skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says this particular instance of the debate started in 2011. Things have shifted a little since then, and I think Python has won more mindshare with Pandas, SciPy, NumPy, and all the rest. I've used both Python and R, and think the next debate will be between those two, as people find that R is not a very good programming language and lacks decent libraries for things like web scraping.

Python can be a single tool that integrates with every part of your workflow. R right now still wins in the number of algorithms implemented in it (there are statistical methods not available in R but not Python), and R has more terse syntax which some people like for interactive use. But for really Big Data, terse syntax and an endless variety of esoteric algorithms are not as important as, say, robust error handling and debugging (a weak area in R, but a strong one in Python).
Yes, it's curious why countries assume adversarial stances towards each other as a default. Yes, game theory and all that, but its better to be optimistic and hope the humanitarian spirit will prevail.
But what if you are filming from the public street/highway. Surely that should be legal?
Why do we need legislation like this? TFA says "[jail and a fine] for people who secretly enter ... " Do they not already have trespassing laws?
They are probably penetrated with equipment or tools (e.g., a broom handle) without reason other than to be cruel.
The assumption that JS is more secure than C.
This does not follow. Private property is private but you can still commit crimes on private property.

This logic would permit egregious abuse to go on unchallenged behind closed doors because its private property. This cannot honestly be what you are saying?

There is a balance between the laws that might be broken in order to discover a crime. If someone commits a crime with the intention to discover another crime, you seem to feel it is acceptable to ignore the second crime?

It's actually not okay to create precedent that penalizes people that discover your crime, it only makes crimes easier to hide.
No, that doesn't make sense.

If it is considered wrong/unethical to film on private property in Idaho - why would they legislate for a specific industry? Shouldn't filming video on private property be illegal all across the board in Idaho if the problem is about basic rights?
Have you ever tried to sell something in English to a French company? Have you ever tried to sell something in Russia without "having a connection" to someone? Why does Dropbox have a Irish HQ?[0]

[0]- https://www.dropbox.com/dublin
Respect The Key Influences To Your Startup Culture
he was talking about scope here. hashes do not help much.

assoc lists were important to implement dynamic environments simple and fast, which is not so easy with hash tables. In assoc lists you tolerate duplicates, but by putting new at the beginning you override/"shadow" the old ones, until you leave scope and use the old assoc list. and share the data! with hashes you have to actively delete or copy the tables. non-efficient and very complicated.
This is Colbert's 'truthiness' showing.
World War One began a hundred years ago, and today it feels like Europe hasn't progressed at all in those hundred years. Sadly, the Marx Brothers "Duck Soup" remains as relevant as ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Soup_(1933_film)
It's not about your house. This law concerns farms only.
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Glad you found the appetite angle interesting thenomad.

Whilst licensing popular IPs is one way to reliably bring in an audience, I wouldn't say it's a long term solution for healthy, diverse culture. Reusing older source material is certainly popular right now though, Sherlock Holmes is a strong example of that. Furthermore, older material can be reused in creative ways (e.g. Sample-based music, reimaginings of universes such as Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, etc...).

I also think you make a good point about 'a Joss Whedon fan wants "stuff like Buffy"'. I think this can go beyond what someone is used to when people begin to build their identity around what they consume. There is an unwritten but obvious way that a group latches onto certain media, even in scenes that supposedly promote individualism such as geek culture. Even if culture should be identity agnostic, it frequently is not.

I should point out that although I don't always find time for the new, I know that I'd be better off if I did. Perhaps 'find time' is the key phrase, I feel so busy with/addicted to my current cultural consumption that I don't make room for finding something new. The one exception for me is YouTube, I'll happily take time browsing YouTube seeing where it takes me. Perhaps that's the one exception due to the habits ingrained in me throughout the 90s through copious TV consumption, I'm at ease that I'll not always hit the jackpot of an interesting video.

What I really would like to see is greater cultural diversity, despite my actions to the contrary. As a film maker I apologise that you'll have to deal with these issues!

Perhaps short, ambitious content could help? When I was a kid I had a Transformers video I used to watch a lot, one of the episodes was 'Call Of The Primitives'. I really enjoyed that episode, the story seemed to flow really well. When I was older I read a complaint about that episode that they had tried to fit in too much, that it was a film-like storyline in a single 20 minute episode, it struck me that maybe that's part of what I liked about the story flow, it had the ambition to throw in quite a few memorable moments in a short time frame. I don't know if there's a lesson in that, but perhaps there is.

