skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand how statistics and probability work.

Reporting 65% chances of a Clinton victory doesn't mean you're saying Clinton will win.
>...Silicon Valley ceases to be part of the United States.

With what army? Without the might of the United States military, the Mexican drug cartel would quickly take over California. After a few years under cartel rule, Californians will be seen crossing the border illegally back into United States.

These kinds of people don't ever think about the implications and consequences of their actions.
Similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
Yes: it seems to be for colors where they are similar to two or more other clusters of pixels. I imagine that these are just really hard to place without seeming too out of place? Also probably has to do with the column by column "greedy" approach that isn't really global.
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No, it's not. Courts are a last resort, when private mediation has failed, not the first line of action. If I publish news articles claiming "the sky is the color red, and only evil people disagree", courts do not need to be involved for Facebook to bury my articles. Most mischief is obviously classifiable without outside mediation.
> that is clearly documented on almost every tech forum I read

You mean the same tech forums that have been predicting a bubble burst for 5 years now?
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>There is a fundamental difference between guys "shooting the shit" and actually behaving that way.

There's also a fundamental difference between killing someone and threatening to kill someone, but that doesn't make either ok.

In any case, there is abundant evidence that Trump does in fact grope women.
You are the problem with American politics right now.
Let's be frank here: Free speech and facebook never go together. They want to present as a respectable forum where prominent people like politicians can have their platform (same with Twitter). That needs some kind of filtering. And, as we saw with pretty much the entire American press, as soon as you start filtering and selecting, you start to induce gross biases and distortions of the truth. The truth only comes out in a clutter of contradicting opinions, engaging discussions, pieces of evidence and leaked materials. Of course, that is an ugly mess not many people want to put up with.
It seems abundantly clear that the problem isn't low-quality content in the feed. That's unavoidable. It's the very small trickle of high-quality content in the feed – content from actual people who want to contribute to Facebook. There isn't much of it. And Facebook wants to show a fresh feed every refresh.
> Obviously they don't see him as much as a devil as you do.

He didn't position himself as a threat to white people, especially white men, to the degree that he did to minorities, the LBGT community, and other groups.
I guess you missed the part where they say they set up a duplicate at a data Center that gets a lot of rain (Prineville, OR in this case)
I have many Russian friends and they're intelligent and nice people in general. The info war and traumas from the winter war still exist though and we really don't like Russia as a country, except the neo-nazis who think Putin's actions against minorities should be supported and many of them think that Russia should conquer Finland so we wouldn't have such a liberal government.

Of course after Trump, the general feeling about US is pretty close what we think about Russia...
Same here. I get funny looks for using Emacs at work. I tell people that I've done all of my best work with Emacs for 20 years, and the only way to get me to change is for management to implement a standard, required tool suite.
> Yeah, sorting out serious people from those wasting time is a hard one.

It's easier than it seems.

Just put a HackerRank test with a single question. "Print the numbers from 1 to 10 [inclusive, one number per line]".

20-30% of candidates won't attempt the test. 20-30% will be unable to give a decent solution.
> To put this in perspective, our demonstrated capacity is enough data to stream almost 1,000 ultra-high-definition videos at the same time.

Is FB considering getting into the TV market? This would be a way to enter the market and compete with Dish, Time Warner, ATT, etc.
Sorry I know this is a story but this is dumb. Morris wasn't the only person thinking about security, and sure it happened but it was bound to happen as some point. And I'm sure he doesn't feel any shame whatsoever from it.

During that time, viruses were being transmitted without Internet through sharing floppies, and they were widespread.
What the heck. You have that domain JUST for MySQL 5.7?! The potential!
> A Rubick's cube with 3x3x4 levels is technically impossible

Nope, you can buy fully functioning ones, from several manufacturers even.
This article does not describe a vulnerability in Telegram. It only describes how a trojan could use the API to send messages( Which is what the API is designed to do)
Curious to learn about your experiences as a digital nomad in Japan. Did you rent a place? Did you have to pay the rental gift for renting the place?

