skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree. I just think it's much worse than that. There is no scope in Python where I can define 'f' to allow '(3).f'. I cannot restrict a function to the domain of Integers using encapsulation. I am forced to put it in some other arbitrary namespace.
The NYT has long had a great food section. I also have a couple generations of their cookbooks. I understand how some people appreciate the greater structure of BA and its ilk but, as I wrote elsewhere, it's a pretty narrow use case.
Compare a variable assignment in C and Python.

In C:

int i = 17;

Means "set aside one int's worth of storage and fill it with the bit pattern for the number 17".

In Python:

i = 17

means "create an int object with the value 17 and bind it in the current namespace dictionary to the name i".
After two decades I would bite. Two years, probably not. With a pardon, absolutely. Exception would be if I had any concern about the safety of my colleagues or compliance requirements.

Credentialism for this stuff is out of control. Between school volunteering, work, little league, etc I have like 5 entities monitoring me.
Type safety matters insofar as it (arguably) makes development a lot easier.

So I guess that indirectly has an effect on the webapp, but your users will not care what tech stack you use.
Many products in this list haven’t been killed but been rebranded or added as features to other products
If you think this, I'm confused about what you mean by "semantics".
Television and radio are broadcast mediums. Facebook is a different medium altogether and not an apt comparison IMO, since all individuals produce the content... it's a sort of "democratized broadcast content".

Facebook can and is taking responsibility over policing this content to some extent but you have to realize the two extremes the whole enterprise has to flirt with: (1) respect individual liberties but allow for the full spectrum of negative human behavior, or (2) try to play god and create a global set of moral conduct and use it to silence and thought-police those that don't comply.

I hope you can see the trickiness here and that there is no utopian panacea to easily solve this issue.
My car was literally parked in front of madonna and sly Stallone’s former Miami houses (next door to viscaya, if you’re familiar). There was a police parked on the same road (there always is), I didn’t even call the police to report it, I just walked up to the parked cop. And it happened about 10AM on my morning run.
You may find this useful: https://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm.

I will say, though I use SRS every day for language learning, I haven't done any incremental reading.

If I'm reading nonfiction and run across a fact I really want to remember, I usually just make a flashcard for it.
Seriously, try the tapas (or table) in Spain. The original is always better than the imitation. Besides being the price of a typical US sit-down burger or grilled chicken dish, it's much higher quality and healthier! Also for readers who aren't aware, tapas is usually a shared meal and best when everyone going agrees to get different tapas dishes or arrangements. Of course the jamón ibérico de bellota will be higher priced than a typical steak, but well worth it IMO. "Filler" in Spain tends to be olives, cheese, and bread.
I like being weird.
Paraphrasing from another answer:

You can do that, but shareholders can also do the following in response:

1) Demand a change in leadership, a sale, or any number of significant changes.

2) Bail out en masse and sell, lowering the price even further. Few investors want to jump aboard what appears to be a sinking ship.

Eventually you'll hit the minimum market cap requirement as well, at which point a reverse stock split won't save you from being delisted.

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". They can work sometimes, mostly for:

1) Large, established companies (e.g. AIG). Investors are more willing to believe that this is just a bad stretch for an otherwise valuable company.

2) Inherently risky and volatile industries, like Biotech. Investors are willing to roll the dice a bit more with Biotech because it is entirely possible for a "worthless" company to become very valuable very quickly (e.g. by discovering a new drug, being approved for trials, etc.).

Blue Apron isn't a large company, and it's very unlikely they figure out some magic formula that makes their company significantly more valuable overnight.

EDIT: For a recent example of a company reverse splitting to avoid delisting, check out Helios and Matheson (MoviePass). Even after the reverse split, they're trading for pennies a share. They're almost certainly going to be delisted in the near future.
I've done the whole bars and night clubs thing pretty actively in my mid to late 20s. My issue has always been that your ability to be selective in that kind of environment only extends to the looks. Also I don't drink and have a very consistent sleeping schedule, so prowling bars for women until 3 in the morning has lost a lot of its appeal when I spend the rest of the weekend feeling like shit.

Online you get to learn a bit more about them before you invest your time: do they have similar values, similar interests, compatible lifestyles and socio economics? Not all of it is written as text, a lot of it can be easily inferred from the photos, which is why Instagram is so popular these days in online dating as a lifestyle resume. Yes, it's heavily edited to show the best parts, like a resume, but you can still draw some conclusions from it. Like with hiring for your company, the mode you do it, the better you are at guesstimating what that person is like from their profiles. Several hundred first dates and your model gets trained with a lot of data.
> If you watch the election coverage from 2016, they were going on about Russia minutes after Trump clinched it.

