skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a desktop Gateway from BestBuy awhile back. It had Best Buy specific crapware and the "special edition" Dell was the same price from the MS store as it was from Dell's website.

Buying the business line from Dell gets you better local support and no crapware.
I take "lots" in that quote to be 100 (base 4) or 16 (base 10). Then Jupiters 79 moons would be counted as "oodles-many-many-many-three" -- assuming "oodles" as 1000 (base 4) or 64 (base 10).
Apple products are simply not designed to be serviceable. I have fond (ish) memories of Dell shipping me several $90 keyboard assemblies for my latitude, under warranty, when keys would start acting up; before requesting the third replacement, I noticed there was a bit of aluminum that just needed to get bent back to shape to fix the issues, and saved a bunch of hassle. But I'm not sure if anybody still makes laptops where they've used the space to made things modular enough for economical spare parts.
Compared to practicing your instruments for 5+ years, getting along with a bunch of people, touring, etc, taking the piss for a few days in a studio is easy.
Still better than blindly trusting Uncle Sam to do the best thing for humanity. At least Bezos doesn't have a track record of genocide.
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It doesn't take very many super-rich people to skew the distribution in a state with under 600k inhabitants.
New tech = not insurmountable
Amazon won me over with "real two day shipping". It was truly glorious when I signed up. It lulled me into this constant consuming state - shipping was so fast (and 'free' with prime) I could just mindlessly order any thing without waiting for a big shipment. I would order from Amazon a few times a day for days on end - any random thing I remembered I needed. It would all quickly stream into my house - I stopped even thinking about shipping and delivery days. It was wonderful.

They lost me with "not really two day shipping." Today, two-day shipping means "two days from when we ship it, not counting weekends, and not counting however long it takes for us to actually process the order, and then not even actually two days." 'Free two-day shipping' often comes in about a week for me. My constant state of consumption was interrupted by going days thinking, 'where is that thingamajig I needed to finish that project?' - often manifesting by ordering something on Mon/Tues assuming it would be here for a weekend, only to have it not show up in time, forcing me to run to the local hardware store (or whatever) and then return my Amazon item.

I still buy some stuff on Amazon - mostly things that I don't really care about when it comes as long as it comes. I've gotten into the habit of compiling lists at home of stuff that I absolutely need at a certain time and then making trips to local stores when needed, including Best Buy.
It depends on how much land, doesn't it?

A quick search shows that the largest ranch in Wyoming is Q Creek Ranch, at 560,000 acres. That's 1/60th size of the entire state of Mississippi.

Even if the land yields 1/10th as much as the rich farmland of Mississippi delta, if it's 1/10th the price and holdings are 10x larger, then the same value is being left on the table.
The initial burst of wealth began with the gold rush and was extended with the transcontinental railroad, but the basis for California’s modern wealth, all the way from San Diego to San Francisco, was the military industrial complex. Hollywood is a major industry in Southern California for sure, but Hollywood didn’t turn California into an economic juggernaut, the Pentagon did.

That same defense contract money and influx of tech talent is largely responsible for the foundations of Silicon Valley as we know it today.
From my little time in WSDL/SOAP land: unending boilerplate and busywork, and a constant sense of just get out of my way.

I had to study it for quite some time before I had any idea what any of it was actually for. It was clearly designed with the mindset that it is more important to theoretically support anything imaginable, than to be pragmatic and helpful to today's developers. To put that in buzzword terms, it fails to honour the principles of YAGNI and KISS.

It's very much a product of the ivory tower, and there's a reason it's been almost completely abandoned in favour of JSON/REST.
That’s interesting. I’ve never seen that. That means Best Buy has some deal to get a special Best Buy Crapware SKU from the manufacturer.

P.S. Gateway still exists?

P.P.S. Wikipedia says Gateway is defunct. How long ago was this experience?
My understanding is that the server is not for realtime. Realtime gameplay is peer to peer.
“Your only purpose”. As if such standards were set in place and there was no ongoing committee to deal with new cases and scenarios that arise as they inevitably do in any complex system.
Is this a quote from somewhere or something you just made up? Either way, I like it.
But if we doubled the absolute income of the bottom 90%, that’s good regardless of what happens to Bezos yes?
Favorite quote from a co-worker "Scrum is waterfall framework dressed in Agile clothing."
So this country doesn't make enough money to be able to keep some unlucky people alive without throwing them or their family into poverty? Or is it simply that nobody cares for anybody else as long as you are better off then them?
Though it's Python and not Perl, and seems to take the whole thing more seriously—and, I imagine, usefully, though I'm not experienced enough to be able to judge from a glance—this post cannot go by without a mention of Damian Conway and his Quantum::Superpositions module (https://metacpan.org/pod/Quantum::Superpositions).
Emin's "Unmade Bed" - pretty sure that, eg from the title, was cocking-a-snook at the establishment in a "let's see what crap I can make them buy". Though it does have a place in an area of art that intrigues me, that of "uncreated" or "unconsciously created" works.

