skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I trust the German government's ability to declare an objective truth that we can all use to make decisions a lot more than I trust Mark Zuckerberg, at this point.

You shouldn't be trusting either.
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we can all hope this is a fake "news item".
This discussion around 'fake news' shows clearly but also shockingly how governments lost the ability to control communication. It's not about deciding if a news is real, propaganda or fake—the borders are blurry anyway—it's about who is controlling the communication.

The communication to its people is the one of the most important power a ruler has. Around 50 years ago, governments could influence their nations with state-owned mass media such as tv and radio. Then, private tv and radio came, then the Internet, they lost control but not much, they still could control or subtly influence communication in large part.

Now with FB, it seems that they lost any control and new right-wing parties are way more experienced in employing social media for their needs. Instead of pushing millions into social media and government-driven bot armies, they whine and call for censorship.

I think FB won't do anything, what can Germany do? FB's power is much bigger than Germany's government and legislative. Which is a disturbing thought.
So US media will effectively be banned? ;)
If Optane achieves the latency benchmarks claimed in [1], I would be happy to use it as swap for large-scale computing. For IO-heavy tasks, it could start to blur the decision to scale up vs scale out.

1 = https://www.extremetech.com/computing/237817-first-intel-opt...
I see perfectly educated people in the Bay Area who simply renew green cards instead of getting citizenship. Non-resident visas can be declined at the border folks. At some point you need to know the rules
> why is Breitbart planning to expand into the French and German markets

From this observation alone, we can't distinguish between (a) Breitbart expanding to pitch its values to voters who don't currently hold them (a political motive), (b) Breitbart expanding to serve its content to voters already favourable to its views (an economic motive), or (c) some combination thereof.
Which category does clickbait fall into? There's usually some kernel of truth in clickbait articles propped up by a lot of hyperbole. Does that make it fake?
Regarding corporations working remotely, you are correct, but only considering one definition of "remotely".

In the context of this article, working "remotely" means that an individual is working remotely from all other individuals in an organization. This is different from one team working remotely from other teams.

I am a huge proponent of individual remote work. Having done it for many years and experiencing it from both sides, I can confidently say that the challenges involved are different from a corporate office that is physically separate from other offices.
This is anything but straight. New Yorker is also not straight, but hackers are not the intended audience of New Yorker articles. Normal people prefer stories about people to conceptual discussions. FWIW I think there's some good reason for this. Discussions purely about high minded concepts over the lives and experiences of individuals tend to wind their way inexorably toward stupidity or irrelevance. When you're discussing policy making, all that really matters is how it affects people. That's not to say you can't use anecdote to mislead, but that's a different class of sin.
As a non Briton and non-EUer, I have limited sympathy for this woman.

"Hawkins said the Home Office had overlooked vital information in her submission – she was unable to supply an original of her Dutch passport because her father had recently died and she needed her passport to continue to travel to the Netherlands to support her mother."

British immigration policies have spent the last decades assuming EU residents are to be treated as UK residents. The article admits this by saying, "It is important to realise that in applying for permanent residency I am not gaining a right, I am only getting a document stating a right I already have."

So what she has done is to enter the process that is applied to all of the rest of us, while expecting it to recognize her special status. And no, "because I want to travel back home" is not a valid reason for withholding your passport from a residency application.

Over my career as mostly a contractor, I have frequently worked for companies who took some pains to ensure I knew I wasn't a real person, because back in the 90s some contractors sued IBM to get real employee benefits.

This woman needs to sit quietly and wait for UK immigration policies to catch up to the new situation, which will likely require legislative work to decide which classes of EU residents can transition immediately to UK residency. And that will happen, because there are thousands of people in the same situation.
Both postfix and qmail are inherently incapable of blocking their clients on communication with destination/upstream smarthost because of their architecture.

In both cases it works like this:

client: MAIL FROM
server checks whether it makes sense (outgoing smarthost has essentially nothing to check here)
SMTP server: 250 Ok
client: RCPT TO
server checks, again there is nothing expensive to check for smarthost case
SMTP server: 250 Ok
client: DATA ... .
server does its checks on the contents of message (again, nothing meaningful for smarthos), reformats it, adds Received and such and writes it out into queue
SMTP server: 250 Ok: queued
server wakes up the process that handles delivery by IPC and gives it queue ID of just created message
client probably disconnects now
outgoing SMTP daemon starts connecting to somewhere
for perspective, libel (publishing false damaging information) is already punishable

so the judicial system already has the "ministry of truth" responsibility, whether or not that bothers you
While it is likely illegal at various levels, there are probably ways to interfere with the smart meter via RF.
> the only insanity the tool integrator needs to understand is the shell's quoting syntax

Only if the designer is using command-based functions like the ISO C system or POSIX popen; not when forking and exec'ing programs.
libel is already punishable, so judges already have the role of deciding true vs false statements and applying damages when harm is done.

while I don't dismiss your concern, I just wanted to point out that this is not some sort of wholly-unprecedented government authority.
No you didn't properly read the article:

".. the application form included a box for reasons for not including a valid passport as long as it was due to circumstances beyond your control."

