skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gist of it below. I know that's a lot of excerpts, but it's too important to overlook.

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Now, though, disinformation is regarded as an important aspect of Russian military doctrine, and it is being directed at political debates in target countries with far greater sophistication and volume than in the past.

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The fundamental purpose of dezinformatsiya, or Russian disinformation, experts said, is to undermine the official version of events — even the very idea that there is a true version of events — and foster a kind of policy paralysis.

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Russia exploits both approaches in a comprehensive assault, Wilhelm Urme, a spokesman for the Swedish Security Service, said this year when presenting the agency’s annual report. “We mean everything from internet trolls to propaganda and misinformation spread by media companies like RT and Sputnik,” he said.

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Tracing individual strands of disinformation is difficult, but in Sweden and elsewhere, experts have detected a characteristic pattern that they tie to Kremlin-generated disinformation campaigns.
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“The dynamic is always the same: It originates somewhere in Russia, on Russia state media sites, or different websites or somewhere in that kind of context,” said Anders Lindberg, a Swedish journalist and lawyer.

“Then the fake document becomes the source of a news story distributed on far-left or far-right-wing websites,” he said. “Those who rely on those sites for news link to the story, and it spreads. Nobody can say where they come from, but they end up as key issues in a security policy decision.”

Although the topics may vary, the goal is the same, Mr. Lindberg and others suggested. “What the Russians are doing is building narratives; they are not building facts,” he said. “The underlying narrative is, ‘Don’t trust anyone.’”

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Last year, the European Parliament accused Russia of “financing radical and extremist parties” in its member states, and in 2014 the Kremlin extended an $11.7 million loan to the National Front, the extreme-right party in France.

“The Russians are very good at courting everyone who has a grudge with liberal democracy, and that goes from extreme right to extreme left,” said Patrik Oksanen, an editorial writer for the Swedish newspaper group MittMedia. The central idea, he said, is that “liberal democracy is corrupt, inefficient, chaotic and, ultimately, not democratic.”

Another message, largely unstated, is that European governments lack the competence to deal with the crises they face

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Moscow’s targeting of the West with disinformation dates to a Cold War program the Soviets called “active measures.” The effort involved leaking or even writing stories for sympathetic newspapers in India and hoping that they would be picked up in the West, said Professor Mark N. Kramer, a Cold War expert at Harvard.
>>That said, Bing and DuckDuckGo did make a dent in Google's market share, it's not much, but it's significant enough that they'll still exist for some time.

DuckDuckGo still doesn't appear as more than a blip on most market share charts.

As for Bing, the only reason it made a dent on Google is because Microsoft leveraged its own monopoly position on Windows to default searches to Bing. After that, it just had to be "good enough", which it is.
It is actually a fun fact when you think about the recent popularity of the Paleo diet and the anti-gluten sentiment.
Is it possible that the article is describing private settlements made in lieu of an official punishment, or would those have also showed up in your search (due to e.g. some kind of transparency requirement)?
The domain probably costs to much.

Squatters.
Declaring that somebody is falsely claiming to use ML without looking at their product is a bit irresponsible ;)

The positivity, subjectivity, and politeness calculations are all outputs from neural networks, and the overall likelihood is calculated using a decision forest so that we can explain the results to people. There are plenty of emails with a high likelihood of getting a response, even though each calculation may score poorly.
Depends on your needs, if you are in control of your network, etc. Two options here:

http://cloudflare.com

http://defense.net
Hillary Clinton staffers are using Signal to talk about Trump
You want time signatures? I'll give you time signatures :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e14ublpOG8

(Rush, La Villa Strangiato live)

In fairness, "listening" music and dance music are different beasts, though (and rightly so). This ain't dance music.
You're assuming that the capacity of the Powerwall is all the power available. With a solar-tied backup system, there is power coming in from the modules as well which is additive to the discharge rate of the Powerwall if wired correctly.

