skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

Everybody brings themselves and their assumptions to a conversation. All conversations are a negotiation over a shared space (however temporarily we may share that space).

I'm not calling into question whether you believe harassment is a bad thing or not (because frankly that's a pointless question to ask. Anybody who's asked point blank if they support harassment is going to say no).

The rhetorical structure of the conversation is what i am concerned about and steering the conversation around.

It is problematic from a rhetorical standpoint to debate whether or not the original author is being harassed by a single person or multiple people, because it distracts from the authors point, we can make no headway without further facts (which we are not privy to), and whether or not she's being harassed by a single person or multiple people is not pertinent to either the problems at hand or possible remedies.

So, then from a conversational point, one has to ask themselves what is the rhetorical purpose of asking the question? Is it intentionally to distract from the author's point? Is it to float & further the OP's theory? Is it morbid curiosity? Is it just carelessness or ignorance (and i mean that in the descriptive and non-pejorative fashion)?

Which of those are appropriate justifications for further pursuing the line of inquiry? I'd say none of them are, which is why i've been pretty vehement in knocking the foundation out from under them.

The door is always open for someone to supply a justification for why it matters and should be discussed, but skepticism isn't a good justification just the same way that pascal's wager isn't a good justification for believing in a Christian God.
While there are some Python experts around I have a question; in the world of Python 3 does it matter between 32-bit and 64-bit anymore? I remember a while back the only real option was 32-bit as most libraries were 32-bit only, especially on Windows where Python wasn't fantastically supported compared to Linux/OSX.
Is there a list of grievances anywhere? So far, all I know is that this person fired an employee the community happened to like, and has removed hate-speech subs (why is that a bad thing?). Is there anything of substance that has been done to damage the brand?

I went to this petition hoping there would be a bulleted list of objective criticism, but it's not there. To me this makes the whole argument seem emotionally rather than logically based.
That's interesting! Is it using Lagrangian duality to do any sort of shadow pricing for incremental changes? I guess I should probably read the paper by now.
To add some more things that can be specialized in

Data Analysis

Distributed Computing

High Performance Computing

Modelling and Simulation

Artificial Intelligence
I'm seeing patterns in the factoring of non-prime integers, but nothing to highlight any patterns that exist among prime numbers.
I was about to respond with something similar. Sometimes profanity is the most effective way to express yourself in the face of complete absurdity.
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On the other hand, secret trade deals like TTIP are, according to O'Brien, er, Cameron, perfectly fine.

I suppose it's one way of dealing with terrorists who "hate our freedoms", you just need to take these freedoms away one by one until they have nothing left to hate...
This makes the big assumption that they actually give a shit about catching terroist's rather than using it as a massive powers land grab.

We already have RIPA which allowed local councils to use anti-terror legislation to investigate parents for school catchment zones (oh and iirc investigations into bins).
Seriously? What a piece of shit for a human.

Edit: Phew. Consider the "seriously?" part of this comment retracted. The other bit stays.
Hey, one of the Triplebyte founders here. We do using coding problems but we try hard to mitigate the issues you bring up. We give candidates a selection of problems to choose from and we'll often explain how to solve a problem if it seems they're getting stuck. We're less interested in sudden flashes of insight and more looking to see if someone can write code and implement ideas they talk about.

We know it's still not perfect though and our goal is to keep experimenting to find what works best and be open about the results. As we mentioned in our last blog post, we're planning to offer take home tests as an option for our next experiment.
European here, and I hate guns. But I would not confirm that statement without conclusive evidence.
I have a pebble. It's a lot less disruptive to glance at my watch when something happens than it is to get out the phone. With my phone in my pocket, I'm less likely to fidget with it. And yeah- with my watch vibrating, I can leave the phone on silent all the time. If I want to disconnect, I just take off the watch. It works really well for that.
Reminds me of the puzzling: "If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 0% D) 25%"
I'm convinced that most management either

1) does not understand the time value of money
2) does not care about the time value of money

There is no value placed on the reduction of future expenses- for example, not needing to train another new guy when a senior person leaves, or having a simpler, more reasonable codebase that is harder to introduce bugs into.

