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Ryan Holiday talks about this a lot in Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. His take is that in the old days, the media used to lie by omission: it would choose not to cover certain stories, even though they were important. Today, the media "lies by transmission" -- they cover unimportant but sensational stories, and that drowns out the coverage of important but less eye-catching events.
I've been at one of his Ask Me Anything-lectures. They are pretty cool, but I feel that they are limited by the audiences questions. If he doesn't get interesting questions then he can't provide interesting answers.

I wanted to ask if he had Autism because he looks, talks and walks as if he had, but I didn't get the chance. I wonder if Knuth has elaborated on the subject? Anyone knows?
I'm pretty sure Python's list type is implemented as a dynamic array, otherwise random access wouldn't work very well.

Maybe try to not identify so hard with language choice? That way you gain the capability of processing critique without loosing your marbles.
Personally I’ve Never Experienced Anything Like That
> I regularly wish python required some sort type indication for function parameters, because dealing with libraries that take complex objects as function parameters can be an absolute nightmare.

Meh, never encountered this in 20 years. Typing is helpful in large projects however, and not just with complex objects.
I don't think someone being a thief makes them cowardly, and thus not open to coming back and throwing a brick through your window in retaliation.

A thief is already open to the idea of invading your personal space for gain, why not revenge?
I mean, given how hard cryptocurrencies crashed this year is it really a surprise? The only way for him to make money would probably have been to short everything continuously but seeing how irrational and easily manipulated the cryptocurrency market has been in the past that seems rather foolish.

Given his pedigree you'd think he'd know better than to bet on something that's 99% pure unbridled speculation and 1% actual technology. It's like knowingly investing in a Ponzi scheme, what did you expect?
That is a fatuous argument. You could make precisely the same argument about people who shun child molesters. People who shun white supremacists are not the same as white supremacists.
No one ever gets a single "peanut". So unless you mush mouth the "S", the reasonable expectation for both your cohabitator and the robot is to bring peanuts and butter.

A better question is "coconut, milk" versus "coconut milk".
Could you use the same reasoning to discount weather predictions?

September 10, 2018 - Hurricane Florence predicted to be category 4 hurricane on landfall, 80%
Septemeber 12, 2018 - Hurricane Florence predicted to be category 4 hurricane on landfall, 20%
September 14, 2018 - Hurricane Florence makes landfall as Category 1 hurricane

(the above numbers are demonstrative, loosely based on my memory of how events actually happened with Florence)

There is something to be said for predictions about the future based on today's environment, while still allowing for the reality that the environment could change. Predicting a single baseball game right before it happens is just a different kind of prediction than simulating a model that has noisy cross-interacting inputs.

Readers/listeners of 538 need to understand (and Nate spends a lot of time educating about this) exactly what the model is calculating and what it isn't. Nate calls out all the time that the model can only be as good as the polling that provides the inputs. And polls can swing for all sorts of reasons: there's not many of them for a district, only highly biased ones are available, people's actual voting intentions change from week to week.

Am I missing the point of what you're trying to say?
Does it need to be justified just because it is old? All the new build systems are cool for some cookie cutter 2019 webapps but for anything more I don't know of anything else as easy to deploy, setup, and comes with so many plugins and wealth of supporting information.

Just seems strange to have to justify something that "just works" for so many years. It isn't even really "old" compared to many tools you use every day.
More proof from HN that cryto is bad.
According to Algorithms To Live By (great book), libraries use a sort of merge sort.
Artificially set prices make the market more inefficient. The reality is that a lot of people want to live in NYC and there just isn't enough supply of housing for it be "affordable". By setting the price of a rental apartment too low in a hot real estate market like NYC, you are incentivizing people who would otherwise move out of the city or seek more efficient living arrangements (smaller apartment, rent a room) to stay put. Rent control constricts the supply in two ways:

1) It makes prices that much higher for units that aren't rent controlled and whose prices are set by the market. If the rent for these rent control units was allowed to fluctuate based on the market, the turnover would be higher and there would be more apartments available in total.

2) It incentivizes less units being put on the market because (a) A potential landlord (e.g. someone who wants to rent a room out in their 2 bedroom apartment or an owner of a townhome / brownstone who wants to rent their basement out) won't be able to make a profit or maintain their unit at the artificially low price set by regulation. (b) Real estate developers also won't want to build new apartments / condos if they know that they won't be able to get their money back by renting (because the govt is forcing them to rent at a super low price).
Equivalent of Patent Trolls on YouTube
What service did you move on to? I'd be interested a better curated grocery delivery system than Amazon Fresh (which is already saving us a ton of time as a busy family).
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They seem to frequently include one atypical or exotic ingredient, I’ve always figured it was a way to get people to think it’s something they can’t get at the store and thus more likely to purchase.