Russian influence was being discussed and warned about well before the election.
Yep

Now you have 2 problems

Is the cliche

But now it’s Dart instead of GWT
I paid for my own travel for an interview once. I wasn't happy about it but I thought it would be a good excuse to visit a new city for the weekend. I'll never do that again.

The cheapskates that wouldn't pay for travel offered me a job but the salary was so low it wasn't even worth negotiating.
I'm seeing this on Safari 12.1 on macOS Mojave.
That's fair. I think Tinder these days returns your super likes to you if the bot you super liked ended up getting banned, but I might be wrong.
Firefox and Chromium on Linux are both affected.
Sounds cool! I don't know what to say about Vim-like. At this point I think it's mostly a dream that one day, something can replace Vim. Not saying it's perfect, it's just so entrenched, and full of features.

That said, I don't think I'd be after a perfect Vim copy. I think I would like an editor that uses the same approach, doesn't have to be exactly the same keybindings.
> the function will never be able to change the binding, and only gets a reference to the value of the binding

More precisely, the function's arguments when it is called are a set of values for variables taken from the caller's namespace, which then get bound to the corresponding names in the local namespace. You're right that "passing the binding" doesn't really describe that process very well.
> My understanding is that the police do care

Oh you sweet, summer child.
How much easier is "much easier"?

If this was true there would be astoundingly more world-changing technologies, given the sheer number of people out there who abandon otherwise valued traits of being human.
FYI, True/False are singletons so really it's using 48 bytes in total for that.
The time-series node graph which connects key words in current allows people to visualize news. The graph allows you to filter articles which forces you to actively understand who/what is connected in current events in a way other news aggregators cannot.
I'm having to write JavaScript (ES5) without TypeScript right now & using jQuery. Whew...

The folks who did ES6 upgrade & TypeScript improvements can't be thanked enough.
The take home message is supposed to be that Apple TV is the most essential (not necessarily their best product), because there is no competitor that comes close to its quality.

So in a sense, Apple TV is not better than an iPhone, but an iPhone is only slightly better than a Samsung S9 making the iPhone not very "essential".
I'm pretty sure transpilation is supposed to gradually adopt something more modern than es5.
> What is a "namespace binding"?

An entry in a Python dictionary that is the namespace for the current scope.

For example, to repeat a response I gave to someone else upthread, compare a variable assignment in C and Python.

In C:

int i = 17;

Means "set aside one int's worth of storage and fill it with the bit pattern for the number 17".

In Python:

i = 17

means "create an int object with the value 17 and bind it in the current namespace dictionary to the name i".
Ok, but the whole idea behind fundamental analysis is that you generate a specific value of worth based on your analysis. So what formula are you using to calculate a price point for Eth based on "adoption and projects using it"? Are you tracking all projects using it, and assigning it a dollar value based on a per project usage and cross-checking that against the number of ways you can use it? Or are you just guessing? Because if you're just guessing, that's not a fundamental analysis.
Google effectively has the right to veto patches into Chromium. In the worst case, Google could fork Chromium, and since Google controls the build artifacts, in a dispute between Google and Microsoft, it's Google who wields the power.
Science is not an accumulation of knowledge, science is a set of techniques for discovering new knowledge and testing it. So if a chemistry class just taught you the most accurate world view that teachers had at their disposal, it would be a failure. Understanding the history of science—experiments are done, new models are proposed, old models are overturned—is critical to understanding how to do science in a way that is perhaps less critical in some other fields.

Besides, every other model lets students develop incorrect intuitions. Incorrect intuitions are still useful, and by letting students develop intuitions based on more obviously incorrect models like the Bohr model, you are teaching them the same skills they will need to use when they discared Lewis dot diagrams for molecular orbitals, or any other point in the future when established models are replaced. If you can't do that, you’re not doing science, and if you can’t teach people how to discard theories, you’re not doing a good job at teaching science.

There is a tendency among the older generation (any older generation, at any given time) to complain about how their children are being taught wrong. Parents will pass onto their children a bunch of facts and skills, only to find out that schools teach something completely different. This is natural, of course. You can’t freeze a curriculum in time and still make it useful, you have to throw some parts of it out. But if you take students through the process of throwing something out, like the Bohr model, they’ll be more prepared for a changing future.
If you have a background in IT, and are modestly comfortable with statistics, the following foundational paper on algorithms to reconstruct the tree of life from genetic data should actually be understandable: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5765/1283

The statistics really only ever amount to Occam’s Razor, I. e. fewer differences in the genome means closer relationship.

Edit: actually free full-text link: http://bioinformatics.bio.uu.nl/pdf/Ciccarelli.s06-311.pdf
> Plus, each meal works out much cheaper than eating out. So for me personally this was money extremely well spent. I also live in the UK.

