skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you expect the revenue to go up dramatically in the future.

The main reason for that belief, at least for me, is Starlink.
The solution is to make sure that the police starts giving a damn.

Why are they allowed to have a policy like this? They should be properly funded and staffed, and then they should start doing their damn homework.
There’s also a sense of justice and personal responsibility. It’s not hard not to steal, and thieves shouldn’t expect safety. Anyway, compassion is a privilege, not a right.
Give Microsoft Sway a shot!
anyone quoting BF Skinner should get an Audrey Watters reply: check out http://teachingmachin.es/timeline.html
But is it there actually a crime in this case if the owner intended for the package to be stolen (of which there is also video evidence)?
Your evidence for what wealthy individuals do is... the total size of the global markets? What evidence do you have that their portfolio weighting matches that?
Yep!

If you look into civil forfeiture it's a racket... and directly infringes on our rights. Even in cases where there is NO wrongdoing you usually have to go through lengthy processes in order to get your property back, and even then you're considered lucky to get the majority of it back (if at all).

Effectively you are guilty until proven innocent with stuff like this on the books. I just find it funny that the same people who yell about "freedom" and "liberty" in this country are the ones who glorify the police as if they can do no wrong.
Yes, there’s gravity in space
i use them this way:

PUT: create new object at a known location. object need not exist. if it does, it is replaced.

PATCH: change an object.

POST: send arbitrary data to an object. this may or may not lead to the creation of a new object at another location.
Every other country seems to manage it.
If someone is negative I usually hold them to a higher standard (and correspondingly think them dumber for fixed intelligence) in many cases. If you’re wrong but positive at least you’re helping to be in a good mood and bring up people around you. If you’re negative incorrectly you’re wrong and damaging the social mood.
Nope just straight stock with my Scottrade account. In my younger years 77 dollars of stock ended up paying for a pretty decent copay for a surgery.
Isn’t most of the issue a lack of profitability in recycling rather than a problem in sorting?

In other words more efficient sorting won't result in more recycling unless recycling becomes worthwhile (profitable).

One way to make it “profitable” would be to put exorbitant taxes on virgin plastics or petroleum derived plastics.
Scientists Overhaul Corn Domestication Story with Multidisciplinary Analysis
It seems turning on reader mode displays the gdpr waiver, but then if you refresh the page it shows the article.

I'd be interested to know how they managed to achieve that. The waiver doesn't seem to appear in the html source.. so I'm not sure where it is coming from and it is now too late in the day for me to investigate it further..
https://www.getboxlock.com
I address all of this in the post you replied to. Not sure how to make it clearer...
I still think consumers need to take responsibility for what we buy. I can complain that someone else isn’t fixing our problems, but then I go to the store and I buy detergent that comes in a plastic tub. Why can’t they dispense detergent in to a reusable container? Why do I buy all this plastic crap? Can we form a collective that researches options and bulk buys products in a low waste manner?
Unfortunately the coming private fields spec is far more messy and will result in typescript having different compile-time and run-time private fields syntaxes.
Sure, I'd never say a solution to a non-trivial issue was flawless. However, "a problem" is not very granular. I'd rather count this one in terms of centiproblems or milliproblems.
It’s such an insane position too because underneath is a paternalistic assumption that people don’t know what’s best for them. This is not the way to win hearts and minds! It seems to me almost as insane as the birther movement when Obama was president: primarily motivated by political angst, and not really effective at convincing the other voters.
Thank you for passing on the knowledge - I hope you are well off now!
Churchill was also largely responsible for the Gallipoli campaign. It’s actually remarkable that anyone could have a political career after a disaster of that scale.
Yeah I grew up in a country where it backfired royally, and now I concealed carry and stopped a murder-in-progress with it when the cops were still 10 minutes away, so y'all can fuck off with your statist ideas and cherry-picked examples for things that have no global correlation.
Yep, all good points. One thing to consider is that generalization is a big problem. It's easy to get good on a specific dataset nowadays (like 5-10% word error rate level on academic datasets), but that same model might do 40% WER on data in the wild.
There certainly are some drawbacks to using Python versus another language like C (I’m thinking of the GIL in Python 3 specifically), but I’ve yet to find a better language with which I can prototype reasonably complex applications in the space of an afternoon...even GUI apps with Qt.
Iceland, Sweden, Norway, etc. All make it into the high 80s on that site. So do other cold regions. I doubt their alcoholism is as troublesome.
Its really easy to end up with a shrinking taxable revenue base like the Universal Service Fund currently has, causing the tax rate to support lifeline services like what you seek to creep up to impressively high rates: http://www.atconference.com/support/faq/usf.aspx#rates

Lifeline service is a public good, but funding should not come from taxing shrinking telephone bills, but instead from a different revenue source that isn't in the process of notably shrinking every year.
> You can do that, but shareholders can also do the following in response:

Why would investors retaliate over a reverse stock split though? All other things being equal, isn't it good for shareholders if the stock stays on the NYSE?