If you think Duchamp was pulling a fast one you'll probably think Emin to be some sort of queen of hustlers.
Early morning class makes you less likely to major in that subject [pdf]
I love functional style and I think Python is very friendly to that style. You can make pure functions. You can use classes as store of values. Pass values and functions around as they are first class citizens.

That you need some local state to implement a pure function isn't a problem as you can limit it to very simple things. Anonymous functions are not something you need either, just give it a name and pass it, wtp?

I agree most of the "Python is not functional enough" criticism comes from people who just want as pure FP as possible.
Application of type theory, or any theory, or any formal method, requires humility and patience.

To apply a formal method to your work requires to acknowledge that your intuition might me wrong, your past decisions incorrect, and your knowledge of the subject area deficient. Often you have to step back, rethink, and rework.

This is a normal mindset for a scientist, and a pretty common mindset for an experienced engineer.

But this view is not automatically acquired with an engineering diploma, with obvious coding skills, or even with a couple successful open-source projects. It has to be nurtured consciously—or rammed down your throat by unforgiving reality; the latter is pretty traumatic.
That's way overstated. Just don't only read your slides verbatim. Some people may not be able to see slides because of obstruction or their vision, so repeating key points is almost a courtesy.

I appreciate it when a slide is a visual piece with limited text, and the notes are roughly true to the spoken portion (for when slides are distributed after a talk).
I walked into a best buy for the first time in years, and I was surprised how much it had changed, how modern it looked, and how many staff were there. Unfortunately it was right after opening, so they all had energy to continually ask if I needed help, which was a bit obnoxious, though I'm sure super helpful if you actually needed help.
You can't just mention Husker Du and not bring up The Replacements!
>Some of it is garbage

This is why it is controversial.
> Because that's not what it is, in general. See Xanadu for an example of vastly more general kinds of linkages than references.

The purpose of very abstract, generalised, academic (also legal) language is to attempt to achieve perfect technical correctness in description. Unfortunately this usually comes at the cost of understanding.

"Text with links to other text" obviously won't include 100.000% of applications conforming to RESTfulness, but it does describe what RESTfulness intends far better and more accessibly than a convoluted explanation, which very effectively serves the purpose of informing people calling RPC REST that it is not in fact REST (for example). It also gives a broad audience a general direction to work toward if they intend to use REST (or a reasonable argument not to use it if it's not what they feel they need).

The accessible explanation serves an actual practical purpose, the pedantic explanation has no actual benefit. The fact that you had to reference a project as esoteric and dead-end as Xanadu is testament to this.
Agglomeration effects (might) change the YIMBY calculus
Aren't map and filter just redundant if you accept list comprehension as Pythonic thing to do?
"Serfdom in itself causes unhappiness. Or jealousy, if you want to call it that."

Interestingly, it seems to me that the current iteration of the oppression business can somehow always dismiss calls for justice as envy/jealousy, but never the previous ones.
So what are the “problems by deprecation” you see in the current context of redefining Pluto as not a planet? Having to reprint interplanetary tourism guides?
Yea from the wording I think they mean you can either break backwards compatibility or "fork the world".

In Java's case, old bytecode using Map would correctly work with change to Map <K, V>. C# introduced a new set of collections I believe.
In the last year counterfeits have become such a big problem for me that my trust in Amazon has eroded dramatically. I wonder when that will show up in their stock price.
As a tech conference audience member, one of my biggest pet peeves is people using roughly 70+ percent of their talk to introduce the background/rationale of their tool/library/use-case/workflow/whatnot without even showing precisely what the tool does or how to use it practically. Chances are, most people in the audience are in the room _because they are already on board with your rationale_.

A fake example: If you're giving a talk on your new Linux shell that 's way better than Bash, you don't need to spend the first two-thirds of your talk explaining what Bash is and what its weaknesses are. Your audience probably knows what Bash is and knows enough to be interested in an alternative. Don't bore them out of the room.

TL;DR: Show first, tell second.
The in-home service is the last thing I'd want. But I have been shopping at Best Buy way more than I used to.

Here's why. A few years ago I bought a big-ticket item (TV) and obviously wanted to see it before I bought it. They were able to provide generous no-interest financing via their co-branded Citi credit card. They have a policy of offering 12-month no-interest financing on many products and split up over that much time it's easy to talk yourself into buying things you probably don't need.

