skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure that this is the case, at least in the US, with some exceptions(discrimination laws).

> It's also still not right.

No, it is not right, but just like a shop-owner, a forum moderator will not ban you randomly because she has an interest running a popular forum.

If one gets banned from a community(online or not), in most cases it's because they didn't adhere to the written or unwritten laws of the community, or pissed off someone high in the pecking order. Communities are not democracies, but my guess is that even if they were, a big majority of those who get banned would be ostracized anyway.
I've been wanting to learn Rust for a long time, but Python is just so good at so many things that I find it hard to get started with Rust. The other day, I wanted to make a small server that would email you if your cron jobs didn't run[1] (using a checkin system), and I started to do it in Rust, but I found prototyping with it at my starter level so hard, that I thought "alright I can either do this in Python in three hours, or spend a week with Rust and probably quit half-way".

This is whether the project is for the web, desktop, microcontrollers, CLI, whatever. Python might not be perfect for any of these things, but it's great for all of them. I need to try to write a kernel or something.

[1]: This is the finished product, by the way: https://gitlab.com/stavros/caduceus
Getting job through LinkedIn, does that ever happen? For the past many many months, LinkedIn has been consistently sending me one job posting - "Data Center Operations Intern at Amazon, Boardman, OR".
The problem is there is no solution needed. The moderators opened a subreddit called /r/india and had a vision for it. They are now enforcing it. You may have different opinions but you were to late to open it yourself if you want a subreddit going with your state of mind open it.
Pretty happy with my System76 Galago Pro with high-dpi display. It's small and light and has a really crisp screen.

That's my home machine. At work I have a 2015 MacBookPro. Comparing the two the only downside of the System76 is a trackpad about 70% as good and heat management design isn't so great so the fan spins up more and louder. (and the fat bezel around the screen, but whatever, the pixels that are there are good)
Do you think Software Engineering is a more relevant degree vs Computer Science? I would think the former would focus on the more practical rather than Pie in the Ski stuff you will rarely if ever use.
True, but there can still exist a presumption that a large proportion of those connections aren't meaningful.

I have no qualms connecting with a vendor or recruiter I just worked with, even if briefly on a single project, but after 6 years of no contact and 2-3 employers later, that connection isn't going to be useful for something like an introduction, if we even remember each other.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Maybe true if you’re targeting the senior talent who got in early enough to buy houses and have kids, but all the 20-somethings I know (myself included) plan to get out within 5 years, barring a drastic increase in compensation. I suspect there is a large, untapped market of disaffected young engineers who moved here to start their careers but would move to a second-tier city for the right job.
Tread cautiously. I experienced some issues achieving an erection and feeling stimulation after several days on it. Needless to say I stopped after two weeks. Fortunately I didn't experience any permanent side effects. It's too bad; I really wanted to stop the full front assault!
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We've eradicated many species.

Some of them were a damn good thing to get rid of!
`foo._a` accessible outside `Foo` but it makes code look gross and means you're doing something wrong.

`foo.__a` accessible only inside `Foo`

I think it works.
These are not excuses. These are facts. Whether the facts are excusable, I'm leaving for the reader to decide.

One could argue that Perl 6 is the first version of Perl that wasn't rushed out, BTW.
A vote for Purism's Librem line. Not for all use cases, but great if the specs fit what you're looking for and your support of freedom and control makes it worth a bit of flexibility.
It is their community. If you are a shitty guest I throw you out of the house. It is their right to do so.
> Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

Glad to see public research is coming out on this, and it's not a brand new insight. Pretty sure that's why the CIA were using them in MK ULTRA mind-control experiments.
Python does have two growth vectors going for it right now:

1) Deep learning / data science works really well in Python

2) Lambda functions are really great in Python... maybe people will choose to write servers out of Lambda functions instead of writing high performance servers in Go - who knows?

Those are big areas, but still a small percentage of all programming work falls into those two categories.
Apart the Thinkpad and the XPS lines already mentioned there (almost exclusively), don't put aside the laptop line of Xiaomi (specifically the Air and Pro models).

