skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a lot to contribute to this relatively serious topic and development in world politics.

What I can contribute, though, is that if you want a fun perspective on the history surrounding the creation of Spain, then I recommend picking up Europa Universalis IV next time it's on Steam sale and starting a campaign as either Castile or Aragon. You can create Spain after you conquer Granada and if you enter into a royal marriage with your other half.

Game isn't 100% historically accurate, but it's got enough that you may spend as much time reading wikipedia on various regions, events, people as you do playing the actual game.
It just makes sense that when many people want to live in a small area, that you allow builders to meet that demand. Having sex with robots?
What are you even talking about? Plenty of people would rather sacrifice the large spaces of a single family home so that they can be close to an urban core. It could be because they want to be closer to their work or just want to enjoy the environment of the city. It's just as much a quality of life issue when they are priced out of that.
The US did have a civil war during those couple of centuries, though.
Well of course they can.
The puffing-billy [1] library is awesome, and has changed the way I write integration tests. I also use VCR [2], and now my entire application (both backend and front-end) is wrapped with a proxy that records and replays every request. I can run all my tests once using test Stripe API keys, a test Recaptcha response, or any other external services that I want to test. I don't have to mock anything, which is nice. Then everything is recorded, and I can run all my integration tests offline.

I've also really enjoyed using stripe-ruby-mock when testing specific webhooks, jobs, and controller actions. I don't always aim for 100% test coverage, but I try to write a LOT of tests for any code that deals with billing and subscriptions.

Ooh, I've also been enjoying rswag [4]. It's quite a cool idea - You write rspec tests for your API endpoints, and the tests also serve as a Swagger definition for your API. So when your tests pass, you can use the output to generate documentation or API clients for any language.

[1] https://github.com/oesmith/puffing-billy

[2] https://github.com/vcr/vcr

[3] https://github.com/rebelidealist/stripe-ruby-mock

[4] https://github.com/domaindrivendev/rswag
It needs to be instructions because the views aren't static. They are reactive. So some of the content is static, some might change due to user interaction. The VM understands this fundamentally and optimizes for that.
Laws are usually there for a reason.

You could apply your whole argument to public opinion and referendums - public will change mind a lot, why make such drastic moves based on it?
>Ironically, that's exactly what Microsoft has been saying about Linux during those bad old days. Linux was successful because its developers didn't say "If you want to talk to a professional, buy something else."

Except, the reason why Microsoft was wrong was that Red Hat existed. If you're running CentOS or Arch Linux or something, you really are fucked as a business. The key distinction here is that SirCmpwn is not a Red Hat dev, so should not be expected to meet the responsibilities of one.
Quantum mechanics has several facets which correspond to path integrals, infinite-dimensional operators, and infinite series, sums, and products.
Thanks, Kenton!
I hope this will encourage a move to NHSbuntu [0].

[0]: https://nhos.openhealthhub.org/
Civil war is unlikely but it's certainly on the table. If it does end up like that, it'll probably be a "terrorist" war of attrition. Which the EU will want to have none of.
CSSLP Tutorial: Module 02,Part 01 – Security Requirements Introduction
We can't both be right
[Removed. I had linked to a fake tweet.]
I’m not convinced, it requires some impressive mental gymnastics to turn a 5% “No” (and 10% Yes/No) into a majority
That seems reasonable enough. If you're going to live in Catelonia, then it seems right that you should learn Catalan.

How exactly is learning a language "indoctrination"? Are children indoctrinated when they're taught through Spanish?
Why did I just have to scroll three pages to get past a pineapple. Nobody wins. It takes extra effort to add. There is no ad revenue. The reader gets annoyed. WHY?!?!?!
When an Algorithm Helps Send You to Prison
No, I was refering to regular regional ellections that separatists considered "plebiscitary".
and there was obviously room for those Western PAers in Trump's "deplorables basket".
>Mandatory voting, with real but minor punishments for not filing a ballot

Exactly what they did in Catalonia. If you don't vote then your voice will not be heard.
So wealthy they get priced out of the market when they sell and are then forced to move.
That would be ATDD - Abstract Types Driven Design.

It completely fails on concrete types. That's the reason haskellers create a DSL for everything.
I would guess manufacturing
Philadelphia is quickly gentrifying and this has caused massive lines in voting districts in the recently gentrified neighborhoods. Where voting lines used to be 15 minutes long they are now 2+ hours. We've been trying to get them to split the voting district into two here in Northern Liberties for a while but apparently it's falling on deaf ears. These are by the way "well-to-do" young professionals so it's in the interest of both Republicans and Democrats to fix this.

Meanwhile 10 minutes away at Temple University you have 2 hour lines at polling close. If the dems want to win PA they need to get their voting district shit together in the city.

