skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard technical debt (abstractly) as a reason for a lot of these arguments. IE, we can't step back from this argument because the code is important, it will cause all these problems down the road.

But of if course two people disagree on which path is actually correct and which produces more technical debt, what then?
Maybe you didn't read the post, but in the use cases specified, performance is not important--the author is mostly speaking about deploy and test scripts. Whether these take 1 minute or 10 is not particularly interesting, but you would of course prefer faster if possible. That's the point here--of course a faster Python interpreter is better, and the Python maintainers should place a higher priority on it than the very low priority that they currently do.
Q2 proves iPhone is here to stay
We need to run the crawler longer...and we are going to be replacing the crawler with something that should be a lot faster.
A new kind of ICO
Apple - Its not your device, but the data is yours.

Google - Its your device, but the data is ours.
because companies will only provide mbps
macOS
Me too. Then of course you get into the nitty-gritty (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15356118/s...):

"More than 80 percent of the hospital beds in Singapore are in public hospitals, and those hospitals are cut into different “wards” with different levels of amenities: A-class wards provide unsubsidized care but have single rooms and air conditioning, while C-class wards are overwhelmingly subsidized but are set up like shared dormitories with common toilets. There are a number of ward levels in between, too, all with a sliding scale of comfort and subsidization. So both A-ward patients and C-ward patients are paying for their own care, but the prices they’re paying are very, very different, because the government is absorbing the direct cost of care in the C-wards."

Not saying common toilets are unacceptable but it's things like that which would be a big adjustment/shock to the American system of being used to mostly individual rooms with meal service, etc.
Indeed it was and is. My goal is to put Ivelope on that list
What deeper consequences are those?
The slow startup combined with the general lack of interest of the Python ecosystem to try to find a solution for distributing self contained applications was the biggest reason we ended up writing out CLI tool in something else even though we are a Python shop.

I'm really curious why there hasn't been much of a desire to change this and it even got worse as time progressed which is odd.
I think the people who don't like it are the loudest. It certainly has some drawbacks (like the keyboard, lack of ports), and for some that's a deal-breaker.

Personally, I love my MBP I got late last year — 13", no touchbar. I use the larger, touchbar version for work, and it doesn't really suit me.

The only things that really bother me are the keyboard and sometimes the lack of ports, but honestly the keyboard is still pretty good, and I don't find myself plugging things into my laptop that often.
I bought a 2015 MacBook Pro from the Apple Refurb store - very happy with it: USB ports and good keyboard.
Hey Josh,

An unrelated request: We’ve been waiting for a response to https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist/issues/19... for almost 2.5 years now, and no human ever looked at it. Is there anything we missed? Anywhere we should’ve also registered this request?

Thanks
Because they don't suck?

I think people are mostly complaining about the direction the last update took, such as the touchbar which seems more targeted at less experienced computer users and lack of RAM options beyond 16gb, etc.
The Java ecosystem had this with Drip and I think it turned out to not be a great idea in practice - the magazine of VMs get exhausted when you don't want it to, they get into odd states and other things I think, can't quite remember.
> ICO's fundamentally change the nature of global marketplace dynamics. Whether its stocks, bonds, tokens, or whatever other digital asset, it is now shown that these items can be traded by anyone, anywhere, and anytime.

Sorry, what? this is literally untrue, and pure bullshit.

Anyone can buy any of these at any time already. There are online marketplaces that trade these things 24/7.

The only restriction is that a potential investor has to prove that they realise that the value of an investment can go down as well as up. That, in other words, they're not an idiot, and won't demand that the government "do something about it" when their investment tanks.

Of course, because of that niggling little regulation, you can't spam everyone with ridiculous promises of untold wealth if they'll only invest their life savings in the latest ponzi scheme. Until ponzicoin came along, of course.
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TIC-80 has the exact same license (MIT):

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/blob/master/LICENSE
I imagine there are two aspects to this, they probably started in python and have a lot of it already, and it's probably easier to gen new folks involved which I think is one of their goals.
Because I got tired of the blue screens of death, and despite the MBP being way over priced it does one thing very well... it works 99% of the time. Plus it looks cool, if you care about that sort of thing.
Developers are focused on developing, not securing. Attackers are focused on attacking, not developing. Defenders are focused on attackers and securing.

It's not that security experts are our only hope, it's that you don't go to a mechanical engineer when your car breaks down. One person is really good at designing, and another person is really good at fixing. In the ideal case, the fixer brings the broken thing to the designer so the designer can improve the design. The tighter that loop is, the quicker the quality gets better.
For chromebooks, I still like the original Pixel. You can pick up a refurbished model for about 300 usd.
There are 8 billion people on this planet. The people that think MacBook Pros suck are likely very often not the same people that use them. And, when they do overlap, it's likely due to technology lock-in (they use Final Cut or whatever) or thinking the other options suck even worse.