To be honest it does work on me. I get a BA shipment here or there and it’s always because they’re using something I wouldn’t normally work with or see at the at the store.

I personally don’t mind most of the other common complaints, I tend to do a lot of scratch cooking so these are usually quick recipes in comparison. Likewise it tends to be cheaper per-meal than my normal dinners.
I'm sorry, proves what point? And how?
The Real Clear Politics polling aggregator showed nearly a 10 point jump for Hillary Clinton after "grab em by the pussy" came out. That lead then eroded back to the mean over the course of the month.

That's what I mean by swingy. Nothing in 2008 or 2012 shifted the polls like that. The polls in those elections stayed within a 2 point band the whole way. That level of volatility was clear in the polls well in advance of the election.

(And, 15% of the electorate was effectively undecided with 2 weeks to go, which is much higher than it was in 2008 or 2012).

Such swings are also what Taleb and the author of this article are criticizing Nate Silver for.
This is like saying, "Why take your car to the mechanic? I do my own repair work and it's way cheaper!"

Blue Apron is for people who don't know what to buy at the grocery store. Grocery stores could definitely attack this by doing what you're suggesting, but part of this is the very concept that I can't walk into a grocery store, buy some chicken, and turn it into something tasty.
> unless the author is using async/await as variable names (and i wonder why they would)

Kubernetes-cli did, [0] inadvertently due to code generated by Swagger. [1]

That doesn't mean only that project either - it means anything _depending_ (not necessarily directly!) on it is also broken under 3.7. [2]

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/issues/558

[1]: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen/pull/8401

[2]: It bit me.
They've also increased prices now that they're proven.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/27/spacex-price-hikes-iss-r...

Add to that ULA was forced to drop their prices, so Space-X doesn't really have much room to increase more. And they obviously can't increase on existing contracts.

I'm always shocked when a keyboard warrior on ycombinator thinks a company that size doesn't have a considerable workforce dedicated to figuring out what they can charge for their product... I doubt they just picked a number out of thin air. It was likely a combination of estimating how low they think their competitors go as well as where they need to be to win new business.
I'm not sure what this proves other than being a honey trap and good YouTube clickbait.

This has been done on YouTube before with people setting up unlocked bicycles attached to some strong difficult to see rope bolted to a nearby structure (e.g. fishing wire), waiting for someone to come and take it, and then laugh when the thief goes flying over the handlebars as they ride off

It's justice porn, but at the same time it makes me feel uncomfortable watching.
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My partner and I have used it a few times and if we like a meal I record the recipe in Paprika (amazing recipe app, really love this app) and we just buy the ingredients "raw". It means we can adjust portion sizes, plan for leftovers, and alter the flavor as desired.
Well, when some dude is a veteran tech journalist whose access to information and networks may depend on him having a facebook account, I'd say it's interesting enough to be newsworthy (although maybe not new york times newsworthy), in my opinion.

I may be misunderstanding your claim that it's "detracting from any previous viable points". What points are you referring to that this detracts from?
It amazes me that funds hold long positions in a market without safeguards and regulations and that really has yet to formalize. I'm bullish on digital currencies but there's going to be a ton of turmoil while the world figures out how to deal with this new asset class and major shake ups as regulations start to formalize or continue to formalize in some cases.

Long plays in this market are massively risky bets. They seem completely unnecessary as well. With the volatility that exists and the decent level of volume, there's tons of easy money to be made.
There actually are separate Python ecosystems (applications embedding Python or relatively detached distributions like Anaconda). Similarly you don't really care about e.g. the larger Lua ecosystem when you are targeting a specific application using Lua. It has its own ecosystem.
This begs the question though why can't the python ecosystem simply evolve? Is that too much to ask? You say these languages have learned so much from Python. If there is so much to learn in terms of do's and dont's, why doesn't Python simply follow this advice?
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Sentences spoken aloud don't have commas.
I don't know how old you are, but I'm in my 50s, so I have some perspective on this. I don't worry about becoming irrelevant at all. But that is as much due to the "soft skills" that you dismiss as the hard skills, maybe even more so. I've been through enough projects, from tremendous successes to total disasters, that I can see large-scale patterns. And those are never about tiny algorithmic details. They're only sometimes about technology.

The people my age that suffer career losses and anxiety usually do so because they stayed in one place too long. Getting laid off or fired after 10-15 years (or longer) in one place can be disastrous. Part of it is that they no longer have practical interview skills, or even understand the current trends in recruiting and hiring. But a lot of it is because their skill set becomes company-specific, deeply tied to the business of their long-time employer. They might be (and often are) fine programmers or analysts, but their resume doesn't reflect that.