It would not have made much off a difference. The spread in the entire state was about 90k but when I saw the lines at the universities it made me wonder about the entire state.

I used to live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a new "rich" neighborhood and the lines there are usually 15-30 minutes. Granted the population there doesn't fluctuate much.
Past my edit window, but I want to add this - I feel that I introduced some confusion by missing one magic word in one special place. The first sentence of the last paragraph should be:

That said, if you go for functional style in OOP, i.e. shoving as much as you can into stateless static helper functions and most of the rest into dumb private stateless functions, (...)

Of course I do not mean you should abandon objects where there is a strong connection between a set of data items and operations that work on them, or where polymorphism is a right abstraction. But from my experience, quite a lot of code is made through transformations applied on simple data, and when you write that kind of code in a functional style (whether as static methods grouped in helper classes, or private methods within an implementation of your class), both quality and testability rises in lockstep. And my point is that quite a lot of code can be written this way even in an OOP project.
Even if a Gaussian isn't the right model for this difference, I don't think that example always holds. Sometimes the ETF trades at a different time than its basket (the same can be true for ADRs), or there is a substantial immediate dislocation in an individual basket component due to a news headline that doesn't get reflected in the ETF price until a few moments later. Also, you may have situations where disadvantageous carry rates cause the basket-vs-ETF carry trade to either trade wide, or to be ambiguous even when an arbitrage is possible (ie, you would make money if everything stays put but you don't actually feel confident about the stability of the carry rates). For options, even an exemplary arbitrage like put-call parity has situations where dividends and/or forward rates justify substantial disparity.

I see how it would make sense for an algorithmic trading strategy to make simplifying assumptions, but within every such assumption is a neglected opportunity, however small or rare, to either make or save money.
Agree entirely, that was my point.
Same problem in LA.

If you’re trying to rent an apartment you’re screwed.

If you’re trying to buy a house you’re really screwed.

It’s not all Chinese money but it’s a lot of foreign and local investors. I can see investors being important for building or upgrading condos and apartments, but investors being able to buy so many single family homes and “flip” them just makes the whole Norman Rockwell picket fence thing seem pretty unattainable.

With the new football stadium going in there are “rundown” areas getting “gentrified” and it’s crazy to see one renovated 2 bedroom house in Baldwin Hills sell for $900k and be on a street with sales from the two years prior in the 200-300k range. [1]

[1]: a 200k house in LA is a shithole
Is this the reason for this?

http://sonarqube-archive.15.x6.nabble.com/SONAR-is-becoming-...
The EU does have the power, they don't have the guts, because the governing institutions are set up to be run by spineless bureaucrats that 'know better than the citizenry'. The solution then is to procrastinate on doing anything difficult and hope it goes away like a bad dream, nobody's job is in danger anyways.
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Ask HN: How do you handle account sharing on per-seat priced products?
We operate a service operating on a per-seat license. We've found a lot of accounts which are sharing users. The other user is signed out immediately, which degrades our perceived quality of service. The problem with measuring sign-in metrics and raising flags is we only allow a user to be signed into either mobile or desktop at once to avoid even more excessive account sharing.

Is our pricing model broken? Are there any user-friendly and revenue-friendly solutions or are these mutually exclusive territories? Is this none of our concern, e.g. "They paid for seats and they never use more than those seats."?

Thanks!
If you are going to play with the "real world", you are going to have to deal with continuous math; i.e. the real numbers at least. At which point you get to deal with infinity somehow.
>support for a large category of video cards depends on one volunteer.

How did you come to that conclusion? SirCmpwn doesn't maintain Wayland Nvidia support, just the Sway Compositor. If you want a Wayland compositor that supports Nvidia-proprietary, you can use GNOME.
> Honestly I crack up when I think about twitter influencing the election.

What about physical rallies organized by Russia on Facebook? [0]. Or the failed "Miners for Trump" in Philly [1]

I guess it cracks you up when its your guy in the house :)

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/20/russian_fa...

[1] http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/the-crazy...
TimesOpen is an engineer-driven blog. Its previous incarnation was self-hosted on a WordPress stack (separate from our main CMS), but for various reasons it was decided to re-platform.

There were many discussions before settling on Medium and alternatives were considered (such as dogfooding our own CMS). We have a lot of work in-flight to modernize and simplify our publishing stack, and the timing wasn't right to rely on internal tools to publish a new blog.
Until you get into polymorphism etc. this is just a style thing.

method(a,b) is equivalent to a.method(b) and exactly as much typing. You do save manually typing the extra part of the definition but 'eh'. A few languages treat these interchangeably.
Also, my previous comment in a thread on China's progress in quantum computing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15535241

China's advances in AI are impressive as well. A ranking based on publications at top conferences from 2012 to present (2017) has both Beijing and Tsinghua University in the world's top 5.

http://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp

(The starting year in the link needs to be changed to 2012.)

