skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest gripe that the US establishment has is that sources like RT and Al Jazeera don't kowtow to them. The USG wants to control the message inside (through various subtle means, not really overt means), but can't with these outfits.

Is the VoA a fair and biased news source? What about Fox News? Or the BBC? What makes RT especially egregious?

I remember when, post 9/11, Al Jazeera wanted to broadcast in the US. It was denied permission, which I found strange, as ... isn't the US all about free speech and free flow of ideas? And the best part is: Al Jazeera used to be the BBC's Middle East service, but spun off. So: it was OK when these folks were under the BBC banner, but suddenly became biased and unreliable when they spun off on their own?
And let the blood shed begin... Sigh.
It is also an unavoidable problem with GNU make and an easy to make mistake when writing CMake files. These tools should have required quoting up-front so filenames are never seen without them but it's a bit late in the day now to suggest fixing this.
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Were you also moving from a mainframe to a server? I would have thought that Java on a mainframe would handle EBCDIC just fine, but I have never tried it.
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If all their home page is is a bunch of images and hyperlinks, then I imagine removing React made a lot of sense.
At 1 second, it's closer to a 5% loss. 5 seconds, 20%. 10 seconds is a whopping 50% loss.

And yes, I've seen a lot of landing pages which are not viewable, let alone interactable, for 5+ seconds, an effect exacerbated by mobile.
Especially when disarming a nuke
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Readability is relative, of course. It's more readable than assembly language, compared to which COBOL is a win (for its intended use, of course). Compared to GW Basic (or any Basic with line numbers) it's probably about the same, though more verbose. Compared to a modern language, it's less readable and full of bizarre boilerplate.

The question is, if you are not forced by a customer (such as a bank) or by the need to maintain a legacy system, why would you willingly choose COBOL?
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What is the magnitude of the 50%, is what would be nice to know. If talking 50ms to 25ms, would be seem less big a deal than say 500ms to 250ms.
That's amazing. I'm very excited about the prospect of auto-magically trans-piling code into GPU code. This sort of tech will make GPUs approachable to many more scientists and programmers.
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I'm with you, but we're fighting the losing fight.

As an aside, what a brilliant marketing name. Daylight is in peril and we all adjust our clocks to save it from the treacherous grasp of morning. We're heroes!
Oh and while it is in the docs, the sendfile/virtualbox gotcha has been the cause of many hours of anger

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/virtualbox.htm...
A general understanding might help, but IMO knowing specifics is not necessary. I've known plenty of entrepreneurs that have little to no understanding of economics.

In addition, economics can get quite political. Again, a general understanding of why it's political can help here, but specifics are not necessary.
No. New Zealand's most common form of housing (not "rich people") is a stand-alone house. The solution always proposed on HN is to increase density. To convert housing into apartments. Meaning the new standard in a decade will be apartments. You are decreasing the quality of life of the average person and not the quality of life of rich people, who live in a mansion with a giant yard.
You agree that prices dropped and yet claim I said something incorrect? Sounds like we agree.
“What if we would write some web software where every piece of information is annotated semantically, robots index your stuff on-the-fly, everything is linked together seamlessly and the whole thing talks to the internet to make itself smarter?”

Three years ago, me and my colleagues had a foolish idea. Today, we’re open-sourcing the first working version of our foolish idea, together with it’s 50.000 lines of code, waiting for you to comment and be mean about it.

Stralo is built around the central idea that Linked Data systems should become a whole lot easier. By hiding away technical RDF complexities, embedding an AI-engine and introducing a building block system, we believe to have built the most exciting Linked Data platform in years.

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Oh, and if you find time to spread the word and post/tweet/blog about it, we'll engrave your name on our mantelpiece, that's a promise.

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I guess Spain is hoping that power still comes from the barrel of a gun, judging by the violence employed on referendum day - but interested to see what the hell Spain thinks it can do if the whole of Catalonia goes on strike. I guess it's a battle of wills now. How much of the population of Catalonia really want independence, and what sacrifices are they willing to make to get it?
Why? This is an interesting part of the twitter/US election story. This is the source of this part of the story, linking to another site would be against the HN "rule" of linking the original source.
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Ah. I’ve been downvoted... Guess I should’ve been more clear. I was referencing how the OP said COBOL was easier for data layouts. So, not really knowing COBOL, I was asking why. Poor wording.
The keyword is "believe".

Such behavior is not science. In science, you don't believe, you understand not faith. You check evidence, you use reason.