What else do you think might help?
Tabs vs. spaces... in some respects programming is so incredibly primitive.
Oh god. You've just reminded me of hacking the Nitto 1320 drag racing game: it was a "desktop" app that was actually a Flash exe. Decompiling it was a lot of fun, seeing Jeff build a completely hacked client and doing it myself...

Fun times. I had a lot of time on my hands as a kid.
So your conclusion is that the original code is more logical with regard to volatile pointers, even though calling it with one would mean casting away the volatile and basically inviting disaster?

No coding style is immune to problems caused by changing the number of reads to a variable. Volatile is an exceptional thing that must be treated with care and heavy documentation. It has no relevance to the quality of a normal-code strcpy.
Buried treasure: the ONLY way to save ^_^ .
Let's not make up charges without evidence.
Remember DSSSL anyone? Obviously worse was better
There's certainly some truth in that; the environment someone is brought up in during their most plastic developmental period sets the tone for their approach.

This essentially reduces the problem down however, saying that the twisted narratives of media are resultant of a system where early education teaches you to simply accept that message. (I speak in what would be hyperbole in most cases for the situation you suggest, where the parents and friends advocate taking narratives "as faith"), and at that point it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

The parents and friends lived in a system that perpetuated their narratives, so they communicate this to their children, to create a new generation of etc.

So where do you break the cycle? I'm not going to be sticking my nose into someone else's parenting, as much as I think it might do them good. Maybe I should, but I haven't been convinced yet. At this point the best approach I've come up with is just trying to _talk_ to more people. Prompt them to think; and be communicative.
At least this doesn't brand people doing this as terrorists, like in some states.
Just FYI- everything is back up except the SSL certificate so be aware. Should be fixed soon.
As far as I understand the U.S. legal system, your crimes add up to your sentence. This means that you could nail someone for both trespassing and filming filming at your farm.
...in the list of 'most admired companies'. Admired by whom? The public? Investors? Brand recognition? Worthless article.
Well, it's pretty straightforward. You do know where the milk you drink comes from, right?

You do know that cows are forcefully inseminated and impregnated (i.e. raped) in order to keep up the production, right?

[I'm not sure why the downvotes are in place just because I'm mentioning a well known fact about how the dairy industry works]
> I find it hard to miss indentation,

I've been having to deal with large YAML config files lately, and find it's easy to miss indentation. Even with niceties that add lines to the different indentations, it's hard to keep track of where you are. Beyond a short, simple YAML file, I find it gets confusing really fast to the point of frustration.
Why no name?
Didn't work for that person; they died without ever recovering it. Some random couple got rich. Lesson: take more walks in the woods?
What about security? Are chats encrypted over the wire, and in storage? What's the underlying protocol - XMPP/Jabber?
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A farm is Somebody's house. I live on one for instance. While we don't torture animals, keep your cameras out of my space anyway thank you.
> at least I've used the things I'm talking about instead of spreading weird FUD.

> A lot of JSON becomes pure noise: "{{[[{[{{[".

Pro-tip: if you are going to call someone out for not knowing a format and spreading FUD, don't post things where you do the same exact thing. It pretty much invalidates the criticisms you've been making as it says "I don't know what I'm talking about, here is proof."
We can only gain by spying on you.

Except for a lot of damage to goodwill, which can have an economic impact. Lots of European citizens dislike the US heavily now and that comes with disliking US products.

Your political decisions therefore will have an impact on the effectiveness of our military system to defend our country.

First, the US and Germany are allies. Allies talk and don't spy. Second, by now it's clear that a lot of the espionage is economical.

The US/NSA mistreated their allies. It will take many years to rebuild trust.
By that argument, everyone who follows ethical rules has limits to how "out-of-the-box" one can be.

If I am a pacifist, then that places limits on me. If I am a vegetarian, then that places limits on me. If I am a teetotaler the that places limits on me. If I don't believe in using murder to settle parking disputes then that places limits on me. If I don't believe in dumping untreated waste water into the city's water supply then that places limits on me. If I don't believe in tripping people just to see them fall, then that places limits on me.

I am well inside the box on a huge number of things. I hope you are too.
That's not what Mobile First means...
To some degree this is what Miranda rights are all about. How does that figure in your ethical map?
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Did the poster above you make any assertions?

It's not that hard to look it up anyway: http://www.peta.org/videos/sexual-deviance-and-sexual-abuse-...

(don't watch it)
Its clearly a knee-jerk reaction to unfortunate events. But consider: Farms cannot be reasonably secured. Can't prove 'breaking and entering' when all you have to do is park and walk, maybe cross a fence. So they would need some special rules to make them private space at all.
What full-time means is very important here, as the concept of full-time work doesn't necessarily fit well with the movie industry.

