skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this essentially the problem Google's been solving with continued iteration on PageRank?

From an untrustworthy collection of input relationships, how do I produce the most reliably correct output?
this assumes their interest is in being fair, but I suspect their goal will gravitate mostly toward 'not being sued/investigated' which may very well create a selection bias.
I find such a comment to contribute more to the discussion (if it's actually discussed) than all the anecdotes from many of the other top-level comments. They are nicely worded and afford many points that can be discussed, most of them irrelevant to the matter of the article.
Thanks for clarifying that! I don't have any skin in this game either, and I agree it might be helpful to have an auto-bias feature, but it needs to be completely transparent and open so we can fact-check the fact-check checkers ourselves :) Someone must fact-check the fact checkers, and facebook should do their best to ensure this is possible with any system they decide to implement.
Sorry. Most of the official sources in this recent campaign were dead wrong on a lot of issues, mostly because of their own massive biases.
> same reasons as everyone else.

Which are?.. Can somebody explain those reasons in the manner that wouldn't immediately invoke "but that's wrong" or "the other side has more of it" or "it's relatively irrelevant" etc.?
>C++ doesn't have reflection

How would you describe RTTI?
As I understand it, FiveThirtyEight's models reflect current and past uncertainty, but do not properly take into account future uncertainty. This greatly undermine's their models for use as a prediction, a probability, or a forecast.

At one point, FiveThirtyEight was forecasting/predicting that Clinton had a 66% chance of winning the election. If there were infinite parallel universes that veered off from that moment in time, their implication is that she would win the election in two out of three times. Taleb is saying that is nonsense, that there is more variability than that.

Of course, Taleb's model wouldn't drive page views or get people excited. FiveThirtyEight gives voters a reason to check-in daily on how their candidate is doing in polls, but it is misleading as a forecasting tool.
> Tokyo has the same population as the entire state of California

Felt surprised by that and looked it up in Google. For the Greater Tokyo vs. California population, it seems true.
Check to see how many "local" newspapers are owned by Advance Publications or Gannett.
Okay. As a Trump supporter, I'll help you to understand. Which part were you confused about?

>...the fact that Trump could say literally any offensive dumb-ass idea...

Okay. You're gonna have to be more specific than that. Which idea did you thought was dumb?
The FBI published parts of the Investigation [1]. There is also a seperate one into the Clinton Foundation [2]. And there seams to exist a declassified email+attachement between Petraeus (CIA) and Hillary where they had to edge out a serial [3].

[1] https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton

[2] https://vault.fbi.gov/william-j.-clinton-foundation

[3] https://vault.fbi.gov/david-howell-petraeus - (last pages of 2nd pdf)
Globalization is a form of private sector innovation (also an effect of innovation in transportation and communication) and he was elected to shut it down. So yes, absolutely.
you're very smart. Your comparison with Berlusconi is accurate and entertaining. But here's the problem.

Smart isn't enough. You need generosity. The main problem with the past 70-years Hayek/Randian "every man for himself" dogma is that it leaves large parts of your fellow, less intellectually talented, human beings, behind. But believe it or not, those "lesser" human beings are often the very source of your happiness, because they are the ones who are not striving for financial gain. They are the ones who soothe your soul. They have non-monetary skills which you will never have. They are the ones who glue a society together. You're clever, and you owe them for the healthy society which they, unlike you, are intrinsic to. Trump, obliquely, has tapped into that disjoint.

Let me put this more simply. Imagine a world exclusively populated with disdainful high-iq people such as you. I call that a smart but heartless place. Hell.
Here in Canada we still use paper ballots and put them in a cardboard box. The polls close at 9:00 PM and we usually have the projected results by 10:30.

I must admit however that the voting system is much simpler than in the US, we check one single circle.
I would expand it out to everything, this would actually be a helpful service. I hate digging through feature notes on everything.
True, though in some cases you may want to write that one as:

foo().and_then(bar).and_then(baz)

That becomes a bit more verbose, but it reads left-to-right, and works better if you want to use a closure as one of the functions. Which form looks more readable in a given circumstance may depend on the nature of foo, bar, and baz.
objc is a huge one! most iphone apps. increasingly, swift too.

there's some python stuff. the original bittorrent client. i did a couple apps using PyQt and python -- not an experience i would want to repeat, though.
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That said, NYT performed some significant investigative reporting. Though Gawker broke the Clinton private email server story, the New York Times vastly expanded the investigation and brought the story into the mainstream.

The statement that the entire media system missed the election is an exaggeration. One function of the NYT, the election prediction section, failed. It shouldn't reflect on the various investigative reporters doing actual digging.
On the other hand, under the present system the governor of, say, Florida can tilt the election by reducing/increasing the number of voting places in strategic locations.