So even your massive A/C should be useable for a while during daylight hours if your solar system is large enough. Most people here in humid hurricane country opt to have a 15 amp 120v window unit available instead, and limit themselves to a single comfortable room.
Back in the day, it was hard to figure out if a person had ever been convicted of a crime -- you'd have to go down to the right courthouse and look through a bunch of dusty paper files. Public records were open, but you'd need to care enough to spend a lot of time if you wanted to snoop on whether a particular individual had a criminal history -- and the right records would have been even harder to find if they'd been convicted in a different county or a different state.

Now that we have computers that can index all those public records, doing background checks on individuals has become easy enough to do it. I think I've seen applications for even fast food jobs which ask if you've ever been convicted of a felony.

The result of this is that, in addition to prison time, our society is de facto penalizing felons for the rest of their lives by making it a lot harder to get many necessities -- such as employment, housing, and education. Not because any law has made it so, but because of new behavior patterns enabled by new technologies. It's not surprising that many one-time offenders turn to a life of crime -- not because they want to, but because they feel that's the only path left open to them.

The timeline in the article seems to fit with this narrative.
I'm not certain where the haters are coming from. I thought it was well written and extremely interesting.

Sure - there are current limitations, and being able to predict what hasn't happened yet is certainly difficult.

What was interesting to me though, is many of our most important choices in life have happened 1000s of times before. Should I buy this? Should I marry this person? What school should I go to or what career should I pursue? These are all questions that can, on average, be better answered with available data than potentially just following your gut. This is the position of the article, and I tend to agree.

While the mystical nature of the totality of the machine we are cogs in seems hyperbolic or unnerving, at a practical level it makes sense to model your interactions with the world that way. Taking that stance, the comparison to religion and humanism should be easy to follow, and reflect on. When are you "dataist"? When are you "humanist?" You'll learn a lot about yourself simply asking that question.

Which makes for a great ending to the article - do you know yourself? Better than algorithm? Maybe not in all cases, and the data shows thats not necessarily a bad thing.
Tangential, but how do you stand to check tire pressure so frequently? Just taking the dust caps off is enough of a burden I don't do it frequently.
This reminds me of #CALLBRUSSELS, a Brussels tourism initiative wherein anyone could call public phones throughout Brussels via https://call.brussels and chat about anything. There were live video feeds as well. IIRC this was in January, right around the time Trump and others were making negative comments, so it was meant to dispel concerns about safety in the city.

Here's an article discussing it in detail: http://www.ibtimes.com/callbrussels-new-tourism-initiative-d...

There's also some video content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnybwEvQsU
See also http://www.ice.cat/personal/iribas/Proxima_b/indepth.html

Not the Earth 2.0

In any case, and although it is an excellent candidate
planet that could harbor life, Proxima b cannot be
considered an Earth twin. One thing is certain, in fact:
the history of Proxima b and its star was radically
different from the history of the Earth and the Sun. The
formation of Proxima b, the irradiation by its star, the
tidal forces it suffers affecting its internal structure
and rotation, its possible climates have no equivalent in
the history of our planet.
In ISDS cases where foreigners seek relief from the US government, corporations with giant budgets aren't facing off against other countries. Instead, the US itself appoints an arbitrator (since the US isn't taken to ISDS panels all that often, you can quickly get a sense of the kinds of arbitrators they pick from the UNCTAD site: spoiler: they're international trade lawyers).

In ISDS cases where US investors seek relief from foreign countries, the US is only slightly better than 50/50 in winning cases. Most US->foreign cases are done under NAFTA and most of those pertain to Canada. If you narrow the 138 US->foreign cases tracked by UNCTAD down to those against countries whose annual tax revenue is lower than the largest US corporation, you'll find 20 cases, most of which pertain to Venezuela and Kazakhstan.

To me, this cuts against the argument that ISDS is just another vector with which the rich can buy justice for themselves.
> Have you seen another search engine make a dent in Google's market share? How about another OS challenging Windows on a PC? Another social network?

