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It's not the same click bait driven hype machine. The press used to be able to cover "real news". However, with their revenues declining many in the media have no choice but to use click bait driven headlines and the like. However, if users show an interest in "real news", the media will cater to that.

I'd also argue that most of the people complaining about the media rarely if ever read the news. They sit around making claims like the media lied so that's why I don't read any of it. It's like yes people make mistakes. The news media in particular will generally go out of its way to correct mistakes in coverage or correct a mischaracterization of a story or fix errors.

Remember if everyone was just discarded every time they made a mistake at work, there would be no one working. The media and people will make mistakes but you don't discard them simply because they made mistakes especially when they will correct the mistake once they are made aware of said mistake. I would be skeptical of those who don't believe in correcting their own mistakes when they happen and those who think they do no wrong.
This looks really awesome. I really like that you allow users to try it out without having to sign up.

I think probably the biggest hurdle with something like this gaining traction is having the users remember that it's available.

Is it possible to fork from an existing container? If that's possible, you can probably get maintainers to include a link to a working container with the lib already setup in the project's new issue template.
"Cutting-edge cryptography: Benefit from the latest advances in cryptography research with our Patent-pending technology" as your website says, is a scary statement. If you're not using well vetted cryptography, that's a huge red flag. The Harry Potter quote sums it up best:

“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!”

As relatively security-literate users of an app where we'd be putting personally identifiable information or other details we don't want getting out, it stands to reason we want to see a history of commits on an open source project and a history of security audits and preferably be able to refer to RFC's for the algorithms and protocols used.

Unless you guys open source and publish audit details, it's not worth my time to consider this product. No disrespect meant, it's just common sense.
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Haha, AOT native compilation.

This comes back time and time again. AOT native results in slower runtimes for applications with one simple exception: startup time.
In every other case a modern JIT compiler like the JVM will win due to gathering information and layered compilation.

Where AOT really makes sense is for an interactive app on a mobile device where you don't care about the last millisecond of performance but startup times and even much more importantly: energy expenditure. (That's why google AOTing the apps on device startup is quite sensible)

Most funnily Microsoft was heavily advertising AOT with .net framework 1.0 but in general switched to dynamic profiling and optimization in later versions of .net. (System assemblies that everybody uses during startup are AOT compiled using ngen, however)

It is just not "one size fits all", depending on your platform and requirements you'd have completely different requirements to your virtual machine. What you want is different between interactive use and "batch processing" and between energy starved devices and big iron.

Java - while ironically advertisted for "applets" years ago - is optimized for the latter case and there it really shines. On a server with long running processes AOT makes no sense at all.

So what AOT will take over is phones. IOT devices. Everything were energy is at a premium and startup times need to be quick. Layered JIT compilation takes over where you want to squeeze out the last bit of total performance. (Even interactively, looking at you, Google V8 and Chakra)
Exactly what I was thinking today. Our laziness to read (longer articles, books, etc) and think has caused this problem. Educate the people and this will go away on its own.
> On the desktop, laptop, phone, or embedded environment, the JVM is heavy.

I'll half-agree with respect to phones and embedded environments since those are wildly variable and may include extremely low-specification platforms.

But a desktop or laptop? The JVM launches in milliseconds on my desktop and laptop. The monstrous Eclipse IDE launches in about six seconds on my desktop, and about five seconds of that time is Eclipse loading various plugins and what-not, in what looks like a single-threaded manner.

My desktop and laptop can both spin up Undertow and fire up a web-app from a Jar in about two seconds.

I'm fairly sure Eclipse is just using an old clunky CMS garbage collector. I've never tuned it on my desktop or laptop. Maybe Neon is using G1 now. I don't know and don't care because it runs just fine.

Maybe you've done something different with the JVM on desktops and laptops, but in my experience, on desktops and laptops, the JVM behaves more or less the same as it does on servers.
Partisan bias and journalistic integrity are separate issues. Whether or not CNN has a partisan bias (I think their "liberal bias" is a fantasy, but that's me), they have journalistic integrity. They don't knowingly publish outright falsehoods.

A news organization can be highly partisan and still have excellent integrity.
Perl fail on big code base, particularly because the cognitive load of reading it is high.
I recently tested MTurk for my startup. We set up about 500 HITs to collect website URL and email from various businesses. We set the price at $0.05 (Amazon takes an additional $0.01). Jobs quickly got started and within 24 hours we had all of our data collected.

