skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, plus people will still come knocking at their door for Python 2 issues. And if you tell them to contact someone else for support people will still be upset.
Imho communicating EOL is the only way to go. Others can pick up legacy support under a different name. People will find them and it will be clear it's a different team.
Space Command projects what it would need in a real world Star Trek
iPhone XR shipments topped all other phones in the first half of 2019
But for a backup, you’d want actual lossless compression, wouldn’t you? Not for listening, but for re-encoding.
obfuscated JS is still harder for humans to parse

No one serious will analyse obfuscated JS without passing it through a deobfuscator first, so the point is moot. But if you really want to make your code "look confusing", there's more amusing obfuscators for that (also easily deobfuscated):

http://utf-8.jp/public/aaencode.html

http://utf-8.jp/public/jjencode.html
Is there a list of Open Source that needs converting?

The first obvious one to me to check found this -

> Bug Description
Python 2 is retiring in thirty months. Calibre needs to convert to Python 3.

> No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself.
Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
Traffic by Ruskin I reread quite a lot. For background, it's a lecture he gave when invited to speak, as the eminent architectural critic of the day, to dignitaries on the opening of a new exchange building. Was expected to talk about the architecture, but he talked about capitalism instead

> You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?

More technical, but I constantly use Ruskin's Modern Painters as art reference. Each volume has detailed chapelters on natural forms (trees, mountains, etc). The attempts at geometric drawings of the structures of cloud patterns are particularly beautiful imo. He's a phenomenal writer, anyway.

Mentioned by others elsewhere in the comments, but Candide and The Count of Monte Cristo are possibly my two favourite books. The first one feels incredibly modern, which is quite impressive given that it's basically the first European novel. Second one I've always thought is like an exceptionally good airport novel (and the sci-fi version is also one of my favourite books, and one of the best sci-fi novels ever written). Very difficult to put down.

Also, anything by Swift, Hazlitt, Twain I can read and reread endlessly. I read a lot of opder stuff, but I've noticed I'm often quite quick to discard it if it doesn't scan as contemporary writing -- those three I find in particular have quite modern styles
Why doesn't the interviewee ever ask the interviewer a whiteboard or puzzle question, "to see how you think?"
The place like that where I worked ended up doubling down on AS/400. I laughed out loud and then quit. What a bunch of idiots! I don't know how they are even still in business. Dev cycles were 6-12 mos. Imagine asking for a feature and then getting it on a green screen in 12 months!
If we move the goal post slightly, we could perhaps conceivably fit all 3.5 million CDs (compressed losslessly) on micro SD cards that would fit inside of the volume of a jewel CD case:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=177.5+cm%5E3%2F%28%28%...
Bayesian stats.
well even in a small company you might need:

- non downtime deployments (yes you can have a downtime, but everytime you deploy an app?!)

- schedule more than one thing (no company has a single product that only has a single binary or at least nearly no company, there are some unicorns tough)

- some kind of automation (this is complex, no matter what you use)
The ones in the title ? I'm not sure but you can browse most of the originals in:

https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive

and some with translations in:

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
Do you have a place to get a good copy of this? Amazon seems to be turning up those dodgy PDF rips to print.
The headline makes people wonder if they are fake.
> It seems highly unlikely that a traffic stop could be at all dangerous

Is a rare event but it seems that is still dangerous for both drivers and police

"It is not uncommon for routine traffic stops to escalate into a violent situation... At least 300 officers have been killed by drivers or other occupants of vehicles involved in traffic stops or pursuits"

source: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.544...

Googling "killed by police traffic stop US" returns a depressing amount of positives also
HL7.org has a banner on every version of the FHIR spec with a different message depending on the version. http://hl7.org/fhir/
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin is a great read - its an account of his adventures (no other word) on the Beagle.
New features planned for python 4.0:

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/new-features-planned-for-pytho...
I’m confused here - do you think anyone sophisticated enough to worry about the supportability of a language is also dense enough to realize Python 2 is EOL? A banner is fine for unfrozen cavemen coders, I guess.
I quite agree... mostly... but I tend to abbreviating input from untrusted sources using the String.length() anyway, because it's so simple, and a single-digit overestimate is often safe.