A mindset that relies on "believe" but not on reason. It maybe because of decades of advertising. Can be a side-effect of participating in believe movements.

How do you change such a mindset? For me, it was reading lots of philosophy and atheist vs theist debates. For Socrates, he died for it.
Can you cite a source on battery disposal being a problem. I've heard this claim repeated many time, but never with even a single shred of evidence.
Understood. But they have so far avoided asking the user for structured data that they could use to vastly improve their matches. Clearly it took a back-seat to usability.

Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "dumb" - I do not mean to imply the Tinder strategy or algorithms are stupid. Just meant that instead of prioritizing matching to the best of their ability, they prioritized usability.
Absolutely - this is the key. There is a huge difference in the software for a game engine vs a website vs an MIS report vs a trading system vs an autopilot. You can't blanket statement which testing technique is better for all software.
Are you guys working with the people on the ISPC team? They also had experimental compiling from ISPC to NVPTX, was it this backend?
Per the Chromium Bugs comment, it's now available in chrome://flags (at least in 62.0.3202.62, which is a standard stable release). The option label is "Autoplay policy."
No, these are bots. Anyone that's ever replied to one of the 'legit' accounts these bots are designed to amplify can watch as the posts are retweeted and liked on a regular schedule over the course of a month. Nothing at all for a week and then suddenly hundreds of retweets/likes Saturday night after midnight NY time on a 3 week old tweet. All from the exact same network of 'users'.
Today we learned: Removing an advanced library from a simple project increases performance.

The library that slow down the UX terribly is "advanced" while the project that is being the victim is "simple".
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Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no raw socket interface in browsers, as far as I know. Websockets are the closest thing, while still ensuring usual client side security (like preventing cross site request).
There you login like normal. Tor can be used to hide from the website owners, and from the network owners between you and the website. If you don't mind that the website knows who you are, you login and identify yourself to them, without letting the network know what you do.
FTA The Catalan government said that of the 43% of potential voters who took part in the referendum, 90% were in favour of independence.

In a referendum where people who wanted to vote "no" didn't show up, because of fears of violence.

This just isn't a reflection of the will of the population.
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Yeah, I can wake up at 6, except in winter, when it's 5 and my biological clock has absolutely refused to adjust for the last 30 years, so I wake up at 7, and the stores open at 9 except when it's 10 and some open at 8, and lunch is, of course at 12, except in winter, when it's at 13, or maybe it's at 11, because I skipped breakfast, no wait there's an early meeting and corporate provided snacks, lunch is at 14 today.

I'm happy that you can set your life to the digit displayed on the clock no matter what that digit actually means in real time, but please spare a thought for those of us whose biological clocks can't readjust and help us abolish DST.
Does anyone have any good resources on writing front-end integration tests? I've had nothing but terrible experiences with selenium. And I recently tried Nightmare (which is Electron-based), but it wasn't much better.
If you can't gain traction in a market due to lost conversions, you'll never have a chance to optimize it.

Not to mention that some infrastructure choices make it really hard to optimize later, if not impossible (sans re-writes).

Also worth noting: the phrase "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" had a very different connotation when first uttered:

http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451
There is no "must" in tolerance. Tolerance is a peace treaty, if it is broken by one side of the deal, then the other side is no longer bound by it. Since Russia is activaly trying to destabilise "the West" (including central and eastern europe, including countries against which it literally wages war), we don't really have to tolerate Russian propaganda outlets.
Can anyone who knows these things comment on the essential differences between Qubes and Sandstorm? Thanks in advance…
So I am not following this especially closely, but my understanding is that the vote represented a minority of the population and was done outside of legal channels. Your last question is really the most pertinent issue as far as what happens next—does the citizenry really care about this, and deeply? Or is it more of a power play drummed up by local political leaders?
waiting for alexa to arrive for voice apps, insteon for wall socket control, some philips hue color lights, and control via https://home-assistant.io/ plus a couple ptz cameras behind https://zoneminder.com/ all in lxc containers on a small linux box.
The reason to pay attention to this stuff is that it might (just might) affect other conjectures in mathematics.

A very clear example here is the continuum hypothesis. It depends on which axiom you choose whether or not the hypothesis holds. If other hypotheses (e.g. Goldbach, Riemann) turn out to have different results in differing axiom systems, that tells us something about those conjectures.

Specifically, it tells us that maybe the conjectures might not be that important.
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Hard to predict. Not looking good on the short term, but who knows what the Catalan government might do to change that.
" just anecdotal that IMHO it’s the lack of profitable investments opportunities and tonnes of cheap capital sloshing around that’s fueling these bubbles all over the world"

If there is excess capital, it's the fault of the central banks.