Really??? That's not handled at the county level? It sure is in Missouri (http://www.moga.mo.gov/mostatutes/chaptersIndex/ChaptIndex11...), and I've never heard of it being done at the state level before---that would seem to be prima facie evidence of a discriminatory voting system---but maybe my education in this is lacking.

Hmmm, seems to be the same for Florida: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Here's some data & has a bunch of references to more data.
http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf

The claim is not that 40 is some kind of hard threshold, and if you work any more than that you'll be instantly less productive. The claim is that a steady-state of, say, 60 hours per week is less productive long term. It's actually more productive for a little while, like a month, but then people get tired and less productive than rested 40-hour workers after that.

I have experience doing long periods of 80 hour weeks, when I was working in game development. I think it's hard to say definitively that productivity goes negative, that's not what it felt like when we were crunching. OTOH, I did watch as tired crews would make bad decisions during crunch that ended up costing time in the long run, and I can definitely say that 80 hour weeks are not twice as productive as 40 hour weeks.
Yeah, there's no Denial of Service there. Just service.
Gucci, Prada, and Moncler are at best "middle tier luxury" brands. Almost everyone knows they are completely/partially made in China.
I think there's the global maximum vs local maxima argument in favor of doing something too. Why do people ultimately spend time on Facebook?

I would say they don't do so because of micro-optimized KPI targeting: they do so because they feel time on Facebook is valuable and makes them happy. If Facebook can't deliver increases in that, then optimizations only take them so far.
Thank you, didn't know about it, and it is really, really nice.
They didn't claim to support Hillary; see link. David Duke did, however, endorse Trump.
Isn't this the reason that the new plans all have a continuous coverage requirement?

Old: guaranteed issue, individual mandate

New: guaranteed issue conditional on continuous coverage, high risk pools for people without continuous coverage.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of other stuff not to like about proposed replacements --- the elimination of annual coverage caps, for instance, or the "buy across state lines" requirement.
Human editors can separate sane from insane ? I dont think so.

The recent presidential poll fiasco is prime example. All the large media houses like CNN, ABC, WaPo, NYT complete failed to detect and acknowledge the silent righ-wing voters claiming Clinton would win hands down. This is not just about political bias of the media but more importantly their complete failure to judge the pulse of the nation. In my opinion the main stream media was just insane here.

On the contrary the media engaged in an active social bullying of conservative voters by calling them bigots,racists,misogynist and what not. Had this media been lot more sensitive and sane in understanding both liberal and conservative voters, had they focused on what issues really mattered to conservative voter-base instead of ridicule and bullying I am pretty sure it would have changed things.

I blame the social bullying by main stream media as the prime reason why country seems divided.
Very similar to the Google AI challenge (the ants one) from a number of years ago.
No excuse for 4mb though based on what the app does. 50k should do.

For example in a side project I tried SammyJs then realised it requires jQuery. So I just hunted for something that can route urls without the needless dependency. I chose Navigo.

Point is it takes some care but not too hard to keep the size reasonable. Also don't use npm for dependencies on a web site. But npm is ok for tooling e.g. webpack
How are we to ever prevent misinformation when news papers are happy to publish that "political candidate did crime X! anonymous john/jane doe said".

If news papers were held to ethical requirements that prevented mere accusations from being news, I could see how Facebook should also be held liable for not following the same rules. As it is now, someone could just append "john doe said" at the end of any conspiracy theory and by news standard, its fact checked and ethical.
It's worth noting that for much of the night, per the media, Trump had a 1m+ popular vote advantage. If it had turned the other way (Clinton victory w/ Trump popular vote win) people would be screaming if the Trump camp called for this.
Yes, Federal jobs should have been moved from cities to fill those lost. Norway did something similar.
We already covered that. You're changing the subject.
Why is important to eat peanut butter more often?
I have a problem with these puzzles that it seems like no one has pointed out. A couple of them are just intentionally misleading, specifically the ones that involve typos. For example, the solution to one of them is that it says 'defa1ut' instead of 'default' in a case statement. Ignoring the question of whether or not typos are really "puzzles", this is misleading because the syntax highlighting the author uses highlights it as if it had been spelled correctly. No actual (automatic) syntax highlighting system would ever highlight the code as it is shown on the page. It should either be presented with correct highlighting or with none at all.

For anyone who is going through these exercises, I would encourage you to copy-and-paste the code snippets into a regular text editor.
> Precisely as I said, "The only major benefits over, say, C++ or Java (which I don't think are very impressive languages) are a few convenient threading primitives"

I commented before your edit. The question I responded to was something like "What can you do in Go that you can't do in C++ or Java?"