> Reverse stock splits simply to avoid being delisted is telling investors "we have no idea how to change direction so we're just gonna kick the can down the road for a bit".

29 days isn't a lot of time, and even if the company quickly pivoted, they can't be sure about how the market will react.

Even if the company believes they can increase their valuation within 29 days, why not have a backup plan also?
>I don't know the history, but it seems like that might be one of the reasons `x() if y()` isn't allowed in python.

Maybe I misunderstood your context, but if not, conditional expressions do exist in Python:

$ python
Python 2.7.12 |Anaconda 4.2.0 (32-bit)| (default, Jun 29 2016, 11:42:13) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics.
Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://anaconda.org
>>> 1 if 1 == 1 else 2
1
>>> 2 if 1 == 1 else 2
2
>>> ^Z

$ py -3
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:59:51) [MSC v.1914 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1 if 1 == 1 else 2
1
>>> 2 if 1 == 1 else 2
2
>>>

Using nested conditional expressions to classify characters:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/04/using-nested-conditional...
Guido Van Rossum and the development team didn't want the language to be functional. There is very little functional support in Python in general, besides not supporting first class functions over multiple lines.
It still more or less works as a model for certain systems, just like Newtonian gravity works just fine at certain scales.
Alibaba AI Detects Pig Pregnancies
Defense is not about punishment. Thieves don’t deserve to die, but it’s okay that it’s a risk they run. As an aside, I see this all the time, usually in conversations about self-defense—“a rapist doesn’t deserve to die”; maybe not but they sure deserve to run the risk and they certainly deserve worse than their victims. At least they have a _choice_.
How We Built a Better News System at Robinhood
Survivorship bias.

Lots and lots and lots of organisms died out during each of those changes. That things have survived so long is a matter of probability not inevitability.
Putting a lidar through reliability testing
How big is that critter?

Answer my own question: other articles suggest it is about 15 μm long.
Their are some downside risks to this endeavor.

For starters, there is a low utilization factor for each satellite. Humanity is concentrated onto a fairly small percentage of the Earth's surface. Earth's radius is about 6400 km, so at that low altitude you can only get so much out of pivoting your antenna's towards populated areas. Each satellite will be spending much of its time without any users (oceans and deserts), or with very few users (rural areas).

Second, there is a belief that the next billion new Internet users are going to be mobile users. So the market size of satellite Internet isn't "all the people that don't currently have Internet," its much smaller than that. In the developed world, Internet access is frequently bundled with other services, so the potential pool of flexible customers that could be wooed away from their current service isn't that large, either.

Finally, eventually the folks digging ditches are going to catch up. Once fiber gets to your premises, it will be much cheaper ber byte than satellite Internet. It doesn't matter how the last mile is traversed. Even if its fiber to an LTE tower, it'll still be cheaper per customer than satellites.

I could be wrong about the economics. Presumably they've done the numbers, and the plan still closes to profitability. SpaceX isn't the only one perusing it, after all. Nevertheless, I think there is also reason for skepticism.
> Weirdly enough, rather than fire me, the company wanted to extend my contract when the original term was up.

Why do you consider this weird? The most valuable engineers have strong opinions, weakly held, and shared constructively.

The best teams I've ever worked on had many such engineers with opposing viewpoints, where the 'debate' usually boiled down to, "Can we get data to support one path over another? What are the values we're using to judge success?"
> Syntax: Yep. Spacing blows and you're always going to have stupid issues with it. I hate Python's spacing. Someone ought to create a custom interpreter that allows for using braces.

Nope, for reasons I've explained up thread. In the meantime I suggest this code:

from __future__ import braces
Not necessarily, there are instances where both perpetrator and victim are armed and the perpetrator walks away because of it.
Consumers aren't just consumers - they're also voters, and can take responsibility by voting/demanding better environmental regulation.

Great change is rarely brought about with merely individual action.
Don’t forget where Chromium came from. KHTML lead to Safari lead to Chrome which lead to Chromium. It’s been forked and obounced from open source to corporation to corporation to open source.
I'm not following. Buffett won the bet. The portfolio of hedge funds did worse.

If you're saying the hedge fund managers themselves make money, sure. That's Buffett's exact point: they pocket money, but that money isn't going to the customers, which is why the hedge fund portfolio's rate of return ends up lower than the index fund.
Right, this may or may not be relevant to your threat model, but isn't really helpful information for someone looking to build the software reproducibly. Would you mind sharing sharing how you did it?
There's also the fact that it often gets shipped very long distances.