No.

The issue is corruption and lack of distribution of surpluses in developing economies, specifically China.

Think: China is poor on a per-capita basis. So why are so many Chinese trying to hard to get their $$$ out of there? Mass corruption etc..

Westerners send a lot of $$$ to China - and if there were labour laws, environmental laws (i.e. democracy) then those surpluses would be spread more evenly across China. 'Regular' chinese people want to buy a home, a car a TV - but since the money is so heavily focused on a small portion of citizens - they have 'mass surpluses' and want to get their money out. So it comes back to the West.

You mentioned 'lack of investment' - this can't be the case - as there are still hundreds of millions of Chinese people who still don't have proper homes and are way behind in terms of material standards of living.

If they were paid more - they'd have more surplus $ to spend on 'homes and stuff' and guess what? Local investments would make more sense.

We can't have free trade with nations that regulate their economies in fundamentally different ways than ours. If a country for example, allows mass pollution - well - that externalization is a massive economic advantage, kind of like a 'government subsidy'.

The best way to deflate the Western housing bubble - and to fix the internal problems in China is to spread the wealth in China. Arguably US needs a little more of this as well.
I’ve got six Macs sitting within arm reach that disagree with you. Heck, my desktop Mac Pro has both Nvidia and AMD GPUs and both run without issue.
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I don't think most of those things are pluses for COBOL really, but if the alternative was what the Enterprise Java world has been doing for the past 10 or 15 years, bring on the COBOL.
Of course you can trivially run your own key server and your own upspin universe. But then of course, you can't talk with other people.

The problem with upspin is that there's a SPOC keyserver, not that there's a single namespace. You could trivially have a single global namespace with many delegated keyservers using DNS. You know, like e-mail. But the authors unfortunately don't want that.
>Meanwhile the entire purpose of advocacy organizations like the Sierra Club is to lobby. So if they can't pay people to lobby, they have no reason to raise money, and no way to spend money if they do raise any. Under a rule that prohibits getting paid to lobby, orgs like the Sierra Club simply cannot exist at all. There's no business model.

Then they do the same thing and go do it on their vacation. To me it seems obvious that the money for lobbying exchange that happens in our society benefits the wealthy more than anyone else so ending it is good. It moves the power dynamic from one where lobbying power is determined by money to one where lobbying power is determined by manpower. Now obviously it doesn't completely shift that dynamic by itself but it seems like a vital reform among others.

>Anyway, the law is crystal clear that such a rule would be unconstitutional. People don't give up their rights just because they pool resources or get paid. Paul Krugman and David Brooks still have free speech rights even when they're getting paid to write columns.

No it's not because it's not limiting your speech, it's limiting your ability to get paid for speaking. Like with the kidney example - our laws against buying/selling a kidney don't make having a kidney illegal - you can walk around all day with a kidney - you just can't sell it. Same thing with my rule - you can speak to congresspeople all day, you just can't get paid for it.
How far down does the scale go? Are brainless animals like oysters conscious? What about the mycelium network underneath a forest?
Except that these don't appeal to anyone, really, whether you're a Democrat or Republican or independent. They're designed to shut conversation down. And to make it appear like a specific point of view has many times more support than it does. And they're working.
At least the independistas seem to care about this issue deeply, there’s been much less interest on the other side.
It is. Overlay networks has a very expensive overhead, but it is one of the few ways that networks can be updated to modern views on security threats and privacy without getting ISP to change their hardware and software. I am in particular hopeful that we might see a future where tor will simply be a available tool in the general network stack, enabling private end-to-end without exist nodes.
How would you compare this with the same app done in Clojure? How would development and result be different?
A couple interesting points in the official spec -

1. Write Endurance is amazing, you can keep writing 2.8Tbytes per day every day for 5 years, as a comparison, Intel 750 only allow you to write 70GBytes per day. Such high write endurance does raise an interesting question - why still bother paying for those expensive enterprise NAND SSD.

2. Random IO performance is identical to P4800x, what Intel actually took away from P4800x or is 900P just a slightly different product with a slightly revised spec list. ;)

For me, this is the most exciting hardware release in 2017, the price point is just amazing, it is going significantly boost the performance I am going to get from my distributed consensus library which requires fsync for each write.
I don't practice TDD (see Norvig, Jeffers, and Sudoku) but I do like unit tests. I also like integration, e2e, property, mutation, and fuzz tests. I like proving specs with TLA+. Sometimes type theory proofs are useful. There's a lot of ways to improve quality. Some of those I've only been able to toy with personally, though, because the dirty secret of software engineering is that for most things we don't need very high levels, we just need most customers to not be mad. So that leads to articles like this, where people claim their experience showed the most bang for buck with a certain approach, despite not always even trying other approaches...