They are suprisingly well supported on linux, in addition to being very good all-around ultraportable at a small price.
I have always used Thinkpads without issues or regrets. Very reliable. I have a P70 now that's great.
I'm the manager of several Reddit communities and a few gaming communities, so far I've banned ~3,400 people from using these services for periods of time ranging from one day to 1,300 permanent bans. In this time I've met with a fairly large number of other people in a similar position to me.

The thing almost all of them have in common is that you have to try to be harsh in order to be able to curate a kind community that people actually want to be a part of. When I see you're replying in an equally harsh way to the first person I personally see you as being bad as that person. So what if they started it? That's an argument that small children use.

Reddit is a really toxic place, as are a lot of the games that I host servers on. It really easily goes to people being rude to each other which kills the mood for everyone involved.
Yup. I'm hopeful about the work associated with Aubrey de Grey and the SENS foundation. Again, this is from a layperson's perspective. My mind was kind of blown by the YouTube videos of the Undoing Aging 2018 conference, especially the speaker whose company is doing work on triggering apoptosis in senescent cells. It feels like things are starting to yield.
[Gattaca spoiler warnings]

> outperform genetically perfect individuals through sheer "human spirit" (the film's term) which manifested as work ethic, drive, will, etc.

I didn't like Gattaca's message for that reason: it's fallacious to suggest those mental attributes aren't also subject to genetic advantages.

Another issue with the story is that the protagonist has a heart condition, and in the end he got on the spaceship's crew, which meant other people's lives were put at risk if he collapsed due to that heart condition in-transit. Salute the human spirit, but he put others at risk for his own benefit, and that's irresponsible and immoral.

> I could see a future where we've settled on the perfect genetic template for specific disciplines so we progress on to brain chemistry and/or psychology in order to reproduce the spirit aspect which separates the merely genetically blessed from the world class athletes.

Adderall, lol.
I have to digress, regarding the availability of torrents for old movies. At a recent conference I got a chance to look at the content of a non-public site, and it's by far the most comprehensive catalog of movies with a "delivery time" of less than 24 hours for anything cheaper than FedEx overnight. There were next to no dubbed audio tracks though. It certainly was an interesting view into what already exists and appears to hold itself with just (comparatively) minimal resources on the side of the platform, judging by the absence of anything that looked like it was begging for money. The guy who let me take a look said the best part of it was that it pretty much "just worked", and noted the hassle with physical media handling and DRM breaking in non-standard display configurations/systems being the main reason they don't just buy discs.

I mean, we can do games without DRM, why can't we do the same with movies? Sure some will get copied. But it's not too hard to e.g. watermark content or otherwise go after those who share content illegally. If there was a way to buy instant-download DRM-free movies from a comprehensive catalog while paying a reasonable amount for each movie, that would drive many people away from torrents, at least those, that would buy if there were no torrents (i.e., that do it for convenience, not financial reasons).

It seems like the MPAA would rather leave that market segment out -- despite music showing that people do buy if they have the financial means and the UX is competetive -- than coordinating the creation of a single such service. Make each rightsholder set his price, and do it as some organisation that doesn't have to provide ROI from skimming money off of each transaction (like amazon marketplace, paypal and ebay).
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Every property owner has the right to ban you from their property or to decline service.
This doesn’t seem like a particularly fair criticism.

1. As others have pointed out, the ImageNet experiment is presented as evidence that (as you’d expect) adding coordinate channels doesn’t affect performance on image classification tasks. That’s a good “sanity check” experiment to have done.

2. The paper proposes a simple idea, and it may not have been necessary to give it a whole new name (CoordConv). But if you’d asked me if I thought that adding coordinate data to the input would have led to significantly better object detection, I wouldn’t have known the answer, so the results of their experiments—that it does help on tasks like object detection—is not trivial. Not only that—a lot of people have tried to do object detection, and yet nobody has reported adding input channels for storing coordinates before. A lot of ideas seem simple after someone thinks of them.