I think this is because people (both minions and management) switch teams or jobs too quickly for these savings to become apparent, and therefore there is zero incentive to do things right. It's monkey-patch some crap together, keep it running at the absolute bare minimum, and get promoted and someone else has to deal with the problem.
Good point. I imagine it is a similarly strong signal for employees in the same way Remote Work can be. People who want it seem to only want it and nothing else.
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He says "We have always been able, on the authority of the home secretary, to sign a warrant and intercept a phone call, a mobile phone call or other media communications," but is clearly not content with same constraint with electronic communication. He can already get a warrant and gain access to private emails; what he wants is the ability to collect all emails regardless of the existence of a warrant.

It's an amazingly huge power grab and degradation of privacy.
Did you call me chauvinistic and sexist? That's an outright head to head insult. I am not, and using the word "stealing" does not make me such. Many woman use the the term "stealing boyfriend" it doesn't make them sexist. I refuse to continue this conversation due to the extreme unprofessional insults you are using.
You forgot to add - "With all due respect...."

:)
"Merely" is a word that makes me imagine what might have been if only.
You need to check the latest poll results: http://www.gallup.com/poll/117328/marriage.aspx
I don't know how you got that as the main takeaway from the article.
I remember the recent controversy about inclusion of google now features in chromium in relation to this.
We have mobile phones and other devices like Amazon's Echo that can and do listen to whatever we speak. Although, right now they only transmit the data to cloud after you say the tag phrase like "OK, Google" etc, it doesn't seem hard to make them always on, if the government agencies are given the legal authority to do so.
>Kodak is now bankrupt.

Kodak came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
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Is there any evidence terrorists can get gpg to work?
Irrelevant - law enforcement wants a backdoor into everything.
Some consider the entire British Empire to have come about essentially by accident. Compared to that, accidentally reading everyone's e-mail is minor.
I just checked and Microsoft BizSpark is still around. They give free software to startups and even mentorship.

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx
Really? If it was around before fph then it was very low key and it would have been because of her lawsuit because prior to fph that was all we really knew about her. But that doesn't mean that the hate was unfounded, her behaviour as portrayed by her own admission at trial, was shitty and as a jury decided she was not discriminated against, she was just a shitty person trying to play the victim card. People didn't want her associated with something (reddit) that they care about.

It is nothing to do with misogyny that is just a handy wall to hide behind because she is female. If it was misogyny then why the uproar over a female member of staff being fired?

If her accusers were shown to be female it would become a our her race. End of the day she is disliked because of her actions and behaviour, her gender and race have nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately, people will keep voting for them, because they can't be having with those dirty hippie leftists. Don't they know the holy words of Saint Thatcher? "There Is No Alternative."

But hey, at least they're not those dirty fascists in the UKIP and BNP! I mean, sure, they work to bring the xenophobic policies of those two parties into the mainstream, without even the BNP's egalitarian approach to domestic economics, but that's totally a serious distinction between neoliberalized conservatives and fascists!
From my point of view, the OS is a completely different thing then the browser. Because an OS is not specifically vertically oriented, where websites (for 99% ?) are. Therefore I do not like some kind of default sidebar in my OS.

I remember using a Vista machine for a short while and immediately looking for a way to disable it (also because it kept asking for widgets to put in there, if I am not mistaken; but that is besides the point).
I would love to see Twitter just say "nope".
What alternative would you propose?

Given that having an operator for this was deemed important for more readable numeric code, and that * was already taken, there weren't too many fabulous choices left.
Do we know for certain that ohanian sacked Victoria?
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No, I think that bit was sarcasm :)
This is most obvious in front end web but the simple solution is to not be an "Angular JS specialist" but a "Front End specialist".
Reactjs/Flux: Where to put database api logic? Store or actions?
https://github.com/meandmax/react-flux-dashboard

Where would you implement the api call to persist data to the key-value store (firebase).

2 options:

1. actions/counter-actions.js

incrementCounter: (id, count) => {
let incrementedCount = count + 1;

counterWebApiUtils.updateCounter(id, incrementedCount).on('value', (data) => {
Dispatcher.dispatch({
actionType: counterConstants.INCREMENT_COUNTER,
count: data.val(),
id
});
});
},

2. stores/counter-store.js (like it is right now)

counterWebApiUtils.updateCounter(payload.id, payload.count).on('value', () => {
counters[payload.id].count = payload.count;
counterStore.emitChange();
});
That man is un-freaking-believable!

What's even harder to believe, though, is that the British actually re-elected him!
No, that's just most people in general. There is a lot of difficulty getting people to testify even when the crime has been committed against them. They just want the problems to go away.
Personally, I'd have made it a diglyph of some sort, like :* or ^*, to make it obvious to someone looking at python math code for the first time that this is a multiplication operator. @ just leaves a weird taste here.
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Doom seems like the more obvious choice, thematically speaking.
Let us not forget that this is the leader that takes policy direction from what happens in the television dramas he watches. [0]

>"I love watching, as I should probably stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There is hardly crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device.