For example, I have a phone app that abbreviates various things at 300 whatevers because I know that on one hand 300 is more than the phone will display, but on the other it's little enough that it'll cause no processing problems. If I process 300 whatevers and then the display can only show 120, I haven't burned much of the battery. I overstimated by a factor of 2.5, burned a minuscule part of the battery, and I gained simplicity.

I strongly agree that numbers as low as 20 are a code smell.
The closest things I know of are Clutz and Gents, maintained here: https://github.com/angular/clutz.

They work with Closure-annotated JS (with JSDoc) though; not sure if it fits your use case.
> Some phones have poor GPS

This is quite the understatement. I used to work for a company selling a personal safety device that paired with your phone and the data we would get back for location on some Android phones was just atrocious. On a large number of older Pixel devices, we’d routinely see location off by a large margin (as in over a mile in the worst cases). Interestingly, we’d see the “real” user location provided with a location accuracy of 100-400ft, then the device would radically jump to a new location (again, sometimes over a mile away) with a location accuracy of <50ft. When you are dispatching help to a person in an emergency, exact location matters!
I think the originally-posted site has the answer for you [1] ;) Of course, it's slightly out of date and you need daaal and temple8 in 2019.

[1] https://christine.website/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-3...
What is The sci fi version of the Count of Monte Cristo?
As a person who smokes on and off, part of it is that you can continue your physical habit (take a break, hold something in your hand, breathe in warm air with a specific taste etc) but you can still drop the nicotine.

If you were to try and cut down on cigs you can only do it by reducing the number of smoking sessions, whereas with a vaporiser you can keep your sessions static and just reduce the addictive chemical compound.

In essence it's easier to reduce your nicotine addiction if you can continue to comfort yourself with the physical habit part of the addiction
Is the result much better than the stuff I find at the supermarket? Because that sounds like at least on hour of work.
For those who'd like some context, I'll reccomend the YouTuber John Zahorian, and his "Great Divide Trail" hike. Gives some sense of the wildness of a small portion of the country.
Like, you are right, but I would phrase it differently - he not only donated most of his money to charity, but he also committed a big part of his time to making the world a better place via his charities. His time/attention on what should be done, coupled with his work in getting other billionaires on board, is quite a bit more valuable than just the money alone.
It's not UBI the state has a budget surplus because Capitalism works so well when commies dont move to your State and live off welfare.
Not all of them though.

Still happily using JEE/Spring/ASP.NET + VanillaJS in what concerns webdev projects.
No issues here either. Perhaps it's an AWS local to you? Or your region?
“...it's the 21st century - why do doctors (more specifically, hospitals) generally work 9-5 M-F”

What country do you live in? In the USA hospitals are open and staffed for emergencies 24/7/365. I’m a Radiology Technologist who works in an ER and Surgery- and I’ve never worked less than 48 hrs per week. I work 2300hrs-0700hrs. If you are talking about viruses and bacteria, that’s usually not an emergency issue and yes, you CAN wait until normal business hours (unless you’re septic)
"FLAAG"
Should I start my own company?
I think what's going on there is that one of the e-cigs they used had a configurable temperature (200-600 °F). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they selected a reasonable one (they don't appear to specify in the methods).

Separately, there's the GC-MS machine - oven (30 - 220 °C ramp) and inlet (320 °C). This shouldn't be (much of) an issue though, as an inert carrier gas is used. Plus you always have controls, so if the GC-MS itself is tearing things apart it should hopefully be obvious.