Also the Gamer's Club Unlocked is better than Amazon's game discount system because it works anytime, not just up until release. I've heard that they have ended the program though which would just send me back to Amazon.
I think the second explanation works better - if we look at the way people vote. It's a religious thing to abandon people in suffering to banks and creditors. This way the holy right to make money is put in the first position.
Efficiency is important. Being morally distinguishable from the people you are trying to kill is important.
I'm not the OP but I've used Python with the suds library to consume SOAP APIs. I haven't had any problems with it other than companies deprecating their SOAP APIs just to reimplement exactly the same thing with JSON.
The only thing stopping Tim Berners-Lee spinning in his grave, is that he's still alive.
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Show HN: Accordance – automatic, bidirectional file syncing for dev environments
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I like the idea of a triumvirate, three people with a shared vision but perhaps with unique skills [0]. Hopefully all sharing a benevolent tendency to avoid things going pear-shaped [1].

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/759798/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Triumvirate
AbeBooks is owned by Amazon, so they'll still get their cut!
>> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it

And then it offers 20 equally good ways: generators vs comprehensions vs iterators vs foreach loops vs map and filter, async vs threadpools vs processpools, and so on.
Hmmm... you know? you may be right. I tend to read use of Jealous to mean "I want what you have" but in this context it could be the super rich saying "you can't have what I have" which is .. Jealously guarding their riches.
look at fashion designers. almost all big brands still carry the name of one dead "artist" (eg. Channel). And in some cases, the living artist even sell the name so this happen sooner (e.g. marc jacobs, kate spade)
For me anyway it's simple: I go to the talk because I think it's going to be interesting. If it turns out to be boring, but I feel like the speaker is making a real effort, I will stay and try to multitask my way through it, partly just in case something interesting comes up but mostly out of respect for the speaker... who after all is making a real effort.

If I feel like the speaker is just lazy then I'll get up and go somewhere else.

Note that this only works above a certain size: if it's happening in a conference room I will at least pretend to take notes on paper instead of reading email / HN / bugs / etc.

I'm not really sure whether this makes me more considerate, or more duplicitous, or maybe both.
Bring Me Edelweiss, a novelty number one supposedly written according to these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-dyzKKz6sM

And, of course, Doctorin' The Tardis, the number one which formed the basis for The Manual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTELokKfCk
This seems to be the reverse, the apprentice with financial resources asks the artist to build the work and then take the credit. They most likely give some headaches to the technicians when they don't know what they want or are unhappy with the results of the specifications
Yeah, for the type of broken code that has the wrong types.
Drone deliveries are real. They are happening in China right now.

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/09/how-e-commerce...

Rwanda too, with Zipline.
Pray tell. There is international law, and international law. There is NO international law. Law exists where you have clear laws, a clear and separate way to determine how it applies in situations, and a way to rectify situations afterwards, and an enforcement mechanism ... So thankfully none of that exists, all there is is some vague international documents nobody actually respects. Not the US, not Europe, and certainly no-one else.

For instance, one part of international law said that France and the UK (and several others) would declare war on Russia if Russia ever violated the territory of the Ukraine, which it did when it annexed Crimea ... [1]

Is it that "legal framework" you're talking about (international treaties) ? Why don't you complain that a new world war wasn't started, despite the "legal framework" (ie. international treaties) stating that we should to respond to Russia's provocation ?

Weird how people have such selective application of law and weird interpretations.

Interpretations ? Yes, by the way. Why don't you go through those human rights treaties, and verify these questions for me ?

1) if you take actions against a foreign state or military without wearing a uniform, what rights do you have ? None. You can be shot on sight, with collateral damage around you (no limits, so theoretically we could nuke terrorists), by a foreign force, on the territory of a different state than the one controlling the foreign force.

2) WHO makes the determination if you fall under that category from question 1) ? The "on the ground" commander of the force shooting you. This decision is final and cannot be contested by courts afterwards.

3) It does not matter why that force is there, whether they're invading, just visiting, protecting dignitaries, or in fact just entering that territory to eliminate terrorists.

Read through the human rights treaties (start here [2]) and point out where I'm wrong.

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

[2] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
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She called for the shaming of prominent members of the executive branch.

Also, I guess you mean high youth unemployment.
I have this habit I copied off the book "Heart" by Edmondo De Amicis[0] - whenever I hear an ambulance approaching, sirens on, I'll take my hat and earphones off, pausing for a moment as a sign of respect. Respect for the person in trouble, for the people trying to save them, and for the system that allows this to happen.

