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by rspeer 8y ago
There are many software stacks that are not versioned only at the top level, especially in scientific software. As an example: If I tell you I calculated a result on SciPy 1.1.0, do you know what version of what code is doing the linear alg
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by rspeer 8y ago
To keep it alive and do what with it?
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by rspeer 8y ago
It sounds to me like this poster is straightforwardly asking for coins that can be pumped and dumped one last time.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The standard library is where code goes to die. If six were in the standard library, it would be as stagnant and impossible to fix as 2to3.
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by rspeer 8y ago
This instance isn't even like money laundering, it's more like grand theft. They're not biased data into their ML algorithm and losing track of where the bias went, like the kind of systems Maciej describes. They're just
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by rspeer 8y ago
My guess is they're mostly procedurally generated with manual tweaks for particularly significant lines.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Without the "intelligible" part, this makes me think of what the game Celeste does to give its characters voices without voice acting. They make voice-like synth sounds, different for each character, that are about the length of t
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by rspeer 8y ago
It would have been a bad idea to use WinSCP in 2014 also. Yet you'll notice they backed off and have had years to repair their reputation, instead of getting caught a second time and trying to cover it up like FileZilla is doing. I und
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by rspeer 8y ago
What doesn't make sense? FileZilla is a bad actor who is trying to infect people's computers with malware. Download sites are bad actors who are trying to infect people's computers with malware. People should have all the inf
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by rspeer 8y ago
HN readers are capable of not using FileZilla, because its admin is actively trying to mislead its users into running malware. Are you associated with FileZilla? Why are you here bringing out the "everyone is doing it" defense?
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by rspeer 8y ago
Oh my god. You're talking to competent computer users on Hacker News, not people who use crapware download sites and need to be warned away from them by "HowToGeek". Of course there is trustworthy freeware. You can get it usi
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by rspeer 8y ago
The WikiLeaks that released the "Collateral Murder" video was a very different thing from the Russian organization that exists today. That WikiLeaks even had a wiki.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Is this just wishful thinking that, if something went wrong with your paycheck, the world would be just and there would be an easy legal remedy waiting for you? From what I understand, you can only sue for $1000 or less in small claims cour
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by rspeer 8y ago
Thanks for running these statistics. Your experience is certainly different from mine. Is your Python actually PyPy? Here's what I observed: I had a simple text-processing tool I needed that I call "countmerge", which just me
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by rspeer 8y ago
Trust me. Awk is much faster. I say this with no disrespect for Python, it's just you should know the tradeoffs of the tools you use. It does not matter if the individual operations in Python are implemented in C. It will still be much
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by rspeer 8y ago
"aaa" is a fitting name because that's what I said out loud when I followed the link.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Oh, I think I understand the point here now. I said in my other comment that I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk -- but maybe this means their design succeeded. By designing a terse language, they made peop
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by rspeer 8y ago
I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk, so that seems a little extreme. Awk is a pretty terse language, and that gives you plenty of room to put in whitespace and comments and still have something short and sw
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by rspeer 8y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear about this distinction. Python is an interpreted language. Even if you are matching a "compiled" regex, you are repeatedly interpreting the line that says to match it. Awk is a compiled language. Your Awk
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by rspeer 8y ago
Also, awk is way faster than Python. Its patterns aren't interpreted over and over like they would be in Python; they're compiled into a state machine.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The one thing I find unfortunate about how people learn awk is the emphasis on making it terse and unreadable, especially trying to turn everything into a shell one-liner. Don't write one-liners if they're not that simple. Write t
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by rspeer 8y ago
Ubuntu doesn't ship with pip or virtualenv. In fact it ships with a version of Python where the built-in equivalent to virtualenv, pyvenv, is explicitly disabled. So you have to install extra Python packages, as root. You have to have
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by rspeer 8y ago
Most users do not have AWS accounts and are not about to get them.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Maybe there's some subtlety I'm missing. If you have a lot of Bitcoin and you want to short Bitcoin, isn't that just called "selling Bitcoin"?
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by rspeer 8y ago
There's a province of Indonesia named Papua, on the island of New Guinea, bordering the country Papua New Guinea. I have no idea what the inhabitants think about this or if anyone even cares, but it sounds quite confusing.
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by rspeer 8y ago
You think online small businesses are transacting directly with their customers using Bitcoin?
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by rspeer 8y ago
How is it the same? If I'm hosting a Web app, my users can't write to S3.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Everyone here knows how to Google. When someone brings up a topic, telling them to Google it is rude. There is probably a reason they want to discuss it and not just Google it.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Wow, that is some really unclear and weaselly wording. Do I understand correctly that it means "This system might decide to 'follow' a stopped car and crash into it, and then we'll say it's your fault"?

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