I have to second the other person recommending a Lenovo X1 Carbon. I had one for awhile and it was just about the perfect laptop. Surface Pro looks nice too.
Honestly the linux subsystem for windows 10 is good enough for me. I see less and less of a need for an osx box for development if you're just looking for a unix subsystem.

FWIW I use a Dell XPS 13 and a Surface Pro and both work perfectly well. Install Ubuntu from the app store, get Mobaxterm and run gnome-terminal. You're set at that point.
The Razer Blade is a surprisingly capable, beautiful alternative.

I will say that the primary driver is more being on MacOS, which is a nice middle ground for ease of use for our developer team that's primarily working in things like Ruby on Rails and React, and also really great for movie editing for our marketing folks.

We're all still holding hope that the next MBP fixes the keyboard issues. Personally I'm still jamming on a 2011 MBA that's probably the single most reliable, functional piece of hardware I've ever owned. It's the definitive workhorse. It's a shame the quality hasn't kept pace across the other lines and new models.
With OSX, I get to be lazy when it comes to the OS. No wrangling, configuring like I see friends having to do. The environment is mindless and works.
And they're pretty. Great screens and resolution. And everyone else had one when I started developing. And I was kind of excited to put a sticker on top of the apple.

Switching to linux is in the same category as Vim for me. Something I should do someday.
It can be used to describe some entity that is not only bad by itself but which also subverts nearby "good" things and turns them into "bad". Maybe it is overused in general but for ICOs in crypto industry it is very fitting and on point. ICOs will take down and sink anything good that may have happen in crypto space.
Yes but with the added complexity and resource usage it's not a good general solution. If every app behaved this way we'd be in a worse place overall.
If you can get used a TrackPoint (the nub thing on ThinkPads) or similar on another brand it's probably a better alternative to a MBP. I did as of a few years ago and would never go back to the imprecise and slow navigation with a trackpad.
Honestly, I miss the simple support system Digital Ocean had when it first launched, built straight into the panel, instead of another buggy service with tons of javascript. Less is more. The tier1 support needs much more training and information to effectively handle support as well.
So, you might not know this but the doctors were not allowed to carry out their plan without a court order. The hospital needed to get the agreement of the court in order to turn off life support.

Contrast this with the US, where the hospital can announce the plan, and the parents have to sue to stop it happening.

That feels substantially worse.

Especially because in the UK the parents will have legal aid available to pay for their legal representation (Alfie's parents went through seven firms of solicitors) and because the child will have their own independent legal representation.
Working towards a better future sounds like an admirable goal, but that's ad-speak on top of actual goals of the innovation, which is more profitable retail.

I don't personally think a robot grocery store is something I'm interested in, but that's entirely subjective.
I was really expecting a detailed story of kidnapping, water boarding, starvation...
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React, Redux, Auth State and API
I just recently started using Surface Book. The trackpad is as good as my old MBP.
It’s like what Churchill said about democracy: “it’s the worst system of governance, with the exception of any other system that was ever used”
I'm a Belgian national, living in France (under the French health care regime). If I need medical assistance while I'm in in Spain or Germany, the care will be reimbursed per the local rules, by the French health care system.

Quoting Wikipedia:

The European Health Insurance Card (or EHIC) is issued free of charge and allows anyone who is insured by or covered by a statutory social security scheme of the EEA countries and Switzerland to receive medical treatment in another member state free or at a reduced cost, if that treatment becomes necessary during their visit (for example, due to illness or an accident), or if they have a chronic pre-existing condition which requires care such as kidney dialysis. The term of validity of the card varies according to the issuing country.

The intention of the scheme is to allow people to continue their stay in a country without having to return home for medical care; as such, it does not cover people who have visited a country for the purpose of obtaining medical care, nor does it cover care, such as many types of dental treatment, which can be delayed until the individual returns to his or her home country. The costs not covered by self-liability fees are paid by the issuing country, which is usually the country of residence but may also be the country where one receives the most pension from.[1]

It only covers healthcare which is normally covered by a statutory health care system in the visited country, so it does not render travel insurance obsolete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Health_Insurance_Card
What prevents their competitor from downvoting them? The rate limit applies equally to everyone.

EDIT: The scoring function can also be customized. https://github.com/jivesearch/jivesearch/blob/master/search/...
To understand journalism and journalists please read Nissim Nicholas Taleb's book Skin in the Game.