It seems most common in the movie industry to be employed on a short, fixed-term contract (for the duration of one film, say) before moving on to the next thing.

Does that count as full-time employment for the purposes of this stat? I'm guessing not.

Is this a bad thing? Probably not (although reasonable to argue). In any case, it's different than traditional employment: so employment can't be measured using traditional figures.
Better extendability?
Given it's already happened, he should either be focusing on the specific negative consequences on her engagement with the startup ... or if there aren't any such, recalibrating to not be disappointed. Continuing to hold the estimate related to a guess when you're about to get actual data seems ... suboptimal, at best.

Also, I specifically said that the "estimate of his capacity to maintain relationships with other people should likely be revised downwards" which was intentionally rather more nuanced than "asshole"/"not an asshole".
Google and Facebook only have good data for the countries in which they have significant marketshare (think Russia, China… neither of which are small countries). I'll also posit that Facebook is significantly bias towards younger users.
There was no implication that the Randian titans were inspired by Rand. Only the implication that they lived by her ideals.

That, of course, can happen before she actually articulates them.
Way to miss my point, which is that this law concerns farms specifically and not homes or workplaces in general. I assume that you deliberately misinterpreted me, so what point are you trying to make?
"The man seen fondling a cow’s vagina in the newly released video eventually spent 102 days in jail."

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cow-abuse-v...
An Ode to Code as heard through the ears of a CEO
Ignore the proposal then. (though it doesn't assume infinite willpower, it's about putting things out of sight.)

Focus on the main point, that it's still quite bad to eat an entire non-supersized bag. If the original wish of 'no supersized bags' was granted, no problem would be solved! There would be even more chip overeating on georgemcbay's part, as they bought more bags.

It's like comparing 22 inch and 30 inch pizzas, nobody should be eating an entire pizza that big over the course of a couple days.
> Wow! Do you see any problems with simultaneously describing something as "false" and as "conjecture"?

The available anecdata clearly proves they don't.
There's a gem of truth in what you say: culture is probably the largest factor in behavior differences/outcome differences. Sometimes because one culture has different setpoints for accuracy/reliability/punctuality for instance, that would make members more/less appropriate for some occupations.

But sometimes its just that one culture currently dominates a social/economic niche for historical reasons. Then members of other cultures have a hard time 'fitting in'; they can't catch a break because they don't know anybody in the industry and may even seem strange/uncomfortable for those in power, so get excluded or overlooked as new members.

Your Hollywood example may fit in that camp I believe. Maybe Jewish culture is a superior fit; maybe historically folks from that crowd entered the industry in its infancy and the rest is cultural momentum. For better or for worse.

The lesson for Silicon Valley and its bro-culture is then clearer. Why no women? Because in the 50's, there were few women. And if there is a 'women's culture', its dissimilar enough from the bro-culture that they feel mutually uncomfortable working together.
Apologies, I haven't used SAS in so long that I had it confused slightly with SPSS.
Please don't be obtuse or sensationalize this. You know very well that's not what's being referred to here.
should be if HR is to live up to it's pretensions about being a "profession".
I clearly stated that it's a hypothesis. The biggest assumption, that immigrants are less risk-averse, sounds very plausible to me.
I'm sorry if I made you upset, but I'm not looking to insult anybody here. It's a civil conversation. If you disagree with what I said, you can say why without getting antagonistic.

The fact that I used a weaker word like conjecture instead of something stronger should say a lot about what I really think on the matter. I'm used to constructing comments a bit more carefully for serious opinions if you look at my comment history. :) No harm, no foul, I hope.
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If you do localization, don't think only language will cut it.

Address systems, payment systems, "simply taking credit cards" may not cut it.

But in the end you have to launch targeting one or more countries, whatever comes beyond that is "free".

And of course, you start from day 0 to make your system Unicode compliant.
The people's English is usually rather bad if they aren't higher educated (e. g. university degree).
This is pretty unnecessary. If you need all these things, just use XML.
You sir are 100% correct.

tl;dr - The better solution is probably no public loans or grants whatsoever.
Diplomatic espionage is pretty much standard - you might prefer to trust your allies but you still want confirmation that they're actually doing what they're telling you they're doing. I'm from England, and fully expect the German government to be spying on the UK government and the UK government to be spying on the German government, and don't really see a problem with it. I mean ... I don't trust our politicians ... why should I expect yours to? :)

The economic espionage side I'm much less happy about.
Cherry pick all you want. Dropbox and others grew to millions without having a multiple-language site, European headquarters, "Russian connections", etc. My business currently sells to the world with an English website, one terms of service, one VAT, and one business location in a non-English speaking country. We are not the only ones.
If, in your place of work, you are doing something illegal in the production of a product intended for public consumption, then it seems that the calculus would change.
Maybe the way to put it is - "failure is not something to be that scared of."

