skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Significance is not related to size: meeting a few virus particles [1] could be the most significant - and possibly last - event of notice in your life. On the other hand few people will be aware of meeting the largest - and possibly oldest - organism on the planet when they look at a honey mushroom in Oregon National Forest [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus

[2] http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/the-worlds-large...
You can’t use "finally" because that implies an expression that runs regardless, which this does not (it only runs if the loop never breaks).
BTW, regarding the link: meh, it's not nostalgia for me, I just find them very practical and also being very cheap but feature-full I don't have to worry too much if I lose it or it breaks.

It's just a super effective watch. Which happens to look slick and cool.
Except the python "for/else" executes regardless of whether there's a sequence. I've used it before for retry logic, but it confuses the heck out of people.
> It won't be lost. It goes toward preventing work related injury, or harm to the customer.

That's the surplus, not the economic output. To know whether that is a net positive you would have to know what would have happened to it in the alternative. The customer might have paid less and then used the money to pay for something important like medicine or education.

But the economic output is separate from that. The issue there isn't that the customer has to pay more, it's that the amount the customer has to pay is now too much and they drop out of the market. Then they don't get the product -- and if the product was something important like medicine or education, that's quite problematic. And the makers of the product also lose that business, which reduces the total amount of surplus that exists to do meritorious things with. And the government loses the tax revenue. That kind of dead weight economic loss is very bad.
My argument basically comes down to the alternatives. Have you tried them? Native iOS development was a nightmare without deep mobile expertise until React Native and the like came about. Windows/Linux/Mac cross-platform apps were in the same place before Electron. IT's far from perfect, but ask anyone today what they'd prefer to build an interface with and it's most like HTML/CSS. Especially for highly graphic intensive, responsive layouts, there's almost no competition really.
And the full form of a Python exception handling block is not try/except/finally. It's try/except/else/finally.

The 'try' block contains code which might raise an exception.

It can be followed by zero or more 'except' blocks, each of which indicates the type(s) of exception it will catch and contains code to execute in the event of that type of exception.

The 'except' block(s) can be followed by one 'else' block, which contains code to execute in the event no exception was raised by the code in the 'try' block.

And then there is optionally a 'finally' block, containing code that must be executed in all circumstances.
Having a fully syncs writing environment that “just works” on all of my various devices & places I write is pretty impressive to me. I’d pay a fair bit of cash for it. But it’s free! It’s easy to be cynical about that but the licenses I paid for in the 90s got me no where near that.
When you take advantage of those programs, the loan servicer doesn’t just say, “well looks like we’re gonna have to take less money on this one!” The government makes up the difference. They pay the part you’re not paying using tax dollars.

How sustainable do you think those programs are when the majority of your working citizens need subsidy?
SleekPlay – Content Monetization Reinvented
They are not mathematically equivalent. Counterexample: 10 groups, each with 10% of the population, qualifies under your first definition but not under your second definition.
Gardner Dozois has died
I don't think the South loved owning slaves as much as they found it an expedient economic model, which was less true in the North. So I believe they could have been moved by economic pressure. We can't know for sure, but we can say there's more than one way to skin a cat and if you can do it without getting blood on the walls so much the better.
>Electron is the result of people trained in web development turning their hands to desktop development, but not wanting to learn something completely new.

"Learning something new" has a massive cost when you apply that to an entire engineering team. A tool that can leverage existing resources to make people proficient in a new area simply through new technology would be a huge value added IMO.
Yes, this makes a huge difference. When I still voted in Germany I for example would vote for the FDP. I knew they go into a coalition with the CDU, but I didn't want any of the Christian BS. In the US I wouldn't have any party to vote for if I want my vote to matter.
> where it powered two (major) brands of micros in UK alone

Do you know what they were, or is that secret information? It wasn't the BBC micro, was it the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad?
An article about someone telling his experience of slowly growing a business (targeted at school teacher if I remember correctly) year after year eventually led to a sizeable lifestyle business.
Thank you! I've often wanted to point others at it in discussions on topics ranging from blockchain forks to 'friendly AI'. I even posed a question on Quora to try to find it – https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-scifi-short-story-name-autho... – now updated with your pointer.
No.

Some employers tried making it look fancy to let employees take the day off to go voting so that maybe some other employers would pick up the habit in exchange of some bragging rights but it didn't go very far.
According to the Venerable Bede, Pope Gregory I drew the same parallel in ~595: "Non Angli, sed angeli – They are not Angles, but angels. Well named, for they have angelic faces and ought to be co-heirs with the angels in heaven.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_I#Famous_quotes_a...
You're right, I was imprecise. Here's the Wikipedia definition:

a jurisdiction where one or more racial and/or ethnic minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the local population
Yes it was a nice/quick/dirty way to persist an object graph, I bet it's been abused richly in a lot of codebases out there, it'll be curious to see how this is handled in terms of breakage i.e. the JDK that introduces this might be the Python 2/3 showdown (if that's still a thing).