And:

"Hawkins points out that she included a solicitor-approved photocopy of her passport plus a covering letter to explain why she could not be without her passport for the four to six months it takes to process."
This article itself is kind of inadequate reporting without defining fake news. It references an interview in Der Spiegel. This article is free but references a Spiegel paywalled interview which might (or might not) elaborate on the subject.

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&...

Note that Germany has a longstanding law against one particular kind of "fake" information - holocaust denial. For obvious reasons. Germany takes saying "never again" to Fascism very seriously. The notorious "protocols of the elders of Zion" is in some way the original "fake news".
Rising college costs measured by constant literacy of 17 year olds. I don't understand.
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We either assume the data will more often than not be used for negative reasons, and stop it, or we assume it will be used mostly for positive reasons and allow it to improve the world.

If we do the latter, we treat the minority cases as a crime. Just as we do when police use their access to stalk people.

That being said, I DO think we have poor transparency in these cases of who has access to what. I've always said that if it were publicly available to see how many times someone has run my license place and/or drivers license I would be really upset.
> "Your feeling on "rent-seeking" and zoning policy are hardly universal, and there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject."

Please cite your sources. The rent-seeking is one of 3 forms of microeconomic market inefficiencies (the others are [negative] externalities and information asymmetry).

Prices rise because of scarcity. Zoning density restrictions causes scarcity. "rent-seeking" is use of politics or other means to create a market inefficiency that helps a special interest gain increased wealth, not through wealth creation. Zoning density restriction are from politics.

There is universal understanding that zoning density restrictions (which is using politics to create scarcity) create higher housing costs. I don't know anyone who states that zoning density restrictions do not cause higher housing costs.

So, please cite your source.
Is the German government planning on supplying a regime of government funded (inherently biased) fact-checkers to gauge "fake news" in their country? Otherwise, this plan seems foolishly reactionary.
Libel is civil liability not criminal, and is extremely expensive to litigate. It's both sometimes over-reaching and completely inadequate for dealing with the current scale of untruth.
> and yet have corrupted this function of the press

Given the quality of "mainstream" press recently, I don't really see how they corrupted it, unless you mean the corruption then spread onto everyone. Ad revenue in general, on the other hand, is something I'd blame for much of the corruption.

That said, we're talking only about broad criteria for news stories - there's no way Zuckerberg or German government could do fine judgement on news stories. Asking for that is opening yourself to be effectively DDoSed by sheer volume of publications these days. This fine itself seems less like censorship, and more like wanting the ability to coerce Facebook in other areas by threatening them with fake news fines.
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> A democracy that also has a shameless history of censorship

I'm not sure I follow.
_exec an _spawn are not Windows; they are functions in the MS Visual C redistributable run-time.

(Well, they are also in a system DLL called MSVCRT.DLL. That is an internal library which is undocumented and considered by Microsoft to be off-limits to applications.)
And all the propaganda about open offices claims transparent collaboration, so you can either run the OO like a silent library and gain no advantage from it because you've virtualized the remote experience and centralized it, or run it like a frat house party in which case no one will accomplish anything other than great piles of transparent collaboration, which won't pay the bills.
It's a question of degree; GP's saying that trust('swombat, 'GermanGovt) > trust('swombat, 'Facebook).
Keep this on Reddit where it belongs please.
Same here. It was already sluggish and using a lot of CPU power but as soon as I clicked on the check-boxes the whole thing ground to a halt... took 30 seconds to close the tab.

I really like the idea though.
If this was a normal case of not being able to run a game because I don't have the horsepower, I might agree, but it isn't.

The Intel GPUs are plenty powerful enough to run the games, but some OS X driver quirk makes them difficult for game developers to support. You can buy a brand new top-of-the-line Apple laptop (e.g. 13" of the new MBP line), and still not be able to play. Here's a thread of someone complaining about it for The Talos Principle for example [1].