> 99% of projects don't need green threads.

Perhaps not need, but many of those projects are paying a large opportunity cost in today's no-free-lunch, multicore, I/O-bound world.

> But for those that do, I'd much rather use a language better suited to the purpose, like Haskell or Erlang.

I dispute that Haskell or Erlang are better suited for the purpose. And good luck finding Haskell and Erlang developers.

> This isn't a very convincing argument for Go.

I disagree.
It is kind of Orwellian to claim an investigation of suppression of speech is "abridging the freedom of speech." Nonetheless, it isn't the government's business, what Facebook does with its feed, and constitutional conservatives should recognize that.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/279498-some-conservativ...
How did you build that list? Do any of them contain the word together?
And Zuckerberg meeting right wing leaders shows that there was great element of truth in it.
JSONView Chrome extension contains a serious security vulnerability
That is fair - however it does not have to be implemented by stopping the information from spreading. An alternative could be to refuse to distribute the false information without a disclaimer reading "DEBUNKED / FALSE / see here for fair balance"

Or include a DIV to one side with a bulleted list of false claims.

Consider the TRUMP quote image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRxEt7pU8AAzekC.jpg

People Magazine 1998 - I'd run as a republican because they are the dumbest. I'd lie my face off and they'd love me [paraphrase]

A Facebook-fact-checker wouldn't have to suppress the sharing of the image. Id could create an overlay or add a subtitle or tag which reads "FALSE QUOTE - this isn't real"

Rather than relying on the hundred million individual conversations being maybe fact checked - an algorithm / ai / editorial squad could apply fact checking automatically.

The IMAGE thumbprint / URL flagged in the facebook database as proven false, it gets the extra-content on its own.
Wish I knew about this a week ago..

I'm using CrashPlan to backup from my laptop to another computer on the network. I see that rclone can backup to a local filesystem. Do you happen to know if I can I do with rclone what I do with CrashPlan? i.e. use rclone to backup my local filesystem to a remote server?

It looks very sleek though, I'll have to give it a try.
It will be interesting to see Trump attempt to follow through on his promise to eliminate NAFTA and slap tariffs on imported goods. Somehow I doubt he will have a lot of support from congress on that goal, as pretty much every senator and representative is in the pockets of big multinationals who have already moved their manufacturing overseas or to Mexico.

This is one area he really can't ignore. A lot of people voted for him because he promised to bring their jobs back and they're very keen on seeing manufacturing return to the US.
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It's (kind of) like Segment for backend storage services.
It seems like the best thing to do would be penalize a site if it shows verifiably false content until it both updates the original story and issues a retraction. Facebook could prioritize retractions in its algorithm and ensure that people who saw the original story would see the retraction as well.

Content providers who abide by journalistic guidelines could be prioritized. Providers who actually have an editor could even associate the editor of each article with the post so that the editor's individual track record could be checked alongside the site itself, which would work better for large organizations who have multiple departments and don't deserve to be globally penalized for a single bad editor.
Let's create a Ministry of Truth.

Then we can ban all those sites on homeopath, acupuncture, astrology, stereotype threat and all that other pinko voodoo (the bulk of social "science" papers come to think of it).

Where do I sign the petition?
This is seriously hilarious. Now that's he's won, against seemingly all odds, we have to find some other reason for why EVERYONE ELSE, was completely WRONG. Every media outlet, everyone in politics, all the polls, completely shit on Trump. Now look who is the most powerful person in the entire world.

The Democrats, and the rest, did it to themselves. Overconfidence, smear campaigns, and all of the morons doing the polls.

We are all sick of politicians, and the people have spoken, let's just see what happens. Get over it already.
The problem these 'fact' checkers have become leftist doctrines... You just point to snopes or politifact and that is end of discussion? That's not how the world works. Wikileaks is a far more credible source than either of these. People need to do their own research if they want to form conclusions not just little to prepackaged conclusions.
I don't mean to be all doom-and-gloom but it seems too little, too late. Someone else in this thread put it well:

> people immersed in echo chambers will accuse them of bias no matter what.
They control the purse strings. The DNC could easily have given Sanders some dosh and infrastructure to get his message out. But the leaked emails clearly show they did everything they could to undermine his campaign.
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Yes! The two interns who built Halite were Ants competitors and were inspired to build this after participating in that. They tried to come up with something that had even simpler rules while maintaining a high level of strategic possibilities.
Who builds the boxes? Who sets up and configures them? How are the parts sourced? What software do they run? Who has physical access to the machines while they are running?
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What would one aim to accomplish by doing so?
Almost any powerful new feature in any language initially gets overused, but that isn't a reason to ban it.

