skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This focus on the person instead of measures is very, very concerning. Seriously, there's a video feature prominently called "My Dad". Pictures of him everywhere.

I'll stop making fun of North Korea.
I assume they had it ready to go and live and putting it in to production was simply a matter of registering the domain and pointing the DNS at the server hosting this.
Here is the section on Immigration, https://www.greatagain.gov/policy/immigration.html

First point: "Build a Wall on the Southern Border"
From what I understand a large portion of people would be happy to sign off on that domain name, another large portion wouldn't, and a final large portion would not fall into either camp. Of course the reasons for each are diverse, contradictory, and surprising.
"they were pushed to that by accusations of bias in the right-wing media."

Accusations of bias? I think you mean to say that actual Facebook employees stated this as a fact. And the story was covered by ALL news outlets, starting with Gizmodo.
This is the whitest web page I've seen in a while.
No. Technologically it's not all that impressive, it's the human element that is. They moved on this really quickly. It's surprising the coordination to get this done can be done in a day.
Exactly! Up until this week, presidents had to be... well, presidential. I'm truly astonished that a demographic who is normally very outraged at moral missteps voted this man into office.
If you're already proficient in Java/JVM I personally don't see a lot of reasons to use Go. Maybe for extremely small services or if you can't take the higher memory requirements.
Obamacare also lets people under 26 stay on their parents health insurance longer, prevents insurance companies from dropping people from coverage or denying them coverage in the first case because of illness (yes, this used to be a thing in america, if you got cancer or some other disease that takes years of very expensive treatment to deal with your insurance company could just say "nah we're not paying for that" and drop you like a rock) and made health insurance affordable for millions of people who previously could not get it.

the affordable care act is far from perfect, but it's also not useless in any sense, and it needs to be modified not repealed. And yes I'm partially saying that because I and my brother will both lose and not be able to afford health insurance if it is repealed. I'm also saying that because I strongly belief in the benefits that have come out of the bill, even at the cost of some major downsides.
Yes, Obama also opened up a jobs portal on his transition site.
Why Machines Still Can't Learn So Good
this is what I would propose. Attach a very visible rating on each story shared from all news sources, the rating says how much the news source holds to it's journalistic integrity. There should be a very clear criteria that facebook holds it's news content providers to. If you click on the rating of a low rated news source, you should be shown exactly what extremely misleading articles they have published in the past, these reviews should also be tagged so you can view it directly if someone is spreading misinformation on the news feed.
You might want to take a look at http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/ .
The same was true in 2008, during the primaries. Clinton's site had actual policies, Obama's had hand-waving.
> record labels have always taken the lion's share of profits

This is the problem I have with most of the whining about rates. Artist-driven equity, that I can get behind.

But don't pitch me on a solution where we're avoiding the fact that modern technology can replace traditional promotion/distribution channels far more efficiently.
> Oddly C++ has done well without any native GUI toolkit of course,

Well from the OS vendors themselves we had MFC/WTL/Windows Forms/WTL on Windows, BeOS GUI, Symbian UI, CSet++ on OS/2, PowerPlant on Mac.

Additionally there was Turbo Vision on MS-DOS, OWL, VCL for Windows, Motif++ on UNIX.
...which is optional? Pretty sure that whole optional section is pure demographic collection popular with many large employers.
Probably half the commenters on this very thread (not me, I don't do web stuff) could have produced a site as good or better in half the time. Are you serious?
Are Developers Coming Back to Microsoft?
If we're going to upvote these things on Hacker News, can we try to stick to comments that are less butt-hurt and more constructive? Yes, the technology industry is reeling from the fact that the preferred candidate did not win.

However, we are supposed to be hackers here, not some whiny intelligentsia. Please take off your sad hat and put back on the hacker hat. Bend the rules. Enact the change that you can from the position you are in. Get involved in any way you can. We cannot change the results of the election, but we can work with the framework and try to improve it for the better. Embrace the suck, and let's step forward in any way possible.
Singles' Day is Nov 11 (11/11), so I'm guessing you're in Pacific time zone? The big splash was when the sale started in China, which is quite a few hours ahead of the US.
Please don't. If you are coming over here because you can't stomach your country and not for any great desire to contribute to mine I don't want you here.
So it wasn't a joke after all.
Anyone know if anything from Digital Service and 18F will get transitioned over? I'll be extra sad if making America great again also means making all the websites ugly and unusable too.
If the scoring system does anything other than maximize engagement with Facebook, Facebook ends up making less money and performing worse on KPIs than they otherwise would. It'd be very difficult for any decision maker at Facebook to build, deploy, and maintain that feature. It'd be the sort of thing that'd only be there if otherwise the company would be under existential threat.
"Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever."
That's pretty typical of a lot of government forms in my experience, for collecting demographic information. While it might be tempting to read more into this, I'm not sure it's justified in this case.
The page on Tax Reform[0] seems... interesting. Here's the first paragraph:

> Anyone who fills out a tax form knows how harmful the U.S. tax code is today – punishing hard work, savings, and investment. American frustration with the tax code has prompted two decades of Washington, D.C. blue ribbon commissions and detailed plans to reform the code. These efforts have not changed the tremendous burden Americans face in complying with the U.S. tax code. If a tax code were designed to punish hard work, thrift, and investment, the current U.S. tax code could serve as a blueprint.

