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And Python is taught in the intro to programming course in just about every college in the world.

Dumb simple languages make better teaching tools, but unlike Lisp and Smalltalk, Python was also good enough for widespread professional use.

So almost everyone is exposed to Python, many people never bothered to learn anything better. Inertia is a hell of a force.
Is there a way to use this without an internet connection?
You're giving good-faith rebuttals to arguments that weren't offered in good faith. Nobody actually has trouble leaving the house with their wallet. That's not a real problem that intellectually average people actually have.
We want to have an SDK for every platform on Earth...eventually.

Our REST API is pretty simple so it's easy for us to add new platforms. We just want to make sure we take the time to understand each one well before supporting them.

Our whole purpose is to reduce complexity so if we create a bad abstraction, we've failed.
JetBrains have heard the prayers :D
Here is an announce of pipenv support:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2018/06/pycharm-2018-2-ea...

> because you have to bundle the dependencies and zip it
btw, I've used serverless to deploy lambdas in python and it worked super cool. Highly recommended.
This is not a new phenomenon.

https://fair.org/extra/the-right-of-the-story/
This is a great idea and is long overdue.

However, lobbyists from Visa and MasterCard would saddle the program with all sorts of concessions to incumbent payment processors that would make the program cumbersome to use, stifle adoption, and ultimately reinforce their dominant positions.
Might not be looping through the same events but rather through every variation. Which could explain how we finally get here. It feels like we are way out in the countryside of what's possible in the universe.

And it's hard to say where we are and what time it is.
Tesla Powerpacks aid Samoa’s transition to 100% renewable energy
Get yourself a switch tester [0], find a layout you like (or handwire your own [1]), and compile your own firmware [2]. The r/mk wiki has a great page [3] for starting to build your own.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/KBDfans-Mechanical-keyboard-Tester-sw...

[1] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=87689.0

[2] https://qmk.fm/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/customkeyb...
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That is like Open Source != FOSS, a lost cause.
It looks like HTTP/2 (and specifically alt-svc) is explicitly disabled in Tor browser.[0]

> Design Goal: SPDY and HTTP/2 connections MUST be isolated to the URL bar domain. Furthermore, all associated means that could be used for cross-domain user tracking (alt-svc headers come to mind) MUST adhere to this design principle as well.

> Implementation status: SPDY and HTTP/2 are currently disabled by setting the Firefox preferences network.http.spdy.enabled, network.http.spdy.enabled.v2, network.http.spdy.enabled.v3, network.http.spdy.enabled.v3-1, network.http.spdy.enabled.http2, network.http.spdy.enabled.http2draft, network.http.altsvc.enabled, and network.http.altsvc.oe to false.

Rather than redirection, I was thinking just a fork in rendering, if the user's IP is a Tor exit.

0) https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
Agreed. Businesses try to sell a "save money" decision as some other thing all the time. Example: Open Offices
I know there used to be a bug where Google services, as well as some others, used some different code to handle u2f which broke on Firefox. This has been fixed for a while now it seems so I am not sure if this issues still exists.
> But Xeon Phi is an accelerator over PCIe.

It used to be that way, but those products were discontinued. Modern Phi's are CPUs that can operate without a host computer.
There’s also the leeches who make money on fixing the externalities produced by other industries. They tend to get gov lock in, so the externalities never get fixed. It’s like adding layers of bandaids in a software product.
I'm sure those experts would only accept jobs like this a very small percentage of the time and only for very large amounts of $$$. Otherwise they're not just loosing out on their expertise, they're loosing out on life
Would you please provide some sources on all your numbers? those are some astronomical numbers and are essential in validating your point.

Edit: I did some of my own research, UHC take 8~11% GDP in other countries. That would put us around 1.8 trillion (2016 GDP). Much less than $3.5 trillion you claimed.

Plus, US is already spending 16% of GDP (~3 trillion) on health care, despite not having universal healthcare. 11% GDP for UHC does not seem like a bad idea to me

source: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
Looks like this is just a scrape of /r/mechanicalkeyboards.

In fact, my custom board is there.

https://scrapbox.io/MECHKEYS/Mitosis_Anaphase:_full-custom_h...
> To which browsers will warn the user that the certificate is invalid.

Only if the attacker is very, very stupid. They will happily redirect the request to paypal.com to https://www.xn--paypl-7ve.com (which resolves to https://www.xn--paypl-7ve.com that Let's Encrypt will happily give you a certificate for). The latter looks exactly like paypal.com and has a green padlock - so for an unsuspecting user it's "secure". Only having implemented DoH correctly you could talk about benefits you mentioned, without it it only gives the user a false sense of security. Seriously, people need to be aware of that.