That being said, I didn't see anything particularly concerning listed in their results (relative to recreational cigarette or alcohol consumption).
Can highly recommend Firefly. Used for a while and it is really powerful, impressive work has been done here. What bothers me (too much) as a former YNAB-user is the limited budget planning view. But the dev already has this on his to-do list.
All indications are that we'll see 3.10 before 4 is considered.

I think it would probably be ok to start thinking about it in a year or two from the py2 sunset. It will be a minor update anyway, it's just a PR exercise that can be done whenever people think it would be more effective.
Ah yes, this old chestnut: https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/92367597312354304...
Making SBCL work on non-Linux systems isn't usually very much work.
Fog machines also use a glycol solution, and have been shown to be harmful. Thus vaping glycol may not be safe. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/1990-0355-2449.pd...
Thanks, Anthony. I'll take a look at these.
> This sounds a bit like telling someone, oh, you could've easily started driving an EV, so that once charging stations were actually out there, you'd have been ready...

While car analogies are notoriously bad, it's much more like "I'm going to buy a plug-in hybrid and use gasoline until charging stations are widely available". You can write code that works in Python 2 that takes zero effort to run in Python 3. I (and many others) have been doing this for years. Just look at the number of packages on PyPI that run, unmodified, on 2 and 3.

[Edit: gas -> gasoline]
Isn't that what the "x &&" is for? For x = 0, (x - 1) is 0xffffffff, x & (x-1) is 0, !(x & (x-1)) is 1, and x && !(x & (x-1)) is 0.
Nice! But consider adding some pagination or grouping them in different sections. The page loads pretty slow on desktop and it's pretty much dead on mobile.
I went to a talk by Lawrence Freedman [1] in Oxford where he discussed this war. He has a chapter dedicated to it in his book 'Strategy: A History' [2] (which I highly recommend).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Freedman
[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strategy-History-Sir-Lawrence-Freed...
You missed a /s there.
So I've been thinking a lot about this video recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2czFuIYmQ

It talks about, demonstrates and measures the air quality around vinyl. Apparently the things are leaching dangerous compounds into the air constantly, especially when being played. It made his air quality measuring device give an alarm, instead of just reporting the number of particles or something.

I'm not sure, maybe it's just one of those thousands of every day life things which are technically carcinogenic, or not. It made me pause personally though, having recently lost a friend, who worked at a record store, died at a young age to cancer, had otherwise always been a strong healthy man. I'm actually more comfortable talking about this here, semi-anonymously, I don't think it'd be wise to bring this up IRL with anyone, on account of it possibly not having to do with anything. I kind of half-wish I hadn't seen the video.
As the CTO of a small-ish startup, this rings so true. All our employees were hired from our network. Its only now that we'll look for other sources to benefit or hiring pipeline.
I agree, but my questions have to do with the economics of the panic, warranted or not.

To build on your comment: Vaping is not a new concept[0] and if the act of vaping itself— rather than a problem with the supply chain (product purity, dosages, etc.)—was the problem why has it taken 13 years in the U.S. to surface?

I can imagine the contemporary spike in numbers of users and frequency has effect on the number of cases. For all we know this condition with the same set of symptoms has been seen before but connections never drawn to a wider-spread problem.

This may be the “earlier discovery” you reference, compared to the decades it took for Society to recognize how dangerous cigarettes are.

[0] http://www.casaa.org/historical-timeline-of-electronic-cigar... (note: industry source)
> I've even been told they use Google Maps

I could be entirely wrong, but it was my understanding Google Maps data is only used when a passenger is in the car, not when the driver is being dispatched to you (due to a licensing issue).
Hmmm, I did discuss some of the technical questions from the list and I have to admit that it's not easy to make a decision based on them. It's a great start for discussions, and definitely something to consider but your time is limited, the other side will beautify the answer, the same as you do, and you might end up in another totally different team than this of your interviewer.