Many of the top researchers in US academia are mainland Chinese. I wonder if they will be enticed back home when the Chinese government has managed to reduce the pollution in their major cities down to healthy levels. It appears that the salary for top people there, especially those with experience at major Western institutions, is comparable to those in the US in nominal terms, and the research funding is easier to get.
Speaking about Russia. It is funny that those who just start to remind that Russia is a federation are being detained.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/pro-federalism...
I do enjoy the HN comments perspectives on that stuff, though.
I agree and its an entirely human character flaw. Its far easier to black/white an issue than examine your own assumptions. Whenever things get polarized people get irrational.
The Scottish first minister is called Nicola SturgEOn, not Nicola SturgOEn.
Regardless of the scale and strength of the repression I'm still of the opinion that it was unwarranted. Declare the referendum to be illegal, tell lawful spanish citizens to stay home then disregard the results. Maybe prosecute the people organizing the referendum if the law allows it.

Even though the referendum was illegal it didn't create any imminent danger. Therefore I think the use of force by Madrid was disproportionate. It also effectively backfired by making the independentists look more sympathetic even though their motive is for the most part rather selfish at the core.
My "fake news" alarm goes off when I hear the same phraseology or specific keywords used in multiple sources in the same news cycle. This indicates to me that an agenda is being pushed, rather than news being reported objectively.

I consider "fake news" to be any news being reported with an unstated agenda or bias, not just outright lies. Editorializing is fine, if it's clearly identified as such.
The big difference is that Julia can handle user defined structs and handle higher-level functions, e.g. you pass a Julia function to you GPU kernel and that function will get compile for the GPU without you having to declare it GPU-compatible.
If you like C#, have you tried F#?
I don't have time to read the whole thing, so maybe it's already there, but, ....

I'd like to be able to credit comments that got me to re-think or even change my position on a topic. Upvotes basically say, 'that's a good point', or 'I agree with you'. But I'd like to see a way to gauge 'influence', in terms of affecting what people think in a positive way.

Can that be worked in?
> Catalan politicians face criminal charges and high treason and will be tried by them.

The trial and subsequent execution of Patrick Pearse et al for treason in 1916 was the event which turned Irish independence from controversial in Ireland to a virtual certainty.

Trial even without execution of the Catalan leaders is going to create martyrs for the movement, and their names will be invoked in the subsequent terrorist bombing campaign.
Canada is definitely underappreciated, but you might be overstating it a bit...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jpmorganchase/2017/10/04/chicag...
We don't know if bots did take part in US elections or not. Electronic machines can be hacked. [0][1]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/days-after-activ...

[1] http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532824432/if-voting-machines-w...
I'm not disagreeing with you dude, just running with your "downright paranoia inducing" comment ... never mind ...
Nations have separate currencies because if they didn't some regions with experience inflationary monetary policies while others would experience deflationary ones. It would be impossible for central banks to do their jobs. You can see this in action in Europe with the Euro which was, and is, a bad idea.

How does this reason translate to housing policy?
Kubernetes: Up and Integrated – Authentication
Requires login. Is this a new "feature" on medium?
To give a counter-point to all the praise here, Docker for Mac has been one of the most frustrating pieces of software I've had to use for work. It has improved significantly over the first time I used it (almost immediately after public beta), but I still occasionally run into various bugs, such as inotify events ceasing to work arbitrarily. Any kind of networking that makes your containers visible to the host/on the local network is also a PITA to set up through the VM that Docker for Mac uses. It's also supposed to abstract away the fact that it's actually running in a VM, but I have had to tweak the VM's CPU/memory settings multiple times, and it's not obvious when you have to do this. On top of that, last I checked, Docker for Windows is still missing some features like inotify events, and requires you to enable Hyper-V, which of course removes your ability to have other VMs running simultaneously.

The other side of it is that Vagrant is just easier. Docker requires everything to fit into a "one container per service, one process per container" model, which is a really good idea in production, but makes setting up background services (such as the Flow server) in development way harder than it needs to be. I'm not a devops person, so the extra overhead of trying to figure this all out is significant. Vagrant isn't without its own technical problems, but it mostly Just Works™, and I can do anything to the VM that I'd do on a regular Linux machine. As someone who really doesn't care how these things work under the hood, Vagrant has been a significantly smaller source of friction for me.
What's with the new trend of requiring a medium account to read articles? What's in it for authors?
It's inside a preamble/preface of what is basically a non-law proposal. If a preamble inside a law has no normative effect, a preamble in a non-law proposal (asking the Catalan government to "please" do something) has the legal effect of a letter to the Three Wise Men.
CVS was already partnered with Aetna on some of this.