I just got 2 free boxes from Missfresh (seems local to where I live) and Goodfood. I tried my first yesterday and god I wish it was worth it to keep doing because they shown me that I actually can cook something amazingly good. However I didn't expected to keep buying theses boxes because they are so incredibly expensive, 10$ CAD per portion is starting to be pretty close to a restaurant (a cheap one but still a restaurant).

Have you really did the math to confirm this? Is the UK that much more expensive in terms of food? HelloFresh in the UK does seems cheaper at £ 4.20 / meal but still I just can't believe feeding 1 person would cost 430$ CAD per month where you live.
Reader mode works for me in Firefox. What browser are you using?
That is very fair. I think it would be more stomachable to people if Zuckerberg wasn't making billions off of it in the process.
>Understanding pauses/inflection changes doesn't have to be a "solved problem" to work for cases such as discerning common shopping list style items.

Okay... But Alexa isn't just shopping lists. You only know you are dealing with a shopping list after parsing the text.

Even if you did go back, is the narrower use case any more solved than the general one? Guessing with text alone turns out to be fairly accurate and so even if you could do this decently, it would have to be notably better to be worth the trouble.

>That's an argument against discerning "milk" from "silk" or "coke" from "cork", but that's still managed satisfactorily enough.

Irrelevant to this though, considering that problem has mostly been solved at this juncture.
> Science is about hypothesis, iteration, and testing

Maybe in the past. Today science is about getting grants, publishing as much as possible even if the paper is trivial or you p-hacked your way to heaven.

It's also about finding a niche where there is no competition so that you can build a name for yourself. If any sort of competition appears, quickly run away to a more fertile ground (see the recent article about DeepMind and protein folding)
A friend of mine is actually trying to implement the intelligence you described. We’re also based in the U.K.
In short, yes. That's exactly what that means. This is a [Block]tech company trying to make a run up.
A history of time in 40,000 pixels
What was it 17-18% of social science profs that self identify as Marxists?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.147...
The solution is to stop thinking about private and static variables :)

I've been developing Python for upwards of 10 years, and not one single time I have ever had a legitimate use for double underscore, and I've only seen one legitimate use in the wild (involving auto-generated code and C interfacing).

You also very, very rarely need static methods.
I was never "taught" the Bohr model... there was a passing mention of it and a statement that it is obsolete, followed by an "electron cloud" model with an explanation that quantum theory is needed to explain it. (I'm remembering my high school classes from early 2000's.)

But all my peers remember the Bohr model regardless. Because it is simpler, it is easier to remember. People will develop the wrong intuition regardless of what you do. If you start with the complicated ideas, they just give up on learning instead, substituting superstition.

In any case, you can't really do anything with a model of the atom unless you're using equations, and you only get the quantum versions because those are the only ones that work. Everyone else doesn't have any need for a true model of the atom, and thus no incentive to learn it. (Most of the time, you'd rather need a model of molecules.)
Chrome on iOS seems to get far enough to try and create an ID. I didn’t go any farther than that though.
I agree overall, but some language/env enhancements (e.g. BigInt) transpile more naturally than syntax-dependent ones like #private.
Developers love HOAs, they initially (until the development is largely sold) completely control them and they are a tool for maintaining the image they want to sell later units. No one is forcing developers to have HOAs. (If there is policy favoring them, it was lobbied for by developers.)
ES6 is really the main thing that made me stop hating web dev. A long way to go but that was a watershed moment.
If it was irreplaceable how did the Soviet Union / Russia build Mir? A space station 1/3 the weight of the ISS and incrementally assembled in space from multiple modules.
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Or at least updates about whenever you create new guides with this emulator.
A good portion of the comments on that thread are people wondering why a journalist quitting Facebook is a story.
I believe this class-oriented workaround is a side-effect of Don Syme's decision to strip out the OCaml module system from F#.
Cilantro/Basil/Parsley/Green onions: place the stems in a glass of water,cover with a plastic bag and keep in the refrigerator. It will last more than one week.

Mushrooms: place in a brown bag in the refrigerator. They will last more than a week. They slowly dry up and can be rehydrated like dried mushrooms.

Bananas: when they are about to ripen place in the refrigerator. The skin will turn brown and look miserable but the inside will be just fine. You'll gain two or three days more time to eat them.

Arugula,spinach and other salad greens: Put the leftovers in your lunch bag and snack at work.
Abandoning Free Will in the Self‑Help Journey
> but much like the terms "ironic" and "to beg the question", "REST" has been poisoned by sloppy usage.

This problem is not caused by sloppy language but by militant ignorance of such a level that leads clueless people to assert that a concept has not been defined when that's patently and painfully false.
Darpa seeks tech to make sure hypersonic craft dont burn up at 5X speed of sound
The corollary to this is - don't forget to take advantage of HR when its and your interests obviously align.
GCC Still Months Away from Transitioning to Git, Reposurgeon Being Ported to Go
this was my first thought... especially if they saw it was a smart rich white guy who dissed them... you people live in a rainbow bubble.
> I never understood why you would use a function like len() in an Object Oriented Language (instead of x.len ) or having to explicitly add self to every method...