Be curious to do a Github wide grep for ObjectOutputStream or something similar and see what it's like in open source land.
The voters are out of luck if they want their executive and their legislature to come from different parties.
Journey To Ixtlan is a personal favorite.
Install Classic Keyboard on Xx30 Series ThinkPads
Identity-As-a-Service (IDaaS) : Okta and ASP.Net Core – DZone Security
I've used Patternfly for rapid prototyping for the last 1-2 years. I share all of your frustrations.

What makes Patternfly stand out for me is that incorporates opinions from enterprise dashboards/line of business apps. If it stays true to this and solves all of it's project management and code quality issues it could leap ahead of most other frameworks. I need whiz bang examples of composed components almost more than I need the component library itself.

As a back end developer here is the work flow that is eased by a library like Patternfly:

1) Someone develops or exposes an API.
2) A team wants to dog food a potential new solution built on top of that API and shop it around.
3) Someone gifts them a single developer and a bucket of hours to see what they can do.

In this instance I need a stable library that looks good and doesn't require me to wade through the front end too much. Patternfly fit that niche for awhile. However do to the slow dev cycles I've moved to Semantic UI and I'm just building my own component library out of that. Arguably the route I should have taken from the start but Patternfly let me ship stuff I wouldn't have otherwise in the time I was allowed.

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Yeah I actually think that anti-corruption reforms have done a lot of damage to the American political system.

It used to be that a politician got rewarded for bringing home the bacon but now that they can no longer get earmarks, it’s all about culture wars instead. Without horse trading, Congress is all about paying off big donors and yelling about abortion instead of getting things done.
It's less useful now than it used to be. In an age of ubiquitous JSON there's much less need for sending Java objects over the wire.
The fact that so many commenters here are confused or surprised by what it means or how it works sort of proves to me that it is a bad idea to use this in your code-- especially if anyone else might need to work on that code. I always prefer the clearer, obvious approach, even it is slightly longer.
I haven't heard the term "collection singular" before; I'd call that a mass noun or non-count noun. (Which I agree "data" has become.)
MHTML Generation from EML and EML to MSG Conversion Are Enhanced in Java Apps
Well, I think it would be pretty easy to take the best ideas from HTML/CSS and make something MUCH MUCH better that would be completely incompatible with these- See for instance subform (https://medium.com/subform) The problem with this of course is that these alternative systems aren't widely supported, but at some point I expect one of the AFGAMs to publish and push one of these alternate layout systems and attempt to get higher adoption.

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It makes sense to me in the specific context of using it to respond to an item not being found in a list. In other contexts, I agree that the word is not a good fit.
Is there a basis to the claim that it isn't? At this time it's anyone's guess. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet along with a handful of others seem to think it is, who am I to disagree with them. I'm indifferent since I don't have a dog in the fight.
F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware
The selective quoting of JzG's arbcom election page from 12 years ago is basically doing exactly what Philip Cross is being accused of.

Is this how fivefilters normally conduct themselves?
Firefox master password is useless and it was reported 9 years ago
The else makes perfect sense. The for loop keeps going as long as the condition is true. When the condition is false, it exits the loop without breaking. Else acts on the condition being false.
If you find this, please let me know!
Been looking for this on and off for over 5 years, thank you.
It would be nice if you were right. I think we are instead seeing is that politics is being turned into something that's more similar to rooting for a sports team or reality TV. I say that because we have very little discussion about what policies would be good and why but instead are talking about this like it's a us vs them battle. most political events aren't targeted anymore to convince people who believe differently but to people who are already on the same page. It's a tragedy.
> and smells like a goto.

What about while/break, for/break, try/except, etc doesn't "smell like a goto"? Isn't that the whole point of these sophisticated constructs, to serve as more rigorous replacements for "goto"?
“Powerful interests” in this case is grassroots community organizers protecting their homes from unwanted change by pushing back against global capital.
This doesn't work. If a third candidate comes along and places themself anywhere along the beach that the two candidates are in the middle of, they'll lose to the candidate opposite. (I think the single-dimensional political axis is also just a simplification, and the theorem works in higher dimensions.)

For a distribution of voters without statistic lumpiness or cross-correlation, I think the only way for a third candidate to win is to identify some neglected political axis. (Maybe the theorem holds if the voter population is convex?)