I didn't like the article. It felt shallow. The real issue is that in the US we have a tendency to not second-guess people's decisions about how to invest their money. Yes, this means that some people will be ripped off, but it also means that they, and the society as a whole can be in rapid learning cycles about what makes a good investment.

It's clear that the US has a very different take on acceptable risk and as a result they more big wins and big losses. Can't have one without the other.
They probably think that privacy only means the right to not see you dirty secrets all over the news
Except you aren't providing information in a vacuum - you are also providing a negative personal opinion. I would rather see responses which purport to educate include a more balanced perspective such as the potential benefits such analytics might confer to end-users in the long run.

I fully respect peoples right to privacy. I just wish those who frequent Hacker news were more accepting of the fact that privacy is a trade off; one which often comes at the expense of the benefits of sophisticated analytics.
That 'your house' sounded like belittling the parent post. Just sticking up for farm residents. Clearer?
I think "rule of law" isn't an apt phrase. The term is mostly defined procedurally, and not based on if the law itself is unjust. (There are alternative definitions, but this is the most common.)

The relevant law here is the Espionage Act of 1917, which has no provision for intent, no need to show that there was specific harm, and no balancing of public good with the amount of harm caused.

Quoting Wikipedia on "Rule of Law": Upholding the rule of law can sometimes require the punishment of those who commit offenses that are justifiable under natural law but not statutory law.
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That strain is maybe due to a dysfunctional idea of marriage at present. That can be changed.
Well, I find it hard to see the difference between "abnormal" sexual abuse and "regular" sexual abuse that is an inherent part of the dairy industry, whether you like it or not.
Brett Glass's statement of rebuttal here is an amusing addition to the story and worth reading (even if you probably won't be on his side).
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You think Europe hasn't progressed? Tell me how many shots Russian and Ukranian troops have fired at each other (at the time of me writing this comment).

Alternatively, how many shots have soldiers from the UK, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway fired at each other in the past 60 years? Sure, there's more the Europe than the west, but we're doing pretty well when it comes to peace in that area.

Or, on a more practical note, how many millions of dollars of value has been added to the economies of European states due to agreements such as the EFTA, CEFTA, and the EU Customs Union? How many trade disputes have been resolved?
How does preventing filming helps? The cows don't understand a violation of their privacy, but I'm reasonably sure they understand being abused.
Apology accepted. I didn't mean you; there is plenty of vitriol elsewhere in this thread.
Its ok, one a week or whatever. Not some great delicacy, Especially not cold and day-old.
We're not there yet. For some time we regulated things, and some of the nastier abuses of the past were attenuated a bit. The particularly bad abuses were prevented entirely, and some of the wealth was distributed in a more equitable way.

The modern version that we've seen for a while still has some of the nasty effects, such as making the town (intentionally or not) a very difficult situation to leave. Forcing decisions that are bad for and rejected by a community such "lets go fracking really close to where the drinking water comes form!" seems to be popular in modern times (and a lot of local variation).

The problem, as I mentioned towards the end of the other post, is when business and government are no longer working against each other. We extract value, as citizens from the resulting equilibrium, because the nastier tendencies of either group are restrained. I'm suggesting that the NEW change, is a dramatic and sudden shift away from that regulation. You see this in Facebook and other big players such as the banks that were labeled "Too Big To Fail". Some of the traditional power-players like the coal industry simply have a bit of historical inertia to overcome.

We've been the reducing government's ability to regulate for some time now, making the modern, milder, modern Company Town as you describe increasingly rarer as this progress.
You're right, I didn't get that point, I still can't say I agree but thanks for clarifying.
See: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/...
If it's "free" then you're the product (in this case, a promotion for Github).

And I think I have the right to refuse to be sold if there are better alternatives. They'll either have to step up their game (with FOSS) or lose me.
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We name stadiums after corporations (by selling the naming rights).

I'm sure we'll soon be naming mayorships, as occupants of governments from the smallest city to the federal government continue to be elected by cutting budgets and then cry because there's no money to provide basic services.

They'll be called smart public-private partnerships.
Annoyingly, that description is too vague to tell if it's actual abuse or just 'look at me touch a taboo spot'. And I'd rather not watch the video to find out. The fact that he went to jail doesn't clarify, because he did many other things such as jumping on a cow for an extended period.
Ukraine orders full military mobilisation