I'm not sure I would do it again though. A lot of the businesses we were targeting don't have a web presence and therefore "No URL/No Email" was a viable answer. However, when I went through the list to see 150 "No URL/No Email" answers I didn't know for sure whether that is true or whether the Turker realized they could just copy/paste and make a quick buck. Amazon does provide the amount of time they spent on the task so I rejected any that were less than 10 seconds as I felt like they didn't give it a good enough try. Over that, I just accepted the answer realize that it may be false.

In the end I think I spent more time going through results and correcting them then it actually saved me. I'm excited to use MTurk in the future again, but only for appropriate projects.
I don't know if there is really a difference there.
I isolated myself for 5 months (unpaid) to build an app based on a simple idea I had. I went OCD on it until it was done and live. Passion took over and I really wanted to see it live. I realized a few week later that no one actually needs it. I was so convinced by the quality of the app, that people would want to use it... I bypassed the most important thing - does it really bring any value? Not really. I was totally blind coding for 5 months... Do your market validation first and do not necessarily fall in love with your own product. This is not something I could have built in a month, I knew it was a big investment up front. Oops!
32gb vs 16gb for me is the difference between having my local development environment a replica of production EXCEPT massively scaled down vertically and horizontally. Meaning I can still have clustered databases (couchbase, etc) to test against vs having to test against an environment that has zero clustering at all. This might be fine for some, but there are a lot of gotchas that you encounter when dealing with disparate query + index servers that you wouldn't ever run into if you completely wrote code against a single instance.

Sure, this is an edge case but that doesn't minimize my requirements for 32gb of ram. I'll be buying a new laptop next year to replace my 2015MBPr and it will definitely be one that has 32gb minimum. That is, at this point, more important by far than OSX to my workload.
Yes, that is about the size of it.
"The problem is people are treating the news like a product in the capitalist paradigm" Boom! Precisely.
Can you point me to some concrete examples of times CNN or WaPo has been dishonest? Not counting editorials.

> The fact that almost every liberal in America is yelling at Trump more than they're yelling at the DNC (and Debbie Wasserman Schultz) shows the state of mainstream media.

Plenty of liberals in my liberal social media bubble were yelling at the DNC and DWS when they were doing news worthy things. But why should we still be? Trump is now the one doing things we think harmful.
And yet, I'm sure none of your news, your sources, have been compromised.

I'm sure one of these anti science boogeymen you've created would think you are equally brainwashed and they are equally correct in their views...
Arcade City also has a (amazing) gamified system, based on reputation levels. This has saved the bacon of Austin TX drivers on more than one occasion, as non-reputable "customers" have more difficulty ruining the system.
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If you get a remote working gig, you can work from anywhere. I regularly get contracted by americans and still work from my bedroom in France.
> The heavyness of the ecosystem in terms of the magnitude of concepts and tools being used and the enterprisy-ness of libraries.

You don't have to use the enterprisey libraries though. Using Dropwizard, for example, gives you a tight and performant set of libraries that have a fairly minimal learning curve and require relatively little boilerplate.
You have control characters for the characters from 64 to 95.

Control-@ is 0.
Control-A is 1, through control-Z is 26.
Control-[ is 27, escape.
Control-\ is 28.
Control-] is 29.
Control-^ is 30.
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Woah there! I think you may have misread the parent as it looks like some friendly advice to me (with actual reasons and stuff), rather than the "You shouldn't have done that! You've destroyed your company!!!!" you seem to have read it as.

Heck, they didn't even say to retract anything from the report, just maybe to leave adding names to things until a later date in future incidents.
So JVM is not heavy compared to even heavier stuff. However compared to Go it is quite heavy in term of disk, RAM usage, and deployment.
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Sean Spicer, is that you?
Just to nitpick: Krugman is on the opinion page, this is what he is supposed to be doing. David Brooks does the same thing, but usually on the conservative side of the arguments.
Machine Learning technology is immensely powerful and will absolutely be used to both the detriment and benefit of the people at large. This is something we as technologists need to understand.

It's one of the reasons why our employment choices and our decisions around who to work with must be taken in the context the impact it will cause on the world around us. As we begin to automate more and more of traditionally human jobs, we're going to find our work inextricable from the political landscape our systems are creating.
They actually prevented me from reading the article.
It rules out any interactive usage where you are starting and stopping the jvm, like in a command line context.

There are work arounds for this (things that reuse jvms and such) but until that is overcome the jvm is largely not appropriate for cli tools that start/stop.

But for other kinds of interactive programs, things with long running sessions and such, it is pretty easy to a) lower that startup time and b) do things that mitigate it to the user.
I think we do have the technology. Just not the budget it would take to do in near future with the technology available. To make it economically feasible is going to take some time.