I think the point you are trying to make is that voters don't just always choose the politician exactly closest to them -- they pick one with some likelihood based on its relative closeness. In that case the two identical centrist candidates will split the vote.

Other circumstances the theorem has difficulty with are primary votes. If only left-leaning voters vote in left-party primaries, "centrist for lefty-party" candidates will win lefty-party primaries -- not "centrist for the electorate" candidates. The theorem only really holds for "strong parties" that can choose their candidates and their positions, not the weird US free-for-all where essentially every candidate is an independent.
I'm actually fairly happy with the way they handled it. Because I run a small startup myself, I often put myself in the position of people committing blunders like this, because, frankly they can happen to anyone.

Just yesterday I accidentally wiped 30 minutes of production data, despite taking great care to have multiple backup systems in place. The error: I was upgrading our CI and accidentally swapped the production and staging labels. I back up production and make a copy to staging on every deploy. But I don't back up staging data, because who cares. Thankfully it was at off-peak hours and no customers were affected.

But I'm going off-track. What I mean is, I would have done exactly what Ghostery did in this case, so I'm happy with their response. Just like when LastPass made a mandatory site-wide password reset because of an anomaly, and when GitLab lost production data.
Ask HN: Managing secrets easily
What do HN users use nowadays to manage secrets easily? There are a few must-have points though:

* Web UI

* Store small files (SSH keys and so on), aside from the usual key/text value

* Grant access to secrets on a user or group basis
Not sure if that is directed at me, but I did minor in linguistics.
Yes: because it's interesting to know how computers work (but cars too).

No: because if you were a programmer you wouldn't ask
I would imagine in the fridge example that results in a product category. In the ice cream example, the carts would move as far possible towards the middle until the incentive is no longer an incentive. They're already in the middle, or going any closer would lose rather than gain customers. But afaict the general idea still holds, theres an inherent incentive to move to the middle (which ofc can be defeated by competing incentives but nonetheless)
An extraordinary long-form piece about a child who'd been born deaf (perhaps of Latino origin, growing up in the streets of a US city) and was then abandoned by his parents. He hadn't learned to speak. As an adult he was given help by a charity (or research group?) who, over the course of years, taught him to speak. There's a moment described in the article when he finally realises that all objects have names, and bursts into tears. When asked to recall how he thought about the world before he learned to speak, he could not describe his cognition.
This is a great point even outside the metaphor -- voters will stay at home if neither candidate "speaks to them", and if the voter distribution is "lumpy", a third candidate angling to own the second-biggest "lump" can beat the two mainstream candidates fighting over the mainstream audience.
Or when they wrote, they wrote in less persistent form, like carving in wood?
Awk has evolved? GNU Awk has---somewhat. It has a clumsy facility in the place of a proper FFI called the "extension API" for binding to C libraries. You need to compile C code to use it, and the API has been a moving target. It has a way to work with XML. It has an "in place" editing mode, and other things like bignum integer support via GMP (requiring the -M option to be used). Plus various minor extensions to POSIX, like full regex support in RS (record separator), a way to tokenize fields positively rather than delimit by matching their separators, a way to extract fixed-width fields, an @include mechanism, a way to indirect on functions and such. None of it adds up to very much.
I'd love that idea too. Tho the particular case you linked looks ridiculous. I'd be more worried about making it compatible with any tool though. The old cartridge video game consoles prevented unauthorized (not pirate) games by patenting the connectors so you couldn't make something that physically plugged in properly. Now there's apparently DRM on batteries! Good luck copying some cryptographic handshake.

Maybe your business would use 2nd hand parts to circumvent patents and crypto. Build some Frankenstein adapter/battery with removable cells.
Is there mountains of evidence? Seems like mountains of anecdotes. Most famous work was work for hire. And yet we don't hear how getting paid for what you produce helps you produce. Often we hear the opposite.
But the else fires in Python if the loop does not break. It sounds like you're saying the opposite. Even if you aren't, I think we can agree it's potentially confusing.
My gut tells me Europe will use GDPR to further attack (and fine) large US tech companies (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.). Everybody is likely breaking these sorts of laws in some small way, but I doubt the EU will bother going after a small startup. If you can't avoid a lawyer, I doubt you're worth being prosecuted.
This is great but kinda confusing.
What's up with large parts simply staying white in the beginning? Northern Europe only starts to get some names around 709 AD, at which point a lot of Eastern Europe is still white.

Does that mean we don't have any good records from these regions during that time or is this simply on account of too many small tribes sharing these regions and the author (understandably) not wanting to go with so much detail?
Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent
Because it's mostly a stage play.