What did you do about working - would you work from home or out? What sort of places would you frequent if working away from home?
High reliability means that it is much more likely that something else fails first. We could all be wiped out by a gamma ray burst for example, it makes little sense to make something last longer in expectation than the expected time between two major extinction events.
Unfortunately I do not. It's very hard to find cohort-type labor stats at a large level among the typical wage and unemployment indexes. BLS does have the NLS study [1], but it doesn't quite cover the right things. Mostly what you get is individual stories like [2], which add up to a picture that at least many people believe, even if it isn't 100% true.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/nls/
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/us-factory-workers-used-to-li...
I wonder what the odds are that the voting machines are hacked vs. abuse of absentee ballots? It seems to me that any solution that requires a person to physically appear at scattered polling places and tamper with hundreds of machines in a single day is probably not a huge problem.

If you can mass mail fake ballots to the registrar then that could be more of a problem. I would presume that most absentee ballot systems have some sort of check that they're not receiving a ballot back from someone who did not request one, but I also know that this sort of thing could fall through the cracks if there aren't proper safeguards in place.
You still didn't got on the level of tampered hardware.

There's just no good wat to verify this.
Many things are made in what China calls "Special Export Zones" (SEZs). This is for goods that require lots of imported machinery and components to make, which are basically brought into the zones duty free. But as a consequence, what is made in these zones can only be exported.

So that iPhone you buy in China has to be imported into China with appropriate duty! Made in China but still imported on a dollar basis. Besides, the iPhone is < 10% Chinese (final assembly), a lot of the components are coming from ROK, Japan, Taiwan, and of course the IP is all American.

For clothes, the amount that foreign companies is paying on material and labor was already ridiculously low, and they still pay for their other costs in dollars (or rather, not yuan) so....
> move out of Docker for Mac because of instability and into a Linux VM

Docker for Mac is a Linux VM, in (a fork of) xhyve which sits on top of the OSX hypervisor framework - the same thing backing Veertu.

Curious to the issues you're experiencing and if they disappear if you move to Veertu.
Clover Health uses Airflow to great effect. One of our engineers has given an introductory talk at a couple Python meetups. Slides are here: https://speakerdeck.com/pybay2016/matt-davis-a-practical-int...
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These are interesting. Does anyone know if the explanations are provided anywhere? Or at least what the insight into the why of some of these?
Now they are in a situation where they are damned if they do, damned if they don't

On the topic of "don't," an unspoken option is that Facebook simply not try to do news.

But the entire system is fundamentally broken...

Why would they persist in the face of this? Hamartia?
This article was an attempted joke, but I don't see much difference between it and what more serious news articles claim :)
I think the difference with this site is that enough of us recognize that the world isn't black or white, but grey. It seems like most sites don't have the majority of people that think like that.
I think the solution to "damned if you do, damned if you don't" here is to just remove the stupid news sidebar.
Is their actual app using weex though?
How do you know it "will forever" create new jobs?
What would your strategy be for leaving?
I have a friend who wrote this book: http://createyourproglang.com/

Jeremy Ashkenas created CoffeeScript after reading that book. I can't recommend it enough for someone going down this road.
You think the users are too stupid to fact check. But what makes you think the users care about the truth anyway?

More often than not they double down with "well it's emblematic of the greater problem" or something to that effect. They then look for new evidence to support their views. Like it or not, some sites are designed to build echo chambers and are not for general discourse.
How do you know this? Can you back it up?
how do I become tech support or system admin? that sounds fun
You think the New York Times doesn't decide whether something is libel or slander before they print it in order to avoid having the "courts...decide whether something is libel or slander"? It's not a direct comparison, but close enough for me to dismantle the idea that only courts get a say on this.
That's a fair point. Thx!
Right, but it's a problem tagged-unions solve.
> She lost because of corruption and illegal activity prosecuted or not. She is a liar, a cheat, and nobody can discount that.

I can discount that: if the issue was her being a liar and a cheat, then we wouldn't have elected a liar and a cheat—but we did. So apparently it isn't the stumbling block you think it is.
What should we do to you for posting it? Let's start there.
I'm not a security expert either, but my very first thought was that if we've successfully maintained a public ledger of financial transactions ( blockchain via bitcoin ), then that technology seems useful for large scale voting which is nothing more than another series of transactions.

Maybe someone more educated about blockchain could illustrate some of the pros/cons about using it in this manner?
Except it isn't just the spread of misinformation. Even more important (IMHO) is the insulating effect of showing people only like-minded opinions, effectively trapping everyone in a bubble. I can't think of any way Facebook can solve this problem without drastically decreasing their reliance on ad revenue. What are they going to do, force people to view opinions they disagree with?
Good luck with that. Reddit's failed at it. Twitter's failed at it. It's almost always bundled with some sort of hate speech or political rhetoric that triggers swaths of people when they feel like they're being silenced.