There was a time when people who had passion to bring knowledge before the world worked to achieve that and invented "journalism". That rare breed of people exists today and actually flourishes because of Youtube, Google and Facebook.

There is another lot who called themselves "journalists" and worked hard to get the privileges associated with it without actually having passion for bringing knowledge to people. Privileges => access to corridors of power, swinging political opinion, pimping for political patrons or simply making money.

Gawker is a good example. They tried to bully someone and got bullied into extinction themselves.

When I speak to journalists at NYT or Time, I realise that they have developed this sense of entitlement where they think they are doing great job where as independent bloggers and youtubers are shit because they dont have journalistic credentials.

It is actually opposite. Big media houses have failed us but the independent bloggers are the ones leading the torch helped by Google, Facebook etc.
Do the build processes mentioned in this email make heavy use of numpy, matplotlib, scipy, pickle, etc.?

NumPy is very exciting and all, but it's a subcommunity of the Python community, not 90% of its usage. NumPy users are probably not, in general, trying to spawn twenty five thousand processes in sequence to accomplish some task. The people who are complaining about fractions of a millisecond of startup time are not inverting massive matrices.
Buy the older ones (2014-ish) from ebay
and what about people who use electron apps that aren't silicon valley programmers?
Is this a good way to build a board game AI? If I have a db 50,000 replays would this be the right tool to build it?
Gmail search is without doubt the worst search I've ever come across. It doesn't even return all the results.

Why do you think it is good?

There is nothing that says that you can't have both web and native mail clients.
It depends on perspective, I guess. After all, they say

> While we hit some speed bumps, I want to emphasize that our experience with Rust was very positive overall. It’s an incredibly promising project with a solid core and a healthy community. I’m confident these issues will end up being solved over time.

Rust is still a relatively new language, and most of the cons list fits in with that. They also talked about how they worked around these issues, and what we're doing to address them, which is pretty wonderful.

I'm also happy to talk more about any of the specific points here to add more context; for example, the comment about error-chain and failure is spot on. error-chain is the older, more battle tested library, failure is the newer one that's try to address some issues with it. The ecosystem is still shaking out. (I personally love failure.)
No. Those hospitals were not offering anything other than palliative care.

He had no brain! There's no possible treatment.
> Javascript is just a basically-ordinary scripting language, and isn’t inordinately terrible (or even Perl-levels of terrible). It’s not great, but it’s OK, and that’s good enough for lots of people.

I'll take issue with that. JavaScript is a broken language, but where it falls on the broken-languages continuum isn't the problem: the fact that JavaScript exists is the problem. Web pages shouldn't be executable code; they should be documents. The world should have a universally-understood programming language, of course, but that language isn't JavaScript (IMHO it's Lisp, but perhaps some folks would make an argument for Scheme, others for Smalltalk & others for ML).

> The problem with Electron is that browsers are terrible at literally everything.

Completely agree here. With apologies to Gene Spafford, a web browser is like is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

> It’s easier to write a simple GUI app with GTK when you don’t know GTK than it is to write the same thing as a web app when you’re already a pro at writing web apps.

I suspect that's true. Getting a few tiny things working in the web stack is easy — getting a full app running properly is … obtuse.
EEG in 3mo infants is "poorly organized" even compared to 24mo child, so it I would take this one with a grain of salt.
That quote doesn't mean what you think it means. Taken in context, that quote is talking about the origins of civil government and how it is often corrupted as stated in that quote. It is used as an argument for why there must be a separation of powers to ensure fair judgement and protect the property rights of both the poor and the wealthy.
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That sounds really cool. One of the advantages of owning your house.
overnight successes are usually 10-15 years in the making; so much goes on before the public release
My main machine for the past few years has been Lenovo X1 Carbon from a few gens ago - have had a great experience. Dual boots windows and Ubuntu without issue, battery life is great, performance is great with 16G/SSD/i7, feels well built and keyboard is as good as any that I've had on a Thinkpad. The only thing I miss from the MBP is the trackpad.
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300mb? You're lucky. Slack is taking up 763mb for me right now, and it's not uncommon to see it cross the 1GB threshold.
I still can't believe Buzzfeed is now considered a top source of investigative journalism.

Funded by the ad revenue from clickbait, quizzes, memes, and listicles, it was actually able to afford to pay for the long-form content that you used to expect only from, say, National Geographic or the Atlantic.
Pretty harsh lol. If you don't like electron apps then don't run them. It's hard to describe the actions of developers who use those frameworks as "inconsiderate" when they are a) providing the fruit of their labors for free; and b) not shoving it down your throat.
Neat idea, scary to implement though. As everyone mentions, manipulation is a massive concern.