That might be true, but I'm just fine using ddg as my search engine and Linux as my OS. Social network is a bit more tricky: it's social and, well, a network. Even so, however it is only logical that something like this happens to WhatsApp, and I well understood this since the very beginning, I used WhatsApp only because it's painless, so why not? I don't really need it. So now I'm dropping out with a clear heart and if somebody will ask, why I'm not available anymore, I'll encourage them to install some other messenger. Telegram, perhaps. It won't be really bothersome, as most of us are using several messaging apps anyway. I believe somebody will do this as well.

So, even though WhatsApp was an undeniable success, I don't really see it as something stable. As a monopoly.
"Um, bonjour. Est en cours d'exécution de votre réfrigérateur?"
Your analysis seems reasonable until you actually own an EV and see how little maintenance is required. I've had my LEAF for over two years and all I've needed is tire rotation and tire replacement (due to pothole.) The brakes last way, way longer due to the motor picking up so much of the braking.

The oil change places will die out as EVs pick up unless they are smart enough to install L3 charging stations and charge a small fee for their use.
Even if it were true, you can easily bundle a JRE with your app, which is what Oracle recommends actually. In the end, it still ends up being smaller in size than a Electron/NW.js app.
This is not a millennial thing. V-III-V arrangements have been in pop music forever.
I think it's a good article, but misses on one of its claims.

> Another powerful driver for the uptake of electric vehicles is that they are a vastly superior platform for autonomous driving, infotainment, connected vehicle and transport-as-a-service technologies, ... And it simply makes no sense to have an inherently analogue power unit – vibrating, volatile-liquid-consuming, hot-polluting-exhaust-producing – at the heart of a fully digital, sensor-pervaded, solid-state-electronics-controlled system.

I don't think there's anything true about this statement, basically. There's no reason not to put automated driving, connected vehicle, and transport-as-a-service technologies in petrol cars (as long as it's still economical to make and sell petrol cars).
Here is a good, much shorter, article on the subject:

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21623756...
I'm in a lucky position to be reviewing a series of e-bikes over the coming weeks/months. This is particularly relevant as I live in Bath, UK with 7 rather impressive hills.

The current model I'm putting through its paces a mid-drive Bosch based bike http://www.ebco-ebikes.co.uk/products-page/ebco/ebco-ucl-70/

I am 20st 8 or 130kg. It does rather well although I failed to get it up this hill https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14086433_101541... near Avoncliff (Winsley Hill).

I've come to the conclusion that e-bikes are not just a bicycle with motor. It is not cycling in the sense of sport cycling or leisure cycling. It is a transformative form of transport that offer you the freedom and the range you need within an urban (and lesser extent rural) environment to just simply get from A to B while being connected to your local community.

I've been lending the bike out to various people whenever I have stopped. The Deliveroo (takeaway delivered by bike) couriers were absolutely stunned how different it is. There isn't a single person that hasn't tried the bike out that hasn't been absolutely stunned at what it can do. It really is nothing like cycling.

I think the biggest impact for me is that I don't worry about hills any more. It also gives you significant acceleration from a standing start. You are usually up to 16mph within a 4-5 pedals. This is really important when vehicular cycling. I feel a lot more confident in traffic on one of these.

Everyone seems to be talking about self-driving cars. Seriously, at an urban level, do not discount just how important the e-bike is. It's the most efficient and fastest way you can go from A to B in a city.

One other thing, don't buy a cheap bike. The mid-drive systems are expensive but they are the best on the market. Hub motors are just not as good.

I can only suggest you try one of them. Find a local stockist and go borrow one for an hour.

Of note my wife has one with a throttle. She has a bad knee. She refused a mobility scooter, but a lovely blue bike with a basket on the front looks good and she can peddle as much as she is physically able to, and then let the bike take her home.

E-bikes are stunning. Really really amazingly good modes of transport.