When you have a brand new computer, it's not too unreasonable to make certain implicit assumptions about your ability to run a three year old game that ostensibly is supported by your OS. For the case of many games for Steam on Mac though, that instinct would be wrong. It's not the end of the world, but I don't think it's unreasonable for a customer to expect a refund if it happens [2].

Given that probably the vast majority of Macs sold today have only an integrated Intel GPU, Steam should really be going a step further here by either removing the Apple logo from them, or putting a caution sign through it. It's just too easy of a mistake for a customer to make, and there are so many potential buyers to make it. A tiny footnote in the system requirements isn't enough.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/62632918...

[2] And as mentioned above, Steam finally does offer refunds now, but they didn't for most of the platform's history.
I think the difficulty will be in determining what "fake news" means and what gets classified that way.

Hoaxes seem pretty easy to recognize and target. Does it end with News of the World type hoaxes or does it go further into agenda based biases and misinformation and poor journalism? Or what if a reporter writes a piece based on misinformation from a trusted source in an administration who _today_ has an agenda to peddle?

I think this will prove to be a tricky thing to tackle unless it is well defined and has limited but well defined scope. When Erdogan says some guy in Pennsylvania is behind some new incident in Turkey, is that fake news?
These incidents are an exception to the rule where coal is worse every other day of the year, as well as when looking at the total.

Chernobyl was the decisive moment for me: you have the Soviets screwing it up in the worst way possible, my home place in southern Finland being one of the most affected places on Earth due to winds in April 1986, and the results are not worse than this? Bring it on, it's surely better than coal.
Existing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268447
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> And don't think I'm just being partisan.

You are just being partisan. The notion that somehow fake news is a thing, that it misleads people, or that it affects elections is ridiculous. It's an excuse for losing an election and avoiding blame.

Fake news has been a part of our media since forever. Go read the tabloids. People enjoy that stuff and that's all it is, entertainment. Would you ban tabloids from newsstands too?
Libraries have slightly different rules to the average open plan office: in particular, there's a fairly strong expectation of silence and if you can hear people talking in the distance, it's relatively unlikely that the conversation directly affects your project -- so less of an urge to tune in.

There are often (although, I know, not always) some kind of alcoves to hide if you don't like open-back visibility, too.

(Some of the "positive" reports I've heard about open offices at, e.g., Facebook make it sound like they come with expectations of quiet that are as strong as a typical library. ...)
Counter counter example: my college had a library and it was hardly open layout. It was a giant maze of rooms.

With the exception of the entrance the only libraries I can think of that are sort of open are ironically old famous ones and even those have pockets of rooms.

The stacked shelves basically create rooms. It would be like calling cubicles open layout.
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I think he might have also meant free access to "money" itself as in basic income. Potentially, in an enlightened society that we will never have, you could apply for additional basic income to cover more than your basic needs, stuff like education, books, free access to paid research papers, etc. That is probably what he meant by free access, not that people wouldn't be rewarded for their hard work. Just less BS.
>Now you have Caucasians moving back into the community you have Facebookers and Googlers and Yahooers

Keep race baiting Guardian. Nevermind 30-40% of people working here are Asians.
Also, if it is really live data, all the high alpine hydro is just pumped storage now. In winter, the high reservoirs don't get much natural feed when no ice is thawing and any new precipitation will decoratively stick to the slopes until spring.
Recent discussion of the second version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249796.
It's a form letter, which makes sense because she's trying to do something that is meaningless for her situation.
Objective truth does exist, and I think a lot of us who believe that also believe that you are engaging in a false choice fallacy.

edit: to be clear, I think Bannon continues to use his platform to achieve concrete political, electoral political ends and shouldn't be viewed through the lens of a media corporation's metrics (profitability or audience)
"Fake news" is the ultimate new-speak. Since fake news is nearly by definition opinion this type of law in a round about way makes it illegal to have opinions deemed fake by the government.

There's accrediting organizations for journalists that's kind of a start.

Legislating what people believe isnt solving the problem
What do you even mean by "devaluing"? Of course a more error prone, dangerous and expensive driver has less value.

Is pointing this out somehow wrong? I think not pointing it out devalues human life.

The road of getting rid of fallible humans from boring automatable jobs leads to Utopia, and I reject your notion that this is somehow inherently different from e.g automation in agriculture or computing
Interestingly, geothermal vents--such as those found on Earth and possibly Europa--come out at about 60-460C. They are thought to be good origin of life candidates. Behavior of proteins in this state sounds pretty interesting in that light.
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I tested out a co-working space last year about 15 minutes away.