As for startups... if you think an initial product (MVP) having bugs or lacking features is the reason startups die, you're not paying much attention. I would go far in the other direction! A company that doesn't release a buggy, incomplete product will die. That's because startups are a race against the clock. They need to show results (usually measured in sales) quickly enough to not run out of money, or at least get them to another round of investment to keep them going. The longer the time to market, the harder that is. And customer feedback is the best way to find the shortcomings in your product.

The reason anyone buys from a startup is desperation. That startup needs to be offering something that cannot be obtained from an existing, stable market player. This is especially true in B2B, where businesses are actually risking something by committing to a startup, other than their free time. A startup needs to find such a big pain point, such a big market gap, that customers will put up with a buggy, incomplete app, and pay for the privilege. That is the secret to a successful startup - certainly not polishing the turd til it glows. (Read Crossing the Chasm for great depth on this, if you don't mind a bunch of boring soft-skill reading.)
> Our approach? Much better software.

Oh. So that's the secret ingredient all the others have overlooked.
There is basically nothing helpful or constructive in your comment here. You seem to be pretty upset about this, do you have some sort of vendetta against Blue Apron?
It has its uses. It's just not free real estate.
> I would rather see a high-end TV dinner service.

Am exploring that market at the minute, the model would be order on your morning commute, pick up freshly prepped ready meals from your transport hub on the way home.

Interested in talking to anyone who's looking for something in that space.
F# is the evolution of ML.NET developed at Microsoft Research.
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Have your neighbor contact her State Representative or State Senator. Police know their budgets will get screwed if they piss off these people.

Twice I have emailed the police and CC the Mayor of my city. I got a sorry can we meet in person response in an hour. The Sargent on Call was eating humble pie when he was called in and got chewed out by the Mayor and the Police. (Story a neighbor I don't know was physically assaulted by his girlfriend and she ripped his shirt and scratched him up. I stopped him from destroying her and going to jail. I called the police and no one came. We walked over to the station with 3 police cars sitting outside and were turned away.)
Wyze cam Pan will do this for 30 bucks if you're looking for a product and not a tinkering project.
Expect this to be immediately co-opted by political camps to exacerbate and codify divisions that exist today.
Freshly does packaged prepared meals, which is presumably what you're talking about. There's another one I can't remember now.
Ask HN: Search clickjacking – what are these pages with `?mtctxxtyx=`?
If you search Google for this term you will find 7.36M pages, visiting each link closes the page and serve no human purpose.

Ref:
1. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mtctxxtyx%22
2. http://160over90.com/yulg3z6/yipdugt.php?mtctxxtyx=rick-and-morty-jessica-x-reader
Also: compact representation doesn't lead to faster reading. This study [0] compares native readers of English and Chinese text; the latter being more information dense than the former on a per-pixel basis. As for reading speed? In words per minute, it's a wash: 380 vs. 390.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03204913.pdf
What is with this comment on Hacker News? This is not appropriate. GP gave his experience with Blue Apron and you’re here picking fights about his marriage?

I understand if you’re not a fan of Blue Apron, if so, try to stay on message.
While sometimes the bible quotes went too far for my taste, I wouldn't say it's not deep. One thing it did for me is help me see religion in a new light. Religion is a constant in most (all?) human societies, this book helped me understand why.
> A better question is "coconut, milk" versus "coconut milk".

Sure, but if you were dictating to a human that would still be an easy one for them to get wrong, depending on how long you paused.

I find this interesting with phone numbers. In some countries you hear people say "thirty three sixty two" and they mean 303602
This feels like a completely cruel and inappropriate reaction to that person's post. You're assuming a million things based on a few comments.
> A library is something you call from your code. A framework is something that calls your code.

Libraries and frameworks do both of those things. A library is something you can call from your code, but is it not calling your code if it uses callbacks? If you're not calling built in functions of a framework then you probably have no need for it.
This is a very strange reply. You are assuming a whole lot more about chad_strategic’s relationship with his wife than he ever implied.

You think it is unusual that having a 2-year-old would change the break-down of domestic work vs. when the couple was childless?
And that makes sense for those living there, but not everyone lives in the Bay Area or pays anything near what people pay there for things. I would think for a service like this to succeed, it needs to be applicable to places where you can go to a real restaurant for ~$10-15 a person. Which is most of the US where the other 315million Americans live.
That's my point though. Unless the primary language developers themselves say "Hey, this ecosystem is broken" and then make an alternate one, we are generally stuck with the old broken one being the de facto standard. And even in that scenario you have to make the choice between breaking compatibility with everything that relies on the old ecosystem, or supporting both new and old at the same time. The lesson to be learned here is you only really get one shot at doing the ecosystem the right way, so do it right the first time. Hence Crystal/Go/Rust/Nim/etc
I removed it. Didn't know it was against the guidelines.
The Space Shuttle's reentry and landing was famously 99.99% performed by autopilot, with the 0.01% being lowering the landing gear[1], ostensibly so that the astronauts felt like they had something to do.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Re-entry_and_lan...
His stock, however, has only fallen an additional 10% or so since then

(It’s hard to see exactly on the charts, because the stock price has fallen so fast +/- 10% is now a matter of just two or three pixels)
Why can't they sell for cheaper than $50/4?