EDIT: HN formats the IRIs so that the above makes little sense, see https://people.csail.mit.edu/ayf/IRI/index.htm for more examples.
That's funny, I too remember things differently. As Mac advocates often, and loudly pointed out, the Mac consistently smoked the PC -- especially at the only benchmark that mattered, Photoshop filters. It was the 90s and RISC architecture really was gonna change everything. At the time, Intel was playing the "megahertz myth" heavily in its marketing, the false belief that more MHz made for a faster CPU, which just wasn't true when comparing across different microarchitectures like Pentium and PowerPC.

And of course, as those from the Lost Amiga Civilization recall, it took about a 500 MHz Windows 9x PC to feel as responsive as a 25 MHz Amiga.
Lol, no, no edits :)
This is very exciting for us, even at its nascent limited ability point.

Compared to many players in different verticals, our data is small. But in our vertical of asthma care, we probably have one of the largest (possibly the largest) asthma data.

We've been looking at different way of plumbing the data to automate and run some rudimentary analysis on it, since we found BigQuery a bit limiting. Now seeing this announcement, it could be a great start for us.

I hope this is just a start and people like us can send Google Cloud team a wish list as we come across various needs. Good job and thanks to everyone behind this release.
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also known as "cargo culting"
Fake Car Parts  Are on the Rise in Britain
Completely agree on every bullet point,

Every time I saw simple bash scripts or/and Makefile used - it did not seem to be the idiomatic way of doing things in python but after using it for a while - turned out to be one of the best development experiences.
*Some become accomplished artists or musicians through self-training.

Because only officially recognized and/or terribly expensive training is the only way to become high-skilled in anything. /s
23andMe as done several dozen publication performing GWAS using the genetic data combined with questionnaire data.

This type of study aims to link symptoms with genetic cause. They have actually made a pretty significant impact in genetics research. They list their publciations here https://www.23andme.com/publications/
Thanks for the reply. I wrote that post earlier this morning after some other frustration, so I'm sorry for the negative tone.

Despite some of our issues with it, Conda has worked well for us both as a development team and in production for quite some time.

> six million active users

That's awesome to hear, and one of the reasons we haven't seriously invested in a replacement.
Massdrop [0] have a lot of kits going up every so often, and it's one of the better places to get some of the very custom stuff.

[0]: https://www.massdrop.com/mechanical-keyboards/drops
The Redemptive Greed That Will Drive Decentralization
"Free" as in "free at the point of use" is a well-understood concept
People with autism are, indeed, often treated with any of a variety of different-purpose drugs, depending on their specific symptoms. If an autistic person suffers from e.g. severe anxiety, or violent outbursts, as a result of their condition, they are treated much the same as a non-autistic person with the same symptoms. Per your study, more than a third of autistic children aren't treated with drugs at all. People, as you say, are different.

If you want to make the argument that some of those symptoms (whether autistic or not) would be better treated with counseling than medication, that's reasonable. But I don't see how you can look at that data and conclude that all autistic people are treated exactly the same.
> Prince William is a professional coast guard helicopter pilot.

That was among his military roles, yes; perhaps more to the point he took a paid (though his entire salary was donated) position as a pilot with the East Anglia Air Ambulance for a couple years, which I think was a bit unusual (but as it was paid work for a charity with the whole salary donated back to the charity, arguably is really a form of charity volunteer work, which probably should be listed as an exception along with military service for the close royal family.)
I'd be perfectly fine with analog operations all the way to the final readout. Neurons are analog after all.
Is there a control group of people who spend an equal amount of time and fervor investigating a new musical or artistic path without first having the "epiphany?"

I had a friend in college with no prior musical training who decided his second year to become a classical guitarist. We kind of teased him at first because he clearly had no sudden music-related epiphanies nor any idea of the time involved to master an instrument much less learn to read music and understand theory.

Nonetheless, he spent the time you'd think would be required on a daily basis to gain such competency, plus starting the music track classes. At the end of a year if I didn't already know his initial skill level and his general obsessive dedication to all endeavors, I'd have assumed he was a savant.

Put another way-- most amateur musicians I know spend less than 30 minutes a week doing anything resembling practice. I often hear people drilling a mistake in that scant time. Given that, I'm amazed most people can play anything at all.
Outvote hopes to flip elections by getting Democrats to text their friends
Sounds like a good reason to stick to classics in such groups.

Seriously, if I knew about such a stipulation, I'd be incentivized not to buy copyrighted books to read for a book club in the first place.

I'm really glad there is a corpus of public domain works; so much good is possible (or positively incentivized) because of it. Too bad it isn't growing much (e.g. Steamboat Willie is still, still under copyright restrictions nearly 100 years later).
The question to me is, why does this population exist in such great numbers? I understand not having good credit, but having access to a checking account with a debit card doesn't seem like it should be insurmountable.