I have a pretty nice setup at home, quiet, a few different setups to work from so I still get more work completed at home vs. co-working or coffee shop.

It is nice to get out every once in a while but it's not something I would do every day or even a few times per week. So If I want to get out I go out to a coffee shop.

Now if I didn't have a private area to work from at home I would definitely consider using a co-working space.
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> So the real issue here is that U.K./EU marriages do not give a right to British citizenship

yep, and it's likely this situation will change as a result of the brexit negotiations, at the very least to match that of a British citizen marrying a non EU-citizen
Personally I always just used my apartment (dual monitors, good chair) and found the attraction to the library strange, but... presumably people treated it like... a library? There were no dogs running around. No one played music. No one held conversations or borderline meetings over your head? No one played the drums on their desk or hummed along with their music? If these rules were violated, I assume you'd get kicked out, although no one did, because that's how you behave in a library.My library did have study rooms that you could go into for your study groups, etc.

These are not things that you can expect in an open office. If people treated them like libraries, and the offenders were kicked out (fired, I guess?), they'd be a lot more tolerable.

Also, stacks kill sound. I can hear people running a coffee grinder in the kitchen (dude, just sleep more!).
You take a large tree with a large surface area that's transpiring lots of carbon and replace it with a sapling with a small surface area. Yes that sapling is, over time, turning carbon into tree trunk, but that time scale for that is decades

Actually the growth peaks in a young forest as soon as there is at least one leaf or needle on most possible paths of a sunray. This is called canopy closure, and as soon as it has been achieved the growth starts to decline. This has been studied extensively, here is one example:

https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/2397

The reason in a nutshell is that when trees start to compete on the available sunlight by out-growing and overshadowing each other, they need to work harder to pull water up to the top where most of the photosynthesis happens. The leaves or needles in the shadow produce almost nothing but still consume resources for respiration.
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> Germany has hate-speech and incitement-to-violence laws for a reason

Those already show how difficult good rulings on these things can be, and they are IMHO a lot simpler than "fake news" since they don't involve truth-finding by courts, or even worse enforcement agencies, on the same level.

I'm really curious to see how the press is going to react to this. It doesn't make sense to apply these rules to an aggregator/sharing platform and not to news sources themselves, and as fashionable as it is to hate on Facebook they really should not want high fines (or even any extra state judgement) on "reporting the wrong thing".
No it wasn't. What are you talking about?

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-19/the-unseen-star-wa...

It was the other way around. They found the old footage of the actors, and "CGd" the new cockpit etc. onto them.
The vehicle code alone for my state is nearly three inches thick. If they want to pull you over, you will almost certainly give them a "valid" reason if they follow you for even just a few minutes. A friend of mine in law enforcement demonstrated this to me once while riding in my car. He had racked up four or five things on the car ahead of us (tailgating, crossing the fog line or center barrier, failure to signal within x yards of a turn, etc.) in under a mile.
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Amazon said will not release customer information without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on it.

If my reading of this is correct, seems like all Amazon is really saying here is they're refusing to hand over the data until they're "properly served" the warrant.

The Guardian article did mention that "Arkansas police issued a warrant to Amazon to turn over recordings" but as IANAL it's unclear to me whether or not that's the same as actually serving the warrant, legally speaking.

Is "issuing" a warrant the same as "serving" it?
I think it would be important to know if Amazon can or would release information/data which could be used to exonerate someone suspected of a crime.
They way I remember it in the early days of recycling we had to sort into plastics, glass, and paper, but sometime in the last ten years or so everything's moved to a single stream one-bucket process.
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By wishing to assemble

"groups of people supremely competent in certain relevant disciplines — investigators, activists, lawyers, lobbyists, policy experts, political strategists, journalists, and publicists — who could combine their efforts and advocate effectively for any issue, big or small",

he was showing his desire for the same kind of power Bertrand Russell was discussing in the later quote:

"Since power over human beings is shown in making them do what they would rather not do, the man who is actuated by love of power is more apt to inflict pain than to permit pleasure."

This is just an early stage of common elite pathology. Aaron was a good kid. They all start out as good kids.
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I'm not wholly a fan of Aaron's approach here, but this critique seems a bit off-base.

JSTOR wasn't the organization doing the research and development. Various universities and academics, all tax-advantaged and often government-funded, were doing that research. And JSTOR charges them, not giving them a platform for free.

JSTOR itself does add value--it's a platform to publish, and presumably offers editing etc. But Aaron wasn't freeing any of the code that runs JSTOR, just the content it held. Compare it to the free ArXiv, which plays a similar role to JSTOR.