It'd be helpful if we placed much more emphasis on reduce and reuse, so there's less in the first place. Patagonia is a good example of a company doing this, but an all too rare one.
> There is very little functional support in Python in general, besides not supporting first class functions over multiple lines.

You are confusing “first-class functions” and “anonymous functions”, which are completely different things. Python functions are first-class, independent of length.
The NY Times should be very careful what it wants. The article is almost implying that the National Enquierer did something illegal with its coverage of the election. However, the NYTimes has been also accused of u fair coverage against Trump https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2016/11/11/new-york-...

If we break the taboo of prosecutors looking at a newspapers political coverage, it won’t be long before The NY Times itself ends up u see the microscope and that will be bad for our democracy.
https://i.imgur.com/vGQCgWo.png (original title after editing)

1st thing that came to mind ... they edited their typo and now I get downvotes
At the end of the day the thing that makes Python the best programming language is not actually the language itself, which has a lot going for it, but the community around it. The python community is the full of extremely good programmers, and there is a vast ecosystem of first class resources that are available for everyone.

Yes, these are all valid points, and I laughed. Holding up javascript (npm anyone?) as some kind of counter example that proves python is bad may have held some un-intentional humor as well. Don't get me wrong, I love js but it seems to me like if you took these same 8 points and made them about javascript it would be 100 times more damning.

Heck, I am even willing to count this great article itself as a reason to love the python community even more. Someone who hates python so much must do so from a place of extreme love.
Brett Kavanaugh is so oppressed they only gave him a lifetime seat at the top of one of the three branches of our government, ensuring him several decades of making decisions which will impact all Americans. A great injustice.
Over 10 years ago I had a similar offer - I was one state away (~500 miles) and the company did not want to pay for travel. They were interested, and I was interested, and I had other travel taking me to the region, so about a month later I showed up and we did the interview. Several months later I was given an offer and accepted - but I had exactly your reaction, "if you (employer) can't pony up $120 for a plane ticket....". in the end it worked for me, but I still take that as a major red flag, if the employer will not pay for travel to interview, then they have not properly vetted and phone screened you to determine they want to take any time to seriously consider you.

When I conduct interviews as an employer today - I do assessment on location because fit ends up being very important. Where a person is coming from, what social networks they have, interest in the climate and region play huge in long term retention and it is often much easier to take the time to hire locally if possible to increase quality of fit in the organization. in many cases this is not possible - and you have to import as you don't have excess talent (at your price point) in the region.
Scheduling Dark Mode
Additionally, this is nothing good engineers really want to spend their time on.
Now if only he would learn that most of the books left on his bookshelf are likewise window-dressing in front of fundamentals:

* The Pragmatic Programmer
* Clean Code
* The Clean Coder
* Domain-Driven Design
* Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

All of these books take the simple maxim:

"Be organized, and stay organized"

and spend thousands of pages expanding on that.
Any chance of getting this for Firefox?
> and that's it, you're done

You are seriously comparing Maven, a huge and over-complicated xml-based system that is not even installed by default and that people hate so much that there are umpteen alternatives (gradle etc), with `pip install -r requirements.txt` that works out of the box? I just can't even...

> Python still doesn't have anything [like Maven]

And I thank the Gods for that.
> When I read something like this I really wish the people who use all their smarts for selling more ads to sell more crap would instead work on figuring out trash separation and recycling.

The day that manufacturers, or retailers will, by law, be required to generate net-zero garbage, is the day that this will happen. [1]

Until that day comes, nobody will give two shits about spending money on reducing waste. The cost, to me, of having my personal junk hauled away to a landfill, or dumped into the ocean, is minimal. The cost, to a store, of selling me products wrapped in six layers of plastic, that I will throw out, is non-existent. The cost, to a manufacturer, to produce such a product is actually a net gain (Because the disposable wrapping keeps the product safe during shipping.)

Until producing waste costs something, nobody will work very hard on optimizing it. Make someone pay through the nose for dealing with the trash, and you'll get a revolution in recycling, reduction, and re-use.

[1] Yes, this is draconian. It's also about the only thing that will make real changes to how our society produces waste.
On a similar note, the amount of resources wasted on replicating the same research in multiple different places because of trade secrecy (driven by profit), and the amount of resources that artists need to use to create original material when they'd rather re-use something under copyright for the same or better effect, and the artistic abilities of highly talented people needing to be spent on marketing and producing mass-consumption crap (example: I'm sure there were a great many highly intelligent and skilled people working on The Emoji Movie) and the human potential for genuine thought, art and science being squandered by all those who cannot afford the education and finally (but certainly not least) all the enjoyment people are losing out on by feeling compelled by the market to pursue one line of education when they'd much rather another.

