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Roughly 0% of Windows users have Python installed.

The problem with this method is that the user still needs to have Python on their system. Pyinstaller (Py2exe, cx_Freeze) bundle the python interpreter along with your app.

> you're saying that valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then?

Possibly because the parents parents didn't value education and by the time the parents came to value education they were already stuck in the cycle of poverty.

Thank you!

At least for me after FF updates itself it won't let you open a new tab or anything until it restarts. According to this Reddit post this is due to it being updated by the package manger so maybe it's a Linux only issue?: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jwx54y/firefox_for...

If anyone is looking for a hands on educational model, my 6 year old and I put together a model V8 engine [1] (made by Haynes of technical manual fame I think) that does a pretty reasonable job of capturing the essence of the main parts of an internal combustion engine. It kept him (and me) thoroughly engrossed for a few hours.

[1] https://www.themotorbookstore.com/build-your-own-v8-engine-m...

Same! Periods of low exercise correlate with lower moods for me and lower moods mean less will power which makes keeping my diet in check tougher. The opposite is also true.

> If you want to lose weight by far the easiest and most effective thing you can do is to get your diet under control.

Easy is the wrong word. Getting your diet under control is the hardest part of losing weight. Most effective, absolutely. Simple, yes, easy, no.

I'm not sure there's enough information to make a judgement either way. I'm sure I'm "guilty" of opening a package handed to me at my front door without checking who it was addressed to.

You can sell a library just as well as any other piece of software I think.

I'm not saying anything for or against AWS or GCP. All I'm saying is most startups experience with AWS won't begin with "Send email to dedicated YC email address" so it's hard to draw conclusions from this article about what AWS support is like for "regular" start ups.

Of course Google could offer the same thing. My proposed title change would be even more recommended in that case.

My point is that obviously AWS thinks that on average being in YC is going to result in more revenue for them and therefore they prioritize support for YC companies. As a non-YC company I won't get the same treatment which makes any conclusions from this article less useful.

Title should maybe be switched to "Google Cloud vs AWS Onboarding Comparison for YC companies".

Not to say that isn't a useful article on its own, but it's hard to draw too many meaningful conclusions for the rest of us when the first line of the AWS bullet points is "reach out to dedicated YC email".

If you're a FF user, the Old Reddit Redirect extension is nice too since it will ensure all reddit links get redirected to the old view.

It's tough to find two or more compatible and like minded people who can afford to make (effectively) zero money for an extended period of time. Having VC money makes it possible to support a bigger team from the outset with less financial risk to the founders. This may contribute to the bias towards single founders in bootstrapped companies.

I'm a solo SaaS founder and would absolutely love to have a partner but the few people I've discussed it with have not been able to tolerate the financial risk / lost opportunity cost.

> Pandas, however, wouldn’t be Pandas without Numpy and ultimately the C/Fortran libraries it was built on.

I think either numpy/numeric and scipy deserve to be on the list more than Jupyter (and Pandas) since I think they were the fundamental reason that Python took off in physical / data sciences.

It's not just the US, I think it's fairly common in the physical sciences in general. My masters project was "A Fast Monte Carlo Code for Brachytherapy" where "Code" really means software/program.

Exactly. Almost the only time I see things that I disagree strongly with is when I'm shown a comment by one of my contacts who is in a stupid fruitless argument where neither party has a chance in hell of changing the other persons mind.

> It's social media for middle-aged conservatives

Are you sure about that? When I sign on to Facebook, it appears to be social media for middle-aged liberal minded people. Facebook is a bit of a mirror in that sense.

I heartily recommend "In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" if anyone is interested in learning more about Nantucket whaling. It is a captivating true story that talks about the characters and culture involved in the whaling community. It is also apparently the story that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick.

In Canada I highly recommend weather.gc.ca which is way less sensational than other sources and has a nice speedy interface.

> Most people on Hacker News are entrepreneurs that run their own private businesses.

I don't think that is true at all. There's definitely lots of business owners here (myself included!) but I don't think it's anywhere close to a majority.

Taper bedtimes 10 minutes at a time over a week!

Is your goal with this comment to encourage people to give Berio, Feldman, Riley, and Reich a try, or is to try to convince others how much better at listening to music you are than them?

For anyone else who likes Glass's piano work, you might like some pieces by Yann Tiersen or Erik Satie.

> Who knows?

The EPA knows! [0]

    Global greenhouse gas emissions can also be broken down by the economic activities that lead to their production.[1]
        25% is from electricity and heat production;
        14% from transport;
        6% from residential and commercial buildings;
        21% from industry;
        24% from agriculture, forestry and other land use;
        10% from other energy uses.Source: IPCC (2014);

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

Isn't calling it "China's manufacturing sector" a bit disingenuous? For better or worse China's manufacturing sector is actually the western worlds manufacturing sector.

Yes it's a well studied area in cancer research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=alcohol+cancer

$X is $30,000CAD FWIW. The exemption is helpful for getting off the ground as it's one less thing to think about, even though in reality charging (and filing) GST/HST is not very onerous.

It refuses to install when there are conflicts now.

    $ pip install "six<1.12" "virtualenv==20.0.2" -q
      ERROR: Cannot install six<1.12 and virtualenv==20.0.2       
      because these package versions have conflicting 
      dependencies.

      ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit   
      https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#fixing-conflicting-dependencies

Thanks for clarifying. I agree with your assessment.