: resilience is the best quality that an aspiring mathematician can possess!
There’s a sterile water shortage for drug injection?
It's still a decent improvement if they are - one big coal plant running at relatively constant speed is much more efficient than an equivalent number of individual petrol engines in cars afaik.
Their UI is pretty terrible and broken though, the entire Microsoft ecosystem, including Office365 admin is pretty buggy and terrible.

Better than it use to be, so I'll give them that, atleast they are always improving.
> It's a local maximum which could easily be escaped with just a very little bit of effort, and the fact that no-one has done so is one of the strongest-possible condemnations of our industry.

I figure, there are 3 possibilities:

(1) you're right, and that Javascript is horrible, and the entire software development industry is lazy in not replacing it.

(2) it's actually very difficult to replace

(3) it's not as bad as you think it is.

I'm not sure which is correct, but I wouldn't expect it to be the one that requires malice or incompetence on the part of an entire industry of people who love replacing thing.
The author makes reference to ICE using these techniques to find "unauthorized immigrants", which seems to be just another softer term for "illegal immigrant".

If we want to progress, we need to recognize countries do have different values and have the right to monitor their borders to limit who can enter based on those values.

When someone chooses to break the law to cross a border and live anywhere without notifying the authorities they have to accept the consequences of that.
Sure, go for it!
Phones running Android that don't ship with GApps aren't allowed to be called "Android phones". Being able to use the Android trademark requires that you pass Android certification, a part of which requires including the GApps on the handset (and I expect they even require that you make some of them non-uninstallable).
I suspect they are emulating Apple. 2:45 of Rana Faroohar in 2016 on Apple & capital markets https://youtu.be/-lt5xCFq-RA
Unfortunately I go to a school that would absolutely punish people like me for taking classes that are a real stretch. It would either throw my gpa out the window or take a lot of my time away from side projects and things that I really enjoy, which I already have not much time for.
I'm very glad people like you 2 exist because I too would love cheaper rents along with welcoming a more diverse crowd outside of tech. I am also a homeowner and would vote in favor for building more complexes to lower rent for people of lower income to stay in San Francisco. Was just playing devil's advocate and saying that it seems like most SF homeowners don't think the way we do
Large amounts of debt definitely make it more likely that we'll have trouble raising more funds, because greater debt means greater risk of default, which means a higher risk premium. And right now we're near historic highs: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...

This will surely be made worse in that a) we're moving out of a US-centric era and toward a more multipolar world, and b) recent US politics would make any serious lender wonder how likely they are to get paid back.
PR, or lack thereof, when these ship.
Yay bundling, the last resort of the scurvy monopolies
Experience Counts, Particularly in Safety-Critical Areas
Coal makes up only a third of American electrical generation, and it’s dropping rapidly.
I'd define the current "fake news" phenomenon as the unique and novel combination of:

1. The ability to create and publish to a large audience a blatantly false story.

2. The ability to throw together a landing page that resembles a "real" media site (to those who don't care to think about it closely)

3. #1 and #2 can be done very easily and with a modest budget and modest level of technical skill.

4. The internet allows #1 and #2 to be done anonymously and without accountability. (For a while. Perhaps.) And obviously obscures the nation of origin.

Also the audience is specifically primed to accept fake news at this point in history because of:

5. The 25-year softening of the American public's interest in discerning truth from fiction (thanks Fox News) from entertainment (thanks CNN) in political reporting.

6. An economic downturn whose recovery bypassed a lot of people who didn't have modern enough skills, which is textbook conditions for making people susceptible to the loudest demagogue who blames outsiders rather than suggest one has the responsibility to adapt to a changing economy. Making college free is a real solution but it puts time and effort on people.
Top talent has a bazillion dollars locked in stock options that have appreciated several hundred percent over the past few years.
One of the tragedies of course is that lots of people with serious roots don’t have the opportunity to stay.
Historically, defaulting on your debts is not a good way to get people to lend you more money. And a US debt default would surely cause economic chaos of the sort that reduces economic output, meaning national income would be down.
I don't, but it seems like it would find good use in both writing and aviation.
> you definitely wanted to have your legs crossed when you hit the pool at the bottom.

Why? This is a serious question, since I am not that experienced in crazy water slides.
I think you misunderstand me or I miscommunicated my position. I support the scenario you present.
Because that is how I will deploy on production. At least the security pieces. Any difference & I am not sure if I can be assured of preventing the "works on my machine" kind of issues.
The equivalent for Linux users are ddccontrol and ddcutil.

https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol

https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil
lol.

Tru dat.

Excel is a beast.
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It depends on what you're managing. I really yearn for Amazon's ability to check resources or check all of them in a certain view and apply a certain action to all of them, similar to typical webmail interfaces. Azure's is much more oriented around interacting with single resources at a time.
Foxconn buys Belkin for $866M
Clearly you are not a power excel user. Excel is brilliant for such tables. The charting,manipulation, etl, and dramatic query functionality are astounding. In the right hands you can do truly amazing things.

That said, there are some great cloud analytics offerings which are going to compete.
I’m impressed at how misleading this headline is. If you didn’t know better, you might think Facebook’s bank accounts contain $100 billion less than they did a week ago. What they actually mean is that the stock price is down ~20%.