After testing the one today on a 40mile round trip, I will state, next time I'm taking my normal gravel bike. For leisure they are just not as demanding physically so not as much fun for that. But that's me. For getting around the city of Bath, I will always use the e-bike. Arrive fresh and relaxed. I feel I can easily explore the city now without having to worry about hills.
> reversing that process is physically a negative yield.

How energetically costly is direct atmospheric gas capture? Does sequestering flue gases look much better?
Sort of true, in the sense that the product isn't separately trained for sales emails vs personal emails vs internal business emails, etc.

But the calculations we chose don't provide a lot of constraints, and the variances were not as high as you'd likely expect. So I'd be comfortable saying that the recommendations generalize well to a vast majority of situations.
I'd say, we up the difficulty of our discussions. Things we would discuss in the past (e.g. which year was XYZ born) are now settled beyond dispute with a quick google. Now we are stuck discussing questions that cannot be resolved this way.
Correct. I favor ignoring the democratic will of the people and protecting individual rights. I make no pretenses about this, and I think the tendency of democracies to violate individual rights is one of their deep flaws.

I'm just pointing out that either a) you favor laws against gay marriage since the democratic will of the people supports them (and similarly segregation in the south in 1969) or b) your appeals to the democratic will of the people are dishonest. Which is it?
I guess you're probably right, I usually boot up just once in the morning. The truth is, being a performance freak, I expected OpenBSD to fly on my current hardware.

After much tweaking and struggle I couldn't get the DBus working, hence couldn't install GNOME.

i3wm as my window manager and manual configuration of everything especially the wireless connection were too spartan for me. So I switched back to Debian 8 + KDE.
But the idea behind a password manager is that you effectively use it in perpetuity. I bought 1Password in 2013 for $50, and the iPhone app for $9. I use it several times a day, and don't see that changing at any point in the near future. At $3/month, I would have be approaching twice what I actually paid, with no prospect for being done with that payment. I get why AgileBits is going to a subscription model; I'm sure they would prefer that I had paid them $96 by now, rather than $59, and that I would go on to pay them another $36 per year every year forever. But the idea that you, as a consumer, are looking at this and seeing an appealing deal suggests you haven't really thought it through very well.
Agriculture market research
Unfortunately, PV market price drops do not reach the EU market, due to the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on crystalline silicon modules and cells originating from China in place since 2013. These protective measures have caused the solar module prices to even rise during the last two years (and certainly hampered solar deployment in Europe).
Why would they wait for an electric car? Pretty much every "traditional" car maker has been offering electric cars for several years.

http://www.plugincars.com/cars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electric_cars_currentl...
That is one one-sided anti-propaganda-propaganda piece. Let's not pretend that any government does not do the same to others, eh?
Fiction represented what people saw around them and considered them as some sort of values.

Someone above mentioned "Law&Order" as some sort of dismissal, but that's exactly the point, in a "know it all surveillance society" the societal aspects that made the producers think: "hey, let's make a show about the good guys catching the bad guys, let's call it 'Law&Order'" would not be present. Fiction is always backed up by facts from the real life.

I should know, i grew up in a wannabe "know it all surveillance society" (on the Eastern side of the wall), where we did not have TV shows like 'Law&Order' because, technically, the "socialist society" we were part of didn't have any bad guys. There were of course criminals, and rapist, and bad people, but they were just a glitch hidden under the rug. It was sort of supposed that in the brighter future awaiting us all those "bad elements" would have been gone for good.