My company is self-insured but uses Aetna as the management company. I have a CVS discount card that gives me something like 20-30% off on generic/OTC drugs and CVS-branded health items from the store.
Elixir Deez Nutz
Imagination is another trait of a successful AI researcher
Not only that, the trend of moving towards leftism in USA, i.e. nation-wide anti-intelligence movement(no-child-left-behind,everyone gets a trophy, merit-based effort is cursed on, AA at universities, each students gets free high-school diploma at CA, removing non-ranking from high schools,etc), basically, USA is shifting from 'equal-opportunity to equal-outcome',fast. That is what China tried for a few decades in the past and it did not work for them at all, and the Chinese origins knew it too well, and they just go back when they see what is going on in US these days.

It seems in China excellence and competition are truly appreciated, from family, school all the way to the government, even though some of them have to use VPN to use Google.

China sets a national goal each five years, education first has always be the first priority for the society, back in USA, we're debating how to borrow more debt, how to make sure people can choose no-gender(neither male or female), how to remove ranking from school because competition there hurt our 18-year-old-KID's self-esteem,etc, what a joke, we're doomed.
> ? What about billions invested by the whole of US in the industries there?

I would say they got what they paid for. Satellites and computers have been delivered. Investment paid off.
Everywhere I hear people talking about healthcare. Mostly it seems we need more providers for the elderly, because of our demographics and population growth slowdown. But if that's the case, won't this be the "peak elderly" in that there will be less elderly (because there are already less young people now to become elderly). After the first generation, will there be an excess of healthcare workers? Or perhaps, there will be more dedicated care and better quality of care?
It seemed pretty acrimonious and left scars that haven't healed to this day.

I mean, I grant that in the grand scheme of things (and certainly in comparison to how Spain bungled this), you are correct, the UK handled it as well as possible.
If the law also made IDs free then I’d be ok with it. Pay to vote seems like a horrible system.

And “free if you spend hours on the phone and mailing forms back and forth to prove you’re poor” doesn’t count.

I would also need funding for sending out educational advertising in areas where there are high numbers of eligible voters without valid ID.

I don’t see Republicans making a good faith effort here though.
Opening the camera – peter rojas
I think, given significant popular support, the congress would vote to allow a state to secede rather than sending in troops to intervene.

The feds would leave this to the politicians to sort out, instead of attempting to arrest the population of an entire state.
This happened to my grandmother even in the early 90's because of her knowledge and experience with COBOL and Fortran. Also because she knew the software. This was for Shell Oil, I think.
Wow; that's fantastic. Clear from these posts that he had a profound impact on you.
“government” here seems to mean roughly what, in the American system, would be called the “administration” or “executive branch”.

From the procedural descriptions, this looks less like what Americans would think of as a “request” or “petition” than passing a bill and sending it for the assent of the executive (which might be given or withheld), as is the typical mode of legislation in the US system (both at the federal level and in the states.)
Internet related area, like payment service, on demand market, cloud computing, etc.
Walmart used to do this, back in Sam Walton's day. (I grew up and live in Southwest Missouri, and remember Walmart as our small, regional competitor to the big national giants like Kmart :)
83b seems like a practical difference to me if you hope to cash them out.
This entire focus on FB and Twitter ads is completely ridiculous. They are open platforms that you can use in whatever way doesn't conflict with their ToS. You can spread false information, or information that is dressed up or disguised. And politicians have been buying up negative ads on each other for quite some time which could be considered just about as harmful as the ads on twitter and FB, if not more so.

This isn't the story.

The story here is Jack's lack of transparency and trying to make something that his company did in a negative light, deliberately, and knowingly, and covering that up.
> Look at the article. Watch the video. Tell me what's not false:

It's art. Parody. You may not like it, but I can guarantee to you that some of the art & parody that you like is not liked by other people. The question is, are you going to act like a fundamentalist for you belief & demand that this "sacrilege" be censored? If yes, then will things that others find offensive that you don't be censored as well? Where does it end?

That aside, maybe you missing/ignoring the frequent attacks by Islamists/Migrants or large parts of Paris becoming non-French & non-Western.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Js8wntdk4

Demanding that all nations become "multi-cultural" is xenophobic against the host nations. See the definition of Colonialism...

> As far as I'm aware, even if you want to opt-in to non-targeted advertising, you can't do that. Simply having that option would be a simple start.

Are you talking about ads over the internet? I'm talking about life in general. You can't ignore or target certain things like who your neighbors are & if your worldviews are compatible with your neighbors. You also can't ignore the weakening of culture & families in favor of a nihilistic prevailing culture. The people are unhappy with the trend. You can opt-out of the information or pay attention...
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