Thank you 'PuffinBlue and 'goodells for bringing this observation up. The civilization our predecessors built and to which we have privilege of contributing is, for all its failings, truly miraculous.

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(novel)
If you make an analogy, and then the analogy breaks, I'm not sure that shows the flaw is in the original concept.

A RESTful architecture needs an Uniform Interface, yes, but their it's doesn't have to be an "action" or anything specific. POST has a definition, and everyone handling the requests can rely on it. That fulfills the constraint.
Ayn Rand is both a well respected and an intelligent (albeit certainly controversial) writer. Instead of simply trash talking his arguement on the basis that she supported it, why dont you make substantiative points against what he said?
Honestly I think the idea of a council of four is better. If they can't come to an agreement, then Python isn't changed.
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Wyoming has no state income tax.

My mom is in a similar situation - she bought a home with my dad in Arkansas, but works in Tennessee. Given her income, it was significantly cheaper for her to lease an apartment outside Memphis and live there four days per week than it would have been for her to establish Arkansas residency and pay our income taxes.

She typically spends 4-5 days per week in Memphis, and flies back and forth between there and Arkansas - so this makes sense even considering the cost of traveling.

I wouldn't consider my parents "rich" by any stretch. Secure, yes, maybe even "well off" - but certainly not "rich" to the degree that we're discussing here. To a single person working in New York with a salary of $750k, establishing residency in Jackson Hole, Wyoming would save them $50k / year in state income taxes alone.
Getting your boss to stop valuing you by time spent in the office
I like the previous thread, thanks for the link!
>we were spending a lot of client time fetching deep trees through resource links

>it solved a lot of the administrative and philosophical headaches

>considerably reduced the number of connections

>considerably reduced wasted data

>made our client code so much simpler through easily grokked queries

I feel that grandparent does contain information which might be valuable for adoption.
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I believe it is highly American to believe in self-sufficiency and to minimize the role of luck in success or failure. Whether we go back to the Protestant work ethic, the Puritan sensibility, gold rushes, unfettered capitalism, the Gilded Age, and our current second gilded age, to me it is clear that caring for others is a secondary concern for many Americans. Just look at the "makers/takers" model of our populace put forward by the top current lawmakers. In this framework, sick people are takers and capitalists are makers.
> Let them go, we don't need them.

People get to the top and stay there by being good at something. The fact that they're rich by definition means that their company is doing something that people find valuable and doing it better than the alternatives. Economic activity is not driven by the government; destroying the private sector is a recipe for instability.

> if we make decisions

Ah, "we". This must be the way to go because "we" made the decision together, right? "We" are right and "they" are wrong. No. Stop trying to weasel together some illusion of unity. The vast majority of Americans want no part in your delusions.

> If someone wants to leave, let them.

Sure, but why would you intentionally give them more reasons to leave? Speaking of "abusive relationships"...
Can you point out an artefact that he instructed someone to make and then labelled as his own artwork? Or indeed a piece still called a DaVinci that it's accepted he has no hands-on input to.

FWIW we're not taking about apprentices doing blocking-in, backgrounds, or minor characters.
I'm not sure why electronics stores should be dead.

They provide a discovery layer Amazon can't, including a hands on exposure, as well as Same-day ownership.

It might get interesting if Amazon opens their own electronics stores carrying their wider selection, though.
I know quite a few kids that are at least "comfortable" financially and they prefer boxed mac and cheese and simple hot dogs and cheese pizza and so on because that's what they get at day care and school.
It really isn't. Your goal should be to have no text, and never look away from your audience during a talk.

You can (and should) repeat key points, but every time you read, you lose your audience. And yes, you can have a little bit of text -- but since most people go too far in the other direction, it's best to aim to eliminate text entirely.

Slides should be simple graphical content to provide signposts and communicate things that otherwise cannot be expressed vocally.
I frequently see speakers end their talk with “Any questions? No questions?? I was really perfectly clear? OK. Bye!” That fast.

It takes at least ten seconds for people to formulate a question well enough to ask it in front of everybody. Have some patience. Bonus points for having something low-key to fill the awkward silence.
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What is the point of this post? This is all well known and that is what development projects are for.

If you would at least argue that this will always be the same then there would be a discussion to have. But right now this post is just saying the obvious while ignoring that everybody is exactly working on resolving these problems.
Must be 1k you are talking about.
this won't happen with paintings because paintings are not art. They are artificially rare investments. The (financial) powers that makes a painter relevant will ensure new works, even if what you suggest happens, will never carry any value as it implies dissolving the value of previous works. Its the same mechanism that makes only dead painters world famous.