The former socialist government of my country was against the bad guys because in the end we were all supposed "to all be equal", some commenters on HN are against the bad guys because it brings down real estate prices, maybe some other people are against the bad guys because in a book of fiction 2000-years old someone wrote it down that: "You should not steal", the fact remains that no-one, ever, would be able to hide the "bad guys" under the rug, for ever. It's against our very nature as a species.
Hard to say, but some details about the hosting may help to estimate. The site is hosted on the cheapest possible shared hosting for 2.5€ per month: 15GB space, 150GB monthly transfer, CPU usage 30 minutes per 24 hours, 1GB RAM, max 60 processes.
Absolutely! But I bet François Hollande won't be taking any calls (like the Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven did [1]). :P

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S087OHdCG8I
Great, another wow signal! Now we can rest easy that the first one wasn't a fluke... Regardless of whether this is the making of sentients or a physical phenomena we have one more reason to keep looking up in the sky :)

here's a good description of the wow signal and why it's important. if this one has similar characteristics we just increased chances of observing a really interesting phenomena by 100%:

http://www.universetoday.com/93754/35-years-later-the-wow-si...
The Trouble with Teleportation (2013)
I assume that's exactly what it must be, because, of course, ISDS tribunals are just collections of lawyers and have no authority to vacate sentences. But the UNCTAD site tracks cases that are pending and cases that are discontinued along with the cases in which investors win, and I can't find any with a fact pattern backing up Buzzfeed's precis.

I don't think Buzzfeed just made it up! But the way they've written it up, they are making an extraordinary claim, so the message board nerd in me wants to see, you know, some evidence?
It's a minor third, which is probably the catchiest interval.

You hear it a lot in school playgrounds. :)
And which one of those best ensured the safety, pension and healthcare of the workers?
5 Tips for Using Strings in Go
https://www.stream.me/

We have some controversial users...
Nor should we accept false equivalencies.
FYI: That video doesn't end well. It includes footage of the airport bombing that happened there.
Hey, I'm a happy 1pass customer, but give me fucking break.

Maybe 1 visitor in 100, visiting your website, would even realize that there's a fixed-price option still available. It's buried way at the bottom of the pricing page, hidden inside the FAQ.

The link itself just leads to a purchase page, with absolutely no attempt to explain or lay out the differences between the subscription and fixed price option.

To claim this about "preventing customer confusion" seems to me pretty absurd. Be more honest, please.
Arduino probably won't stand radiation for a long. In case people interested, in Russia there is a crowdfunded project running to send a space probe to the moon.
Simpsons reference?
Proposal: a Volition Tax
Your perspective seems right, relative to the status quo. But, in time, fair algorithms could be put in use by open source and creative commons to empower regular people. Today it is easy to fork or extend a system, even an AI system. Data can be collected by offering services. I don't think a few companies could hold AI hostage, especially because the practice is to share and because the entry barrier is low with regards to computer power.
You mean the biggest MiTM on the web?[0]

The only reason why they're not constantly called out by serious infosec folk for their scam is because they hire guys also involved in DefCon/BlackHat planning (try to sneak a hostile talk against Cloudflare past REDACTED[2] who btw is also advising Mr. Robot). It's lobbying at its finest.

[0] https://scotthelme.co.uk/tls-conundrum-and-leaving-cloudflar...

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare

EDIT: [2] redacted name since there is more than one, please duckduckgo by yourself.
Even with tools to automate the search through listings and get you ahead of other buyers, one of the tricky parts of apartment hunting is its “optimal stopping” structure: you have to decide when to commit without knowing whether an even better apartment might be out there.

This is a famous math problem (the “secretary problem”) with the lovely solution that you should define a time interval over which to search and not commit to anything until you’ve spent 1/e of that time -- 37% -- noncommittally exploring your options.

https://medium.com/galleys/optimal-stopping-45c54da6d8d0#.lj...
I often wonder what level of exposure you need to become addicted, and how much is controlled by individual variability.

Speaking for myself, I'm a 2-3 cups a day on the weekdays kind of person (up until about 2-3pm at which point I cut myself off). But on weekends I often have none (just too lazy to make a cup), and I've never experienced any associated withdrawal symptoms.
They quote Jakub Janda. Interesting person indeed.
https://www.facebook.com/bruselin.watch/videos/1045786672165...
It's so yesterday, it's racist restaurants now.