>"As you move from a world of people having fixed telephones and mobile phones to Skype and phones on the internet, if we don't modernise the practise and modernise the law over time we will have the communications data to solve these horrible crimes on a shrinking proportion of devices. That is a real problem for keeping people safe."

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10608439/David-...
I admit to not fully understanding the async PEP (partially since I don't do much Python programming anymore). Are there any downsides to having to explicitly mark an async function using the "async def" syntax?

I'm thinking of how in Go I can launch a goroutine with "go foo()", where foo can be any function and not one that happened to be declared explicitly as async.

Or in Perl 6, I can "my $p100 = start { (1..Inf).grep(*.is-prime)[99] }; say await $p100;" This provides the similar blocking "await" keyword, but I'm still free to execute any arbitrary code inside the block denoted by "start".

I have a feeling that these questions are both answered by whatever coroutine functionality existed prior to the introduction of "async def", but that's an area of Python that I have no experience with. I'd appreciate any clarification that could be offered. Thanks!

Edit: re: the P6 example, it looks like it works somewhat like Python, where a "Future-like object" (from the PEP) is provided to await; in P6 start returns a Promise. However it looks like in Python I still need to wrap the enclosing function with "await def". https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/#await-expression
Not sure if it's mathematically related to the OP patterns, but the prime number patterns apparent in the Ulam Spiral have always been my favorite example of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Considering the last Gov's relationship with the Guardian (they sent people around to smash up a laptop) I'd be amazed if they weren't already.
You're getting a 404 from nqsb.io? This: https://nqsb.io/nqsbtls-usenix-security15.pdf works fine for me. What browser/cache setup do you have? Does a `curl` work?

I left another copy of the paper on my homepage at http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2015-usenixsec-nqsb.pdf, but Peter's version or the USENIX site should be fine as well.
If you read the PEP, it explains how they are adding it for easier python2 -> python3 migration
There is still the issue of the CA that is in place for anchor - your users have to trust it.
The management role is different and in most large companies is higher valued and more highly paid because they bear the brunt of whatever happens, good or bad, from their team.

Depending on the level of management and the systems involved it could also become involved in audits, regulatory matters and potentially handling confidential information for the company. Think of it this way: a manager of a team of 10 developers probably has a budget of 1.5 - 2.0 million dollars in just headcount, maybe higher. If your average developer on that team makes $100k, isn't it worth it to have the manager make about 20% more because of the responsibilities?
Here's my tip to negotiate a significant raise without burning bridges: https://medium.com/@colunchers/how-to-negotiate-a-raise-9166...

In the end, your salary is roughly proportional to the number of people you impact. Management is an obvious path, since you directly control a group of people. But senior engineers can give technical direction and influence a lot of more junior engineers without having to be formally their boss. Also known as the technical track at companies such as Intel (principal engineer -> fellow).
That was an interesting time. The concepts of 3D graphics, VR, AI, web/matrix/cloud/whatever, ubiquitous computing, smart phones/tablets/watches, global mapping (to hallway detail), [near-]real-time satellite imagery, weather prediction practically to foot & minute scale, affordable on-demand travel to anywhere, machine learning, machine vision, etc were becoming understood & popularized decades before they were anywhere close to feasible in hardware.
physically placing microphones in private residences

Do you keep your cell phone at your bedside table? Do you have access to your baseband source code? The future is already here.
Old discussion of glop:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8393200 (with python demo)
None considering the article has nothing to do with databases.
Never heard of this. Looks like a really cool project.
Well, there's also type hints that so far we haven't added to "What's New" :)

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
no, it's not that hard. what's hard is dealing with inconsistent income flow, lack of stability, and, most relevant to me, the psychological block against taking vacation or personal time when doing so has a real and immediate cost to my paycheck.

I'd rather make a little less at a job that has vacation benefits, than make a little more at a job where every day off comes out of my salary- because I recognize that I'm a human with certain hangups, and this is the way I can best optimize quality of life.
I don't think there is much respect due for him.
Take a look at CasperJS. That will eliminate the Python side of things. You can probably build your report within CasperJS too, but I would just export the relevant data to a database and standardize your RoR codebase to the point where adding extra reports is a simple proposition.
When are governments going to stop maintaining roads and bridges for terrorists to safely drive on?
> Visual Studio Community 2013 (and 2015) are completely free and nearly fully featured.