There probably is no right way to do it.
Nate Silver actually wrote a post about the LA Times poll. I don't think it makes sense to compare individual polls with poll aggregates. A single data point being accurate/inaccurate can be due more to luck than methodology, while an inaccuracy in a probabilistic model like Silver's indicates more of a systemic bias across all polls.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-leave-th...
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What country are you in? How long are the shipping times for you?
It is a temporary aberration. In due course, people will come to realize that they can't believe everything they read on the internet (duh), especially where provenance is not clear, and Facebook will improve their algorithms.

Some kind of reasonable balance will be found.

People blaming Facebook for Trump is far more a reflection of themselves than of FB news algorithms.
Thanks! I'll try guardian. Al Jazeera very biased.
So, I assume, when our army will start to bomb Moscow to throw out Putin regime, you will be happy?

You said you are OK with event, which can cause a war, and you dislike Putin.
What will the effect of self-driving cars be on children's independence?
Real news sources are dead and actual investigative journalists do not exist anymore.
It might work well for some states and be horrible for others.

The Dakotas and Montana, for example, would probably be keen to have some sort of better access to shipping ports - as would somewhere like Kansas and Oklahoma. Some states just don't have much to offer themselves: Rhode Island, for example, is small, but they'd survive. Hawaii and alaska might not notice as much change, though their tax rates would probably go up. Both need to import a great deal of food, for example: Alaska has a vast area to cover with infrastructure. Out West there are water issues. And a lot can go wrong getting what the states need since there wouldn't be the federal government to smooth things over.

Not only that, but travel suddenly becomes an issue. Each state needs a passport and to secure borders or to have something akin to EU-style borders. Things that used to be shipped across the country now would be going international. Some businesses would have to reorganize and add some more layers just to deal with the added regulation differences.

States would have to petition other countries to recognize all the different countries.

And even more large would be trying to divide up the military into the different states. How do you decide who gets an aircraft carrier? Are small states just doomed to be weakish?

The closest I can work out to something resembling 'working' would be to divide into regions instead of states - at least it would solve some of the issues, anyway. The military issue really gets to be a pickle no matter how I look at it, though, and would probably be based more on where existing bases are.
Have you considered that the two might be correlated?
Nginx is one. It's now headquartered in SF, but it was founded in Russia and still has an office there.
Yes, trying to solve this problem by creating a definition of "misinformation" sufficiently precise to act on it for all possible articles, then trying to remove it somehow is probably an AI-complete problem. If it's not AI-complete it's probably just plain an ill-formed question. That's before we ask questions about the biases that get embedded into the misinformation detector.

This can't be fixed at Facebook scales by building a platform that so highly incentivizes low-quality content of all kinds, then trying to stop the content so late in the cycle. The entire incentive structure has to be rethought. Unfortunately, that's probably a problem that Facebook is literally incapable of solving without going out of business, because Facebook the corporate entity is that incentive structure. To fix Facebook requires Facebook to become not-Facebook.
I recommend you to try the LAB color space and to use delta E 94 [1] for computing distances between colors in the color space

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference#CIE94
>half of the country that voted for Trump

Nearly half of voters, not the country.
Just curious, what was the size of the city/town that this scout troop was in?
Interesting but no thanks. It is a very important thing, but not the only important things happening in the world today.
more reasons to hate zabbix? as if I needed them ;)
Please don't start flamewars here. Whether it's arson or just negligence, the effect is the same. (Edit: I see we've had to ask you several times already not to do this kind of thing. We ban accounts that repeatedly ignore these requests, so please up your game.)

All: when commenting about inflammatory topics on HN, please take extra care to be more civil and substantive, not less. We're trying to go against entropy here. That takes energy.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12922188 and marked it off-topic.
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True. However, we have an Electoral System, and Trump got the majority of the electoral votes compared to Hillary. 306 to 233.
I'm not a huge fan of newsletters. Mail is for work. Feedly for news. I wanna keep the 2 things separate.
His scope of talk sounds as if he is referring to x86-64. Many people mistake the IA-64 for x86-64, that's why I assumed he'd be talking about it. Not to mention that IA-32 refers to x86, which he clearly seems to misunderstand.
I agree this is likely. You know, it's a funny sort of thing - people work in the left-coast SV bubble-world making friendly-looking social media applications and suddenly they find they're being looked at by the Old Media crowd like they're a bunch of weapons dealers. I saw a surprisingly self-aware look at this the other day: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/04/political-me...