Autosummarizer[1] summarizes the first paragraph as follows:

> If a tax code were designed to punish hard work, thrift, and investment, the current U.S. tax code could serve as a blueprint.

Good times, America.

[0] https://www.greatagain.gov/policy/tax-reformeconomic-vision....
[1] http://autosummarizer.com/index.php
Like I said, it's not the technological aspect that is impressive. It's he human aspect. How quickly they coordinated this.
Well, it should soak up some of the more annoying dos traffic. That's a good thing.
I also "suffered" through Rob Ford.

His main problem was substance abuse. That led to the the massive circus that was his last two years in office. Trump does not have this issue (or at least, doesn't seem to) so I don't think the comparison is justified.

You're being overly dramatic about Ford in general. His first year was actually productive and he delivered on many of his promises (freeze property taxes, repeal registration tax, privatize garbage collection, kill transit city). This isn't just me being generous, I'm echoing Robyn Doolittle, who was the reporter that broke the scandal, followed subsequent scandals and published Crazytown.
Correct. I don't know why editorial bias was a problem in the first place.

Right now they have false-equivalency bias that drives fake stories.
Funny you say that, here in NH that was a big criticism of Clinton.

Clinton's campaign: "I'm with her."

Trump's campaign: "Make America Great Again."
Unfortunately those were the pubic positions not the private ones.
As a Pythonista , I tried small projects in Go and Rust but ended up liking Nim overall. Compiles to C and the syntax just feels like I'm writing Python.
But at no point was it racist like you claimed.
Telling people who aren't aligned to with the liberal intelligentsia to fuck off is exactly what got us in the current mess. Most people are reasonable, but when the reasonable and rational media ignores their issues, we leave the door open to demagogues and dictators. How else could a silver spoon like Donald Trump ever claim to represent the everyman?
I felt like "What?!" and then I realized that's the expected answer :D
Addendum: To be clearer, it's usually short hand for the spectrum, or more accurately someone on the shallower end of the spectrum (like a Sheldon or a Sherlock/House to draw from pop culture versions of it) whose an adult who can deal with criticism, not like that kid or someone whose closer to what people think of as "Rain Man".

There is even someone in the comments whose Autistic who says they're fine with it, they're adults, give them more credit. the coddling betrays a lower opinion of them then an average person.
I think it may be worse than two tribes. Its a million tribes with limited overlap in what they consider the truth, but all having a large megaphone that cuts across tribal lines while still building bubbles.

My analogy is breaking down. I don't think we understand how the complete removal of barriers to publishing are changing society. Nor do we understand how to cope with it. A bunch of folks just elected an authoritarian to "guide" the way.
It's 11/11 in parts of Asia already.
Ask HN: People who had built Lead System, what was your experience like?
What was your journey like? Please share your tips, Dos and Don'ts in building the Lead Management System.
Astronomers have designed a house for Mars – take a look inside
I do some astronomy as a hobby, and it really drives home the point that the great circle path is not the shortest distance between two points. At midnight, if you want to point to the Sun, it's basically straight down (modulo latitude/season/DST).
Are you willing to claim that intelligence isn't correlated with success at achieving one's goals? You can make that case, and certainly they don't always match up, but then what is intelligence?

I appreciate the evolutionary metaphor, but its also important to remember that candidates can (and do) change strategies and adapt to circumstances. Indeed, I would expect an intelligent candidate to try various different strategies throughout their campaign (and be better at it than their competition). Clinton and Trump both did. Clinton also had arguably much more help from very powerful allies, and had much more funding.

Also, developing limbs is not a choice; campaign strategy is.

How are you judging whether Trump is intelligent or not? Just because his words/actions seem irrational to you doesn't mean they are irrational. Scott Adams was pretty good at predicting Trump's behavior, so Trump's decision made sense to at least someone.
I read somewhere that Facebook isn't liable for information posted there, that the user's posting the information is the liable party. Here in Sweden, that's not how news organizations work. Here, whatever they publish they are liable for, regardless of who originally wrote it.