The last checking account I opened just took $5 to open the account (technically a "membership" fee at a credit union). No any proof of employment, income, ar assets was needed [0], and I left with a debit card that day. Total time involvement was maybe 15 minutes.

[0] I just re-checked and all that is needed is SSN, Government ID, and the initial deposit (as low as $5, can be paid with cash, debit, credit, or check)
To be fair almost all of the research around this is still outstanding as basically anybody researching this hypothesis before about 2012 was committing academic suicide and open for vitriolic attack from the AHA and others. I highly recommend good calorie bad calorie to get a sense for how incredibly anti-science nutrition was at the time. No one defends the Keynes studies anymore, and most agree that simple carbohydrates are ground zero for diabetes and other “diseases of the modern world”. The only debate left is if it’s the only cause. In my case after looking at the material and doing a n=1 experiment with a ketogenic diet - the first one I actually ever lost weight with, I am sold that for my personal Metabolism that this is a effective tool.
After 12 weeks on keto, I have learned something important about diets.

Lonely? Need a friend? Would you like advice? If so, then post on social media about dieting. Everybody has an opinion and everybody is quite passionate about them.

Having said that, my gut feeling is that we're going to see a sea change in nutrition over the next 5-10 years as the older generation dies out and new ideas take root. I'm seeing some exciting things in the keto community, including what looks to me like a lot of science and math that has a tremendous positive impact on folks. And it's not calories in, calories out. I'm able to do heavy cardio for 90 minutes without soreness. That's never been true for me.

Exciting times.

ADD: I clicked on the links, but I was unable to determine exactly what hypothesis the author was studying. Looked like just a meta review of a bunch of macro information, but maybe I missed it.
Well, compared to Intel's chips it lacks a lot of advanced tech like SGX, TSX, MPK etc.

Compared to the Mill it's a rather boring design that doesn't try to do anything new. The Mill is even more hypothetical than RISC-V but at least it is a genuinely interesting architecture.
You are claiming that, in response to a news story, the intent to remove a shadow ban applied to notorious Republicans but not to any Democrats is "favoring" Republicans. [added: And you've been upvoted]. Natch.
People underestimate the amounts they are eating. Then again some amateur athletes would do well to eat more carbs.

Steel Cut Oats, rice and vegetables are good source for carbs
My grandparents and their great grandparents were from small villages in Greece. They used "frequent solid bowel movements a day" as sort of a at-a-glance measure of good health. I have heard of other friends who are from eastern european countries share similar stories. So there seems to be some sort of tradition there.

Anyways, Single easiest way for me to get fiber back in my diet was to simply eat the fruit instead of drinking the juice. It had a bonus effect of cutting down the sugars as well.
Today it's more actionable. In the future, maybe not. And not only is the person signing up, but he or she is also signing up his/her offspring.
By having different feature levels, they can downgrade parts that don't pass at a higher class of features. For example, maybe part of the cache is faulty then you can disable half of it and sell as a lower grade part.
Do they still do the thing where they structure debits to maximize penalties?

Say you have $100 in your account and 5 pending transactions: $6, $12, $1, $30, and $95. In that chronological order. The bank clears the $95 first, then the $6 which overdrafts you, then the rest, overdrafting you 3 more times. Whereas if they processed chronologically, you'd only overdraft the $95.

Regardless, the person whose account it is does bear some responsibility for overdrafting, even for lunch.
I programmed a radar system with Ada, I guess that counts a defense system. The language grew on me. I miss parts of it, but it suffers from the chicken egg problem. Not enough people using it to make useful libraries from it so it doesn't get a lot of new users.

Also the lack of a really good compiler that was free held ada back, but that shouldn't be a problem anymore. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT)

The other knock on ada was it was slow. All the runtime checks eat up cpu resources which made it slower than the competition.

The language and package system are solid though. I was switching between C and Ada for a while and I found programming in Ada to be be a better experience.
>What caused Larrabee to suffer was that Intel basically tried to flog a "just write C/C++/Fortran and the autovectorizer will take care of everything" model for programming which,

This reminds me of the story of ispc [1] One guy wrote a compiler based on SPMD while the rest of the company was focused on the doomed auto vectorization.

[1] http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
You have that precisely backwards. The humans don't get sent to live in a high-radiation environment until we figure out hot to prevent the cancers. We're not just going to send a bunch of people to their death.

This is what irks me about "send people to Mars!" - we aren't anywhere near high enough on the technology tree to even contemplate the endeavor. Or to quote Bruce Sterling:

I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the
same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert.
The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times
as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times
cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever
writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well,
it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's
no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly,
it's inhospitable and there's no way to
make it pay. Mars is just the same, really.
We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.
After his return to Apple, Jobs explicitly said that Apple should be better at partnering. It was on the event were he announced the Microsoft deal.