My father was the lead of Human Resources (don't know how it translates in English) in a bank.

He was once hold for a night during a strike, with 3 other persons. The union leader told him "It's not you sir, we like you as a person, but it's what you represents that we hold here".

So they ordered pizzas and managed to sleep on coaches and were "freed" the next day. No one was hurt.

He didn't liked it in any way, but what was the point of torching the offices down ?

For the record, it was in the French West Indies, where unions are far more powerful than in metropolitan France.
another reason to dislike Python, sigh.
You mean "not in the US"? Im not sure exactly, but only have heard people in US saying "Legos". (Australia here, we play with Lego!)
This is the correct place for it to do so. Break skips the check entirely. If the for loop exits normally, the condition was false.
Why did the Romans do right (and then, not do) that others did not, and ended up with such a large empire? The map does not show all Roman territory in North Africa and the Middle east, which was great.
A bit OT, but there is a wonderful PBS/BBC series on the history of English on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XQx9pGGd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG7REAOG1kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cZR1EXGapc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kg63k5JDH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBqlVl0K9tw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVH6LdoEDNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLDvP-N0zQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej60L8xLLdo
Is it Sorted?
Well demo video's don't tell you a lot. They claim to have some secret sauce.

However, the demo video's makes you even question that they have a secret sauce at all. When you see them delete parts of the game world you see how thin the ground layer is when part of it is deleted.

The are big problems with voxels. The simplest being space as the game world increases in size the amount vowels grows with the 3rd power.

My big problem is no technical details have been published. They claim to have a pending patent on their site. However, that may not really tell us much.

I have played with voxels myself and oct-trees and other algorithms related to voxels. The only real use voxels have seen is medical imaging. If they have figured something out they should be having a paper in a math journal. I doubt it though mainly since it would involve pushing thing to the limit or beyond the limits of information theory. The only other option for such small voxels is massive amount data storage or object with relative homogeneous structure at which point it's not much better than hollow polygons.

Not only the main memory is limited, and while SSDs are getting better when playing with high density voxels with a pretty how amount entropy you can quickly exist main memory. So what I did instead was just request exposed/surface voxels and arrange the octree data structure to be linear from outside in to help with memory caches. Still all the really mattered was the exposed voxels, and that's not much different from a hollow polygon. Honestly, after having played with voxels myself I would say they are cool, but you not making a whole game out of them. If anything it's just tool to be used in some parts of a game.

I will add an other thing that gives me doubt they have anything really new is the fact when they start destroying their models you see the same color in side the model for the most part. Even the brick wall that got destroyed is pretty homogeneous.
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes

I was doing a post-grad degree in biomedical engineering and that book set me on a path to become a statistician -- exclusively Bayesian at the start, but now well-versed in all sorts of approaches. (Still prefer Bayes, but I'm only dogmatic about it in theory, not in practice.)
I think the user you're replying to is just saying that a for...empty would be nice too.
> How do you decide what is a “niche syntax trick”?

You decide with experience. When other people read my code, this is probably the feature that surprises them most. Other features that they haven't seen before usually make sense from context. This one is surprising enough that I often forget whether it executes if there is a break or if there isn't a break.

When explaining and remembering what the syntax means dwarfs the effort saved by using the syntax, it's a niche syntax trick.
> Of course they did, they read/watched/heard two very different stories from two very different media constructed realities.

The reason I heard the FULL remarks differently than you is because I'm operating under a different set of assumptions about the type of person that Donald Trump is. This isn't to say I'm right and you're wrong. It's to say that everyone uses assumptions in every single interaction in their lives - they can be useful - and based on mine I interpret a fuzzy statement about immigrants differently than you do.

The media has nothing to do with it.
Well, we still don't know what programming language the universe runs on, so properly documenting that part would be a bit tricky.
> Startup pressure can bring out the true character of a person

Not necessarily. It can bring out the worse.

Let's say you are stressing a machine beyond its limit. The risks are specified in the manual but you still do it. The resulting mechanical damage can't be blamed on the manufacturer.
uh.. I don't think dartum is used, I've never heard it. "A piece of data" maybe.. But it's rare to have to talk of just one.
Certainly not at you, but at the comment you replied to and a lot of comments whenever linguistics-related topics come up here.
As someone that has done both, you might be right. Consulting is way more profitable, but the thing is that you basically are working for someone else, and you can scale it as far as you can fit it on your calendar or hiring.

But with a product you can sell 1,000% of what you had yesterday, the schedules might be a little tight since B2B expects at least a few sales meetings.

So it has its pros and cons. And from my experience (and other's, both friends and clients who want to create something), it's unlikely to have something sellable in 3 months.