Remember that things tend to be fluid, re-organizations happens often, having a bug tracking system doesn't make bug handling efficient and CI/CD doesn't mean your time to deliver is necessarily short.
You don't need to go all the way to "origins in countries with environmental and labor protection" in order to not buy from china. There's plenty of countries with equally lax environmental and labor protections that are far less oppressive and authoritarian while offering goods at close to the same cost.
I think it is because the big players know to not get involved, b/c of the FUD, pending legislation, and lawsuit potential.

I would think LG could create an amazong product.
He wasn’t even charged with trafficking in 2008. Can’t believe I’m getting downvoted.
All You Have to Do Is Take a Road Trip to Find Out America Isn’t Racist
It was a knee-jerk reaction on my part.

Cannibalism isn’t something that I would expect the religious (generally in the conservative camp) would tolerate, whereas the camp that believes in the natural goodness of humans (classic liberalism) might.
Strong Opinions Weakly Held: A Framework for Thinking
Show HN: Color Windows CLI output of a command with ColorThis, the simple way
I am currently listening to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, and it is by far the most interesting book I've read/listened to. I have been moved to tears again and again by this book.

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (1917) just turned 100, and it is also one of my most favorite books of all time, it too was moving me to tears again and again.
Probably just using the past tense is enough to hint that he is dead or no longer in that line of work
HostGator moves slow as frozen molasses but they do when they have to. Case-in-point, they rolled out Let's Encrypt support like the week that Chrome starting marking HTTP pages insecure.
Me three! It happens all too often that an example Python script fails in one, then succeeds in the other. I'm also a casual Python user, trying to ramp up because of its obvious popularity and utility. I wish that the basic syntactical changes could have been designed to be more backward-compatible. But, eventually I suppose, python2 will just be a footnote in history.
Thus can be said about almost all CPU instructions. x64 has tons of SIMD intrinics. You can do absolutely crazy stuff with them if you are willing to invest the time.
The Stars My Destination (or Tiger! Tiger! depending on when and where it was published) by Alfred Bester
A shipwreck worth billions off the coast of Cartagena
I'm a current YNAB user find it hard to use any other financial manager software because they only seem to record what happened and not plan for the future.

What made you leave YNAB if you don't mind me asking?

In additional to my personal finances, I currently use Xero for my business, but I also run everything through YNAB as well to actually know the health of my business and how much money I'm making. The book "Profit First" made a lot of sense through a YNAB approach.
I try to write compatible code myself too, and the only reason it's "zero effort" to run in Python 3 is that I've already invested said effort when making it compatible. Getting strings and paths and stdio to be cross-compatible and working correctly in both 2 and 3 can be quite painful in my experience. Which was kind of my point with the vehicle analogy. It requires a significant investment that you're ignoring, and lack of enough underlying support to justify it during that time.
Has anyone here successfully migrated from GnuCash to Firefly III? How does it compare long term? GnuCash is amazing features wise, but the UI and cross platform compatibility is subpar at best.

And more importantly is it possible to import data from GnuCash? Last time I tried it I failed.
Can you derive the Lagrangian from Newton's laws of motion?
builtin popcount when compiled for an architecture with hardware popcount should be 4 bytes per 1 cycle.