In short, former cool-kid Adbusters "meme warrior", accustomed to culture-jamming the elitist logics of "late capitalism", finds himself alarmingly surrounded by the shadowy Meme Magicians of Esoteric Kekism. Meanwhile the Hillary-friendly corporate media looks on, powerless to sink Trump with criticism, but equally unable to stop themselves from giving him free publicity. Suddenly, he finds the corporate mass media to be a "protective membrane between the public and overly toxic ideas."

How the turntables, as they say.

I think what's really interesting is the difficulty of discerning how effective this social media meme politics actually is, or to systematize its internal structure. This isn't a TV ad campaign or a stump speech, it's a distributed, continuous cacophony. So how can you tell whether it's what's boosting the campaign, or whether it's just an epiphenomenon of an already-successful campaign? This makes social media campaigning seem very threatening - when you can't tell how it works, who knows how powerful it might really be?
First off, thanks for continuing this discussion in a thoughtful way.

The very short answer is that I'm not going to presume how others voted how they did, on either side, at least without asking them. I know that I don't subscribe to all of the views of the candidate I voted for, so I'll grant others the benefit of the doubt they didn't either. There are a lot of different issues, and people hold different positions of those issues, and prioritize the issues differently as well. There are some single-issue voters out there. I'm not. I'm not going to assume you are, either. I may not agree with the positions that someone else holds, or their prioritization of them.

I know I'm not perfect or have all of the answers. I also know that I've changed my positions on issues over the course of my life. I have hope that we can figure out what issues we have in common and work on those together. I also hope that by talking with one another we can come to agreements and be willing to change our minds.

At this point, the election is over. We have choices on how we move forward. My hope is that we can move forward together, and given how split the country is and how unhappy people were even with the candidates they supported, I think this is possible. I hope you do, too!

Thanks again for reading through this and sticking with it.
Erlang is actually compiled, and binaries above a certain size are reference-counted rather than copied between processes. It still makes various compromises like using bignums and doing preemptive scheduling which make it slower in general.
No, I am not sure why this happens.
I had an issue with blurry fonts on a high DPI display using Linux Mint 17.3. It was easy to fix and now it runs just fine and became my editor of choice next to my IDE.
Why the communist regimes newer used such a great excuse for their media... /s

Seriously, that's slippery slope.
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From Trump's perspective, Mexico benefits by having illegal immigrants in the US send money back to Mexico. There is no real reason for Mexico to enforce the border. Trump wants to deter this behavior (not enforcing the border) by assigning a cost (no more wire transfers back).

I'm not making a judgment here, just trying to clarify the worldview.
Why would they persist in the face of this? Hamartia?

"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

See https://despair.com/products/consulting for the poster that I stole that from.
This blog post has links to videos, too: https://technology.cloverhealth.com/pipelines-in-python-e7eb...
Aggressive compiler optimizations are not optional in many domains.

One rule of thumb that a lot of people don't realize is that if you aren't maxing out your sequential performance, your parallel multicore algorithm usually loses to an optimized sequential one. The reason is simple: parallelism introduces overhead, leading to guaranteed sublinear speedups. Compiler optimizations, on the other hand, frequently result in multiple factors of improvement.
Everyone should be responsible for the curation of their own timeline. I barely use Facebook but hate the idea that I didn't get a straight chronological feed.

I was a huge fan of Twitter but was driven away when they followed suit. My reasons had more to do with my own preference of how I enjoy using the service, but having algorithms manipulate the information I see so as to maximize engagement metrics is even more troubling.
I checked with some of my colleagues in work. My machine had 220GB written in 2 days. Another colleague had 300GB.
Trump is Br'er Rabbit, not a pig. The statements he made that have received the most opprobrium, were made precisely to receive that opprobrium. He correctly calculated that opprobrium, not the statements themselves, would gain him enough votes to win the election. Trump got far more votes from people who wished to reject the standard media narrative than from race-motivated one-issue voters.

The statements themselves may well be racist, but racist speech is a different thing than racist action. People who don't mind appearing to the weak-minded as racists may well actually be racists. However they are different sorts of racists than politicians like Richard Nixon and the Clintons who have destroyed minority lives and communities for political gain.

Children may be excused for only thinking about surface meanings, but after one has voted in several elections, it's time to put away childish things.
Good point. I've deleted it.