ddfisher

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Don't forget Cython [1]! My understanding is that it's quite useable (though it unfortunately uses a different static type system/syntax than mypy).

[1] http://cython.org/

ddfisher

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

This is exactly what mypy allows, actually! (Except for speedups -- types currently have no effect on runtime behavior, and it turns out they wouldn't make a big difference anyway.) The hybrid type system concept is called "gradual typing", and it's actually powered by some somewhat-recent developments in programming language theory. See this seminal paper by Jeremy Siek in 2006 if you're interested in the details: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/13-siek.pdf

[Source: I'm a mypy core developer.]

ddfisher

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Good question! There are separate capitalized types for List, Dict, etc provided as part of the `typing` module in order to let you specify element types. Types are all normal Python expressions, so if you wrote `list[int]` you'd get a runtime error, because `type` objects (i.e. the `list` class) aren't subscriptable.

ddfisher

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

It should work with the Python 3 syntax if you quote your type annotation. I.e.

  def f() -> "Bar": ...

instead of

  def f() -> Bar: ...

(This is normally used for forward references.) This makes it slightly less nice, but not a terrible workaround overall.

ddfisher

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah, you need to write `from typing import List` to get the generic List class that you can parameterize with an item type. As you pointed out, you can use the builtin lowercase-l list without importing anything, but that doesn't allow you to specify the item type.

ddfisher

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

This is intended behavior, actually! By default, mypy doesn't type check the interior of functions that don't have any type annotations. This lets you slowly introduce types to a large codebase without having to convert everything at once (or even file by file). Adding a type annotation to "bar" will cause mypy to check it:

  def foo(n: int):
      pass
  def bar() -> None:
      foo("123")

  >> main: note: In function "bar":
  >> main:4: error: Argument 1 to "foo" has incompatible type "str"; expected "int"

ddfisher

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Leeching shouldn't be too much of a problem: the user will upload while they remain on the page (which should be much longer than it took them to download the assets).

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Re-reading, I can see that now. Oops! (I think the paragraph break confused me.)

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

While I agree that being skeptical about self-help books is a good thing, I think you made a big mistake in your specific example. I have not looked at "The Feeling Good Handbook" that you linked to, but I am quite familiar its predecessor (by the same author), "Feeling Good", which is excellent. It has helped a couple of my friends, and at least one other HN reader.[1] Further, its efficacy is supported by at least one clinical study.[2]

You're right about the image, but the book is worthwhile.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509281

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2738212 (The book is not cited in the abstract, unfortunately, but I believe this is the correct study.)

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I think "the root of all evil" is, in general, not a good choice of phrase. I understand the vehemence with with you speak, but I think it's a bit overly hyperbolic and creates quibbling over the word "all". Saying that religion is the cause of much evil (which far outweighs the good) would be sufficient.

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

> Anyone who can complete Tour de France at all or moderately but steadily grow an investment portfolio over the years should be extremely satisfied with just that already.

(I'm not certain what "should" means in that sentence - a moral judgement? - but I'll interpret it as advice.) I think that this is excellent advice for some people, but poor advice for others. I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, with wanting to be the very best at something. There's just a trade-off: you can be happily excellent, or you can take a chance and be perhaps the best but most likely just unhappy. But this decision is, in my opinion, a personal one: happiness does not have to be the ultimate goal of life.

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Terrible. RIP. :(

What can we do to stop things like this from happening again? There's clearly no quick-fix overnight solution, but there should be some set of actions we can take to slowly reduce/eventually eliminate this kind of violence. Any ideas?

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Do it! What's stopping you?

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I believe this is the shadow of the rover.

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

As another person who's spent some time thinking about this: I disagree. Why couldn't a machine simulate the noise as well?

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I recommend Escape, actually - it skips the whole conversation. :)

ddfisher

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I recently started using Phabricator (http://phabricator.org/), which is open-source, and find that it's quite easy to use/set up. It's also used and well regarded by a number of startups, including Facebook, Asana and Quora.

Disclaimer: I've made minor contributions to Phabricator and will be making larger ones shortly.

ddfisher

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Because Haskell is evaluated lazily, two maps doesn't imply two iterations over the data. In this case, I would expect only one pass through the data for both of the maps. Out of curiosity, I did a quick criterion benchmark for both functions. Here's the result on a list of 100 elements:

  benchmarking spark_mggcl
  mean: 49.29483 us, lb 48.77776 us, ub 50.25594 us, ci 0.950
  std dev: 3.495423 us, lb 2.140951 us, ub 6.373469 us, ci 0.950

  benchmarking spark_ocharles
  mean: 60.12347 us, lb 58.95586 us, ub 61.48084 us, ci 0.950
  std dev: 6.434853 us, lb 5.529613 us, ub 7.824865 us, ci 0.950

The simpler version appears to be faster.

(As an aside, is there something in particular you dislike about do syntax? I find that it often makes things more readable, though slightly more verbose.)

ddfisher

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

As someone considering paleo, I'd be interested to hear what studies you thought well supported the claim that saturated fats aren't the problem and why you thought those studies were more reliable than the ones that indicte the contrary.

ddfisher

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Activate visual mode first. In visual mode, the argument is used for the number of indents (because the lines to indent are selected visually). So to indent the current line 4 times, type: "V4>". Happy vimming! :)

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