3. Toy examples are useful for testing intuition (and building intuition about why this trick may be helpful and for what kinds of tasks). The fact that we can easily imagine what sorts of weights we’d expect the network to learn is one of the things that makes it a good toy example. (Of course, the paper wouldn’t be worth publishing if it only had the toy example.)
If you are working with a large team, you need a statically typed language. Access modifiers are the least of your problems, the lack of refactoring support is a much bigger problem.
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You spent way to long on this.
You can insure just about anything. At some point Waymo will be able to show the risk is low enough that insurance will be economical, if it’s not already.
I bought the new Dell XPS15 with 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and Nvidia GPU the week it was released, and straightaway installed Ubuntu 18.04. It is powerful enough to last me three years and the price was good.

I am mostly happy with it - superfast, great screen. The two problems I had were when installing the Nvidia drivers, plus the fans stay on more than I think they should.

Rather than waste hours trying to solve these, I have decided to wait patiently and see what the community and Nvidia come up with.

Would I recommend others to buy one? Yes, though perhaps wait a while if any of your key requirements are not yet fully supported.
The problem, from a terrorist point of view, is that if your lights go out you don't think "terror attack". A terrorist is looking for maximum publicity for minimum effort, not maximum economic damage.
Vagína is pretty strong, it holds during childbirth. Males parts can be injured easily.
There are still alot of cheap real estates along the BART and caltrain stops

https://www.estately.com/bay-area-home-affordability-transit...

Pittsburg/Bay Point $430,000

Blossom Hill $657,000

San Jose $680,000

And the largest job growth recently has been East Bay, around Pleasanton.

If you are young and starting out, making $110-140k, try living in east bay or san jose and rent a room for $1k - 1.5k, you should be able to save enough money for a down payment for a house soon enough. The stories I've heard for people that couldn't afford their rent, are people living in $3k apartments in SF.
I have a P50 running Arch Linux. I upgraded from a W520 and thought the keyboard would be a problem, but the keyboard is actually nice once you get used to it. Everything else works except for the fingerprint sensor and there's a project for that (https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90)
This is an interesting new service that could develop into a useful feature. I had a bit of play and found the examples a bit thin at the moment but it could develop into a time saver.
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Personally, internal mutation is something you should avoid in general. Pretty hard to avoid in OO languages though.
Psychedelics are not just spiritual/mental. They can literally alter your brain chemistry and, in rare cases, cause severe adverse effects. There need to be more studies done on the brain chemistry so we know how to predict and prevent those adverse effects.
Bay Area startup scene is dying as is. With few exceptions no small startup can hire talent here anymore. IMO it’s a good thing that other cities will have a chance.
Well something like this may exist in New Mexico as well, just that's the one I know of.
> Lambda functions are really great in Python

Hah, if you had told anyone that five years ago they would have been very confused. "What are you talking about? Lambdas in Python are horribly neutered..."

Back to what you actually meant, I think that lambda functions will get simpler to use in every language, and I think JS will extend a lead there even though I prefer Python as a language.

I should get my "microservices built out of spreadsheets" project (https://6gu.nz) onto AWS Lambda to get in on the zeitgeist though, put a horse in the race. And then somehow get deep learning (and the blockchain...) in there to really cash in on the bandwagon trends.
I wrote a blog post about my (good) experiences with the Lenovo x220 and the more modern Lenovo X1C 4th Gen / 2016 edition here:

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2017/09/01/lenovo-linux

Hope it helps.
I've never been a heavy Python user myself, but I 'm working in Elxiir w/ a couple other people who are/were heavy Python users. They seem to much prefer Elixir/Erlang's concurrency model over Python's. Scanning the article, I don't see any mention of concurrency, and concurrency seems to be an increasingly valuable tool in a micro service world.

Does anyone here have a preference for using Python to tackle concurrency-related issues? If yes, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
You don't have a choice in the matter, and even posing of the question is troubling.
As long as the side projects are in no way considered a conflict of interest, I think it should be acceptable. It is sometimes difficult to determine whether or not something is a conflict of interest. The other thing to be careful of is making sure that the additional side project(s) are not burning out the employee, or occasionally eating into their actual time at work.
I just landed a job as a Golang developer via LinkedIn, so it does happen occasionally.
> Figuring them is easy from experience but the math behind that is way harder; anything beyond simple equations is like alien language to me ...

It took me a long (and often frustrating) time to figure out that the perception of difficulty is largely because of how implicit most everything is in mathematics. It's not like programming where eventually there is a compiler with a definite structure that's going to make your program behave in some exact specific way.