With that said, perhaps peer-promoted links would solve this issue. If you built a network of peers (my brother, his friend, his friends friend) and modulated upvoted by their abstraction to me, it could make for a nice up voting system.

Anyone know if that style of voting has been implemented by anyone? Does it suffer fatal flaws? Sounds difficult to implement, for starters.
I'm far from an FFmpeg expert, but I believe it's possible to segment the input video, transcode the segments one by one, and then concatenate them. Not sure how the segmentation and concatenation steps perform, but if that's fast, this might even improve your overall transcoding speed due to the parallelization.
One must think differently if you wanted to use a DLT/Bitcoin solution.

It's not simply just a ledger.

I'm talking about every data point that facebook has, to be hashed and competitively manipulated in a global market place.

Trust is very relative but using a bitcoin-like solution would allow for the market to compete for the better solution, each and every day. Facebook's authoritarian solution won't last forever, nor should it; allowing competition through FB's data could be a way that FB stays in the limelight.
I got mine in 2015 and I love it. I'll have to replace the touchpad cable later today, but I'm pretty sure it'll survive.

This 2015 model comes with MagSafe, USB-A, and a physical Escape key: all features you won't find on the newest model.

I won't be buying another Mac. But I do love this one.

Next laptop will probably be some Dell XPS, Lenovo X1, or Surface Pro. It'll depend on what I'll need at work.
to be fair it was more your lack of experience that made it an issue, heres how it could be much easier:

1. Go to bitcoin ATM and buy coins or bank transfer some funds into an exchange, or buy off localbitcoins (or even mine some eth or xmr to excange to xvg)

2. send BTC to an exchange which trades verge (if needed)

3. buy verge

4 pay pornhub in verge (using the correct payment ref)

done

its actually not that much more complicated than paying a credit card bill manually
I will continue to jump through hoops in order to get the integrated experience of macOS. There is a huge gap between developing on Windows and Mac.
The point is to shift how much power you generated for several off-peak hours to the on-peak hours, not to be totally energy independent for some allotted time.

For example, say you can store up 10 kWh of excess energy during the noon sun when it's worthless. If peak is from 5 to 9, you only need a 10 kWh pack that can discharge in 4 hours.
I've been using macbooks full time for 3 years now and I hate them. They are bad hardware for a high price tag.

As a developer they are the perfect middle ground. OSX runs everything I usually run in Linux and I have all the paid for software I'd run on windows (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc).

Prior to switching to mac I just dual booted windows and linux depending on what I needed. Then sketch came out and it was only OSX and I had to make the decision on having a third setup.

Then I realized everything I was doing in my 2 OSes I could do in a single one even though I hated the hardware.
Because of Terminal. It means most software you would use on a web server will install easily with the help of HomeBrew etc...

I've seen developers waste an entire week trying to get basic things like docker to run on Windows...

I'm sure things have gotten better in Windows land, but now that I already have my Macbook, the impetus for change is just not there...
I think it comes down to a few adages...
You can please all of the people some of the time, you can please some of the people all of the time...

and

trackpad size is like salt, you can have too much.
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Here's what you do to significantly reduce telemarketers calls:

1) Go to https://www.donotcall.gov/ and register in the National Do Not Call Registry

2) Wait 31 day (it takes some time to propagate this information to callers)

3) Start reporting unwanted calls via link above

I have not received a single telemarketer call over a year since I started doing that.

FTC is also very good at dealing with collection agency calls if you are not the person they are trying to reach. I received personal apologies from ERC after filing complaint through FTC website.
Currently there is no support for rate limiting or retries of webhook calls. I've opened an issue (https://github.com/hasura/skor/issues/7)
Second on the network. My concern is around inter-node traffic and if it's segmented or like their current private networking.
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On KDE you can mount the SSH system as local and use your usual tool set. Or Krusader integrates an editor or passes off to Kate for editing (or kdiff3 for file compare or whatnot).

As long as I have nano or can apt-install it then I'm happy to ssh in and do it that way; but it doesn't seem more convoluted to use GUI tools necessarily.
It's really good to have a healthy competition. Tensorflow added eager evaluation, they added pythonless model export.
False, "Hey Siri" activates Siri on the iphone (just tried this out). So, it's not different.
I’ve got a really good idea as to how to run a country:

1. Establish a dominant arbiter of fact.
2. Place as it’s head a decidedly odd person with some very curious ideas.
3. Ensure via voting rules that he is accountable to no-one.
4. Allow it a natural monopoly from which it can extract massive rents.
5. Give it surveillance powers unparalleled in human existence.

Idi Amin, Gaddafi, Chairman Mao, would have and did kill for this type of power.

Instead we have “Zuck”. What a schmuck.