Class hierarchies, for example, got heavily overused before people discovered that composition most of the time is the better option, exceptions got overused before people learnt to only use them in exceptional cases, and dependency injection and XML (one of the first environments with strong support for it) got overused in Java programs.

Generics are going the same way, if they haven't already (JavaScript modules will get there, too, but that seems at least a generation of programmers away)

Also, the only difference I see between generics (with a bit of 'compile-time reflection') and go generate is that the former may be too magical for some, while the latter requires programmers to do more work (writing special comments to use existing functionality, and writing AST manipulation code to write new ones) and that it generates files only because the compiler wants to see them.
Exclusives disagree with your assumptions ex: Taylor Swift is not on Spotify. Pandora really can't stream every single album and only includes ~1 million songs vs 20 million for Spotify.
For one thing, sexuality enables sexual dimorphism. We can compete and evolve as a symbiotic pair of subspecies with the advantages and disadvantages of both.
Generics in java work via type erasure, so <T> is the same as interface{} by the time the code is running.
How would one determine the real market rate for a song in the first place? In an ephemeral streaming context, a market seems like it would be nigh impossible to implement. "I bid $.02 for an hour of streaming music, only play me songs that are under that"?
The paper covers a range of topics - OOP, DOM operations and events, AJAX, animation, touch - much of it modelled on jQuery.

There is no copyright or author attribution, which is surprising, since the material is well-organized and presented as a book. It feels a bit dated, and does not cover some of the "new" ideas arising from recent developments in JavaScript frameworks.

It explains the fundamentals well, and would make good study material for learning the language, working with the DOM, and getting familiar with common idioms/patterns.
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I was surprised that the JSONView Chrome extension wasn't working when I opened a tab with JSON that didn't get reformatted. When I checked chrome://extensions/, there was a note: "This extension contains a serious security vulnerability." The extension had been automatically disabled in Chrome.

When I googled the extension, opening the extension's page in the Chrome store returned a 404. I haven't been able to get more information about what the vulnerability is.
The first link is broken.
Any hope of taking action to reverse it evaporated Tuesday night. The Paris climate agreement is now dead and any followup conferences are doomed for at least 2 years and almost certainly at least 4.
Well a well mixed record does way more good than lossless vs. 192k, but I definitely hear it.

It depends a lot on the record, but on a gorillaz track ("feel good inc") I could hear it very well.

Ironically the tracks quality on spotify is quite bad, because the label provided crap to them.

edit: reply from the support was:

~320 kbps (only available to Premium subscribers) [...]

Also, we only make the music available in whatever form it’s given to us by the artists or labels.

edit: good abx test for spotify standard quality: http://abx.digitalfeed.net/spotify.html
Apple Thrives Behind the Curve
The Earth will survive. The life on it maybe not so much.
If you had asked Hamilton his opinion on a woman or someone of African descent, what do you think he would have said? Even ignoring that, I suspect the founding fathers would have been aghast at the system of professional politicians. They would have similarly been aghast at Trump's personality and behavior, but I suspect his business experience would have been considered a positive.
I would not leave. I don't think there is a good strategy, which is why we should not have done it.
It's comments like this that really make me sad about the state of labor solidarity among tech professionals. Like, please, stop torpedoing our negotiation position, especially on a public forum that many technical employers and managers read.

On the object level, I have a suspicion that being productive past 40 hr/wk or so has reverse causation for me. It's bad for me to work over 40 hours a week, so that magically translates into being bad at it. Social negotiation is one of those things that your non-verbal and emotional parts is really good at, and Thomas Schelling style "don't have the ability to do things you don't want others to pressure you into doing" strategies work.
> in the pockets of big multinationals

Your comment dismisses any concern that tariffs could be a bad thing, and ignores literally hundreds of years of research and experimentation that shows trade barriers to have negative effects on economic health and international peace. He may have little support from congress because congresspeople believe it to be _a bad idea_.
What's that headline right now? Tesla had more revenue than all of American oil/coal combined?

Edit: Found it: https://electrek.co/2016/11/10/tesla-made-more-money-last-qu...
As a Go developer, I'm curious how is the error handled when foo() or bar() fail?
Could you show an example where `bar()` returns a re-triable error or a fatal error etc? something where I have to make a decision other than returning it up the call stack?.
> Can anyone explain why the two skis are exactly in line, and not the left and the right foot

this is completely compatible with telemark skis, where the toe is anchored but the heel is free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemark_skiing
Rust looks great, I'm not using it but learning and it look fantastic.
I have one question, I guess off-topic: Rust uses LLVM, like Swift, Julia etc. Could these LLVM languages interoperate better because of this common foundation? Maybe link using LLVM IR instead of C ABI FFI, or something like that?