Even worse, is the way we're typically taught mathematics, it's always kinda starting in the middle (as opposed to the beginning). We aren't taught about what it is our how it works, so it's really hard to situate particular mathematical concepts we're taught into a larger coherent framework.

The way I interpret mathematical works changed so much (and for the better), once I realized that any significant bit of math you're using is the result of something a human was trying to accomplish. In the same way you can point to a piece of code and ask it's developer what the motivation was for some abstraction or algorithm, there are always reasons behind the development of mathematical systems. Once I understood that, rather than mathematical systems being these disconnected things that materialized out of nowhere, I started seeing commonalities and considering the reasoning behind them, and seeing more of the network that relates them. It became a lot more enjoyable. I'd recommend checking out some history of mathematics if you'd like to get a better sense of that (my personal intro recommendation: "Men of Mathematics" by E.T. Bell or maybe "Mathematics and the Imagination," which isn't history so much, but serves a similar goal).

If you're looking for something on algorithms specifically the book recommended by the author ("The Algorithm Design Manual") is a pretty friendly read and largely non-mathematical, while still containing all the useful bits (unless you're looking for a reference work on computational complexities or something).
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Not necessarily, many large companies are willing to guide and help an employee determine if something is okay or not to work on. You shouldn't be discouraged for posing the question, and if you are, the employer is not being rational.
I feel Lua has a lot of anti-patterns which makes transitioning to/from other languages difficult. Tables are unintuitive versus other data structures, structure syntax varies from other C-languages, and oddly it uses one-based indexing.

Lua is nice in that it's easy to embed into existing projects, and has an established userbase in game modding communities (Garry's Mod, Minecraft computer mods).
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"In short, I don't think you can singly blame this decision on causing the dark ages and repressed freedom of thought."

I would never say that, neither that the empire under Constantin was a full theocracy with death to the nonbelievers - yet. But he set the base to it and yes, you can judge a idea to the consequences.

Because he could have also went back to republic ideas to stabilize the state. Distribute power, justice system, etc.
But no, they were all obsessed by the idea of becoming the ultimate ruler. And if you want to be that, than sure, the best thing is to declare yourself a god, or chosen by the allmighty god to rule. All the little semi kingdoms had the same ideas, but were just weaker, not worse nor better than the big emperor.
I've been using an Dell XPS-13 with the Dell-provided Ubuntu for about three months and it's pretty nice. The trackpad is the best I've used on a Linux machine (still not as good as the Apple trackpads, but lots better than others I've used). Everything (sound, wireless, etc.) works across a system sleep. I still find the UI janky compared to MacOS or Windows, but it is bearable.

A year ago I tried setting up a vanilla XPS-15, wiping the Windows install and doing my own Ubuntu setup, and gave up hope after a couple of weeks that I'd be able to make the trackpad not suck, or for sleep to not screw the system to the point that it was easier just to shut the machine down every time instead of sleeping. That machine was also fairly heavy (normally I don't care much about that, but it was definitely noticeable).
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Well, the event was pretty horrifying; any truthful description will be as well.
> This sounds like a classic case of optimizing before measuring.

But you have done the measurements, right?
> We aren't taught about what it is our (sic) how it works

My biggest frustration learning math when I was younger was not knowing -why- I was doing something a certain way or how it worked. It was incredibly discouraging because it didn’t just “click” like it seemed to with my peers.
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I hope you mean during work hours - that is debatable and depends on how much you trust them to make useful things.

Outside of work, you do not own them, they are people not property. Making ANY claims on their time, energy or IP produced outside of work is despicable if you ask me. An employer who did that would be signaling that they view employees as property, would likely treat them poorly or like children, and I would never work for them.
>because, I don't know, the UK is super corrupt and out to get Assange

The UK attacked another country on a false pretense causing, directly and indirectly, hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. Then turned a blind eye to the Iraqi (puppet?) government routinely torturing civilians including women and children - which was exposed by WikiLeaks by the way. I would say the UK government IS super corrupt.
I understand they are privileged but the way Linux handles this feature seems acceptable.
I don't have any anecdotal stories to share. I just like shrooms.