The answer is simple: there is a x.len function. It's just x.__len__, the protocol. Forcing it to be exposed on every type is a waste: do you use .len, .length, .size? This duck-typing allows any object that supports the length protocol to be passed to `len()`. Simple.

Having it add itself to every object is.... not what you want at all. Some objects don't have a length.
Blue Apron is a perfect example of a company that has no moat. Anyone could compete with them -- other delivery startups, Amazon, grocery stores, etc.

There is also no obstacle to Blue Apron customers jumping ship to a competitor. That contributes to making a moat impossible, but it also means Blue Apron and services like it are probably going to be commoditized and forced into a race to the bottom on prices, so I wouldn't expect their future profit margins to be very good.

The only way Blue Apron can differentiate itself is by offering better recipes and better customer service than its competitors. But their competitors can easily become equally good at those things.

Overall it's not a good investment because even if the business manages to survive, it won't be able to make very much money for its shareholders. I guess you could buy the shares cheap and hope Blue Apron will be acquired.
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For cilantro, get a mason jar with a little water in it. After the cilantro is in, cover the leaves with a plastic bag. The cilantro will be good for about a month.
Ok, but it is not like people starting using more paper? They just sold more and another paper company sold less, who cut down less trees.
This is literally just using an FPGA to accelerate the motion planning algorithm.
I certainly prefer a world where people can be their honest selves and live openly according to their values, regardless of their level of power or visibility. (For better or worse.)

Calling calculated, dulled down communication designed to influence others (as opposed to convey one's views or feelings) as "strategic" is about as nice a way as one could put it.
There some pretty major color shift in the photo I tried. A lot of red was missing from the resulting photo.

Also, it is possible to see the background through the lens of my glasses; that portion of the background was not removed.
I honestly don't really see this working? What incentive does the delivery driver have to spend more time scanning the box (place the label in view for the barcode scanner), unlock, open the door, place box, relock it

I can 100% imagine the driver just putting the box on top and leaving, or trying quickly to scan and have it fail then again put the box on top.
I would get a CCW if you don't already have one.
"Do you have any guns?"

Not anymore, they just robbed me!

"Were there any company files on the laptop?"

I don't know, it's fucking gone!
I don't understand. You realize the speech recognition algorithm gives you raw words with no punctuation, right?
This is what F# does (define multiple classes), but each of these classes only takes one line of code.
One of the features that makes F# great for organization is the sequential ordering of compilation units which makes it easier to understand code dependencies, and makes it awkward to create mutually recursive types (requiring them to be in the same code file separated by `and`, or defined in signature files in advanced).

This might sound like an unwanted restriction, but 9 times out of 10, having mutually recursive types is signs of a code smell. You can almost always model your problem better with a slight indirection through an interface or function, it helps avoid the need for mutation, and makes testing simpler.
I see this repeated often enough where it is presented like some nefarious plot. While I think it is nominally true, I think a better way to think about it is to think of what HR's incentives and motivations are, and to realize there are many areas where your interests do align with your employer's.

For example, a primary responsibility of HR is "keep the company from getting sued" when it comes to personnel matters. A really shitty HR department will interpret this as "sweep shit under the rug", but a good, competent HR department will handle things above board, according to established procedure. A good HR dept. does this not because they want to be nice, but they realize that the best long-term way to keep the company from being sued is to make sure complaints are handled above board.

In general, when evaluating how people will really act I think it's best to leave morality out of it, and instead realize where their incentives are coming from and try to align your goals with those incentives.
Coming from Ruby, I encountered this funny situation in Python.

I was looking how to get first element of an array or get nil if the array is empty.

Python library doesn't provide this kind of functionality.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/363944/python-idiom-to-r... offers multiple ugly ways of doing it.

For Ruby, we use `.first`.

In Ruby, the standard library is richer. A lot of libraries are "official" because Rails uses it.
Correct. However, the idea is that you can run your own storage hub on a server of your choice, or, in the future, choose one or more storage providers that you trust and keep your data there (storage providers can't read your encrypted data)

This way you'll be able to pick both: 1) your storage provider 2) the app that works on top of your data
I took a run at learning to read dotsies earlier in the year but I think you've just inspired me to give it a more serious attempt. Sounds fun.
rsyncing the entire root file tree should be good enough.
In the "Use code instead of a template language (Groovy vs YAML)"-section, you write that you prefer a DSL over a programming language. Is that because you consider YAML a programming language or how is it supposed to be understood?