> One thing that it doesn’t show though is that as you move up the pyramid, the confidence quotient of each form of testing increases. You get more bang for your buck. So while E2E tests may be slower and more expensive than unit tests, they bring you much more confidence that your application is working as intended.

In my experience this is wrong. Working with an inverse pyramid, you'd think confidence would be high, bugs few. It's the exact opposite.

> just stop mocking so much stuff

Here here. But this gets into subtle arguments over "is this really a unit test if it's using RealFoo even though we're trying to test Bar, such that if RealFoo breaks this test will also break but not because of Bar?" I'm not too strict on my definition of unit test, my best attempt is something like "relatively small, isolated from the broader module/library/application, runs fast, easy to find root failure when test fails, avoids testing the implementation rather than behavior (often hard), and asserts something." It leaves open the possibility for technical 'integrations' but there's a pretty big space of possibilities between a minor integration to avoid mostly useless mocking and suddenly requiring the whole application server to have started up before you can do anything.
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> people who wanted to vote "no" didn't show up, because of fears of violence.

that is just false. They did not show up because they did not want the referedum to take place.
Can't use that excuse when it's the side supporting "no" perpetrating the violence.
Considering the various components of the front end stack - increasing the number and depth of the turtles is a win now?

That lady was right - turtles all the way down!
> Calm down.

A rather unnecessary statement, don't you think?

> This is for a single, static landing page.

Which at one point wasn't a static landing page. Netflix has something of a captive market at this point in time; but could a newer startup scrambling to gain users afford to make the same choices?
Email, phone, social media?
Yeah, just look how Google's Youtube extremist detection algorithm works.
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The problem with X11 is that it's everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. You can't solve that by making another everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. You need to cut down in some places and modularize the other things.

One perfectly legitimate way of doing that is to do one of those things and ask others to do the other things. Development would not go faster, if they put those other aspects at the end of their To-Do List as well.
The side supporting "yes" perpetrates equal amounts of violence. Is just the propaganda machine is much more developed on that side (with the money from all Spaniards...)
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Not the perfect solution but I would prefer one like Wikipedia & others use. Allow flagging by users if a news story lacks citations or credible references. Uphold all journalism to a higher standard. For the most popular stories on Facebook have a trained employee from Facebook research it or crowd base it with users you trust. Show users a message that says whether the news article has been marked as false, questionable or verified. Facebook could even charge money for instant review & verification to news outlets. As machine learning gets better & has more use cases to look at, they could possibly offload the work from humans as well.
There should be different zones with different regulations, yes, so people have a choice.
Also, we should embrace remote work.
It was done “outside of legal channels” in the sense that it’s not possible to do it “within legal channels”.

I have no particular view on the outcome of this, but the fact that upwards of half a million protestors turned out in Barcelona suggests that it’s an important issue.
All sources have an agenda beyond objective truth. Influence is a lot more subtle than just the obvious maneuver of publishing outright falsehoods. Through emphasis and omission you can easily mislead people without ever saying anything untrue. Assuming the reporter hasn't been lied to by his sources in the first place.
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This is incorrect. I saw a few people with Spanish flags and everyone cheered them for voting.
What was insane about the dossier?
Escaping spaces in every command is not super fun/user friendly.
I got a nice stock offer to stay with a company doing COBOL for 3 years around Y2K. Of course I took it. By the time the three years had elapsed the stock price had more than doubled. I only eventually got out of COBOL because it was boring.

Years later I was between gigs and interviewed with a company that wanted me to go back to COBOL. I would have, but they lo-balled the salary, like I was going to take a $20K pay cut to go back to COBOL! Ended up staying in the Java world
I'm going to guess whatever salesperson got the commission on 2 million dollars noticed.
Show examples.

https://spanishpolice.github.io/
True enough. Although this is a problem of Madrid's own making. By suppressing the referendum, they virtually guaranteed these results. It seems to me the political situation there is worse than if there has been a peaceful referendum, under protest by Madrid, and Catalans had narrowly voted for independence. They could probably have defused that with some sort of marginal concession to increase the region's autonomy (as they have in the past). But the problem they have now may not be solved so easily.