If US put the same kind of money into NASA they did during the Apollo days (so 4% of federal budged instead of 0.5% for a decade or two without changing the plan/goal of NASA with every administration change) a lot of stuff would be possible.

If you had an "infinite" budged you could just build a VERY big space craft in orbit and use that. But the money isn't there so it isn't happening until SpaceX or whoever lowers the launch prices further (SpaceX Falcon Heavy and/or ITS/MCT for example)
Well to me it seems they've also been randomly breaking the web app. Besides the intentional off and on again Messanger functionality, I've seen random breakeages especially around posting. Maybe it's not intentional but knowing Facebook's manipulative history I wouldn't be surprised.
Follow him how?
Obviously the ones that run a news program at 6:30 pm with a heavy introductory drumbeat and lots of fanfare playing while a camera zooms in to a concerned-looking anchor person.
I'm trying to think of specific actors that have interests in this, but I'm finding it hard. Not the NSA, right?

I don't understand why you think decentralization is a balancing act. What do you mean by "impossible to control", and why would that be bad? What would "full" decentralization even entail? A network of sentient computers doing whatever they want, except using supernodes "too much"?

(My definition of supernodes: nodes that transfer significantly more traffic than others structurally, in practice nodes that accept incoming connections, like servers or BitTorrent supernodes, but also AS's.)
Can you give examples of Fox distorting things? I gave many examples of issues that the MSMs didn't seriously cover.

I don't believe that there isn't "true" objective coverage but Fox News with Hannity and Carlson are really providing coverage that is sharp, and enlightening. They're actually informing the public instead of participating in the media churn.
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No, that's not all. If you don't see a difference between Trump and every president or political bloc that has achieved power before, you have not been paying attention. Like, at all. If you have been paying attention, then you should be expending your energy trying to share your insights as to why it's NOT different, rather than trying to pretend like everyone else is a strawman with the least rational reasons your imagination can come up with for believing what they believe.
> Clinton was predicted to win which really hurt her turnout.

I'm not sure this claim can be backed up by data.
HN being full of clichè dissenting know-it-alls is not new, either.
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Wow, that is a pretty extreme position. (I can't dismiss it outright as obviously the senate can debate things and come to conclusions and make policy, even if all the debates and hearings are public.)

In your opinion should politicians be allowed to meet each other and talk privately (about politics) at all? Or should there be no private meetings allowed? (Or at least no talking politics if they do meet.)
Good luck, sounds absolutely insane and unworkable. AI needs "Truth" inputs.

I imagine if we had this tool when George W invaded Iraq, this AI would have said Weapons Existed, being all the CIA, and Politicians said so.

Isn't that how your filter works? Anti alternative media, pro establishment?
I just do a "cap production deploy", and it does everything for me (I use bluepill + god for running background processes too)

I don't need Docker, and think it's too complex. I deploy to over 50+ servers, so don't tell me it's because I run a simple setup :P
I put it in another comment on this subthread, but Friedman is an opinion writer, on the opinion page, not the news page. He's supposed to make controversial statements.
My iOS app has crashed several times in a row today. Hmmmm....
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> we're not really cut out for long-term thinking and abstract mentation for its own sake appeals to only a tiny minority. There is great value to living in the moment but most people don't know how to do it

That's the most convincing argument in favor of eugenics that I've ever heard. It's a shame that we can't easily test for affinity for long-term, abstract thinking; nor for ability to live in the moment.
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This is a good idea, but I worry that non-technical people might not notice or care about such a minor difference. Thinking of my family and relatives, I'd imagine that almost none of them would think to avoid typing in their password if some characters in the URL bar had a different colored background but looked visually similar to domains they recognized.
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You got my up-vote; thanks for reminding us. Clearly lots of people still want to think Trump's winning was a fluke.

But the LA Times polls, which had a unique methodology, predicted it. And Scott Adams gave quite reasonable explanations of why. Any news outlet that didn't give him at least close to a 50% chance wasn't doing their job.

Personally, I made a few grand betting on https://www.predictit.org, because it was pretty clear there was widespread delusion going on.
What shortcomings did you find in Circle?
And if your gambit for getting in is this kind of cynical move, MIT will spit you right back out in short order.
- You should have made a website.

- The application doesn't look good.
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You can link to an existing notebook and add "/clone" to the end of the URL to basically get this behavior. That's how the 'Try It Now' button at the bottom of the page works, we should definitely make this more obvious. Additionally, maintainers can embed RunKit on their pages with our embed API: https://runkit.com/embed. For example, Lodash uses embed on their documentation: https://lodash.com/docs/.