I know Facebook isn't a news organization, but it's treading a fine line isn't it? At some point one might argue that by being an aggregator and driving a large portion of its engagement in the sharing of stories is akin to being a publisher, and thus should be held liable for the things it publishes – regardless of who pulled the trigger. Of course, this would be a huge liability for Facebook, and a growth inhibitor because all of a sudden, a story going viral isn't exactly a good thing if it means they can easily be sued for libel.

I'm not a lawyer (probably obvious given the above) but I think it's a bit strange that given Facebook's position they can so easily get away with a "wasn't me!" kind of attitude to misinformation and straight up lies being spread around presented as though the stories were in fact news.
Not trying to speak for the original poster, but what I took away from the argument is that when FB is "truly social", involving real issues, the potential rewards are sufficiently high that misinformation becomes valuable, thus dangerous. When it sticks to birthdays and cat pictures, there's no incentive to go hostile. Think of it as being somewhat similar to the arguments about the Flash Crash regarding HFT and liquidity: that HFT is great for liquidity until you need it, at which point it goes away[1].

I agree with others that detecting misinformation in the general case likely requires a theory of mind, and so something approaching "real" AI. I also agree that FB has a serious problem on their hands. And I'm so very glad I don't use it.

[1] I advance no comment here about the correctness of that; just a comparison to illustrate what seems like an overlooked point.
I've already started applying for citizenship in my mother's country. Just in case.
Any idea if there is an archive of it somewhere?
I attended an event called "We The City" in Vancouver last year where Teju Cole gave a talk. He was, in my opinion, a far more interesting speaker than the others. He's what I suppose I would refer to as a pragmatic artist, he's extremely knowledgeable, yet humble and composed, which somewhat contrasted with the other artists present who, while sorta nice, felt pretty shallow. I've read some of his essays from "Known and Strange Things" and I would highly recommend them, they're genuinely insightful.
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I think you're mixing things up.

a) These companies do love to brag about technical accomplishments. They each have hundreds of product marketing and engineering people for this purpose alone.

b) When they do sell, they will indeed double down on the things you mentioned.
It was never a joke:

https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Pay_for_the_Wall.pdf
You're assuming these specific people were representative of the nation as a whole.
Do you remember the Obama campaign? Some cult of personality always exists around charismatic leaders. Fairey's "Hope" poster was an epitome of personality-driven political propaganda.
You would expect this kind of thing to be largely pre-prepared. Most of the content falls out from the campaign documents and the actual elements of the site would exist regardless of president (job portal etc.)
The blind NYTimes bias has been readily apparent in this election cycle. WaPo as well. The entire media system missed this election.

A staffer in the Obama White House remarked on the quality of reporting now, as of a few months ago:

"All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/05/...
This. Their aggregator is ridiculously bad. Even the sources of news it shows you when you click on a "trending" item lead to really terrible sites. I'd rather the news feed be an actual news feed and show me legit news from legit agencies.
Social communication is in-person, face-to-face communication. It's not moving bits around over an http interface.

I love idealists, but it's time to take an honest accounting of the differences between the promises of the internet and the actuality.
It's all hand waving until it's on paper and going through the legislature's machinery, unless we're talking about executive actions.
In corporate speak "misinformation" is defined as "any information that doesn't support our narrative". Certainly it is the goal of Facebook, the government, and every other large media corporation to control the flow of information. You need look no farther then Obama's recent statement that news needs to be "curated" by government appointed gatekeepers, to filter out all that pesky information that doesn't jive with government propaganda.
I think it would be relatively easy to have an "auto-snopes" feature which detects a URL being shared and immediately attaches a post that says "this has been debunked by X"

For example - I've seen dozens of links to Michael Moore's trumpland speech which strategically ends with the phrase "America will elect Trump and it will feel great"

Sample: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-25/michael-moore-trump...

He concludes:

Yes, on November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow,
Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go
and blow up the whole goddamn system because
it's your right. Trump's election is going to
be the biggest fuck ever recorded in human
history and it will feel good.

but the truth is that is not what he CONCLUDED

He continues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLTQIUMq18&t=30 [sic]

... and now you're fucked.

EDIT - I feel like I should clarify I mean "auto-snopes" figuratively. Auto fair-balance might be a better descriptor. Something that links to an opposing opinion automatically, in cases of absolute falsehood the debunking, or even a CSS CLASS where there is a bright red "FALSE" wrapper.

Snopes doesn't have to be the automatic choice.

Breaking filter-bubbles & ensuring truth would be my goal on an idea like this. Not strictly "promoting liberal media"
CDs and records were not sold on a basis that's comparable to Pandora. You had to buy a CD or a record — you didn't pay a fee and get unlimited pieces of CDs and records for the rest of the month.
Gah, WHAT human aspect? All this is is a mediocre distillation of junk said on the campaign page. There's no new content. Nothing. You're seriously cheering on an organization that can write a boring summarization of some text in 36 hours (which they didn't, as mentioned the cert is more than a week old).