Sounds like they have a lot of high-tech labor costs for a fundamentally low-tech, low-margin business. They were all over my LinkedIn a year or two ago.
You can order this very interesting and eminently revisitable essay in physical form from Princeton University Press:

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10924.html
> This begs the question though why can't the python ecosystem simply evolve? Is that too much to ask?

It evolves constantly. Python packaging then and now has massively changed (largely without breaking compatibility, mind you). It's not perfect, but it is much better than it was in 2005.
>> I know there are some disadvantages about Blue Apron such as waste, carbon food print etc...

>How nice of you to throw in a one line disclaimer, I'm sorry but that's not enough and undersells the horrible underbelly of this industry.

I suspect that a lot of the people who make the most noise about the packaging waste eat out a lot. And there's an enormous amount of food waste (and well as all sorts of other costs) in restaurants. But, heh, out of sight out of mind.
You're right! It's blatantly farcical to suggest that people being able to afford to stay in their home is to their detriment.

Might there be something more subtle here, though? Is it possible that we could be looking at a scenario where people being unable to find another affordable home is linked to lots of other people having affordable homes that they can't afford to leave? Perhaps people might be considered harmed if they do not have the option available to change their living situation in a way that fits with their needs?

Again, you're completely right. It's plainly obvious that people who put up with shitty situations do so because they don't think they have a choice that fits their needs. It just might be worth considering that this behavior pattern might have a greater impact when a large number of people behave this way.
> no support for reflection

Rust does have some support for reflection, though it is quite limited. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/any
Great feedback @mgkimsal, thanks. I'll test & fix FF.
An interesting article, but I don't agree with the author's conclusion that rent control is worse than the California-style alternative. Is San Francisco currently better off than New York? No rent control there, and prices are even higher than NYC. I wouldn't find my 1br NYC apt for $1500 in SF. Maybe 6 years ago, but not now.

Rent stabilization alone isn't a solution the housing affordability, and maybe there's more to it than meets the eye. But New York's solution shouldn't just be to get rid of it. What model city would they be following?

Rather, changes in zoning laws could be really great, following Tokyo's model. The author hints at this. https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...
https://link.medium.com/xxY4UVrRKS
Though it's an opinion piece and I don't agree with all the points, some I do. The readability issue is real when dealing with any code more than a hundred line, and worse the convention seems to encourage using empty lines very sparingly.
The shortcomings came out clearer as I've been teaching someone to program in Python. The subtlety of per-scope indentation really confused her. The concept of a "block" is just not visually clear. Not to mention mixing spaces and tabs by accident. That could halt a new programmer for an hour.
Hopefully the latter
I'm placing a high probability that the UI/UX for these systems will improve drastically over the next decade, and that a decentralized FB will be more efficient and transparent than the current platform.
- FSFE https://fsfe.org

- NOYB https://noyb.eu

- Unicef
> Rust implements generics solely through monomorphization

That doesn't sound right. Trait objects use dynamic dispatch.
Does this also apply to criticism of income inequality?
Top orchestras pay well into 6 figures. $80k is definitely above average.
I have a vendetta about people lying to themselves. Blue Apron saves neither the time nor money people like to think it does. I get a very "the emperor's new clothes" vibe from the whole thing.

I also have a vendetta against people who assume women should do all the cooking and that by asking questions about what someone might want to eat they are "nagging".

I have a vendetta against our culture fof writing off all the waste this produces for such little gain.
We have a foot high fence in front of our door.

That plus a grassy slope is enough to hide the packages from street view.

Our neighbor across the street gets their packages stolen often. I have never had any package stolen, and I order 100x times as many packages.
Here's an example that made sense to me

elegant (readable / compact)

function isPalindrome(str) {
return str == str.split('').reverse().join('');
}

efficient (~50x faster than above)

function isPalindrome(str) {
var len = Math.floor(str.length / 2);
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++)
if (str[i] !== str[str.length - i - 1])
return false;
return true;
}

I would probably say elegance and efficiency are not aligned rather than at odds IMO because they may overlap or may not, they don't have the same goals.
Actually, it had a camera. It was an ordinary webcam but it was mounted in a very conspicuous, conventional security camera housing.