I think it's important to look at these qualitative issues especially given how the quantitative effects of measures to reduce poverty are almost universally agreed upon to be very impressive.
I didn't answer "Do you have a cheap way of generating high quality data?". We have good ways to do it. They're not that cheap though. It's expensive (organizationally and real $$$) to label large amounts of data no matter what.

But we do utilize our capabilities to better tackle the wild data gathering and labeling. For instance, "is every labeled minute just as valuable as any other?". Definitely not. So if you can find and select only the data you want to label, rather than indiscriminately labeling a bunch, then you can increase your overall efficacy.
For me they definitely exist in JS. Prototypes are just an implementation detail.
Yep. I live in Hillsboro, a pretty quiet suburb of Portland. Police here are so bored that when a bunch of drunk teenagers were acting a fool on our street, they sent three cop cars to grab the kiddos and drive them back to their parents' houses.

Head over to Portland, and the cops are so overloaded with dealing with more serious crimes that they won't even respond to auto theft.

I would definitely call the police for package theft in my town, and I'd have a good expectation that they'd assign an officer to watch for crime patterns and get the guys.

In Portland, I'd be duplicating this guy's glitter bomb.
> my reading apps can do more…

What are the top three features on an app that you find so unique and useful that web can't offer it?
Blue Apron misses massively on the high quality front, IMO. Every single beef cut we got from them ranged from terrible to barely mediocre and many made me think of Rodney Dangerfield's quote in Caddyshack: "This steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it..."

Their chicken was generally very good and pork OK and I'm not a BA hater, though we did initially enjoy it and eventually stopped because the value simply wasn't remotely there for us.
To play devil's advocate a bit, the rule was that third party Youtube apps needed to be written in HTML5. This by definition does not apply to the official app.

This does not make the rule less dumb, but it is clear.
F# seems like such an amazing language every time I look at it — a modern version of OCaml, with a clean syntax, some novel ideas, and fewer legacy warts.

However, I wish that it had, like OCaml, a native AOT compiler that didn't come with the baggage of the .NET runtime. Some people might consider this a benefit, not baggage, of course. But it's the same reason I'm put off by Scala.

From what I understand, to even run a compiled F# program you have to have Mono installed? It does look like you can get AOT compilation with Mono [1], but the limitations (e.g. no generics, apparently) seem too onerous.

[1] https://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/aot/
yeah, it's a technical term. for example the entire amazon kindle toolchain supports two approaches to doing an ebook. one is by converting a pdf (not reflowable), the other by converting a word or html file (reflowable). epub generally means reflowable, so what i said up there was a bit of a pleonasm. a non-reflowable ebook (i.e. stemming from a pdf) also behaves like a pdf on the reading device, e.g. you can "zoom" into sections of the page, but you can't change the font size and still have the text run from side-to-side without scrolling.
Definitely, agreed. That's why the online phase of dating IMO should last as little as possible: you want to get to that in-person stage to validate the chemistry, which is one of the biggest drop-offs in the funnel.
"Bad name" is pretty disingenuous to describe his repeated insistence of such a horrible thing about a person based on nothing.

Calling him a curse word would have been 'fine'.

Even just coming back after a day or two and saying "I'm sorry, I should have called him [curse word of choice]" would be closer to acceptable.

Coming back to say "no, no, I'm dead serious" has no excuse.

(this exchange was hilarious at least https://1bht2ni6oc-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload...)
I have a love/hate relationship with Avacados. When you time it properly it's amazing, too early/too late and you're screwed.
I spent meaningful amounts of time this summer with TAOCP. The unusual ways of thinking, the diligence, and building solutions from the ground up were astounding. There are ways of thinking in there that, I think, can be ported into the modern world which would revolutionize the systems they touch.
Also, the background check process is intense, (and deals with the exact same understaffing problems) and it turns out that most people aren't willing to wait for nine months to get vetted for an entry-level job.
Unsourced HN anecdote becomes Ars story becomes HN discussion.

https://xkcd.com/978/
The best solution here is to simply not use Tinder. It's just a waste of time. CMB and Bumble are far better and have much better people. Tinder just seems to have some ultra-attractive and probably fake profiles for their "daily curated matches", and then a bunch of extremely undesirable people who haven't figured out that everyone's moved on from Tinder to better services.
Or a carbon tax!

Recycling presumably puts much less new CO2 into their air than making it new, and so would incentivize recycling more.
Microsoft explicitly said they won't.
Given the Russians record of devisive activity i would like to know what percentage of these are by the Russians
Any tips for Avacados? I tried the brown bag but getting them to the right texture that isn't too hard or spoiled is maddening.