I can handle fact that he was elected, I guess. But this kind of celebration of mediocrity by his "supporters" who really should know better is just too much.
Build Inspector: An open-source forensic sandbox for CI environments
If `c` is not some complex expression, I would write that as:

a := c
if flag {
a = b
}
Ask HN: Are you a VC? If so, how do you cope with survivorship bias?
Title says it all. Curious about what your techniques are to avoid fooling yourself. In case anyone reading this is unfamiliar with survivorship bias: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/

Full disclosure, I'm writing a story about investors and survivorship bias for Mattermark [1]. If any of you want to talk in depth or get on the phone, email me@sonyaellenmann.com. But I'm interested in general comments too.

[1] My previous work for Mattermark, so you can assess whether you want to talk to me: https://mattermark.com/author/sonyamann/
This was on the front page then disappeared. BIAS JOURNALISM AT HN?
Its nice but what incentive does cloudrail have to provide perpetual gratis access to someone elses API?
Unlike an app that can still work when the original developer goes broke, an API requires that always on access.

Does my whole build break because cloudrail can't handle the traffic anymore? At least with AWS or GCS or Azure, etc, one has a business relationship with the API provider and so can keep the lights on.
I don't think the outlook is very good, sadly. I suspect many of the nifty extras that came about under Obama will get the axe
Isn't that a condominium corporation? I believe there are special regulations that apply there.
How are the Lenape people doing these days?
First of all your use of biased language is ridiculous, you are as bad as the 'alt-right white-nationalish thug media' and I wish people like you had no place in rational discussions.

Second if you tell them to "Fuck off" you risk losing a significant chunk of your user base who believes their content and information is being manipulated against them. Facebook isn't in the politics business, they are in the social networking business. If Facebook is seen as political at all then a competing business will set up a service to sell to the other side. Look at what happened to mainstream media channels. Claims of liberal bias in the media giants directly led to the success of Fox News.
Massive cyberattack hit five top Russian banks: Kaspersky
Donald Trump to soon receive intel 'crown jewels'
It skews asset creation. You do not want to macro the econmy like that
Now that it's finally over and people won't be able to push for their preferred candidate, can someone shed light on what the email ruckus was all about?

Sure, personal server was used, etc. However, this is a community of tech literate people. We know that email is not and cannot be a secure medium. The only ways I can think of to transmit secure email messages is by making the medium irrelevant (encryption), or by using something else (ie. private 'secure' email-like mechanism).

Had the emails been encrypted, it wouldn't matter if they were stored on top of the hollywood sign. So what gives? Does that mean that the US transfers classified information through totally insecure channels?
We have no way of knowing whether they genuinely support Trump, or whether they did actually support Hillary like they claimed to. It's all election smearing and rhetoric, which voters don't care about, as the election results have shown.
That's it? No link?
> If you're such a poor programmer,

No need for personal attacks.

> then just find a different language.

What a warm an welcoming community the Go community is /s

C++ doesn't have reflection, because it doesn't need it. But somehow Go needs it ? Reflection is a cop-out, especially in a language that has a simplistic type system. And don't get me started on struct tags. If you cant see the obvious issue with all these "features", in comparison of the lack of expressiveness of types AT COMPILE TIME then good for you.
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The hover cursor on this page is killing me. Bad cyber, so sad.
I don't understand how this is different than any other communication medium.

Telegraph operators shouldn't feel any onus to ensure that they stop the spread of misinformation, right?

In fact, I think it is VERY detrimental for them to step in and started editing posts, bringing back the human editors. Humans have biases, ML less so.

If an algorithm decides that something is trending, even if it is "incorrect" to some interpretation of the word, then it should be treated the same. It's just a matter of principles.
How did Trump even got this domain before he was President-elect? .gov is limited for only the US government, nothing else. Before the elections, Trump was not part of the government. But the certificate dates from 1 November 2017.
That is very normal in the US. Race seems to be atop many forms. Just today I had to rewrite a medical history form being used by a canadian government agency (mostly a 'do you suffer fainting spells?' type of form). They had adopted a form obviously written for a US audience and "race/ethnicity:___" came just after middle names. That's just not asked in Canada without a very good medical reason, for which this agency had absolutely none. It was a rush job.
I work at a young company providing search as a service for multiple medium/big e-commerce sites (mostly those which don't have their own search teams) and 11/11 is indeed a crazy day. It's funny how till 2 years ago, Cyber Monday was the big event we looked at and we noticed major traffic spikes last year on veteran's day (11/11) only to later realize that this was in fact singles' day!

This year we were geared up and it's been a crazy rise in traffic as expected again! :)
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