I guess Steve learned this during the Next years.
The only downside would be that almost 100% of the visa allocation would go to IT then. I believe medical field also gets quite a few H1B workers.
Not technical, but I was with a smaller company and we had two day offsite trainings for some managers (one of which was me) that I found very rewarding and impactful. Of course we were a more open and honest company than most so I think that played a huge part in why it helped.
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" I would argue that that is a stronger innate, biological human desire needed for basic evolutionary survival then that for exploration"

I would argue both is interconnected. With exploring new areas, whether on earth or on mars, new potential spots for human life gets found/get made inhabitable.
And even though human sustainable colonisation on mars is far away, we need to start sometimes. Maybe just to make it a serious vision, to give people perspective whi say humankind is doomed anyway as we cannot grow indefinitely ... we can.

But for sure there is lots of potential on earth, like the deserts or the sea (ground), before mars becomes a serious alternative ... nut it is all interconnected. Progress in one area of sustaining life in extreme conditions, benefit other areas.

Besides, there never was a time, when there was no hunger on earth. Now while it would be nice to achieve this, I don't think it is smart to stop everything else until we get there ... if we even can get there.
Weight is only one factor though. Congestive heart disease and diabetes and cancer are the real risk, and there is a ton of evidence that simple sugars a drive the growth of these diseases.
What would falsify your position? Is there any evidence that you would not reject with "but maybe it was good enough"?

If I presented a case where a worker was killed because of this locking mechanism, wouldn't you just say "but maybe it prevented the meltdown of a nuclear reactor, so it was a net positive vs. no locking at all, therefore, it was the right thing to do"?
The Hired.com annual salary report shows that while Toronto tech incomes have gone up overall in the past year, developer salaries have actually declined.

Canada has an exceptionally strong culture of pushing for workplace training, to the point that the OECD calls Canada the most educated nation, so when a career stands out as having good job prospects (which development has been billed that way for several years now) people flood into it, putting downward pressure on incomes unlike you find stateside where the social dynamics don't push people into those jobs the same way.

If you're doing something really unique perhaps there is still room for upward growth (although you're probably already well past $150k in that case), but generally it is unlikely that developer incomes will climb further at all.
>Perhaps particular types of carbs, fats, or proteins — e.g. refined carbohydrates, or sugars, or something else — are reliably linked to obesity. But I haven’t investigated any of those hypotheses yet.

It has always been my impression that Gary Taubes et al have always pointed to sugar and processed foods as the carbs we should avoid.

How could anyone get fat eating broccoli, lettuce and healthy vegetables?
I think that you have associated my comment with different lines of reasoning presented by other individuals.

I made no argument against funding space exploration. I even said "I'm not arguing here for not exploring other planets". Nor did I discuss prioritizing spending in other ways. Please don't assume an argument against exploration is being made whenever a concern about exploration is raised. We can conduct science and also be seriously critical of it's impacts simultaneously.

I was attempting to critique to the narrative presented by pc86 used to frame our approach to exploration, namely exploration for exploration's sake and to interrogate what progress means to us, particularly because the example used included a comment about colonizing the new world. Sure, it's dangerous to litigate the past but also one of the best teachers about how to go about constructing out future.
They talk about uses of Ada in this page: https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/intr...

"Specific domains seeing Ada usage include Aerospace & Defense, civil aviation, rail, and many others. These applications require a high degree of safety: a software defect is not just an annoyance, but may have severe consequences. ... Ada provides safety features that detect defects at an early stage --- usually at compilation time or using static analysis tools. Ada can also be used to create applications in a variety of other areas, such as:

* Video game programming
* Real-time audio
* Kernel modules"
Sure. At my first tech job where I was an intern, we had a general intro, which included harassment etc. One of their points "Perception is reality" has stuck with me for many years.

This is just one example. A lot of this material is useful not just for not getting fired, but also for getting along and getting stuff done better.
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People want to desperately believe there is some magic bullet food that makes them thinner, no one wants to change their behavior. The "commute by car" correlation with obesity, to name just one, is a lot better than the "food X" one.
Eh. They do offer banking. But banks make their money investing your money.

Also, I think "no overdraft fees" is just as wrong as overly punitive overdraft fees. If there were no overdraft fees, credit cards and small loans just wouldn't be a thing. Just overdraft your account and treat it as an interest free loan.

When you overdraft, you are no longer dealing with your money. You're dealing with someone else's money.
I was talking about prepaid debit cards which are basically gift cards.

You also have proper debit cards without fees and anonymous: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/nerdwallets-best-pre...
Something to perhaps consider: if both groups of 10 people are experiencing a bug, especially one not caused by their own doing, why is one group more "deserving" of a fix than the other?