The n&(n-1) method to test for a power of 2 cannot be faster than that.
Scientists discover way to ‘grow’ tooth enamel
I think Zeit could handle this: https://zeit.co/github
I feel this is a lesson every Haskell programmer goes through. Most Haskell programmers I know write types for all of the top-level declarations. Although it usually isn't necessary, it makes drastic improvements to the quality of error messages.
Vivaldi is releasing an Android version of its highly-customizable browser
And the person you're talking to definitely knows better than you.
We are just now learning facts, many testimonies were sealed. Even the plea agreement was kept from the victims. Many victims are just now becoming aware of the existence of other complaints. Yes he did terrible things, but the full extent wasn’t clear to most people, including the media who continued to interview him after his conviction.
I have no comment on the prevalence of this behavior, but I don't think it would be impossible. There's multiple levels of agreement (offer, purchase and sale, closing), many of which are conditional, and if a buyer backs out late in the process it can put your property back on the market for a long time and lower its price due to real estate magic, plus you could lose the new property. Selling my home to buy another while holding a full time job while my real furniture was in storage and replaced by staged furniture was one of the most exhausting things I've ever done in my life.
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate any input on front-end stuff.
So why haven't the protesters said this is one of their main issues?
Sites “go green” with a digital strike
The original standard environment has a free tier and doesn't require billing and as such is great for everyone who can't or don't want to enter their credit card information.
VanEck’s ‘Limited ETF’ Launch Provides Thrust for Bitcoin Price Rally
Great! Finally I'll be able to move my data from the old YNAB version to a more reliable place :)
To force the involvement of a doctor that is not performing any procedures or making a diagnosis is definitely an inefficiency.
Karl Marx's Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I: The Production Process of Capital.
Thanks for the correction! It looks like PFOA, an additive in pans pre-2015, is considered toxic (though apparently "negligible" according to FDA) and is no longer used since 2015.
What are the GnuCash issues with cross-platform? We used to use it via dropbox on mac, linux and windows and never hit any obvious problems.
The UI however...
Do you mind explaining which legislation in particular you are considering destructive?
"Madness of Crowds" is an entertaining read, but its not really solid history. His account of tulip mania in particular seems to have depended largely on stories in religious pamphlets about the dangers of greed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Mackay's_Madness_o...
How!? I had no idea. Via some sort of USB-hub?
I see - it came across as Whataboutism in a thread that is already somewhat brigaded by pro-China agents. Apologies if this was not the intention.
Brendan Behan in Paris
That book has a large number of criticisms for its (in the opinions of the views it criticizes) misguided polemics; if it's worth reading, it's also worth reading its criticisms.
> China claims to be an actual Communist country

We all know that's mere lip service.

Just like all those developed countries pushing their "we are democratic" propaganda, while the lobbies (equals big biz, lines up with interests of the super rich) have MUCH more power over the decision process than the voters. Thus democracy (meaning people-rule) is racket, a puppet show to hide that it is actually the money that rules.
It looks the conclusion is that the POPCNT instruction ("cpu") is faster than any of the SSE implementations. Only AVX2 outperforms POPCNT, and only for large enough bitstrings.
for reference https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45424
I wish I had one. I would have proudly given him mine. I wonder if he'd accept it, given that he'd perhaps reason it would force me to give up my ehh.., freedom, I guess.
On the other hand, if your unique paint job makes the news, you might have increased your resale value by $5k to $15k.
In my mind, I kinda hope that data they used to back this decision up was asking "Hey, all you other volunteer Python language devs? How many of you want to work on the old Python2 codebase still? How many of you would prefer to be working on Python3? OK, that's just about unanimous. How about we all get drunk on Newyears and shut it down on Jan 1st?"

You can still get Microsoft Windows XP support today. If you're prepared to pay enough.

I wonder how many of the people who're upset by this have ever or ever worked for companies that've ever sent anything more than pocket change to the people Python?
> Interestingly, this has also allowed taxis to have an edge over Uber et. al.

Why is this wanted? We have bus/taxi lanes here as well, but Uber is allowed to go there as well (they require the same taxi license as anyone else).
A mechanical engineer with < 1 year of experience likely has a degree in Engineering, which has been certified by a professional body. In some countries that's a requirement for using the term "Engineer".

A junior web developer, with less than 1 years experience might have spent two days reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-PHP-Hours/dp/06... (if that).

Let's not pretend those are the same.

Software Engineering has a history of trashing any benefits of formal education, and refusing to believe that any of it has any worth.
ROS 1.1 (next release) will target Python3 only.

https://discourse.ros.org/t/versioning-roadmap-moveit-1-0-re...
Single Sign-On demystified: set up a custom SSO using JWT
Fable (https://fable.io) is perhaps another option - it compiles F# to JavaScript.