But have licensing terms which limit the contexts in which they can (legally) be used.

> Gone are the days of Express being a super lightweight VS IDE.

Express is still a super lightweight VS IDE. Community may eliminate most of the use cases for Express, since most of the cases where it makes sense to use Express may be places where Community is an available, per the licensing restrictions, and better choice.
> a place where people have crazy, incredible aspirations and balls of steel.

The people and place may be as close as your own backyard> http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/techflash/2014/10/1...
None of this rings true to me. I've never heard or read anything like "it wasn't the perpetrator's fault, it was XYZ", but rather "it was the perpetrator's fault, and I wonder if XYZ contributes to the prevalence of such perpetrators". In the US at least, there certainly appears to be something going on outside of random happenstance[0], so it makes sense to think and talk about what that may be. Certainly many people use such things to rail against their pet cause, but far more people are just trying to figure out where we're going wrong.

[0]: http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2015/07/De-Obfuscating-th...
He didn't actually say that. knodi123 is making fun of Cameron's disingenuity.
I think having Google on his resume did help him in getting the interviews (as opposed to a stack of resumes no one ever called back), but once you get the interview, they still make you go through the same format as other candidates. Hard to compare candidates otherwise.
New Labour in the UK don't have a better record on technological civil liberties.

This is part of the problem - we cannot signal our rejection of these measures electorally.
This hole is called the "Memory Hole". If this sounds Orwellian to you, it's because it is indeed Orwellian.
Then the terrorists will move to different services. If you want to prevent that, you have to shut down the internet, which is quite impossible due to the decentralized structure of TCP/IP. Someone should explain the technical working of the internet to this poor guy.

The other possibility is that he is just forwarding the internal GCHQ lobby, and he knows that this plan is evil and only about controlling citizens.
It's almost like we need a party that advocates for personal liberty above all else.
Anybody familiar with this know if it has a good implementation of Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm? Or know of one somewhere else? I can't find anything in their docs about non-linear function solving which seems like something google must do a lot of.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811288
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Which is mostly nonsense. metasploit is for free.
Hacking Teams RCS is for nobs, a specialist wouldn't pay for that.
Drop the charade and call them with their real name - repression apparatus.
No No No! I thought it was NOT recognizing sex differences that leads to industrial scale mass murder!

Now I'm confused. Not really, because this thread is nonsense -- confirmation bias mixed with absurdity.
I did a little hack in this space a couple of years back, called it the 'Cat Food Calculator' -

http://blog.streeteye.com/calculator/

The issue with OP's calculator is, one has to enter an assumption for the rate of return after taxes and fees.

Also you can average 7% return in retirement, but you have a big market drop early in your retirement, you run out of money even if the market makes it up 10 years down the road. You can't spend an average.

I was trying to deal with the question of a safe spending rate based on historical returns.

Enter a stock/bond allocation, spending rate, couple of other assumptions, will show you, if you had retired using that gameplan in each year, 1928 up to the present, how long would it take to run out of money. And based on an actuarial life table, how likely you were to run out of money.

That should give some idea of how big a portfolio you need to have to spend the amount you want without running out of money. And then next step would be to figure out how much you need to save to get there.

If you hit the 'Visualize' button after running an initial simulation, you can drag some sliders around and see what happens...used Google's visualization API.
Maybe I'll take another crack at a proper design.
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Can someone to me explain why it seems that all major British politicians from both parties seem so unbelievably stupid when it comes to the internet? Cameron wants an end to encryption, a backdoor in to all communication; and before him, Milliband pushed through that awful 'think of the children' countrywide porn block. Those are the heads of the two major parties, both pushing through awful legislation.
The amendments don't grant rights; they limit government. That's why we call them inalienable rights. You cant "amend away" these things. Of course that doesnt stop power from trying.

Preamble to the (confusingly named) Bill of Rights:
The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.
The breaking of the dam at Isengard in the two towers movie was a model, also.
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Key takeaway: You should become an expert in a deeply technical software specialty. Also, bounce back and forth between Google and Microsoft a few times.
So that your build process is faster. If I can use the same container for local dev, continuous integration, staging, and production, that means I only had to build it once and the pipeline to get something from a developer's laptop to a production instance is much quicker.

Just because I can install the operating system doesn't mean I want to do this on every deploy of an application.