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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

I like how your parent comment has positive karma for saying that "it's fake; who cares," but I'm downvoted into negative for saying "it's fake; I care" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735972

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

> Most new US production is higher cost (fracking), so the drop in market share is at least met with a stronger price floor for all.

Not to be rude, but this is really off the mark. The only reason that we're not still in a cartel market regime of $100 barrels is fracking being invented/discovered and efficiently improved. It cut the price floor well in half.

Fracking is not the cheapest, but it's also not the most expensive (see Canada's oil sands). When you compare fracked WTI (basically the USA-sourced index) to offshore Brent (North Sea, off the coast of UK), the costs are apples to oranges because fracking can be readily tapped at a relative drop of the hat (if prices spike in a short term period), but offshore is a huge multi-million/billion endeavor where you have to depreciate costs over a really long time horizon (same with oil sands, but different tech).

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

This was pretty obvious imo, based on a cursory viewing of the original video when it came out. I immediately blocked the dude's Twitter account as I only use it for following fintwits. People wanted to believe it was true for whatever reason; just take a step back, and you'll see how obviously staged the whole thing was. Don't feed the troll.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

The fraudster was named CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/top-der-spiege...

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

This is completely off subject, but as a personal rule of thumb, 99% of articles that include the first person, such as "Why I [did xyz]..." or "How we can...", are clickbait.

Ime, the best case scenario is Acme Tech Co. "blogging" about "why we used abc codebase," but the reality is that it's simply rehashing well known information in narrative form for the purposes of PR, and worst case scenario is that it's just unoriginal op-ed garbage.

See: "We should replace Facebook with personal websites," which is currently trending at #10 for HN, above this OP at #16.

EFF is a great organization and can't say that it's surprising to see that this is the first time in a long time to come across an exception to the rule.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

I tend to side with your opinion (obviously, based on the above code), but detaro does have a point, which is that the progress message will "overflow" onto a new/next line in the console if the message has more characters than will fit on a single of the terminal.

fwiw, line_len=79 is the default on both windows and linux ime. You would only encounter overflow if you (1) shrunk the terminal from its default width and (2) printed a message that was longer than that shrunken width.

If you really needed to have a progress bar that accounted for a shrunken display, it could be accomplished trivially with Python 3.? and less-trivially with Py2.

I could see depending on this library if the application was client facing and needed to be automagically pretty.

Also, one thing to note is that tqdm only fetches the console width when init'ing a progress bar... if you shrink the terminal while a progress bar is still "in progress," you will encounter the same overflow issue.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Please be honest and admit that this is solely about yourself; your kids having nothing to do with this except with respect to your own benefit. Even Walter White "did everything for his family."

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

edit: how the hell does markdown/code-snippet work on hackernews?! Nicely formatted pic of the below text soup:

https://i.imgur.com/fvEeaJA.png

My library function is:

import sys def writeToTerminal(txt, line_len=79): # line_len is the max num of characters that can fit onto a terminal line without overflowing to a newline

		# overwrite the line with blank spaces
		# this takes care of the case where len(txt) is fewer than the [ len(txt) when this function was last called ]
		sys.stdout.write( "\r" + " "*line_len )
		sys.stdout.flush()
        
		# write the txt, trimming to line_len
		sys.stdout.write( "\r" + txt.replace("\t", "    ")[:line_len] )
		sys.stdout.flush()

Example usage:

from time import sleep L = list(range(10)) for c, i in enumerate(L, start=1): writeToTerminal("%i / %i" %(c, len(L))) sleep(1)

user2426679

il y a 8 ansdiscuss

I've always just used `sys.stdout.write("\r%i/%i" %(c, n)); sys.stdout.flush()`

That is exactly what this library does: "tqdm does not require any dependencies (not even curses!), just Python and an environment supporting carriage return \r and line feed \n control characters." -- https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm

Seems unnecessary imo to depend on an external library just to wrap and auto-prettify those 2 stdout commands.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Agreed that this is a great example by Gallagher of all-too-rare "real" journalism.

The unfortunate thing is that the headline of this article should probably be "Google's Secret China Project Now Even More Secret."

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

> Relational databases are brilliant, but SQL is terrible and I don't understand how it hasn't gone the way of COBOL yet.

Having written extensive amounts of SQL and greater than zero lines of COBOL (f. you, Lawson), this really couldn't be further from the truth.

> For a start, the bizarrely English-oriented structure forces a completely different ordering of the code than what comes out, and the syntax appears to completely ignore the underlying tabular concepts.

Every language has keywords; I'm not sure how you expect to write code that doesn't involve English in some form. Is the concept of `SELECT this_data FROM this_source WHERE true_conditions ORDER BY columns` really that convoluted? Sure, it definitely gets more complicated, but is there really a significantly better way to do it that doesn't involve taking away low-level control from the programmer, in exchange for something sexier and easier to pick up?

> Not to mention that IMO joining on foreign keys shouldn't be a thing--the database should be able to figure out what you want when you write `order.customer.address.taxRegion.rate`

Why can't you have a key-value storage engine that doesn't involve using keys to look up values?! (Is that really your question?) Okay, just as an example, what if you have more than one address for a customer? You need a way to tell the engine which address(es) you want.

> There's just so much awkwardness in trying to write a SQL query that I can definitely see why people would avoid it.

While I don't claim that SQL is easy (or always intuitive), saying that it is "terrible" for the above reasons is like saying that C is terrible because it's not Pythonic.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

The author whines about all the problems of the modern world, enlightens us with the emotional turmoil endured when watching a movie, and then concludes with a "won't someone please think of the children?!" In this diatribe, neither are the author's specific moral convictions shared with the reader nor are any solutions offered except to remind you that Trump is bad.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Have you watched the documentary "Boxes?"

https://imdb.com/title/tt1263704/

I think you really knock Kubrick without giving proper respect to his work ethic. And sure, luck is when preparation meets opportunity, but Stanley had the preparation part in spades, in a way that even many other successful "titans" probably do not.

user2426679

il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Thanks for the link... enjoyable and educational :)

Wonder where Immortal Technique would fit within that chart.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Would like to see a similar analysis that instead looks at the number of syllables, specifically vocabulary that has greater than 2 syllables.

In addition to being of personal interest (I think it's much more difficult and impressive to create rhymes with 3+ syllables due to the natural constraint of a smaller basket of words), it would also, presumably, avoid the issue that the author highlights:

> I used a research methodology called token analysis to determine each artist’s vocabulary. Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words. To avoid issues with apostrophes (e.g., pimpin’ vs. pimpin), they’re removed from the dataset. It still isn’t perfect. Hip hop is full of slang that is hard to transcribe (e.g., shorty vs. shawty), compound words (e.g., king shit)

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

They're not mutually exclusive. There is a popular private tracker that uses IPFS to host screenshot previews, while serving the actual videos via torrent.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - popularly attributed to Orwell

(As you may already know), Swartz was heavily influenced by Chomsky, and Aaron definitely had that pessimistic view of the "news machine." But imo, it seems justified in hindsight considering the backlash that he personally experienced after (arguably, single-handedly) stopping SOPA in it's tracks. His legal persecution was practically guaranteed after that; he was going to be found guilty of something, eventually. Unfortunately, the Secret Service got him by the legal balls for using MIT's facilities to bulk download JSTOR docs.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Where do you place Jeffrey Epstein in relation to pizza extremism?

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